A Chinese patient with leprosy, Xianfu, Shaanxi, China, ca. 1885

A Chinese patient at Xianfu Hospital stands in a courtyard by a sapling tree. A uniformed official stands in a doorway. He seems to be watching the patient. Written on the album sleeve of the photograph: "A leper!"; The Rev. Dean Goddard was an ABFMS missionary in Ningpo, Che-chiang, China from 1870-1903