A group of male patients probably at a mission hospital near Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, ca. 1888-1906

"Group of hospital patients." The hospital may be Siokhe hospital, near Amoy [Xiamen] opened in 1889. Many of the male patients have their pigtails wound round their heads.; Album containing approximately 170 photographs and 55 coloured drawings belonging to Lilias Graham, of the Womens' Missionary Association, English Presbyterian Mission in China. Lilias Graham was an honorary missionary with the WMA from 1888 to 1906 when ill-health forced her to retire. She herself funded much of the WMA work in Chuan-Chow [Quanzhou], Fujian Province