Identifier: beyondpirpanjal00neve (find matches)
Title: Beyond the Pir Panjal; life among the mountains and valleys of Kashmir
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Neve, Ernest Frederic, 1861-
Subjects: Kashmir Missions, Medical Mountaineering
Publisher: London T.F. Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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or relief. Since Dr Elmslie first founded thework in 1865, far more people have applied to the MedicalMission for relief than there are now inhabitants in thevalley. During the last ten years alone, over four hundredthousand visits have been paid, and 14,500 in-patients havebeen treated in the hospital wards. At the east end of the hospital, high up on the hillside, is alarge building with a central tower. This is the out-patientdepartment, with a commodious waiting-room, consulting-rooms, dispensary, bacteriological laboratory and operation-rooms fitted with all the appliances necessary for the efficientcarrying on of an extensive medical and surgical work. Ona busy day in the summer, before midday, little groupsof people may be seen gradually collecting, sitting inthe shade of the trees, waiting for the doors to open. Anold blind man will be brought up on a rough mountainpony. Four men may be seen staggering up the hill carryingon a bedstead a man with a broken leg. This little pro-
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THE MISSION HOSPITAL 279 cession with a sedan-chair, with the red curtains flappingin the breeze, is accompanying a parda woman of thebetter classes. The old man with hardly any clothes on, andhis body smeared with white ashes, is a Hindu Sadhu fromIndia. Look at the elaborate caste marks on his face! Thelittle group of men with sturdy ponies and long coats, likewadded dressing-gowns, are from Yarkand in Central Asia.See how fair they are, and their cheeks are quite red. Theyare making the pilgrimage to Mecca. The sprightly little manbehind is a Goorkha soldier. His home is Nepal. He is pro-bably orderly to some officer. How many creeds and nationsare represented here (Plate 56). Kashmiri Mohammedans,men and women, in their dirty gowns, predominate; but herealso may be seen herdsmen from the hills, tall, pale andmelancholy-looking, and usually clothed in dark blue.Kashmiri Hindus and their families may be seen side by sidewith Buddhists from Ladakh. From many remote districtsaround, p

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