CHAO-CHAU-FU

[s. 159] : A city of about 200,000 inhabitants in the province of Kwang-tung, Cliina, situated about 20 miles north of Swatow. It is the prefectural city of an agricultural district, containing over ten million inhabitants; occupied as a mi ion central station by the PresT his misbyterian Church of England in 1890. sion now has there (1901) 2 mi ionaries (one a physician), 1 mi ionary’s wife, 1 mi ionary woman, not married, 5 outstations, 1 hospital, 1 dispensary, 1 medical cla . There is also a fine church building. The number of communicants reported from Chao-chau-fu jointly with Swatow is 2,140. Also a station of the ABMU (1894), with a mi ionary and his wife and 4 native workers, who have 3 places of worship in the district and 80 church members. 159