This is a photograph of "Dr. H.P. Blaber in action in the operating room at the Sacred Heart Hospital at Sunning [now Xinning]." He is operating on a child and has assistants at his side. Dr. Harry Blaber, from Brooklyn, New York went to China for Maryknoll in 1935 to work with Frs. Joseph Sweeney and Francis Connors in their leprosarium in south China. After an initial five years he returned to the U.S., married and went back to China with his wife for another two years.
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