This is a photograph of "Dr. Blaber instructing promising students in practice of western medicine. Later they will relieve the busy pastor in the mission, leaving him free for the 'ministry of the word." 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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