 The sisters found a pile of loose boards upstairs in the house, and with these they began repairing the house and prepared to see patients once more.A girls school and dispensary were constructed in 1892, well before the Bement sisters arrived; however, the hasty construction of these buildings foreshadowed the challenges with building a hospital in Shaowu.Because of the instability of the soil, it was necessary to lay the hospital foundation fifteen feet deep.