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SHANGHAI'S HOSPITAL.
NEW INSTITUTION OPEN TO PUBLIC VIEW,
THE CHINA MAIL.
absence odustalt Flanked by the marble stairound Here is a room of tampoul Bont which antique Italinn furnit plays a large part
at the side of the hall is samall The new Country Hospital in room which will be used as a ladles Great Western Read, which repre-room. The keynote of the rooms. sents the greatest gift by, any one for visitors is a rural, restful early man in the history of Shanghai, has Italian Renaissance effect, giving bean. Completed and will shortly be the impression of entering a villa opened. The hospital, which cost in Tuscany. Tla, 1,600,000, is the gift of d Shanghai resident who wishes to ro main anonymous, but whose name is well-known.
The grounds and the building of the Country Hospital were open for inspection to mombers of the medi- cal profession and their wives 'last Friday, when Dr. Moore-Graham, I who is temporary Resident Medical Superintendent. showed" them round. Dr. Moore-Graham is acting temporarily to fill the position to which the late Dr. John B. Fearn was appointed.
Most Up-To-Date. On June 12 and 13 the general public of Shanghai was given an op- portunity of Inspecting the institu- Hon. The Hospital was open to visitors from 10 a.m. to noon and from 3 to 6 p.m., on each day,
"Extensive Accommodation, Beyond, in the west wing, are the quarters for the resident phy sician, On the other side, forming the ground floor of the west wing. are the general warda for men and the general ward for women,
painted ivory with the walls a darker shade. The operating roon are painted an eye rest" greón, the proper tint having been discovered after some experiments. All thq Squipment for the how hospital s of the best and most modern types.
Mr. L. E. Hudec is the architect of the new hospital and he has had much experience" in this type of structure, and in the Country Hospital has brought sut some dn- tirely new features of hospital design. He has done his work well and when the hospital opria, it will
a valuable acquisition to Shang af and an institution of which the Settlement might be proud.
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THE RENDEZ-VOUS OF THE SMART SET
The terms under which the In- There are five storeys and norstitution has been presented to mal" accommodation for 124 Shanghof were made public by Mr. Ballenta, but this number may be. Fessenden, Chairman of the Increased as time goes on/ For Municipal Counell at the rate- instance, there are sun porches on payors meeting on April 14. the roof where 17 patients may be Fessenden stated that the now In Ta Kawloons accommodated, especially in cases stitution will eventually take the of tuberculosis, while it is possible place of the present Vetoria Nurs to utilee the nurses' quarters on ing Home. which will be sold o the fourth floor for patients' rooms devoted to other purposes, and it if the demand warrants it, and build will, of course, save the community another wing to accommodate the the capital expenditure on the new пигаев. Fifty patients can be ac- Hospital it was planned to build commodated in private rooms and near the junction of Great Western the remainder in wards built to and Edinburgh Roads. The new Hospital, which standa accommodate 2, 4 or 10 patients. Tho Country Hospital le to bo. its own grounds of 25. On the top floor are the kitchens, for the benefit of the foreign re- mow, in the most up-to-date the servants' quarters being detach-sidents of Shanghai without dia and completely equipped institutioned in a smaller building in the com-thuction as 20. nationality or reli In the Far East outside the Peking pound. "The Kitchens are fitted glous belief. Under certain, cop. Union Medical College. The very with most modern equipment, in-ditions, the admission of Chinese is first impression of it induces plea- cluding mechanical bakery, steam provided for. Medical practitioners sant reminders. None of the usual apparatus and ranges, etc. Food of any nationality are to be ad- hospital atmosphere attaches to it. will be conveyed to the various mitted to attend patients, provided The original instructions were floors down special elevators, and they are qualified to practise under that the structure was to have the as there are two wings in the build- the laws and regulations of their attraction of a home, restful anding there la a service room for own countries. No political or re- reassuring, not forbidding as some each wing with alectric heatara. etc. hospitals are. The building as it In addition, the food trolleys used now stands gives bountiful promise to convey food to various rooms of fulfilment of these Instructions will be fitted with thermos boxes and that here, indeed, is not a place to retain the heat. The quarters of pain and disease but a symbol for the matron and the nurses takes of buoyant health and the means of up the whole. of the fourth floor, rich life. The building, with its
Elevators run through the centre columns, ·wide verandahe and of the building, but there are ample stately appearance, atanding in stairways. The rooms and wards beautiful grounds which catch the are on the other floors, half of the glint of bright sunshine and fresh rooms possessing wide verandahs air. is more like a country house and big windows which, when open, or a sanitarium.
catch delightful' · breeze. Blinds and screens are Atted and each pri- Not a semblance of the gloom vate room. has its own" bathroom. attaching to most hospitals is to be Interesting details of the roome perceived, and the acquisition of are the service and telephone In- this pleasant aspect seems to arise stallations. Twenty portable teles from a gentle blending of the design phones are included in the hospital and the location because from the equipment, and can be used by fit- windows on most sides, the vista toting a plug in a socket. When a the patient is one of expansive patient needs a nurse the call is lawns, beautiful shrubberies, plea-
sent but is silent, registering a light sant walks and cool rebreats hidden in the service room; another one among the trees.
over the door for the nurses guidance and another on a main, communication
board in the matron's office...
Pleasant Aspect.
The entrance to the hospital is on Great Western Roud, whence a road winds into the main entrance And, a turn on, the right, to the ambulance entrance. This road is lined with flower borders, and a small quadrangle is planted with trees between which ears will be parked. The building, which is entirely freproof, only doors and a few other fixtures being made of wood, is divided into three parte. the main or front building contain- ing the wards and private rooms fronting south, overlooking the lawn. Its length is about 270 feet. At the rear is another building to house the laundry, machine rooma, refrigerator, plant and the special technical rooms which include the large hydrotherapeutic department, ete. This is connected with the main building by a corridor.
"Impressive Reception Hall... The main entrance to the hospi-
glous reasons, or the existence of a state of war, are to be allowed to interfere, in any way with these conditions,"
The Deed of Gift makes over the hospital. and the land on which it. stands, to the Council on behalf of: the community, and provides for its management by a board of mine: Governors. These Governors have In the first instance been invited to serve, by the Council! in consulta- tion with the Donor. The first. Board is composed as follows:
The Donor:
•ZEM, Á. du 'Pac 'dë' Marsoulies.
Mr. G. A: Wuilläumlor. 4-Dr. R. J. Marshall. 5-Dr. Hans Thedder Carl
Martens.
6Dr. Harry Miller.. 7Mr. Ellis Hayin
8. Mr. Torazo Kikuchi.
9. The Chairman of the Council. Beginning in 1928, one-third of the Governors are to retire annually in rotation on the day of the annual meeting of ratepayers and appoint ments to all the vacanies so caused are to be made by the Consular Body; by the American British and German Consuls individually: by the Council and the Donor him self, or after his death by the rate. payers
...
The situation of the operating theatres is on the third floor in the rear building and everything is arranged with an eye to greatest assistance and convenience for the doctors. There are two asceptic
The value of this gift to the operation rooms and one for eye operations, with sterilising cabi- community is in the neighbourhood nete, a sterilising room, dreaming of one "and a half million taels. and waiting rooma. On the Not content with this, the generous. same floor nearby are the X-ray Donor has further endowed certain department. the urological dark Wards in the hospital with the in- room, the anaesthetising room, and terest on securities value at £40,000 the main sterilising room, together sterling, and in addition he has pro- with doctors room and the mised a cash donation of Tis.10,000 opthalmic room.
towards running expenses on the day the hospital ja opened.
Latest Equipment. · -Distinguishing the operating rooms is the cool air system which enables the doctors to cool the rooms, and "enable the performance
CALL IT OFF NOW:
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On the second floor are the goes through two storeys, and with maternity operating rooms and to
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