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İdevelopment of the Canton Hospital in harmony with the great traditions
of its past eighty-five years of medical missionary service in China.
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"That this conference endorses the program formulated by the resent Board of Directors of the Canton Medical Missionary Union Canton Hospital) for the sending of a deputation of members of the Hospital staff to visit the home countries above indicated as well ad assisting in the securing of means for the ereation of new buildings
ith modern equipment which are so urgently needed for the prosecution of the hospital's work.
Resolutions adopted by the "oard of Directors of the Canton Kedical Missionary Union (Canton Hospital), May 10, 1920;
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"That the Canton Christian College Board of Trustees be asked to assume the responsibility in co-operation with the Missions for.
"(a) The reconstruction, staffing and maintenance of the Canton hospital, and
(b) For the establishment of a school of medicine which shall be an integral part of the Canton Christian University.
II. "The reconstruction of the hospital is the immediate need, and funds for this purpose should be secured within a year.
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There is little need to refer to the present critical condition of its the Canton Hospital which is no doubt already fully known to you, antiquated buildings, ite lack of equipment, its inadequate staff and still more serious need for funds to maintain its work and achieve the purpose for which it existe as a medical missionary institution,
It is eamestly hoped not only by the members of this delegation and the constituency which they represent, but also by medical mission- aries all over China (witness resolutions of Peking conference, February 1920), that the Canton Christian College and the other Missionary Societies aforementioned will apeume the responsibility which they are now asked to undertake, providing for the reorganization, reconstruction maintenance and development of this hospital in order that it may continue without interruption its long record of useful medical missionary service to China.
There is good reason to believe that the Chinese friends of the Hospital in all parts of the Republic (vide testimonials from His Excellency Hsu Shih-Chang, President of the Chinese Republic who recently contributed one thousand dollars toward the new buildings fund, Dr. Chengting Wong, representative of China at the Peace Conference in Paris, the Military and Civil Governors of the Kwongtung Province, Dr. Tu Lien Teh, Director of the North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service, Dr. C. Voonping Yui, President of the National Medical Association of China, the Chinese Chambers of Commerce of Canton and Hong Kong and many others), will do their share in assist-
ng to carry to a successful issue the plans which the Missionary Societies are now asked to initiate.
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