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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1946,

BETHUNE HOSPITAL DOING GOOD JOB

(By John Roderick),

YENAN, FEB. 5. THE BETHUNE MEMORIAL PEACE HOSPITAL

WHERE THE CONVALESCENT, THE SICK AND. THE DYING OF COMMUNIST CHINA LIE ON BOARDS IN WARDS IN A NETWORK OF CAVES HAS ADDED A NEW OPERATING BUILDING AS A CONTRAST TO ITS PRIMITIVE FACILITIES. THE GRAY-BRICK STRUCTURE, OPENED. THREE MONTHS AGO, SITS ATOP A KNOEL IN BOLD OUTLINE AGAINST THE 200-FOOT HIGH LOESS CLIFF INTO WHIGH 110 GAFE WARDS ARE CARY- ED.

Supported primarily by the With electricity, they would] border region government. as- not have to emplug wire heated sisted by funds from Madame to a dull red in a charcoal, bru- Sun Yat-sen's China Defense zier as a crude wound cauterizer League and the American China in certain type operations. They Aid Council, it is one of hunter could use an electric bovic knife ous free hospitals in Red China. if someone would give them the Its doctora Nerve without knife, salarics.

With electricity, they could the awlovard To-day medical supplies and dispense with funds Tre trickling in

which from length of rubber hose ther parts of China and from now pipes heat from charcoal! abroad, but for seven years its braziers to the injured portions4 stuff stood helplessly by while of the body which require it, hundreds went unaided because They could use electrle ghts. they lacked the ordinary funda- Electricity would give them more mentals of medicine.

efficient sterilizers, power for that future ultra-violet lamp. and displace the flickering, karo- sene and actylone lamps which Bonic- make night operations thing of an adventure.

Its young doctors still labour Ingainst odds which would ever- whelm most westerners. This is a hospital without an ambu Janen.

Evented in a river valley ten miles from Yenan. its patients? come in on stretchers carried by relays of men over the frozen ground and tee-sheathed rivers or

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URGENT NEEDS These are part of the improvi- nations. Awitter overcomes an almost incredible handicap, the complete lack of a watch

of

Jin litters suspended between clock-both of which are expen- two horses single file. Allen- sive items-in this hospital. To dants carry them up the precipi- tell the pulse and check respira- tous trails which conneet the Lion, the ductors use a tiny in- en tine nine tiers of the cave wards. ute glass constructed Á mule carries the heavier bur-same principle as an hour glass with a proportionally smaller CRUDE SUBSTITUTES amount of sund. The doctors and their assist- ants are more than physicians. They are carpenters, plumbers, algeteers and improvisers as weil. Years of doing without the shiny new apparatus which are medico's stand-by have made them inventive. The hospital is stocked with their home-made devices, many of which have been displaced by recent acquisi- tions.

One of the greatest physical needs of the hospital is eletri-1 city. Lack of a few thousand fnet of wire and 100 bulbs and sockets hindern them. This could generate power from the small

generator which came with the X-ray machine that could get is, providing they jenough gasoline to keep the thing running. They are down to six gallons.

to

With electricity, they no long er would have to supply warmth abnormally born. children through heated anndbags pack- ed around the child's body. They Icould use an incubator.

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London, Feb. 5. -The-Football Association-ig still- "pff the Gold Standard.

for sulfu Urgent needs are

clinical drugs and penicillin for use: beults and medical journals which would acquaint them with

One of the e dis recent advance cases which is causing widespread suffering because of the of an adequate medicine is zar a parisitic infection believed carried by the sand fly. It affects the spleen and blood and is en- Without treatment. demic here.

it is fatal. An average of 150 year. persons contract it every Neostum

the medicins ontployed.. The hospital's small supply was exhausted months AЯO.

The hospital gets rang without adequate therapeutic and examination

ation instruments.

now

The award of gold medals, do F.A. Qup finalists-prized piaRCE- time honour is unlikely to be resumed this season.

son. The Asso- ciation has not yet made a deci

but it is expected that "the ̈* wartime prasties of presenting Savings Certificates will be con- tinued.

The price of the winners' medal. which is the size of a half-crown, was about £7 before the war. To day, it would cost in the region of £20-Router.

CIVILIAN SOCĊER TEAMS

The Civilian football teams for. thia week-end, will be chosen from the following:--

Y. Kwong Wal, Recreio ground:Mathias, Castilho, Wil- kinson, A. Leonard, F. Soares. G. Roza-Pereira, V. Ribeiro, Copp Bv. Royal Engineers, Chat-

cut!

STAFF OF 300 The hospital was begun in 1938 by young Dr. Brat foreign Norman Bethune, a and the Canadian doctor to come to the Communist areas. The hospital is dedicated infection resultlag when he to. him. died in 1989-from--an

-He himself while operating on a Red Army soldier,

There were only

30 beds in its first year.

Now It has grown to ....

Its services include surgery, medicine, infectious diseases treatment.

pediatrics, gynecology obstetrics. It had day techine fewn in last year, a laboratory and a pharmacy.

Dr. Wei Yi-bsing. a 38-year-old graduate of the American Cheloo Medical School in Tainan, Shan tung, is the hospital superinten- dent in charge of a staff of 300 which includes 52 Internens from the and government medical

army universities.

now

J. Pereira and R. Cruz,

ham Road:-Watson, Catton. G. Gosano, T. Alves. D. Alves, A. Leek, Archibald, R. Rocha, Hun- ter. A. Collaco and C. Santos.

Those unable to play are quested to inform Mr. L. J. Castilho, Tel. 23704.

JENKINS SUSPENDED

Leeds, Feb. 5. The Rugby League Club no- nounce they have suspended their Welsh international serum-half. Dal Jenkins, from playing in any of their matches until further notice.

The reason for, the action, the chub states, is the player's failure to attend training and to report when selected for sonte recent rames. Reuter.

ASTILL TO COACH

London, Feb. 5. Ewart Astill, Leicestershire cricket all-rounder, has been

nt appointed conch

Tonbridge School, starting in April.

Astill took more than 2,430 wickets in first-class cricket and on ninn occasions scored more than 1,000 runs and took 100 wickets in a season-Reuter,

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London, Feb. 5. Cliff Anderson, British Guiana bantam champion. who has chal- lented Jackle Paterson of Glas- cow for his British Empire baa- Lam quie,

meeting Billy Comerford of Glasgow at Brighton on Feb. 8.

The match is made at 3 storie- 10 pounds. Reuter,

SUBDUED HOLIDAY

Chinese New Year was

cole. hrater in Canton in traditional style, though on a reduced scale.

"Chief rougons were, of course, "

high prices. Though

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was an abundance of every- thing on display, especially food. stuffs, the majority of the popu- laco restricted their purchases to

barest minimum.

the

The usual crowds milled around the shops and stails but they were mostly Apectators, and the New Year fair, as far as turn- over was concerned, was a failure.

MARINE MUNSON BURIED

Marine David Munson who died at the Queen Mary Hospital on Sunday was buried yesterday with full Naval honours in the Happy Valley Cemetery.

Until the start of the Sino- Japanese war. he worked in the gynecology and obstetrics, depart ment of the American Peking Union Medical College. Бе came to Yenan the following your, head- ed the world student union's In December 1944, sanitarium here, then joined the hospital staff. He was named

Jast superintendent staff members in Nationalist China because, they put it, their conscience told them this was where they were needed. 9.

The late Marine Munson was admitted to suffering from malaria. He was hospital a week ago 21 years of age and a native of Glasgow. He foined the service

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Bars and a for jacket under his Showing To-Day & To-Monon white frock. Though he formerly was a Chinese provincial public

LONGİ, MUSIC] "FUN) health ofeer, he said poor people never, were sant to him. Here, ha says, wanly, they all are poor.

Dr. Ho Chien-tsun. head of the podiatricn

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