CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924 — Page 171

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the

Was sufficient to justify a much larger enterprise

building of a complete new Maternity Hospital, with

accommodation for girl students and arrangements for the

instruction (in English as well) of those who started

with no knowledge of any thing but Chinese. The Government

granted a site, and a fully modernised Hospital was built

and equipped at a cost of some $90,000 to the

Dispensaries Funds,

number of rooms for paying patients: but it has not yet

been possible to open all the wards. It has not become

It contains four large wards and a

the habit to go to this Hospital: it is new and big and clean (in the dirtiest part of the city) and something

different from the uno stentatious rooms quietly opened

as the first experiment. Opened rather over a year, the

Patients have always filled one large ward, and towards

the end of the year a second ward was required: the

paying rooms meanwhile being always quite in demand.

The most important advance however is that

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the Committees and the community have accepted Government

appointments as officers in charge Native Hospitals.

Mrs. Hickling who has been connected with the workfor

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a long time took up full duties last Autum; her special charge being the Maternity Hospitals (in each one there

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is a resident Chinese Western trained doctor and Chinese

nurses) and all questions of women and children in the

C.P.D. A doctor, to be senior officer in charge

Native Hospitals has also betrestimated for for this year

and the appointment should shortly be made.

Mrs. Hickling.

has already a good record of general progress to show largely in raising the standard of the work without Occasioning opposition: and has opened successful welfare

centres at the Maternity Hospitals. As already mentioned

it

steady/is

while the work is steady/is necessarily slow; and the

progress