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THE VEISHENOSHU MÆROZNOY MEDICAL BERVICE TRAINING SCHOOL

(CHAKOSHA).

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This school is officially operated by the Training

Institute of the Central Field Health station of the Weishengshu

(National Health Administration) under the Miniatry of Interior.

Several other organizations also take an important part in the

actual conduct of the school, namely, the Ohun I-Shu (Aray

Medical Administration), National Red Cross Society of China”,

and the National Council for Rural Reconstruction (N.C.R.R.).

Funds for its support come from the British Boxer Indemnity and

N.C.R.R. The budget of the school does not suffice to pay for

all running expenses, but this insufficiency is made up by the

assignment of teachers from various departments of the

Weishengshu, National Red Cross and the Social Medicine

Department of the N.C.R.R.

As the government has placed all civil war-time

medical organizations and services under the supervision of the

Weishengshu, for the purpose of coonomy, coordination and

unified control, the training program of the school has been

directly linked up with the field services of the Chun I-3h,

eishengshu and National Red Cross. To secure this objectivo

the Director of the School is at the same time in charge of

the field unite of the Weishengshu and the National Red Cross,

and is responsible to the Surgeon General for the auxiliary

medical services provided by the two civil organizations •

The school consists of the following departments,

military, medical, surgical, nursing, preventive medicine,

sanitary, and organization. Practical teaching along some of

these lines is given in an army base hospital especially assigned

to the school. In this hospital, the Departments of Surgery,

Medicine

Note: The vap time field activities of the National Red Cross

Society of China are conducted by the Medical Relief Commission of the Society.