The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-02

the Church OF the ITdhshsui deioh'
stands a little old fashioned two-story
red brick building. Across the front
stretches the sign in large red Chinese
characters, Chung Wah Kong Sor E
Sang Fong" This translated into
English means 1.-The Combined Chinese
Speaking Society's Hospital"
The name suggests the mysteries OF
the powdered toad and cOckroach, the
oil of salads and snake skins, frog
skins and herbs, and other yOck-toy,
or medicines. 1t also suggests one laud-
able characteristic of the Chinese, the
care they take of their own.
1t has been said that no New York
Chinese need ever be the recipient OF
outside charity; and the poor and sick
of the race need never be load on the
white people. The little h0;pital at
1O5 Park street relieves them, rich and
poor alike, and it is supported entirely
by contributions from Chinese-speak-
ing people.
The institution is comparatively new
| 1t owes it's orr gin to Hol You, the Chi
nese consul in San ranciscO, who had
been visiting New York some five years
ago. He advised the Six Companies to
establish such a hospital. In a short
time the organization was completed
under the guiding hand of Lee Yick, the
merchant at "a Pell street, and the
building at 1O5 Park street was leased
at monthly rental of $40.
The hospital is supported by contri-
| buttons from nearly all Chinese within
distance of 500 miles of New York
! and it draws it's patients from the same
territory. Joseph Chung Hoe, ma
| tive Of Canton, was put in charge, and
does all the nursing and conducts all
the business of the institution. He came
to the United States "a years ago and
! for many years was a nurse for ply
sicians of Philadelphia and New York
The hospital occupies the first and
second floors of the building, the base
ment being given over to Joseph Chung
| Hoe for living apartments and to a
/, kitchen where strange Chinese prescrip-
tions are stewed. The two large
rooms or wards for patients, one on a
| floor, are fitted up in Oriental style.
The hunks are made of reed and pal
| metto, like the sleeping hunks in the
| Chinese living quarters. The Chinese
| do not believe in the luxury Of bed
springs, and the hunks arranged in tiers
on either side of the wards are as hard
! as boards.
The lower tier is reserved for the
older patients, while the youthful must
climb to the upper. Twenty-Five pa
tients can be accommodated, but the
highest number in the institution al
one time was nine. At the present
there are five.
| The Chinaman has prejudice
! against calling the Chung Wah Kone
Sor E. Sang Fong a hospital. Call il
by that name and he will quickly cor.
rect you.
mo hospital" exclaimed Lee Yick;
the merchant. 1T is a home. Chinese
man got no money, no f1ends, he. ge
slick, he go to home He got cousins
all relatives seem to be cousins among
the Chinese-"they give maybe TWEEN.
ty- five cents, maybe fiji cents week t.
help him. But no hosptal--On'y home.
The chief support for the hospita
or home comes from the merchants o.
Chinatown proper. and these contribute
an average of 81 a month. When it i:
considered that there are probably Isl
merchants, this money with the Othel
stantial working fund.
when Chinese man go home" con-
tinued Lee Yick. ''he have Chinee-lik'
doctor; Melican-like doctor, any kline
he want He wants to go back China
we send him. We give him penty
things eat an plenty mOney-maybt
hummer dollar. 1t mOre'n pay he way
back"
Most of the Chinese when they &C
to the hospital prefer the "Chinee.
like" doctors, who treat them accord.
ing to customs laid down by physicians
hundreds of years ago. The walls Of
the wards in the hospital are covered
with inscriptions which are the say
ings of these old physicians.
Their manner of treatment is based
not on the idea of the curative prop
critics of their prescriptions so much as
on their power of driving out the evil
spirits of sickness. The Chinaman
looks upon the "Chinee-like'' doceor
with more respect than he does upon
the Mclean like" DOCTOR
a federal appointment. He Dragged