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sleepeT-Dovis M e n or al
Part of Rockefeller Plan
to Aid Chinese Medical
Practice in Monaghan Re
public to Be Modernized.

trick. director of the China Medical
Board; DIR. Simon FIexner, director
of laboratories for the Rockefeller
Institute of Medical Research of New
York. and DR.. William H. Welch, pro-
fessor of pathology at Johns Hopkins
L University Medical school, of BaIti-
more, were the. honored guests today
Arethe dedication of the new Sleeper
Davis mem orta1 hospital in thts city.
I ~ ThisSnew Hospital is a five-sforv
structure, erected by the Methodist
Episcopal Church of the United States
at a cost of SIS 900. It has accom-
modations for $50 patients, is heated
by steam, lighted by electricity, equip
ped throughout with modern sanitary
plumbing. and provided with. diet
Kitchens capable of preparing both
Chinese and foreign food for patients
All patients entering the hospital
will be treated by American doctors,
who have Chinese assistants. The
principal of the hospital is also an
American, but she has the assistance
Of twenty Chinese nurses The hos
pital is equipped with modern operat-
ing rooms designed to accommodate
students. and its management plans
extensions which will make the in
stftuton more useful as a training
place for Chinese doctors and nurses
The Rockefeller Foundation is lend
ing financial aid to a great movement
for the modernization of medical pracz
tfce in China, and the three promi-
uent guests at the dedication of the
hospital are in Picking at this time
studying conditions in China with a
view to Recommending a plan for the
further extension of the foundahonPs
work
DR.. Wang WSen-Tsao, who represent
ed President Yuan-Sh-kai at the ded-
ication, said Chicago and Picking have
about the same population but Pek-
ing has only two hospitals, while Cki<
cago has scores of modern hospitals
Furthermore, he said, existing insitu-
tons have no special provisions for
the treatment of women and children.
such as are provided in the new hos
pitaL On behalf of President Yuan
Shi-kai he thanked the Americans
who have erected the hospital for
their efforts to elevate nedical and
surgical spractiAe in China
Dr. WEIGH made an address, in
which he Congratulated the builders
and emphasized the important part
the hospital viii play In training fu-
ture doctors and hospital superin-
tendents for North China DR.. F'Iex-
ner made an appeal for the support
Of the new institution by wealthy Chi
nese and urged the necessity for inn
mediate medical training for the Wom-
en- Of China
! On behalf of thA Metho6ist Episco-
pal Church, Bishop Lewis accepted
the new building and formally dedi-
Gated it to the use of the suffering
women and children OF China
The China Medical Board has al
ready purchased sthe Union Medical
College in Peking, and il directing
its work and financing it this year.
The sch6o1 w&s Formerly the property
OF. the London Missio nary Society and
was pported by fnterdenominationaI
missionary societies of both England
and America The Church of Eng
land Methodists, Presbyte rians and
Congregauonalists, aided in IT'S work
Under the new ownership the Rock
efeller Foundation will name seven
trustees for the school and six win, be
which founded it,. Roger S. Green,
former United States consul general
at Hankow, China is director of the
China NJ edfca1 Boards work and will
live permanently in Picking.
In addition to. taking over the Pek-
ing medical school the Rockefeller
Foundation has appropriated $4,000.
this year to the use OF the Harvard
Medical School at Shanghai, and has
provided money for several mission
airy hospitals in other cities of China
It has also appointed six Chinese
graduates in medicine to continue
their studie9 here and abroad, and
has granted fenowships to medical
missionaries now engaged in the Chi
nese field Ten women are to be sent
study nursing in approved training
schools. and translators care at work
putting nurses textbooksSinfo Chinese
for the use of native women who are
studying in this country.
Last year a preliminary survey of
the Chinese field was made by a COM
mission headed by DR.. Harry Pratt
Judson, of Chicago University, which
reported in a general way on the med
cal situation in China and strongly
advised the Rockefeller Foundation
to co-pperate as far as possible with
the missionary medical work -Asfde
from the missionary medical school
and hospitals, no other institutions of
high grade exist. Frequently the mis-
sionary work has been handicapped by
lack of funds. The medical needs of
the Chinese are SO great. and their
native practitioners SO inefficient, that
church organizations have been un-
able to meet the extraordinary de-
rrlands made upon them.
Through the original, survey the
policy of the Rockefeller Foundation
was outlined In a general way. and
now Dr. Flexner and DR. WEIGH are
here Representing the folIndation for
the PURPOSE Of advising on the most
scaI practice furEhina9 They will re-
main in China for about six weeks and
visit Shanghai Canton. Changsha,
Hankow, Marking. and. other cities
where hospitals and medical schools
have been orgauized through religious
effort. lids the purpose of. the Foun-
.dation to direct its EFFORTS in such a
sr1anner that eventually an effective |
national health adrni nistration, large
s1sr directed by Chinese, will administer
medical education and provide vital
statistics necessary to a general bet
zterment of conditions throughout the
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