The Washington times., 1917-05-30
OIL KING TO BUILD
HOSPITAL in CHINA
Rockefeller Foundation Will
Spend 100000.
TWO INSTITUTIONS PLANNED
Contract Let for Buildings In Pc
king and Shanghai.
TWO INSTITUTIONS PLANNED

NEW YORK May 3O.-Carrying out
the project conceived eight years ago
of giving China an effective medical,
surgical, and sanitary system, the
Rockefeller Foundation will start
soon the construction of two large
hospitals. one in Picking and the other
In Shanghai, for the work of the
China Medical Board, a subsidiary of
the Foundation. In addition, the
Foundation will enlarge the Union
Medical College Of Picking, which it
has taken over from the missionary
agencies which founded II. 1t is I'M
derstood that the hospitals will cost
at least 81 ,000, 900 each. 1t Is probable
that they Will not be manned until
the war is over.
Within a few weeks B. Frank Ben
nett, a Baltimore contractor, will
start for China to build the hospitals,
the first of which will be constructed
in Picking. It is to be modelled after
the Johns Hopkins Hospital Of Balti-
more, and the plans were drawn after
suggestions by DR.. Winford H. Smith.
superintendent OF Johns Hopkins. A
chicago hrm Of architects drew the
plans.
The construction OF the hospitals is
the outcome Of investigations during
the last hve years by two commits
sions for the Rockefeller Foundation.
The first, which visited China in 1914,
was headed by DR.. Harry Pratt Jud-
son Of the University of Chicago. The
second commission went to China in
1915 and again in 1915 The plan to.
give China a much-needed medical
reform took definite shape at a meet
ing of the China medical board in
New York last year following the re-
turn from Europe OF the commission
composed of DR.. wallace Buttrick, d.
rector of the China medical board: DR..
Simon Flexner, head of the Rookie
Teller Institute for Medical Research,
and DR.. William H. weIch, the noted
pathologist OF Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity.
To Cooperate With Missionaries.
1t was announced at that time
that the plan of the board contem-
plated the erection Of two hospitals
in China at a cost OF more than ST.
SOC. 900, the annual upkeep charge of
which would We something like $780,
900. The plan also called for the CO.
operation OF the China medical board
with the missionary agencies, which
nave = Oh Smaller nOEpllAls
and medical schools in China
The Rockefeller Foundation will
not undertake to send a large num-
Der OF American physicians to China.
II 10 their plan rather to train Chi
nese in modern medicine to treat
their own people. American physi-
clans and surgeons will go out at
frst as teachers. Because OF the
great demand upon the medical pro-
fession maze by the war it is not be-
lieYed that the foundation will under
take to supply the personnel for the
greater Peking school and the Picking
and Shanghai hospitals until after
the war. Their construction wilA
probably take Up the better part Of
year.
While the board believes that it will
be q task Of years, perhaps many
years, to equip a body of modern
physicians large enough 10 care for
the medical needs OF China, II be-
lieves in that result lies the solution
Of the problem of the medical wants
of the $50, O00, 900 population OF that
country. There are diseases in China
which are found nowhere else in the
world, and the medical problems Of
China are in other ways different
from those which American physicians
these reasons that the China medical
board believes that trained natives
will make the best doctors for China.
The foundation may also give financial
aid to the smaller missionary hospitals
in many parts Of the country.
No Legal Requirements.
The medical board faces the prob
lem of getting the Chinese govern
neut to establish medical standards
before its task will be accomplished.
At present the Chinese medical prac-
tItioner is subject to no legal require
ments; he simply announces himself
as a physician and goes ahead and
practices. In many cases the right
to practice medicine is taken as
hereditary, and the remedies used
are inherited from father to son.
The Chinese drug stores" have an
astounding list of compounds.
The teachers at the Rockefeller
hospital will also have to overcome
the traditional horrors OF the Chinese
for dissection of the human body.
The Chinese practitioner makes little
pretense Of knowing anything about
surgery, except his acquaintance with
the snots where he can use his needle.
There are, of course, some western
physicians practicinE in the ports of
China, but they reach a relatively
small part OF the vast population.
incubation for smallpox, however, Is
.one OF the things observed in China
for many years. Quinine is also
freely used by the native practitiOn-
ers.
Dr. Buttriek was for years active in