The Washington herald., 1920-04-11
us. HOSPITAL
FOR ENGLAND
Americans in London Plan
Institution for Medical
Research.
TAFT JOINS PROJECT
Campaign to Be Launched
For Endowment Fund of
Several Millions.
TAFT JOINS PROJECT
CWashinEton Herald-PubIic Ledger
Service, Special Cable Dispatch.)


Service. Special Cable DispatchO
London. April lO.-An American
hospital for Great Britain will
shortly be established in London.
Plans for this undertaking, which
have been considered for several
months by leading American resi-
dents in this country, are today in
such shape that within a short time
the hospital will be Incorporated in
the United States and a campaign
will be begun to raise an endow-
ment fund of several million dol
lars.
The American committee, having
Just received a cablegram from
William H. Taft accepting the pres
idency in the United States, to-
gether with Lord Readings accept
ance of the presidency in England,
the institution is now in a position
to launch it's plans on a large scale
on both sides of the Atlantic.
Advantage to Students.
While IL will be called a hospital,
IL will be in fact a European lab
oratory for medical research and
study, The American hospital in
London is intended to act as INK
in binding together the two nations
for the advancement of medical SCI
ence as affecting the welfare OF hu-
manity," reads the original MEM
orandum of the board of governors.
For wears Americans have needed
a hospital here. The German
French and Italian colonies have
long had such institutions 1t Is
planned to found a medical instltu-
tion not only for American patients
but In order THAI American medical
students may have an institution IN
London for postgraduate work ana
not have to go to Berlin and vienna
as they did before the war.
II present plans succeed the road
to medical fame will be via London
in the future instead of via Germany
and Austria. The new institution
has strong backing in both coun-
tries.
Plans Incorporation Here.
The constitution of the hospital is
about to be incorporated under the
laws of the District of Columbia,
according to Lord Reading. Three
fourths' of the board of governors,
whose members shall at all times be
American citizens, elected annually
by exclusively American bodies who
have maintained an organized ex-
istence in London for at least two
years, for commercial. philanthropic,
educational and social purposes. Will
be assisted in administration affairs
by an American lay committee in the
United States, Lord Reading has
announced.
The board of governors at pres
ent consist of the following. WE'LL
known American residents of Lon
don:
Walter BIackman. George NJ. Cas-
satt, Newton Crane. Wilson Cross,
James T.. Dunning. ]. Grant Forbes,
Philip Franklin. William Gourley,
Clarence Graft, Robert Grant, jr.,
James Benson Kennedy. J. Blair
MacAfee. George a. Mower. Francis
L. Powell. II. Gordon Sehridge,
Lawrence L. Tweedy, Frederick c.
Van Duzer and Z. Bradner White.
U. s. Surgeons Aid.
The medical comittee in Ameri-
ca consists of the following emil
nent physicians and surgeons:
Drs. w. Grille, Cleveland; W. ].
Mayo and Charles H. Mayo, Roches-
ter. Mimi; Albert J. Ochsner. Chic
ago; Rudolph Matas, New Orleans
and Franklin Martin, Chicago.
committee in Great Britain:
Sir Arbuthnot Lane, Sir Hum
phrey Rolleston. Sir John Bland
Sutton, ]. Y. W. MacAlister and
Philip Franklin. Morgan, Grenfell
and Company have accepted the
office of honorary treasurer and
the following shall also be eX-of-
ficio members of the board of gov
ernors:
Two honorary presidents. one of
whom shall be the president in
Great Britain and one in America;
two honorary vice presidents with
the spme qualifications; a chair
man who shall be the American
Ambassador: a vice chairman. the
American consul general; the hon
orary treasurer and the secretary
superintendent.
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