Republican farmer., 1920-07-30
AMERICANS OPEN
 NEW H0SP|TAIIN
 C0NSTANT TIN0PLE

Constantinop1e, July 27.-Ameri- cans in Constantinople have estab- lished a hospital which is designed eventually to be the nucleus of an important American medical center in the Far East. Admiral Bristol, the American high commissioner, is chairman Of the hospitals board of directors which includes G. B. Ravn- dahl, the American commissioner and President of the American Chamber of Commerce; Major G. C1aflin Da- wis. director of the American Red Cross in the Near East Colonel James P. Coombs, director of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East; Doctor Mary Mills Patrick, president of Constantinople College for Women; Dr. w. w. Peet, repre- senting the various American mis- sionary boards and Mrs. Hunting don, representing Robert College. Equipment for the hospital, which will have 100 beds, will, be supplied by the American Red Cross. The personnel will be supplied by the American Red Cross and the Ameri- can Committee for Relief in the Near
 East, both of which have many doc tors and nurses working in Turkey among war refugees of various na- tionalities.
 l. Dr. A. R. Hoover, who has lived 1 for many years in Turkey, will be director of the hospital and Dr. Ellie | Richards Graf, formerly physician 1 to Vassar College and a member of l the Wellesley Unit of the American l Committee for Relief in the Near l East, will be his assistant. Mrs. Anna l B. Rothrock, of G1enside, Pa, will be
 superintendent of nurses and her l assistants will be Miss A. Estel1e l Sutton, of Detroit; Miss Roberta K. l Sharpe, of New York, and Miss Mary
 E. Coughlin, of Acton Center, Mass. | Constantinop1e College for wo- men will open a school for nurses | in connection with the hospital and within a year will open a. womans 8
 medical college to afford medical | training for women of the Balkan l states. Admission to the school will l be open to women of all nationa1ities 1 and religions. The Rockefeller Foun- l dation has promised to send board I of inspection to Constantinople and 1 the hospital board hopes to get the l assistance of that organization in a | general improvement of health and | medical conditions in the Near l East.
 The need for a hospital for Eng 1ish-speaking patients is very urgent. l American firms are opening branches 1 in Constantinople every week. TlAta has become a great rendezvous s~T
 the American navy. The Young Mems Christian Association and Young Women's Christian Associa ton have large organizations, in addition to
 many relief and missionary bodies
 which are constantly in need of hos
 pita1 space for their personnel.
 Under the direction of the Con-
 stantinople Unit of the American Committee for Relief in the Near
 East an open-air hospital for tuber-
 culous children has also been es- , tablished on the shore of the Bos- l phorus a few miles north of Constan-
 tinople This hospital is under the di-
 rection of Dr. Elfie Richards Graf1 , It has 50 beds and is designed as a
 model institution which the Ameri- 7 cans hope to get the Turkish, Greek,
 Armenian and Jewish communities
 to duplicate.
 ,I The new American hospital has rI leased a large private residence in 't stamboul. the Turkish section oi
 Constantinople.