The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-27
AMERICANS OPEN
 NEW HOSPITAL IN
 C0NSTANTIN0PLE
First Step In Establishing American Medical Center
 In Near East.


 Constantinop1e, July 27.-Ameri- cans in Constantinople have estab- nshed 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. Claf1in 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; pr. 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.
 pr. A. R. Hoover, who has lived for many years in Turkey, will be director of the hospital and Dr. Ellie Richards Graf, formerly physician to Vassar College and member of the Wellesley Unit of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, will be his assistant. Mrs. Anna D. Rothrock, of Glenside, Pa., will be superintendent of nurses and her icfo tSs y1rj1J ha +~JI Sutton, of Detroit; Miss Roberta K. Sharpe, of New York, and Miss Mary E. Cough1in, of Acton Center, Mass.
 Constantinople College for Wo- men will open a school for nurses in connection with the hospital and within a year will open a woman's s medical college to afford medical training for women of the Balkan states. Admission to the school will be open to women of all nationalities and religions. The Rockefeller Foun- dation has promised to send a board of inspection to Constantinople and the hospital board hopes to get the assistance of that organization in a general improvement Of health and medical conditions in the Near East.
 The need for a hospital for Eng lish-speaking patients is very urgent. American firms are opening branches in Constantinople every week. This has become a great rendezvous for the American navy. The Young Mems Christian Association and Young Women's Christian Association have large organizations, in addition to many relief and missionary bodies which are constantly in need of hos pital 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- phorus a few miles north of Constan- tinople. This hospital is under the di- rection of Dr. Elfie Richards Graf It has 50 beds and is designed as a model institution which the Ameri- cans hope to get the Turkish, Greek Armenian and Jewish communities to duplicate.
 The new American hospital has leased a large private residence ir Stamboul, the Turkish section o1 Constantinople.