Evening star., 1921-09-19
ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTION
AT PEKING DEDICATED TODAY
Noted Scientists From Many Countries
Gather to Take Part In Union Medical
College Ceremonies.

PEkING. September 1S.-The great
Peking Union Medical College. which
has been erected here by the China
medical board of the Rockefeller
Foundation. is to be dedicated tomor-
row, and noted scientists and medical
men from many countries are here
either to take part in the ceremonies
or to attend an international medical
conference to be held in connection
with the dedica ton.
The Picking Union Medical College
has been in process of erection and
construction since 1915. 1t is the
chief agency through which the
Rockefeller Foundation aims to
promote the progress of western
medicine in China 1T is; an out
growth of the Union Medical College,
which was founded by the joint effort
Of SIX British and American mission
AIRY societies in 1906. after the Boxer
outbreak. The China medical board
of the foundation has assumed the
full support OF the college. which is
Chartered under the laws of the state
of New York.
Purpose Of the hoard.
The purpose of the China medical
beard is to make the college Il rally
iuls point for scientific medical train
i.t; and research, not only in China
hut throughout the far east. The
campus of the college, which is
lo,..1trd near the heart OF PekinE and
the Forbidden city. was formerly the
site OF the palace and garden of
Chinese prince.
Fourteen hospitals and laboratory
buildings have been erected thereon
and these have been decorated i'll the
conventional Chinese fashion in
r.-I.t Al.
corniucs typical of imperial palaces
and temples. The college plant con-
SistS laboratories of anatomy,
physiology and chemistry, Il pathol-
oGy buitdIng. "a 25O-bed hospital with
about thirty private rooms. large
out-patient department.. Il hospital ad-
ministration unit with quarters Tor
resident physicians and iEterneS,
nurses home and plants to supply
water, heat, electric light and power
and fuel gas.
buildings Modern In Every Detail.
The buildings are freproof and
modern in every detail of interior ar
raugcinent and equipment and yet are
ia harmony with the best traditions
of Chinese architecture. The cost of
the buildings has not been made pub
lie. but as they We're constructed dur
ing the war ii is understood to have
been very large.
IiIt IaCuitN HIS DttH StSStIHDltu
from among men of high standing in
the Emitted States. Europe and China.
Dr. Henry ). Houghton, its director,
was formerly professor of tropical
medicine and dean of the Harvard
Medical School of China. DR.. Ralph
4. Seem, acting superintendent of the
college hospital. is now director of
Tho Albert Merritt Billings Hospital
OF the University of Chicago, with a
lc:.Nr oi absence for this year.
Others of the college faculty are DR..
7. Dwight Sloan. formerly Superintend-
cut OF the University of Nanking Hos
ritat. Dr. Davidson Black. graduate
of the University of Toronto and for
nle;Iy OF the Canadian army medical
corps: br. Ralph 6. Mills, formerly of
the staff OF johns hopkins Medical
school. DIR. Franklin c. Mclean. for
u. er!y Of the faculty of the University
of Chicago; DIT. Adrian S. Taylor. for
H.erly of Johns Hopkins Medica