The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-07-01
Chinese General
Gives X-Ray Outfit
To Taylor Hospital

Paotingfu, China July IA &c.
900 N-ray machine has been pre-
scented to the Taylor Memorial Pres
byIerian Hospital by General Wa Pei
fu in appreciation of the splendid
work the American doctors and nurses
in the hospital are doing for the men
wounded in the China civil war.
The missionary doctors and nurses
are working night and day to meet
the needs, for hundreds of serious
cases are being brought to the hos
pital The doors of the institution are
open to the wounded of both sides re-
garGless of whether they fell in the
ranks of General WI Pei-fu or of
Marshal Chang Tso-lin.
While the local military authort-
ties have converted three school build
ings into hospitals stated with we'll
the soldiers prefer the missionary
hospital. GeneTal Feng Yu Shan, the
famous Christian general sent a spe-
cial despatch to the headquarters here
placed in the Taylor Memorial Hos
nital-
Women Assist Doctors
During the past two weeks there
ray cases day, and. with equipment
limited to one machine and two
American surgeons. with Chinese as
sistants, this has meant fast work.
The sixty beds in the hospital We're
quickly filed, and the overflow pa
tients are being cared for in school
buildings MlSlSl Onar16S OF the PreS-
byterian, American Board and Saliva
ton Army, anxious to help, undertook
| the maktnS of several hundred mat
tresSeS. chinese women under the
direction of the American women. as
! sisted.
An S S was sent to Picking. and
two additional American nurses ar
rived in Paotingfu, while volunteer
| workers. including many school boys,
We're placed on duty.
| General Pei-fu and his staff off,
GERS made an inspection of the hos
| pital and overflow buildings today.
| pathetic manner, General WI greeted
| his men, thanked them for their ser
vice and urged them to be brave, for
| they would be we'll shortly. His Wis
it greatly cheered UP the boys"
General WI Investigates.
So impressed was General WI with
the A-ray machine that he made in
| chine was borrowed from a Picking
hospital and that the local hospital
needed a similar instrument very
| badly, but lacked the funds to plM--
| chase the same.
| He spent several hours watching the
workings of the N-ray and was fas-
cinated. There were many interesting
| cases, and WI enjoyed seeing the doc
| tors locate the bullets. Upon de-
parture he promised the hospital S.
009 to purchase a new instrument.
The hospital was built in honor OF
On. George Yard1y Taylor a Princeton
University graduate, who was killed
| and his original hosMtal and dis.
pensary destroyed in 1900 by a Boxer
mob. The first medical work In
Paotingfu was opened in 1894 by DR.
Taylor and DR.. B. C. Atterbury.
Hospital is Opened.
Following the Terrible Boxer days
| DR.. Charles Lewis reopened medica
I work in a little street chapel where
work was carried on during the con.
struction of a hospital building, which
cost $500, q gift of Dr. Taylor:
classmates of Princeton.
The work has grown rapidly. ant
the little hospital built by DR.. Taylor:
classmates has grown and developed
into a modern plant. There is al
American and Chinese staff, which
includes DR.. Tu. a charming ''nev
woman" of CaltTo, who is a gradual,
of the China Medical College 70
, Women.
A civil war in China may seem
far-away. unimportant event to Amerl
) ca, but any internal diSturba me-
greatly affects the American business
people living lonely lives in the in
: terror cities and the missionaries wht
) are risking their lives in service. TIL,
Taylor Memorial Hospital, manned b,
Americans and financed by American
money, is playing an important par
. in this civil war. And this hospita
J is only one of many missionary insti
buttons flying the American flg
| which is doing it's bit"