The following correspondence between the Bourd of Trostees of the Hospital and the Municipal Council, has been handed to us for publication Shanghai, 9th October, 1875, J. G. Porvoy, Esq., Chairman, Municipal Council.
Su,—With reference to the resolution passed at the meeting of Ratepayers on the Oth of September last, as well as to your informal note of the 13th ult,, and to the discus sion which took place subsequently at the Municipal Offices between the Council and the Trustees of the General Hospital, I now beg to place before you in writing the views of the Trustees on the subject of the reconstruction of the Trust. proposal to take over the Hovptal which you The Board has carefully considered the
ave informally made, and I have to express ita regret that the terms suggested by the Council cannot be accepted.
The original object of the Trust was the foundation of a General Hospital under the ices and in the interest of the entire community and the Trustees do not consider tl,.mselves authorized to abandon their Tr or to surrender the property under thi charge toa section, however important an one it may be, of the foreign residents, two grave objections present themsel the proposal adopted by the meeting of Ratepayers. The first of these relates to the -operation which the Consular Body hi horta accorded to the Board of Tru and the second to the support the Hop now receives from the French Municipality.
tees believe that both the one and the other would be withdrawn were the Hospital to become an Institution conducted. exclusively under the responsibility of the Municipality North of the Yang-king-pang. The disadvantages of such a result are sufficiently obvious, but I may be permitted to point out, what is not perhaps generally appreciated, that a by far the larger proper: tion of the patients are sent to the Hospital by the foreign Consulates, a good understand ing between the Consuls and the Board is not only most desirable in the interests of the inmates under treatment, but is essential to the success of the.institution.
Under these circumstances, the Trustees have carefully considered the constitution of a governing body which will possess administrative efficiency, and will adequately represent all the interests concerned, and I have to submit to you for the approval of the Council the following scheme for the reorganization of the Trust.—The Trustees of the Hospital to consist of The Chairman for the time being of the General Council.
The Chairman for the time being of the French Council.
Three: Consuls to be delegated by the Gon-
the Tatepayere North of the "Yang-king?
70 xyers'to be elected annual 2 Rekepa to be elected ete Ratepayer to be mammated annually by the French Municipality.
'The Chairman: of the-Trustees to' be one of the Lares eet 'Trustees, u onmected: with the' arrangement'of a site fo committed: the- settlement' of all'' questions.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.