In the course of the year covered by this Report there arose n necessity for changing the site of the hospital.
The ground for many years ocoupied by it having been leased to Chinese for building, a Was unavoidable, And, as the way Ww: wot yet clear for secutiug " perma: it seemed advisable to rent two tenements o a new Chinese building nearly opposite the old place, which might serve temporarily for carrying on the work of the hospital. The old build being of little value and irable to use elsewhere, was sold to of the ground for a hundred tacle. The rented tenements, though very inadequate to the accommodation of in-door patients, have served as a dispensary to which many have resorted, so that the prestige of the place and the contiguity of its work have been kept And now, at the time of writing this Report, (October, 1880) it is a satisfaction to de able to say that we have at length succeeded in buying premises having on them a very good two-storey brick building, which, greee—will be very suitable for a hospital, with a little internal alteration—now in pro:
The locality, also, od, having " southern frontage on Seward Road, extending from Boone Road on the east, to Nan Zing Road on the west. And thus it has the advantage: of an open street in front, ae well as on ie. It is aleo near to the Hongkew Police tion and to docks and wharf. wud ship-patients outs Tls, 2,700.00; to which are for alteration and repairs, bet and 300. Of this (Tls. 3,000) 2,425.00 been paid; and we hope in less than a year to see the balance paid. One thousand dollars and upwards (of the purchase money) were given by a warm nond of Hospital work, 8 Miss Shields of Philadelphia, to whom gratefal acknowledgement is hereby made. Phe remainder was a been gradually acounn within the past few Owing to the star arrangement fective working of this department, as for the far more convenient and tis factory management of the medical anit surgical departments, by those who have the charge of them, An' apology is here tendered to the foreign contributors to this Hospital, for 1879, that their names with their respective contributions do not appear in this Report as has been usual heretofore, the reason of which ie that in the transition state of breaking up and moving out of the old Huspitai and the contusion which tur w ime the only book containing the ost. The amounts received had been red, so that the aggregate of thy whol ascertained from the book containing tries.
Cordial acknowledgements are due to the surgeons who have so long given their valuable services freely to the Hospital, and have not abandoned or despaired of it in ite days of difficulty. We trust that the new Hospital will open to them a far more encouraging and satisfactory field of work for the exercise of their skill in relieving contributions to this Hospital feom the foreign residents of full and the Hospital, prove still more extensively reductive of good than they have proved in the past.
GENERAL REPORT FOR 1830, The above Report for 1879, not having been published so early as was expected, it seems auviaable to append to it further tif report for the year 1880, up to the present date, Sth December.
We are glad to be able to state that the tal building, mentioned above, is now in condition tu use, and is actually 'a'matter of pleasure also to atate that Dr, Henry W. Boone,—eldest sun of Bishop Boone, and a medical practitioner for 20 years, who also spent over three years of his early professional life in Shanghai,—has recently returned here a8 the medical officer of the American Episcopal Mission, aid will give regular attendance at the Hospital on several days of each week.
Bud ae vue valued medical friends of the Kincleod have consented to contin it st, Doctors Henderson, Zacharine and
relations as Honorary Acting Surgeons of the Hospital and to give their services as here fore, we are well justified in ti the establishment has a promising future before it.
A review of the reports for the 14 years of this Hospital's existence shows th: number of applications for relief from Chit cut-door patients has exceeded 230,000, and the number of in-door patients has exceeded 1,000, while relief has also been given to over 1,600 foreigners.
The fact th such numbers of suffer the means provided at this Hospital, is tainly a fact full of satisfaction, and one which makes its own appeal to all interested.
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