Before setting forth some of the facts which go to prove the urgent need of a hospital for consumptives, it may be well to recall the manner in which the subject was dealt with at last year's meeting.
The proposal made was that the Council should be authorized to establish and control a Tuberculosis Hospital, at a cost of Tls. 30,000. In submitting the resolution, the Chairman of the Council (Mr. E. Pearce) pointed out that for years past Dr. Stanley had advised the making of special accommodation for consumptives, and the Council had arrived at the conclusion that something must now be done. The majority of, if not all, medical men in Shanghai were agred that such a hospital is needed here.
The scheme recommended was that a building should be erected at the west end of the Isola tion Hospital, at an estimated cost of Tls. 30.000, the maintenance of which would involve an annual expenditure of about Tls. 18.000. The hospital of necessity would be largely a benevolent institution, being designed to meet the needs of the poorer classes. In addition, it was proposed to establish an outpatient department, and central dispensary, where treatment was to be educative ae well as preventive. Dr. Patrick was the only speaker who criticized the prenasal. and his remarks did not go beyond general criticism: such as that the new hospital would amount to lit tle better than a home for those Dr. dying from tuberculosis that the temporary scheme was an ill-advised departure from a supposed complete scheme formulated ten years before,
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