'A small gathering, but one that thoroughly appreciates the work that is being done by the Shantung Road Hospital, assembled in the hall of the hospital at five thirty o'clock on Thursday evening. The occasion was the sixty-ninth annual meeting of this important and old-established institution. Among those present were noted the following: Mr. E. ©. Pearce and Mrs. Pearce, Mr. C. M. Bain, Dr. O. J. Davenport, the medical superintendent, and Mrs. Davenport, Mr. L. J. Cubitt, Mr. Y. C. Tong, Mr. N. Y. Chung, Mr. J. H. Teesdale, Mr. A. Hide, the Rev. E. Box, Dr. Patrick, Mr. E. Pugh, Rev. E. Burnip, the Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Grieg, Mrs. J. A. ©. Smith, the matron, and Miss Clark, in charge of the women's ward.
Mr. E. C, Pearce, taking the chair, said:—
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