The car went on past the great electricity works. I should not know the difference between a volt and an ampere if the two of them stood in from of me, nor could 1 explain the precise difference between a dynamo and a generator, but Ido know from what the eye fan see that the engineer in charge has a plant of which he can afford to be proud and the vast extent of it is further evidence of Mukien's prosperity. A. little farther and the ear ran under a big archway and halted at the steps of an red_ brick building which might have been a Parliament House or Government offices; only Wlazoned across the front gold block letters was Eastern Hospital." We. paid. our respects tothe officials" and a smartly-uniformed Chinese officer attached himself to me, so am not very clever with English, [bot T can talk to you in French and German." And myself knowing only English a little Gaelic!
passed through the office building to the rear and there found a big compound probably 200 yards or more each way. It is divided into squares by handsome pergolas on wide concrete paths. raised three [feet from the ground. In each square is a one-story hospital ward, built of red brick on a concrete [foundation also raised thre feet from the around, so that, however bad. the weather may be, mud or water never can get The windows are large and numerous [providing light ard air sufficient for a tuberculosis hospital. The floors are solid concrete so" that there is no difficulty about keeping them felean and set in. the floors down the centre are thick glass plates guarding violet electric light Kbulbs, "an ingenious contrivance Which allows a soft lighting effect sufcient to enable a person to walk about at night but not annoying to Lan invalid who might be disturbed by a svtong light. Each ward has from two to four cubicles at one fend for the accommodation of officers or eases for isolation, a bathroom, lavatory, dressing and orderlies' acorns, and 25 (or even more if really necessary) cases can accommodated in the remaining part.
The Most Approved Lines In every particular the hospital is run on the most approved Western lines, even to the furnishing of white enamelled iron cots, mattresses, lines and blankets, i stead of bare boards, a pallet, wooden pillow and a' padded quilt as is the Chinese custom. There had mot been time to get in all the equipment before the war broke and two or three of the wards were short of cots, but the deficiency was Jniade good by the supply of wooden trestle beds which serve the purpose quite well. The orderlies were busy and efficienttooking fellows, /garbed in white linen hospital overalls, serupalously dlean, As judged by the bandaging and the generally comfortable and satisfied appearance of even'some really bad cases, should say thst the military surgeons are quite competent, and they are fortunate in-having' the assistance of Japanese nurses, about 50 of whom T'saw at work in tone of the hospitals.
There also. is. an operating theatre. I did not inspect it, for hospital train kad arrived short-fly before and the surgeons were busy on ther unpleasant but meritorious work. However, a foreigner who had seen the theatre assured me that it was fully in keeping with the rest of the hospital and that it was a truly wonderful place. Certainly there is not a hospital in Shanghai to compare with it any my friend was right when he gave it the praise he did.
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