To the Editor of the "Nowtt-Ciiwa Dat News'
Si,—Many residents of Shanghai and of the outports whom sickness has compelled to seek care, health at the Victoria Nu; will have heard with ce concern that there is a possibility of the Council closing the Nursing Home in order to transfer its staff to the Country Hospital, recently opened on Great Western Road.
T do not know, of course, if there any foundation for this rumour but to meet the possibility of the rumour being correct, I venture to k you to allow me sufficient of your valuable space to draw the attention and of the foreign Population of Shanghai, to the great pity of closing an institution which hag become one of the landmarks to ign re-to mention the possibility }of an injustice being done by the closing of the Nursing Home, which was meant to become a permanent, institution.
As far' a I understand the was con-
Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the necessary money! having been subscribed by British lents. The object of the Found-of the Nursing Home was primarily to provide British residents of Shanghai with a Nursing Home where those needing medical attention and nursing could oh such under conditions and in surroundings which were as near as possible identical to those of similar institutions in England and therefore prion congenial to all British subjects, not to mention the many fortigners who have lived among Britisn subjects for years, The situation of the Victoria Nursing Home which, when it wes opened was rather remote, has now by the expansion of this great city become what might be termed a central one; it is situated on so large a property that the noise of the trafic does not constitute any inconvenience to. the: patients.
It might be argued that the Nurs-{ing Home is no longer up-to-date as regards sanitary arrangements, bot this, surely, is a drawback which {aught to be overcome immediately in case it be deemed desirable to maintain the institution.
T beg respectfully to state that in my opinion it would be wrong, to pat mildly, if the authorities abolished institution which was meant to {provide nursing accommodation for British residents of Shanghai, not for a specific period but for all the future, and thus' defeat the very'
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