The annual meeting of subseribers to the Shantung Koad Hospital was held on the 12th inst. Sir Everard Fraser K.c...¢, presided, among the others present being Dr. Davenport, Dr. Price, Dr.
Patrick, Rev. E. Box, Rev. Evan Morgan, Messrs. E. C. Pearce, L-J. Cubitt, ©. M. Bain, J." H. Teesdale, W. A. Argent, Y. Tong, E. Pugh, C. D. Dixon, Hon. Treasurer, R. W. Wells, Hon. Secretary and J. B. Grant, business manager.
In addressing the meeting Sir Everard Fraser said that the Shantung Road Hospital was so well known and its work was highly appreciated by all that there was not very much new to say. The hospital policy had always been to cut its coat to suit its cloth, and the only constant regret they had was that they had not got enough cloth. He remember a good many years ago when he was addressing a similar meeting that the hospital was suffering from a deficit. Ho was glad to say that there was now a more or less steady surplus, ndt a very big one; for instance he saw that if the Municipal Council had not given- an extra Tis 5,000 the accounts would barely have balance ed. Still the hospital went on doing a work which was as valuable as that could be dono in Shang:
Tae Art or ADVERTISING.
The trouble, he fancied, was that the residents of Shanghai had grown so used to the Shantung Road Hospital being always ready to give most excellent attendance and to heal their servants and so on at ridiculously small cost, that they forgot that all these things cost money. Nowadays in Shanghai the art of advertising was being discussed, and he thought there was a society about advertise ing. That was, of course, business advertising, but perhaps the committee of the hospital might try to form themselves into a society
must be a great deal of art for advertising hospitals. There that. The great thing was to bac the valuable work that was being done and the need for supporting it before the public.
The chairman then referred to the correspondence which had taken place with reference to the very necessarily addition to the site. He understood that now an agreement had been made for the purchase from the London Mission of the remaining part of the sits here, excepting the chapel, and that thanks to various contributions there would be the means of financing this. It was a good deal of money, Tls 37.000 odd spread over if necessary three years. He suggested to the committee that
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