Wear's Work of a Great Institution: Increasing Need of Financial Help Several matters which should be the particular interest and concern of the foreign community were touched upon at the annual meeting of the Shantung Road hospital,! held in the Lalcaca Hall on Thursday afternoon. Sir Everard Fraser, K.C.M.G., presided, and among those present were:—Dr. C. J. Davenport (the Medical Superintendent), Mr. E. ©. Pearce, Mr. J. Teesdale, Mr. L. J. Cubitt, Mr. Y. ©. Tong, Mr. Chu Pao-san, Mr. Chung Bin-him, and Mr. R. W. Wells (honorary secretary).
Sir Everard Fraser said The annual reports of the Hospital have much in common—their perusal leaves on one's mind year after year a vivid impression of courageous perseverance in the unsatisfactory) work of making bricks despite an insufficient supply of straw, so one must be filled with admiration for all those concerned in keeping going a very great and most worthy institution which affords to all Chinese and foreigners alike a splendid example of the might of true christian charity in action, The hospital has felt the pinch of H.C.L. like the rest of us and nevertheless has come through not only solvent bub-cheery.
Dr. Davenport and his colleagues and staff seem never to have heard of being downhearted. They go on doing their bit in a manner beyond all praise and the record of their work is a source of pride and satisfaction to us all.
But when we reckon up our part in supporting the hospital, funds and satisfaction are to seek. Of the 4,000 British adults resident in the Settlement alone less than 100 individual names appear in_ the 1920 list of subscriptions and donations, that is, scarcely one in 50 British residents in the Settlement helps to uphold a work, the honour of which belongs to us all. The rest are content I suppose to come under the Race Club's fine contribution of $6,500 which is by the way half the total dollar amount for 1920. Now if only one in 10 would give $1 a week, surely not beyond our community's average personal capacity even in these thard times, the hospital would be to the good in 1921, as much as the total foreign contribution fund in 1920.
In Shanghai nowadays a fashion obtains of uniting in associations for good purposes. Will not some energetic persons with the necessary leisure set about making known the claim of the hospital and advocating sustained efforts for its support? The staff as this report, like previous reports shows, is already too busy in succouring the Chinese patients; the Council cannot allot more of the ratepayers' money than they feel they must give against services more than
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