Built by Public Subscription: Given to, and Accepted by, the Council as a Permanent Memorial 'The Victoria' Nursing Home, or as it was originally called the Victoria Training and Nursing Unstitute, whose fate is in the crucible fat the present time, has a history intimately connected with the Britich community in Shanghai.
Tu January, 1901, the pages of the "North-China' Herald" were marked with the heavy back borders symbolical of the mourning into which the whole of the Brit Expire and the world at large was plunged at the death of Queen cally answered, a0 that. the coat feeding ete Secs ini i te Smee Hie al at eet roach he ober See Testi the tact fore tue ele and ti apenag than oan oat if, Of ats Draeinend Crs ne ne Dio Vitoria, Three and a half years) di before in June, 1807, the great Queen's Diamond Jubilee _commemorating the GOth year of her celebrated "reign was observed in the Empire and at that time Shang- nov, och we ae nom hha} was not behind the rest of the Empire in giving expression to the community's esteem for the Queen. One hardly needs to elaborate pan the sentiments which inspired dhe community at that time. ale, however, aptly expressed in Queen Victoria's obituary appenr~ Ing the day following her death, which says, "England has known two great Queens, Elizabeth and Vietorin, and the greatest of these, the whose name will go down to posterity in lustre undimmed, in royal fame untarnished, is our de Queen Vietoria—Vietoria, the Ciood Shanghai's Wish for A Memorial this bulldog, ands contents:
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