HOME, To the Eilitor of the fORTH-CHINA DatLy News."
Smt,—I hope your protest against the ale of the Victoria Nursing Home will have the effect of stopping the Council from taking further action in the matter till rate-Payers have had an opportunity of Feading the Economy Committee's report.
T quite agree with the view that sentimental consideration can justify saddling a community in perpetuity with the task of keeping alive a memorial at a cost out of all proportion to its usefulness and am sure every Britisher in Shanghai would rather sce the V.N.H, swallowed up by an earthquake than see it become an irksome barden on the shoulders of the ratepayers of this International Settlement. At the same time there are other aspects of the affair which consideration. Had the been run strictly on the 1es on Which it Was started, namely as a residence for nurses engaged outside work and with sufficient medical and surgical beds to provide a field for training girls taking nursing as a profession, it would have performed a very necessary and useful function and the present situation would never have arisen. Instead of this, however, its scone was increased {o include a mental Block, children's block, maternity block' and police hospital. Farther accommodation for patients was Provided by removing the residence for outside nurses. to" Boone Road and housing others in houses Bought far the purpose to the east of the
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