Part of International Institute to be Used Another example of the progressive spirit and which Chinese women are known to pos recent foundation of the International Institute Hot Joffre, which will be operated under the leadership of a Chinese woman physician, Organization and management of the new hospital has been intrusted to Dr. Ethel 8. M, Chang, superintendent of the Concord Woman' Hospital in Rue Moliere which has a branch clinic in Avenue Joffre, Dr. Chang being one of those pioneers among western-trained doctors who stands in the foremost groups of her profession, As its name suggests, the International Institute Hospital for Women and Children is the result of a decision on the part of the Trustees of the International Institute to found a memorial to the late Dr. Gilbert Reid who devoted many years of his life to the latter institution, The three-storey building of the former Institute has southern exposure and will provide splendid accommodation for the new hospital.
While the hospital will have the use of the Institute building through the generosity of its Trustees, the ization and maintenance fees are to be subscribed by the publi Accordingly a committee of 20 were organized, upon the invitation of Dr, Chang to act as promotors and each of these pledged $500. Their efforts further will be direct ed toward obtaining subscribers who will contribute $50 each for the opening of this important new undertaking on the part of Chinese women, It is the wish of Dr, Chang that the $20,000 necessary to meet organization expenses will be a counted for in this way. Running expenses of the institution will be borne by a Finance Committee of 48 members, each of whom has taken on the responsibility of obtaining $200 2 year.
The hospital will be opened under the supervision of a Board of Trustees, to be composed of seven persons, out of which five will be lected from among the promotors and the Finance Committee, and the remaining two, one foreign and_one Chinese, from the Board of Trustees of the International Institute, Within the hospital are departments devoted to internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, pediatries, dermatology, ophthaltheology, ear, nose, and throat, making it in every sense of the word 'a general hospital, Besides first, second and third class, and general wards, accommodation will be provided' for the poor in free wards, and other plang are being formulated now to have special departments in the hospital for social service work and public health. As the finance campaign is well under way at present the new hospital is expected to be opened in the not distant. future, and those of the general public interested in the, enterprise, are asked to send any contributions which they may wish to make, to the Woman's Commercial & Savings Bank, 465 Nanking Road, In the latter connection, Miss Nylon, president and founder of the SWanghai Woman's Gommercial & Savings Bank, a pioneer enterprise which several' years ago ame as the natural outgrowth of Miss Nyien's training and the desire of Chinese women in Shanghat to have a bank of their own, is serving on the board of the
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