Valuable Purchase of Land:
Whole of the Site Now the Hospital's Own Property A highly interesting and equally important Jand transfer has taken place during the last few days in the quiet and modest' way which is characteristic of the work of the two institutions' concerned in it, namely, the London Mission Society and the Shantung Rond Hospital.
These two institutions have been so closely allied for the past 70 years that the majority of the community here does not know where the interest of one ends and the other begins and the average man in the street knows little of the Hospital and supposes it to be a "missionary affair" and is surprised when told that it is a community hospital and that only by a friendly working arrangement with the London Mission,~the Hospital is able to staff itself with fully trained doctors and nurses at exceptionally favourable rates so that the community has thus a well equipped hospital at an absurdly low figure!
It would be interesting to make public the cost of the staff of the hospital and how cheaply the community is served in this worthy institution of which we all know too little, Ever since its inception the hospital has been closely connected with the London Mission Society, which for years had its headquarters at Shantung Road. As the Settlement grew the Mission found it necessary to move its school work and residences to the outlying district and from time to time it has given the hospital the opportunity to Buy at advantageous rates various pieces of land adjoining the hospital with the result that the last of these transactions was completed this week when the whole of the land: known as the Hospital and Mission Compound became the property of the Shantung Road Hospital.
Arrangements have been made with the bank to make the final payment of Tls. 14,000 and efforts are now being made by the Foreign and Chinese Committee of the hospital to raise this amount within the next few weeks.
It is hoped that the Chinese will rise to the occasion and wipe off this amount with but little delay, and the foreign friends of the hospital are asked to interest their Chinese friends in the work done for them by the hospital and to urge their ce-operation in clearing the debt of approximately $20,000 on this very valuable Tand purchase. form and altogether is the best of its kind in the Far East.
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