The Archive · 1928

Chinese Women Doctors

Training At The West Gate In Great Profession An interesting work is being where, in the Women's Christian -Medi carried on quietly at the West Gate Chinese qualify them to be full-fledged doctors.

'The College is entering its fifth year, although the Margaret Wil-Tiamson Hospital itself was established in 1884 just inside the Chinese city at West Gate. The organization directly responsible for the hospital's foundation was tha. Women's Union Missionary Society of America, the oldest missionary society in the United States, which in recent years has undergone re-organization and become a wager union of four women's societies.

The first physician at this hospital was Dr. Elizabeth—Reifsnydi surgeon who ad fed international istinetion, and widely known and loved by the Chinese and foreign community in Shanghai, 1 To-day the hospital serves 30,000 women and children a year inthe Out-patient departments has an active surgical, medical and ehilden's service in the hospital wards, and the largest maternity service in the East. It has been called the house of a thousand babies," as more than a thousand babies annual-the light of day within its The work of the medical coll is little known, but has been building up a strong staff and a small, well-prepared student body.

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