The Archive · 1929

Future Extensions

The more modern structures were, in the earlier months of the current year, renovated and put in shape for occupancy. It may be that the more dilapidated build ings, erected years ago, may never be reoccupied, but near the northwestern rim of the city lies a large plot of ground which the city, government gave to Pek Tsai some' years ago, and the main buildings of the Canton Hospital will, in the. course of time, be erected there, and the present compound will be the location of a general emergency hospital, of which this city has a great nood.

For fully ten years, the Pek Tsai trustees and directors have envisaged a reborn Canton Hospital, and a branch of @ modern medical school, that it might serve the cause of medical education more than it has been able to do fas an independent institution, That dream is about to be realized, for, as soon as the Lingnan University jean raise the funds, a transfer of title deeds will be made, and, contemporaneously, the Hackett Me cal College will become allied wi the University. In all. likelihood, the main buildings of the medical department of Lingnan will be built on the Canton Hospital property at Sai Chuen, Hackett Modi-cal Ooliege' being turned into a special department principally for obstetrical eases.

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