The community will of course feel duly grateful to the Council for] perpetuating at least the name of Queen Victoria in the new quarters for nurses which are to be built} near the Country Hospital. But the: name alone is very far from being} enough, With the nurses' quarters removed from the Country Hospital into a house near by, there will be} more room in the main block and i may be possible to save emergency patients from being kept waiting: on stretchers in the hall, while the staff hunt round to see how they are to be accommodated, But the policy attempting to provide for all the necessities of a great straggling town like Shanghai with one hospital Far away in the western district is utterly wrong. We do not forget the General Hospital, but there are strict imitations on the cases it adm particularly maternity eases, Tt is] ho argument to say that in the Victorin Nurses Home the Courell will be getting back more nearly to what the donors of the original memorial intended, and that the: latter never foresaw what the} V.N. H. would develop into. The} point is that it did develop into whae we remember, clear proof of its] necessity. 'To argue further that the Country Hospital has made the V.N. H, unnecessary is to shut one's eyes to the growth of popula. tion in Shanghai. 'Those who argue in this way can have but small personal' knowledge of the great development of the residential area particularly of Hongkew, but also} fof the eastern district, It is tittle] short of barbdfbus to expect patients from these localities, if they are such as the General Hospital will not take, to journey all the way to Great Western Road. At the when the V. N. H. was being shut, @ sort of half promise was given that the Council might see Jater on what could be done about: another hospital with maternity ward for Hongkew. With all. the: money ndw at the Council's disposal, it is very enrnesty to be: hoped that this half-promise will he made a whole one and a reality.
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