'AN Patients are Transferred by Ambulance The General Hospital, reoccupied permanent quarters in North S00 chow Road_on Jan, 14, patients and equipment. being shifted during the Gay. from the Henry Lester Institute Of Medical. itescarch, 1520 Avenue Road, in Fire Brigade ambulances and. lorries respectively. "Three Embulanees were used to convey some thirty men, women and children from the temporary wards to Hong Kew and all had been safely transferred by 'noon, hospital ig 220 beds, but for the time The capacity. of the General
doing only a much smaller number Will be available, Ds. G. Chambers, Jnedical superintendent, Mr. J.B Melchior, treasurer, and the large huroing staff composed of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary are now-all in alloa in the hospital.
Generally speaking, the building suffered but Ite during the recent hostilities. The damage to the operate {ng theatre. which was struck bya belt has been partly repaired, In {he garden, just. inside the wall in North Soochow Road, are two sizable sheila "the missies having apparently come over the building dhe northwest in the course of Chin-exe shelling. One projectile exploded the "boys!" quarters, which were damaged.
'The heat has been on in the large structure for a week in preparation for the return of patients and stage, In. the morning' already smoke! was "pouring from the kitchen chimney. From a tree near the main. entrance a bird-cage (with bird) was Suspended, lending a Chinese touch to the return, The home-coming ended on exile which began on August 16, last year, when the hostilities had just started, At that time the hospital removed to the new Chase Bank Building in Nanking Road. Tt was later transferred to the Henry Lester Institute,
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