The Archive · 1937

Dr, Way-ling New

the Ipswich Military Hospital (1914~ 1916) where he was acting for some time as superintendent. From 191 to 1018, he was house surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital under the famous surgeon, Sir John Bland-Sutton. A {eiendship between them kept up tit Sir John died.

Dr, New returned to China in 1918, and' joined" the Lester Chinese Hospital Cknown then as the London Mission Shantung Road Hospital) as assistant superintendent, and" from 1921 to 1024 he was the head of the surgical department fof the Hospital, Since 1024 till the time of his death, he was a visiting surgeon to this institution, An Active Career Dr, New's activities covered a wide area, From 1924 to 1027, he was honorary superintendent of the Chinese Red Cross Hospital Avenue Haig. It was largely duo to his efforts "and labour that the Red Cross Hospital grew into im= portance, From 1021-1027. he was flo. superintendent of the Cholera Hospital under the Chinese Red Cross, Society. From 1922 to 1926 he directed each summer the Cholera Hospital in Thibet Road, Ever since 1920, he kept a priv hospital known as the Ling-Sung Hospital in Route Ghisi.

Apart from hiv hospital duties and his own practice, he would volunteer from time {0 time for emergency work. In 1923, he headed a Red Cross unit to Lincheng to render medical ald to foreign and Chinese captives in Shantung. During. the rear earthquake in Japan in 1923, he took a group of Chinese doctors and nurses to the Island Empire on an errand of merey. During the Kiangst-Chokiany Civil War in 1926, again headed the Red Cross work, He served as the medical oflcer to the Chinese Ca, of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps ever since 1022. Ho was an honorary professor surgery at the St, John's University Medical School, and visiting surgeon to Margaret Williamson Hospital In addition he was a former president of the Chinese Medical Associa~ tion, "and a trustee of the Tien An Tang Church in Shantung Road.

Like his equally celebrated brother, the late Dr, Way-sung New, Dr. New possessed a big collection of tablets, scrolls and silver trophies which bespeak the many humanitarian deeds he performed during his lite,

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