On the historic Shantung Road site associated with the Shantung Road Hospital now known as the: Lester Chinese Hospital since 1844, the new building of this unique Shanghai institution is almost ready hoped by those "in charge that the patients will be settled in thei before Christma: hospital will not be held until Jan-vary.
Modern in every respect, from the! soft-toned walls that have replaced the unpleasantly dazzling white of another eva to the efficient operating, theatres, the Lester Hospital should many. as 190,000 out patients during its first year, judging by past. records." All consultation is free, while a small charge is made for medicines and Gressings, if the t is able to pay. Of the in-patients, fully thirty er cent. pay nothing, while the general ward charge of 60 cents barely covers food charges.
When the hospital opens there! willie accommodation for ents and it is hoped to increas number to 270, when an adsing staff is available, training school is housed fin the hospital building. Towever, it probably will take from two to three years to reach this maximum, At the present time there are ven foreign sisters on the stof]
some 90 Chinese nurses. 3. Lee Il, Paterson, whose ance both in Shanghai and the terior makes him peculiarly suited the position, is superintendent of the hospital, and the new building been progressing under his In view of its service to the community, it is logical that the
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