The Archive · 1933

NEW VICTORIA NURSES HOME Formal C ning by Chairmen of SMC.

The perpetuation of a community memorial to a great Queen was marked op Monday, October 23, when the Chyieman of the Shanghai Municipal Council formally opened the Victoria Nurses Home Great Western Road.

Residents will remember that the Council, in 1927, on the recommendation of the Afunicipal Economy Committee, decided to close the Vi toria Nursing Home, Range Road, which took the form of a hospital with nurses home attached, on. January 1, 1928. As the Victoria Nureing Home was built in 1901 by public subscription on municipal commemoration of Queen Diamond Jubilee, the Council subsequently decided to perpetuate the memorial in the form of a home for nurses.

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