To return to the treasurer's memoandum in the report, attention is drawn to the item hinese Staff Allowances, _$5,427.6: which was paid out to Chinese and foreign serts as a bonus on dismissal. It was decided to concentrate, if posble, all the patients in the hospital's t wing, to enable considerable economies to be effected during 1938; as a result, a number of servants were made superfluous, Though their services were not needed during the period from August 15, 1937, to january 31, 1938, they-received wages s well as board and lodging as they were in Shanghai) during this time.
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