In a report submitted to the Shanghai Municipal Council meeting 3st Wednesday, the Commissioner of Public Works stated that in planning the new Mental Hospital on a portion of the former site of the Victoria Nursing Home, Range Road, considerable dim culty had been ex: perienced in meeting all requir ments for the four classes of patients (foreign both sexes and Chinese both sexes), and it appeared to the Commissioner of Public Health and himself that a better solution would be to erect this building on. the Kiaochow Road property. He, fore, submitted for consideration a plan showing both the Western Fever Hospital and the Mental Hospital placed on the recently acquired Tand at Kiaochow Roa that with regard to 1 pital, the new site much better pian for Working, and both hospitals would have the very great advantage of Kiaochow Road Park on the south. This scheme involved the retention fof the whole of the ground. But Instead of the sale of surplus' areas of Kiaochow Road property, the Home site could be released for sale or other municipal purposes After brief discussion the Council resolved. that the Mental Hospital be erected on a portion of the Kiaochow Road property in accord~ ance with the plan submitted by the Commissioner of Public Works,
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