Judge Mossop has drawn pub-Ue attention to the needs of "the Lester Chinese Hospital whose beneficent activities are hampered by a shortage of funds. Shanghai showd see to this. His Honour appropriately dissipated the notion that the transformation of the old Shantung Road Hospital into the institution as at present style, with the backing of the late Mr. Henry Lester's generosity, did not automatically "'relieve the public of the obligation to ensure Mts proper maintenance, Judge Mocsop pointed out that lest year's accounts showed a deficit of $23,288, in spite of fan income of $170,000 from the Lester Endowment and $4209 from the municipal authorities of the Settlement and the French Concession, The Hospital has an average daily "population of 470" persons, Tt treated problem of developing more systematic support, especially from Chinese sympathizers who, if the facts were effectively presented to them, would certainly desire to identify' themselves with an institution which well serves their community. Judge Mossop was on the right linea when exhorted the incoming commit ice to bestir itself in this matter. The members might encourage the Hoepital to take a leat out of the book fof voluntary "hospitals. In England fand consider the possibility of organizing more systematic publicity, Tt hides its ight too placidly under. 4 Dushel, except for the single annual outburst provided by "the occasion which Judge Mossop' so effectively raced
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