Shanghai is used to appeals. Just now the experience Is likely to be Intensified. Yet the straits in which the Lester Chinese "Hospital finds itself demand the exceptional exercise Shanghai's generous instincts, The generosity can be invoked practical grounds. "The provision of hospital facilities for the people of this city is by no means on a scale commensurate with its importance and size of population. When, therefore, an institution like the Lester Chinese Hospital has to confess that, for the want of funds it may have to restrict its activities, the necessity for remedial action is obvious, The Hospital has behind it a record of nearly ninety years' servic to the community by" ministering to the health of the Chinese citizens of Shanghai. That service cannot be overestimated and its scope has been progressively extended so that no Jess than 200,000 outpatients are treated annually. It requires. tittle imagination to realize what that Single side of the Hospital's work the economic. and. social of Shanghai. Judge Mossop put the matter fairly "and. squarely Jast April when he said "Wo simply cannot afford to let this institution down owing to lack of financial sup-'That terse statement sums up situation, All that remains is for the Chinese and foreign communities here to take thought for ensuring additional support to the funds which have been so badly depleted by recent events. The hospital's endowment is not sufficient to carry its burdens owing partly to the great extension of {he needs which it has to full and partly to the effect of the depression on its investments and income. The deficit last year was over $23,000—a sum of no great significance it is true but indicative of a state of things which requires correction." Shanghai is acutely sensitive to criticisms of its attitude toward social welfare problems, Here a special opportunity to rebut such criticisms. The Lester Chinese Hospital must not be "let down",
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.