Institution to Be Opened in Four Weeks Thy new Shanghai Mercy Hospital for Nervous Diseases, which will be opened in about four weeks and is situated on the highway to Ming-bhang, will be the first of its kind in China. Although there is at present '2 mental hospital in an old palace in Peiping and one in Soochow, the Shanghai Merey Hospital is the only new one built especially for its pur~ pose. It occupies about 150 mow of Tand' and the patients' wards are spread over eight buildings and will be given over as a teach: ing unit for psychiatry to the National Medical College of Shanghai. The teaching hospital will be used simultaneously as observation-station.
Money for the enterprise was contributed partly by the City Govern. ment of the Municipality of Greater Shanghai, the Shanghai Municipal and French Municipal Councils, and partly raised by the founder, Mr. Lo Pa-hong, the well-known phila For the start there will be acconsmodation for about 600 patients. The Brothers of Charity are from Trier, trained in psychiatry in Germany and Switzerland, and the female patients will be under the care of foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic from Mary Knoll, New York. Under the supervision of these experts, there will be a staff of Chinese male and female granate nurses who will be prepared for this special nursing by postgraduate courses.
The following persons hold executive positions at the hospi Mr. Lo Pa-hong, president of the Hospitals Board and director: Mr. Lo Yin-kung, general manager; Dr. T. 1 Sun, secretary; and Dr. Fanny G. Halpern, medical director and psychotvist-in-charge. Dr. Halpern algo. professor of neurology and I psychiatry at the National Medical College. The neurology department now in the Red Cross Hospital, but later it will be placed in the new College Hospital, while the subject of psychiatry will continue to be taught at the Merey Hospital.
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