Vessel for Shanghai Being Tested for Service The new suction dredger, Fu Shing, constructed by the Schichau- Yard in Denzig, and destined for Shanghai, is now undergoing trials.
The vessel has a water displacement of 10,000 tons and is of very large size, an increase, in fact of 25 per cent. on the dredger Chien She built some time ago. Both dredgers are to be used off Woosung to dredge the bar across the river mouth, which a great hindrance to shipping and which has caused much trouble in the past. Work on this project, however, has been suspended since the beginning of the Sino-Japanese hostilities and resumption is still in doubt.
The Fu Shing is 120 metres in length, has a beam of 19 metres and a total height of 8 metres. It is capable of a speed of 11.5 knots—Trans-Ocean, Refugee Hospital Figures A total of 7,776 free hospital days were recorded at the American Hospital for Refugees (St. Luke's Hospital No. 2), 37-B Brenan Road, during September, the "North-China Daily News" was informed yesterday. Total hospital days for the month" were 7,830, while no less than 354 patients were admitted and 648 treated.
A hospital census on the last day of the month revealed a total of 269 patients discharged during September totalled 376 and deaths, 66. The total number of O.P.D. visits was 8,828 and of free O.P.D. visits 8,012, while 7,635 free prescriptions were dispensed.
Laboratory examinations amounted to 4,329 and operations to 127. An analysis of the services of in-patients brings out the following interesting figures:—Surgical, 69; medical, 168; obs. and gyn., 39; ped., 89; E.E.N.T., 11; total 376.
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