Shanghai, Apr. 19.
A. H. George, H. M. Consul-General, took the chair at the Annual Meeting of subscribers to the Lester Chinese Hospital held yesterday, when he stressed the great importance of the work being performed by the institution for the benefit of those Chinese in Shanghai in need of cheap, or free, medical treatment. Like every other institution n Shanghai the hospital has been faced during 1940 with financial problems, necessitating a greatly increased budget for 1941.
Messrs, G. A. Haley, J. H. Liddell, W. Poate, and the Rev. A. Baxter were confirmed as trustees of the hospital, and Messrs. A. Black, W. C. Bond, E. S. Ellington, Feng Ping Nan, W. Gockson, T. J. Lindsay, W. H. McLennan, Pan Tze Chuan, F. T. Ranson, A. A. M. Rose, W. E. Souter.
Sze Ming Sze, R. Viccajee, Wang Yang Tsze, W. H. Way, T. F. Wei and D. Kwok elected to the general committee for 1941.
The hospital, which has been in lis present quarters since 1932, is one of the finest in Shanghai. "The building, sclentifcally planned, ideally "suited for its purpose, "and contains the most modern equipment obtainable. From the kitchen to the Boller room it ly spotlessly clean, the wards are roomy and. bright, and $0 situated as to have the utmost air and sunshine. The three operating
vices. theatres have the mast modern de-
Other features of the hospital are the laboratories, the beautiful kite cohens, the medical library, the nurse {ng school and the out-pollent ward, where hundred of persons are treat ed daily at little cost.
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