The hospital which is now being completed, will have a special isolation ward, and three large halls, whilst the theatre, the consultation room and a pharmacy in which the required medicaments will be prepared, take up the remainder of the rooms, Catering arrangements have been completed and, according to the committee member who accompanied the "North-China Daily News" representative on his tour, it will cost $17.50 per month to feed and lodge one person. The home at Ward Road is mainly intended for single men although for the beginning, and pending completion of other similar homes, women and children will also be admitted.
Strict discipline, will be enforced and those in charge of the running of the camp—two former officers who also come here as refugees—foresee considerable difficulty in this respect due to the vast difference in age between the youngest and the oldest person to live there.
Particular worry is also being attached to the fact that it will be necessary to keep this little community of 1200 busy throughout the day and efforts are now already being made to devise plans whereby persons may be taught another profession than their own, if in their ordinary field of activity they should have ho scope im Shanghai.
In the compound there are large tracts of land and it is planned to grow vegetables there whilst one part will be used as a playground. The Carpenter shop, once installed, will ao all the work that may be required whilst the shoe-maker and tailor establishments which are to commence operations within a few weeks, will be very much in demand. Two sewing machines were expected at the home yesterday, st which a number of refugee women will seam the 2,400 bad-sheets which will be required and which are now being cut from the bales of material recently received from Sir Victor Sassoon. carpenter, when he saw the committee man arrive, and according to one of those responsible for the running of the home, work is needed more than anything else as the refugees begin to become restless after such a long period of inactivity; There are about 2,300 refugees in Shanghai at present, of whom some 400 are able to support themselves. Thus, 1900 have to be looked after by the committee whilst, if the past is any indication, at least 1,000 are expected to arrive here within the next month or so, apart from the 1,000 which are known to have left Italy a few days ago en route to Shanghai and of whom the committee has not heard directly as yet.
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