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Show THE TWIN HOSPITALS AT TEHCHOW Williams Hospital for Men Porter Hospital for Women Staff TWINS are a special sign of felicity in China, and a "joy" character written in double form denotes the height of bliss. So the new double hospital buildings at Tehchow, in Shantung, China, including Williams Hospital for Men and Porter Hospital for Women, finely express to the Chinese understanding the ideal of helpfulness which their founders want them to represent. The Porter Hospital is new both in name and location, women and children having been heretofore treated in a part of the old Williams Hospital at Pangchwang, fourteen miles south of Tehchow. Both hospitals are now finely located and have been built along modern lines, the constructive work requiring about a year. The new plant includes the Administration Dispensary Building, 127 by 52 feet, and three and a half stories high, serving both hospitals. The two ; Francis F. Tucker, M.D., in charge [ Mrs. Emma B. Tucker, M.D., Associate [ Miss Myra L. Sawyer, Nurse halves of this building are just alike, each half containing three wards and three private rooms. A partition from basement to attic divides the two halves of this structure, which faces the southwest. The nurses, until nurses' homes can be secured, will live on the third floor here. A long corridor back of the Administration Building connects it with the Operating Pavilion, consisting of operating, sterilizing, and anaesthetizing rooms, and two dressing rooms; with the surgical ward for men opposite the operating pavilion; with the "twin" ward pavilions for men and for women, and with the isolation ward, which is also planned in duplicate form for men and women. The Chinese physicians, of whom there are four, also have convenient residences-about five rooms to a house; other necessary adjuncts to the new establishment are the resi- ADMINISTRATION AND DISPENSARY BUILDING FOR WILLIAMS AND PORTER HOSPITALS, TEHCHOW |