CANTON SCHOOL OF OBSTETRICS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005400770001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 2, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
China
Canton School of Obstetrics
DATE OF INFO.
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United states within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. secs. 793
and 794. the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 2 December 1951
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. In August 1951+, the Canton School of Obstetrics was at the corner of Fengning
(6265/1380) and Huifu (1920/1.3
) R
ngs, each block being three stories high. The dormitory for students 25X1
was on Chihhangchieh (14.786/5887/5894). Three classes of about 50 students were in andhafter attendance at scol. The course otrne two years,
assigned Jobs by the government. 25X1
The majorjty of the students were Cantonese, primarily natives of the T'aishan
District. About twenty percent of the students came from Hang Kong and Macao,
and about twenty percent came from other provinces in China,
95
oads, occupying the site of the former
Women and Infants Welfare Hospital. The school comprised several blocks of
builds
3. The daily school schedule was as follows: students arose at 6 a.m., and the
first class began at 6:30 a.m.; classes were held for ten hours a day; class
periods were 1+5 minutes long with a ten minute recess between each class.
The teachers used text books and lecture notes, and no examinations were given.
1+. All of the teachers were Chinese men and women; there were no Soviet professors.
Approximately ten teachers were at the school, of whom half were concurrently
doctors at the First or Second Municiapl People's Hospitals in Canton. Doctors
holding concurrent teaching posts at the School of Obstetrics received a salary
of imp 600,000 per month from the school, but their usual hospital salaries
were cut in half to compensate for the money received from the school.
5. All textbooks used at the school were based on Soviet texts and were edited
and compiled by the Central Editing aSd Compilation Bureau (Chung Yang Pien
Tsuan Chu, 0022/1135/1+882/4951/1444). Each student had one copy of each
book used. The average cost of each book was about the equivalent of HK $5
or HK $6. The textbooks were all written in Chinese and the only foreign lan-
guage used in the books was Latin. Various definitions used in the Chinese
texts closely followed Russian definitions. There was also a school library
which had textbooks and references in Chinese and in foreign languages.
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6. Some of the school cadres condemned the United States for imperialism, but they
thought highly of American products such as Parker "51" Fountain Pens. In
August the price for such pens was JMP 980,000.
7. The school had no laboratory facilities. Students had to go to the First or
Second Municipal People's Hospitals in Canton to use the equipment there. Most
of the laboratory equipment was old, and according to some of the doctors in
these hospitals it was inadequate. The few new pieces of apparatus in the
laboratories were manufactured in Europe. The laboratories generally were clean
and well kept. In Canton, only the First Municipal People's Hospital and the
Provincial People's Hospital lad ambulances. These ambulances were old, gasoline-
burning American makes.
Comment. Probably T'aishan (N 22-15, E 112-J+8) Hsien, Kwangtung.
comment. The students from Hong Kong and Macao appeared to be the
most pro-Communist; in many cases they did not go home to visit their parents
during vacation periods but preferred to have their parents come to Canton
and see the situation in China for themselves. Students from T'aishan
were less affected by Communist thought, because many of their parents were
Overseas Chinese and they had been influenced by Western thought. About
half of the student body pretended to be pro-Communist merely to improve
their treatment by school authorities.
Comment. This is possibly the Translation and Editing Bureau under
the Chinese Communist Government's Central Publications Administration.
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