CANTON HOSPITALS AND PUBLIC HEALTH ORGANIZATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Publication Date: August 22, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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;anton Hospitals
there were at least 13 hospitals in Canton, as follows:
a. The Provincial People's (Sheng Jen Min, 4164/0086/3011.6) Hospital, formerly
the Central Hospital, at 267 Hui Fu (1920/4395) Street.l It was used by
persons coming from various parts of Kwangtung for treatment and occasional-
ly by local people for treatment of minor ailments. Staff members included
YANG Kuei-hsiang (2799/2710/7449), OU Kuo.wei (3016/blank/0251), T'A Hsiang-
Jung (2287/7013/2837), T'A Hsiang-yao (2287/7013/3613), P'AN Yung-chung
(3382/30572/1813), and CH'A Shu-lan (2252/2885/5695). The telephone number
was 16419.
b. The Canton City Number 1 People's Hospital.3 The director was EAO-Pi-ch'eng
(1202/4310/3397)-
c. The Canton City Number 2 People's Hospital, formerly Lingnan University
Poksai Hospital, was on Jen Chi Street. The telephone number was 10648.3
d. Children's Hospital, Number 2 Branch of the Canton City Number 1 People's
Hospital, at 30 Kuan Lu (1351/4389) Street in the buildings that formerly
housed the private hospital of Dr. Todd, an American. Staff members included
HSIEH Yuan-shan (6200/1238/3590), WANG Yuan-ch'ang (3769/1238/1281), TS'ENG
Ya-ho (2582/7161/5440), CHAO Mei.ch'ien (6392/5019/5409), CHANG (blank)-
shih (1728/blank/4258), and LIU Ching-ts'eng (0491/2417/2582). The telephone
number was 17624.4
e. The Hung Shih Tzu (4767/0577/1316) Hospital,5 operated by the Chinese Red
Cross, on Honan Island on Tung Fu Hsi (0681/1381/6007) Street. Two of the
staff members were CHEVG Hsien-chun (6774/7359/3294) and WANG Yun-shao
(3769/0336/7300).
f. The Hua Nan (5478/0589) Medical School Hospital, formerly the Chung Ta (0022/
1129) Hospital of Chung Shan University. This hospital was serving as the
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training hospital for medical students of Hua Nan University. The medical
schools of Chung Ta, Lingnan, and Kuanghua Universities had been merged with
the Hua Nan University Medical School. The telephone number of the hospital
was 70731.7
g. The Laborer's (Kung Jen, 0361/0086) Hospital in the buildingsof the former
French Hospital on the Pearl River Bund. Staff members included WU Wei-
min (0702/0251/3046), T'AO Chao-hsin (7118/0340/9387), T'AN Svng-hBiang
(6223/2646/4161), T'AN Tsai-yao (6223/1752/blank), and HUANG I-tss (06/
1355/3419).
h.
Jou Chi (2677/3444) Hospital on To Pao Street. Three of its staff members
were HUANG Huai-lo (7806/2037/2867), CH'EN Jui-i (7115/3843/0308), and
LIANG I-wen (2733/3015/2429). The telephone number was 17443.9
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YEN Mai Tui (2237/1003/7130) Hospital on Te Ni Street. The tel
ephone number
was 16365.9
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A hospital for contagious diseases on Kuang Nan Street. The te
lephone number
was 70015.10
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A neurology hospital on Fang Lin Street.
1.
A tuberculosis hospital on Mi Shi i Street. One of its staff members was
HUO Kuan-t'ung (5681/1351/2717).1
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A hospital used by public security forces on T'ai Ping (1132/1627) Road
approximately three blocks north of the Pearl River Bund.
2. The largest local military hospital was outside Canton, probably in the suburban
area northwest of the city.
3. The Canton Office of the Ministry of Public Health was on the west side of Chung
Hua (0022/5478) North Road fear Chung Shan (0022/1472) Road. The city director
was LI Ta-ch'ao (2621/6671/3390). LI was assisted by the director of the Canton
City Number 1 People's Hospital,3 YAO Pi-ch'eng (1202/4310/3397), and another
doctor named CH'EN (7115). All three men were competent doctors.
4. The Canton Office of the Ministry of Public Health and the Provincial Public
Health Service13 were of equal rank. The provincial organization was responsible
for all of Kwangtung Province except the Canton area and was larger than the
Canton organization because of the much greater area it had to serve. The Canton
organization, however, had superior services and capabilities.
5. The research centers of the Canton Office of the Ministry of Public Health were
in the various Canton hospitals under the municipal government. Doctors handled
the administration as well as the medical work although there were various non-
medical staff members for the purpose of ensuring political control. These non-
medical staff members handled medical or administrative matters only when such
matters became political.
6. The public health clinics used by the people of Canton were in the various
hospitals under the municipal government.
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south of Hua Nan University in eastern Canton.
7. Public health positions were difficult to obtain although there was a shortage
of personnel trained in public health work. N il~ ses for public health work were
not difficult~to find,but doctors were scarce. The political officers and
staff members of hospitals, as well as the medical staff members, were called
upon to help with public health programs whenever necessary.
Canton Public Health Activities
8. During the past few years there were no serious epidemics in Canton except an
influenza epidemic. During this epidemic the city was cleaned and disinfected
and the population was generally cooperative. Fly and rat extermination campaigns
were conducted but were not very effective. The city water continued to be un-
safe although it was chlorinated. No compulsory injections or vaccinations
were given, but the people were encouraged to get them and to keep them up to
date. Although no quarantine or immunization regulations appeared to be required
of persons leaving the country, persons arriving from Macao or Hong Kong
ordinarily had to have an up-to-date vaccination and could be called upon for
cholera and typhoid shot records.
9. A large repair and extension program for sewage facilities was under way in Canton.
Medical Supplies, Equipment, and Hospital Facilities
10. Medicine and medical equipment were adequate but not in surplus. There was no
problem in obtaining ordinary medicines. The need for special medicines often
caused a temporary flurry although they were'maae available to the public.15
11. The city and provincial hospitals were better equipped and more highly regarded
than the private hospitals, which were gradually being driven out of business.
The Canton Office of the Ministry of Public Health was intimately tied up with the
government-run hospitals and therefore had good facilities by Chinese standards.
1. I LComment. A new provincial hospital was being built across the road
Provincial People's Hospital.
is the telephone number of the emergency room, Clinic No. 1, of the Kwangtung
Comment. Canton telephone directory, 16419
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Canton telephone directory does not list a
Canton City Number 1 'People's Hospital but does list a Canton City People's
Hospital and a Canton City Number 2 People's Hospital. The telephone number
10648 is probably an error for 10608, which is listed as the number of the
Canton City Number 2 People's Hospital. 17443 is listed as the number for
Pmpraency calls to the Canton City No. 2 People's Hosptial.
Comment. the Canton City Number 2 People's
Hospital as the Po Chi k0590/3444) Hospital.
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of the Canton City Children's Hospital. Two other numbers are listed
under this hospital: 14238 for the clinic and 10838 for the dhildren's
consulting room.
Canton telephone directory lists 17624 as the telephone number
wanton branch Hospital of the China Red Cross Society.
Canton telephone directory lists five clinics operated by the
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Pai Tzu (4102/1311) Road.
the Nan Hua Medical College was on
7. I Canton telephone directory lists 70371 as the number of the clinic
of the Number 1 Hospital, Hua Nan Medical School. The directory also lists
Hua Nan Medical School.
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management of the Chinese Communist General Labor Union with CHANG Ting-mou (1728/
1353/6180) as superintendent.
9. Number 174+43 and number 16365 are not listed in the ^ Canton telephone directory
under municipal hospitals,
10. ~Canton telephone directory lists 70015 as the emergency telephone number
for the Canton Municipal Hospital for Communicable Diseases.
11. ~ Canton telephone directory lists 1+285 as the telephone number for the
Canton Municipal Neurology Hospital.
13.
Comment. All the above-mentioned hospitals, with the exception of the
rov ncial People's Hospital and the Hung Shih Tzu Hospital, belong to the
municipal government system. While there is some national control, the municipal
hospitals are not under the control of provincial or administrative area authorities.
omment. The correct name of this organization is the Department of
u 11c ealth of the Kwangtung Provincial People's Government.
14+. It is generally believed that the better doctors do not want to enter public
health work. Most of the doctors in public health work are not politically
inclined and approach their tasks as medical problems. Political officers have
ultimate control but the doctors are mainly politically neutral. or secretly
anti-Communist.
15. It is believed in medical circles in Canton that at least two deaths were caused
by the use of a Russian penicillin-type medicine known as K'o-1i--risi-lin (034)4/
0)+)+8/6007/2651) and that at least one death was caused by the use of a worm
medicine manufactured in Shanghai or Canton. The alleged causes of these deaths
have become known to the general public and have caused some rumors and gossip.
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