RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
taken in connection with its former program in
the medical sciences.
The sum of $454,000 was appropriated to the
China Medical Board, Inc., toward the maintenance
of the Peiping Union Medical College during
the year July 1, 1935, to June 30, 1936.
Two
appropriations were made to the University
of Brussels, one of 3200,000 for endowment
for the maintenance of St. Pierre Hospital
as a teaching hospital for the Medical School of
the university, and another of $262,000 for endowment
and purchase of equipment for the
university School of Nursing. These funds were
made available in fulfilment of Foundation
pledges to the university in 1921 and 1928 guaranteeing
the payment of such sums when buildings
which the university was planning to erect
to house these institutions had been completed
During 1935 notification was received from the
university that the buildings were ready for
occupancy.
An appropriation of $10,000 was made to the
Department of Public Health and Medical
Education of Russia for the purchase of foreign
medical publications for the central medical
library in Moscow and a few important research
institutes in the major scientific centers of the
country. This grant represents a continuation of
postwar aid, which will be terminated in 1937.
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