BUILDING THE NATION THROUGH WOMEN'S HEALTH: MODERN ...

called a Chinese Medical College but was actually a nurse and midwife training school with a
capacity of approximately 30 students. 487
The head of the nursing school was a graduate of Guys Hospital in London. Dr. Anna
Gloss wrote that although it was “called a Medical College, after the manner of the Chinese, … it
still does not attempt to give a full medical course.” 488 According to a 1914 visit by Francis
Peabody of the China Medical Board, Dr. Jin had one assistant, Dr. Wang, a graduate of the
women’s medical college in Peking, and was expecting another graduate from that institution.
The government supported the hospital. Peabody continued,
“With the centralization of the government and the consequent lessening of the
income of the provincial government there has been a reduction in the sum of
money. It now amounts to about $12,000 (gold) given the hospital a year. To this
is added, however the money obtained from fees for out calls and a small amount
collected from the dispensary patients. Dr. Kin has rather close connections with
the government officials and especially with Yuan Shih K’ai. This may account
for the fact that she has been able to keep the hospital going and get money
through rather troublesome times. She would be very glad to co-operate in any
way or ‘turn the whole property over to the Rockefeller Foundation.’” 489
In 1932, she was listed as the only female honorary member of the Chinese Medical
Association. 490
Cao Liyun, the daughter of a rich Chinese Christian family from Suzhou, and whose
father was a doctor, was educated in mission schools in China. She graduated from the
Woman’s Medical College of Philadelphia (WMCP) in 1911 and started work at the Friends’
487
Gloss, "Medical Education for Women in North China."
488
Ibid., 423.
489
Peabody, "Visit to Peiyang Hospital."
490
Chinese Medical Association, The Chinese Medical Directory, 3rd ed. (Shanghai: The Chinese Medical
Association, 1932).
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