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was established for nurses to receive additional midwife training. Please see Chapter Three for a<br />

more considered discussion of the First National Midwifery School and its role in shaping<br />

maternal and child health efforts during the Nationalist period.<br />

After the FNMS got underway, in 1933 the Central Hospital in Nanjing and the Nanjing<br />

Municipal Health Station jointly opened the second national midwife training institution, the<br />

Central Midwifery School (zhongyang zhuchan xuexiao 中央主产学校), the year after the<br />

Central School of Nursing was established in that city. Marion Yang left her post as head of the<br />

First National Midwifery School in 1931 to help establish Central in its new half-million dollar<br />

building and acted as director there for an initial three-month period. 223 Six affiliated antenatal<br />

clinics were established around Nanjing to provide practical field experience for Central<br />

Midwifery School students. The school opened in 1932 and offered a two-year course. Forty-<br />

one students were enrolled in 1934, comprising 29 first-year and 12 second-year students. 224<br />

Selected personnel were to receive special training from the FNMS and PUMC’s Departments of<br />

Hygiene and Public Health and of OB/GYN. The aim was to have a city wide maternal and<br />

child health service within10 years. In the first year, the school expected to see 1,500 antenatal<br />

cases, or 10 percent of the city’s total, and make 7,500 total antenatal visits, 500 hospital and 200<br />

home deliveries, and 300 postpartum visits. 225 By 1934, many of the FNMS’s senior personnel<br />

were sent to the Central Midwifery School to work. 226<br />

The Central School of Nursing (zhongyang hushi xuexiao中央护士学校, changed in<br />

1935 to zhongyang gaoji hushi zhuanye xuexiao 中央高级护士专业学校) was established in<br />

223 Neizhengbu, Neizheng Nianjian, 206-07.<br />

224 Ibid., 208-09, Yip, Health and National Reconstruction, 166. Yip gives the opening date of the Central<br />

Midwifery School as 1933, but I have used the 1936 Neizheng nianjian date of 1932.<br />

225 "Fifth Annual Report, FNMS."<br />

226 "Sixth Annual Report, FNMS." 2.<br />

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