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Department of Education in 1931. During that year, the hospital delivered 296 infants. 231<br />

Furthermore, in 1933 Hubei province opened a provincial nursing school in the provincial<br />

hospital, a midwifery school (zhuchan xuexiao 助产学校), and an old-style midwife training<br />

program (chanpo xunlianban 产婆训练班) under the provincial public security department<br />

(gonganju 公安局). There may be other claims to National Health Administration assistance in<br />

building midwifery training schools in additional provinces.<br />

The following year Jiangsu and Hunan opened not proper schools but provincial<br />

maternity hospitals, by 1935 Shanxi had its own midwifery school and maternity hospital, 232 and<br />

in 1933-34 the First National Midwifery School provided technical assistance to the Shaanxi<br />

Provincial Midwifery School in Xian. 233 Jiangsu’s commoners’ maternity hospital (pingmin<br />

chanyuan 平民产院), part of its larger provincial hospital, was administered by the Jiangsu<br />

provincial public health affairs department (Jiangsu sheng hui weisheng shiwusuo 江苏省会卫<br />

生事务所) under the public security department (gonganju 公安局). When the maternity<br />

hospital opened in 1932, there were six beds with three patients, and deliveries numbered about<br />

15 per month, including home deliveries. 234 There were plans in 1932 to establish 10 maternity<br />

homes with antenatal and postnatal supervision in 10 different counties within two years in<br />

Jiangsu province. Its goals, aside from the obvious of improving maternal and child health in<br />

rural locales, was to open up areas in which the Jiangsu Provincial Midwifery School graduates<br />

could obtain practical experience. The Jiangsu provincial government also began training old-<br />

231 "Second Annual Report, FNMS, Beiping, July 1, 1930 - June 30, 1931," (Beiping: First National Midwifery<br />

School, Beiping, 1931), box 222, series 3, sub-series 601L, RG 5, RAC, p. 24.<br />

232 Shen Jiaying, "Report on the School and Lying-in Hospital (Ben Xiao Chanyuan Liang Zhou Shixi Zhi<br />

Jingkuang)," Shanxi shengli zhuchan xuexiao niankan (1935): 91-92.<br />

233 "Sixth Annual Report, FNMS."<br />

234 Ibid., Appendix III, xix.<br />

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