Borden Memorial Hospital was a hospital in

Lanzhou Lanzhou (, ; ) is the capital and largest city of Gansu Province in Northwest China. Located on the banks of the Yellow River, it is a key regional transportation hub, connecting areas further west by rail to the eastern half of the country. H ...

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

from 1918 to 1951. It was founded by the

China Inland Mission OMF International (formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship and before 1964 the China Inland Mission) is an international and interdenominational Evangelical Christian missionary society with an international centre in Singapore. It was founded i ...

with money donated by the Borden family after the death of

William Whiting Borden William Whiting Borden (November 1, 1887 – April 9, 1913) was an American philanthropist and millionaire Christian missionary candidate who died in Egypt before reaching his chosen field, Gansu province in China. Life and work Childhood an ...

. Borden had meant to come to China as a missionary, but died in

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while studying Arabic to prepare himself to serve the Muslims of China. The hospital was handed over to the Chinese government in 1951.

History

The hospital was completed on 9 April 1918 as the first hospital in Gansu. It was a predecessor to the Second People's Hospital of Lanzhou, which took over the hospital in 1951. In this hospital was an outdoor corridor lined with pictures of Chinese patients helped by all the missionary doctors. The words: "For God so love the World in Chinese still hangs over the corridor." The hospital was handed over to the Chinese government in 1951. In 1970, it became the Lanzhou Infectious Disease Hospital and in 1978 it was renamed the Lanzhou Second People's Hospital.

CIM Hospital staff

* Mary Weightman ''Nurse in Charge (1934-?)'' * Isabella Marion Davidson ''Nurse'' * Otto F. Schoerner ''Business Manager (1948-1951)''

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History

CIM Hospital staff

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