私营到公用:工部局对上海公济医院的管理

From Private to Public: the Management of Shanghai Municipal Council to Shanghai General Hospital

1870年至1937年间,工部局共对租界内16家私营医院进行过管理。其中,专门收治外侨的公济医院尤其受到工部局的重视。工部局自1872年起向该院发放年度常规补助金。1875年,借由医院搬迁之机,工部局促成了医院理事会的改组,4名租界纳税人得以进入医院管理层。20世纪10年代公济医院大规模扩建期间,工部局加大了对医院财政的监管力度。在工部局的管理下,公济医院得以长期在租界存续,并由最初的私营营利医院转变租界侨民的"公用"医院,成为工部局公共医疗事业管理的得力助手。工部局对公济医院的管理亦体现了其作为一个"现代政府"对待公共医疗事务的态度。

From 1870 to 1937,there are 16 private hospitals under the management of Shanghai Municipal Council.Among them,the Shanghai General Hospital,in which only foreigners could be treated,received special attention. Under the Council's management,the Hospital could be maintained,and transformed from a private profit- making hospital to the 'public'hospital of Foreigners in Settlement,then became the supplement of public medical affairs. The management of the Council to this Hospital also showed the attitude of 'modern government'to public medical affairs.