Author: Elegant Beard (Wu Yonggang-Max)
The old appearance of Jilin City Hospital, taken from the "Changyi District Chronicle Volume II"
On Shanghai Road in Jilin City, there was a second-class hospital - Jilin City Hospital. This hospital appeared in the pre-liberation pseudo-Manchu period, until it was merged with other hospitals ten years ago, and in the past few decades, with the ups and downs of the times, the name and affiliation have undergone many changes, but it has adhered to the duty of saving lives and helping the injured, providing medical and health services to the citizens of Jilin Province, especially the people of Changyi District.
Wuwei Road (present-day Shanghai Road) on the map of the Middle Manchurian Period
Wuwei Road (present-day Shanghai Road) on the map of the middle and late Manchurian period
According to historical sources such as the Chronicle of Changyi District, the history of Jilin City Hospital can be traced back to the "Dongguan Branch of the National Hospital" (1938-1943) established in the puppet Manchu Period, and the private Tanaka Hospital (1939-1945) established by the Japanese. However, in this book, the time and place of the hospital setting are not clearly stated. In a map of the middle of the Manchu Dynasty, the "Dongguan Branch of the National Hospital" is also located on the present-day Baoding Road, and the future address of Jilin Hospital is marked as "Manjin Market" (this market is suspected to be related to the Dongguan Vegetable Building built in 1933), while the Tianzhong Hospital is located on sanjing Road (Kaifeng Street, which is no longer extant) Road West. On another map of the middle and late Manchurian period, the "Manjin Market" has been replaced by the "National Hospital Branch", and Tanaka Hospital is also marked on the east side of Sanjing Road. This change in labeling seems to explain two confusing points encountered when consulting the Chronicle of Changyi District.
1. In the attached table, the establishment time of the "Dongguan Branch of the National Hospital" is 1940, which contradicts the entry "Jilin City Hospital" in this chronicle that it was established in 1938. Combining the two maps, it is speculated that the hospital was established in 1938 on present-day Baoding Road and only moved to Shanghai Road in 1940. 2. The entry for Jilin City Hospital describes that the private Tanaka Hospital opened by the inpatient department for the Japanese "Junmou" is inaccurate. In the two maps of the puppet Manchu period, the location of the inpatient department of Jilin City Hospital is marked as "Tongrong National Excellent School", and although the location of Tanaka Hospital has changed, it is roughly located at the training center of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. In any case, in the early 1940s, a public hospital appeared on today's Shanghai Road.
The Four Hospitals in the Mid-1980s, taken from the Street Chronicle of the Temple of Literature
After Japan's surrender, the Kuomintang government built a small Jilin Municipal Hospital in September 1946 at the site of the "Dongguan Branch of the National Hospital" and the "Tanaka Hospital". After the liberation of Jilin City in 1948, the hospital was divided into municipal departments, with four departments of internal, external, gynecology and pediatrics, pharmacy and inpatient department, and the scale of the hospital gradually expanded. From 1958 to 1972, the affiliation of the hospital oscillated between the district and the municipality, and the names were Dongguan Hospital ("Wenmiao Street Chronicle"), Changyi District Hospital, workers, peasants and soldiers hospital and so on. In 1972, the hospital was officially renamed the Fourth People's Hospital of Jilin City, although the hospital was later renamed Jilin City Hospital, but to this day, many old Jilin people are still accustomed to calling it "Four Hospitals".
In 1979, the original outpatient department of the hospital was demolished and expanded into a new outpatient building covering an area of 20,000 square meters. In 1985, the outpatient department had internal, external, gynecological, pediatric, eye, ear, nose and throat, oral, skin and other clinical departments and medical departments such as laboratory, radiation, physiotherapy, and pharmacy, with an average daily outpatient volume of about 1500 people. The inpatient department has 8 departments of 1, 2 and 3 treatment areas and blood diseases, traditional Chinese medicine, facial features, women, bone, brain, chest and urology, with 448 beds.
Historically, the diagnosis and treatment level of this hospital is indeed outstanding: in the 1980s, Qi Baoyi, chief physician of urology and a model worker in the province and city, was the first to carry out "kidney transplantation" in Jilin region; in the 1990s, Li Jianwei, director of the Department of Hematology, led the general practitioners to successfully fill the gap in Jilin City with the first new technology of "autologous bone marrow transplantation" in Jilin Area; general surgery used laparoscopy to perform abdominal surgery without surgery, treating gallbladder removal, gallbladder stones and certain gynecological diseases. Thus ending the history of abdominal surgery being indispensable...
From the 1990s to the new century, Jilin City Hospital has further developed: at that time, the hospital had 15 treatment areas and 61 departments. The hospital has introduced electronic gastroscopy, full-body color ultrasound, holter monitor, full-body CT and other equipment that were at the advanced level in the world at that time, as a comprehensive hospital in Jilin City, the diagnosis and treatment technology is remarkable. However, in the new century, there have been many new changes in the medical and health field in Jilin City, and various factors have been superimposed, and Jilin City Hospital was merged into the then Second Central Hospital of Jilin City (formerly Jilin Railway Hospital) in November 2011. Jilin City Hospital quietly disappeared, turning into a piece of old urban memories that haunted Shanghai Road.
2020 Jilin City Hospital Outpatient Department
2020 Jilin City Hospital Inpatient Department
Ten years later, after the Jilin City Hospital moved out, the original building has been idle. Due to the lack of care, the image of ruin has long been revealed. I don't know what the original intention of the hospital was, was it for the sake of efficiency? Is it for resource integration considerations? Or are there other more far-sighted considerations? In short, the centralized large hospital does not seem to have much relief to alleviate the "difficulty of seeing a doctor" for the citizens, which is indeed the personal feeling of ordinary citizens. Hopefully, this group of buildings that saved the world will be reborn sooner.
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In addition: I have not seen the appearance of the old outpatient building before the transformation of the four hospitals, if anyone knows, I hope to leave a message to share. Thank you!