[3] It was located on Siccawei Road in the Shanghai French Concession, outside the West Gate (Ximen) of the Chinese city (now in Huangpu District); for this reason, it was commonly known as the Ximen or West Gate Hospital (Chinese: 西門醫院).

Together the two branches occupy 4.33 hectares (10.7 acres) and have a total floor space of 84,600 square metres (911,000 sq ft).

[1] The land, building, furnishing, wire-beds, instruments, and salary of a physician and nurse for seven years were all provided, at an expense of US$35,000, by Margaret Williamson, for whom the hospital was named.

The second was in Fuzhou by Dr. Sigourney Trask(1877), and the third in Tianjin by Dr. Leonora Howard (Isabella Fisher Hospital, 1882);[9] both were under the Methodist Episcopal Board of Missions.

Approximately three-fourths of the support of the institution came from fees and local contributions, mostly Chinese, and one-fourth from the income of beds which are endowed in the United States.

[2] During the Battle of Shanghai in 1937, it organized emergency rescue teams to treat women and children wounded in the fighting.

[5] The hospital built in 1889 was made up of four brick buildings of 2.5 stories, connected by closed passageways.

Catherine and railway station street car line passed the place about 2 miles (3.2 km) out from the French Bund.

Owing to its proximity to canals holding stagnant water, the hospital grounds were infested with mosquitoes.

Having heard a great deal of the lack of readiness of Chinese women to take advantage of the means they possessed of obtaining medical assistance, she devoted a generous sum to form a fund for the establishment of a hospital for Chinese women, to be built under the Woman's Union Missionary Society, of which Society she was one of the founders.

[3] Bishop Boone presided at the hospital's opening, and addresses were made by Dr. Alexander Jamieson and Rev.

The Committee consisted of Reifsnyder (Secretary); Miss Burnett (Treasurer); and Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Wetmore, Mrs. Low, and Dr. Jamieson; while the visiting physician was Dr. H. W.

[11] Professor Wang Shuzhen [zh], who was appointed president of the hospital in 1952, developed it into a full-fledged medical research center.