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History Of The Elim Gospel Hall, Ipoh (1913 - 2003) - Part 04b - The Start Of The Orphanage Continued
At first the six girls stayed in two rooms at the back of the Mission House adjacent to the main building. Soon news of this Elim “orphanage” spread around Ipoh and elsewhere and more children were taken into the Home. The number of children increased and so in 1917 proper premises to house the orphans were built after Mr. Wilson added another strip of land along Chung Thye Phin Road directly opposite today’s Ave Maria Convent School. This was a big double storey building with many rooms and came to be called the Girls’ Home (now our present Elim Gospel Hall library). At one time a portion of the Mission House (our present Elim Gospel Hall office) was turned into a mini hospital or isolation ward with Miss McCann as nurse to cater for the many epidemics and sicknesses that occurred with so many children staying together. This work was later abandoned when the government insisted on a resident doctor.
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