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20. MEDICAL EDUCATION.-The College of Medicine for Chinese is quietly continuing its workTM of imparting a knowledge of Western medicine and surgery to its dozen or so of students. It is hampered by the lack of a properly equipped building for teaching purposes, and by the non-recogni- tion of its certificates by the Legislature, but efforts are being made to secure the removal of both these obstacles to the progress of medical education in the Colony. Dr. J. C. THOMSON returned to Hongkong in March, and resumed the oversight of the students as Secretary to the College, and in October His Honour Sir FIELDING CLARKE, whose term of office had expired, was succeeded as Rector by the Honourable J. H. STEWARt Lockhart.
21. SCHOLARSHIPS.-The draft of the revised Government Scholarship Scheme, referred to in previous reports, is still under the consideration of the Government. The last Scholarship, granted in 1893, involved in 1895 an expenditure of $2,867.80. As to non-official Scholarships, Queen's College had, in the year 1895, the benefit of 4 Belilios Scholarships, 2 Morrison and I Stewart Scholarship. St. Joseph's College had the benefit of 2 Belilios Scholarships. On 11 Medical Scholarships connected with the College of Medicine for Chinese, the Trustees of Belilios Trust Funds Nos. 1 and 3 paid, during the year 1895, the sum of $725, in addition to a sum of $360 paid to Queen's College and St. Joseph's College.
1895.
22. I enclose the usual Tables (I to XIII) summarizing the educational statistics for the year
I have the honour to be.
Sir.
Your most obedient Servant,
The Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
E. J. EITEL, Ph. D. (Tubing.), Inspector of Schools and Head of the Education
Department.