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It is doubtful whether as a rule the facilities afforded in this Colony with the addition of a lecturer in Anatomy and Physiology are sufficient to enable students to obtain during a 5 years' course the standard of efficiency required by the General Council under the Medical Act of 1886.
It must be borne in mind that one of the chief tendencies of Chinese partially trained in Western medicine is the wholesale use of narcotics.
The title of Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery, Hongkong College of Medicine, will be liable therefore in many cases to convey a false impression, and many of its holders will not be sufficiently qualified to practise medicine and surgery without supervision.
It appears desirable that two qualifications should be founded, viz., “ native apothecaries," and "Licentiates in Medicine and Surgery." The qualifications, or rather conditions for the latter, being not less than those required by the General Council under the Medical Act; and that the proposed prospectus be referred to the Privy Council in order to ascertain whether they consider it sufficiently com- prehensive.
Dr. THOMSON admits that the present course of study and examination at the College of Medicine for the Chinese is not equal to the standard required by the general Medical Act of 1886, nor have all the students been required to pass any examination in Arts previous to their admittance to the College, and we would here remark that the College, as at present constituted, does not appear to us a
'college" within the meaning of section 13 of Ordinance 6 of 1884.
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Qualified students of the existing College should therefore be required to pass the usual examinations before being allowed to register the qualification, and the present students desirous of continuing their studies in the new College should be required to pass the necessary entrance examination.
HONGKONG, 20th July, 1896.
PH. B. C. AYRES, Colonial Surgeon.
J. M. ATKINSON, Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital.
Minute of meeting of Committee appointed by Ilis Excellency the Governor to enquire into and report on the organization of a College of Medicine for Hongkong, held in the Legislative Council Chamber on Friday,
10th July, 1896, at 4.30 p.m.
Present:-Dr. AYRES, C.M.G.
Surgeon-Colonel EVATT, P.M.O.
Hon. Dr. HO KAI
Dr. ATKINSON.
Dr. J. C. THOMSON, Hon. Secretary.
On the motion of Surgeon-Colonel EVATT, seconded by Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Dr. AYRES was elected Chairman of the Committee.
Surgeon-Colonel EVATT moved, and
Hon. Dr. Ho KAI seconded-
That the title of the proposed College be "The Hongkong College of
Medicine."