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At the conclusion of his speech Hou. J. H. Stewart Lockhart read and handed the following address to Dr. Cantlie:-
"Address from the Court, Senate, Licentiates,
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[February 13, 1896.
for Chinese has passed successfully through the period of struggle and discouragement in- cident to all new institutions and now gives promise of great future usefulness is mainly due to your untiring exertions on its behalf during the last nine years.
"We deeply regret that you are leaving the colony in indifferent health and at an earlier date than you had originally proposed. We hope that long before you reach Europe you will be perfectly rested and restored, and that you will be able to rosume the practice of your pro- fession in England with every prospect of suc-
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We thank you most heartily for all your services to the College and to the Hospitals, and we hope that you will still continue to take au interest in their progress, and to help in their advancement by every means in your power. We bid you Farewell, and we wish you and Mrs. Cantlie every happiness and prosperity.
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We are, dear sir, yours respectfully, The CHAIRMAN-I will now call upon Dr. Thomson to address you.
Resolution of the Hongkong and Canton
District Committee of the London Mis- sinnary Society.
"That the District Committee place on record their high appreciation of Dr. Cantlie's angrudging services to the Alice Memorial and Nethersolo Hospitals, and their deep sense of loss about to be sustained by the Medical Mission through his departure from the colony; and that the District Secretary be directed to convey to Dr. Cantlie the Committee's most cordial thanks for the substantial aid he has rendered to the medical work during the whole period of his residence in Hongkong."
for Chinese and as Chairman of the Finance remember. But not only has he been of Committee of the Alice Memorial and Nether- assistance to these hospitals 89 a doctor, sole Hospitals, the very pleasing duty has been he has always taken a keen interest in their entrusted to me of requesting Dr. Cantlie to financial welfare. No morement has ever accept an address from the Court Senate, Licen taken place to raise funds without his exerting tiates, and Students of the College of Medi-himself in the good cause, and I well remember cine for Chinese, and from the Clinical Staff when the fête in aid of the hospitals was given of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hos in the Public Gardens, the versatile Doctor pitals. There are in this colony members of inhabited a booth with dummy men as com- the mit admirari school, who think that ad panious on whom he performed, I need hardly dresses in Hongkong to departing residents say most successfully, operations wonderful to are becoming too frequent, but I am certain see before a crowded audience from whom, how there is not a resident in this colour, whatever ever, he did not fail to extract "bawbees in may be his nationality and whatever may he his aid of the Hospitals. (Laughter and applause). views on the subject of addresses, who will not Dr. Cantlie, it is with feelings of genuine agree that in the present instance it would have regret that we have to say good-bye to you. been a most flagraut example of base ingratitude | It is said that the wave of forgetfulness soon if Dr. Cantlie had been allowed--althougli; he | obliterates the memory of those who go from himself might have desired it--to leave this our midst, and this is perllups an unavoid colony without some recognition of the great alle tendency, in a Far Eastern colouy services he has rendered to the College and the where the population is ever hanging, but the Hospitals (Applause). In the case of the mentors of you and your good deeds in counce College of Medicine for Chinese, it was in great tion with the College and Hospitals will be green measure due to him that it was founded, and ever for many years to come-tipplause)-and if since it commenced its work of training Chinese, these institutions contiume to flourish, as there in medical science there has been no murguident ; is every reason to anticipate they will do, it will Dr. THOMSON-1 do not propose to make a` supporter of it in every way. "As keturer in always be remembered that in no small measure speech, but only to supplement what Mr. Lock- surgery and anatomy he has devoted much time is their success due to your. You are indeed a hart has said by reading the resolution of the and attention to the training of Chinese in son of whom your aliga mat. Aberdeen Uni- local branch of the London Missionary Society, these subjects, for his skill in which he justly versity, may well bo proud, and I trust that be- which is the governing body of the hospital.' enjoys so great a reputation in his own pro. fore long that University will take steps to fit-The resolution is as follows: fession As Dean he has been untiring in tingly recognise your services (Applause.) Wa | his exertions to advance the welfare of the wish you and Mrs. Cantlie every prosperity. College and increase the sphere of its use- For your sons we can wish nothing better thau fulness. It is chiefly due to his efforts that that they prove worthy sons of a worthy father. Mr. Belilios has cons forward with an offer We envy the land which is to enjoy the charm which is equivalent to a grant of $400 of your personality and the geniality of your in aid of the College, the condition of disposition, and we feel sure that the varied the grant being that the Government will con- abilities and versatile gifts which have excited tribute by way of endowment a similar amount our admiration and affection lero will gain for towards the College. It is much to be re- you in the old country a still greater reputation gretted that Dr. Cantlie is about to leave at a than that which you already possessed there: time when his persuasive and fluent cloquence. (Applause). which has been inaptly compared to a Highland spate carrying all before it, would have been of great assistance in the campaign which will have to be waged against the powers that be in order to induce thenu to vote the sum required to obtain the graut promised by Mr. Belilios. I feel certain his flow of reason would have swept away all opposition, and that both officials and unofficials forgetful of the bogey retrench- ment would have found that adres in the sape. what unused position of compista accord. (Laughter. But theagh the Collège is about to lose the influx of 1 Castile's powerful advocacy. Lagi net with at leges that the College may be properly alowed. The plugmopidemic of 1804 brought "bome to me les weessory it is in the interests of the peile health of this colony that there shombi le indiget as Chi- nese trained in Western medical methods, and I think every one who reflects on this important matter cannot but agree that au institution which can train Chinese in such methods should receive every encouragement and support. (Âp- plause. Such an institution exists in the Chinese College of Medicine, with which the name of Dr. Cantic will always be associated, for be has been the life and soul of it, and had it not been for his keen enthusiasm, his love of his pofes sion, his untiring zeal, and his indomitable energy, it is certain that the College would never have been so successful as it has been. (Applause). In addition to the excellent work in connection with the College, Dr. Cautlie has also been one of the main pillars of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals. which, as you all know. are hospitals maintained by voluntary contributions and established for the purpose of treating Chi- nese according to Western methods. Dur- ing the years from 1887 to 1895 по fewer than about 6,000 in-patients and 73,000 out- patients have been treated in these hospitals. These figures will give an idea of the excellent work that is being performed in these institu- tions, and to that work Dr. Cantlie has lent the valuable aid of his medical and surgical skill ever since the hospitals have existed. For the past nine years he has been one of the regular visiting surgeons to these hospitals, and during that time many have been the sick and suffering to whom he has brought relief and comfort and healing them with that skill, cheering them with that geniality which so many residents in this colony will so long
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and Students of the College of Medicine for Chinese and from the Clinical Staff of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hos- pitals."
Hongkong, 5th January. “To J. CAXTLIE, Esq. M A., M.B., F.R.U.S. &c.,
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Dean of the College.
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I wish to make no further remarks on that resolution except to say that I concur most heartily in every word Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart has said as to Dr. Cantlie's connection with the two hospitals and the college, and I wish further to inform Dr. Cantlie that as a per-. manent reminder to the public of Hongkong of | his connection with the hospitals it has been resolved to place his name in each annual report during his life time as consulting sur- geon to the hospital alongside the name of Dr. Manson as consulting physician. (Applause). Wo do this not entirely to honour Dr. Cantlie but to honour the hospitals. When many years to come our children ask us whose name it was that was so frequently recurring we shall
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The name of Cantlie, the well-known London Surgeon."
Dear Sir." You have been connected with the Alice Memorial Hospital and with the College of Medicine for Chinese during the whole period of your resideder in Hongkong, and with the Nethergole Hospital since the date of the earliest proposals for its erection. are now about to leave the colony and settle in England, and we cannot permit you to go from among us without placing ou record and publicly Dr. WONG I Ex-Mr. Chairman, I have been acknowledging (however reluctant you may be asked by the other Licentiates and the students to "receive such acknowledgment) the eminent of the College of Medicine for Chinese to services you have rendered to the Hospitals and express in their name our deep regret that the to the College during the past nine years. College is losing Dr. Cautlic as its Dean, and as As Surgeon and Clinical Teacher, as Lec-its Lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery Doctor turer on Surgery and Anatony, as Secretary, Cantlie, we thank you for all your kindness to and afterwards as Dean, of the College, you have us. your patience with us, and your willingness been at all times and under all circumstances to help us in all circumstances. We ask you to the life and soul of the College and of accept from us this cup, accompanied by a small the Hospitals. Thqusands of sick have bene- gift for Mrs. Cantlie, that you may have before fitted by your patience, attention, and pro- you a standing reminder to you of our gratitude fessional skill, and have gone to their homes for the many favours we have received at your praising you and blessing you. Every student hands. We promise you that we shall do our in the College has felt the influence of your best, by diligent efforts, to relieve the sick and enthusiastic love for your profession, and has suffering among our own people, to prove our- been aided and encouraged to pursue his studies selves worthy of all the labour you have so and overcome the difficulties that beset him, generously bestowed upon us. We wish you a because of the warm personal interest you took good voyage, a speedy restoration to health and in him and your readiness to come to his assist strength, and all prosperity in your future life. anco, Your fellow Lecturers in the College (Applause). have been encouraged and incited to further DR. CANTLIE, in rising to respond, was re- efforts in the performance of what at times has ceived with much enthusiasm. He said Mr. seomed a hopeless task by your energy and zeal Chairman, Mr Lockhart, Mr. Francis, and Dr. in the cause of medical education and by your Wong 1 Ek, I am so overwhelmed by the hopefulness of ultimate success. The Senate and numerous laudatory remarks showered upon me the Court have profited greatly in the manage from so many quarters that I am at a loss how ment of the affairs of the College by your ex- to adequately acknowledge them all. It is said perience and advice; and your efforts to stir up a no prophet is withont honour save in his own wider interest among the members of the com- country, amongst his own kin and in his own munity and of the Government in the work under-house, and it is very plain by the honour you taken by the College, and to obtain for the College public recognition and support, have simply been invaluable. That the College of Medicine
have done me to-day I am no prophet, for here amongst my own kin and in my home I am honoured beyond my deserts. Being out of the
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