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Enclosure 1.
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employed
in
Hongkong,
and that dispensaries at specified places
should
be opened and maintained for the free distribution of drugs.
I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Yo
Humble Servant,
William Robivery
Copy.
Sir,
of 1 MOV 32
Colonial Surgeon to Colonial Secretary
Government Civil Hospital,
Hong-Kong 16th August 1892.
I have to express my great regret that C.0. Des-
patch No. 115 which had been put asiue pending some further information required, got mislaic, being removed consequent
on some repairs in my house an escaped my memory.
There is doubtedly great need in the Colony of
such a service as the Superintendent of the Sanitary Board
suggests, but it will require great care in its administra-
tion to prevent great abuses and very careful supervision,
all of which will of course necessitate considerable ex-
pense.
It will have to be distinctly understood that the
Chinese population will not be compelled to submit to Euro-
pean treatment unless they wish it, and that they willjonly
be require to adopt precautions necessary to prevent the
spread of epidemic disease.
The proposal is that a certain number of dispen-
saries should be established over the Colony, to each of
one
these dispensaries Chinese practioner who has received
instruction in European Medicine and Surgery certifie by
a properly qualified Bourg of Examiners and approved by the
Medical Board appointed by Government. These appointments
might be filled by Chinese educated at the Victoria Medical
Collere
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