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by all members of the hospital staff, of course not including the native doctors.
As regards the native doctors, their attitude towards him has from the first been perfectly friendly, and in the case of very many patients who have elected Chinese treatment, such treatment has been modified at his suggestion or by advice conveyed through him.
The Directors have appointed a young man, named Tang King Fai, at a salary of $15 a month with food and quarters to act as dresser and assistant generally to Dr. Chung, with permission to go through the regular curriculum of the College of Medicine for Chinese.
This I regard as satisfactory evidence of the willingness to fall in with the new order of things.
I have not succeeded in effecting the change from the use of cotton quilts (meen-tois) to blankets recommended by the Commission. I have brought pressure to bear on the Directors from the first on this subject, and towards the close of the quarter requested them to meet me at the hospital for a full discussion of it. At this meeting a majority of them were present, including the Chairman and the two Vice Chairmen, and I found them perfectly unanimous in their opposition to the proposal.
They urge that the Chinese, rich and poor alike, are so accustomed to this form of bedding that it would materially take away from the comfort of the patients to introduce any other. They profess their willingness to have the covers of the meen-tois changed regularly and the meen-tois themselves replaced as
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