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Of the twelve Licentiates three
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are in the Perak Government Service; three are in privat e
practice in Singapore; one has just had an offer of an
appointment with a commencing salary of $150 from the
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Singapore Government; one is the somewhat notorious
Sun Yat Sen, the Chinese Reformer; one was for some years
in the Chinese Goverment Service, and recently returned
to Hongkong, where he has been doing plague inspection
among the employees of two of the leading firms of the
Colony; one is House Surgeon of the Nethersole Hospital;
one died of plague a year or two ago, while House Surgeon
of the Alice Memorial Hospital; and one was appointed
by His Excellency in April of last year to be Chinese
Medical Officer in the New Territory, where, the Court
understand, he has given satisfaction in the discharge
of the duties required of him.
There is a continuous demand from
the Straits Settlements for the diplomates of the College
which is evidence of the value attaching to their services
where their work has had time to be well tested.
For years the gentlemen through
whose self-sacrificing efforts the work of the College
has thus far been carried on were buoyed up by the hope
that they would ere long see it firmly established in
a home of its own, with the beginnings of a permanent
endowment and a permanent staff; but that hope fell to
the ground when eventually the inability of the Govern-
-ment