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-tent disappear if they were able to pay a sort of re-
taining fee in the form of even a small honorarium to
of the
each of the Lecturers. The gratuitous character
work being done is entirely anomalous. Hospital appoint-
ments at home are in many cases honorary, bur medical
lectureships rarely or never.
In order that such honoraria to the
Lecturers might be established, an annual minimum sum of $2,500 would be necessary, it being estimated that $150
would be a suitable honorarium to each Lecturer for the
longer session of five months duration, and $100 for the
short session of three months, in each year. I am direct- ed to submit most respectfully for His Excellency's
consideration the following grounds on which the Court
think they may reasonably look to the Goverment for a
grant-in-aid from the public funds such as would meet
this want.
During recent years there has been a
growing feeling in the Colony that in the interests of
the general community the Chinese part of the population can no longer be permitted to ignore the existence of West
-ern Sanitary, science,or to treat their sick entirely
after Chinese methods. A Chinaman trained in Western
Medicine, with students of this College as his assistants, is now established as an integral part of the staff of the Tung Wah Hospital, and is exerting a growing influence over the whole work of that Institution. Dr. Ho Nai Hop,
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