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in addition to his duties connected with his regular
visitation of the Police Stations, is seeing sick
Chinese regularly in several of the more important vill-
ages of the New Territory. But the beginnings thus made
can only be extended to the mass of the steadily-increas-
ing native population, when large numbers of similarly
qualified native physicians can be spread widely through-
out the Colony and its dependent villages to minister
to the sick, and to dissipate the ignorance that still
prevails among the Chinese in regard to all matters
medical and sanitary.
During the epidemic of Plague and
Smallpox of recent years a number of the senior students
have annually been called upon by the Goverment (this
year by a Chinese Committee co-operating with the
Sanitary Board, and by two leading Commercial firms) to
assist in house-to-house visitation and vaccination. If
the recent recommendations of the Sanitary Board be car-
ried into effect, this hitherto occasional use of the
students will be systematized, rendered permanent,
greatly more effective, while the employment of the fully-
qualified diplomates would in non-epidemic times, as
well as during actual epidemics, enable the Goverment
to secure better and more reliable statistics as to
and
health and disease in the Colony than have in the past
been available.
Proposals