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Principal Civil Medical Officer.
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I think perhaps you may like to have a few
particulars about the visit of the American Doctors whom I brought
to see you yesterday.
The party (which represented the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation) comprised Doctors Simon
Flemer, William H. Welch and F.L. Gates and Mr. Wallace Buttrick.
Doctors Flamer and Welch are, as you ¤IT*H** know, men of international stmding in the Medical world. They paid an un- -expected visit to the University late yesterday afternoon, and, unfortunately, had only an hour or two to spare as they were leaving early this morning for Manila. You may know that a Rocke- -feller Commission previously visited the University and reported upon the medical teaching. In their printed report they wrote (p. 40) of the clinical teaching at Hongkong as being defective referring to one of the hospitals used for clinical instruction as being "a most inefficient institution and an entirely unfit to be used for teaching purposes". They summed up by saying (p.52) "While Hongkong is making a good beginning there is little pros- -pect of its soon giving instruction equal to that in first class schools in England". They recommended the establishment of a Rockefeller Medical University in Canton and in other places. This previous visit was paid before the Government Civil Hospital was opened to the Hedical students. I was therefore especially anxious to show the present state of our clinical teaching, and (after a hurried inspection of the School of Anatomy and other laborato- -ries with which they appeared delighted) I took them to the Civil Hospital where they keenly examined the wards, the operat- -ing thentre, the system of appointments, the methods of instruction and case-taking and the pathological and microscopic- -al collections. I mentioned some further developments we hoped
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