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professor a superannuation arrangement is to be made which you placed at approximately $1000 a year apiece. Each of the three professors is to have an assistant with salary and quarters, the expense of each estimated at $3600 a year.
Each of the new professors is to have a resident house officer at $1200 a year apiece.
b. It was understood that if the chairs of medicine, surgery and obstetrics were cared for by endowment under the Rockefeller Foundation, the department of anatomy would be divorced from that of surgery and a professor of anatomy appointed on a full-time basis and on the same salary scale and housing allowance as the professor of physiology. In this connection we discussed the possibility, which I understood was approved by Dr. Earle, of reor- ganizing the departments of anatomy and physiology so that histology and embryology would in the future be cared for in the department of anatomy, and the professor of physiology could give a larger amount of his time to work in physiology, physiological chemistry and pharmacology. This latter, however, is of course a matter for internal arrangement by your faculty.
c. That the status of the chair of pathology be improved so that as regards salary, housing allowance, staff, etc., it will be on the same basis as the chairs of physiology and anatomy.
d. That the departments of anatomy, physiology and pathology be each provided with a full-time assistant (tutor) at about $3000 each.
In connection with the above items all figures represent Hong. kong dollars. The items represent essentially new departures on which it was possible to discuss costs rather definitely.
2. a. In addition there was a general understanding that the Government would guarantee to the medical school the use of 105 beds in the Civil Hospital for teaching purposes (40 for medicine, 40 for surgery, 25 for obstetrics) and tha the Government would continue to maintain these beds: that is, this cost should not be defrayed out of the univer- sity budget unless an equal sum were added to the budget to meet it. The possibility was discussed also with you and with the Chief Civil Medical Officer of considering eventually the Civü Hospital as the clinical hospital of the
*The P.C.M.O., to whom we are mainly indebted for the easy working of our existing hospital facilities, was consulted both as a matter of courtesy and because he was best able to form an opinion as to what additional facilities might be possible. He was, however, most careful to remind us that he could in no way bind his Government. To the best of my knowledge our financial relations with the Government were not discussed with him, as being clearly outside his province. I believe that the exact number of beds is another poin! which was not discussed with him.-W.B.
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university, this development however being dependent on the building of other hospitals by the Government and relieving the Civil Hospital of its present functions; and moreover, if this situation should eventuate, the cost of the hospital would be carried by the Government and not by the university budget unless the university budget were correspondingly increased.
b. It was further understood that the appropriation of the Government ($50,000) to the university should not in the future be decreased.
c. It was generally agreed that the Government should provide a hostel for senior students to accommodate at least 25 students in the immediate neighbourhood of the Civil Hospital, and that the maintenance of this hostel should be provided by the Government with or without such co- operation with a missionary society as might seem advisable.*
d. That improvements should be made in laboratory facilities of the clinical hospital and in the out-patient service so that clinical teaching in the hospital might be improved. And finally-
e. We agreed that measures should be taken to develop the
library of the medical department of the university.
3. a. In our discussion you brought up the question whether on account of the difficulty of obtaining three men at once, and perhaps on account of the difficulty of meeting all financial obligations, it would be necessary to put everything into force simultaneously. I replied that it would be better to go slowly and carefully. If the funds could be found for the chair of anatomy and for the other improvements in relation to surgery, we could begin by endowing the chair of surgery, and later take up the other two chairs as con- ditions were met.
Before the Rockefeller Foundation takes final action it is desirable that there should be no misunderstanding concerning your conception of the problem or of my conception of it. My object in my conferences with you was to aid you in bringing the >ituation before your governing bodies in such a way as to help you to the maximum extent. On the other hand I have no desire to embarrass you in any way. If therefore you could send me a letter covering the above points and indicating your under-
There is here some misapprehension. It was hoped that, through the good offices of the Government, we might be able to obtain the German Foundling Hospital as a Hostei-a scheme which we now understand to be rendered impossible by the terms of the Peace Treaty. There was no question of pecuniary aid from the Government in the matter, and the maintenance of a Hostel is, of course, covered by the feas of the students.-W.B.