No. 558.
RECEIVEL
11 501933
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Sir,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG,
7th November, 1933.
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I have the honour to inform you that I have had
under consideration the institution of a Public Health
Centre in the Western District of Victoria at which
accommodation would also be provided for maternity and child welfare work, a venereal diseases clinic, and a tuberculosis
clinic.
2.
Such a Centre would not only provide medical
assistance much needed in this crowded area, but would also
furnish opportunities for the study by students of the
Hong Kong University of practical questions of public health.
At present the University has no school of Public Health.
The Authorities are, however, fully awake to the desirability
of extending the medical course in this direction as soon as
the necessary resources for financing the school are
forthcoming. It is possible that some assistance may be
obtained from the Rockefeller Foundation to meet the
University's share in the scheme. Nothing can of course be
settled in this direction until facilities for practical
study have been provided, but I have little doubt that given
the facilities the creation of a chair of public health will
be achieved at no great distance thereafter.
3.
It had been my intention to make some provision
in the budget for 1934 for a commencement of this most
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,
essential
&c.,
&C.,
&c.