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By September next, it is hoped that this will give hostel accommodation for 30 more women students.
(iii) It was suggested that additional accom- modation for men students might be found by The rooms, putting two students in each room.
The
9 by 12', are obviously too small for two men students. Two rooms might be thrown into one, to give accommodation for three students. University deliberately adopted the policy of giving each student his room, in recognition of his right a dormitory or to some privacy and because in shared room, one student can waste the time of It is admitted that in this way lodging many. costs could be reduced but only by the sacrifice of what, at present, makes the Hostels so attractive to students. However, an experiment in dormitory accommodation in an attached Hostel would give the data for a more decisive judgment. Enquiries made during the difficult admission period last year showed that there is no prospect of satisfactory private boarding houses helping to solve the problem of students' residence.
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Chapter VI.
Medical Faculty.
22. The arrangements for medical teaching were considered. It was recognized that clinical teaching at present is possible only in the Queen Mary Hospital, and that there are few, if any, more adequately equipped hospitals in the East.
23. The teaching in special branches of Medi- cine and Surgery depends not only upon the hospital but on the co-operation of its medical officers. Public Health demonstrations can be carried out only by officers of the Government Medical Department, and effective teaching in Pathology and Bacteriology depends on the co- operation of the staff of the Government Institute of Bacteriology with the Pathology Department of the University. Further, the willingness of Gov- ernment to second officers to fill leave vacancies on the full-time medical teaching staff of the Uni- versity has enabled it to carry on its work without the making of expensive and rarely satisfactory short-time appointments or by entrusting senior work to assistants. Frequent transfers of officers of the Government Medical Department have created difficulties in the conduct of special courses, but it is recognized that the Director of Medical Services avoids such transfers when he can.
Hospital 24. For the accommodation of cases selected Arrange for University teaching 169 beds in the Queen Mary Hospital are assigned to the clinical professors. But there is a constant demand for additional beds, and the more the hospital is used for special cases, the less adequately can it fulfil its function as a General Hospital.
25. We are of opinion that extended provision of general hospital beds is necessary in Hong Kong and that the need becomes increasingly urgent with the development of the town. We therefore recommend:
(i) that as more adequate provision for general hospital cases is made elsewhere, the Queen Mary Hospital should be organized by stages more completely as a teaching hospital;