July 21, 1939]
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
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and the comparatively junior assistants or demonstrators there is no one to assume charge of the sections of the subject which are included in each of the above departments, i.e. Histology, Embryology, Bio-Chemistry, Pharmacology, Bacteriology. For such appointments the holders should possess special qualifica- tions, and have undergone advanced courses of instruction or training, and have had experience of teaching. There is a paucity of such candidates in Hong Kong. The question should be considered of selecting suitable graduates or demonstrators and arranging for them to spend one or two years in University departments in Great Britain for special study in the subject of choice in preparation for an appointment on return.
20. The research activities in the departments of Physiology and Pathology continue and are noteworthy; many investigations have been made and important publications issued. The Professor of Physiology has recently published a book on "Genetics and the Clinician." In view of the financial conditions, it has not been found possible to adopt the suggestion that a fund for research should be established from which special grants could be made for assistants and equipment.
HYGIENE, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND FORENSIC MEDICINE.
21. The University has no department or staff of its own for Hygiene and Public Health or Medical Jurisprudence. Instruction is provided through the agency of the Government Medical Department by the Director of Medical Services, who, by arrange- ment with the University, places the services of medical officers of the Medical Department at the disposal of the University for appointments as part-time Lecturers.
22. Hygiene and Public Health.-In China, as elsewhere in the Far East, training in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine is of special importance, and the teaching institutions rightly recognise this by prescribing unusually long courses of undergraduate instruction.
23. In Hong Kong this had not always been the case; it was not so during my visit in 1933, when instruction in Hygiene and Public Health was restricted to a series of theoretical lectures, and the students saw nothing of the measures adopted in Hong
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