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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
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teaching in general Medicine and Surgery. The Professor of Medicine, for example, provides instruction in Therapeutics, Children's Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Tuberculosis; and the Professor of Surgery provides instruction in Orthopaedics and Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat. The time cannot be far distant when additional specialists will be required to meet the needs of the Colony, and especially is this desirable in Orthopaedics and Diseases of Children.
Midwifery, Infant Hygiene, and Diseases of Women.
37. The University staff of the departments consists of the A systematic Professor and his first and second assistants. course of lectures is given throughout the fifth and sixth years, covering the whole range of Obstetrics, Infant Hygiene, and Gynaecology.
38. The arrangements for providing clinical instruction have been greatly improved since my visit in 1933. Each student is attached to the department as clinical clerk for a period of six months. Instruction in Midwifery is provided at the Tsan Yuk Hospital, which has been taken over by the Government, reorganised, and now devoted entirely to midwifery. It contains sixty beds. There are quarters for two resident medical students, who live in the Hospital for twenty-four-hour periods every fourth or fifth day, an arrangement arising from local conditions which is not satisfactory, and should be changed as soon as possible in order to provide continuous residence in the Hospital for longer periods. During 1938 there were 2,265 deliveries in the Hospital, and there is no difficulty in the provision of the necessary number of cases conducted by students under super- vision. Most students see fifty or sixty deliveries during their attendances at the Hospital. Attached to the Hospital are ante-natal and infant welfare out-patient clinics, where students receive regular instruction. As only 126 patients received ante- natal care out of a total of 2,265 patients delivered in the Hospital, there is scope for further development of the ante-natal clinics. The Hospital itself has scarcely accommodation for as many as sixty beds without congestion, nor can the accessories be provided