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DR. SUN YAT-SEN MEMORI AT MEDICAL CCLLEGE
LINGNAN UNIVERSITY
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CANTON
CHINA.
January 29, 1946.
Dr. Gordon King,
Commissioner, Public Health Dept.,
Hong Kong "overnment.
Dear Dr. Gordon,
I am glad to report that I have come down to Canton city from Chungking and have accepted the Deanship of the br. Sun-Yat- sen Memorial Ledical College of the Lingnan University. Concurrent- ly Dr. P.Z. King has offered me the Superintendency of the National Canton Central Hospital of 500 beds which is being organized in ths city. It is understood that this hospital will be affiliated with the Lingnan University and its facilities shall be used for teaching purposes. In addition, as you know, we have the Canton Hospital of 200 beds as well as the Hackett Hospital of 150 beds. All these shall give us a total of 850 beds. The medical friends here wish that in this way we shall be able to establish a medical centre in South China which according to Dr. P.Z. King may also be used for training public health personnel for the Government.
As you may see this scheme is a rather ambitious one and shall require the effort and support of all medical friends in- cluding your good self.
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Friends here are glad to learn that the School of Medicine of the Hong Kong University will be re-opened. We wish that under your guidance the medical school will continue to contribute to medical science as it has been so successfully in the past. Here I wish to express that it would be our great pleasure if we could be able to help you in any way possible. I can assure you that dur- ing the period from now till your re-establishment, all the facili- ties of our medical school are opened to all your Hong Kong medical students if so desired. Our present faculties and teaching staff to-day are rather limited, but we have great hopes that within six more months we shall have a stronger staff and more facilities for the coming autumn term.
Our medical school appreciates the help which the long Kong University had afforded us during the war time before the occupation of Hong Kong.
I can recall the pleasure of my contacts with you in Szechuen during the past years and i hope to see you in person if opportunity avalls. Dr. Frank Oldt, and Dr. Roy Mar join me in sending you our best regards.
Yours very sincerely,
Li Ting-an
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