Tephone: KENsington 5121. Ext. 412.
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UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
TEMPORARY OFFICE AT LONDON COMMAND SCHOOL OF EDUCATION,
ROOM 12,
178 QUEEN'S GATE,
KENSINGTON, S.W.7.
March 29th,1946
Dear Priestly,
I was a little concerned about Kauntze's demands for posts in the Faculty of Medicine. The professorship and major Depart ent for Pharmacology seems to me, in the light of English practice, to be merely unreasonable, and they were urged with the impa ience one comes to associate with the hierophants of medical occultism. Lay reasoning is an impertinence of the sacriligous. But i disliked more his keenes to separate the University teaching in reventive Medicine and Public Health from the Colonial organisation for these matters. My concern is deepened by finding that it is all part of a general policy that Kauntze is imposing in other Colonies as well as in Hong Kong.
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It has been customary of late years to have in the Colonies working under the Director of Medical Services Deputy Directors, one for ospitals, Clinics and the like, and one
for Public Health. Isaw the invitusin of this arrangement beginning
in Hong Kong and can say without hesitation that under Selwyn Clarke as Director there was inediate improvement both in hospital organisation and, even more marked, in the urban and port health organisa ion which, during the period 1937-1941 stood up ad irable to the job of dealing with 4 of a million refugees flooding into an urban area already abominably ov rcrowded with a population of just over a million.
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I am left therefore with a feeling that the occasion of our Committee is being used to make a case for a change, that I cannot help feeling to be wholly bad in the organization of
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