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very first priority in the re-occupation of Hong Kong.
Sir Humphrey Prideaux Brune said that if it were
only a question of the Medical College he imagined that
the Commander in Chief would press for this. Mr. Cox
thought there would also be pressure from the Director
of Education.
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Mr. N.L. Smith said that for the training of teachers
a course had been agreed to by the new Northgate Medical
College. Mr. Sloss thought that if materials and labour
could be obtained, the Medical College could be patched up
in time for September of this year.
Returning to the matter of medicine Mr. Sloss said
it was impossible to get into a Colonial Medical
Institution at the present time and that most Universities
in this country will be in the same position as far as
medicine is concerned. He stated that it would not be
difficult to arrange for stucents in their last two or
possibly third years to be dealt with at the teaching
hospital, or Clinical Hospital, and he was adverse to
admitting any first year-students until it was seen
whether they could be given preliminary training.
Dr. Kauntze asked how many students there would
be in the Climical year. He said there was only a
very small remnant of students and we had got about
4/5ths of students into China but a number fell out
for various reasons, and there might be about 30-40
students who have reached the clinical year whose
courses have been broken. The Chairman asked if
there were any two or three-year students in Hong Kong.
Mr. Sloss said he had dealt with all students who came
to England; all were non-Chinese.
They were placed
in English schools. Any nucleus would be people who
had taken the course 4, 5 or 6 years' ago and had
done nothing since. Mr. Sloss thought they should
start again at the beginning.
Sir Humphrey Prideaux Brune asked whether those
who had completed the course in China, would be fit,
tto
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