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by all members of the hospital staff, of course not including the

native doctors.

As regards the native doctors, their attitude to-

-wards him bas from the first teen perfectly friendly, and in the

.case of very many patients who have elected Chinese treatment, such

treatment has teen modified at his suggestion or ty ay advice con-

-veyed through him.

The Directors have appointed a young man, named Tang

King Fai, at a salary of $15 a month with food and quarters to act as

dresser and assistant generally to Dr. Chung, with permission to go through the regular curriculum of the College of Medicine for Chinese,

This I regard as satisfactory evidence of the willingness to fall in

with the new order of things.

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the use of cotton quilts (meen-tois) to blankets recommended by the (

Commission. I have trought pressure to tear on the Directors from the

first on this subject, and towards the close of the quarter requested

then to meet me at the hospital for a full discussion of it. At this

meeting a majority of then were present, including the Chairman and

the two Vice Chairgen, and I found them perfectly unanimous in their

opposition to the proposal. They urge that the Chinese, rich and poor

alike, are so accustomed to this form of bedding that it would mate-

-rially take away from the comfort of the patients to introduce any et

other. They profess their willingness to have the covers of the meen-

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tois changed regularly and the neen tuis themselves replaced as

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