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-tent disappear if they were able to pay a sort of re-

taining fee in the form of even a small honorarium to

of the

each of the Lecturers. The gratuitous character

work being done is entirely anomalous. Hospital appoint-

ments at home are in many cases honorary, bur medical

lectureships rarely or never.

In order that such honoraria to the

Lecturers might be established, an annual minimum sum of $2,500 would be necessary, it being estimated that $150

would be a suitable honorarium to each Lecturer for the

longer session of five months duration, and $100 for the

short session of three months, in each year. I am direct- ed to submit most respectfully for His Excellency's

consideration the following grounds on which the Court

think they may reasonably look to the Goverment for a

grant-in-aid from the public funds such as would meet

this want.

During recent years there has been a

growing feeling in the Colony that in the interests of

the general community the Chinese part of the population can no longer be permitted to ignore the existence of West

-ern Sanitary, science,or to treat their sick entirely

after Chinese methods. A Chinaman trained in Western

Medicine, with students of this College as his assistants, is now established as an integral part of the staff of the Tung Wah Hospital, and is exerting a growing influence over the whole work of that Institution. Dr. Ho Nai Hop,

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