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in addition to his duties connected with his regular

visitation of the Police Stations, is seeing sick

Chinese regularly in several of the more important vill-

ages of the New Territory. But the beginnings thus made

can only be extended to the mass of the steadily-increas-

ing native population, when large numbers of similarly

qualified native physicians can be spread widely through-

out the Colony and its dependent villages to minister

to the sick, and to dissipate the ignorance that still

prevails among the Chinese in regard to all matters

medical and sanitary.

During the epidemic of Plague and

Smallpox of recent years a number of the senior students

have annually been called upon by the Goverment (this

year by a Chinese Committee co-operating with the

Sanitary Board, and by two leading Commercial firms) to

assist in house-to-house visitation and vaccination. If

the recent recommendations of the Sanitary Board be car-

ried into effect, this hitherto occasional use of the

students will be systematized, rendered permanent,

greatly more effective, while the employment of the fully-

qualified diplomates would in non-epidemic times, as

well as during actual epidemics, enable the Goverment

to secure better and more reliable statistics as to

and

health and disease in the Colony than have in the past

been available.

Proposals