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There are at present no free clinics for providing facilities

Bathed for the modern, of treatment either for the European population or for the Chinese. Those suffering from syphilis and gonorrhoea are taken as in-patients, foreigners to the Government Civil Hospit- ai, Chinese to the Tung Wah and Kwong Wah Hospitals, though in the dase of the two latter it is only patients suffering from the later stages of the disense who readmitted, others being debarred by a rule which excludes anses of venereal disease.

the Government Civil Ho spital is always open and anyone require ing immediate treatment @ould apply to the medical man on duty, but no arrangements are made for the provision of free treatment al- though a large proportion of the patients are unable to afford the necessary drugs.

In order to extend the present facilities at this hospital it would be necessary do provide additional rooms for the purpose of carrying out out-patients treatment, To establish a continuously open free clinic it is suggested that a specially qualified general practitioner working under the supervision of the venereal di sense officer should be appointed. His duties would be to attend three

or four times weekly for sessions of a two to three hours ( the fee paid for such services in England is one to two guineas) A trained attendant working under his direction would be required to carry out daily irrigation and disinfection treatment, etc.

Zung Yah and Krong Wah Ho spitale. Free clinics for the Chinese community should be opened at both these Institutions. The require-

ments in each onse would be a suite of rooms set apart for this purpose; a qualified general practitioner, and trained attendant, both working under the supervision of the venereal disease officer, In addition, owing to the reluctance of Chines women to abmit to examination by medical men, it would be very desirable to obtain the services of a Chinese medical woman in order to encourage the attend- ance of the infected women, We gre given do understand that there ar

now Chinese