CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922 — Page 495

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Enclosure

BOARD OF EDUCATION,

WHITEHALL, London, 8.W.

18th December, 1922,

Hong Kong University

Chair of Medicine.

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With reference to Sir Herbert Read's letter or August 21st, (39912/22), I am to say that, as the result of the advertisement of the vacant Professorship of Medicine at

Hong Kong University for four consecutive weeks in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, applications were received from ten candidates, one of whom subsequently withdrew upon receiving an appointment under the Rockefeller Foundation in

America, The Selection Committee, which included Professor

7. R. Elliott, F.R.S., Professor F. R. Fraser, Dr. G. C. Low

of the London School of Tropical Medicine and Mr. A. G. Warren, did not consider that any one of the remaining nine candidates

possessed the requisite qualifications for the post; and at

its meeting on November 23rd, the medical members, Professors

Elliott and Fraser and Dr. Low, undertook to make further

enquiries as to the possibility of obtaining other candidates.

As a result of their action, an application was received

from Dr. John Anderson of the London School of Tropical

Medicine. The Selection Committee have interviewed Dr.

Anderson and notwithstanding his age

recommend him for appointment.

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unanimously

Dr Anderson is not free until the middle of February

next and has expressed a wish that he should be allowed two The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

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