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cation, the Director of Public Works, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Chinese members of the Legislative Council, the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, and Deans of each of the three Faculties, the Chief Manager of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Mr. N. S. Brown and Professor W. Brown.
During the year under review, Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin, Mr. H. B. Talati, Mr. W. H. Bell, Mr. R. M. Dyer, Dr. Ts'o Seen Wan, LL.D., were re-appointed to be members of the Court for a further term of three years. Messrs. B. J. Lewis, Sum Pak Ming and Wong Tak Wong were appointed to be members of the Court for three years.
FACULTY OF MEDICINE.
The number of students in the Faculty of Medicine on 31st December, 1928, was 160 as compared with 150 on the same date in the preceding year. The staff of the Medical Faculty comprises, 8 full-time professors, including the professors of chemistry and physics who work in all three faculties, and the Reader in Biology who works in the Arts Faculty as well as in the Medical Faculty; also 2 lecturers in chemistry (these lecturers work in all 3 Faculties) 5 full-time medical assistants, and 7 part-time medical lecturers. The Medical School of Singapore which has to deal with fewer students has a staff of II professors, 11 lecturers and 2 readers, exclusive of assistants.
The amount of charitable work carried out by the Medical Faculty of the University is considerable. Last year the Faculty treated in hospital some 3,000 poor patients, while 8,000 persons received treatment in the out-patients department of the Govern- ment Civil Hospital at the hands of the University staff. The Pathological Department reported on 1494 cases. The Medical Paculty carries out a large proportion of the total work done in the Government Civil Hospital.
The research work done in the various departments of the Medical Faculty is reported to be well up to the average. Four issues of the Caduceus, the Journal of the University Medical Society, were published during 1928 and its circulation is in- creasing.
The resignation of Professor H. G. Earle which took place in January, 1928, was referred to in the last Annual Report.
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Dr. J. Anderson resigned the Chair of Medicine last year; he also joined the staff of the projected Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research in Shanghai. Surgeon-Commander J. G. Gerrard, M.D., M.P.H., M.R.C.P., (LONDON), has recently been appointed to the Chair of Medicine, but he has not yet joined the University.
The Medical Faculty has many vital needs. The most urgent is perhaps the provision of a separate department for surgery. Anatomy and surgery originally constituted one chair, and the Professor of Surgery has no laboratory other than the dissecting room. This is very inconvenient. The Professor of Medicine is in an almost worse plight. He has no lecture room or laboratory anywhere.
"When in 1923 and 1924 the University Court accepted the Rockefeller Endowments it did so on the understand- ing that the Medical School of the University was going to be conducted, not only with regard to the teaching in the University, but also in the matter of its clinical work in the Government Civil Hospital, as an efficient and up-to-date modern University Medical School of the highest status."
This was stated publicly at the last University Congregation and the contention has not been queried. The University has heard nothing more of the Government's scheme for rebuilding the Civil Hospital.
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING.
There were 54 students on the rolls of the Faculty of Engineering on the 31st December, 1928, as against 55 on the 31st December, 1927. The results of the final examina- tion conducted during the year, are reported to have been very satisfactory-9 out of 10 candidates passed, and 5 of these were recommended to the Board of the Faculty for honours. Mr. Lim Ko a graduate in 1927, was awarded First Class Honours by the London Assessor, Professor S. M. Dixon, who commented very favourably on the standard of his work. The graduates of 1927 have found little difficulty in se- curing employment. One of the civil engineers is now an assistant engineer on the Federated Malay States Railways, two are surveyors on the Sarawak Oilfields, Borneo, one is working for Messrs. Palmer & Turner, Shanghai and one at the Harbour Works in Hoihow. Of the two electrical engineers who graduat-
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