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conducted by the University in the sense in which Lugard, Eliot and May Halls are so maintained and conducted.
THE FACULTIES.
The Reports of the Faculties are printed after this summary. The following points are salient :
THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE.
New Regulations.-The new regulations passed by the Faculty in 1930 were brought into force during 1931 and for the first time a therapeutics and pharmacological examination was held as part of the 4th year degree examination. examination in Junior Pathology has been dispensed with.
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Practical Pharmacy. A special course for practical pharmacy was inaugurated at the Government Civil Hospital.
New Appointments. Two new clinical appointments have been instituted, namely one in radiology and one in venereal diseases.
Medical Unit Out-Patients Department. The total number of cases seen and treated at the Out-Patients Department of the Government Civil Hospital during the year was 14,973. The Professor of Medicine reports that the children's clinic is rapidly increasing and that it is a matter for profound regret that the accommodation for sick children in the medical wards of the Government Civil Hospital is practically non-existent.
During the slight diphtheria epidemic which occurred towards the end of December, 1931, the Medical Unit undertook Schick testing and immunisation. Over 50 Schick tests were done and in some cases immunisation, both passive and active, was carried out.
Sir Elly Kadoorie and his sons presented the unit with a diathermy machine which is proving a great boon to the poor Chinese who are treated in the wards of the hospital.
Surgical Unit. Three hundred and seventy-four in-patients were treated in the 3 wards of the Surgical Clinic at the Govern- ment Civil Hospital. Four hundred and sixty-five surgical operations were performed under anesthesia. The out-patients attendance in the Surgical Clinic numbered 3,245, excluding 2,360 new patients who attended the opthalmic out-patients clinic.
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Obstetrics and Gynecological Unit.-During the year ending 30th April, 1931, 1384 maternity cases were admitted to the Tsan Yuk Hospital and 590 to the Government Civil Hospital.
The regulations provide that each student should be attached to this unit for a period of 6 months, during which time he attends cases in the labour wards. This means in practice that each student attends from 30 to 50 cases or more of labour during his six months as ward clerk. Students also attend the out-patient
dispensaries which are held twice weekly.
Department of Pathology and Bacteriology.-The new Pro- fessor complains of the lack of adequate technical assistance. observes that a University laboratory of pathology sinks or swims by its research activities, and that its teaching success is com- mensurate thereto. "Pathology is so essentially a living language, that when it becomes a dead one,
paradoxical though it may sound, its value to medicine is largely lost."
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Department of Anatomy. The work of this Department comprises the teaching of medical students in the second and third years of the medical curriculum. Special courses are also given in histology, embryology, neurology and general anatomy.
The Professor reports that there is strictly speaking no de- partment of embryology and histology. The teaching of this subject is only made possible by the use of microscope slides brought out from England in 1922, which have been since supple- mented by others'obtained through the courtesy of the Professor of Histology in Sydney. Many of these slides are showing signs of wear and tear and teaching is carried out under considerable difficulty.
The Professor adds that there is no laboratory for histology and that the work of teaching is only made possible by using the laboratory for practical physiology. The Professor also pleads for the separation of the Department of Surgery from the De- partment of Gross Anatomy.
Department of Physiology. This Department provides in- struction in physiology and pharmacology for students in the second and third years of their medical course. Junior physiology including biochemistry, biophysics and experimental physiology
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