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Sir,
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73845/33.
Public Health Centre.
Hong Kong,
Government House.
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7th November, 1933.
I have the honour to inform you that I have had
under consideration the institution of a Public Health
Centre in the Western District of Victoria at which accommodation would also be provided for maternity and child welfare work, a venereal diseases clinic, and a tuberculosis
clinic.
2.
Such & Centre would not only provide medical assistance much needed in this crowded area, but would also furnish opportunities for the study by students of the
Fong Yong University of practical questions of public health. At present the University has no school of Public Health. The Authorities are, however, fully awake to the desirability of extending the medical course in this direction as soon as the necessary resources for financing the school are
forthcoming.
It is possible that some assistance may be
obtained from the Rockefeller Foundation to meet the University's share in the scheme. Nothing can of course be settled in this direction until facilities for practical study have been provided, but I have little doubt that given the facilities the creation of a chair of public health will be achieved at no great distance thereafter.
3.
It had been my intention to make some provision in the budget for 1934 for a commencement of this most
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