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above all not fair to the atients. We all admit that both staff and hospital were but a makeshift and a lucky one at that, but Hong Kong must in future do better than that.

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Lastly, I cannot stress too strongly how grateful I am to your department and your officers for giving us in the University an opportunity of helping you in your problems. I have always held very strongly the view that the University owes to the colony more than a teaching service, and although no one is more aware than I am of the trifling scientific value of our work, on the one hand I feel that it has shown what can be done when our resources are pooled and on the other it has enabled us to lay the foundations for a definite advance in our knowledge of the biochemistry and treatment of cholera.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

sd. L.T. Ride,

Prof. of Physiology.