para. 25.
para. 26.
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set up to consider possible schemes.
The Governor warmly supports these recommendations,
though the Council thought there would be considerable
difficulties in practice in working the proposed system of
interchange of teachers. Copies of the Report have been
sent to the Chinese Minister of Education, and the
Governor states that the Chinese authorities, including
General Chiang-Kai-Shek himself, are at present well dis-
posed towards co-operation with the University.
2.
Improvement of Equipment and Staffing.
A. Medical Faculty
On the assumption that extra hospital accommo-
dation is an increasingly urgent need in Hong Kong, the
Committee suggest that, as more adequate provision for
general hospital cases is made elsewhere, the Queen Mary
Hospital should be organised by stages completely as a
teaching hospital. At present 169 beds in this hospital
are reserved for University teaching cases.
As the University will never be in a position
to employ full-time specialist teachers in all branches
of medicine and surgery the Committee recommend that pro-
vision should be made for fuller use of Government Medical
officers, and of private practitioners where possible, for
specialist teaching in these subjects.
An interesting recommendation is the establishment
of an Institute of Public Health under the Directorship of
the Deputy Director of Health Services, not merely as an
aid to the health services of the Colony, but in its
general relations to China.
This could only be achieved
if the Government were willing to take a major share in
its foundation, and would only be justified if it were
able
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