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Chapter XII.
Summary of Recommendations and Estimates.
Transfer of Univer- sity.
The chief recommendations of the Committee
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68. That to provide for development the ques- tion of the transfer of the University to a larger site outside the town should immediately be taken into consideration but that new buildings now projected or proposed in this Report should not be deferred until the transfer is made (paras. 65, 66).
Univer- 69. That a Universities Bureau, organized by sities
the Chinese Ministry of Education, would assist Bureau. the orderly development of University education in China and that Hong Kong University should seek association with such an organization (para. 11).
Scholar- ships.
Student Life.
Medical.
70. (i) That an attempt should be made to raise a fund to provide post-graduate research studentships in Medicine and Public Health (para. 28 (iii)) and (para. 37).
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(ii) That an attempt should be made to raise a fund of $28,000 yearly to maintain a prehensive scheme of scholarships for graduates and under-graduate students from China (para. 18 (a)).
(iii) That the authorities of one of the attached Hostels be asked to experiment with student con- trolled messing and perhaps with dormitory in place of single-room accommodation of students as a means towards cheapening the costs of Univer- sity education (paras. 16 and 21 (iii)).
71. That the Government be approached for the provision of more adequate athletic grounds (para. 19 (ii)).
72. (i) That as new general hospital accom- modation is provided in the Colony the Queen Mary Hospital should be organized, by stages, completely as a teaching hospital (para. 25 (i)).
(ii) That hostel provision should be made at the earliest date for residence of students at the Queen Mary Hospital for casualty and emergency work (para. 25 (ii)).
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(iii) That provision should be made for fuller use of Government medical officers, and of private practitioners where possible, for specialist teaching in medicine and surgery and that additional hos- pital accommodation be sought for such teaching (para. 26).
(iv) That a new lectureship in Biochemistry for teaching diagnostic work should be founded (para. 27).
(v) That provision should be made for post- graduate work in all clinical and pre-clinical Departments in the Faculty of Medicine and, to make this possible, that provision should be made for an additional assistant in each Department (para. 28 (i) and (ii)).
73. (i) That an Institute of Public Health, established by co-operation between the Govern- ment and the University, would make for better health services in the Colony and for better teach- ing but would not be justified unless it were able to offer a post-graduate Diploma in Public Health (paras. 32, 33 and 34).
(ii) That the Director of the Institute should be the Deputy Director of Health Services; that he should be Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health in the University (para. 35).
(iii) That for the Institute new appointments of a Parasitologist and two assistants would be necessary (para. 36 (i) (b)).
(iv) That for the additional teaching necessary for a Diploma in Public Health appointments of Lecturers in Hygiene and in Analytical Chemistry would also be necessary (para. 36 (i) (a) and (e)).
(v) That the effective working of the Institute on the experimental science side would require the concentration of the diagnostic and investigation work done for Victoria in the University and the provision by Government of the staff needed for the additional volume of work, and that an tension of the Anatomy and Physiology building in the University would be necessary for the housing of the joint Department (para. 36 (ii)).
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