CO129-588-8 Hong Kong University- British Council scholarships and Rhodes Studentship 11-1-1941 - 17-12-1942 — Page 71

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the University are thoroughly well trained, but further provisdon

is required for the study of Public Health.

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One of the greatest needs of the "niversity is a Department of Public Health, with a Professor and adequate staff, and facilities for research work in Pacteriology and Parasitology. It is essent- ial, rarticularly in the Chinese ports, that Medical Officers

medicine

should have special training in preventive and hygiene.

It would be a fitting tribute to the great work of Sir Patrick

If thords were

Manson to establish in Hong Kong a Manson Professorship of

earnestly

Preventive Medicine and Hygiene. It is hoped that funds may be fou

forthcoming for this such a-post.

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The number of students studying for an Arts degree is less than that in the other Faculties and the consist largely of men training for educational posts.ft is however hoped that this training for educational posts.t

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Faculty may, if funds become available, contribute in a greater degree towards the establishment of a closer contact with China and the provision of something of even higher value to that

hibtard country.It has been recommended that a School of Economics and Politics, based upon the teaching of history and the study of

be established, the working of political institutions of the West and East, Whe question of a Chinese School was a difficult problem but it had to be faced. Leading Chinese contributed a sum of $200,000

the

17 a Chinese Schoof towards the establishment of such a school and in 1935 a highly competent Professor of Chinese was obtained from China. A reorganisation of the Department took place and, as a result of the introduction of modern methods of teaching Chinese, great

interest was aroused among the students. The number attending the courses has steadily increased.

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