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the clinical teaching of senior medical students.

When the Medical School is re-opened, plans should

be prepared for the establishment of a school of Public Health

or Institute of Hygiene. In the meantime consideration should

be given to the early provision of post-graduate instruction for

those intending to specialise in Public Health. The resumption of

classes for the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and

eventually for the Diploma in Public Health, should have early

consideration.

6.

Clinical Professorships

There should be consultations between the Government and

University authorities as to the desirability and feasibility of

incorporating the posts of Professor of Surgery, Professor of

Medicine and Professor Obstetrics and Gynaecology into the Colonial

Medical Service.

The question of combining the posts of Professor of

Pathology and Government Bacteriologist should also be considered.

Training of Nurses

Adequate facilities for the training of Nurses and Midwives

should be restored and both the Nurses and Midwives Boards should be

re-constituted as soon as practicable.

8.

Health Inspectors and Health Visitors

Arrangements should be made for courses of instruction

and training for Health Inspectors and Health Visitors and for the

re-establishment of the Hong Kong Board of Examiners of the Royal

Sanitary Institute.

Medical Institutions

Every effort should be made to re-open existing hospitals

and, if necessary, to equip and staff emergency hospitals to meet

the needs of the population.

Adequate accommodation for the segregation and treatment

of cases of infectious diseases, mental patients and lepers should

be provided.

Steps should be taken to arrange for the transfer of

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