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would make for better health services in the Colony and for better teaching but would not be justified imless it were able to offer a post-graduate Diploma in Public Health.

(11) 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.

(111) That for the Institute new appointments of a Parasitologist and two assistants would be necessary.

(iv) That for the additional teaching necessary for a Diploma in Public Health appointments of Lecturers in Rygiene and in Analytical Chemistry would also be necessary,

(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 extension of the Anatomy and Physiology building in the University would be necessary for the housing of the Joint Department.

74. (1) That the University's resolution to suspend degree courses in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and to offer scholarships for the study of those subjects is approved but that the University should be prepared to develop its Departments in these branches of Engineering as soon as recruitment of students warrants it, or if an authoritative request for the training of such men for work in China should be made.

(11) That a new building to contain Civil and Electrical Engineering laboratories is needed and that certain modern equipment should be provided for these subjects.

(iii) That Government be asked to assign to the University a suitable site in the New Territories for a permanent survey camp.

(iv) That the appointment of graduates of the University by the Government of Hong Kong to a cadre of Assistant Engineers would give such status to the degree as would help towards the appointment of Hong Kong Engineering graduates in China,

75. (1) That the development of honours teaching in Physios and of post-graduate teaching in the Physics of Rudio-Therapy is desirable, and that to provide for any considerable volume of post-graduate teaching and research in Radio-Therapy an additional lecturer would be required.

(11) That honours teaching in Chemistry should be developed and, for post-graduate work, a new branch of the Chemistry Department in Micro-analysis should be established, this requiring the appointment of a new lecturer in Micro- Chemistry.

(111) That Biology teaching should be extended to cover four years of University studies this requiring the appointment of an additional lecturer and demonstrator and an increased expenditure on laboratory maintenance.

(1v) That a Summer School of Marine Biology, organized by the University, should annually be held in the new Fisheries Institute in co-operation with the Academica Sinica and other Chinese Institutions.

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