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practical assistance for the very important but undeveloped fishing industry. It is likely to play no small part in replacing the Japanese by a Chinese deep-sea trawling industry in these waters. The scheme of the Re searah Institute make provision for fellowships which it is hoped hereafter to increase in numbers, and for vacation courses for Chinese scientific workers.

18. Hitherto Biochemistry has been a minor subject in the Department of Physiology and has been no more than an ancillary subject in medical studies. Modern developments in the science demand that a separate Department for this subject should be provided in any university that possesses a Faculty of Medicine.

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20. The College of Medicine existed, as a chartered institution, prior to the establishment of the University. It has established a high reputation, an rising standards of education have been maintained throughout its history. Its graduates are in general and specialist practice in Hong Kong, China, Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. Its qualification is recognised by the General Medical Council as entitling to registration in Great Britain.

21. In the past the curriculum has conformed very largely to that found in medical schools in the British Isles. With the increase emphasis placed in recent times on prevention of disease, the Committee feels that some molification should be made in the curriculum of the Hong Kong School to adjust its teaching in this respect the better to meet the pressing medical needs in the Far East. The Medical School in the past has had for the pre-medical and pre-clinical perious, whole-time professors and lecturers, but in the three clinical years, it has been a recognised practice for the professors n lecturers in clinical subjects also to act as government consultants. The Professor of Pathology, also, has had duties in connection with the Queen Mary (Government) Hospital, which is the chief teaching hospital for University stuents. In order to achieve a close integration of teaching and practice in public health, it was arranged shortly before the war for the Deputy Director of the Mcdical Services of the Hong Kong Government to be ex-officio the Professor of Public Health in the University. The Committee recommends the continuance of the arrangement for the clinical and pathological posts, but the teaching of preventive medicine has now become so important a part of the medical curriculum, embracing as it does teaching in social medicine and public health, that the Committee recommends the supersession of the previous arrangement by the formation of a

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