CO129-618-4 University of Hong Kong- conversion of Tung Wah Eastern Hospital into a teaching hospital 17-2-1949 - 27-9-1949 — Page 4

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Mr. Sloss (rather improperly, because he can know of them only in his capacity as a member of the Committee) quotes cannot be regarded as establishing a favourable precedent for this case.

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(Walter Adams)

5.iv.49.

See minute

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y today's date 54147/49

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Mr. Wallace.

The Executive Committee of the Inter-University Council considered this application at their last meeting, together with the despatches No. 30 and No.55 on file Nos. 54147/49 and 54403/2/2/49 respectively.

On this particular proposal for the hospital scheme the Executive Committee agreed that they could not support a proposal that funds for the hospital scheme should be found from the Colonial Development and Welfare higher education allocation which they considered should be reserved for directly educational schemes and not used for the provision of health services.

I have attached to this file the architect's drawings which I temporarily borrowed.

See also minute of today's date on 54147/49.

Ward Cram

31st May, 4949.

It is difficult to answer the question in Mr. Adams' minute of 5/4 as to whether the Colony's needs justify an output of 50 doctors a year and equally to know how many of the estimated 50 (see Enclosure 2) are likely to be bona fide students from Hong Kong or Malaya as opposed to students from China.

In view however of (a) the accepted policy of recruiting an increased number of locally

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