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THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE

BUILDING UP A GREAT TRADITION.

SPLENDID WORK OF THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL WARDS

THE UNIVERSITY CLINIC - A conception of the splendid work that is being done in the University Medical Wards may be gathered by the report of the Medical Unit for 1931 by Professor W. I. Gerrard A total of 410 cases were treated as In-Patients, of which only thirty six died, ten within twenty-four Hotirs after admission. At the morn- ing clinio 6,204 cases were seen, and treated during the year, 8,609 at the afternoon clinic, and 1,100 at the children's clinic. The total of cases seen and treated by the Medical Unit at the Out-Patient Department during the year was 14,973.

The children's clinic is rapidly increasing and it is to be deeply regrotted that the accommodation for sick children in the medical wards is practically non-existent. A few cases admitted have been very successfully treated and the result is that more demand is being made on the Staff for the admission of sick children. Investigations by the Staff of the Medical Unit have been carried out with regard to Renal Disease and Malaria, the Thrombocytes in Malaria, Blood sedimentation rate in various tro- pical conditions, and haamatinics in Ankylostomiasis. All these points require careful study and the work must be controlled before any really reliable results can be published.

Professor Gerrard refers in his report to the excellent gift to this Unit from Sir Elly Kadoorie and his sons in the form of a Diathermy machine, and adds that "if the work it has already done is any indica tion of its future activities it will certainly prove to be a great boon

I possible.

It is interesting to record that work is being carried out in this Department in the determination of racial difference in cerebral struc

ture and in the arterial supply of

the cerebral cortex. Many papers on these subjects are in various stages of completion. During 1933 the Professor of Anatomy published The number of -vahulblo papėra --on thess subjecta .....

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DEPARTMENT OF

PHYSIOLOGY

TASK OF THE MEDICAL FACULT

Follow What A Greek

Philosopher Didt

Hippocrates died at Larissa extreme old age about the year B.C. His lito's work, accomplishe with no other appliances. than servation and induction, was to

This Department provides instruc.stroy the view, that diseases are tion in Physiology and Pharmaco either to the attacks of demons personnel, given enthusiasm on their speaking, "no Dopartment of Histology for students in the second and to their other actual entry into part much may be accomplished logy or Embryology. The teaching In 1931 the numbers of the senior common enough-sex to lay

third years of their medical course. body-n view which oven to-day with a few intelligent, if not totally is only made possible by the use illiterate, helpers, even though they of microscopic slides brought out plaas were twenty in the Spring foundations of the scientiño be untrained to start with; but if from England in 1928 and supple-Term, and those of the junior class cause the cause of healing

Term and fifteen in the Autumn of medicine. He served a starved in this respect, so that every monted by slides obtained through routine procedure has to be per- the tourtesy of the Professor of were twenty-six in the Spring Terin alleviation of human suffering sonally performed, the department Histology in Sydney. Many of these twenty-sight in the Autumn his life-long fight against superst

Term, Twenty-one took Pharmaco- tion and magic. Every one of is only too hot to sink to the slides are said to be showing signs logy in the Spring Torm and twenty in the Faculty of Medicine awes easier level of uninspired teaching of wear and tear and teaching is two in the Autumn Term. an undying debt; and those of you and dulled routine. A University carried out under considerable dif-

who go out into China to grapp laboratory of Pathology sinks or ficulty.

with problems of sanitation and disease among a people whose tru is still largely placed in geomancy

STAFF RESIDENCES AND UNIVERSITY

HOSTELS

A view from the roof of the Main Buildings. Photo by Ah Fang,

The work in the Department dur- ing the last two years has been on the whole slightly more satisfactory than in the past, this being due to the fact that the apparatus is grad ually being brought more up to date and also to the fact that the hours of instruction during the third year have been increased by four and a half hours per week in Phy siology and by extending the Phar- macological instruction, throughout both University terms and not, BS proviously, confining it merely to the Autumn Term

BLOOD GROUP TESTS During 1931 further investigations were carried out by the Department of Physiology on gastric digestion and during the Summer vacation Professor Faid, Professor of Physics,

if I may so translate the phra fung shus, whose belief in deman is still very real, and much whose pharmacy and medicine is this day non-rational, dannot better than take the life and wor of Hippocates as your inspiration If on the one band you admit I humbleness of heart that fow mai can rival in gonins the Father c Medicine, yet on the other hand you may justly strangthen your selves by reflecting that in equip" ment and in store of acquired me. dical and general scientific kno ledge you are immeasurably bette From the speech of the Chancellor endowed than was Hippocrates, Sir Cecil Chamont, K.C.M.G the 1929 Congragation.

accompanied the Professor of Phy- siology on an expedition to Borneo to investigate the racial distribu- tion of Blood Groups in that part Biology at the University, of the world. A large amount of doubtless be familiar to most data has been collected but not yet our readers in connection withe been published, though it is hoped | valuable· publications, Hon that a return visit will be made when Kong Naturalist" and "Occasion enough data should be nequired to Notes" which he founded soon aft make a complete survey of all the his arrival in the Colony, Ho native tribes found in British North one of the youngest and possibi Borneo. The performance of work the most zealous member of th such as this cannot be undertaken teaching staff of the University ad There is no laboratory for His without a certain amount of expen- the amount of work he has put in. to the poor Chinese whom we treat its teaching success is commensurate tology and the work is only made diture, and it might not be amies research is quite remarkable P

possible by using the laboratory for to place on record here the fact has conducted practical classes practical Physiology. The condi- that the University has no funds lectured to both first and secon tions of affairs in the teaching of original work, and all the cost of logy, In 1831 some thousands

with which they might encourage year students in Botany and Zo these subjects is being seriously con-investigation such as this has to be specimens were collected, and sidered.

met out of the private pockets of throughout the world to experts: the Professors concerned.

determination and description oluding beetles, crabs, echinoderms fisbos, lizards, mosses, lenwood; shalls, snakes, spiders, etc.. centration has been maintained systematic work during the

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in our wards."..

awims by its research activities, and

thereto.

DEPARTMENT OF

ANATOMY

The work of this Department The Department of Gross Ant- comprises the teaching of medical tomy is effectually prevented from students in the second and third being fully developed by the tact years of the medical curriculum. that it is shared with the Depart- ment of Surgery. The separation of

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DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY

CLINICAL DEPARTMENT Among the special features of the Clinical Department we should not omit mention of the great increase in the number of cases treated, which has risen from 820 in 1927 to 1,841 in 1931. During 1031 a total of 1,384 maternity cases were ad-Special courses are given in His mitted to the Tsan Yuk Hospital tology, Embryology, Neurology, and the two Departments, it is urged, and 500 to the Government Civil General Anatomy. There is, strictly should be carried out as soon se lots, Ph.D., M.Sc., the Reader in Hospital, under the care of the Clinical Department. Of these 1,974 cases, 1,841 were delivered. number of infants born alive was 1,773,

The

Under the present regulations each student is attached to this De. partment for a period of six montha, during which time he attends cases in the labour warts; and as there is no shortage of patients, students ard able to attend from thirty to fifty cases or more of labour during their six months Ward Clerk duty, The students also attend the Out- Patient Dispensaries held twice weekly and have opportunities for examining a large number of pati ents. They also see the routine work of the gynaecological wards and are responsible for taking the histories of the patients."

Recently this Department has been fortunate in having a very low morbidity rate; unquestionably the bealth of the hospital has been im proving during the past few years.

·-·-DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY

Owing to the death of Professor C. Y. Wang in 1930, the Chair of Pathology was vacant during prae- tically the whole of 1931, as the new Professor did not arrive on the Colony until the end of that year.' During that period the teaching work of the Department was carried on by part-time lecturers. Approxi mately 1,427 specimens were sub- mitted for bacteriological or serolo- gical examination during the year 188 for histo-pathological diagnosia, and thirty-two post-mortem examina tions were performed to the Gov. ernment Civil Hospital.

It was apparent to the new Pro- fessor on his arrival, that the com- plaint sot forth, by the predecessor in the Annual Report for 1920 was fully justified The available accom- modation was obviously inadequate for the proper functioning of a combined department of Pathology and. Bacteriology in a University Medical School. Plans were imme- diately drawn up for the sub-divi- sion of the main classroom to pro- vide, as a temporary expedient, two. rooms suitable for routine work nud for research.

Another severe handicap the De

tent appears to have been labouring under was the lack of adequate technical assistance Que trained Laboratory Assistant- and three illiterate coolies ill suffice the needs of a University laboratory attempting teaching, routine work and research in Pathology and Bac teriology, Parsimony in this connec tion obviously savours of the pro- verbial pennorth of Lar, for how.. ever short staffed a Department of this nature be in its professional

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