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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH JUNE, 1881.

Whereupon, my honourable friend on my left

(the Acting Colonial Secretary) writes to the

Colonial Surgeon asking him if he could from his memory, and approximately, furnish the number

he has himself vaccinated, and get the same in-

formation from the other Medical Officers of the Government. The reply of the Colonial Surgeon

is :"I have the honour to inform you that ten

persons were vaccinated in the Hospital by the

Superintendent. I have not been able to obtain

any more information from the Superintendent.

"The Acting Health Officer vaccinated his own

“ child twice without success. I have performed

“32 vaccinations on children; fifteen unsuccess-

fully, and about as many more on adults.”

And then he proceeds to state that he distributed

lymph, which I send to him (it comes to me

every mail in my despatch bag from Downing

Street), amongst his professional brethern in the Colony and at Canton. He adds, that in future

he will take care that a record of the vaccinations by the Government Officers is kept. It may, of course, be said that the Colonial Surgeon and the other Officers of the Government were aware of the fact that this semi-Administrative duty,--in fact, a duty of no slight importance to the

Government and the Colony, was actually being

performed for them by the directors of the Tung- wá Hospital, and, therefore, they did not think it necessary to interfere with the Chinese doctors, who were vaccinating thousands of people and doing it so well, and who have protected the

Colony so thoroughly. Passing from the doctors,

we come to the druggists, who have also increased from 164 to 243. I find, for the first time in the

professional life of the Chinese in this Colony,

that we have three dentists. About eighteen months ago I visited one, not professionally, but

for the purpose of seeing the instruments he used, and I then found he had the same apparatus we find in all dentists' establishments. In fact, he

did work for the first-rate American dentists we have here, being fully capable of making or repair- ing sets of teeth. He was a gentleman of intelli- gence, and impressed me, I must say, as favourably as a dentist could. I also find Chinese architects for the first time, five in number. For the first time, we also have in the list one geomancer. I have not seen that gentleman, but I find in the list perhaps an antidote to the geomancer; for the first time we see in this list a Chinese barrister- at-law. I think we may all congratulate ourselves on his appearing not only in the census returns as a barrister, but as being also a member, by the Queen's favour, of the Legislature of the Colony.

I find also on this list three newspaper editors, but there were three in 1876. They are not exactly the same three, because one, a gentleman who was enumerated in 1876, was a friend of mine, the editor of the Chinese Mail, Mr. CHUN AYIN, and I believe that newspaper editor is now receiving a salary of twelve hundred pounds per annum as an officer of the Chinese Government

in Cuba, where, I understand, he is the Consul- General. I don't know whether I am right in classing them amongst the professional portion of the Chinese community, but I find we have 84

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