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Mr. THURBURN.And few go to the Civil Hospital ?
Dr. CHUNG.-Yes.
Mr. THURBURN. Then it is really a question of payment, is it not?
Dr. CANTLIE.—I think the language has a great deal to do with it. At the Alice Memorial Hospital there is Dr. CHUNG and twelve students who go about among the patients and talk to them; and who register the diseases. Do you think the great attraction at the Alice Memorial Hospital is in having Chinese doctors?
Dr. CHUNG. That induces them to come; and because it is supported by the Chinese. Two-thirds of the income of the Alice Memorial Hospital are subscribed by the Chinese, and the donors' names are published in the Chinese newspapers. We publish the monthly statistics in the Chinese papers as well as in the foreign newspapers.
Mr. THURBURN.--If the Government Civil Hospital were advertised more in the Chinese newspapers, do you think the Chinese would go there more freely?
Dr. CHUNG.--Yes.
Dr. PRESTON.-Do you think they would get over the idea of post mortems, if that were done ?
Dr. CHUNG.-No; they would never get over that. The coolies employed at the Hospital would still go out and tell their fellow countrymen and would advise them not to come into the Hospital. It is regarded as a crime in China to make post mortem examinations. There are no post mortems in the Alice Memorial Hospital.
Mr. THURBURN.—But they use the knife there in the surgical operations ? Dr. CHUNG.-Yes.
Dr. CANTLIE.-There are a tremendous number of surgical operations there.
Mr. MCCONACHIE.--If the Government Civil Hospital officials were to tell the Chinese no post mortems would take place without their consent, would they come more freely?
Dr. CHUNG.-Perhaps they would.
Dr. CANTLIE. They are chiefly criminal cases at the Civil Hospital. A policeman never takes a man to the Alice Memorial Hospital if he has been injured in a row. In the case of an accident the man might be taken to the Alice Memorial Hospital.
Dr. CHUNG.-The Chinese do not believe much in European medicines, but they believe in our surgery. I have never seen a case of acute pleurisy, for instance, in our Hospital.
THE PRESIDENT.-If there was a Chinese Medical Officer as Assistant Surgeon at the Civil Hospital, do you think it would be more attractive to the Chinese?
Dr. CHUNG.-Yes. And when a Chinese patient dies in the Government Civil Hospital, the Superintendent must allow his friends to follow their own religious ceremonies. We allow them to do what they like in that respect at the Alice Memorial Hospital.
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Dr. CANTEIE. And before they die their friends are allowed to come in and dress them ?
Dr. CHUNG.-Yes; that is all allowed in the Alice Memorial Hospital.
THE PRESIDENT.-Have you any other patients in the Alice Memorial Hospital besides Chinese ?
Dr. CHUNG.--We have sometimes Portuguese. They are mixed up with the Chinese patients. We have had Malays, Indians, negroes, Japanese, and once we had an Englishman.
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