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Dr. CANTLIE.--You have heard about these dispensaries,-open air dispensaries, they are called, I think; do you think it would be of use to try the experiment of open. ing dispensaries where medicines could be given gratis--Western medicines especially?
Dr. CHUNG. I believe the Chinese would come and apply for the medicines.
Dr. CANTLIE.-Suppose you had one at Yaumati, do you think the Chinese would come for medicines.
Dr. CHUNG.-Most of our patients come from Yanmati, Shankiwan and Chinese Kowloon.
Dr. PRESTON.--But would they come in for Western medicines ?
Dr. CHUNG.--They do come.
Mr. THURBURN.-Supposing one of these students, after matriculating in the College of Medicine, was started in a Dispensary at Kowloon, do you think he could get any number of paying patients? Of course, they would get drugs cheap and have his advice, and perhaps he would have to attend them, in urgent cases, at their houses, but do you think the Dispensary would be a success?
Dr. CHUNG.-The Chinese are quite willing to pay. In other parts of China where there are missionary hospitals and dispensaries a certain fee is charged for the mission and a certain amount for the medicine. They charge ten cash or one cent for the mission, and two or three cents for the medicines. Dr. WENYON, at Fatshan, gets enough in this way to support the mission without interfering with the public funds.
Mr. THURBURN.-So that you think if these dispensaries were started they would be used by the Chinese to a great extent ?
Dr. CHUNG.-They would be glad to use them.
Dr. CANTLIE. Do you think the men in charge of the dispensaries should be allowed to have private practice?
Dr. CHUNG.--I think they should be allowed private practice.
Dr. CANTLIE.—Do you think a man in charge of this dispensary could manage by himself or would he require an assistant?
Dr. CHUNG. You could allow him a certain hour to visit his private patients and he could be in his dispensary at certain hours. The Chinese expect to see the doctor early in the morning-before breakfast. When they send for a doctor they want him to come before nine o'clock. They think that is the best time to feel the pulse.
THE PRESIDENT.-What do you think would be a satisfactory sum to allow es salary, if allowed private practice?
Dr. CHUNG.-$40 a month at least.
THE PRESIDENT.-And if not allowed private practice?
Dr. CHUNG.-$60 at least. The Chinese do not give their doctors a large fce; twenty cents as fee, perhaps, and ten cents for chair hire.
Mr. MCCONACUIE.-Do you think it would be better if these doctors in charge of the dispensaries were required to send in a report once a month to the College of Medicine or to the Government ?
Dr. CHUNG.-- Yes.
Mr. MCCONACHIE.-Which would give him the best position-if he were connecte I with the Government, the Tung Wah or the College of Medicine?
Dr. CHUNG.-The College of Medicine, I think.
Dr. CANTLIE.—Why?
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