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All hospitals and dispensaries have one or more fully qualified midwives. St. John's also employs two full time medical men.

Conclusion.

The above shows in summary form the efforts made to reorganise and develop the machinery dealing with the medical and medico-sanitary problems of the Colony and the results attained. One of my objects in returning to the Colony in October, 1935, was to assist in the inauguration of the system I had helped to plan and to see it through its first year of working. Described by Sir William Peel as a compromise for trial, it has now had more than a year's probation. Judging from the lack of criticism it has received it is at least a partial success.). Had a Senior Health Officer been appointed and had the sanitary inspectors been grouped under the Health Officers the degree of success would have been even greater than it has been. I have said, the scheme represents for Hong Kong that which has proved successful in Toronto and Glasgow, modified to suit local conditions and local opinion. If carried out fully by each department working in sympathetic co-operation it should give complete satisfaction. Its further development must be left to my

successor.

As

HONG KONG

26th February, 1937.