The next conference of the Chinese Medical Association will be held in Canton in November of next year The conference will be of unusual! importance ar the date chosen for it coincides with the centenary of the opening of the first modern hospital China, On November 4. 1838. the Canton mission hospital was opened in the southern port. and from that Ars! effort has come the phenomenally Fapid advance of scientific medicine this country "during the Tax! hundred years. During the whole of this period the medical profession fin China has kept aloof from the constantly changing political conditions. and this, to a large decree, har contributed to its unchecked ' advance.
'A new Canton hospital, now in. course of *rection, will. in' all prob: Sbility, be finished about the time of the coming conference. It is honed by the sponsors of the conference that they will be able to mark the centenary celebrations by a formal opening of the new institution. were treated: say an_averaze of] nearly 10000 per annum. From the Beures given in the report for work during 1089 the visits in_ the out. patients' devertment totalled 188.21 Whereas no less than SASS people were admitted as in-patients for: various periods, the average of which was about 18 days.
Turning to the accounts, the regretted have to Inform them thet a Rose was Incurred on the year's working of a sum of no less than $71,720 Although the hospital isin posses sion of this very valuable building needs funds urgently to carry on its activities.
Sir John's proposal that the report land accounts be adopted was secondjad by Mr. R.W. Wells and, there being no questions, was put to the meeting and adopted unanimously.
Following Dr. Paterson's speech. isi John referred to the importance lof the work being carried out by the Henry Lester Institute for Medical Research, and called on Dr. LIG. Barle of the Lester Trust for a few words on the subject.
Trustees and Committee The next item on the agenda was the confirmation in their office of the trustees, which has to be carried out annually, as Mr. W. H. Way pointed out in proposing the resolution. "Seconded by Mr. Chen, the resolution that Mr. F, W. Poate, the Rev. Alexander Baxter, Messrs. J. Liddell and R, W. Wells be confirmed jas trustees of the Lester Chinese Hosital was passed by the meeting.
Proposed by Mr. J, H. Liddell and seconded by Mr..C. M. Bain, the following were elected as the" committee of the hospital for 1994: Messrs. Lloyd Bland and W. C. Bond. Dr. A.C. Bryson, Messrs.
Gange, J. R. Maughan, W. E. Souter, W. H. Way. Chun Bing-him, Chun Shut-kai, Pan Tse-chuan, Wang ding and Yang Yea-tsze.
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