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At the last meeting of this Association the urgent needs of a 
Scholarship Fund for the Straits and Federated Malay States Medical 
School (as per the Dean’s Appeal, which I attach) were discussed, and 
the meeting was unanimous regarding the importance of this school 
for the whole future of the Rubber Industry in the Peninsula, in pro- 
viding the necessary Medical Practitioners and Assistant Surgeons, 
without whom no labour force can be maintained. 
It therefore seemed appropriate to suggest the formation of 
a W. W. Bailey Memorial Fund for the Endowment of Scholarships at 
the Straits and Federated Malay States Medical School, and I now 
have great pleasure in inviting you to contribute generously to this 
Fund. 
Believe me, Dear Sir, 
Yours faithfully, 
H. C. E. ZAC H ARIAS, 
Secretary 
Straits and F. M. S. Medical School. 
Appeal for a Scholarship Fund. 
The Council of the Straits and F. M. S. Medical School begs to 
bring to your notice the needs of that Institution. 
The School was started in 1905 at the instigation of the Chinese 
Community, the object being to secure a number of locally qualified 
practitioners. 
It is obvious that it is to the advantage of planters and other 
large employers of labour to have in this part of the world such a 
class of practitioners. They are acclimatised ; they are usually, if not 
invariably, conversant with a number of languages ; they require a 
scale of pay lower than men possessed of European qualifications. 
Once a sufficient number of students have qualified locally, it will be 
less difficult than it is at present for employers of labour to secure 
qualified medical men trained from the first specially with a view to 
their future work amongst tropical conditions and diseases. 
The difficulty was foreseen from the first of inducing sufficiently 
intelligent and adequately educated youths to take up the study of 
medicine for 5 years. The inducements offered to intelligent boys to 
adopt a mercantile career were such that it was found necessary to 
found a number of scholarships. 
Twenty-five such scholarships of a value from $15 t0 a month 
were furnished by the Chinese Community, while the Straits and 
F. M. S. Govts, provided suitable buildings and also 50 scholarships 
of a like value to those founded by the Chinese. 
Students were divided into two classes, namely Full Course Stu- 
dents and Hospital Assistants. The former undergo a five yeais 
course, and. at the end of their curriculum, on passing their examina- 
tions, acquire a Diploma which entitles them to the full right ot 
