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Mr. Harvey says that what was wanted was the class of medical 
practitioner known as “ Assistant Surgeon ” and it was exactly this 
class, which was being trained at the Straits School. 
Mr. Prior reckons that the demand was more than double the 
supply. This was the crying need of the country, as without them 
they were unable to carry out the Hospital, &c. regulations. 
Mr. Gumming emphasizes that more and more would be wanted 
as time went on, and they should do everything in their power to en- 
courage the Government’s scheme to raise up a class of qualified 
dressers for its own use and that of the planters. 
It is proposed by Mr. Prior, seconded by Mr. Douglas, and carried 
unanimously, to send out a circular, accompanied by the appeal, to 
all members, asking for the largest contribution they could give, in 
order to form a W. W. Bailey memorial fund for the endowment of 
scholarships at the Straits and F. M. S. Medical School. 
9. CENSUS. 
The Secretary reads out the following letter: 
No. 5224/1910. 29th September, 1910. 
SIR, — I am directed to invite your attention to the selection of 
the night of Friday, March 10th, 1911, as the time for the taking of a 
census throughout the Federated Malay States and to say that the 
Resident-General feels assured that all officers engaged on the census 
will have the cordial co-operation and assistance of your Association 
and of the Planting Community generally in securing that all in- 
formation required for the purposes of the Census in the Federated 
Malay States is fully and accurately given. 
2. I am also to inform you that all correspondence on census 
matters addressed to Census Officers will be transmitted free by post. 
I have etc., 
(Sgd.) E. C. H. Wolff, 
for Federal Secretary. 
At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. A. M. Pountney then 
explains the co-operation required of estate managers in the matter of 
the forthcoming census, by a sketch of the census operation. 
An estate for census purposes was an area under cultivation, on 
which there is a resident labour force of ten or more coolies, and in 
respect of the residents on which area the manager is requisitioned 
by the District Census Officer to act as Enumerator. 
Census returns would be published of the population of all 
agricultural estates so selected. 
