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226 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.body, still lives in the lives of those graduated by him,who are, almost without exception, strong influentialChristian men ; many of them elders in the churchesthroughout South China.The work which Dr. Kerr did and the work whichhis graduates are doing has created a great demandfor Western medical education, and it is greatly to bedeplored that the missionary body was not ready to meetthis demand.At present there are seven medical schools for menin Canton, with no less than 250 students, who aretaking a four years course. Of the seven schools four(190 students) are controlled by the Chinese one; bythe French, which does not claim to be missionary inobject one; by the University Medical School, and oneby the Canton Medical Missionary Society. The lattersociety is composed of foreigners, who contribute tendollars or more a }^ear to its institution. This leavesonly one the University Medical School which has amajorit} r missionary control. Two of the schools controlled by the Chinese and the Canton Medical Missionary Society s school have mostly Christian teachers,and more or less Christian work is done among thestudents, but the results are very unsatisfactory, eitherfrom a professional or missionary standpoint.The South China Branch of the China MedicalMissionary Association, at a meeting in July, 1909,passed the following resolution : Whereas the conditionsin South China demand a higher standard of medicaleducation than isbeing given in any of the severalmen s medical schools now in existance, therefore we,the members of the Canton and West River Branches(now the South China Branch) of the China MedicalMissionary Association in joint meeting assembled,resolve that a union medical college be formed in Canton.The resolution goes on to say on what basis the unionshould be formed. The idea is to bring about a unionof the University Medical School, the Canton Medical