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to the test Indies has been greater than those of any other of the great maritime Countries- and if Chinese Practitioners have been habitually excluded from bar thips but admitted in Foreign ships to some extent the fact may account for the excess of mortality which hitherto it has been so difficult to understand. In the latter of 20th ultimo received from Mr. Cave, the Chairman of the East India Committee, (enclosed in Mr. Elliot's letter of both instant) it is alleged, in reference to this subject, that in ships in which Chinese Doctors have been employed
the mortality has been less than where Foreign Surgeons were carried- that Mr. Angus, the Emigration Agent, has expressed a decided opinion that Chinese Doctors are better adapted to take charge of their countrymen than Europeans- that a European surgeon has necessarily great difficulty in communicating with a sick Chinese, and that the Chinese strongly object to being treated by "Barbarians." Mr. Cave, therefore, thinks that this regulation, which they are he considers inconsistent with the Act of Parliament and the spirit of Lord Stanley's instruction,
and which is calculated seriously to ...