112

!!

the Repung, Act 1855 - See his

Papenz

report on the "Beatrice" he adhered

to this opinion, notwithstanding

a passage in our Report about

the p

referred to, and advised the Governor

to apply to the Secretary of State

for

instructions. Sir H. Bowring in Memorandum sanctioning the Employment of a native doctor on board the "Beatrice" nevertheless records his opinion, that looking

to the ignorance of the Chinese and their entire incapacity to

undergo surgical operations, they

would not with any propriety

be

included

6.6.

647

included within the terms of

surgeon-

5. It will have been seen from

our Report of 19th September last that we agree

ce in the opinion of

Mr. Esen, that there is nothing

in the Chinese Passenger Act to prevent the employment of a

Native Doctor, should the Colonial

authorities think such an

arrangement desirable. Mr. Green

was also clearly right in

accepting as a

not

legal opinion the remark in our Report on the

this Juluare. The point to which

that remark referred was,

whether

or not the mortality had been affected

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