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been
Man
unprovided with any medical
to allude to the system sanctioned inferentially by the Imperial Chinese Government and directly by local
Ordinance, of allowing a Chinese medical man to take charge of Chinese Immigrants It is very essential that there
2.
should be
in a matter as
mistake
as 2.0
important
The intendment of the Act, and the wishes of Her Majesty's Government. Here it has always been assumed, that a Chinese Doctor was competent to attend to Chinese Emigrants,
at least when
no
properly qualified
If it u
3.
were)
Foreign medical man
was
not
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obtainable
there would
not only frequently but almost always
be
an
impossibility of shipping Immigrants
at all, because it is generally impracticable
to obtain a European Doctor willing to make a
4.
voyage I have been
giving considerable attention lately to that subject, and
Knowing that
an attendant
all
Chinese,
a native Doctor, skilled in
the
medicines in which the Chinese have
confidence, would be
generally
a
competent and useful, probably more attentive and successful in his treatment,
than
an
ordinary European Doctor, with
prospects so indifferent
as
to accept an appointment of the kind, I have endeavored to surround that which
appeared inevitable with desirable and