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Sir:-
AMERICAN EMBASSY, *
LONDON,
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REGE 31 JAN 07
January 18th, 1907.
I have the honour to draw your attention to a letter
which the Secretary of State has received from Mr. Charles
A. L. Reed, Chairman of the Committee on Medical Legisla-
tion of the American Medical Association, a copy of which
I venture to enclose herewith.
Mr. Reed calls to Mr. Root's notice an alleged dis-
crimination against the graduates of American Medical
Schools in Hong Kong and other British territory in the
Orient, and states that while American medical practition-
ers are not permitted to practise their profession in Hong
Kong, the ground for their exclusion being that only a
four years' course is required in the United States to ob-
tain a Degree while five years' is the requisite period of
instruction in the medical schools of Great Britain, at
the same time that Japanese practitioners are permitted
this privilege graduated from schools in their own country
Bir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P.,
&c., &c.
&C..
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