which require only a four years' course.
I beg therefore to request, under instructions from
my Government, that an appropriate enquiry may be made
in this regard so that I may be thereby enabled to report
to the Secretary of State upon the specific discrimi-
nation complained of.
(Signed)
I have &c.,
John Ridgely Carter.
Dear Sir!-
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AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION,
COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL LEGISLATION,
THE GROTEN, CINCINNATI,
OHIO,
December 26th, 1906.
The attention of this office has been called to
the fact that, in Hongkong and other British territory in
the Orient, the graduates of American medical schools are
not permitted to practise, but that such privilege is ex-
tended to the graduates of Japanese medical schools.
The
Enclosure.
Mr. C. H. L. Reed to Mr. Root, December 26th, 1906.
reason given for the exclusion of American medical prac-
titioners is that they are graduated on a four years'
course instead of a five years' course of instruction, such
as is required in the medical schools of Great Britain.
This would be a very tenable ground if, as represented to
this office, it were not true that the Japanese schools re-
quire but four years for graduation. If this is true the
prohibition against
American medical practitioners amounts
to an unfair discrimination and one which involves the
prestige of the entire American medical profession.
The Honourable
Elihu Root,
Secretary of State,
Washington, D.C.
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