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qualifications.
I have the honour to trunemit to Your Excellency
herewith certain pupers, as markeu in the margin, deal-
ing with this question of reciprocity.
Under the Imperial Medical Acts, the General Medi-
cal Council of Great Britain and Ireland is constituted
the authority which shall decide what course of study
and examination is necessary and, since the year 1894,
the General Medical Council have made a five years'
course obligatory. The Medical Board of HongKong
have therefore also demanded evidence of a five years'
course of study from candidates for medicul registra-
tion in the colony.
There is at present only on Japanese doctor re-
gistored in HongKong, Dr. "ajima. The papers first
sent in by Dr. Majima only showed a course of four
years Bedical study after registration at the Tokio
University end, on that ground, the Board were of
opinion that he could not be ragisterod.
It was then
proved, to the satisfaction of the Board, by the Japan
ese Consul, that in all cases at the University of
Toklo,