1886
(See No.13 and No.17 in this
file)
Dr Kamutge Mr C. Cox
Kamti
Sir G. Gater.
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The University of Hong Kong up to the outbreak of the Far Eastern war had a very well established medical department and was empowered to confer medical degrees which were recognised by the General Medical Council in London under Section 13 of the Medical Act'of this country (viz. as entitling the degree-holders to practise medicine in the United Kingdom.
There are no less than 130 medical students of Hong Kong University who are now in Free China continuing their medical studies at Chinese Universities. The Chinese Universities concerned are among the four best Colleges in China at present.
It is fair to say that the Medical School at Hong Kong University was probably the best valued and the most highly developed e section of the University and large numbers of Chinese students came to it from both Malaya and China in order to obtain its degree. We have for some time, in consultation with the General Medical. Council, the Foreign Office, and Dr. Gordon King (Professor of Pathology at Hong Kong University and now temporarily working at the Shanghai Medical College) been considering a scheme for the emergeney establishment of an emergency authority to confer Hong Kong University medical degrées until the substantive University authority is able to reconvene in the Colony. The General Medical Council (No. 7 in this file) is prepared to recognise Hong Kong medical degrees conferred by such emergency authority subject to their being satisfied as to the standard of the students' subsequent teaching at Chinese Universities. Dr. Gordon King and the Ambassador support the scheme and there is no reason to doubt that Dr. Gordon King's certificate in respect of the four Chinese University Institutions concerned will be accepted by the G. M. C.
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