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to his subject that in ships inorlick chinese Doctors have

been Employed the mortality has beard lew chaw where foreise lurgeons

were carried

that In Inglis, the Emigration agent,

how bepressed.

decided

а

Opinion

that chinese Doctors

are better

adapted

to take charge of their Countrymen than Europeans: that an European Surgeon

has necessarily great difficulty in communi__ eating with a sick

Chifaman,

and chat

the Chinese strongly

Sujech

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Object to being treated

Btriper asse

by

and it is arged chat the exclusion of

native doctors is a measure which is

Calculated excional

to impede chmière Eunigration to the

West Indies.

I am therefore

unable to approve

the

this provision of Ordinance. If it were wished to exclude

Chinese Lungers, the expediency of which as thave said, Juery

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much doubt, that

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exclusion could to