CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 153

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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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