CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 340

339

:

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,