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53611/7/45.

Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

S.W.1.

1615

16 October, 1945.

Dear Major mailes,

An official letter enclosing a Sealed Order-in-Council, providing for the establishment of an Emergency Committee for the purpose of conferring Hong Kong Medical Degrecs, has been sent to the War Office under separate cover for transmission to the C.C.A.0. (53611/7/45 of the 12th October).

The purpose of this Order- in-Council is to enable cercain doctors who commenced their studies at Hong Kong University but graduated at Chinese

Universities, to receive degrees of Hong Kong University and so be eligible for registration with the General Medical Council, and enabled to practise in Hong Kong and Malaya. In view of the shortage of Doctors in these Territories, we are anxious that this Emergency Committee shall be

MAJOR B.T. SMAILES.

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