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Persons already on the Register in this Colony will not be affected by these new provisions.
Chinese persons will be entitled as heretofore to practise medicine and surgery according to purely Chinese methods provided that they do not use any title calculated to induce the public to believe that they are qualified to practise according to modern scientific methods.
Licentiates of the Hongkong College of Medicine will also be entitled to practise as heretofore.
Power is given to the Governor-in-Council, after con- sulting the Medical Board, to authorise any person who was practising medicine or surgery in the Colony on or before the first day of July, 1914, to practise medicine or surgery here.
Section 9 of the Principal Ordinance provides that no certificate which is by any Ordinance required to be signed by a medical or surgical practitioner shall be valid unless the person signing it is registered under the Ordinance. It has however been the practice to accept death certi- ficates from certain unregistered persons approved for that purpose by the Governor, and regulations have been laid down to be observed by such authorised persons. It is proposed to regularize this practice in the present Bill which accordingly gives the Governor power to authorize approved persons to sign these certificates, and gives the Governor-in-Council power to make regulations to be observed by them, All persons resident in the Colony who are at present authorised to sign death certificates will be authorised to do so under this Bill when it has been passed into law.
Provision is made for the publication annually of a list of the persons authorised to practise on the ground of pre- vious practice in the Colony, and of a list of the persons authorised to sign death certificates.
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practise is defined so as to include the diagnosis of disease, whether the cases diagnosed be treated or not, but the definition is guarded so as not to make illegal the work of laboratory assistants who work for or under a registered practitioner.
The form of certificate issued by the Medical Board has been amended to make it agree with the changes to be effected by the Bill.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 350.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port.
Nature of Measures.
Date.
Reference to Govern- ment Noti- fication.
Tientsin.
Singapore.
Hongkong declared a Plague-infected port.
Immigration prohibited on account of Plague.
24th April, 1914. No. S. 122.
7th August, 1914. No. S. 241.
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