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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH JUNE, 1883.

Secretary of State to Officer Administering the Government.

HONGKONG,

No. 254.

DOWNING STREET,

27th November, 1882.

SIR, With reference to my Despatch No. 239 of the 31st of October, relative to the proposed Ordinance to regulate and define the persons entitled to practise Medicine in Hongkong, I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of a letter which has been received from the Council Office, forwarding a copy of a Resolution passed by the Executive Committee of the Medical Council on the subject, and to authorise you to subinit to the Legislative Council an Ordinance in accordance with the view therein expressed.

2. It would be advisable that the persons or board to whom the duty will be entrusted of selecting the foreign or Colonial Diplomas which are to be sufficient to qualify a Medical man for registration, should consult the Medical Council in such selection with a view of securing uniformity between the Colony and the Mother Country in this respect.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble Servant,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

Privy Council Office to Colonial Office.

KIMBERLEY.

(Copy.)

PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL, 17th November, 1882.

SIR,- With reference to your letter of the 9th October last, on the subject of the Ordinance proposed to be introduced in Hongkong, to regulate and define the persons entitled to practise medicine in that Colony, I am directed by the Lord President of the Council to transmit to you, to be laid before Lord KIMBERLEY, the accompanying Resolution, which has been received from Dr. ACLAND, passed by the Medical Council's Executive Committee, November 10th 1882, in regard to the establishment of a Local Register of Medical Practitioners in Hongkong.

The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.

I am, &c.,

(Signed)

C. L. PEEL.

RESOLUTION

Passed by the Medical Council's Executive Committee November 10th 1882, in regard to the establishment of a Local Register of Medical Practitioners in Hongkong.

Resolved that the Executive Committec see no objection to the establishment in Hongkong of a Register which shall be generally in accordance with the Report of the Attorney General, but would suggest that it should not in any way limit the freedom of practice of Chinese Practitioners.

(Signed)

HUGH ACLAND.