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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

No. 43.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 29TH SEPTEMBER, 1877.

VOL. XXIII.

No. 205.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Despatch from The Right Honourable The Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, and its Enclosure, are published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th September, 1877.

DOWNING STREET,

HONGKONG. No. 100.

SIR,I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 18, of the 9th May,

15th August, 1877. relating to the holders of Foreign Medical Diplomas in the Colony of Hongkong.

As regards the recognition of such practitioners by the Board of Trade, I transmit for your information, a copy of a letter from that Department; and that as regards "which persons holding Foreign Diplomas may be permitted generally to practise in Hongkong," it "the circumstances under appears to me that in the absence of any special enactment regulating the qualifications of Medical Practitioners, which the circumstances of the Colony have not been deemed to require, there is no direct restriction on the practise of Medicine within the Colony by persons purporting to hold Foreign Diplomas.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble Servant,

Governor HENNESSY, C.M.G.,

&C.,

&c.,

&c.

Board of Trade to the Colonial Office.

CARNARVON.

(Copy.)

M. 9949.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL GARDENS, 3rd August, 1877.

EMIGRATION, &c.

SIR, I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th ultimo, transmitting, by direction of the EARL OF CARNARVON, a copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Hongkong, on the subject of the status of Medical Practitioners holding Foreign Diplomas, and requesting to be informed as to the recognition by the Board of Trade of the Certificates of such Practitioners.

In reply, I am to state, for his Lordship's information, that the only occasion on which the question of the recognition by this Board of Foreign Medical Diplomas arises, is when a Foreign Sur- geon is appointed to the medical care of a Foreign Passenger Vessel, under Section 42 of the Passengers Act, 1855. In such cases, the Emigration Officer is required to satisfy himself that the Candidate is authorised by law to practise as a Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary, in the Country to which the ship may belong.

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I have, &c., (Signed,)

THOMAS GRAY.