§ SIR W. FOSTERI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that at present uneducated and unqualified persons have as much right to practise medicine in India as fully qualified practitioners; and whether, in view of the danger to which the Indian people are thereby exposed, he will consider the advisability of instituting a system of registration for medical practitioners similar to that which exists in. Great Britain and Ireland.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingThe answer to the first branch of the question is in the affirmative, and that to the second branch in the negative. It would be, in my judgment, impossible, in the present condition of India, to prevent the people of that country from resorting to native practitioners, even though they may be regarded by Europeans as not fully educated or qualified for the work they undertake.