Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Day to Mr. Bliss.

Department of State,
Washington, March 10, 1898.

Sir: I have the honor, by direction of the Secretary of State, to inclose herewith, for your information, a copy of dispatch No. 95, of the 14th ultimo, from our minister at Tokyo, in relation to the refusal of the Japanese Government to allow graduates of the Laura Memorial Woman’s Medical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio, to practice medicine in Japan without examination; and to request that you will furnish this Department, if practicable, with a statement from the Commissioner of Education showing the standing, etc., of this college, as indicated in the last paragraph of the minister’s report.

Respectfully, yours,

William E. Day,
Assistant Secretary.