In the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.
337
to commence, a medical certificate dispensed with.
is
To allow a Public Servant to
retire while still able to serve.
but
from whom might not
the
move
efficiently
supposition which might be well founded, that he might at a future period suffer from the effects of climate, would, in the opinion of this Board, have a tendency to substitute a system of Retiring Pensions, after certain
term
of
service, for
the present system
of retirement upon
the
ground of ill-health incapacity, and which their Lordships consider could only be established except under Parliamentary sanction.
I am
further to add that their Lordships have never considered it
necessary, where the service has been rendered in
an
unhealthy climate, to
enforce,
with the
same degree of strictness, the production of medical evidence of permanent unfitness,
as
where the service had been rendered in
this country. They would instance the case of Mr. John Bailey, late Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary at Ceylon, who, though reported by Sir R. Martin to be incapable of rendering any effective service in a tropical climate,
was, in the end,
accepted, as being
of sufficiently good health to, at the moment of his retirement from
the