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Certificate of DE Murray testifies
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I have lately suffered from two very serious illnesses and the state of my health is now such as to render a return to Europe imperatively necessary. —
Dr Murray, it will be observed, contemplates the possibility of my not being able to continue tropical service any longer, and although I hope that after seeing Doctors in England a more favorable view of my case may yet be taken, with this eventuality before me I should not like to give up the office I now hold until I know how far my service already performed would be affected by a change.
I am therefore, as I had previously intended, about to apply to His Excellency the Governor for the 6 months leave to Europe to which my services here give me claim, and if it should not be absolutely necessary for an Auditor General to go out to Ceylon at once, I hope Earl Granville will be able to keep the appointment open until I have had further consultation with Doctors and can present myself at the Colonial Office. This I might have done within a short time after the arrival.