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instant and my reply thereto (no 8&9 of this 13th instant) I have the honor by direction of the Governor to inform you that on the whole, His Excellency thinks Dr. Henderson has made out a case for the increased staff he asked for. It will therefore be inserted on the Medical Establishment under the head "temporary and provisional" until His Excellency can ascertain the opinion of Lord Kimberley.
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As to the rather vague charges of insubordination brought by you against Dr. Harary, His Excellency thinks they ought to be dropped.
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course if you persist in justifying them, His Excellency will give his best consideration to whatever evidence you may produce, but His Excellency trusts the personal questions may here cease.
I have the honor to be,
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les
Lis
your most obedient Servant,
lz Frederick Stewart
Acting Colonial Secretary
Colonial Surgeon
Lor.
Government Civil Hospital, Hongkong, 31st July
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I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 17th instant with reference to the complaint I felt it my painful duty to make about Dr. Harary.
I quote its contents with considerable surprise because the previous communications with which His Excellency had favoured me in reply to similar complaints, and the reports of Surgeon General and Deputy Surgeon General Mackinnon, C.B., had not prepared me for its tenor.
Under the present circumstances and in the difficulty which I have laboured in conducting the affairs of the Government Civil Hospital, I am compelled to ask His Excellency's official approval of the subjoined Rules which I propose to send to Dr. Harary for his observance, and without which I fear it will not be possible for me to obtain the necessary information which, as Head of the Medical Department, I am entitled to possess.
I have the honor to be,
Ler
Your obedient Servant,
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1. Mr. C. Aitken
Colonial Surgeon
Houbre I Llewart,
LLD
Acting Colonial Secretary
Proposed Rules —
1. Upon the daily morning visit to the Hospital, the Superintendent — unless unavoidably prevented — shall make it his duty to meet the Colonial Surgeons at the Clerk's office.
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