I leave the Ironor to the
Lor
Your most. Obedient Loward.
Azd Frederick Stewart
Cel. : Colonial Secretary
Payeer
Colonial Lurgers
Lir.
Government. Civil Hospital Hong Kong 7th August. 1860
In accordance with the sale of His Excellency the Governor.C.S.B 1287 I have the honor to report. as follows.
Exec
From the letter of the Colonial Surgeon (CSC. no 1880) it would appear that these Rules are proposed because the labours under a difficulty conducting the affairs of the Civil Hospital and because, and without reason, he fears it will not be possible to obtain necessary
on these grounds therefore be information" proposed to reduce the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital to the position of a mere house surgeon and to make it his principal duty to attend on the Colonial Surgeon
with regard to these reasons I would respectfully submit that the first is based on a wrong assumption, and the fears expressed in the second are without any foundation
The Colonial Surgeon is not in daily morning visits to the Hospital and of his conducting the affairs of the Hospital now
expressions calculated to mislead
these are
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for thing imply that the Colonial Surgeon is in Charge of the Hospital that he comes every day of the week at a regular hour visits the patients, orders their treatment and carries on the business of the Hospital from day to day
As a matter of fact the Colonial Surgeon does not come to the Hospital but to his office. which for convenience is in the Hospital building. He does not come every day, hour of his coming is uncertain and he does not remain any stated time. The business that he transacts there is that of the Head of the Department with the clerical work of his office and the only Hospital business which he deals with is what passed into and through his hands as the Head of the Department
With regard to the fears of the Colonial Surgeon as to the possibility of his obtaining information the fact is that most of what belongs to obtain under regulations has always been supplied as a matter of routine and as a matter of routine every question of importance which arises in the administration of the Hospital is reported to the Head of the Department without delay.
For any additional information he may require the Colonial Surgeon has only to draw up another form and it will be filled up as far as possible as before
The position of Superintendent of the Civil Hospital which I now hold was conferred by the Right Honorable the Secretary of State
in December 1877.
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upon this duties of the office in February 1878 months before Ayres arrived in Hongkong and