4.
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to be Stead of the Medical Department and is responsible medical Adviser to the Government,
;
is a native of Calcutta, I believe, and he arrived in Hong Kong only a few months
ago,
to seek his fortune in private practice. He is almost an entire stranger here, and he knows almost nothing of the Colony,
its inhabitants, its resources, its special phases of disease, its liability to epidemics,
and its means
of meeting
them.
He has no official experience except that for two months he
was locum tenens for
Some...
Health Officer of the Port, when his public duties were practically confined to certifying hundreds of Chinese emigrants free from infectious
diseases
-to, for as far as I know, this constitutes his sole claim to be placed at the head of the Medical Department of the Colony and it is reasonable to believe that his sole object in accepting temporary public employment is the advancement of his private interests. Mr Jordan, as Acting Health Officer of the Port,
devoted only a portion of his time to the Public Service, and it is now expressly understood that the Colonial Surgeon's duties shall not occupy his whole
attention.
15.
Mr. Ceyres in forwarding my remonstrance of 29th May stated.
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tute by Colonial Surgeon.
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A "The Superintendent has hitherto
declared that his work is too much
for him. He now
proposes to do my
work and his own with the assist
M. Marques is medical officer in charge of the Female Lock Hospital and visiting Surgeon under the Act and he has some medico-legal duties as well. The M.D. having been repeated in England must shortly
come out
here, and Dr. Moranes would then be
at liberty to take up
a large share
of the work of the Government Hospital of which shortage
and this grave
In
any
case all Marques' time is not
fully occupied, and he has always shown himself both able and willing to assist in the Medical Hospital
(
demonstrated in my official Report
for last year, copy enclosed) that a second Surgeon is required for the regular work of the Civil Hospital but in other departments it's
officers do double work, and
my offer
exertions for a few months to enable their colleagues to get a holiday and with Mr. Marques' help to carry
on the Colonial Surgeon's duties is not unreasonable
in itself, nor is it incompatible with.
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