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that H.C. after due consideration will be able of salary, to grant me an increase Inary briefly state the facts upon which my application is based. Superusten a I was appointed December 20th 1872, Student of the Civil Hospital, with salary of £450, and I was informed by official note from our Headhouse that the duties would be those of a Resident of a Receiving House with sundry examinations under the Contagious Diseases Act, and that after three years I should receive an increase of £50 per annum. I arrived in Hongkong and took charge of the Hospital; February 22nd 1873. All the C.D. examinations were then conducted by the Colonial Surgeon, but I found that in addition to the Hospital duties which I had stipulated to perform, I was called upon to undertake nearly the whole of the medico-legal work of the Colony, and I was also ordered to take charge of the small-pox Hospital on Stone Cutters Island three miles off; both without any remuneration whatever. On March 24th 1873 the Colonial Surgeon (Dr. Murray) died and at that time I became Visiting Surgeon under the C.D. Act, to the Eastern District with the allowance of £75 which had been drawn by my predecessors. In May 1873, the Seamen's Hospital at Wan Chai containing 59 beds - with two Medical Officers attached was closed, and all the work which had been done there was thrown upon me; also without remuneration. Evidence of the large addition to the work performed in the Civil Hospital in the year before I took charge of the Hospital is contained in the fact that in the year the receipts were under $1,000 whereas they now amount to about $5,000. At the end of three years' service, now nearly five years ago, I applied for the £50 increase which had been promised However, to follow the exact instructions given and to improve readability, the text should be reorganized into proper paragraphs and Markdown formatting applied where necessary. Here is the revised output in HTML as per the instructions:254
that H.C. after due consideration will be able of salary, to grant me an increase. I shall briefly state the facts upon which my application is based.
I was appointed December 20th 1872, Student of the Civil Hospital, with salary of £450, and I was informed by official note from our Headhouse that the duties would be those of a Resident of a Receiving House with sundry examinations under the Contagious Diseases Act, and that after three years I should receive an increase of £50 per annum.
I arrived in Hongkong and took charge of the Hospital; February 22nd 1873. All the C.D. examinations were then conducted by the Colonial Surgeon, but I found that in addition to the Hospital duties which I had stipulated to perform, I was called upon to undertake nearly the whole of the medico-legal work of the Colony, and I was also ordered to take charge of the small-pox Hospital on Stone Cutters Island three miles off; both without any remuneration whatever.
On March 24th 1873 the Colonial Surgeon (Dr. Murray) died and at that time I became Visiting Surgeon under the C.D. Act, to the Eastern District with the allowance of £75 which had been drawn by my predecessors.
In May 1873, the Seamen's Hospital at Wan Chai containing 59 beds - with two Medical Officers attached was closed, and all the work which had been done there was thrown upon me; also without remuneration. Evidence of the large addition to the work performed in the Civil Hospital in the year before I took charge of the Hospital is contained in the fact that in the year the receipts were under $1,000 whereas they now amount to about $5,000.
At the end of three years' service, now nearly five years ago, I applied for the £50 increase which had been promised.