by the courtesy of State; but it was refused
1400.
only one of my predecessors who
The only
remained over
three year
in the Service
(Dr. Woohrase who died in 1871) received
a rise
at the end
of £200 per annum
at the end of three years, his previous emoluments being about £625 (Civil Hospital £300, Acting Surgeon &c. £75, Medico-legal work
&
P.M. Extra
Radical ch
and Suprem
about £250) and sundry fees from private Inquirer, which public . His successor (Dr. Young who resigned in 1872) received about £625– (Civil Hospital £300, C.D.Act £75, and
Medico-legal work £250) and private fees.
I had more work than either
Dr. Cochrane or
Dr. Young from closing of the Seamen's Hospital. As Medical Jurist, for eight years I have
performed gratuitously duties I never stipulated for, and for which
my predecessors received about £250 per annum. For a number of years I have
had charge without any say of the Small-pox Hospital which is altogether outside for which, when I relieved him, C.J. Adams, late Sanitary Officer,
was in receipt of $5 a day.
No agreement,
Up to a few months ago through the whole of the
extra
of work laid upon
and I am now in
charge of an establishment more than double the size of that which I was originally appointed. Having by so many years
become thoroughly
conversant with the
hygienic requirement of the Colony the phases of disease to be met with in
it, and
having acquired a knowledge of Chinese dialect of the place;
the common
I have had strong inducement to leave the public service for private practice.
Nevertheless, waiving
the terms
of my agreement, I have performed the duties imposed upon me, and have worked year after year
On
all
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