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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
8th Feb 1888
HONGKONG,
By Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.
7th instant.
Acting Colonial Surgeon
for his information and guidance.
is communicated
Subject: Dr Wharry's refusal to attend to medico-legal cases?
Inform Dr Wharry that in consequence of a representation made by him in 1887, of "the additional mediculis duties which he had been required to undertake" Lord Derby directed that he should be informed, that he was of opinion that Dr Wharry "has not strong grounds in support of his application for increase of pay, but that if the condition of his taking sole charge of the Civil Hospital, though involving some loss of accommodation, may lead to a larger number of patients, he will be advanced to sanction an increase of pay on this ground.
Since he has been in receipt of this increased pay, the additional medico-legal duties of which he complained and which, he alleged, were the principal argument for claiming such increase of pay, have been considerably lightened by order of Sir Charles Bowen and in fact are now almost entirely performed...
This document is to be filed in your Office.