Work has begun to absorb any spare time I might formerly have had for private practice, it being necessary, in justice not only to the Government but also to myself, that I should not relinquish my career in the public service or give up private practice.
3. I have no desire to withdraw from the public service to which I have devoted so many years of my professional life, and therefore prefer to elect the alternative of resigning my private practice provided the Government would make up to me in part, if not in whole, the loss entailed.
4. My present yearly official emoluments as Colonial Surgeon are £609, as Inspector of Hospitals under the Contagious Disease Ordinance £180, Allowance for Bills of Health £400, and chair allowance £60, making an aggregate of £880. In addition to this, my private practice has, for the last eight years, brought me in excess of £1,000, exceeding my official pay. I would, however, be prepared to give up this source of income upon the Government fixing my official salary at £1,200 a year with a House Allowance such as may be deemed fit, and a chair allowance of £60, and upon condition of its defraying the cost of a locum tenens during any absence of mine on the yearly vacation leave to which all officers are entitled, which at half pay rate would be £100.
5. Judged by the scale of salaries and allowances paid to other Heads of Departments in this Colony, whose responsibilities are not so great, and who are not professional men, and lacking the fact that the duties of the Colonial Surgeon have more than quadrupled since the salary was adjusted at its