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Enclosure 1.
Dr. Toogood to Colonial Surgeon.
Civil Hospital,
August12th. 1889.
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Sir,
I have the honour to lay before you the
following facts concerning my appointment to this Colo-
ny.
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In April of the present year i applied to the
Colonial Office for an appointment as Superintendent of
a Hospital or Lunatic Asvlua, and in the course of a
few weeks was offered the post of Superintendent of the
Hongkong Fever Hospital, not the slightest intimation
being given me that I should be required to act in any
other capacity.
In accepting the profered appointment, I re-
signed the post of Assistant Superintendent of one of
the largest of the Metropolitan Infirmaries. I think
you will agree with me that it is impossible to imagine
that a man possessing the highest medical degree in the
United Kingdom, and holding a good appointment under
the Local Government Board, would wittingly accept an
inferior position in a tropical Colony, without any
material increase in salary.
However on my arrival here I found that not
Dr. P. R. C. Avres,
Colonial Surgeon,
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