taken to procure a staff of Nurses for the Civil Hospital, and approving of the increase to the salary of the Senior Wardmaster recommended.
in my despatch N. 92 of the 7th of April.
2. Your Lordship will have already learned from my despatch N.131 of the 5th of May that Mr Chapman has resigned his appointment, and I have now to report that I have appointed, provisionally and subject to Your Lordship's approval, Mr James Stevenson, Inspector of Nuisances for the Kowloon District, to succeed him as Senior Wardmaster in the Civil Hospital with a salary of $840 per annum rising by annual increments of $120 per annum to $1,080, with quarters, uniform and rations.