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advantages are when compared with other Officers who are of the same grade being Heads of the different Departments. I regret that this letter, as it will be of considerable length, have to bring to Your Lordship's notice what I have done in the Colonial Service, the changes that have taken place since I have held this appointment now seventeen years and how, I stand as regards the Staffs of other Departments and to this appeal I earnestly entreat Your Lordship's attention and kindly consideration.
The date of my appointment to August 14th 1873, which I received when I was in the Indian Government Service, being relieved I proceeded to Hong Kong and took charge of my duties here November 3rd of that year. I found besides the general supervision of the Medical Department, the charge of Lock Hospital and private practice, of which I had been notified that it was also part of my duties to be Medical Officer in charge of the Victoria Gaol, an unpaid appointment. That I was responsible for the Sanitation of Colony having two Inspectors of Nuisances under me, also an unpaid appointment under £400 a year, and that I had to attend on all subordinate officers and their families drawing free of charge was also Meteorological Reporter to Government. These being unpaid duties not mentioned in the Blue Book under the head Colonial Surgeon, I had not been notified of them.
I must take each of my duties separately in the order which they required most attention. On my assuming charge, I found on my desk a letter from Government dated three months previously requesting the Acting Colonial Surgeon to enquire into the cause of an outbreak of Typhoid Fever