466 live in central district allowed a certain Quarters and $90 fer for allowed a Major this I received $1080 the same that is in the army. Thus for giving up private practice worth in yearly con $3500 and from venous patients another $1500 in all $5,000 I received in 1920.
As a matter of fact, though I receive more dollars than my predecessors, the value of the pay is not equal to what it was in the Pay Ordinance of 1865 or when I arrived when it appeared sterling although in the Blue Books in my work has been more than quintupled since I joined.
In the Blue Books for the last years my pay is not correctly stated through my fault as I have represented to Government, it stands.
Colonial Surgeons pay: Quarters Chair Allowance $6168.00 it should be $4800.00 $1,080.00 $288.00 $1080.00 $988.00 by some mistake the Quarters and Chair Allowance have been added to the Colonial Surgeons pay and repeated in the other columns as well.
The Government Allowance for four chair coolies is $288, $6 each per month to do work in which I often have to cover ten miles a day up hill and down dale. I have to employ four chair coolies and a jinrickshaw coolie and to give them $8 a month each as no coolies can be got to be in readiness for any call night or day at $6 a month.
I am allowed two months leave on condition I provide a substitute on full pay every year. Only once have I been able to do this in seventeen years and then a private practitioner did the duty at considerable expense to myself. All other officers except the Colonial Chaplain and myself in the Service can procure substitutes to act for them while...