467
while on leave.
other
more
I cannot act for any officer all other department's except mentioned above are able to often than double their pay by holding
acting appointments besides
or even more
every stated hours
their
own
In
duties are
for
In
my
case
other Department the
day or night.
I cannot depend on having
single hour to myself day or night.
I cannot live in the better and cooler
air of the
of
the higher levels
of the Peak in
duties compel
or have the benefit
summer,
because
they
me to live in a central
district of the town which is
getting
densely populated all of
possessed by officers
is are
which advantages of other Departments
with the exception of forty day's in Hospital, two months sick leave, ten days off duty covered with boils and five months privilege leave I have not
been
a day or night off duty in seventeen
Years.
**
These fees
which with
Salary is
The Head of the Medical Department
at Singapore
last
year's Blue Book has his pay and allowances returned
as
follows.
Pay.
$4200.00
& in all for the
His work is a
Steady Certificate Horse Allowance (returns only for 10½ months) X $41.80
per year
$240
close upon $10,000.
daily routine of nearly
stated hours he has no
#
night call
and can
when he
goes
on leave. He gets paid
about $3,500 more than I do and more
than half his pay is for nearly signing
He has not one
quarter
of the work that I have to do for he
attends on no subordinate Officers and he has no
night
work whatever.
Had I been approved for the
increase of 14 per cent I
am
informed
of
$460 a
I should have an increase
per year
was
but
remitting
receiving
if
on re
deprived
of my privilege of
Home. I should be a loser,