458
!
as I have to remit £300
a
year
to
an
invalid wife and this at current
rates would more than absorb the
increase
of
$4.60
I served over
two
years
the Mauritius Colonial Government Service
and
was
compelled to resign (having contracted Intermittent Fever of a very
severe type during my service in the
Fever Epidemic that prevailed in that Colony during the winter months of 1867 and 1868) in
June 1868 I received an appointment in the Indian Civil Service April 1869 and from that date have been on continuous duty and have been
24
in the Government Service with- years out
going Home to England
to
work for
that no
I have done much arduous this Government and Colony other Colonial Surgeon has done again likely to be called on
or is ever
to do still the work increases
my reports
To
supply
yearly.
the scanty water
of the city
the destitute condition
regards
sanitation in Public drainage,
Houses, Hospitals Schools Markets Police Stations Victoria Gaol Dairies Slaughter house Cattle Depôt & all the improve- ments" made and proposed
When I
was
appointed I was 33 years.
I
was considered
young
and
wanting in experience my opinions, considered exaggerated and
my recommendations ignored though
- my recom
fack
at a
it has been found in all cases that I have understated instead of overstating
t
for
facts, the improvements that have been
made in
to work
my
my
Department
I have had hard. I do not claim to
have done more than
never
my duty strength
I have
in the
utmost with
spared health or Service and done my such abilities as I possessed.
go through
Few have the constitution to the strain mental and physical, year
after year
without rest.
रहे हो
I have done without.
For