would earnestly impress upon Your Lordship the importance of immediately appointing an additional Medical Officer from home with a double qualification
Officer
and possessing a diploma in public health. This, like the~
· present Health Officer of the Port, it is proposed should be attached to the Medical Depart: ment of this Colony but if the amalgamation of the posts of Sanitary Superintendent and Health Officer is found to be -
practicable
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practicable, he can be seconded
for services Sanitary Board.
service as an
an
officer of the
The necessity of such appointment is fully evi- densed by the circumstances recorded above, and by the fact. that improvement in the ~ sanitation of Hongkong is of the greatest importance to the pros perity of this Colony
and to the welfare of its inhabitants. The extra expenditure will be by
large, and I respectful.
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