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Analyst had one month's vacation
leave. The appointment dates from 1889
and this is only leave taken by any
the
incumbent during se
12.
In view
of
J
would entail upon
Ma
Government
$125 a month while
an !
* extra expense of
any Medical Officer was away leave. In
case there will always
be a
very
a
seven years.
the above facts respectfully submit for your Lordship's consideration the following proposals. • That in this event of any Medical Officer
taking vacation leave on.
full pay substituti not being procurable for so short a time as a rule, a dum equiva- lant to this half pay
the Arcistant of
Superintendent should be allowed the
Officer doing the double duty of Superin- tendent and Assistant Superintendent at the Itospital and that during the long
on halp pay the locum tenens doing the duty of Assistant
Superintendent (as in this cace one
is absolutely necessary no single
Offices being able to endure the strain
of double duty for
so long
a period) a
sum equivalent to the full pay of the
leave
appointment should be allowed.
This
would)
any
Ov
great difficulty in obtaining locum tenens as the only chance is
getting
c
ship's surgeon for the duty, and
to obtain even
difficulty
this service is a
great
none were obtainable during.
the epidemie.
Ao
surgeon
in this of
any of the neighbouring Port's would lake the appointment for
pay
a VLIV OLAY
OU
even the fuce
Assistant
Surgeon to
private practitioner draws $350 and
allowances per mentem.
13.
That in the case of the Government. Analysts and Apothecaries, it being
absolute impossibility
an
a locum tenens in
any
to obtain.
the
cnt,
Officer doing the double duty either.
of
vacation leave or
receive this half pay of
long
Leave should
the absenter
and in the
event of
Avv
being unfit
for duty from illness and Government Analytical