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qualifications required no mention appears respecting
such a speciality as the cultivation of vaccine lymph
which in fairness to the applicant should certainly have
been included had it been the intention of the Colonial
Secretary that such work would comprise part of the
duties of the candidate selected to fill the post - or
otherwise an officer might and probably would have been
appointed who was totally ignorant of the subject.
I therefore beg to be allowed to submit that when I
received my substantive appointment in 1887 the duties
of that office were clearly set forth vide attached
copy. It will be seen that these duties which were to
be performed under the Sanitary Board did not include
the cultivation of vaccine lymph which is a speciality,
and one upon which I have spent much time and money in
studying the process best adapted to a tropical climate.
In March 1892 I was appointed Superintendent of the
Government Vaccine Institute under the supervision of
the Colonial Surgeon, Head of the Medical Department,
since when I have performed the duties of that office,
in addition to those entailed by my substantive
appointment.
It will thus be seen that the increase in my duties
did not arise from an extension of the jurisdiction of
the Sanitary Board or to an increase in the work of
the Department in which I held my substantive appointment
but that it arose from my being called upon to do work
in connection with another department.
I respectfully submit that officers holding
appointments in one department cannot reasonably be
called upon to permanently perform duties in two
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departments