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mental
defects
whatever.
be required of may in the last twenty
duties that for any
ue. I have
favo
not aware that I suffer from any
physical
incapacitating
retired an unfit for further duty unless
it is the observations made b
Annual Report to 1894 concerning
by
in
MAL
my
not
The Bacillary Board
for
which I have
years up to
buy
date been confined to the house for
OL
single day
or cre
of
illness
of
It is true after the heavy exertions year 1894 caused by the epidemic of Plague in Hong Kong I needed rest and change
and
that account asked.
fer
leave in
O
long
years and.
the first
of twenty-eight
my papers show I am
over three
three years half-
over and above what I
still entitled to
leave
- pray
have received. I am
a Medical
Board
for
to appear before.
examination.
perfectly willing
The reason I have not been able
to obtain long
been stated in
leave
my
already
before letters concerning I am
the medical staff in Hong Kong,
root away
or left
of anything
authorise
that I have done
showing incapacity or
deserving of the severe sentence
of being
retired
been taken to task in Council
unofficial Members whose
or ce
of
the m
ein motion was not seconded as I observe i
the reports in
Stong Hong papers but what I
then said was
no more than I have
Said continually
both in public and private
and what Mr Chadwick on his last visit
also said that little or none
recommendations had been carried out
and that little had been done since towards
placing the Colony
in a
sanitary condition. This the epidemic of plague proved by
of
this
houses closed in the
many hundreds Colony as unfit for human habitation and unfit to be reopened even after disinfection, all of which state of things I brought to notice within six months of my arrival in the colony which I have continually
reiterated ever since.
By letters it have received arrival in the Colony is anxiously awaited
by