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Sir,
Enclosure.
Sanitary Board Office
H ON G K ONG,
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March 8th, 1900 12641
24 APR 00
I have the honour, with reference to the Colonial
Office Despatch No. 280 of 1899, which was laid on the
table of the Legislative Council of this Colony on the
15th ultimo, to ask that the salary of the office of
Medical Officer of Health may be included in the classi-
fication therein detailed.
I was selected for appointment to this Colony
by the Secretary of State in May 1895 and my original
appointment was as Assistant Surgeon (Colonial Office
letter No. 7864/95), but as arranged prior to my de-
parture from England, His Excellency the Governor ap-
pointed me, almost immediately after my arrival, Medical
Officer of Health for the Colony, and shortly afterwards;
this appointment was given full effect to by my appoint-
ment also as Sanitary Superintendent (in accordance with
section 9 of the Hongkong Public Health Ordinance of
1887) upon the recommendation of the Sanitary Board.
I am thus senior in point of medical service
in the Colony to two of the three Assistant Surgeons
who are to participate in the proposed increments and
although junior to the First Assistant Surgeon in point
of local service, I am his senior, by more than two
years, both in age and as a member of the medical pro-
fession; the deficiency in local service may be account-
ed for by the fact that the office of Medical Officer
of Health requires special qualifications and a period
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of training subsequent to the attainment of the usual
medical
The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain,
Secretary of State for the Colonies.