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from private practice alone the officer in Singapore should make at least as much again as his salary. Further in nådi- tion to the duties of Government Veterinary Surgeon such as the officer in Singapore performs, I am also called upon
to control the whole of the food supply of the Colony, the
importance and responsibility of which in a Commmity con-
taining a population of 257,000 is no small matter, but which
is apt to be overlooked to say nothing of acting as
Superintendent of the Government Vaccine Institute - for
which work alone officers in the ome Service are paid at least £400- per annus, ilence it will be seen that the offices
of Government Veterinary Surgeon at Singapore, and that of
Colonial Veterinary Surgeon in ongkong canot fairly be com
pared together.
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Additional duties as Superintendent of Government Vaccine
Institute.-
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That I have not yet received proper recognition at the hands of the Goverment for services rendered to the
Colony in establishing and maintaining the Vaccine Institute
the benefit of which is fully recognized by medical men.
I respectfully beg that the question as to the cultivation
of vacaine lymph being a speciality or not may be referred
for decision to the Medical Officers of the Local Government
Board or some other professional men, it being work which
not one in a hundred of Medical Practitioners or Veterinary
Burgeons know anything about.
b.-
That the Government Institute is a paying concern
may be gathered from the fact that the profit and loss
account for 1899 shows & profit on the year after paying ali
expenses, of $1,681.45.
Increased cost of living.
That the present high cost of living and house rent,
vide lis Excellency's Despatch No.199 dated July 27th, 1899,
renders