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and to attend subordinate officers of the Government
resident in that peninsula. This work has hitherto been
generally done by the Assistant Medical Officer of Health
at Kowloon whose proper sanitary duties are however suf-
-ficient to fully occupy his time.
3.
Owing to the above proposed
division of duties, I propose to charge half the salary of
the newMedical Officer to the Railway and half to ordinary
Colonial Expenditure and to insert in the Estimates of the
Medical Department for 1907 an item for an Assistant
Surgeon at £480 a year with a note to the effect that half
of the salary is paid from Railway Construction Funds. The
item will appear in italics to indicate that the office is
temperary and non-pensionable.
4.
The gentleman to whom I have in
anticipation of Your Lordship's approval authorised the
offer of this appointment is Mr. John Whittam Hartley, M.B,
B.B., Victoria University, Manchester, at present Medical
Officer of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's Steamship "Delhi' sailing between here and
Bombay. He has stated that his name is on the list of
applicants for Colonial Medical Appointments at the
the absens
to the conting
Colonial
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