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RroP 4 AUG 10
Government House,
Hongkong, 4th. July, 1910.
Your 15.42
My Lord,
With reference to Sir 7. D.
Lugard's Despatch No. 32 of the 28th. of last January, I
have the honour to state that the Principal Civil Medical
Officer has suggested that a corps of Medical Officers
similar to the Royal Army Medical Corps should be formed
for services in the Crown Colonies and Protectorates, but
that if it was considered that the conditions of service in
various parts of the Empire are too heterogeneous to permit
such a scheme to be successfully formulated, it might be
adopted in connection with the Far Eastern Colonies.
2.
Dr. J. M. Atkinson was requested
by Sir F. Lugard to formulate a draft scheme for the Far
Eastern Colonies in which the difficulty, which had been
pointed out by myself, of the presence in the Ceylon
Medical Service of large numbers of Medical Officers of
Singhalese race might be met by the inclusion of a condi-
-tion
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREWE,
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