rivate & Confidential..
My dear Stewart,
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Downing Street,
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November, 1916.
You will remember speaking to ne about the nurses at ilong Kong, and telling me that there
had been statements that they were overworked.
I find on enquiry that the real cause of trouble is probably different though overwork is sometimes given out as the cause. The nurses it
seems have complained that there are frictions and that life is disagreeable under the present Principal medical Officer Dr. Johnson. (again he is said by some to have negro blood and they do not like serving under him. ne is in fact West Indian by birth, but not so far as we know of negro blood at all, It is just possible there is something in this, as there was some friction in British East Africa when
GEL:SUAM STEWART ESQ.,M.P.
Dr.
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