EAST AFRICA.
PROPOSALS FOR REVISION OF CONDITIONS OF SERVICE.
1. PENSIONS ON RETTEMENT FOR ILL-HEALTH.
In paragraph 109 of the Schene for the Unification of the Colonial Administrative Service, it is suggested that (as a corollary to the fixing of
the pension constant at a flat rate of th for the
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whole service) the greater risk of a breakdown in health leading to premature retirement which officers serving in comparatively "unhealthy" climates run, compared with officers serving under more favourable climatic conditions, might be recognised where necessary by the grant of a special augmentation of the pensions granted to officers who are called upon to retire on medical grounds. A strict application of this proposal would limit the award of a special. addition to pension to cases in which the ill-health leading to retirement is, in fact, attributable to the effects of the climate in which the officer has been serving, and the arcunt of the addition would be related xe the degree of attributability and also to the degree of disablement. Any attempt to distinguish between individual cases on this basic would clearly involve very great practical difficulties: but, while it is not suggested that these difficulties would necessarily be insuperable, further consideration suggests that it is possible, and indeed preferable, to deal with this matter on a more general basis. Under the old system of different pension rates for different Colories, the principle was, in effect,
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