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Up to the year 1929, the position of Principal Civil Medical Officer had always been held by a Medical Officer primarily a clinician and the appointment in that year of Dr. Wellington, whose previous experience had embraced as well preventive medicine, was a new departure and a prepara- tion for the reorganisation. Having in mind the projected
reforms, Sir C. Clementi was desirous of appointing Dr. Wellington to be Head of the Sanitary Department in addition
to his other duties. After discussion in Executive Council, however, it was decided that the object in view, of allowing the Principal Civil Medical Officer whose title had meanwhile been changed to Director of Medical & Sanitary Services to have direct experience of the working of the Board and the Department would be better attained if he were appointed in place of the Medical Officer of Health to a seat on the Board. This was done by Ordinance No. 17 of 1929 and the Director of Medical & Sanitary Services occupied that position until 17th October, 1930, by which time he considered that he had the
necessary experience.
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The result of this experience was a revised version of a lengthy survey of the whole position by the Director of Medical & Sanitary Services, which also outlined his proposals for reorganisation. Copy of this report was sent to the Secretary of State for the Colonies with His Excellency's (1) Confidential despatch of 18th November, 1930, and from the
voluminousness of the criticisms and proposals it will readily be seen why progress was of necessity slow, apart from the certain special difficulties which arose in the working out of the scheme.
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The general idea of Dr. Wellington's scheme was taken, not unnaturally, from those under which he had himself worked in Malaya, but with modifications drawn from public