This Memorandum is subject to revision from time to time.
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MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS IN THE COLONIES.
1. Medical appointments are from time to time filled up by the Colonial Office in the following Colonies and Protectorates :-British Guiana, Jamaica, Trinidad, Windward Islands, Leeward Islands, British Honduras, Fiji, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Gold Coast, Northern and Southern Nigeria, East Africa and Uganda Protectorates, Nyasaland, Somaliland, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Seychelles, Cyprus, Gibraltar, St. Helena, and the Falkland Islands. In Ceylon, Jamaica, and Mauritius, vacancies are almost always filled locally by the appointment of qualified native candidates. As a rule officers are required on appointment to undergo a three months' course of instruction at the London or Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and to obtain a certificate of proficiency before taking up their appointment.
It is for the East and West African Colonies and Protectorates that medical officers are chiefly required.
2. The majority of the West Indian appointments involve medical charge of a district, including, as a rule, the care of a hospital, poor-house, asylum, or other institution, and free attendance on the aged and children.
N.B.-Passage money on first appointment, and leave of absence on half- pay (in addition to the ordinary annual vacation on full-pay, not exceeding three months in two years), are granted only in the eases specified in the Colonial Regulations. Leave on half-pay is not granted before the completion of six years' service, except on the ground of illness or urgent private affairs. With regard to pension, medical officers are usually on the same footing as other Government servants; but in cases where private practice is allowed the rule is that they are not usually entitled to pension.
3. The following is a short account of the appointments in the separate colonies :-
British Guiana.-37 appointments.
Candidates must have held for at least six months a resident medical appointment in some public institution. Officers are appointed on two years' probation as assistant medical officers, and are paid a salary at the rate of 3001. per annum with quarters, without the right to private practice. The permanent staff, to which officers may be appointed at the expiration of the probationary period, include the following appointments :-- Surgeon-General, 900, with travelling expenses and consulting practice; Medical Inspector, 8007., with travelling expenses and private practice; three Medical Officers at 6007. to 7001; 10 Medical Officers at 5607. to 600.; 11 Medical Officers at 400l. to 500/.; and three Medical Officers at 400l. Medical officers appointed to districts receive travelling allowances varying with the nature of the district. They are also allowed private practice. Medical officers attached to public institutions are, in general, allowed free quarters. Government servants are compelled to subscribe at the rate of 4 per cent. on their salaries towards the pensions of officers' widows and orphans. The
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