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approval certain recommendations regarding the status and salaries of the State Medical Officers of the Federated Malay States who will be appointed if the scheme outlined in my despatch under reference receives your approval.
2. A memorandum by the Principal Medical Officer containing recommendations for the future development of the Federated Malay States Medical Department was forwarded under cover of my Federated Malay States Confidential despatch of the 31st October, 1931, and the present proposals are made in order to give effect to para- graph 4 of that memorandum.
3. The present establishments and those which are now proposed are as follows :—
Present Establishment.
(To be abolished.)
PERAK.
Senior Medical Officer
Senior Health Officer
Proposed.
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No. 71.
MALAY STATES.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER
(Sent 3 p.m., 22nd February, 1932.)
TELEGRAM.
No. 31. CONFIDENTIAL. Your Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Confidential despatches of the 29th of October* and 18th November, 1931.f Your Straits Settlements telegram No. 1 of the 1st January and your Federated Malay States Confidential despatch of the 2nd of January. Reorganization of Medical Department. I am unable to approve proposals for this reorganization pending con- sideration of general proposals for decentralization in Malaya. Meanwhile Federal Legislation to define duties of Head of Department should not be introduced, and he should continue to act, in executive capacity until a decision has been reached.- CUNLIFFE-LISTER.
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C. 92370/32 [No. 2].
No. 72.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER. [Answered by No. 73.]
PERAK.
Per mensem.
$1,050
Per mensem.
State Medical Officer and Health
$1,050
Officer Deputy do.
$1,100
$850-A30-$1,000
$2,100
$2,100
SELANGOR.
SELANGOR.
Senior Medical Officer, Selangor $1,050 Senior Health Officer, Selangor
and Pahang..
$1,050
State Medical Officer and Health
Officer Deputy do.
$1,100
$850-A30-$1,000
$2,100
$2,100
(Confidential (3).)
NEGRI SEMBILAN.
Senior Medical Officer $850-A30-$1,000 Senior Health Officer $850-A30-$1,000
NEGRI SEMBILAN.
SIR,
State Medical Officer and Health
Officer
$1,050
$2,000
PAHANG. Senior Medical Officer $850-A30-$1,000 Senior Health Officer,
PAHANG.
State Medical Officer and Health
Officer
$1,050
Selangor and Pabang.
In the case of Perak and Selangor, one of the two officers appointed will be repre- Bentative of the Curative and the other of the Health Branch. The question of which shall be the Senior and which the Deputy at any given time will depend upon the relative seniority of the officers appointed.
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4. The above proposals will effect a net saving in salaries of $10,800 a year. addition, there is the saving of the salary of the appointment of Chief Health Officer, Federated Malay States, which is being abolished in accordance with the approval con- veyed in Lord Passfield's Federated Malay States Confidential telegram No. 136, dated the 31st July, 1931.† This saving amounts to $13,200 a year. The total net savings are therefore $24,000 a year.
Provision has been made in the 1932 Estimates for the salaries as proposed.
5. Should you concur in my recommendations, I shall forward for our approval the names of the officers who are considered suitable for filling the new posts.
I have, &c.,
C. CLEMENTI,
High Commissioner
Downing Street, 19th July, 1932. WITH reference to my Confidential telegram No. 31 of the 22nd of February§ and previous correspondence, regarding the reorganization of the Medical Department, I have the honour to inform you that your proposals have been further carefully con- sidered by the Colonial Advisory Medical Committee. After a long discussion, at which Dr. Wilson was present, the Committee recorded its view as follows:-
"After further discussion the Committee, after hearing the views of Dr. Wilson and considering the various papers placed before them, adhered to their opinion that considered from the point of view of efficiency of medical administra- tion, the scheme proposed in 1930 for the amalgamation of the several medical departments under one head was the best for reorganization of the Malayan Medical Service. The Committee took strong exception to the terms of the memo- randum defining the duties of the proposed Adviser, Medical and Health Services, Malay States, and imposing limitations upon his freedom of action. They were of opinion that the limitations would render the position of the Adviser untenable. The Committee considered it important to maintain at least as large a measure of central control as exists at present and would regard as a retrograde step any extension of decentralization in the medical services, such as is now proposed. In the Committee's opinion the new proposals would not make for increased efficiency or greater economy in medical administration. The Committee prefers an organization of two separate medical departments, Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, to the organization by which it is proposed to replace it. and recommends that the organization which existed in 1930 should be restored." 3. I have myself discussed the proposed reorganization with Dr. Wilson. It is common ground that political considerations enter largely into the proposals, and in the circumstances I have decided that it will be desirable to defer coming to any definite decision until after Sir 8. Wilson's visit to Malaya.
I have, &c.
(for the Secretary of State).
R. W. HAMILTON.
*No. 30 in Miscellaneous No. 420.
† P.F. 12811: not printed.
* No. 69.
† No. 70.
C. 80405/9/31 [No. 4]: not printed.
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