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(Rs. 6,000), one Assistant Sanitary Warden (Rs. 5,000), an Assistant Medical Officer, Port Louis (Rs. 5,000), a Police and Prisons Surgeon (Rs. 6,000), and a Health Officer (Rs. 5,000). There is also a Medical Inspector attached to the Immigration Department.

In the rural districts there are various medical officers, most of whom receive Rs. 6,000 a year, and are not allowed private practice.

Free quarters are not given in most cases. locally.

The service is mainly recruited

N.B.-In Ceylon, Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, Hong Kong, and Mauritius, all permanent Government servants are called upon to contribute 4 per cent. of their salaries towards the pensions of the "widows and orphans of public officers.

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Officers in the service of Mauritius are required annually to contribute per cent, of their salaries towards their pensions.

Seychelles.-There are four medical appointments. The Government Medical Officer receives Rs. 4,500. The Assistant Government Medical Officers receive Rs. 3,000. The holders of these latter appointments have free quarters. Private practice is allowed.

Gibraltar.-There is a surgeon of the Colonial Hospital receiving 2751., 551. as Medical Officer of the Civil Prison and Lunatic Asylum, and horse allowance of 42., with private practice. There is also an Assistant Surgeon with a salary of 3001. per annum, but without private practice, who is Police Surgeon, Port Surgeon, and Surgeon to the Port Office without additional

emoluments.

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Cyprus.-There is a Chief Medical Officer paid at the rate of 500l. per annum, two District Medical Officere paid at the rate of 2501. per annum, one paid at the rate of 2001., rising by 101. a year to 2501., all enjoying private practice and receiving 28. per diem forage allowance; these are the only medical appointments in the island which are open to English candidates.

St. Helena.-The Colonial Surgeon at present receives 270l. per „nnum, and 277, horse allowance. Private practice is allowed.

Falkland Islands.-There are two appointments, one of which is paid at the rate of 3001, per annum, with 251, as Health Officer, and the other at the rate of 2001. per annum, with 361. as Deputy Postmaster. The holder of the latter post is required to enter into an agreement with the West Falkland Medical Association, in accordance with which he renders professional services to the members of the Association and their families, their employés and their families, in return for 2002. a year, and certain payments by the employés. Private practice is allowed to both officers.

East Africa, Uganda, Nyasaland, and Somaliland Protectorates.-The salary of a Medical Officer in these Protectorates is 400/. per annum, rising to 5001. per annum by annual increments of 20/. There are twenty appointments of this rank in the combined Medical Staff of the East Africa and Uganda Protectorates, seven in Nyasaland, and two in Somaliland. In East Africa and Uganda there are also certain special appointments at salaries of 6001. or 6501, per annum, The salary attached to the appointment of Principal Medical Officer is 8001. per annum, rising to 9001. per annum by annual increments of 50%., in the case of East Africa and Uganda, and 500l. per annum, rising to 6001. per annum by annual increments of 251., in the case of Nyasaland.

Medical Officers are permitted to take private practice on the understanding that they give precedence to their official duties.

Under the leave regu. Free passages are provided to the Protectorates. lations officers are entitled to two months' leave on full pay every year, subject to the exigencies of the service, and are allowed to accumulate this

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leave up to six months-i.e., if they remain at their posts for 24 years they are entitled to six months s full pay leave with a free passage either way.

A vacancy occurring in the East Africa and Uganda Medical Staff is at present usually filled by the absorption of one of the six temporary medical officers in Uganda whose appointments (at a salary of 4001. a year) have been created in order to release a corresponding number of the permanent staff for work in connexion with the extended investigation of sleeping sickness.

A candidate for the East Africa and Uganda service will therefore in general be offered one of these temporary appointments in the first instance and will be considered for absorption, if he wishes, when an opportunity occurs, provided that his service is approved. Temporary medical officers are engaged for two years and free passages are provided, but leave is not granted (except in the case of sickness) unless they are absorbed in the permanent staff, in which case they are allowed to count their temporary service for leave under the ordinary regulations.

4. All applicants for medical employment in these Colonies must be between the ages of 23 and 35,* and must be doubly qualified; preference will be given to those who have held hospital appointments as house physicians and house surgeons; testimonials to character and professional competence will be required. and

every officer before being appointed will be medically examined by one of the consulting physicians of the Colonial Office, Sir Patrick Manson, 21, Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, London, W.; Dr. Hawtrey Benson, 57, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin; and, for the present, Lieutenant-Colonel I. Arnott, I.M.S., Caledonian United Service Club, Shandwick Place, Edinburgh.

5. In addition to the ordinary medical appointments in these Colonies vacancies also occasionally, though very rarely, occur for which specialists are required, e.g., to take charge of a lunatic asylum.

6. Applications for medical employment in these Colonies from persons in the United Kingdom must be addressed to the Assistant Private Secretary, Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W. Out of the total number so applying a list of candidates will be made, who will be considered as vacancies occur, but no promise whatever can he held out that candidates, even if they are placed on the list, will eventually receive an appointment. It is not possible to forecast either the number or the nature of the vacancies which will arise in the course of any given year, and it is not expected that candidates should hold themselves in readiness by refraining from other employment, as usually, when selected for an appointment, they can be allowed sufficient time to make their preparations and to terminate their existing employment.

7. Information as to the West African Medical Staff is given in a separate memorandum, African (West) No. 678.

8. South Africa.-Medical appointments in the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Basutoland are made only on the recommendation of the High Commissioner for South Africa, who usually appoints local candidates. Appointments of medical officers to the South African Constabulary are made by the High Commissioner on the recommendation of the Inspector General. The Secretary of State does not select candidates for these appointments, and no register of candidates is kept at the Colonial Office.

Medical appointments in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony are only made by the Colonial Governments. The supply of candidates in the colonies is understood to be sufficient, and it is not anticipated that there will

In the case of East Africa, Uganda, Nyasaland, and Somaliland, preference will be given to candidates who are over 25 years of age. In the case of Fiji, preference will be given to candidates who are under 30.

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be any demand for the services of medical men from this country for ordinary appointments. Information as to the conditions of practice in these Colonies can be obtained from the Emigrants' Information Office, 31, Broadway, Westminster, S.W,

Medical appointments in the Cape and Natal are made only by the Colonial Governments. Information with regard to appointments in these Colonies.can be obtained from the Agent General for the Cape, 100, Victoria Street, S.W., and the Agent General for Natal, 26, Victoria Street, S.W.

Appointments in Rhodesia are made by the British South Africa Company, 2, London Wall Buildings, F.C.