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his pension would be proportionately greater, amounting to £700 a year in the case of an officer whose substantive pay was $1,00 a month and in the case of Principal Medical Officer to £840

a year.

A temporary allowance of 10 per cent. is at present paid ou pensions.

An officer may, on attaining pensionable status, elect to commute one quarter of his pension for a gratuity equal to ten times the annual value of the reduction made in the pension.

10. There is a contributory scheme for providing pensions for the widows and children of deceased officers. All officers on the pensionable establishment are required to contribute 4 per cent. of their substantive salary to this scheme.

When a pensionable officer dies while in the service of Govern- ment, his legal personal representative may also be granted a gratuity of an amount not exceeding one year's pensionable emoluments.

Passages.

11. At present free ocean passages are granted to all officers, their wives and children, if under 10 years of age, on first appoint- ment, and also when proceeding on or returning from leave after

a tour of four years' service.

Leave.

12. The normal tour of service is four years, after which leave may be granted at the rate of two months on full salary for each year of service.

After fifteen years' service leave may be granted after each tour' of three years' service.

Extensions of leave on half salary may be obtained for special reasons such as urgent private affairs or ill-health.

13. Officers with over fifteen years' service may be granted a period not exceeding six weeks half-pay leave, without special reason, in addition to the full-pay leave due to them after each tour of three years' service.

Leave on full pay counts as full service and leave on half-pay as half service towards pension.

Fourteen days' casual leave may be taken during each calendar year.

Study Leave.

14. Leave on full pay for the purpose of study may be given, but so that the maximum of full-pay leave does not exceed 12 months. Any period of leave given thereafter will be on half pay at the rate of one month for each year of resident service.

Private Practice.

15. Ordinary private practice is not allowed but, under con- ditions approved by Government, medical officers may receive fees

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This does not amount to much in the for consultative work.

Consultation practice is defined as where a average district. Government Medical Officer is called in to see a non-official patient by a private medical practitioner, or where a patient is sent to a Government Medical Officer with an introduction in writing from a private practitioner and a request for his opinion.

Certain specialist officers, such as surgeons and radiologists, may receive half the fees charged by Government to paying patients in (iovernment hospitals for operations or radiological examinations.

Duties of a Medical Officer.

16. The Government maintains hospitals and dispensaries for Asiatics in the town and villages throughout Malaya, and in the larger towns there is also accommodation for first-class patients, The larger hospitals with stalls of European Nursing Sisters. have resident Medical Officers.

17. The duties of a Health Officer include:-

(1) Those under the Sanitary Boards Enactment which deals with the sanitation of towns and villages.

(2) Those under the Labour Code which deals with the sanitation of estates and provision for medical benefits to estate labourers.

(3) Those under the Sale of Food and Drugs Enactment. (4) Those under the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Enactment which deals with outbreaks of infectious disease.

(5) Those under the Registration of Births and Deaths Enactment.

(6) Port Health work.

(Although there is a separate Health Branch, every Medical Officer should be prepared, if necessary, to undertake a certain amount of health work.)

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18. There are opportunities for surgical work if a Medical Officer shows an aptitude for surgery. Malaria is the most common

dysentery, beri-beri, disease. Pulmonary tuberculosis, ankylostomiasis may be mentioned also as among the principal diseases treated in the hospitals.

19. The professional duties of a Medical Officer may include medical, surgical, medico-legal, and public health work. His administrative work comprises hospital administration, diets, returns and financial work and includes the inspection of smaller hospitals and dispensaries. Clerical work is reduced to the An endeavour is made to consider an smallest possible amount. officer's own bent when posting him for duty. Districts vary in size and a certain amount of travelling will be necessary. The The District Hospitals white population in each district varies.

staff of locally-recruit! hold from 50 to 800 beds. There is medical men mostly trained at the Singapore College of Medicine.

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