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Windward Islands (Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago).--The 23 appointments are, with few exceptions, district appointments with the right to private practice attached; the salaries paid by Government vary from 2007, to 1001, with allowances in certain cases.

Pensions may be granted under the Colonial Regulations, also leave of absence and passage money on first appointment.

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Leeward Islands. The 22 appointments are of the same nature as in the Windward Islands; the salaries vary from 150l. to 4001. per annum, but, in most cases, the 2501. As a rule, 307. only is allowed for passage money,

The medical officers receive fees for successful vaccinations, post-mortem examinations, attendance and giving evidence at courts of justice, certificates of lunacy, and in the larger islands for burial certificates. They are also allowed private practice.

Leave of absence is granted under the Colonial Regulations, but no pensions are guaranteed (see Act 7 of 1881).

British Honduras.-There are 3 medical appointments, in all of which private practice is allowed; the pay is respectively 100, 150%, and 4501. The Colonial

surgeon and district surgeon are public vaccinators, and, as such, receive 314 cents for every successful case effected within a radius of 3 miles of the court-house of the place in which a district magistrate resides, and if beyond that radius 56 cents. Passage money on first appointinent, leave of absence, and pensions are granted under Colonial' Regulations.

Fiji-There are at present 8 medical officers, of whom the senior medical officer receives 3501. per annum and 501. for house allowance, the ethers receiving 3001. per annum and 50l. for house allowance, with private practice. Passage money on first appointment and leave of absence are allowed under the Colonial Regulations, but no system of pension is as yet established.

Western Australia.-Occasionally medical officers are sent out from England at the request of the Governor. They are paid from 1007. per annum with private practice. No pension rights are guaranteed; it is the usual practice to allow 1001. for passage money on first appointment.

West Africa Settlements, including Sierra Leone and Gambia.—At Sierra Leone there are 4 Government medical officers, who are allowed to take private practice. The Colonial surgeon receives 500, with 917. 58. travelling allowance. Three assistant Colonial surgeons, one at 3007. and two at 250/.; two of these receive 45/. 12s. 6d. travelling allowance. The senior is in charge of the lunatic asylum, incurable and small-pox hospitals at Kissy. One is stationed in Freetown and the other in Sherbro. At the Gambia there are 2 medical officers paid at the rate of 4001. and 3001, per annum with private practice.

Gold Coast.—The assistant Colonial surgeons (10 in number) are paid at the rate of 4001. per annum, rising by triennial increments of 50 to 500, with private practice. The pay of the Colonial surgeon is 8001, rising to 1,0001. by 501. per annum, with consultation practice only.

Lagos.The 2 assistant Colonial surgeons receive the same salaries as those at the Gold Coast. The Colonial surgeon is paid 4001, rising to 5007. per annum, with 2007. allowances. Private practice is allowed in all three cases, and free quarters, or allow- ances in lieu thereof, are granted.

N.B. The special rules us to leave and pension in the case of Government servants on the West Coast of Africa apply also to medical officers.

Ceylon. The pay of the deputy assistant Colonial surgeons (4 at present), who are mainly recruited from among gentlemen born in the island but possessing English diplomas, is at the rate of Rs. 1,500 per annum. The (24) assistant Colonial surgeons

are paid at a rate rising from Rs. 3,000 to Rs. 5,000 per annum, and the (4) Colonial surgeons at a rate rising from Rs. 6,000 to Rs. 8,000 per annum. practice is allowed to the subordinate officers, but the Colonial surgeons may take Private only consultation practice. In the branch of the service established for the medical care of labourers on the coffee and other estates, there are at present 3 superin- tending officers, paid at a rate rising from Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 8,000 per annum ; 7 dis- trict medical officers paid at a rate rising from Rs. 1,500 to Rs. 2,500 per annum, and 8 medical assistants paid at a rate rising from Rs. 1,500 to 2,000 per annum. The district medical officers are allowed private practice and the superintending officers consultation practice.

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As regards leave of absence, pension and passage money, the members of the Medical Department are on the same footing as other Government servants in Ceylon, and there is a Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund to which all permanent Govern- ment servants are called upon to subscribe at the rate of 4 per cent, on their salaries.

Straits Settlements.-The pay of the (7) different medical appointments is not uniform in value, but the normal salary of a Colonial surgeon may be said to be at the rate of $2,400 per annum, private practice being also allowed; as regards leave of absence, pension and passage money, the members of the Medical Department are treated like other members of the Government service of the Colony.

Hong Kong.There is a Colonial surgeon paid at present at the rate of $2,880 per annum, and allowed private practice; he receives 8288 per annum for conveyance and $864 per annum as ca officio inspector of the Lock Hospital; a superintendent of the civil hospital paid at the rate of $3,000 per annum, and provided with quarters, but not allowed private practice; a health officer and medical inspector of emigrants, paid at the rate of 82,000 per annum, with the right to private practice; a resident surgeon of the Lock Hospital paid at the rate of $1,800 per annum and provided with quarters, but not allowed private practice. As to pension, leave of absence, and passage money: these officers are treated like other members of the Government service of the Colony.

Gibraltar.--The port surgeon receives 1501. per annum and has private practice. There are also 3 district medical officers, two with 701. and one with 601. per annum; all are allowed private practice and receive about 257, each per annum as public vacci- nators. The visiting surgeon of the civil prison and lunatic asylum receives 601., and the officer of health to the Sanitary Commissioners 1001.

Cyprus.-There is a chief medical officer paid at the rate of 500% per annum, and two district medical officers paid at the rate of 2507. per annum; all enjoying private practice these are the only medical appointments in the island which are open to English candidates.

St. Helena.-The Colonial surgeon is paid at the rate of 2007. per annum, with private practice, and 30%. horse allowance.

Falkland Islands.-There are 2 appointments, one of which is paid at the rate of 3001. per annum, and the other at the rate of 2001. per annum. Private practice is allowed in both cases. Passage money on first appointment, leave of absence, and pension are granted.

4. In addition to the ordinary medical appointments in these Colonies, vacancies also Occasionally, though very rarely, occur for which specialists are required, as, e.g., to take charge of a lunatic asylum; and the particulars of chief medical officer in some of the larger Colonies have not been given, as the headship of the Medical Department in such Colonies, requiring administrative as well as professional qualifications, is not reserved to the ordinary medical staff, but is often filled up directly from the outside.

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5. All applicants for medical employment in the Colonies must be between the ages of 23 and 30, and must be doubly qualified, preference will be given to those who have held hospital appointments as house physicians and house surgeons: certificates of moral character and of sobriety will be required, and every officer before being appointed will be medically examined by one of the consulting physicians of the Colonial Office, Dr. Gage Brown, 88, Sloane Street, London, S.W., Sir A. S. Maclagan, 28, Heriot Row, Edinburgh, and Dr. Hawtrey Benson, 57, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin. 6. Applications for medical employment in the tropical Colonies from persons in the United Kingdom must be addressed to the Private Secretary, Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W., during the month of April in each year, and notices to that effect will be posted up early in the year in the leading hospitals and medical schools of Great Britain and Ireland. Out of the total number so applying a list of selected candidates will be made who will be eligible to fill any vacancies which may occur during the year, and no application at any other time for ordinary medical appointments will be entertained.