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Principal Civil Medical Officer respecting Police Con- stable James Ritchie, who ~ was engaged by the Crown Agents in November last for service in the "HongKong lice Force, from which
will observe that he is
Po
you
suf-
fering from a serious affec- tion of the left eye, which threatens to incapacitate- him for Police duties.
According to his
2.
own statement, Ritchie was
not
not subjected to:
any
test of
the eyesight by the Medical
Officer who examined him in
England, and, presumably, pass ed him as fit for
service,
and I have therefore to re-
quest that the attention the Crown Agents may
of
be di
rected to this case, and that.
stricter medical examination be insisted upon in future. As the man was sworn
may
3.
in as a Police Constable prior to
the discovery of the defect in
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