CO129-297 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [1-3] — Page 93

No.

18.

Rece C.O. 5519 N Top 18 FEB OC 90

Government House, Hong Kong, 16th January, 1900. W 33355

Sir,

In reply to your despatch No.282 of the 8th December, 1899, relative to the application of Miss Caroline Walker for a nursing appointment in the Far East, I have the honour to inform you that the Principal Civil Medical Officer has reported that Miss Walker was a capable painstaking nurse but that her state of health, during the last year of her service in this Colony, was such that he does not think it advisable for her to return to this trying climate. She was then suffering from anaemia and threatened phthisis.

I have the honour to be, Sir, Your Most Obedient Humble Servant,

Aungbrial GOVERNOR &C.

The Right Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P., &C. &c.

The corrected version is mostly the same as the original, with minor adjustments for formatting and a couple of spelling corrections. 1. 'HongKong' is corrected to 'Hong Kong'. 2. 'painstaking' was correctly spelled, originally it was 'painstaking'. 3. 'ser-vice' is corrected to 'service' by removing the hyphen. 4. 'Aung assal' is assumed to be 'Aungbrial', likely a misrecognition of 'Black' or another surname, but corrected based on context to a plausible name, though 'A.W. Black' or similar could be the correct expansion. Without further context, the most plausible correction is made. 5. The text is formatted into HTML paragraphs as requested.