CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4] — Page 28

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Enclosure.

Sanitary Board Office

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March 8th, 1900 12641

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I have the honour, with reference to the Colonial

Office Despatch No. 280 of 1899, which was laid on the

table of the Legislative Council of this Colony on the

15th ultimo, to ask that the salary of the office of

Medical Officer of Health may be included in the classi-

fication therein detailed.

I was selected for appointment to this Colony

by the Secretary of State in May 1895 and my original

appointment was as Assistant Surgeon (Colonial Office

letter No. 7864/95), but as arranged prior to my de-

parture from England, His Excellency the Governor ap-

pointed me, almost immediately after my arrival, Medical

Officer of Health for the Colony, and shortly afterwards;

this appointment was given full effect to by my appoint-

ment also as Sanitary Superintendent (in accordance with

section 9 of the Hongkong Public Health Ordinance of

1887) upon the recommendation of the Sanitary Board.

I am thus senior in point of medical service

in the Colony to two of the three Assistant Surgeons

who are to participate in the proposed increments and

although junior to the First Assistant Surgeon in point

of local service, I am his senior, by more than two

years, both in age and as a member of the medical pro-

fession; the deficiency in local service may be account-

ed for by the fact that the office of Medical Officer

of Health requires special qualifications and a period

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of training subsequent to the attainment of the usual

medical

The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain,

Secretary of State for the Colonies.