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medical degrees and diplomas required for appointment

as an Assistant Surgeon.

These additional qualifications in my case

comprise:-

(1)

the D.P.H. of the University of Cambridge,

(2)

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(3)

a period of five years spent in the study and prac- tice of Public Health work subsequent to my quali- fication as a Physician and Surgeon, and

the fact that, at the date of my appointment to this Colony, I had held the appointment of Medical Officer of Health to an important English borough

for a period of more than two years.

These facts were recognised by the Colony at the time of my appointment as I was then awarded a higher salary than any of the above-mentioned Assistant Surgeons

were entitled to, whereas they will now all draw higher

salaries than that allotted to my office.

My duties are those of Chief Executive Officer

of the Sanitary Board an office that bears little com-

parison, so far as responsibility and work are concerned,

with that of an Assistant Surgeon and they comprise

the supervision and control of the duties of twenty two

European Inspectors, fourteen coloured subordinate of-

ficers and a large body of Chinese Interpreters, foremen

and other employees of the Sanitary Board, while my pres-

ent salary compares equally unfavourably with those of

the Municipal Health Officers of Shanghai ($7,000- per annum) and Singapore ($5,100- per annum Exchange com-

pensation and allowances) and with the salaries paid to

Medical Officers of Health in cities and districts of

equal area and population in Great Britain.

I would venture therefore to ask that the

Secretary of State may be pleased to permit that I be

placed on a similar rate of pay to that of the Medical

Officer of Health for Singapore, who is, I find, some

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