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gavernois discation

the appointment

Leave it to the governor's Whether or not to place Estimates on the

1901

CPL

27 July

at once

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Sir,

C.O.

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Government House;

Hongilong, 31st

May, 1900.

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1.9. Gray,

1900

I have the honour to forward for your

favourable consideration the enclosed copy of a letter from

the Acting Secretary to the Sanitary Board,

dgiving cover to a

Resolution, unanimously adopted at a meeting of the Board held

on the 25th, ultimo, to the effect that the appointment of an Assistant Medical Officer of Health is urgently needed.

In paragraph 3 of his despatch No.352 of

the 7th. of December 1899, Sir H.A. Blake stated that he did not then feel justified in recommending for approval the new appoint ment of Assistant Medical Officer of Health, and I think it

right now to forward the enclosed copy of a minute on the

present recommendation of the Board by the Acting Colonial Secretary (who oor the occasion when the Report of the Select Committee of the Board was adopted by a majority,moved as Vice-President of the Board the Amendment referred to in the

letter of the Secretary of the Board dated the 29th.of Septem-

ber lass, and copy of which was enclosed in Sir H.A.Blake's despatch above referred to, in which he states as his opinion that the appointment should not be made at the present time, but implies that if the number of recently-added Sanitary

· Inspectors,

Gors, three of whom it has not yet been possible to

appoint as no suitable: Candidates are forthcoming, were reduced, then an Assistant Medical Officer of Health might with ad-

vantage be appointed.

| RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEP CHAMBERLAIN,M.P.,

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&C,

80,

3. My opinion is that ar Assistant Medical

Officer