CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902 — Page 46

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In any further communics- tion on this subject, please quote

C.8712

and address letter to-

The Secretary,

Admiralty, Whitehall,

London, S.W.

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Admiralty,

17th July 1902.

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Sir,

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With reference to your letter of the 19th ultimo, No.23537/1902, I am commanded by my Lords Com- missioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you that Mr George Mitchell was invalided out of the Navy in 1898 for "defective vision", which in the opinion of Deputy Inspector General Knott, then in charge of the Royal Naval Hospital at Hong Kong, was contracted by Mitchell while looking after plague patients as a volunteer.

Attached are copies of a letter and a certificate from the local Plague Committee on the

subject of this man's services.

Mitchell has been granted the maximum pension to which he is entitled under the King's Regulations. The award does not include any special compensation

for the services in question.

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The Under

Secretary of State,

COLONIAL OFFICE,

S. W.

L.P.-No Br

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Evan Macke for

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