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On board ship had a beneficial effect on Petitioner's health, which so greatly improved that by the time he reached London he was able to walk ashore, but he was so enfeebled by the severe illness from which he had suffered, that it was twelve months before he was able to work and earn his livelihood.
That when invalided home, he received from the Authorities at Hong Kong a Bonus equal to a month's pay for every year he had served in the force, but that bonus was much more than all expended in maintenance and in medical attendance and medicines during a year of convalescence.
That by the rules of the Hong Kong Police Service, the Petitioner would have been entitled to a Pension after ten years service, and had he kept his health he would have completed that period of service on 29th December 1900, and taking into account the leave to which he was entitled, he had only about nine months to serve to qualify him for the regulation retiring Pension.
That during the first period of Petitioner's service in the Police Force at Hong Kong, the duties were trying and very dangerous. The Plague was raging with great virulence, and Petitioner's duties brought him into close contact with it. He was constantly engaged in house to house visitation and at the Chinese Hospital, from which on one occasion as many as 150 deaths and funerals took place in the short space of six hours. In recognition of services rendered in connection with the outbreak of plague, Petitioner was in 1894 presented with a medal by the Community of Hong Kong, and copies of Certificates from Captain Superintendent of Police F. H. May are appended hereto.
That Petitioner spent nine of the best years of his
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on board ship had a beneficial effect on Petitioner's health, which so greatly improved that by the time he reached London he was able to walk ashore, but he was so enfeebled by the severe illness from which he had suffered, that it was twelve months before he was able to work and earn his livelihood.
That when invalided home, he received from the Authorities at Hong Kong a Bonus equal to a month's pay for avery year he had served in the force, but that bonus was much more than all expended in maintenance and in medical attendance and medicines during a year of convalescence.
That by the rules of the Hong Kong Police Service, the Petitioner would have been entitled to a Pension after
ten years service, and had he kept his health he would have
completed that period of service on 29th December 1900, and
taking into account the leave to which he was entitled, he
had only about nine months to serve to qualify him for the
regulation retiring Pension.
That during the first period of Petitioner's service
in the Police Force at Hong Kong, the duties were trying
and very dangerous. The Plague was raging with great viru-
lence, and Petitioner's duties brought him into close con-
tact with it. He was constantly engaged in house to house
visitation and at the Chinese Hospital, from which on one
occasion as many as 150 deaths and funerals took place in
the short space of six hours. In recognition of
services rendered in connection with the outbreak of plague,
Petitioner was in 1894 presented with a medal by the Commun-
ity of Hong Kong, and copies of Certificates from Captain
Superintendent of Police F. . May are appended hereto.
That Petitioner spent nine of the best years of his
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