CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6] — Page 534

ONFIDENTIAL.

Hongkong.

Fou

My Lord,

من 2017

523

CS 23743

Krc:

# 5 JUL 07

Government House,

Hongkong, 5th. June, 1907.

With reference to the suggestion

made in my Despatch Confidential of the 29th. ultimo, that

a change should be made in the administrative Head of the

Sanitary Department, I have the honour to recommend that

in the event of such suggestion being adopted, Dr. J. M.

Atkinson should suffer no diminution of salary.

2.

Before he became Head of the

Sanitary Department his salary was $4,800 rising to

$6,000 with Exchange Compensation.

It is now $7,200 rising to $7,800

in accordance with the recommendation made in Sir Henry

Goo

'Blake's Despatch No. 134 of the 18th. March, 1903.

1578

3.

In the meantime, however, the

Victoria Hospital has been opened. This is a Hospital of

40 beds, and increasing use is being made of it by the

Community and by strangers from outside the Colony. Dr.

Atkinson

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

800.

800. ›

&C . • •