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I do not think that a case of this Kind Should be refered to Sir P. Mimen.
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onclosure 1.
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'REC 18 NOV 07.
605
Government House,
Hongkong, 18th.October, 1907.
I have the honour to forward a
copy of a letter addressed to the Principal Civil Medical
Officer by Dr. J. C. Thomson, lately seconded for Medical
work in connection with the Railway and now proceeding to
England on leave of absence, embodying an appeal to Your
Lordship in a matter in which his conduct as a professional
officer has been called in question by me.
follows:-
2.
The facts of the case were as
On the 18th. ultimo Er. ves,
Chief Resident Engineer, happening to be at Taipo, found
Mr. Ross, Acting Land Officer, to be, as he considered,
very seriously ill, (his anxiety regarding him being shared
by Mr. Hallifax, District Magistrate, and his wife) having
been subject to constant diarrhoea and vomiting for some
three or four days, and having taken practically no solid
food during that period. As telephone communication was
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
interrupted
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