CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10] — Page 612

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interrupted Mr. Eves rode in himself to Kowloon to summon immediate Medical assistance. At about 6.30 p.m. that evening he met Dr. Thomson, the responsible Medical Officer, and asked him to go and see Mr. Ross informing him that he had a launch with steam up at Lokloha awaiting his arrival there. Dr. Thomson after hearing a description of the symptoms of the case declined to proceed to Taipo until the following morning. Mr. Eves thereupon called upon Dr. Aubrey, a local practitioner, who undertook to attend to the case at once.

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When these facts were brought to my notice I called for a full report on the matter, which, together with my final decision, is embodied in enclosures Nos. 2 to 8 in this Despatch.

I would observe, in view of the statements in Dr. Thomson's final letter (a) that my minute of 2nd October in which I informed him that I "disapproved of his action in this matter" was (as seems sufficiently evident from the correspondence) based primarily on the verdict of the Principal Civil Medical Officer and that Dr. Aubrey's letter had no influence whatever on the conclusion at which I had arrived; (b) that my disapproval was limited to his action in this particular matter.