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Hongkong, 1th. Apr, 1908.
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Rest 15 JUN 08
We have the honour to direct the attention
of His Excellency the Governor to the name "Assistant Surgeon* by which we are officially designated, and to respectfully ask
that it may be altered.
2.
We are contemporaries professionally with
officers of the Military and Naval Medical Services now holding the ranks of Lieutenant-Colonel, R.A.M.C., and Fleet-Surgeon,
R.N.¡ yet our official designation is the same as that used in
India for subordinate locally-trained native officers. Such
native subordinate officers are now regularly employed in this
Colony, attached to Indian Regiments, and their designation is
the same as our own.
3.
We submit a schedule showing the grades in
the Medical Departments of certain Colonies which may fairly be compared with Hongkong, taken from the "Colonial Office List,
1907".
It will be seen that, while there is some
dissimilarity of nomenclature, there is unanimity in the re- -cognition of seniority where it exists, and in the absence of
such an invidious title for European Officers as that of
"Assistant Surgeon".
4.
We would suggest that your own official
title should be taken as the type; that the ordinary designation
should be Civil Medical Officer; that all Officers having been in the service for ten years or more should be described as
Senior Civil Medical Officer; and that the term "Assistant"
should be applied to the Chinese or other locally trained Civil
Medical Officers.
There would thus be a natural and suitable gradation
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