CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9] — Page 518

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Sir,

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1909.

Hongkong,30th, August,1

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RESS Per 14 OCT 09

I have the honour to ask you to

submit the following circumstances regarding my health to

the consideration of His Excellency the Governor, with a

view to an enquiry as to whether I may be invalided from

the Service and permitted to return to the home climate.

My decision to make this request

has been taken on a recrudescence of the inflarwatory

mouth condition for which you kindly treated me two months

ago. I have suffered more or less all the time since then

from soreness and ulcers of the mucous membrane of the

mouth; and this complicating my chronic tendency to morn-

-ing diarrhoea seems to me so serious a threatening of

sprue, that I consider I ought to leave this climate

permanently. Thorughout this summer, while I have managed to

keep at my work, I have been the subject of an undue

exhaustion in the evenings that has been almost prostra-

-tion.

As you are aware, for many years

I have suffered from a morning diarrhoea in the summer

months that has involved special dieting and produced low

health as each sumer has gone on. So long ago as 1901, I

had to take special leave for ill-health dependent on this,

and made a round trip to England to recruit, Other periods

of home leave have been on the ground of "service", but

have been more frequent on account of my health require-

-ments. In 1906 I was granted sick leave to go up the

China coast, because of diarrhoea and its results.

When I went on leave on 5th.

October, 1907, I continued to suffer from the diarrhoea I

had had all the summer until I actually reached Burope,

with