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Sanitary Department Office,

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Kowloon, October 3rd., 1910.

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Pref 26 NOV 10

Sir,

Having heard that a Principal Civil Medical

Officer is required in the colony of Mauritius, I have the honou to herewith make application for the appointment and request

that you will be good enough to forward my application to the

ERENÍM proper quarter.

In support of r application I would ask

consideration of the following taxix points.

(1).

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I have made from 1895 to 1900 thirty four

visits to Mauritius and my aggregate stay in the island amounts

to probably nearly two years. I thus know the Colony well.

(2). I speak French and the Mauritian patois

the lingua franca of all the various races which make up the

population of the Colony. Before coming to Hongkong I also

spoke Hindustani to a very useful extent and although I have

not had to speak that language for ten years I feel sure that I

should very quickly reacquire case in speaking.

(3).

I have had over fifteen years experience

of medical and public health work in the tropics having lived

in India, Ceylon, and Mauritius and Hongkong as well as having

visited the Straits Settlements, Burma, Seychelles and La

Réunion.

(4).

I have had considerable experience in

dealing with natives of India the people who form the greater

part of the population of Mauritius, and have on three occasions

had charge for the Mauritius Government of a large number of

Indian emigrents.

My experience of Chinese would be of value

in Mauritius as there are many of that nationality in the Colony,

I was in the Colony when plague broke out

there and was able by the countery of Dr. Lorans, since Director

(5).

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