CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2] — Page 207

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C O 5330

Hongkong

13th January

202

4 FEB 291 2

sir,

We the undersigned members of the Medical Staff of

the Colony of Hongkong desire to bring to your notice the

unsatisfactory financial position in which we are placed

in comparison with other branches of the public service in

this Colony and most respectfully bag that you will be

pleased to direct that some action may be taken to remedy

the present condition of affairs,

The sterling salaries of all members of the medical

staff (except that of the head of the Department ) have

been fixed at £480 rising to £720 a year by triennial incre-

ments of £40, so that it takes eighteen years to attain

the maximum salary of a Medical Officer, while it will he

seen from the Table appended to this letter that in no

other appointments in the Hongkong Civil Service are the

increments spread over a longer period than nine years.

Many of us moreover did not join the Hongkong medical

service until after several years experience of medical

work at Home and abroad, and we respectfully submit therefore

for your consideration that this system of triennial incre-

ments should be modified and that our salaries should he

subject to an annual increment of £24 so that we may attain

the maximum salary of our rank after ten years of service.

The ages of the signatories to this letter at the time

of joining the Hongkong medical service were respectively 41