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and 24 from which it will be apparent that some of us will

only just reach the maximum pay of a Medical Officer by the

time that we are entitled to retire on pension.

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Another disability under which we labour in Hongkong

as the almost entire absence of any prospect of promotion

all the appointments on the medical staff carry the same rate

of pay (with the exception of that of the Principal Civil

Medical Officer) though some appointments such as those

of Bacteriologist, Superintendant of the Government Civil

Hospital and Medical Officer of Health involve serious

responsibilities, and we venture to suggest therefore that

the more senior appointments above named should he differen-

tiated by the grant of a higher scale of pay, say £600 to

£800 a year.

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The members of the Government service in Hongkong may

be grouped for all practical purposes into three classes

cadets, doctors and engineers and it seems to us that the

prospects of hoth the cadets and the engineers are brighter

than those of the doctors. The present Principal Civil

Medical Officer was appointed in June 1897 and during the

period of more than fourteen years which has elapsed since

that date, members of the cadet service of Hongkong have

acquired by promotion in the Colony one appointment of £1600

a year (Sir Henry May) one appointment of £900 to £1100

(Mr. J.H.Kemp ) five appointments of £800 to £1000 (Messrs

Sercombe Smith, A.M. Thomson, A.W.Brewin, F.J. Badeley and

H.H. Gompertz), one appointment of £600 to £720 with an

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