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the practice of medicine and surgery and I regret that I cannot recommend him to be Head of the Medical Department.
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Dr. Bell is a good physician and surgeon and is liked by his subordinates. I cannot, however, conscientiously say that he has been of much assistance to the Government in its endeavours to render acceptable to the Chinese section of the community Western sanitary measures or Western Medical Science. He has never interested himself in the Hongkong College of Medicine so far as to assist by leoturing in it.
I have, therefore, come to the conclusion that the opportunity should be taken of infusing new blood into the Medical Department by placing at its head a highly qualified officer with proved administrative capacity and sympathy with
native races.
If you are inclined to adopt this view I would venture to recommend for the post Dr.
E.G.h. Arnold(son of Sir Edwin Arnold by his first wife) of the Fiji Medical Service. He is highly qualified(M.R.C.S.England 1894: Lic., 1894, and Lember, 1898, R.C.P.London:M.B.Mac. Surg. 1896 University of Durham.).
He is reputed to be
a very clever surgeon and has not vegetated long enough in a little civilised country to forget what he has learned. I understand that he abandoned what was expected to be a brilliant medical career in langland owing to reasons of health. He has not as far as I am aware enjoyed other than good health in Fiji. He is in addition
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