CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918 — Page 663

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40233/1918.

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191, PRESTON NEW ROAD,

BLACKBURN, LANCS.

Sept. 29th 1918.

I am obliged for your letter of the 3rd instant with reference to the vacancy for en Apothecary in Hong Kong.

I am requested to inform you by my medical attendant, that as I am suffering from a Prolapse of the Rectum, with its usual complication and sickness, dysentry etc. that it is utterly impossible for me to proceed abroad especially to Hong Kong.

I should be glad to receive your commenta upon the subject, and should you agree with the medical adviser, to inform the Officers Appoint- ments Department, Ministry of Labour, Gresham House, Old Broad Street, B.C. of the same, in order

to show that as a disabled officer, I am perfectly willing, but it is a physical impossibility.

The return of my enclosures will oblige.

I am, etc.,

(Signed) JAMES JEFFERSON,

THE PRIVE SECRETARY TO

Lt.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE

COLONIAL OFFICE

LONDON, S.W.