CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922 — Page 490

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ALA GUIANA

sir.

483

DOVARMENT HOUSE,

(KGORGETOWN, DOTERASA.

14th May, 1921.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of your cypher telegram of the 13th May on the subject of Dr.Minatt's application for the post of Surgeon General,

2, In my opinion the most important, branch of the medical service of this celony is that of tha Health officer, Dr.Minett happens to have obtained during the war practical experies of cap sanitation, which in of special valus here. He is also a bacteriologist

and it appears to me that with proper support he is

likely to do a great deal of good in the colony. If

some other suitable person can be obtained as Burgsen General, I should prefer, for a few years at any rate,

to retain fr.Vinett sa Govammant Medical Officer of

Health. His appointment as Surgeon General, I m

afraid, would necessitats a good deal of his time being

taken away from the work for which he is specially

competent.

3. On the other hand, I find the senior medical

officers in the Service are jealous not only of Dr.

Minett, but I think of any capable officer wha mi ht be appointed in his plass. Dr.Ossard and other medical officers are of opinion that the Government, Mediosl Officer of Health should be looked upon as a distinctly

subordinate officer, and should only be allowed to act at the request of, and under tha euservision of, them- selves. This my partly be due to a circular issued by

Dr.

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