CO129-511-15 Appointment of Director of Medical and Sanitary Services 3-9-1928 - 19-12-1928 — Page 7

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I have discussed this with Dr. Rutherford,

and we passed in review the following candidates,

Dr.P.T.Harper

11 R.Jamison

(Fiji)

(Swaziland)

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P.J.Kelly

(British Guiana)

11 W.B.A.Moore

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G.C.Strathearn

#1 K.A.S.Wise

(Hong Kong)

(Jamaica)

(Trinidad),

in addition to others who were not

thought particularly suitable.

Dr.Kelly may be dismissed at once,

Sir Cecil Clementi having definitely expressed

the opinion that he is too old.

Dr.Harper and Dr.Jamison are surgeons,

and quite good men, but there seems no reason to suppose that they would be particularly well qualified to deal with such a problem as the reorganisation of the Hong Kong Medical Department. Moreover, they have no sanitary qualifications.

Dr.Moore had already been rejected

virtually as being not at all well suited to reorganise the Department, even if the fact that his whole service has been in Hong Kong was not a fatal objection. Moreover, he has only just got the D.T.M. & H., which is not really a sanitary qualification at all.

Dr.Wise could not be seriously considered in view of Sir Horace Byatt's last three reports.

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There remains Dr.Strathearn, who is

just 50, which is a little older than one could wish, but he has a sanitary qualification, the D.P.H., and has had a very varied experience; apart from service in South Africa, where in Medical Concentration Camps, he has served for

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