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Dr L R Sharples: states that he is of African descent 'and in view of this fact,...

Catalogue reference: CO 111/593/40

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CO 111/593/40
Date
1914 Mar 11
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Dr L R Sharples: states that he is of African descent 'and in view of this fact, as it is inevitable that a Government Medical Officer should in this Colony during his career be stationed from time to time in districts where he is the only medical practitioner, and as white patients object to being treated by a medical officer who is not of their own race, I cannot recommend the appointment of Mr Sharples'. [See also CO 111/593/39]

Walter Egerton, Governor of British Guiana, unnumbered confidential report, folios 516-517

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
11890/1914
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