Application for appointment of medical Inspector under the Act for the prevention of Contagious Diseases.

Army and Navy Club SW
27 July 1864

Sir
I beg respectfully to offer myself as a candidate for the Appointment of medical Inspector under the Act for the prevention of Infectious Diseases. The act says that a superior medical officer of the Navy of the Army shall be appointed, and as a Staff Surgeon in the Navy with a long and varied

The Secretary of the Admiralty

varied experience including service in the principal places to which the act refers, I trust that I may be considered qualified legally, as I feel that I am personally to carry its provisions into effect.
I contemplated annexing copies of public letters & Certificates illustrating my services generally in a readable form & in order of date, but as they are not yet complete I beg to enclose rough drafts relating to my services in Ireland during the period of distress in 1847, which testify to the

possession of administrative abilities indespensable to the efficient performance of the duties of a Medical Inspector under the Act for the prevention of Contagious Diseases.

I have the honor to be
Sir, Your most ob^t. humble Serv.
W^m Loney
Staff Surgeon R.N.

Admiralty, SW
2^nd. August 1864

Sir
I have received and laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 27. ultimo requesting to be appointed Medical Inspector under the Act for the prevention of Contagious Diseases.

I am
Sir Your obedient Servant
W.G. Romaine

William Loney Esq^re
Staff Surgeon R.N.
Army & Navy Club

[Both William Loney and the Admiralty seemed to have been rather unsure of the exact title of the Act!]