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In the light of recent discussions with Mr. Shea, Mr. Stacey and Dr.
Bobbitt, I should like to request approval of a revision of the
compensation arrangements in the Department of Clinical Pathology designed
to bring them more nearly in line with scale in other schools and with
the Department of Pathology in this school. It is proposed that all
earnings from private ambulatory patients be segregated in a special fund
in the Bursar's Office in the name of the Department of Clinical
Pathology, that costs to the hospital for the maintenance of these
services be paid from this fund and the remainder be used to supplement
the salaries of individuals in the Department of Clinical Pathology, the
limits on these salaries to be the same as those in the Department of
Pathology, namely, the old pre-clinical scale plus up to 50%. Any
surplus remaining is to used at the discretion of the Department.

Under this arrangement I should like to recommend that Dr. Bobbitt's
total income for the year beginning July, 1957, be $15,000.00 and that
Dr. Hougie's be $10,000.00 for the same period. I should also like to
recommend that in planning the finances of the Department, provision be
made for a position of a biochemist at a salary of $10,000.00 a year. I
hope very much that these recommendations meet with your approval.