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Dr. BELL.-One European War.imaster, and as many Chinamen as you wanted. Colonel HUGHES.-How long was that Wardmaster there?
Dr. BELL-A very short time. One died early in the year, and the other man was his successor.
Colonel HUGHES.-Is the new man there now?
Dr. BELL.-Yes.
Colonel HUGHES.--Didn't he come out at the end of the epidemic?
Dr. BELL.-Yes, he did.
Colonel HUGHES.-Was'nt the other man dying when the epidemic first broke out? Dr. BELL. Yes,
Colonel HUGHES.-He was fit for no work?
Dr. BELL.-Oh, yes.
He worked up to the last; he was the best man we ever had.
Colonel HUGHES.-Was he fit for work?
Dr. BELL.-I take it a man is fit for work as long as he does his work, and he did his work thoroughly.
Colonel HUGHES.-What did he die of?
Dr. BELL.-Phthisis.
Colonel HUGHES.-You had to apply to me for assistance.
Dr. BELL. Yes, and you lent us two men.
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Colonel HUGHES.-What would you have done without them? Could you have got on without them?
pay?
Dr. BELL.—We could not get anybody; I had tried to get some one before, Colonel HUGHES.--I lent you a Corporal and a man. What did the Government
Dr. BELL-Eighty dollars a month, I think.
Colonel HUGHES.-What is the salary of the permanent Wardmaster ?
Dr. BELL-I cannot remember the figures. It is in the Estimates. The Account- ant pays all the salaries.
The Secretary.-Eight hundred and sixty-six dollars a year.
The Chairman.—Isn't it better to have your own staff properly made up? Dr. BELL. Yes.
The Chairman. And yet you are satisfied with what you have.
Dr. BELL. I am satisfied with the staff at Kennedy Town. Wardmasters and two trained Sisters.
Colonel HUGHES.-At the Hospital?
Now I have two
Dr. BELL. Yes, the Sisters are, and one Wardmaster is on the way out from England.
Colonel HUGHES.-You will have two.
Dr. BELL.-There are now two to be permanent. This is the first epidemic I have had charge of and it came on suddenly. Arrangements are now made that in future there shall always be two European Wardmasters, and two trained Sisters.
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