whatever
to Your Lordship that any expence- should be insured by Her Majesty's Government in that
quarter,
la NONE..
has
hitherto been incurred - beyond- Medical-
attendance on
the sick...
blie Servants.
The two classes of public
who
appear
to
me
really to require Medical
aid to be supplied - gratis,
the folony,
Civil
are the Police of
inferior
and the Clerks and other
officers. This tatter class
I believe
are
La a
This latter class of Perims, (as
represented _ by Sir. Henry Pottinger.)
the Mercantile.
invariably, among community of this Colony, relieved at the expence.
I believe this really employers.
of their
proceeds from a just- calculation of what _ would be lost in the abrence of
their Services,
the
were continued sickness to result as
consequence of inadequate Medical.
and such as would be obtained. wvere
left
to their
own means.
--
relief, they
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As regards the Police., I have it in
with the Major
contemplation to arrange -
General commanding that they shall be housed "when sick in the spacious and with situated.
Military Hospital
ve
which is now in course-
completion by Major Aldrich.. One shilling
per
of
diem will be deducted from their pay while under-treatment, and the Hospital-
rations will be supplied to them. In this
many
valuable
degree of
manner I doubt not that lives will be preserved, and a_ mortality
which prevailed in the early and disadvantageous circumstances of folony, prevented..
In the absence of any expence- account Colonial - Hospital, your
of a.
the
Lordship might not be disinclined to sanction. the present - moderate- outlay of -
Ibon per
DL
Annum for Medical - attendance-
the Police and other-
inferior
Servants,
and