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Victoria, of th July, 1847.
I do hereby certify that Mr Joze d'Almada e Castro has been suffering for some time pact from general debility, and a
tendency to cough, with glandular enlargements,
but more
· particularly,
since the
commencement
of the hot weather his general health has been
so much impaired as to prevent him attending
to his
in the Colonial Office
duty in
I am of opinion that Mr Almada's
constitution requires
a sea
·
voyage, and change of climate for a few months, and I have there fore to recommend that leave of absence be granted to him until the termination of the hot seasoni
(Signed). Peter Young, Col. Surgeon
Marine
Colonial Secretary,