2.
that a considerable abatement is made in favour
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of the "superannuation fund ".. a fund that seems
in every respect disadvantageous to the contributor:
I
was
also informed with official
authority, that there
was in the Colony, for the use of the Colonial Surgeon; an Hospital
suitably provided with surgical instruments
and medicines.
my
The Hospital, I need not tell you, does not ersist. It's absence, although
although it increases labour, does not directly affect my pecuniary, interests. I cannot however, too strongly urge the necessity of such an institution. The
as
are
Polico, especially the Indians and Portuguese,
much crowded as their rooms will admit of,
+ of sickness the promiscuous
and in the event.
congregation of the diseased and
is
healthy, eminently pernicious to both. The diseased, so circumstanced, cannot derive the full benefit of medical treatment, and the healthy become, sooner or later, victions to the disease
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which surrounds them. The wants of the invalias
also,
are administered to, capriciously and irregularly,
by their healthy comrades ; it results from this, that the curative means at their disposal, both with respect to diet and medicines, are by mal- administration rendered unavailing. These evils are
much increased by the remarkable unwillingness of the Indians to assist each other, and their objection to European treatment. Great benefit would result from the timely separation of the diseased from the healthy, a
the
more
and
which
effective treatment and nursing
Hospital. The position
could be ensured,
in an
of some of the stations is unquestionably unhealthy. These remarks to the sick inmates of the prison
There
are no
are also applicable
surgical instruments
provided for the use of the Colonial Surgeon, the
repair and dectruction of which form perious items in the expenses of his office .
At the Colonial Office in Londow
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