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board the Bahamians, in the harbour. The invoice, amounting to £125, I will, should it be pronounced an advantageous transfer to Government, be happy to hand over for the use of the dispensary. This will supply with additions hereafter of a few articles inadvertently ordered by me on too small a scale, my opinion furnish the police with medicines for a year, and leave a residue to be carried into next year's account, of sufficient extent to reduce the then requisition for medicines below the monthly average stated in my former communications.
I beg to call His Excellency's attention to my former communications illustrative of this subject, and to render this reference the more easy, I will take the liberty of recapitulating some of the points alluded to formerly. I had the honor of transmitting a letter addressed to me from Mr May, showing the present deductions from the pay and rations of the force in sickness; and recommending, in connexion with the contemplated hospital, an alteration by which these deductions may fairly be enlarged. At present the patients are stopped from the Europeans, if they are in the Seaman's Hospital, and if under treatment at their stations, a certain proportion of their pay: and with regard to the Indians and Chinese, except that they provide their own rations. Mr. May proposes that the whole pay of the Indians and Chinese shall be stopped, and the whole of the rations of the Europeans, under the contemplated system, it being obvious that all things will be provided in the hospital which they require.
I will now present three calculations; 1st. a comparative statement of the gross expenses under the old system of treatment, and contemplated method; 2nd a calculation of the resources as they now exist in the old system, set against its monthly expenditure. 3rd the contemplated system