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of ill health; and the provisional appointment of Mr. Leach to the post of Warden.
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In my despatch No. 34 of the 14th of June, I laid before your Lordship copies of some minutes on the defective sanitary arrangements of the Gaol, in one of which, dated 29th May 1877, the Colonial Surgeon, Dr. Ayres, said:
"The stench in the Warden's quarters at times in the hot weather is sickening, and the health of the previous Warden suffered very much in consequence."
On referring to the papers upon which Mr. Grey was pensioned, I find the Medical Officer of the prison certifying that the Warden had been continually suffering from intermittent fever and bowel complaints; being the diseases that, in my experience of hospitals and prisons, are generally traceable to the want of such sanitary arrangements as the Dry-Earth System.
I also transmitted to your Lordship a copy of the instructions I felt it to be my duty to issue (after some preliminary minutes) on the 6th of June to the Acting Superintendent of the Prison and to the Colonial Surgeon.