583
11
3. All cases of surgical operations either performed or proposed to be performed by the Superintendent shall be brought by him to the knowledge of the Colonial Surgeon at the earliest convenient moment. In consultation cases the Superintendent shall not call in any medical assistance unknown to the Colonial Surgeon who is the only proper consulting Officer of the Hospital and who shall therefore in every instance be communicated with first.
4. The Superintendent shall report daily to the Colonial Surgeon on the occasion of his morning visit to the Hospital any incident of interest or importance connected with the sick or the attendants or the general administration of the Hospital that may have transpired during the previous twenty-four hours so that the Colonial Surgeon may be fully cognisant of all that passes from day to day and thus be able, the necessity arising, to report to Government without delay.
+
I must allow the subsequent correspondence to speak for itself. It comes to this that His Excellency calls upon me to withdraw and drop the charges I have made against my subordinate, and that His Excellency substantially declines to sanction my proposed rules.
As to any charges against D'Wherry, I cannot withdraw or modify complaints which are so well grounded, and I have made it abundantly clear that I desire no further action on these complaints than by making my stand upon them as a reason for the introduction of the proposed Rules, which I regard under existing circumstances as essential to the well-being of the Hospital and which are in no way calculated to injure or degrade D'Wherry.
I deeply regret to be obliged to add that during the progress of our correspondence and since its conclusion D'Wherry, finding himself supported by His Excellency, has assumed in every way a most insubordinate and defiant attitude towards me. His Excellency has quite recently adopted the system of consulting D'Wherry upon medical questions which are within my province, has deferred to his opinion on the Rules framed by me for his guidance and has called on me to forward to D'Wherry for his opinion Hospital plans proposed by me in collaboration with the Surveyor General and finally approved by His Excellency and by Sir Michael Hicks Beach many months ago, at a time when I had not had the misfortune to come under His Excellency's notice.