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I Whurray's objections to the Rules as I can gather from his letter. He finds in them firstly materials for the degradation of his position and for making it his principal duty to attend on the Colonial Surgeon and secondly he complains that the proposed regulations breathe too much in force as of course or as matters of course. The two arguments are scarcely consistent. No one knows better than I Whurry
ever sought to degrade his Position. He is perfectly well aware that I have carried on a policy of conciliation and forbearance towards him to a point beyond which, it would have been pure weakness to have gone and a stance of the Proposed rules is sufficient to show that the Superintendents' principal date be at their hands Charge that thing will lead to make it the Superintendents' principal duty to attend on the Colonial Surgeon is anything but a reluctant exaggeration
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As to Dr Whurray's second objection to the rules that he has always supplied me as a matter of routine with all the information I should obtain under them. I can only say that if he had always done so I should never have drawn up the rules and submitted them to His Excellency. Certainly he ought to have furnished me with the information. The rules only embody the ordinary course of communication between the Colonial Surgeon and the Superintendents of the Hospital and it is the fact of Dr Whurray showing so little disposition to abide by this routine that has led to so much trouble
As to Dr Whurray's charge against me "of using expressions calculated to mislead " and his covert sneer at the change of opinion apparently produced in me by the lapse of years, I would not notice language so unworthy beside the purpose and unbecoming were it not that it seems to me to afford convincing evidence of that feeling which Dr Whurray entertains towards me on the ground and which has formed all along the basis of my complaints.
Under the circumstances therefore Anxious as I am for peace in my own Department I cannot recede from the position I have taken with reference to the Proposed rules. My confirmed opinion is that without some such regulations capable of being positively enforced I cannot perform the responsible duties in connection with the Civil Hospital of my office in a manner consistent with the public interests. The matter is too grave a one to drop and I am compelled thus with great regret to ask His Excellency for a substantive decision on the question I have raised
Herbert Swart
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I have the honour to be
The Colonial Secretary
Lei
Your obedient Servant
Leit. Ph. D. C. Augler.
Colonial Surgeon