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D. Wharry for his opinion, Hospital plans proposed by one in collaboration with the Surveyor General, and finally approved by His Excellency and by Sir Michael. I wish I had been spared the misery of coming under His Excellency's displeasure on the subject of public vaccinations.
As the Head of the Medical Department in this Colony, I have important duties and grave responsibilities in connection with the Civil Hospital, which, with matters on their present footing, I am not in a position to discharge or fulfil. The interest and welfare of the Hospital therefore impose upon me the painful necessity of appealing to Your Lordships and asking your Lordship's consideration and confirmation of the rules which I propose, and within which are, less than ever, it would be possible for me to conduct that Institution.
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I trust Your Lordships will do me the justice to believe that I have only ventured on this step of addressing the Secretary of State, after every hope has become extinct of obtaining a satisfactory settlement in this Colony.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient Servant,
Mr. B.C. Auger,
Colonial Surgeon
Dear Dr. Murray,
I hope you will excuse my troubling you with a few lines about an old patient of mine, a Colonial Surgeon who is being most unjustly and shamefully treated by this unscrupulous Governor here. I am,
Yours faithfully,
W. A. Martin
August 9, 1880