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to Colonel Ayres to Colonel Sis
date, to lay before Your Lordship the enclosed letters from Lt. Ayres long
the Colonial Surgeon asking for the appointment of the Department in addition to his other duties and inviting Your Lordship to direct an inquiry into some way of devolving the sanitary duties hitherto done by him as Medical Officer of the Gaol, etc.
2. He has hitherto done the sanitary duties on him as Medical Officer of the Gaol, etc. regards his wish to hold the appointment in addition to that of Colonial Surgeon, I can only repeat that in my opinion the Ordinances of the Colony contemplate that the functions of Colonial Surgeon and of Medical Inspector should be performed by separate persons. At all events, as the Attorney General points out, in his minute of the 27th of July 1880, the Ordinances of the Colony actually make separate provisions for these Offices.
3. Furthermore, I found Dr. Ayres ill-informed in sanitary matters, and deficient in judgment and discretion especially