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494

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The medico legal -

and post mortem work has I.

informed been always performed.

by Dr Wharry. Referring to these

in

his amual

duties Dr Ayres says report for 1894 (see Blue Book ) " I ___

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"cannot say that I have found the

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medico legal and post mortem

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work to interfere materially with other duties during the time

my

I took charge of the Civil Hospital"

(in the absence on leave of Dr Wharry).

Dr Wharry has had

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charge of Small-pox patients when

in the

they have been placed. immediate neighbourhood of the Bospital. At one time they

housed on

were

Stone Cutters Island and

Dr Adams received a fee for each

visit there. At a later period

temporary hospital

was

a

provided

in Victoria but at some distance

from the Civil Hospital, when Dr

Ayres took charge

without extra.

remuneration. Now the wards are

on the Hospital grounds, only

separated by a road from the Civil Hospital. The

average

number of

they

patients

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