7 495
patients is
only
6.
10 in
a year.
Dr Wharry is also called
in to examine supposed lunatics as the certificate of two medical
is
required.
There
are
about 10 or 12
of these examinations in a
%
in a year.
Formerly fees were __
paid for these duties and for medics
·legal work but these fees
were
a consolidated
abolished in 1873, and salary fixed. If it is thought right that Dr Wharry should be relieved of any of these duties, either fees
again paid or a salary
must
must be
must be
given
to the person
paid to
undertaking them, which would probably absorb what is now D'elbarques and leave nothing available for the purpose of
improving Dr Wharry's position. I
think that
if
it is decided to relieve
Dr Wharry of any part of his duties
the best arrangement would be to entrust them to Dr Marques
time.
do
retaining him at the same Assistant Surgeon, and holding him available also for quarantine duty : whenever required.
8.