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afterwards, but they reported that
# it was not advisable, with a due
# regard to the interests at stake, to
"allow the whole responsibility and
"charge to devolve on one Medical
Officer." Thereupon, Governor Hennessy appointed Dr Marques provisionally, as Assistant. In Dr Wharry's last Annual Report he complains that
Sir G. Bowen removed this Assistant.
reference to the
It will be seen, on correspondence that passed in (See Encl. 2). 1883, alluded to in paragraph 3 of this despatch, that this statement
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as
is also misleading, as Sir G. Bowen wished to leave Dr. Marques Assistant to Dr Wharry, and sanctioned that arrangement provisionally; but, in consequence of Dr Wharry's disregard of the Governor's directions, he was compelled to fall back upon the strict letter of the conditions laid down by the Secretary of State's despatch of 25th January, 1883.
Now considering that Dr. Wharry has frequently asserted that the sole charge of the Civil Hospital