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will be observed that on
the two
first occasions of Dr Wharry's declining to comply with the directions given to him and
again in replying to the Coroner's order, he said nothing whatever about ill health. If that had been the real ground of his refusal he would have plainly asserted it from the first. Dr Wharry only said he was unable
to perform the work, which
meant really
that he was unwilling and did not intend
to do it, and he believed
apparently that, on his refusal assistance would have been obtained from the Military,
and that the matter would have
been thus settled.
19.
I thought it right before
proceeding any further with the charges against Dr Wharry to direct that he should be examined by a Medical Board composed of
Naval and Military
the Chief Naval and
Medical Authorities and of Dr Manson, a private practitioner