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of high standing. Before this could be done however, Dr. Wharry forwarded a further reply to the charges preferred against him.
In this he complains that the action of the Government was precipitati (he forgets that provision had to be made at once for the dead bodies), he repeats his statement that physical inability was the reason of his declining, and he refers to an order that I gave on 16th October in which I expressed my opinion that it was discreditable to the Hospital that a patient might possibly be brought there and die without seeing the Superintendent. He referred also to an inquest held in 1877, and to a report made on the state of his health in 1880 by Deputy Inspector General Breen, R.M., and Deputy Surgeon General Thompson, A.M.D. These several questions having been raised by Dr. Wharry, were taken into consideration by the Executive Council.
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