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Every day when he had refused to make the examination of a body when requested to do so by the Coroner. It is almost needless to say that it was never intended to tie Dr. Wharry down to attendance at the Hospital during all the 24 hours of the day.
What was objected to was that when he was on spot, he was not summoned to attend the patients who were supposed to have been poisoned. There are grave reasons to suppose that Dr. Wharry's arrangements were made more with the view of his not being disturbed at night than with any other object.
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The Executive Council took into careful consideration on 3rd December all the several letters written by Dr. Wharry as well as all the documents referred to by him in those letters. The Surveyor-General, Mr. Vice, asked leave to be excused on the ground that he had recently been the victim of an entirely...