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True me
Immediately charging
On receipt of my
letter of Linday 7th
me with insubordination and disobedience of orders. I wish to dwell upon the fact that these charges have been formulated with undue haste, and that if the Government had been more deliberate, they would never have been preferred. "The action of the Government subsequent to the 8th when the
charges were made. I have not been able to understand and I submit that when
lying
under such charges the action of the Government towards me
should have been clear and unmistakable and I should have been left in no doubt as to what
was intended.
From the 8th when charged with disobedience until the 20th when the decision of the Council was
communicated to me. I believed and I had a
right to believe that my explanation would be satisfactory nevertheless during this period, while the suspense and the question sub judice. His Excellency informed Dr. Clyres that I had been
specially instructed
matter was in suspense and the
ordered to do the work and
the bonorer to call upon me to do it.
It passed my comprehension that His Excellency should call for explanation to be submitted to Executive Council and then without waiting for either explanations or decisions, decide it himself and give orders accordingly.
The verdict
of
the Council may have been foregone conclusion, in the mind of His Excellency but simple justice demanded that the verdict should be delivered before it was acted upon.
Here again, the action of the Government
was precipitate and the further charge formulated
of 20th is perfectly untenable
in the Government order
charges themselves
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My reason for declining the extra responsibility is as I have before stated simple inability years past I have been working at high pressure
the medical staff having always been short-handed, and I am not now able to volunteer
for extra duties as in days gone by
I
may
be found like
a jest to say that the sole charge of a General Hospital, with 98 beds and over 1500 admissions annually with a small
fox Hospital
as well are
attend to in
whether
as much as
Cause
my present enfeebled condition... The Executive Council, however are
now called upon to consider in all seriousness
with this burden already physical exhaustion
sufficient
for my not undertaking almost constant work at the Mortuary,
is a significant
away
a significant
to the most with consequent attend ime s at the Magistracy and Supreme Court, a miles
with the advice of the
in the other direction".
If His Excellency
Executive Council, now decide that
are in
sufficient I can
only place myself unreservedly
at the disposal of the government with the understanding that I shall not be answerable for the consequences.
On the 16th October declared
Mr Marsh
that the possibility of a patient being brought to the Hospital and dying without
seeing
the Superintendent
was most discreditable to a Government Hospital,
If it is obvious that Mr Marsh's instructions
carried out will greatly increase this possibility (Apropos of this the Council have before
them the inquisition with the death.
If
So much I have to
say concerning the Charges
who
was
brought to the Civil Hospital,
Archi
one afternoon
with