It's prevent figure, hours of duty
as in the case
and that his
are not limited
of Every other De-
partment
lucent but that he must be
in readiness to meet
any
Call or day, it cannot by any means be said that these Conditions are Excessive, the less if the reasons which I give are also considered.
6. That such remuneration would be more than fully earned must be obvious to the Government, and the whole colony, but as this application will doubtless be referred to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, who cannot be aware how laborious and Extended have become the duties devolving on the Head of the Department here, I deemed it desirable to refer to some of the more important of those duties in as brief words as I am able.
I have sole medical charge of the Gaol, an Establishment comprising nearly seven hundred persons in prisoners and Staff. This requires a daily morning visit of lengthened duration and often additional daily visits and night calls. The European Members of the Gaol Staff, and their families, whose lodgings are scattered all over the town at considerable distances, are entitled, by the Government Regulations, to my services at their own homes.
Under the system of administering the Criminal Law, the increase of late years in the number of prisoners, and the increase of petty thieves and ... who are all less suffering from disease, caused by semi-starvation, have entailed upon me more than double the work of former years. The recent changes in the Judicial duties of ... from ... to ... have ...
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