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approval, for the appointment of an additional Surgeon the Medical
surgeon in the Repartiment, who would, ordinar
C
dinarily,
be attached to the Civil Hospital,
but would have, as his principal
duty,
the cha
charge of the Epistemic
Hospital, the immediate building of
which has been strongly urged upon the Government by the Sarsitary Board, and the necessity of which
wa
referred to in paragraph 30 of the Governor Deepatch already quoted. The Colonial Surgeon, too, is of opinion that no time should
be
$1,440
be lost in ma
aw,
naking the appointment,
in the event of an epidemie, it
would be
present
nece
2.
seary
very difficult with aur
ources
ME JOU^
to provide the
medical attendance.
In the Estimates for 1889.
the laleiry of the proposed -
additional surgeon was put down at
one thouseend four
hundred and
$2,400 forty dollar riving to two thousand
and
: four hundud dollars; but it
was subsequently pointed out to the Governor by Q, Ayres that a competent man could not be
induced