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blown down in 1874 and the
Stoteld'En
I`'Europe
taken up as a
Hospital
I had to take in all these
in 1875.
the dilapidated
one half of the old building
used as a
lunatic Asylum and take
charge of them myself. Fortunately
Small-pox Cases
typhoon season so they
in the
Afterwards a mat hut but on
Arrival in the open space
near the Government
Civil Hospital
Awas used, next the half
of the school House taken up
by the A. A.
Now, a substantial
Lunatic Asylum. Now a
wooden hut on the open space where
the mat hut was,
is used as a Small-
pox ward
The two last establishments
were entirely
a great source of anxiety and trouble from their situation and construction for many years, for these I had also to train the attendants and for taking charge of them
increase of pay,
was offered
220
or asked for.
Public Mortuary:
After many years
and continual
reports
on the impropriety of the Government Civil Hospital mortuary being used
for post-mortem purposes,
bodies
of drowned persons being continually brought in, in advanced stages of decomposition, the foul odour from whom
through the wards to the distress
of the patients
A new
building was constructed
away from habitations on the outskirts
of the city.
Subordinates drawing under £400 a year: There and their families belonging to all the different Departments
are scattered all over the town and form a considerably large practice. That I have been careful
and considerate in my attendance on them and never neglected them for my private practice before I gave it up at the beginning of 1888