reporting that Mr. Mary Simmons, Matron of the Lunatic Asylum, is physically unfit for further duty, and recommending that she should be pensioned.
I should have ~
been glad to assede to Dr Ayres request but. unfortunately there is a difficulty in the
way, for
the establishment of the Lunatic Asylum has been
always
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always described in the Estimates as Provisional " and Temporary", and therefore a member of the staff would not appear to be entitled to pension under the HongKong Pension Minute.
It does not appear
that there was any special reason for so describing the staff of the Lunatic Asylum,
and I do not think that
it was ever.
contemplated
that the members of it
should