of our charge. If he can settle this Case, we will take the first case off the list and proceed to deal with
the decreed rate.
Every Firm is
medical, like bound to advise
clogging -
It is natural,
but not workable in a department which, like Public, has a large number of
Medical Officers all over the world,
Each composed of many individual clerks, Each works in his own way on this form-
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Extract from Sir W. Robinson's despatch no. 201 of 4th Sept. 1894
Medical Departments.
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(Report, para. 139. Evidence, pp 142,167. Letter from Colonial Surgeon of 3rd April, 1894, et seq.)
33. The Committee recommends no decrease in the cost of the Medical Department, but quotes the evidence of Dr Ayres as to the cost of drugs. The Colonial Surgeon will be called upon to report and when he has furnished me with his views, I will again address your Lordship on this subject.
34. In this connection I beg to recommend for your Lordship's favourable consideration that all the members of the Civil Service be allowed to obtain their drugs from the Civil Hospital at cost price to which might be added a slight extra charge to cover any expenses which the supply of drugs might entail.
Such a privilege would be regarded as a great boon by the Civil Service and I understand that Dr Atkinson, the Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital, who is at present on leave and whom your Lordship might consult on this matter, is in favour of the proposal.
35. I concur in the proposed addition of $10 a month to the salary of the steward, Mr Chapman. With regard to Dr Lowson's request that the Doctors at the Civil Hospital should be allowed to be consulted by patients sent to them from the out ports, I am not disposed to recommend it, but I would suggest that, before any definite decision is arrived at on this point, Dr Atkinson's views be ascertained by your Lordship.
36.