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exclusively for particular duties, although, as a matter of course, one at least would always be required to live at the Hospital. Whether or not a Staff of four, whilst debarred from private practice, should not as a matter of social necessity, be allowed consultative practice in special and grave cases, is a question on which I express no opinion at present.
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I may here remark, however, that any discussion of the reorganisation of the Department, would be imperfect unless at the same time account is taken of the system under which the sanitary work of the Colony is at present carried on. I note that the Retrenchment Committee suggest that it should be considered whether the Sanitary Department should not be placed under