Enclosure
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18th June, 1895.
The report of the Committee appointed by His Excel-
leacy the Governor to enquire into the Medical Department, has
recently been published, and my attention has been directed to
a paragraph in that report which reads as follows: -"That the "Medical Officer of the Gaol has not sufficient work, but that "the present occupant of the post is not competent to assist at
"the Government Civil Hospital."
This statement, especially the latter part of it, if
unanswered, would cast a lasting slur upon my professional abil- ities and reputation, and it is on this account, that I humbly
crave His Excellency's permission to subeit for his considera-
tion a few facts and observations.
2.
It is quite apparent that the members of the Medi-
cal Committee were induced to express such an opinion of re by
the remarks and evidence of Drs. Ayres, Atkinson and Lowson; and
the justness of their conclusions is directly dependent on the
correctness of the testimony of these three Medical Officers.
I have no desire to take any notice of the remarks
of these Officers, however unkind and unjust they may be, which contain nothing more than their own personal opinions unsupport-
ed by facts and unwarranted by previous experience, as that may
3.
The Honourable
J. H. Stewart Lockbart,
Colonial Secretary,
80.
&c. &c.