0.0.
Consideration she might otherwise expect to receiv
I may
add that hire year
an
only near relation is only sister, with an invalid husband and a
limit bery income, who has from time Contributed small terms towards the patients expous
Yours obediently Correach
late Governor of
Labuan
North Borneo.
THE HUMBLE
PETITION
39153
Rae?
128
Fast 2 DEC 09
of
MARIAN SUSAN
DEANE residing at "14 Bladuch Buildings Bath" to THE RIGHT
HONOURABLE THE SECRETARY OF STATE for the COLONIES sheweth
THAT your petitioner is the Widow of the late W.M. Deane
Captain Superintendant of Police who died on the second of
August 1906 and since her husband's death she has been in
receipt of the following income for the support of herself and
her two daughters Christobal aged 29 and Beryl aged 27.
1906 (from August)
1907
£174. 14. 5.
£389. 5. 5.
£400. 2. 5.
1909 (to October 6th)
£298. 19. 0.
1908
WITH the above suns (which are chiefly derived from a
Marriage Settlement fund) your petitioner and her daughters were
enabled to live comfortably until October 1907 when her
younger daughter "Beryl" became afflicted with a mental
derangement necessitating her detention in an asylum Since
your petitioner had to send her daughter to an asylum she and
her elder daughter "Christobel" have had to give up their house
and establishment sell most of their family silver and valuable
curios collected during their relative's long residence in the
East and they have reduced their household expenses to a
minimum and your petitioner has been compelled to encroach
yearly on her capital to meet these high and unforeseen
expenses.
THE nature of the illness which is considered to be the
result of sunstroke is a peculiarly distressing form of
delusional insanity manifested by terror of persecution and
sudden paroxysms of unaccountable fear which renders the
employment of day and night nurses necessary and in other ways
have so increased the charges of the asylum that the medical
and nursing expenses alone have exceeded half your petitioner's
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