129
total income
NOW under medical advice your petitioner has removed the
patient from the Asylum for a time and sent her to reside with two nurses in rooms in the country it having been considered
possible that as one side of the brain is sane the association
and living with other patients suffering from mental diseases
may have aggravated her symptoms. This new method of treatment
your petitioner fears will rather increase expense than lessen
it
Therefore your petitioner earnestly begs that in considera-
tion of her husband's former services to the Government she
may be granted a pension or allowance under section 9 (1) of
the Civil List Act 1901: during her daughters illness or
until the expenses resulting from her affliction can be reduced
without detriment to her prospects of recovery your petitioner
begs to enclose a copy of testimonials respecting her late
husband Also she would respectfully remind the Right Honourable the Secretary of State of her husband's long service (29 or 30
years abroad) of his responsibility on the visit of H.M.S.
Bacchante" to Hong Kong when on several occasions he accompanied
and was responsible for the safety of the two young Princes
(the late Duke of Clarence and the present Prince of Wales)
when they came on shore. Your petitioner's late husband was
also wounded on duty and had a maimed thumb to the end of his
life. He was also responsible on the visits of the "Czar of
Russia" (who in Japan a week after he left Hong Kong was shot
at) and the "Duke and Duchess of Connaught" whom he had to
receive on arrival and conduct to Government House and several
other Royalties on different occasions.
MARIAN SUSAN DEANE.
ENCLOSURE 3.
(1)
Letter from Dr. Fraser.
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