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remaining

where they

they are in charge of the Barrack

Sentry. In the communications I have had with

baptain Barrow the assistant commissariat office

IrInance

without

detailing

to him

my views

•pecting

him, he

the store nearly completed for

- as always expressed himself, most ready and

anxious to meet

any

arrangements the exigencies

of the service ay require.

в

Hospital Accommodation

There is great complaint of the present position of the Ordnance Hospital from the facility its exposure affords to patients to obtain spirits and

oiner

Kings interfering

The patients to

conducting

themselves

these becoming convalescent - thes, on the

Hospital at Chuck - Chew

completion of the

new

with medical treatment -

t

are

generally

might

sent to that Hospital which could be might be sent to that

convalescent Hospital and then

used as a conv

room would be

given

as a

more

temporary arrangement

for patients in the Ordnance Hospital using it

as a

General Hospital – if this proposal would

not answer, it could only

be

remedied by the

purchase of a house for a hospital or by

building

The

x new one.

Quarters for Officers

immediate Barrack accommodation for

Offerers, to much required

Can

only be provided

for by lakery some bulding for them that

would answer

Usider these circumstances I feel it

to propose to your

my duty

Lordship's consideration, the

necessity of immediately securing

for the

accommodation