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Victoria, of th July, 1847.

I do hereby certify that Mr Joze d'Almada e Castro has been suffering for some time pact from general debility, and a

tendency to cough, with glandular enlargements,

but more

· particularly,

since the

commencement

of the hot weather his general health has been

so much impaired as to prevent him attending

to his

in the Colonial Office

duty in

I am of opinion that Mr Almada's

constitution requires

a sea

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voyage, and change of climate for a few months, and I have there fore to recommend that leave of absence be granted to him until the termination of the hot seasoni

(Signed). Peter Young, Col. Surgeon

Marine

Colonial Secretary,