CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12] — Page 370

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that a considerable abatement is made in favour

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of the "superannuation fund ".. a fund that seems

in every respect disadvantageous to the contributor:

I

was

also informed with official

authority, that there

was in the Colony, for the use of the Colonial Surgeon; an Hospital

suitably provided with surgical instruments

and medicines.

my

The Hospital, I need not tell you, does not ersist. It's absence, although

although it increases labour, does not directly affect my pecuniary, interests. I cannot however, too strongly urge the necessity of such an institution. The

as

are

Polico, especially the Indians and Portuguese,

much crowded as their rooms will admit of,

+ of sickness the promiscuous

and in the event.

congregation of the diseased and

is

healthy, eminently pernicious to both. The diseased, so circumstanced, cannot derive the full benefit of medical treatment, and the healthy become, sooner or later, victions to the disease

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which surrounds them. The wants of the invalias

also,

are administered to, capriciously and irregularly,

by their healthy comrades ; it results from this, that the curative means at their disposal, both with respect to diet and medicines, are by mal- administration rendered unavailing. These evils are

much increased by the remarkable unwillingness of the Indians to assist each other, and their objection to European treatment. Great benefit would result from the timely separation of the diseased from the healthy, a

the

more

and

which

effective treatment and nursing

Hospital. The position

could be ensured,

in an

of some of the stations is unquestionably unhealthy. These remarks to the sick inmates of the prison

There

are no

are also applicable

surgical instruments

provided for the use of the Colonial Surgeon, the

repair and dectruction of which form perious items in the expenses of his office .

At the Colonial Office in Londow

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