CO129-037 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [6-9] — Page 109

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Colony, the arrangements for... provisioning the sick having been tacitly left, as I have understood, to the discretion of the Colonial.

Surgeon, who includes the orders for diet in his every day scheme of treatment. A daily record of consumption is kept in the Hospital, which forms the basis of the monthly requisitions for hospital expenditure-

The provision contractor for the prisons being required to - furnish the daily rations at a "fiseed: sum per head, it was found mou convenient to supply such indulgences as Wine, Sago, Arrowroot, te, to the sick prisoners from the Civil Hospital; and these items are included in the monthly disbursements of the.

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latter institution-

This system while it precludes any encroachment on the fixed- arrangements with the Contractor enables the Colonial Surgeon to meet the necessities of the sick with more fromptitude, efficiency, and exactness than could be accomplished by any

other metho I have, te, (Signed) William Morrison

Colonial Surgeon-

True Copy.

Acting Colonial Treasurer.