CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7] — Page 337

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cases of trifling ailments requiring

hospital treatment, but only those who were excused by my orders from work and separated from their fellows.

IV. The Look Hospital.

I must be

very

brief in my remarks this establishment, as I propose at the end of the

year,

after three

years experience

the working of Ordinance 12 of 1857 . entering very fully into the whole question, in reference to which I have amassed a great number of data Thus much however I will now state; that I believe that it

now

ด

has already done incalculable

been the means

good, and been the

preventing incalculable wil. a

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of

statement which I trust will

duty

it

encourage those whose is specially to see it enforced to persevere in their unpleasant but most important duties,

Of the importance of some be no

such measure there can doubt. Both

among

Naval and

Military invalids the syphilitis amount to nearly 25 per cent

very

of the whole, and this is nearly the same proportion in the Government bivil Hospital

In

one ship in 1859.