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bedo, because they formed their calculations

on the supposition of there being anty

1544 additional women to be

whereas the

more

women

to be inspected

recent returns of the

Progistrar General grave

2,100.

the Number as

b. It is true that, if all those women

were to leave the bolony, there would

be

ample

accommodation for Lock

Patients in a

neu

using of the projected

Haspital- but this is

only

an

additional reason for reconsidering the propriety of compelling this Colony to jain in an expenditure so questionable lith

Tas to it's necefruity

I may

and it's policy.

add that

Government is

ao

this

so far

necessity for

concerned the.

contracting, Il large expenditive Public works, not absolutely expential,

has compellect

erecting

mme

to

give up the idea of a new laivil Hospital at present.

and, therefore, the site

on which the

bommittee proposed to erect the

new

lange Lock Hospital will not be vacant.

8.

It is my belief that

belief that accommodation

for 70 Lock Patients is all that need

be contemplated, and this adequately completed

at

а

on the

can

be

040

the present lot

cast of bout £1200, whilst all

the objects of the New Ordinance,

be carried out

by

the

can

existing Medical

Staff - the pummary powers of the new

Ordinance were

the chief

chief requisite,

and

though the arrangements of the existing