CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 228

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protection of members of their respective

Services, seems injustifiable and certainly needs

explanation.

It

is clear that a not unnatural

confusion of ideas as to the necessity for

seamining all prostitutes in this bolony, because such examination to be effective I for sanitary purposes, even as regards

merely the fleet and Garrison, would be

Europe, underlies the

necessary in

Instructions of the Admiralty

and Mar

Department on the subject. The Officers

He

there of those Departments, however, He having received those instructions

considered they had

no discretion and

therefore framed their calculations on the orders sent from England.

formed.

Janded.

15.

It

is, however, not too late to put this

I

matter right, and although regret much

that there

appears

to be little chance at

present of establishing the Lock Hospital

at

а

distance from the laivil Hospital

of erecting

a new Civil Hospital in a

ar

more convenient position, I presume such

a result must be accepted for a time as an inevitable necessity.

I have the honor to be

May Lord Dutte, Your Grace's most obedient, humble servant,

Retied Granny Mardonnell

Governor.

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