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ante combined.

Z. It will be two

years before

is

the proposed new hospital ie

ready to

receive patiente,

meanwhile it will not be possible to continue

ater

commodating sich people in the present crazy old structure, unless it is propped

and strutted to ensure ita

safety. The flows of all the wards are rotten, and the roof of the whole building is leaky and defective _ The amount

.

of

discomfort and inconvenience which the unfortunate patients

is something

are

undergoing, is s

truly distressing

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3. Dr Wharry the resident

surgeon is almost daily.

appealing to this Department-

for

patch work or

another

continually requiring to be done about the premises, but ox fast.

as we patch and repair the building gives away in some

other

and quite unlooked for part. In short I have

arrived at that limit when

patching has

longer

besome

possible or consistent with sa

safely

H. Stad I not been led to

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understand.

on my arrival in this Colony that from

one suvil

to another the plans for the