CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12] — Page 341

2.

I understand from

Dr

as also

Ayres and his colleagues from the unofficial practitioners in

whom I have interrogated

the Colony

on the subject that under the present Medical Staff the Contagious Diseases Act of 1867 is so perfectly applied_ and the - supervision over suspected persons so strictly maintained, that a marked diminution in the number of inmates at the Look Hospital_ could not but follow.

3.

it glance at the Blue Book Returns will confirm this. statement and will show that the number of patients has been annually thinning till now the average stands

at 15, the minimum.

336

- having been 3,

And the maximum 55. With regard

to the latter it should however be stated that it was as

4:

the building

accommodate

a

far back as

back; as 1874.

The consequense is;

was

as

designed to

many

that

as. 100 beds

́ of room is wasted, and

great deal of

the larger portion of the wards remain

empty

Does there

from what I appear to be

ascertain

any probability

of their being again wanted.

I am advised too that

the periodical medical examination

of European . women, provided by the Act was never put in force. sunder

any

thing like a proper system until the

1843