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them made by the Colonial Surgeon. I found that in addition to the Hospital duties which I had stipulated to perform, I was called upon & undertook nearly the whole of the medico-legal work of the colony, and was also ordered & took charge of the Smallpox Hospital on Stonecutter's Island, three miles off,
both without any remuneration whatever.
On March 24th 1873 the Colonial Surgeon (Sur Maclay) died, & from that time I became visiting surgeon under the C.D. Act & to Eastern district, with the allowance of £75- which had been drawn by my predecessor.
In May 1873, the Seamen's Hospital containing 59 beds, with two medical officers attached, was closed, and
all the work which had been done there was thrown upon me, also without remuneration.
Evidence of the large addition to the work performed in the Civil Hospital is contained in the fact that in the year before I took charge the Hospital receipts were under $1000, whereas they now amount to about $5000.
At the end of three years' service, ie five years ago, I applied for the £50 increase which had been promised me by the Secretary of State,
but it was refused.
The only one of my predecessors who remained over three years in the service (Dr Cochrane, who died in 1871) received an increase of £200 per annum at the end of three years, previous emoluments being about £625 (Civil Hospital £300, visiting surgeon C.D. Act £75, sundries, including legal work about £250).
My successor (Mr Young who resigned in 1872) received about £625 (Civil Hospital £300, C.D. Ordinance £75, & medical legal work £250) & private fees.
I have had more work than either Dr Cochrane or Mr Young from the closing of the Seamen's Hospital.
I have acted as medical jurist, for eight years.
Post-mortem examinations formed gratuitous duties I never stipulated for, for which my predecessors received about £250 per annum.
I have had charge without pay of the Smallpox Hospital which is altogether outside my agreement, & for which when I relieved him Dr Adams, Port Health Officer, was in receipt of $5 a day.
A few months ago I got through the whole of the enormous mass of work laid upon me, single-handed, & am now in charge of an Establishment more than double the size of that to which I was originally appointed.
Having by many years' experience become thoroughly conversant with the hygienic requirements of the Colony & the phases of disease prevalent in it, and
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