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practice against the rule which required previous special permission from Government and in doing

so

he remarked that it must necessarily

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interfere with the duties of one who

much

is continually representing in his official letters that he is very "overworked and has insufficient -

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time to attend to his num

umerous

"duties and has made repeated applications for extra Medical "Assistance in the Hospital. The Governor thereupon decided that the

rule prohibiting private practice could not be modified.

4.

In July 1880 Dr

Wharry reported the urgent need of

more

didn

more

hospital accommodation and

also of

and

an increase in medical

general staff. Although the_ Colonial Surgeon recorded his

opinion that there was no necessity

for

an assistant medical officer

as

and Dr

requested by Dr Wharry, this appointment was sanctioned provisionally

Marques

was selected as Assistant

Superintendent on 19th July, 1880.

5.

In October 1880 a second

Board consisting of Deputy Surgeon General Thomson and Deputy Inspector General Breen, R.N., was

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appointed by the Governor to consider the adequacy

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or otherwise of the present staff of the Civil Hospital ." I cannot trace what

led