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led to the appointment of this second
Board, which reported
on
2 and
November 1880 "that it is not advisable.
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with a due regard to the interests
at stake to allow the whole
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responsibility and charge to devolve on one medical officer. This report was never communicated to Dr.
Ayres till a few days ago and it
will be seen that he asserts that the opinion of the Board has been
based partly
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on erroneous data.
I also forward -report of the Colonial Surgeon
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the application of Dr Wharry for. increase of salary
of salary which I
transmitted to him for report
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4th April last. Dr. Ayres calls attention
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to the large increase to the staff of the Hospital that has been made since Dr Wharry
appointed in 1873. The details of this increase are shown in annexed statement prepared in the
Audit Office. The personnel has been increased from 16 to 38 and the amual expenditure from £1162.10.
Cese to $11,040 to £2,300 or rather more than double. The number of patients
admitted was in 1873, 952 and the
average for the last nine years
been 1044.
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The conclusion that
I have come to is that the work of the bivil Hospital could be performed.
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