CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12] — Page 72

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question did not arise until

after the plans for the new

Civil Hospital were dra

in 1877.

drawn up

For the facts I would refer

to the letter of the Secretary of

State dated December 2nd, 1873, in

which at

AV að

appointed

Superintendent of the Civil

Hospital. As such I was to

have a

certain salary,

and

if

I remember aright a house.

yes

o the house I have never

had, but

since 1873,

4 year after year

I have been asked to

put up with great discomfort

and.

1

B

and make shift for a few

-months longer,

Cod

the new

Hospital was just about to

be built, and.

house would.

the Superintendent.

- shortly be ready.

My wife arrived in

in December 1875,

and both as

a bachelor and

a married man I have

have

& gone

Ow

"waiting year after year with

patient

endurance for the fulfilment of the promises made me,

In the Seamen's Hospital

at East point (now Royal

Naval

- Hospital) with its 56 beds, a house was provided for the

Superintendent

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