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like a definite settlement of the trouble going on for

for the past 18 months in

the dispersing and analytical department can be arrived at. The

duties of the second apothecary

be

defined

could

an alternate with Mr Crow

at night and on Sundays, thereby ensuring a continuous dispersing service, so

needed now in the Medical

as well for the Civil

the Civil Service of the

urgently Department, Hospital,

for Government. At the

care

of the sudden illness of Mr Crow

there would be some

to carry

on

One

competent

the work, and, vice versa,

if the second man took ill Mr Crow

would then have to take his turn.

Arrangements

I need not go into the showing the necessity of this, they must be obvious; besides the subject

already

worn thread bare in

earlier official documents.

I beg to submit these

proposals

for His Excellency's approval,

as

in

my

opinion a permanent

settlement of the long

question.

I have

debated

84 G.P. Jordan, M.B. Acting Colonial Surgeon