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approval, for the appointment of an additional Surgeon the Medical

surgeon in the Repartiment, who would, ordinar

C

dinarily,

be attached to the Civil Hospital,

but would have, as his principal

duty,

the cha

charge of the Epistemic

Hospital, the immediate building of

which has been strongly urged upon the Government by the Sarsitary Board, and the necessity of which

wa

referred to in paragraph 30 of the Governor Deepatch already quoted. The Colonial Surgeon, too, is of opinion that no time should

be

$1,440

be lost in ma

aw,

naking the appointment,

in the event of an epidemie, it

would be

present

nece

2.

seary

very difficult with aur

ources

ME JOU^

to provide the

medical attendance.

In the Estimates for 1889.

the laleiry of the proposed -

additional surgeon was put down at

one thouseend four

hundred and

$2,400 forty dollar riving to two thousand

and

: four hundud dollars; but it

was subsequently pointed out to the Governor by Q, Ayres that a competent man could not be

induced