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reporting that Mr. Mary Simmons, Matron of the Lunatic Asylum, is physically unfit for further duty, and recommending that she should be pensioned.

I should have ~

been glad to assede to Dr Ayres request but. unfortunately there is a difficulty in the

way, for

the establishment of the Lunatic Asylum has been

always

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always described in the Estimates as Provisional " and Temporary", and therefore a member of the staff would not appear to be entitled to pension under the HongKong Pension Minute.

It does not appear

that there was any special reason for so describing the staff of the Lunatic Asylum,

and I do not think that

it was ever.

contemplated

that the members of it

should