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be given gratis at the dispensaries to applicants whose ina. bility to pay is undoubted, that in aduition to giving me- dical advice and dispensing medicines, and treating patient at the dispensaries, the Licentiates should attend without fee all cases where their services may be requested, that no fee should be charged or accepted without the permission of Government and then only in cases where no doubt exists as to the ability of the patient to pay, and that the Licen- tiates should give certificates of death free of charge in all cases in which they can certify to the cause of death.

If after a year's trial it is found that the ser-

vices of the Licentiates are appreciated and that they

have more work to do than they can undertake, the advise-

bility of extending the scheme and increasing the staff on

the lines recommended by the Colonial Surgeon might be then

considered.

(Sd.)

J. H. Stewart Lockhart,

Registrar General.

13th September 1892.