CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11] — Page 24

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I suggested with the view to lessen the monotony of the

patients' life, that the Matron should receive a gratuity to teach

them needle work. A similar recommendation was subsequently made by

the visiting Justices of the Peace and it was adopted with a slight

modification, the Government not only supplying these women with

necessary materials for work, but also allowing them to keep the

articles for themselves when finished.

The adoption of more comprehensive Tables of Classifica-

tion of the various diseases, showing also at a glance, the daily

number of the women examined, the number of those detained, and of

those that were discharged cured. I explained the advantages of those

Tables over the old ones, when I forwarded my first monthly returns

to the Colonial Surgeon, and again in the Report which I wrote giving

an account of the work for nine months ending the year 1883. Thé

said Report was not published, owing, I was informed, to some strong

remarks made by the late Superintendent of the Civil Hospital about

that establishment from which it was decided to publish only the

Colonial Surgeon's Report. The advantages of those Tables were how-

ever described in my subsequent Annual Report.

were bought.

Some important surgical instruments required in operations

Experiments with various substances for the cure of warts

without resorting to surgical means were made, and the success obtain-

ed in this direction with the juice of papaw was noted in my Annual

Report for 1888.

Other improvements were made which can be verified in the

records which, I believe, are still kept in that Hospital.

During the whole time that I had charge of the Hospital

there was not a single death, although there were some patients who

were seriously ill with complicated diseases."

Dr. Ayres referring to the Imperfect accommodation of the

house which was known as Look Hospital, in his Annual Report for 1883,

expressed himself thus:- "Nevertheless despite the inconvenience of

"the buildings, Dr. Marques, the Superintendent has managed to render