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Enclosure to Despatch No./5of the 18th. Mar, 03.

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The Principal Civil Medical RES

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of the Medical Department shall be directly responsible to the

Government for the working of the Government Civil Hospital and

its annexes:-

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through him.

The Victoria Hospital for Women and Children.

The Maternity Hospital.

The Lunatic Asylums.

Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases' Hospital, and

The Hospital Ship "Hygeia".

All Official Correspondence shall pass

The Senior Assistant Surgeon doing duty in

the Medical Department proper shall be the Superintendent of the

Government Civil Hospital, the Maternity Hospital and the Lunatic

Asylums, and be responsiole for the efficient working of the same

to the Bead of the Department.

The relation of the Principal Civil Medical

Officer to the Government Civil Hospital shall be that of a Visiting

Surgeon and Physician at home.

The apportionment of the duties of the re-

maining three Assistant Surgeons and of the Second Health Officer of

the Port shall be arranged by the Principal Civil Medical Officer,

it being understood that one Assistant Surgeon shall be resident at

the Government Civil Hospital and another at the Victoria Hospital

for Women and Children,

An Assistant Surgeon at the Government Civil

Hospital will be detailed to attend urgent cases at the Gaol.

The Health Officers of the Port are under

the orders of the Principal Civil Medical Officer.

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