CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6] — Page 218

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Enclosure 2.

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Sanitary Board Office,

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of

your letter No. 1192/1912 of the 9th. instant, in which you state

that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has

ordered proceedings to be taken against me under General Orders

85-104 upon three specified charges.

2. I unreservedly admit the correctness of the state-

-ments in the first two charges, namely that on the 19th. April,

1912, and on the 2nd. instant I was in such a condition through the use of drugs as to be incapable of discharging my duties properly.

3. My health for some time past has not been good, and

I have from time to time consulted various Doctors whose names I

shall be glad to furnish if you should/so desire. I have suffered

much from insomnia and perhaps to a certain extent from con- -soquent nervous breakdown, though I am perhaps hardly competent

myself to give an opinion as to this. I took large quantities of Sulphonal and Chlorodyne in the attempt to cure my sleeplessness, and I also took Alcohol through not in excessive quantities, for the same purpose; with the result that my digestion became very

disordered and from time to time I was unable to retain food. For some days previoßuly to my entrance into Hospital on the 9th. March I had been unable to eat anything and I had practically not slept at all.

4. With regard to the third charge, that on the 2nd.

and 3rd. May, 1912, I was absent from duty without leave, Dr.

Fitzwilliams came to the office on the 2nd. instant and directed

me to go to the Government Civil Hospital. I was undoubtedly not fit for work at the time, but I was of the opinion that I could derive no benefit at the hospital, and I went to my own house. On

the 3rd. instant I came to the office at about 8.30 a.m. feeling

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