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Colonel HUGHES.-Did that ever take you outside of the Hospital?
Dr. BELL.-No.
Colonel HUGHES.-Never outside?
Dr. BELL.-No.
Dr. STEDMAN. Did you not attend at the Sanitary Board Offices?
Dr. BELL.-Yes, and occasionally at the Infectious Diseases Hospital.
Colonel HUGHES.-Did you get any correspondence ?
Dr. BELL.-Oh, yes, I had to do all that; not only for the Hospital, but for the Medical Department altogether.
Colonel HUGHES.-How much of your time was taken up with this ?
Dr. BELL.-It is difficult to say. I used to do most of the correspondence at night, so as to have it realy for the clerks in the morning.
Colonel HUGHES.-Were you ever called out to Kennedy Town?
Dr. BELL-Yes.
Colonel HUGHES.--How often?
Dr. BELL. I should think about two or three times.
Colonel HUGHES.-What for?
Dr. BELL. To attend people who were ill when Dr. THOMSON was not there, or had just left.
Colonel HUGHES.-You always had to go?
Dr. BELL.-Oh, yes.
Colonel HUGHES.-Have you ever been called out to the Gaol?
Dr. BELL. Yes.
Colonel HUGHES. Often?
Dr. BELL.-No, not very often.
Colonel HUGHES.--Whose duty was it to attend subordinate officers last summer?
Dr. BELL.-I suppose it was partly my duty, and partly the duty of the Gaol Surgeon. When the epidemic was at its height, Dr. THOMSON was taken off all duties and put ou at Kennedy Town solely.
Colonel HUGHES.-Where did he live?
Dr. BELL.-At the Hongkong Hotel, at first.
Colonel HUGHES.-No private quarters ?
Dr. BELL.-He occupied the Assistant Superintendent's quarters from September, 1900, to August, 1901.
Colonel HUGHES.-During the epidemic you were liable to be called out; in fact there was nobody else?
Dr. BELL.-There was nobody else. There was only a temporary officer, purely for the Hospital, and when Dr. THOMSON went on duty at Kennedy Town we had another man on at the Gaol.
Colonel HUGHES.-Did he look after the subordinates ?
Dr. BELL. He was in charge of the Gaol and subordinates until he was put on to Kennedy Town Hospital solely.
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