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require nearly $19,000 per annum for maintenance. 1 he revenue from fees 
is some $1,700, the rest falls on the Colonial estimates. 
I think that it is quite time that the inhabitants of the towns of the Colony 
took more direct interest in their local charities, and that all classes of citizens 
realised that it was their duty not to make this local charity a burden on the 
Colonial Finances but to relieve them of it, and permit the Colonial Government 
to advance the interests of the Colony in much needed directions. The present 
Assistant Medical Officer devotes a very considerable time to the care of the 
hospital ; and the hospital is excellent, of very great interest, and affords a wide 
field for study. At the same time I venture to think that the clinical work on 
his shoulders might be very materially reduced if the local practitioners were 
allowed 'a share in the clinical administration of the wards. 
