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1 !' Government establish a Board for the Condemnation of Medicines , and for the
exclusion of improper persons from practisi?g as medical men.
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They
requested also that no member of the Board should be himself a vendor of
medicines and that no practitioners of Phys ic or su .
rgery should be allowed
to sell medicines .
In reply> on May 17 > 1834> the Colonial-Secretary
intimated that the Governor \\'ould not ob ject to the introduction of a
suitable bill in the egisl ative Council ;
also on May 16 the Attorney-Genera:
was requested to prepare an act> with the prov iso that it should not take
precedence over any other matters for \'lhich draft l.egislation had been
already reques ted. 3
Hm.;rever > it '"as not unt il 1837 that l
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egisla tion was
finally enacted.
In 1833 the Government Medical Department comprised
Colonial S rgeon J. Scott> R.N. and Assistant S rgeons J. Bryant ,
E.S.P. Bedford and A. Turnbul l, all stationed in Hobart;
Assistant Surgeons
were posted at Launceston and Gergetown and at Macquar ie Harbour and
Port Arthur penal settlements;
District Assistant su .
rgeons were at
Ne\.;r Norfolk , Oat lands , Campbell Town, Both\.;rel l, Norfolk Plains , Great Swan
Port and Maria Island.
In addition to the Government doctors, six private
practitioners \\'ere listed in Hobart Tmm by the Van Diemen 's Land Annual in
1834. It is interesti_ng to note that most of these were later employed by
the Goverrunent .
About the middle of 1834 , the exact date is not known , Hall and
his family left Hobart to live in Br:ighton.
They nm.;r had a daughter, born
on Sunday , May 18, 1834, and chr istened "Mary Jane" by Father Ullathorne ,
later to become Bishop of Birmiṇgham.
Durng their stay of less than a
year in Hobart Tmm, Hall had become a staunch supporter of the Roman
Catho lic Church .
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cso 1/712/15577.