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and H.C. Dqrling Commissary of Accounts, and established on May 7, 1838,
found that :
.... all persons employed in that (the Convict Service) with
their wives and families are entitled to medical aid gratis
from the Medical Officers on the convict establishment and to
medicines from them out of those supplied for the convict branch
of the Medical Department . Some indulgence should be applied to
those employed in the Colonial Service with their wives ·and
families but not at the expense of the Convict Funds . 2 0
Such a decision, of course, was relevant to Hall, both when struggling to
earn a living as a private practitioner in Brighton, and later in Bothwell
when striving to cope with his numerous duties as a District As sistant
Surgeon on a small salary .
It is impossible not to wonder \hom the Board
thought should be responsib le for the indulgence to the Colonial Service ,
if it were not to be the Convict Department Funds ;
themselves .
presumab ly the doctors
20 cso 5/121/2782 .