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Officer, nor to absent themselves for any part of the day without first
telling the Superintendent.
The Regulations concluded with the following injunction:
It must be clearly understood by Medical Officers in the
service that the performance of their public duty is invariably
to be considered as the primary obj ect and whi le they are not
precluded from affording their professional aid to the
inhabitants in their neighbourhood who may wish to avail
themselves thereof, yet this latitude of private practice is
not to be allowed to occasion the slightest interference of any
nature, with their professional duties , which they must be in
constant readiness to perform.
This \V"as the life on which Hall entered .