, 1868-05-12

been directed not 10 MAKE use OF the OruerlleS
except when highly necessary. He also point
ed out, that the Commission in almost every
case occurring received long detailed orders,
which were at times indistinct that the Com
mission in many eases would know several cir
cumstances connected with the matter, not
known to the Government, and they were often
debarred from acting according to what was con-
sidered to the purpose, because there were at
hand such detailed and strict orders. The
Speaker based his remarks on several instances
which he mentioned, and remarked; that 1t was
a general saying in Frederiksted, that there
was no one to say Yes or No. lie finally OBJ
served, that such circumscribed regulations to
which the commissions in question are subject
ed, were not of such a nature as to create in
the members the requisite desire and interest
to perform their duty, which must rather create
a certain aversion and GOODNESS in them in
many cases it was certainly less arduOuS to the
Commission to leave everything to the Govern
ment and do nothing themselves, but he doubt
ed that it was in the interest of the public, that
such a spirit existed. He had brought in this
Interpolation before the Council, because he
was DESTROYS to learn the views and opinions OF
such of the members as have more experience
than himself and who were better gifted to eX-
plain the defects He therefore requested the
Council to support what was deemed to the
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iency's liberality, that he, when convinced of
matters would effect the changes desired; His
ExcelIency's power to act he hid not doubt,
and felt convinced of, that should this be want
irg, he might easily obtain it.
The Governor stated, that the extent of the
authority of the Hospital Commission is fixed by
long practice, since the time of the former
Westindia Government, and it embraces in
general only the decision of all running or
ordinary matters, whereas extraordinary cases
or such as now might cause an excess in the
amounts granted under the Budget must be
laid before the Government; it is meanwhile a
matter of course, that an extraordinary case
rendering the immediate execution of an impor-
tant measure UNAVOIDABLE i. a sudden case
of a DANGEROUS disease such as Cholera occur
ring, where the patient ought not to be admit
ted at the public hospital but be isolated,-the
Commission must Immediately act according to
its best Judgment on its own responsibility
but the case is not of this nature, when the
question is, about hiring another locality for a
hospital, because the public hospital has by the
physician been considered infected, which was
the cause of the removal stated in the report Of
the Commission. 1t cannot be supposed, that
the impression AMI certainty of a hospitals in
lection will arise on one and the same day, and
it is certainly a hitherto unknown fact, that the
decision of quitting a hospital on that account
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has taken place on the same day when the first
question arose. Had the matter been immedi-
ately laid before the Government, be would
as formerly in like cases, t. l.. in the Smallpox
epedemv-immediately have caused an inves-
tieation, and a decision would have been taken
in the course of "a hours. As regards the en-
gagement of a sick-nurSe, it had been stated in
the Commissions report, that the Commander
of the detachment did not wish to furnish a
military to fill the charge but the service OF a
sick-nurse at the military hospital is that de-
voIving on the military, which a soldier cannot
refuse, thus the warrant for the measure adopt
ed was wanting besides the expense for the
sick. nurse engaged, ST 80 cts. pr. day or $45
pr. month, was so high, that it would soon ex-
coed the amount sanctioned by the Budget;
for this reason he had, on the receipt of the
Commissions report, Immediately ordered, that
the best military sick-nurse from Christiansted
should be temporarily given over to the hospi-
tai in Frederidsted.
Regarding the instructions to the Quarantine