Report of Drs. Nelson and MacDonnell, and Zephirin Perrault, Esq., advocate, of the Quebec Marine and Emigrant Hospital / [Wolfred Nelson].

Nelson, Wolfred, 1846-1913.

Date:: 1853

Credit: Report of Drs. Nelson and MacDonnell, and Zephirin Perrault, Esq., advocate, of the Quebec Marine and Emigrant Hospital / [Wolfred Nelson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$1] a= —_—_— —_—— Ere PS —~ - — —— ++ —_ oO oes sees eee cannot be expected so long as Drs. Douglas, Hall, and Jackson, shall continue in office.” 2nd. “From that declaration of Drs. Hall and Jackson, His Excellency must feel more than ever convinced that there cannot be any good understanding, mutual assistance, or harmony between Dr. Douglas and the Commissioners; and that prompt measures on the part of His Excellency are necessary to do away with a state of things, so much the more dangerous as the season of navigation is com- menced, and as the active co-operation of all the officers of the Institution will be promptly and unavoidably indispensable. It is an act of strict justice which the Commissioners request both for themselves and for the establishment.”’ It may be proper to observe that the first paragraph was approved of by a full Board, the second by all the Commissioners, with the exception of the President, who was then absent from Canada, and for whose return they did not wait for the reasons already mentioned by the Commissioners in the Report by their Address to His Excellency, on the 30th August, 1851. The Commissioners desire me to state that they are still of the same opinion, and they beg respectfully to persist in the statement contained in the second para- graph above alluded to. They therefore humbly pray His Excellency to accord them that strict justice which they then requested, both for themselves and for the establishment. ; The Commissioners beg to add that they did not call the attention of His Excel- | lency to their requisition at an earlier date, as they were persuaded that so soon after a general election and the formation of a new cabinet, both the time of His Excellency and his Ministers was taken up wiih matters of much greater importance than the one under consideration. \ I have, &c., (Signed, ) N. CASAULT, S.T.C.M. & E. H. The Honorable A. N. Morin, Provincial Secretary. SECRETARY’S OFrrice, Quusec, 12th April, 1852. Srr,—lI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th inst., stating by direction of the Commissioners of the Marine and Emigrant Hospital, that ‘‘ they persist” in their representation contained in their report of the 16th of May, 1851, respecting Dr. Douglas, one of the visiting Physicians of the Hospital, and requesting that strict justice be accorded to them, both for themselves and for the establishment; and ] am commanded by the Governor General to remark, that Dr. Douglas being at present absent from the Country, under leave of absence, granted by the Commissioners themselves, with the authorization of His Excellency, it would seem proper to wait for the return of that gentlernan to the Country before . taking any further step in the matter referred to in your letter. I have, &c., , (Signed,) A. N. MORIN, secretary. N. Casauli, Esquire, a Oe Me & i ,$