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By payment of a slightly increased premium, full insurance of the launches
has been effected. This is important, as minor damages from collisions are
more or less frequent in the traffic of the river, and the work of boarding.
With regard to working expenses, the year has proved an average one, not
marked by any considerable item for repairs, except a new dinghy for the
" Clotho."
Some information, therefore, of the average daily and annual cost of
working the launches will be of interest.

*Calculated on the number of "working" days.
STAFF.
There have been but few changes in the personnel of the staff calling for
notice.
Of your staff of Assistant Medical Officers, Dr. A. H. Hogarth retired in
June last, having received another appointment; his place was taken by
Dr. W. D. Betenson, who has had extensive experience of Plague in India and
South Africa, and who had already given satisfaction when acting temporarily
as an Assistant Medical Officer.
There are no changes in the staff of Inspectors. With the qualification in
June last of Inspector Rolfe as an Inspector of Food, the whole of your
Inspectors now hold this important certificate.
The Hospital Staff has been increased by the additional appointment of a
laundry maid, who also acts as general maid. This is in place of the
employment of occasional temporary help from outside, for laundry work,
objectionable for obvious reasons in the case of an infectious hospital.