3.--The Town lock-up to be enlarged by taking down the partition
between it and a chamber formerly used by the Constable as a
potato store. It was also resolved to strengthen the door
and provide it with two new bolts and padlocks.
4.--The question of enlarging the Churchyard was deferred to the
next (Easter) vestry.
5.--Subscriptions to be invited for providing a War Hospital.
The Mayor, with Lawyer Chinn (Town Clerk) and Alderman
Hansombody, to seek for suitable premises, and report.
Of Dr. Hansombody I shall have more to tell anon. For the present
let it suffice that before entering public life he had earned our
confidence as an apothecary, and especially by his skill and delicacy
in maternity cases.
These proposals were duly announced: and only if you know Troy can
you conceive with what spirit the town flung itself into the task of
making them effective. "Task," did I say? When I tell you that at
our next drill a parade of thirty-two stretchers followed us up to
the Old Fort (still to the tune of "Come, Cheer Up, My Lads!") you
may guess how far duty and pleasure had made accord.
The project of a hospital went forward more slowly; but at length the
Mayor and his Committee were able to announce that premises had been
taken on a lease of seven years (by which time an end to the war
might reasonably be predicted) in Passage Street, as you go towards
the ferry; the exterior whitewashed and fitted with green jalousie
shutters; the interior also cleaned and whitewashed, and a ward
opened with two beds.
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