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And will furnish the Sick with the usual Hospital Diet of Full, Half, Low and Spoon, agreeable to the Scheme Already Adopted to furnish wine, porter, sago, arrow root oatmeal for poultices, vinegar, for the wards, with such other extras which the Surgeon may find necessary to Direct to provide such necessary hospital utensils as may required to pay cooks for the hospital sergeants, orderlys and nurses wages provided always supplied as heretofore and with the exceptance of fuel and bedding to accommodate the sick while in hospital for the sum on one shilling and eightpence stirling for each patient.
And will furnish the above for three [illegible] lower than any other tender.
Wm Sutherland