with; and possess no means to remedy them. I could [indecipherable] many sources of these evils; but shall principally note the General Hospital at Parramatta. This Hospital I am in the constant habit of visiting. It consists of two wards under the same roof; one for the men and another for the women. This hospital is open night and day for every infamous character to enter; there are no locks or bolts to any of the doors; the men and the women patients have full access to each other at all times. For the number of persons in the hospital I do not believe there is such an infamous brothel. The whole universe here man and woman become familiar with pain, sickness, vice, and death. I have remonstrated, and do remonstrate constantly, with the surgeon upon the debaucheries committed by the dying bed. I visit the hospital, look round amongst the patients; and I behold drunkenness, whoredom; sickness and death. There is not so much as a room to put a dead man or woman in, till they can be removed to their grave – but the dead lie in the room with the living patients. I have no doubt, but in the room where the dead are lying, debaucheries are going on. These scenes of misery, vice, and wickedness have the most baneful effects upon the human mind, in a moral sense. I have felt the greatest indignation at the scenes which I have beheld in the General Hospital: and which might easily be remedied by a little attention from Government. The men and women patients might easily be kept separate from one another in the nights. What can be more distressing than to find the men and women together, in the same bed, when a Clergyman goes to visit the sick, and probably near a dying patient: no man can hold his tongue under such dreadful moral evils, if he has a spark of religion or any moral feeling. The hospital is a place I have [indecipherable] seen the Governor at. I met him there by accident some time ago, when I took an opportunity to speak to him, in the presence of the surgeon, and the patients. I have no doubt but he was much offended as to what I said. I mentioned to him how the patients were distressed for weeks and months, for the want of common necessities that they were frequently without sugar, sago, rice, tea, wine, or any other support, from the common rations from the Kings Stores which consist of wheat, and animal food, which from sickness, many of them could not use. I also observed that there had not been a candle or a lamp for the last two years to [indecipherable] a patient die; unless some humane person had sent a little