County Hospitals (Amendment) Act 1767

Thomas Wilkins may be elected as surgeon to Galway infirmary or any other.

II. And whereas Thomas Wilkins surgeon, who served in the station of master surgeon under the command of Cliston Wintringham, director and physician general at the Havannah, and discharged his duty with ability, assiduity, and integrity, (as the said Cliston Wintringham certifies for him) is now settled in the town of Galway, and hath, since the county infirmary was opened there, attended gratis, and performed several operations as surgeon with great succes, but is prevented by the strict letter of the said act from being elected surgeon to the said infirmary or hospital: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the governors and governesses of the said hospital and infirmary, or of any other hospital or infirmary, may elect, if they shall think fit so to do, the said Thomas Wilkins as surgeon to the said county infirmary, or to any other hospital or infirmary.