16 Even were the Clauses so altered, or the practice - (thro' the discretion of the Medical Officer: - not to act upon his own Regulations-) so altered as to give the Matron authority over the Nurses as a "Sub-Department", the Medical Officer is still left as the authority to whom all appeals are to be made - - both as between Nurses & Matron and as between himself (& his Dept.) and the Matron (& her Nurses) - - deciding the various questions that may arise between himself as head of his "Sub-Department" and the heads of the other "Sub Departments". F.N.