Report by the Central Board of Health of Jamaica / presented to the legislature under the provisions of the 14th Vic. chap. 60, and printed by order of the Assembly.

Jamaica. Central Board of Health

Date:: 1852

Credit: Report by the Central Board of Health of Jamaica / presented to the legislature under the provisions of the 14th Vic. chap. 60, and printed by order of the Assembly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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$ftnd hy information on oath before any one justice of tiie peace ; fine anrJ cost, if not paid in court, to be stopt out of l)i.s next iiccriiin^ fjfiarter^s stipend. 1 iilh. Surgeons of districts to be paid theifstipends quarterly, l>y the parish treasurer, on their account being attested hy the chairman of their districts- •20lh. The monies accruing from the medical relief lax, (o be paid into one of the banks every quarter, by the several coiiectiu!^ constables, a seperate ac- count thereof beins- rendered into the cjiiarterlv tes- tries, such fund beinj^ kept distinct and ex'clusive of ail Other taxes. An account also of all fines accruing under the acr, to be added to such fund, a separate and di^=tinct account being kept of ihem also. •2Ist. No relief whatever of this tax to be grante:]# except the case be first exaraineri into by the chair- men of the several districts of the parish, assembled in coinmiLtee, of which not less than three to l)e a quoruiT!, of whom one must necessarily be the chair- Man of the district to ^^vhich the applicant seeking re- lief shall belong. On such examination being so made, relief may be rccomrneiided by such committee for the whole, or a jiart, of the tax, on the ground that tlie applicant is really and truly too poor to pay it. On such recommendation so made, the vestry to b{* empowered to pass and confirm the relief in ques* tion. 22nd. District surgeons to be bound to afford me- dical aid in all cases of pauperism and actual desti- tution, on certificate furnished by the commissionei' of section, and to be authorized to recommend to the churchwardens of the parish for such pecuniary relief* as the destitution of the case may seem to him to warrant. ^ 2:}rd. The justices and veslr}' lo he empowered, if they deem it necessary, during liie lirst year of the operation of the i)iil, to borrow from any banki ng es- tablishment, such additional sum over and above the ttmouftt of the taxes as may appear to them requisite e2$