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
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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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    *^houl(l be rei^iilarly carried out, but on these poin^ iliere are (liliiculiies. Our constabulary force on wliich we should look 'for assistance in the town, at least, nnlil a better ar- rangeinent com!<I be made, (h)e.s not as at preseni constituted, afford any one person posses^sed of »suffi- •cient weight of character to (ill tlie oflice required by the seventh .section, and thusaii.ses a very great ini- ■pedinieut. I tiieref<u-e think it.advisable.,' tlrat some step siionld be taken to give it eMect, and tiiat the j)erson who may hold rise office, sbouJd perform i»s duties with unbiassed steadiness of.purpose. Connected with this snbiect is the want of medical practitioners in the rural .(li>trictfc; of tiie parish : and J believe that it is admitted by every intelligent per- ;Son, that if practicable, encou.ri]g.einent should* be .given to their establishing themselves therein. 1 have the^honor to Ive, Sir, Yo-ur most obedient ^<ervant, (Signed,) G. M. LAVVSON, M. D. ■ Custos, St. James. To the Sccrtiarij of the Central Board of Health, KincjUon. ■Ausicers of Dr. I^awsou lo the queslians appended to circular ^Ui September^ 1851. No. 1. T*here are, 1 learn, two hundred and twen- ty seven square miles three quarters in the parish of 8t. James. One town, Montego-Bay, and several villages are in it. Tiie land is chiedy mountanions. The highways leading to the inhabited localities are, for the most part, good ; but the bye-tracts branch- ing off from them to the inter:ior .habitations of the negroes very generally l)ad, in taat, dangerous, ia many instances, for one on h;>rse.back. No. *2. '^lle^^:ensn^! of 1844 gav.e n population in St. James of twcnty-fme thousand live hundred and twelve. The number of inhabitants., -l)y Ixirths and ctherw'ise, may ba-ve increased to J>elween two and three thousands, after ^allowing a deduction for ^ifleath^ saj the^ it lias Incx^tised to ^tweatj-ci^bi