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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$part of this query; but as regards the Seconal, dei fjirins: to know \{'ihc ne^vo population are willing to submit to the discipline and merlical treatment, pro- vided for the sick in the hospital, 1 would say that they A ery i»eneraliy yield to them. But thenumbef of such admissions* has not as yet been large, ;is there was at one time much relnctance on the part of these people to go to the hospital. That feelings how- ever, is wearing off. No. 9. It did not; The l*-ibouring people very ge* nernily were averse to pay for medical attendance, and to induce them to do so, credit, a system not coritem})Lited by the act, was given in many in- stances ; nevertheless, a few of tliem only kept their eagagements. The act compelled the medical prac- titioners, who accepted appointments under it, to re- ceive, as patients, any of those people who might pay for their registration, and it sometimes occurred that ])8rsons who did not register when in heaUh came for- ward in sickness, and if with a family, the sick mem- ber alone was registered. The disinclination to regis- ter, when in l.ealth, led to impositions upon the parties ■who were authorized to give orders for attendance on these persons as paupers in sickness. There were causes of dissatisfaction on the part of the medical men. Bat 1 fear that some of them were indifferent also to their engngements ; and living on the borders of two parishes they obtained districts in each, and. ihereliy undertook to ])erform duties which it was im- possible they coultl accomplish^ The districts in each parish being already more extensive than they shoal 1 have been. No. 10. Kuward Evans is the coroner of the pa- rish of St. James. He has no other occupation than that of coroner. He resides at Montego-Bay. remunerated, at present, by fees alone. His proba- ble income is £-210 per annum. The average ninn- ber ofinquests from 1841 to 1850 inclusive, is sixty- tw« per annum, and that oipost mortem examinations arising therefrom, five and five-tenths. Freponder* A a Sf$