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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    perhaps of some sacrifice, oacli monll), of an nrticle for which they have wo lieed. Yet it is a sin^^ular fe.-i- turc, that those 'who do belong to lire (li-pen-sary soon perceive its advautuges and do not fiiil io be gralfcl'j'.l to tlie institntior.. The private !-:n!}srri!)er.s T>f a guinea ^ach, have lha [xnver of keeping or.e sick person always on the books, and it is astonishing as Avell as gratifying to perceive, as a whole, what great Xsenelit t!je Metcalfe dii-pensaiy confers. Nr.irrerous persons who ianguisli in sicktiess and have seen \wt- ter d{iys, too p.oor to employ medical advice, and too ]3roud to go to the pari.^ii, t:re- supplied by these means wiih medical attendance', and the hc.:d of iho family is often by liiese means snatched fnrra sick- Vtps.s aixl ills family again obtain hi* exertions ft>r maintenance. One hour every day is devoted to the ;recej)iion of o:?t iioor pnrients, Ivyinedical attendants. Tljere are two medical pracnlioners atl-iiched to the -dispensary, non resident, bat \ i.>it the dispensary.— They I'eside near. The salary, IVcnn tb.e iadifference of the class for o. liose l)eneHt, and to whose benelit it largely administers, is now re<hiced to fifty pounds a year each. The nnmi>er of pei'sons relieved, liot- wiriistaDdinLi: hist year, were about ei'ht hundred — This not inchiding the cholera cases, v^hich amounied to more than another thouiiajid, trouted by us ut the Metcalfe dispensary, 8th. The negro pope.latmn are wiliing to apply for inedical relief, and submit to me{Ucal treatment, hut they are (as 1 have written) unwilling to pay montiily proportions to the dispensary, and I attrjbiite the re- Inclance of those who can pay, not doing SvO. simpl}^^ to the inability of being sensible to the necessity of foresight, foj-etbonght, precaution, and the prepara- tion to meet danger, which they never ackno-wiedge, unless it exif>ts, and which, l>^cause they cannot see, ihey do not l)eiieve e^vn exist, 9th. This act was never applied in our city. 10th. i>, INaar, csf|aire, is coroner for our parisli.