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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    pearance of the cholera, was thirteen thousaTid eight huTKlred ; the estimated retluclion one tboiisaiul fivo hundred to t'.vo thousand. It is principally agvicuU tural. No. 3. The nnmber of sugar estates in cultivation is nineteen ; the deman<l furiahonr is very great, auil only iuTery settled weather can he obtained. This I impnte to the more steady and able oi' our labourers reiiiins; to their own .suiidl I'Veeliolds \\hich thev cul- tivate, only coming to the estates in raii* weather, oi* to snpply ^;ny particular reqe.iremcnt; an<l it is to be t'bserved the further thev retire from tiie estates in this parish, tlie nearer tliey approach (he Kingston ininket; also obtain suj>erior soil for provisions. IS'o, 4. The a\ erage ji»n<:inu of wages is one shil- ling per diem, 'nut an ahlebibourer will perform tlie r»ork he engages to do for thts sum in tive or six honr?5, and cannot be fnduccd to take a second task except fit misl or boiling honse work; the wages are in variably paid in nrcilev, tvnd regularly, as funis mv inf(irmaliun gees. No. 5. There arc abont fd'ty paupers rcceivinj; weekly relief from'this parish, imd an asylum for sick par.pers, attended by a medical man; tiie expense to the j}L,rish is i.'50O per nniium. i\o. il Otie quaiiOe(i medica} practilioucr, Dr. Thc- mas Clarke; lltM•esi^]es at Btli-jlield pen, five u.iles s(jutb ef ALnottfj Bay, but h-v a dispcnsai-y and place £>f occasional sojourn at the ijuy. If tlie services of a qnaiiiied medicai practitioner were duly sought after. It wor.ld require two or tliree more adequately to sup- •nlv tlie medical necessities of the no!)ulalion of this pari:d^. No, 7. There fs a parish asylum, which a!sr>, on a limited scale, answers the purpose of an hosoital; it is supported solely out of the parish taxes ; it is at« tende(i by the a'oovc named medical practiti.>n«'r at a sakry of f 33 per annum ; it i;* ccntemitlaied l)y the Testry to abolish this institutfon at the end of the year, ia cc^sequence of the pressure of the taxes.