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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$made by task work in the field ; there is, Iiowever, on tlic p-art of the ial)o;irer, u very ♦;cr.enil reluctance to take job svork. Tho labourer is generally paid Yi'Gekly, or sometimes once in t',vo weeks. 1 cannot say that the peo;>le ?.;enerally evince much unwilling, ne.ss to work in I he cultivntii)Ji ot'estates, unless indeed some pressiiig requirements urge them, whicli sel- dom occurs. INcK 5. The number of paupers in this parish, or iu this di:.'triet,' I have no mear.r: of knowing, nor can I sav how maTiv. froin sickness or olher disa!)ility, are iniabie to contribute anvfniiiz for p.rovidiiia, themselves AVjlh medicines and medical attendance. No 0. Ti^e nunilj^r of qualified medical praciiiion- ^rs at present in this parish is nve, viz. : —tliree or near Morant Ba>-, one in Plantain (warden Kiver district, and one at Manchioneid. This numher I rlo liot consider adequate to the requirements of the po- pulation. No 7. There i.-j no public di:spensary or hospital ia this parish. Mo. S. There being no such dispensary or hospital in this parish, I am not prepared to answer this ques- tion, (No. 0.) No. 9. During th:.:; existence of the dispensary act (nintii Victoria, chapter forty-three.) in lail), (being the first year in which the act caiiie into cpcratio::,) 1 had entered subscribers an:oun{ing to one hun- dred ar.d l!:ijiy-f.ve, and ]:aapers, twenly-one, total for i846, oneliuiidied and fdty six. The follc^ving year of its deration, (1847,) \ had entered ei;d»ty- eight, f<nd paupers nineteen, total fur 11347, one huii- dretl and seven. T!ie givater [)ari; of my first year'!^ eabdcribers rener/ed their snbscriplions tisu ftdlo'.ving year, which shows that they at least did, in some manner, aj:;,reoiate the advantage of tlie act. In this pfirish, however, and \ believe t!irougho;:t the is- kTid generrjly, tiie act did not work well, chiefly, as$