Life and adventure in the West Indies : a sequel to Adventures in search of a living in Spanish-America / by "Vaquero".

  • Vaquero, pseud.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Life and adventure in the West Indies : a sequel to Adventures in search of a living in Spanish-America / by "Vaquero". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fire a little more than a year after my arrival, was a large but not an imposing looking town, containing its due share of those little wooden houses so prevalent in the British West Indies. Fine buildi g , however, are only trifling factors as compared with the necessities of life, and it was a relief to feel that I was no longer a foreigner working at a mechanical disadvantage against customs which, ec more than language, tend to make the battle of life haider in “Vvffis't visit was naturally to the Medical Council Office, where 1 saw the Superintending Medical Officer, and presenting my to prove that I was duly qualified, asked if he could sugg^t a suitable location in Tamaica. He received me very courteously and asked in return what my expectations were with regard to the income of my practice, to which 1 replied that I would be content^ice to living. So modest an expectation made it more easy to give advice to a stranger, who could not be expected to know that the Island ha alreadv a full supply of doctors. Finally he suggested that 1 should * to up country to a place called Gayle, for the following reason Many of the rural districts were so poor that they, ^oul^ afford sufficient inducement for a doctor to reside in the . entail great hardship on the people not to have medical aid at ha , so it was usual to allow a certain number of doctors a subsidy on the conditions of residing permanently in the district and KeToct Jut, been making economies in the number of subsidized men by merg g been, so to say annexed to MotherIts former med cal officer had been transferred elsewhere 'and^^eo'fe were naturally grumblntg at h-ng o pa^ more sraa as sa which was now unoccupied, so I now staiteci on• ] y gaHM' thStf 'oil- Linstead, where d divides again^ while the eastern branch farther north-westerly as far as twarto , as far as reaches the northern coast, wh ch t fay somewhat the well-known tourist resot °on than to any other station, but more conveniently situated to Kingston it was considered a although only about forty miles f,^ ^ (he railway, which rather inaccessible place, o\ g , KPct one could, left the last twenty miles to be nego i ' ^ who owned the house Arriving at Linstead, I called on ‘he doctor ^ ^ ^ of finding theGdaS,acta sm.tb.aenoa.mSemAenfew stations farther on brought me to