, 1874-10-10

referred to another point IN another report
which will come under discussion as the next
Number on the Order of the day for to-day,
he had also previously notified to the
Speaker Of that Committee that the principal
%proposal therein would not be voted on.
The Committee had had an opportunity to enter
on the matter Of q Work House in giving
the explanation Of the heavy expenses for
Hospital Charges; the discussion on the ques.
ton he should therefore rot object to, and,
as the Speaker had intimatcd, if the Presi-
dency agreed in the proposal their would be
no question of taking a vote.
The Speaker said he fully agreed with His
Excellency and the Chairman, and he had
himself when he spoke Oh the matter ex expressed,
that the Committee had in this as we'll
as in the other matter alluded TO gone
beyond what strictly was tie business
the Cen mittce Lad before it. But this
Council meet now so seldom, that the
Committee thought there was no harm in draw
ing the Councils and His Excel!ency's atten-
ton to the matters in qu: aston. although they
were not strictly connected with the case in
h9rd. OF course, if His ExcelIency objects
to the proposal, he would not insist on a vote
if His Excellency is willing to comply with the
request, there would be no need of a vote.
There arc here in this community many ,hines
TO achieve and to remedy in public affairs; but
unless tie Council and the Administration 90
hand in hand in Going what is requis;t tie, nothing
could be done. The Colonial Law gives Mem
bers q right TO bring any public matter, in due
70 m, before the Council, and therefore he could
not agree with those, here aud in ST. Thomas,
who say the Council has not ST ficient power;
but to achieve anything in the desired way; the
Council and Administ1 alton must go hand in
hand. To the Speaker it was in this case per-
Eoo8lu epNicCo.$o~, 4hnt IT, I-.z11o-.. ii i
clared that the matter would be taken under
consideration.
C%rownmcniber (Jar5): 1t cannot be de-
med that the Expenses for the public Hospitals
and for the Sick House OF Richmond have ev-
cry year Of late exceeded the amounts stipula-
ted but he did not believe that the Committee
had hit the right cause. The Committee says:
1.-The in our opinion di>proportionately heavy
expenses which have been incurred not only in
This individual year but for many years under
the items ID question, must chiefly be ascribed
to two causes a, that many individuals fom
the country. districts are admitted into the Hos
pital at Richmond for public account, whereas
they, if admitted at all, ought to be at the ex-
pense of the respective Estates b, that incur
able patients are admitted and kept at the hos
pitfalls, at Richmond as well as al Peterefarms
and Fl ederiksteds Hospital" He did not be-
lNEC SIth VI Al W ASd6OuS AtIu ROOus
There are certain regulations as to what
persons are to be admitted in the public hospi-
tails for public account, while any body can Of
course be admitted for their own account.
Those regulations are contained in a Govern
ments Letter to the Hospital ana Prison Com
missions dated End February 1864, according to
which the patients that can be admitted for pub
lie account at the Hospitals at Petcr>farm and
in Frcderiksted are: l, Paupers in r, ceipt Of pub
lie assistance; 2, sick prisoners; 8, individuals
Of the working classes having %venereal diseases;
4, peIsors that are derangcd; these are how
ever only to be admitted at the hospital tempo
Tarily, until the physician finds that their state
is such that they should be admitted in the lu-
matte asylum; 5, individuals with eye-diseases,
when their remaining at their houses would re-
tard or prevent the cure 6, individuals that are
to undergo a difficult operation; 7, individuals
that have sustained injury at such a distance
from their hcnes that it would not be advisa-
bic to transport them thither. In the Sickkouse
at Richmond: individuals of the labouring
classes with open sores (ulcers) when not cura.
bic at home. But these rules are not kept up;
many patients are fent to Petersfarm and-he
supposed-also to Frederiksteds Hospital who
do not belong under any Of the 7 classes, end
this is the real reason why transgressions occur
to that extent. The Speaker as Policemaster