, 1881-07-23

pCdIGu ldSU veal WILL ~ % thAO
year the total is S46,327. The increase is
chiefly owing to the wish expressed by the
Governor and the Home Government, in
fact by His Majesty himself, in order to
promote a more sanitary condition in the
Garrisons-that the soldiers should be-
furnished with corked helmets for the
daily services and with jackets Of raven
duck the whole expenditure for a helmet
and 2 Jackets pr. head will for the first
year be SS45; later, as the helmet is to
last for more than one year and they are
only to have one new jacket pr. head a
wear, the expenditure will be less, not
much than above the half of said amount
Under item S. the Militia & Brand De-
partment the item of salary to a clerk tor
the Stadshauptmand has been omitted /;
as there is no S~tadshauptmand appointed
there is no need of the grant, Under the
same item there will be saved the expense
of $96 p. II. hitherto betrayed as cOmpen-
sation to the acting Vicebrandmajor, III
Ghristiansted, a post which has been with
drawn after the death of the late acting
Brandma;Or Mr.. Abr. Meyer. Under item
G II, the Sanitary Department, he would
prepare the Council for an additional out
law TO a salary for a third midwife. 1t
would be remembered, that the person
last appointed as midwife in the Rural
Districts had been previously sent home to
Denmark to qualify herself for the duties,
aud was later appointed as such with tie
obligation to reside at klnGShlll but
after repeated complaints OF the many
grievances she thought she was suffering
under, particularly caused hy the riot III
1873, when her dwelling and property was
destroyed, she ultimately gave notice TO
leave, after having previously repaid the
advances made to her from the Treasury.
But HONORABLE MEMBERSHIP proper
ton Of deaths among infaDtS shortly
after their birth is alarming 1t is merely
for the sake of humanity and for self.
preservation to do what we can to pre-
serve the lives of the children. To this
purpose it is necessary to arrange some
control as 10 the manner Ill which they
are treated during the first years after
their birth. 1t is in fact not so much for
the sake of assisting at the births that the
services of d midwife are required, as
births among the rural population are
iH general performed very easily, almost
without any assistance 1t IS partlcu-
Iarlv for having u qualified person to
show and instruct the mothers how
the infants are to be cared and nurSed.
Mrs. Hoyer has lately applied for %reinstal-
mcnt, and as she has agreed to subject he'll
self to the conditions that might be fixed,
the Kings Physician has proposed that
she should be reinStalled and assigned Il
certain portion of the rural.diStrict
between kingShill AM ChristianSted ; an
experiment will thereby be made in that
district which will no doubt recommend
the necessity Of establishing 2 or 3 more
districts in the same manner. lie would
therefore on the initiative of the Govern
ment propose by LII amendment the grant
of IL salary of $40 pr. month, for one mid
wife more TO reside in the Country at
some place to the East Of KingShill, as
agreed upon with the Superior authority.
The expense under Item Z Is, the Prison
Department, has been reduced after the
decrease in the considerable number of
prisoners occasioned by the late riots.
The item under ID, for buildings and other
uncertain expenses was last year SS,S21,
this year $7,132, of which, the building
expenses proper amount 20 1922, i'll
which, however, there is this mistake, that
while III the estimate of the Building
Inspector $500 are put down for covering
possibly DEFICIENCIES and casual repairs,
$1,000 are put down i'll the Grant for the
purpose which will be rectified by an
amendment. The various building repairs
will consequently amount to 50, T22 in
stead of $3,222. 1t is further observed
that the Inspector has, after forwarding
estimate, called attention to this that the
repairs to Petersfarms hospital, which ap-
pear in the estimate with only $50 for
repairs to the walls and to the ~cisterns
besides some other trifing repairs, would