, 1884-04-02

physician on the plea of being poor. or
thar others can Shirk their obligation.
simply by saying thar the man to whom
the physician is called is poor. The hon.
Durable Member QPmmingl had made some
further remarks about either the private
party or the Colonial Treasury paying,
put had not rightly understood him......
IND Member for ChriStianSted Lemmingl
hhd observed, that the case must be so,
that either the Colonial Treasury had paid,
10y the standing salary, for tile medical
Attendance to Poor, or else the private
party had t" pay, then the Colonial Trea.
S(iry should not pay, nor advance the
amount
9Th Crownmembrr (Kalmer) resumed -.
He would not enter into the queSti II, whe-
ther there might not be a third alterna-
tive tut he would now merely say, that
when the honorable Member had found
occasion now TO mention Whist he had, he
must have an individual case in mind but
such had not occurred within his (Kalmer's)
medical practice. TEere had been cases
where he as Kings Physicianhad been call
rd to look after people who had been ne
glrctcd through their own fault or by that
Of others, which, was not his business to
find ont, but in such case he had been
acting as Kings Physician.
End Member for Ch~riStiansted (Lemming)
said he supposed that what the honorable
9Th Crownmember Kalmer intended 10y his
long speech ON Children'S Hospital in
reference t. the remarks he ILemming had
made on thar matter, was to shew up cir
cumStanceS to prove that there is a real
necessity to have here a children's hospital
besides the ether hospitals. Such a neces-
Sity would be the only reason why the
COuncil should vote the proposed amount,
al, h0ugh there are already Public HOSpl'
tails with plenty Of room, good attendance,
and where children can be treated quite as
well as e sewhere. But he could not see
that the honorable Member has established
Sucn a necessity. All what the honorable
Member has stated went only to Shew that
there is an existing evil in the mortality OF
children, and hat such a hospital specially
for the care of children is the means of
alternating that evil. All admit that it is
an evil, and all desire to get out of it; but
he could not see that a Children's Hospi-
tai is the only means to get out of it, and
particularly not a hospital that can be had
for 5000. Ii such an Institution could be
established here t. the extent as elsewhere,
where as many children as the establish
ment can hold are admitted and cared and
brought up, there might be some more
cause 10 entertain it; but he did not
believe such a thing could be done; it
would at all events cause too heavy
expenses. The chief thing to be done, he
ii, ught, is through the Police to keep
proper control with mothers as to how they
treat their children, and to introduce post,
mo. TEN examinations; and he hoped the
Government would take this under consi-
dpra ion. \ Childrcn'S Hospital can do
GOOD; he supposed this one here in Chris
tiauSted has done good he hoped 1t would
continue and do better. But he could not
see how the Public can maintain it; If it is
to be a public undertaking, 1t must be on
another style, which would be far too
expensive, especially circumstanced as we
are. The matter must be left to private
benefcrnce.-As regards the salaries to
phySicialS for attendance to the Poor
in he country, his idea was, that it is an
Agreements tha: the physicians are to
attend, FIR the salary Of 5000 p. a., all Such
for whom, being poor, the Colonial Treasury
must provide medical aid, but that beyond
such cases it is private pa ties who must pay
and the physicians mast look to these.
The Chairman: If, as he had been in
formed, there ae lawsuits pending on the
question lastly spoken of, it would be
better not to 90 too far into the matter
he believed We had already gone too far;
as the discussion had inadvertently been
allowed to be opened, he had not hitherto
stopped Members in making replies; but
he would now ask Members not to go
further.
The Gorernor would firstly in reply to the