, 1894-03-17
P R 0 G E D j G s
COLONIAL COUNCIL
FOR SIT.
F'OR

00Httha"ttOH " Meetln9 " ZOtH feOry. 1874.
End Member for Fredol iksted's Country
District (Blackwo0d) 1t is admitted that
there are on the Budgets a certain sum for
paying for medical attendance to the poor in
the Country; that amount is not needed. or if
needed, not on the whole, for that purpose.
because planters pays for their poor on the
estates the Government is no doubt in a
position to use these $500 as at least q com
mencement of the salary for a new man,
should the Government be unwilling to take
anything from the present medical men.
The rest Will come of itself. There is NOT
the least doubt Of the necessity Of a new ply
sician, and every effort should be made to get
him. Estates have contracts; what we do
not wish to bind ourselves beforehand IS. to
give up the present physicians without the
certainty Of getting ana keeping another
man but what is equally certain is this,
that a competent doctor here Will not be in
want OF a field; he would like to see the new
man at Kings Hill but that is for the Com
mItt6e and the Council to decide.
LIST Member for Christiausted (Oreagb) pro
posed that a. committed of 5 be appointed.
The Chairman observed that no resolution
can be taken under an Interpolation, but the
election coald be put on the Order of Day for
another meeting.
The Governor would repeat, that he could
not see the need Of appointing a new Com
mIttee on the matter, as the old one is still
existing. The object before the Committee
Is gust what we want, namely to propose
where the new man is to be before that
Is decided, it is not possible to say what sums
are at disposal, because most of the items
named are connected with Christiansted, some
with Frederiksted. but none with Kingshill
WtIII fIic vJooo Ia 1a.- -,-.o1 IN -1.--
for the new Doctor.
The Chairman said, what has been stated
by End Member for Frederiksted's Country
District (Blackwood) about his disinolination
to give up the old physician without certain
ty OF a new, is what is the general idea with
every body; therefore no offer Of private
practice can beforehand be made to q new
medical man. It appeared to him that in the
event of another doctor being settled in
Chrietiansted, il would afford relief on air
sides, for either would he alone or mostly
alone have or get the country practice, thus
relieving the present doctors of that part Of
their work, or he would get town practice
and leave the present doctors more time for
the country.
2hd Member for Frederiksted's Country
District (BIackUood) said; circumstances
alter cases, it is not said what he may or
might not be when the occasion comes to
decide upon steps for q newd doctor; he meant
only to say, that it would tot be prudent long
. beforehand to bind himself to any thing.
But many come'from abroad, and make out
pretty well without previous arrangements:
it is not too much to expect that a good doctor
viii find a good field here; but let it be de-
cided whether he is to be at Kings Hill Or
hrissiaYsted.
The Governor would only say, thai it
seems that the interest in the matter is not
so very great after all, since Members have
not been able to agree and report upon that
question; and, as already stated, Government
cannot possibly do or say anything as long as
that question is not decided. He had
thought that there was a real wish and desire
among the Members of the Council to have
another physician in a particular place; to
take the matter quite on a loose footing
would not help, and Government can then do
nothing in it.