, 1915-10-13

If tLe employer's time wasted. and the hous
hold work and domestic affairs neglected
and discouraged, because there Is only one
doctor III The com nuniiy ior sick people to
consult.
Even in cases of corpse inspection it has
been unpleasant aud inconveuieut for the
immediate relatives of the deceased. when.
bee use Of tie one doctor IN the community
beino out OF town, they could non faandif
their dead as they wanted to, ANTI the GER
tifrate of death was ISSUED. Il IS hati on
a community to have to bear all these IN
couveuiences and run the risks of the one
doctor being out Of town, and an arc.dent
occurritg calling for the inmediute services
of Il doctor. 1t is hard too on the one doc
tor, for he is human like the rest Of US, and
must some time get rest, and however clever
and energetic he may be, he cannot be omhl-
present and he had known an instance where
the doctor had gone for Ii hours IN the
country, and in another case f,om : o'clock
enc morning until ( O'Clock the following
ulteruoou, the community IN these instances
being without any medlca! help. The Gov
eminent should long a9a have taken steps
to provide more doctors Ton the Island, and
it is to be hoped that this viii soon be done.
With regord to the question Of the L1nd-
plysicus being quarantine doctor tor boh
ports OF the lSltDt, ne luouPut III Nt> very
unfair TO the doctor in Fredeuksted, thai Ii.
should hive 10 10 the work, and set only
half the fees. 1t is We'll known that nearly
all the quarantine work OF The Leland is ia
rederIkst ed, aud because anGphysieus IS
Quaantiue doctor for the whole Island, the
doctor IN Fredeliksted has to give him half
the fees collected. He thought that the
man who did he work ought to get tie pay,
and all Of it. Some years ago, Tins matter
was brought up BY him (the speoke) IN HE
Municipal Committee, and the late Governor
Limpricht explained that it could not be
changed until a new Landphysicus vas to
be appointed, with a new contract with the
Ministry or the Government. Now Tint
such was the case he had brought the mat
ter forward in the hope that it would not
be forgotten, and that a change in This ar
ungemeut would be ,ffccled, whereby the
doctor in Frederik- ted who had to do all the
work got all the pay.
His ExceIlency the actg. ' ee Governor
(BuuntuuO would beg to say, that under
Is MAY 1915 Government was informed by
the Ministry of Fiuuuces that thr Public
Physician in Christiansted was 10 ucl as
Laudphysicus an! nj the same time ilat the
Ministry had written to the General Board
Of Health to send out n doctor MS Public
Phvsicinn. since then Government had no
information.
HIS ExceIlency supposed, flat uuder the
present circumstances SO few DOCTORS We're
to be had. II an epid, mic shonld bleak out
under the present staff, we had to get help
from ST. Thomas.
His ExcelIency would not now enter ON
the question of two doctors in Frederksted,
this question bad been discussed 80 often,
that nothing new could be sand. HIS Exec
lency would only shy, that as lar as he knew
the whole question about the sanitary con
dItious out here is under consideration in
Copenhagen aud we may probably later on
beu about ii. With the regard to the ques-
ton of the quarantine fees, His ENceIIency
could only say, it was just as open 10 him
as TO IuterpeIant.
1st Member for Frederiksttd Town (CouI-
terl was sorry TO hear that His EXceiIency
had no better Information to give, and that
since the month Of May the Government
and the Ministry had done nothing towards
the getting Of another doctor ton the Island,
which he thought was ntgIectiul Of the
welfare Of the community. He was PIE
Guided from processing Il re,olu' ION %re'atiye
to this matter by paragraph 10 OF the Rules
If Business, lat lie Loi ed the situation