, 1962-08-18
LEGISLATIVE RECORD
Continued from Yesterday

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THE PRESIDENT: Senator Moorehead.
Mr. MOOREHEAD: / would ike to support the
argument mace by senator LaWaeIz. concerning the
4sla1ld OF ST. Jonn, you recaIled several years ago tnlS
pouy passed leglslaLon 10 PROVIDE mouern noSpltdl lacl-
lJeS on Ine lsland OF st. Jonn. lnaU was around 1906
ne administrator mas Deen taxing tne aGLIuQe That LIZ
amount OF SICK Inere 90 NOT Jusl1y II. Al xmas Of meol-.
cal terms ana Things that we QOn e understand is LneTed-
son Wny uley maven gone mCo Ine program. DurIng tlef
month OF December we naa TWO cases over Jnere Wnlcn !
thlnK demand some sort OF cnecKlng INTO Dy InlS bouy oL
pressure from TINS Body to carry through the WlsneSoi
me Legislature. hlgnJ now, incidentally, We nave 41oo'.
QUITO wares the pula1ng OF THIS tnlng ana supplemental
approprlalons could come. But, curing the month Oh
December we had an ACCIDENT over Jnere Wnere an mol
v1duaI Tell OF a motorcycle or something ana Supposeo1y
twisted his ankle. they TOOK MN TO the clInle aGSruz Day
ana the docLor mace an examlnaUlon ana ne d1Qn = nave
the means, A-hay eJc. 80 ne sent the Individual oWA ~
ST. Ihomas wnere ne was gwen A-hayS examinaCons,
returned to ST. Jonn ana was told that ne just SUFFERED q
spraln Iganent or something. sfney put pandageS Oh ~
ne visited the cnnlc every day or every otLer Jay as II
might have been, and after two weeks the swelling was
still there, very tender and sore and the doctor sa1d we
had better cnecK on this thing again. AND the DOCTOR
came down here again took OUT Jne INNS, went over tnem
again and then tney found OUT UnaJ the man mad acnlpp-
ed bone, two weeks after, and now the guy IS IN q cast.
Then the last Sunday in the month OF December
while playing some sort of a ball game or something one
Of the guys slid into a base and he suffered q twisted an
k1G dill WCAbC W. GO AAAAAAS3 AS
Of the tact that the doctor was on vacation. Inc nurse on
duty gave the man first aid treatment and said, 'WellSun
day afternoon, no needot gong down TO the nospltal now
YOU can go down first boat IN the morning. 30 MONDAY
morning the boy came down to the hospital and the same
rigmarole AGAIN. A-hays pictures taken, eJc. mourning
wrong; you GO back home, stay off your foot a day or two
and that is 1t a spralned llgament. "A week ana nall ago
ABOUT nlne days ago the guy still cant stand on the 1901.
He went back to st. Thomas and then they SAID ne nada
Clipped bone. How long Mr.. Chairman, are we going TO-
commune this kind of thing! how long Mr.. Chairman! Be
cause the medical staff teels that our population is not
large enough and declares this reason and that reason,
because OF major operations and MINOR operations? We
don't know which is a major operation but we do know
when we are SICK and we do know Wnen we need medl-
cal attention. think that this Body, Mr.. Chairman,
should do somethingto enforce legislation that we have
enacted in 1857. Thank you MI. Chairman.
president: Are there any further privileges.
of the floor? The Chair hears none the Chair would like
to call at this time the report OF standing Committees,
Are there any reports of standing Committees ready?