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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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employer ever complained of the gross neglect of the doctor, and has only assisted in hoodwinking the Inspectors.
2nd. That this spirit evidently prevailing in the district also pervades the entire Colony. In proof of this there is Dr. Tyack's plea that he only followed a system which, from conversations with brother practitioners, he supposed existed throughout the island. In further proof we have the statement of Mr. Castel, a planter, formerly in Haeq district, who spoke confidently of the practices described in Dr. Tyack's instance as being usual everywhere.
It is unnecessary for me to point to further conclusions, which your Excellency will not fail to draw from all the circumstances of these cases. I may, however, be allowed to observe that all persons connected with the management of estates evidently mistake their position entirely. I do not think even if similar investigations and trials were had in every district, with the same result as in the present cases, that the planters would become wholly convinced of the extent of their obligations in respect of their invalid servants. I consider a very distinct intimation of the requirements of the Government on this point is necessary. Your Excellency will have observed that Dr. Tyack gravely pleaded that the law had been placed on the statute book merely to satisfy demands from abroad, and not from any belief in its necessity here. That in fact it was intended for show, and not for observance. I think, therefore, there is need of some step to disabuse the public mind of this impression.
I do not hesitate, also, to point out that the medical inspection by inspectors in this district has been greatly neglected. It is in evidence that the Inspector in the district has previously announced his visits, and has usually contented himself with a cursory glance at the hospital register. Such a system of inspection is plainly useless.
From the success obtained in Savanne in the discovery of these matters by the simple plan of calling on the doctors, in every instance, to give certificates of the truth of all their entries in hospital registers, I venture to recommend its being insisted on everywhere. In many other matters regulations are much required, and I beg to suggest that the power of framing such, which is given in article 28 of the Ordi- nance 29 of 1885, might be respectfully exercised.
I trust that these observations will assist in informing your Excellency of the general features of the abuses existing. If my attention is further drawn by you to any more special and particular points, I will do my best to perform the duty of further reporting upon them.
His Excellency the Governor.
I have, &c.
J. G. DALY, Stipendiary Magistrate, Savanne.
(Signed)
Inclosure 2 in No. 4.
Proceedings in the cases of Breach of Ordinance No. 29 of 1865 (Hospital Ordinance).
Containing:
Police v. Dr. Tyack.-Police v. Dr. Bolton.
1. Three specimen copies of informations, one of each kind tried;
2. Evidence and trial;
8. Judgments.
Information upon Oath.-Charge of Breach of Ordinance No. 29 of 1865.
Mauritius, District of Savanne.
James Thomas Webb, District Sergeant-Major of Police of District of Savanne, maketh oath and saith as follows:--
That between the
day of
in the said district, one that you doctor
in the year of Our Lord 1871 at
residing at
in this district,
and being the medical practitioner engaged in the service of the proprietor of
did fail and neglect to visit such estate for the purpose of attending such labourers as might be sick thereon, contrary to your said engagement, and the law in such case
provided. Wherefore the said complainant prayeth the Court that the said accused be brought before it and dealt with according to law.
J. T. WEBB. (Signed)
Taken and sworn after due interpretation in the Stipendiary Court of Savanne before me, the undersigned magistrate, this 19th day of January, in the year 1872.
(Signed) J. G. DALY,
Stipendiary Magistrate in and for the District of Savanne.
Information upon Oath.-Charge of Breach of Ordinance No. 29 of 1865.
Mauritius, District of Savanne.
James Thomes Webb, District Sergeant-Major of Police of District of Savanne, maketh oath, and saith as follows:-
That between the 1st day of October and 31st day of December, in the year of Our Lord 1871, at
in the said district, one that you Doctor Tyack, residing at Rio des Auguillos in this district, and being the medical practitioner engaged to attend the servants in the service of the proprietor of
in the district of Savanne have wilfully made and signed false entries in the register of such estate, by signing your name therein to entries of visits and of times of visits, and notes of the several items in the said register mentioned as having been regularly entered at the time of such visits. Whereas in truth and in fact such entries were not made at the times of your visits to such estate, but were and are wholly false and untrue. Wherefore the said complain- ant prayeth the Court that the said accused be brought before it and dealt with according to law.
(Signed) J. T. WEBB.
Taken and sworn after duè interpretation in the Stipendiary Court of Savanne before me, the undersigned magistrate, this 19th day of January, in the year 1872.
(Signed) J. G. DALY,
Stipendiary Magistrate in and for the District of Savanne.
Information upon Oath.—Breach of Ordinance No. 29 of 1865.
Mauritius, District of Savanne.
James Thomas Webb, District Sergeant-Major of Police of District of Savanne, maketh oath and saith as follows:-
That during the year of Our Lord 1871 at
in the said district, one that you Dr.
residing at in this district, and being the medical practitioner engaged to attend on the servants employed in the service of the proprietor of after receiving a written requisition from the Stipendiary Magistrate of the District of Savanne, have failed to make and subscribe to the hospital register of such estate a certificate in writing as required by the magistrate and as provided in the ordinance in such case made and provided. Wherefore the said complainant prayeth the Court that the said accused be brought before it and dealt with according to law.
(Signed) J. T. WRBB.
Taken and sworn after due interpretation, in the Stipendiary Court of Savanne before me, the undersigned magistrate, this 19th day of January in the year 1872.
(Signed)
J. Ğ. DALY, Stipendiary Magistrate in and for the District
Savanne.
Magistrates' Notes taken on the lat day of February, 1872.
(No. 57.)
District Bergeant-Major J. T, Webb v. Dr. J. Bolton.
Mr. Flemming, Crown Solicitor for the prosecution, as Council for the Police. Information as to non-signing a certificate of entries of visits as requested.
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