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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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2 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO

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Mr. Geneve, sworn.-I am Administrator of Choisy, since 25th November. I saw no doctor there since my arrival. Since January Dr. Desprez has visited the sick, an average weekly number of nine or ten.

Dr. Tyack wishes to explain that Choisy is very far, a portion of the road is at times dangerous. I had a convention for 150 dollars, and that I should only go when

able.

Mr. Geneve continues.-There have not been more than 200 on the estate. I have no hospital as yet arranged. Dr. Desprez has examined the sick in the mill. There is an hospital now undergoing repairs. I consider the column "Traitée hors de l'hôpital " means "dans leurs cases." Generally the sick are seen by the doctor at the mill, and are assembled daily for their medicine.

Mr. Moreau, sworn.-I am the employé charged with looking after the hospital. The book has been always sent to Bel Ombre. I never saw Dr. Tyack at Choisy. I have been there since September. Since December there has been no hospital at all. We have had sick. Dr. Desprez now visits regularly. We have about six daily applications for medical care. We never sent the sick to Bel Ombre to meet Dr. Tyack. They saw no doctor. A woman has died this month. She has been treated by Dr. Desprez. She died about the 15th January. There is no entry

whatever.

Dr. Tyack explains that very often the doctors do not know there are sick in the camp, and when it is found out, death follows very soon. I ascribe their non- declaration of their illness to their dislike of hospital, of European medicines, and their having their own doctors.

(No. 74)

District Sergeant-Major J. T. Webb v. Dr. J. Tyack.

Not certifying Register, Choisy.

Plea:-Guilty.

(No. 99.)

District Sergeant-Major J. T. Webb v. Dr. J. Tyack. Not visiting regularly, Choisy.

Plea:--Guilty.

(No. 63.)

District Sergeant-Major J. T. Webb v. Dr. J. Tyack.

Making false entries, La Foret.

Plea:-Guilty.

Mr. Reynall, sworn.-I am Administrator of La Foret Estate. During last year Dr. Tyack was the doctor of La Foret. I never saw him. He signed a book (Register produced). For two years past I have only seen one man present himself at the hospital. We have 150 men. My hospital is almost always empty. I treat daily two or three men. I cannot explain how it was that the sick were prescribed. I never ordered any sick to be sent to meet Dr. Tyack, except one who had a tooth to pull out. Three men have died in the year. Only one of them saw a doctor. One died of old age, and two of the consequences of fever. As to the latter, I wrote for Dr. Tyack and he did not come. By the hospital Register I see that the man who died came under treatment on the 18th October, and died on the 25th. Two or three days after I found he was ill, I wrote to Dr. Tyack. Ile did not come. The man died two or three days afterwards and saw no doctor. These men who died expired in their huts.

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The other one who died without seeing any doctor was ill for a month without seeing the doctor.

Cross-examined by Dr. Tyack. The man who brought the letter to Dr. Tyack was one Gopall. (Dr. Tyack denies all knowledge of any neglect to attend when called upon on any estate.)

For my part, I think that the necessities on some estates require even a daily attendance of the doctor. I paid one dollar a-head for Doctor Tyack's visits. I have now engaged a new doctor. pay 200 dollars for the doctor.

If we exacted attendance in hospital, as mentioned in Article 10 of Ordinance No. 29 of 1865, we would disgust all our men, who would leave us. They hate the hospital. I consider it impossible to work the Ordinance in that respect. I would not quite say the hospital is a pretext, because there are serious cases where the men themselves ask for admittance, and remain. It has only happened so to me once in two years. I have seen Doctor Gonby on the estate last year only twice. He calls on the attendant, and goes to the hospital with him. By the book, he has been four times. He left word that he had seen all.

(No. 97.)

District Sergeant-Major J. T. Webb v. Dr. J. Tyack.

Not certifying Register, La Foret.

Plea:-Guilty.

(No. 64)

District Sergeant-Major J. T. Webb v. Dr. J. Tyack.

Not visiting regularly, La Foret.

Plea:--Guilty.

(No. 78.)

District Sergeant-Major J. T. Webb v. Dr. J. Tyack (St. Felix).

Not visiting regularly.

Ples-Guilty.

Mr. Crusux, sworn: On the 8th December, the Magistrate visited the hospital. There were about fifteen men in hospital. There was one dying of chronic dysentery; who has since died. Doctor Tyack on that day, and up to the 12th of December from the 17th November, had not visited the estate. He lives close by. 844 men are engaged on the estate. Doctor Gonby has not inspected the estate since the 20th November, when he made his inspections for the third trimestre of the year ending 30th September. He always signs the book when he inspects. We pay 300 dollars in all. The times of Doctor Tyack's attendance are various times of day and after- noon; but he marks the book always at 10 o'clock A.M. Our system is to make all the men come to the hospital. If they do not, they are marked absent. We generally have about fifteen there. Some are treated out of hospital. In the register, for two years back, I find only the names of six children så having been treated out of hospital. We have 189 women on the estate. The doctor treats them in their huts. There have been some ten women treated out of hospital in the two years. There have been no deaths out of hospital. We only enter names of those who come to hospital and receive treatment. In my opinion, two visits a week are sufficient for an ostate like St. Felix.

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