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No. 72.)

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

Not certifying Register.

Plea:-Guilty.

(No 82.)

District Sergeant-Major J, T. Webb v. Dr. J. Tyack (Chamorny).

Not giving the certificate.

Plea :-Guilty.

And Doctor Tyack further says, as follows:-

My reasons for not signing certificate when required was that all my registers It is the same system contained false entries. I do not consider it a "faux." throughout, I think or suppose. I looked upon the Law as impeachable and a farce, I could not do what was expected, so I made a system of fictitious entries, in order to comply with the letter of the Law; believing that I sufficiently complied with its spirit by my attendance. I was attending twenty estates, and it was not possible for me to do it, together with my private practice. If there were a central hospital, or the district was divided with fixed limits, the work of the district could be done by three doctors. Two salaried Government doctors could do the work, if they had no private practice. What I have said about the practice throughout is only my sup- positions, derived from conversations with other practitioners, and my knowledge of the extent of their duties.

Mr. Mongey sworn-I am administrator of Charouny. I make my men stay in the hospital. They do so because I insist. They are allowed to be visited by the doctor in their huts, because the doctor visits the hospital. It would be a great assist- ance to the Magistrate if the names of all presenting themselves as sick, whether so really or not, were entered in the book, with the treatment or result mentioned in the column of "Remarks." I will do so for the future. I think the attendance of the doctors, at present, sufficient. It is somewhat difficult, but not impossible, to make the men stay in hospital. Many are treated daily in the hospital, and do not sleep there at night. I should say only a third remain. Doctor Gonby goes to the estate, I believe, regularly. He has not been this last three months. I have not seen any patients from La Foret treated at Chamouny; but the book has been there for months.

The several Informations, 79, 78, 77, 76, 71, 70, 66, 65, 81, being read over to Doctor Tyack, he pleads guilty to each.

It is announced by the Court that, except they receive further notice in the above cases, the witnesses need not attend.

The hearing of the complaints relating to St. Avold, Constance, Beau Bois, and Riche Bois, is adjourned to Wednesday.

Magistrates' Notes taken on the 7th day of February, 1872. (Nos. 84, 85, and 86.)

District Sergeant-Major J. T. Webb v. Dr. J. Tyack (Constance Estate). Nos. 84, 85, and 86.-Information.

Failure to give certificate. Plea:-Guilty.

Not visiting estate from between 1st October and the 31st December.

Mr. Gantray, sworn:-I am administrator and part proprietor of Constance Estate.

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Defendant was the doctor at the end of last year. I have seen him sometimes on the estate. I can't say how often. We had then more than 400. He has not visited regularly. We generally have about ten every morning who receive medical care, and who go away soon after. We have none who stay day and night. They do not leave with my permission. When they are not ill we mark them absent. Few stay until 8 o'clock. They will not stay because they prefer being with their families. I can give no other reasons. I only know it. I cannot say whether Dr. Tyack followed a usual practice in his way of making his visits. The food of the sick, if they really are sick and remain in the hospital, is brought by their wives. They even get their food at my

house when they are very bad. I have seen Dr. Tyack sign the book at times either in the mill or office. He has no fixed hours. I think the doctors visits are sufficient. We have none seriously sick, and when we have we send for him. Between October 1 and December 31 there are weeks when Dr. Tyack has not been on the estate. Mr. Duval is engaged on my estate. He attends to the hospital matters.

Cross-examined by Dr. Tyack.-We mark our sick at the bureau or mill every morning. They present themselves first there. I do not know that Constance has suffered by any negligence of Dr. Tyack's. I do not think any one had died from any such neglect. Sick have often been sent to my house, but they are not marked on the register as treated out of hospital.

Mr. Duval, sworn :-I keep on the estate a printed book. All who present them- selves every morning as sick I enter. I give the medicine I think right. When there are only pretended sick, I mark all the treatment, and if they are refused care I mention the result. On the book I keep there are usually about twenty.

The public register only contains the names of those who actually see Dr. Tyack, and they are very few and far between. When the doctor has seen them and they are once marked they abandon the hospital. They are ordered to remain and if they refuso, we now mark them for illegal absence. If the doctor says they are not sick we order them to work. If they refuse we send them to the police.

The reason I give that they do not like the hospital, they have a superstitious dread they will die.

(Nos. 76 and 77.)

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

Not certifying Register and failure to visit estate.

Same information (Fontenelle),

Plea:-Guilty to each.

Mr. Daubons, sworn :-I am administrator of the Estate Fontenalle. I produce the register of Fontenelle. There are intervals of twenty days when Dr. Tyack did not visit. Before the Magistrates visit the sick did not come to the hospital, now they do. They stay only to receive their medical care or some stay till evening, but none stay all night. I have no experience of a serious case. Except one man who lost his legs. He stayed an amputation case. They will not eat at the hospital. I have offered to have their food cooked for them at the hospital. At present my threat to out the day's wages makes the men come to the hospital. When the man is found not to be sick he is marked absent at once. I consider a man treated "à l'hôpital" if be receives his medicine in the hospital and stays there by day, and "hors de l'hôpital" signifies his not attending there at all.

Cross-examined by Dr. Tyack. When Dr. Tyack has attended any sick at his own house it should be marked "hors de l'hôpital." I charge no act of negligence causing special injury to Dr. Tynck.

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