Remote & Rural Remedies

"Survey return from Alexander Currie"

Bowmore.

1851.

RCP/COL/4/8/212

Alexander Currie was a medical practitioner in Bowmore.

Bowmore was a seaport town in the parish of Killarrow in the historic County of Argyle. It had a large distillery and was a site of both sea and inland trade. In 1861, its population was 985. For further information on the whole parish, see the entry for Kilarrow.

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[[Addressee]]
A. Currie. Esq
Surgeon
Bowmore

[[Survey]]
QUERIES

1. How long have you practiced in the locality you at present occupy?

Ten Years

2. What are the ordinary and what the greatest distances which you have to travel in visiting patients?

The ordinary and greatest distances
travelled, are from one to twelve miles

3. What means of conveyance do you employ in going long journeys?

Riding on Horseback

4. What is the state of the roads in your neighbourhood?

Very good state

5. Is the position of medical men in general in your quarter improved, or otherwise, of late years?

Improved

6. Supposing the people of the Highlands and Islands were generally able to pay for medical
advice, according to rates usually observed in other parts of the kingdom, what extent of
country in your locality would you regard as sufficient to occupy a single practitioner
fully?

A Parish containing three thousand
Inhabitants

7. Mention, if you please, any special hardships incident to your situation, such as you think
might be remedied by some general measure or enactment?

The only hardship
incident to my situation is, a want
of due compensation for services often
performed

[[Additional text]]

Alexander Currie M.D.