Remote & Rural Remedies

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"Survey return from Dr. Calder"

Bunessan, by Aros.

1851.

RCP/COL/4/8/220

Dr. Calder was a medical practitioner in Bunessan by Aros.

Bunessan (also known as Bonessan) was a district within the parish of Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon (also known as Kilviceuen). For further information on the whole parish, see the entry for Kilfinichen.

[[Addressee]]
Dr. Calder
Bunessan
by Aros

[[Survey]]
QUERIES

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

4 years

X¹ 2. What are the ordinary and what the greatest distances which you have to travel in visiting patients?

[no text]

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

I keep a Horse for Riding

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

The main line is passable but turning
of it in any direction there is no road at all.

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

There is no other medical man is this Parish depending on Practise
but myself and I am not much acquaint with the medical
gentlemen in the other Parishes of this Country but I am certain
their position cannot be improved from their Practise
within the last few years.

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?

Six square miles

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?

I cannot in the mean time suggest any

[[Additional text]]

X Answer to Query 2d
The ordinary distances are 10 Miles in one direction
and 8 in another and the greatest is about 15 Miles.
There are also to Ferries in my district which
I must often cross and also an arm of the
sea which I prefer to cross than ride round.

Explanatory notes:

1. Answer to query 2 written at bottom of page.

"Survey return from Dr. Calder"

Bunessan, by Aros.

1851.

Dr. Calder was a medical practitioner in Bunessan by Aros.

Bunessan (also known as Bonessan) was a district within the parish of Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon (also known as Kilviceuen). For further information on the whole parish, see the entry for Kilfinichen.

1. Answer to query 2 written at bottom of page.