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"Survey return from Daniel Cormick"
Beauly.
1851.
RCP/COL/4/8/224
Daniel Cormick was a medical practitioner in Beauly.
Beauly was a village within the parish of Kilmorack in the historic County of Inverness. In 1831, the population was 508. The village held four annual fairs for country produce. For further information on the whole parish, see the entry for Kilmorack.
[[Addressee]]
Danl Cormick, Esq
Surgeon
Beauly
[[Survey]]
QUERIES
1. How long have you practiced in the locality you at present occupy?
Twelve years
2. What are the ordinary and what the greatest distances which you have to travel in visiting patients?
16 miles a day is about the ordinary work. frequently 36 and
40 up to 50
3. What means of conveyance do you employ in going long journeys?
Horseback or Gig1
4. What is the state of the roads in your neighbourhood?
Very good
5. Is the position of medical men in general in your quarter improved, or otherwise, of late years?
I can only say as regards myself that the
improvement in circumstances has not been
commensurate with the labour bestowed, and
the prospect of improvement most discouraging
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 circuit of 30 or 40 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?
In this and other districts of the Highlands,
there are many persons who require the
profession, by visiting and prescribing not
only among the poor, but among those
who are able to pay, if such a system
could be put down by a penal
enactment it would be a great ad-
vantage to the profession. and
a safety to the Public –
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Daniel Cormick. Surgeon.
Explanatory notes:
1. A gig is a light two-wheeled carriage pulled by one horse.
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