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"Survey return from Lachlan MKenzie"

Jura, Bowmore.

1850.

RCP/COL/4/8/22

Lachlan MKenzie (also written as McKenzie and Mackenzie) was a church minister to Jura parish.

The parish of Jura (also previously known as Kilearnadale or Kilearnadil) contained seven islands (Jura, Colonsay, Oronsay, Scarba, Lunga, Belnahua, Garvelloch/Holy Islands). The population in 1841 was 2299, with the inhabitants being scattered across a wide space. There were a few established ferries, two of which traveled between the island and the mainland.

[[Addressee]]
The Revd
Lachlan MKenzie
Alexr Kennedy
Jura
Bowmore

[[Survey]]
QUERIES

1. How many Medical Men practice within the Parish of Jura?

There is no resident practitioner within the Parish of Jura & Colonsay. A Medical Gentleman from Islay is employed by the Parochial Board of Jura to visit the poor occasionally.

2. The Names and Addresses of these.

[no text]

3. Has the number increased or diminished of late years?

[no text]

4. Have any left the Parish since you became connected with it? If so, for what reasons?

None

5. Is there any complaint among the people of inadequacy in the supply of Medical aid?

The want of a Medical Practitioner resident in the parish is felt by the people to be a great disadvantage

6. Do you know of any cases of protracted suffering, or of injury by Accident, such as might have been alleviated had proper advice been at hand?

In consequence of my having been so recently settled in the parish I cannot specify any such case.

7. To what extent is the deficiency of qualified Practitioners made up by the efforts of other parties?

[no text]

8. Does your experience enable you to suggest any measure – of general applicability – such as would be likely to relieve to some extent the evils (if they exist) of deficiency in the supply of Medical aid?

[no text]

9. What Heritors¹ are resident, either generally or occasionally, in your Parish?

Archibald Campbell Esq
of Jura and
Duncan McNeill Esq of Colonsay
M P. Dean of Faculty.

Explanatory notes:

1. A heritor was a landowner, under Scots Law, whose holdings were sizeable enough for them to be liable for the payment of public burdens such as Poor Law rates, road and bridge assessments and the church minister’s stipend.

"Survey return from Lachlan MKenzie"

Jura, Bowmore.

1850.

Lachlan MKenzie (also written as McKenzie and Mackenzie) was a church minister to Jura parish.

1. A heritor was a landowner, under Scots Law, whose holdings were sizeable enough for them to be liable for the payment of public burdens such as Poor Law rates, road and bridge assessments and the church minister’s stipend.