Remote & Rural Remedies

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"Survey return from Donald MacDonald"

Stenscholl, Portree.

1850.

RCP/COL/4/8/139

Donald MacDonald was a church minister in Portree.

Stenscholl (also known as Steinscholl) was a district within the parish of Kilmuir In North Skye. In 1837, it had a population of 1736. For further information on the parish, see the entry for Kilmuir.

[[Addressee]]
The Revd
Donald MacDonald
Stenscholl
Portree

[[Survey]]
QUERIES

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

None lives within this Parish or nearer than Portree which is about twenty five miles distant.

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 people do not complain, having no notion of a better state of things.

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?

There must of course be many such cases.

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

Myself do a little in that way.

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?

I cannot suggest any measure to relieve the evil excepting that of giving a salary to a Medical man who might live amongst us.

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

None

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 Donald MacDonald"

Stenscholl, Portree.

1850.

Donald MacDonald was a church minister in Portree.

Stenscholl (also known as Steinscholl) was a district within the parish of Kilmuir In North Skye. In 1837, it had a population of 1736. For further information on the parish, see the entry for Kilmuir.

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.