Remote & Rural Remedies

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"Survey return from Angus Martin"

Snizort, Portree.

1850.

RCP/COL/4/8/143

Angus Martin was a church minister in Portree.

Snizort (also known as Ascrib Isles) was a parish on the Isle of Skye in the historic County of Inverness. It contained the village of Uig. In 1831, the population was 3487. The land of the parish was not suitable for agriculture and it was mainly used for pastures and cattle. There were some fisheries that exported produce to Glasgow and Liverpool.

[[Addressee]]
The Revd
Angus Martin
Snizort
Portree

[[Survey]]
QUERIES

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

none except one who visits the poor occasionally

2. The Names and Addresses of these.

Lachlan Mathison Surgeon Portree

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

answered already

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

answered already

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

Their complaints are of no avail

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?

Such cases occur frequently

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

I keep some medicines & other families do so likewise & these medicines are given gratuitously to the sick

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?

If a grant of money were obtained from Government as part salary instead of confining medical aid to paupers the Parish in general would benefit by it

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

Only one Mr. A. Gray, Treaslane by Portree

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 Angus Martin"

Snizort, Portree.

1850.

Angus Martin was a church minister in Portree.

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.