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"Survey return from Donald MacDonald"
Trumisgarry, by Lochmaddy.
1850.
RCP/COL/4/8/150
Donald MacDonald was a church minister in Trumisgarry.
Trumisgarry (also known as Trumisgary) was a quoad sacra parish within the parish of North Uist in the historic County of Inverness. For further information on the whole parish, see the entry for Cairinish.
[[Addressee]]
The Rev.
Donald MacDonald
Trumisgarry
By Lochmaddy
[[Survey]]
QUERIES
1. How many Medical Men practice within the Parish of Trumisgarry?
There is one only between this quoad sacra1 parish of Trumisgarry & an adjacent parish. There is only one for the 2 parishes of North Uist
2. The Names and Addresses of these.
Dr John M Donald
Kyles Paible
By Lochmaddy
3. Has the number increased or diminished of late years?
As far as known to me there has been only one for ages ago
4. Have any left the Parish since you became connected with it? If so, for what reasons?
About 4 years ago one left because he got a Factorship
5. Is there any complaint among the people of inadequacy in the supply of Medical aid?
There is, now, & then
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?
I have known some of this
7. To what extent is the deficiency of qualified Practitioners made up by the efforts of other parties?
Very little to my knowledge
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?
The one we have would, of course, make a greater exertion had he been better paid or expected payment from all that ask him
9. What Heritors2 are resident, either generally or occasionally, in your Parish?
Lord McDonald is the proprietor & he never resides on this part of his estates & seldom visits it
Explanatory notes:
1. Quoad sacra translates from Latin as "concerning sacred matters". Where a civil and an ecclesiastical parish are coterminous, the area is designated a "parish proper", a parish quoad omnia ("concerning all"), or a parish quoad civilia et sacra ("concerning the civil and the sacred").
2. 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.
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