A commission which had been investigating tho difficulties of administering tho Insurance Act in iJio Highlands and tho northern islands of Scotland cite instances in which patients have had to wait for a doctor for a fortnight or three weeks becauso tho weather would not permit doctors to cross to tho islands'. In ono parish in tho island of Lewis there was only ono doctor for a population of 7000 ■persons, spread over ail exposed seaboard twenty-seven miles in length. Superstition still lingers in some of Iho outlying islands. 11l Itona tho Commissioners were told of a i caso where a black cock was buried alive beneath tho spot where a patient had tho first attack of epilepsy. Tho Commissioners suggest that in certain areas tho doctor* ba guaranteed a minimum of i£3oo a fear,
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1684, 26 February 1913, Page 8
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135Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1684, 26 February 1913, Page 8
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