PATEA MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1880. WANTED, A DOCTOR.

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 517, 8 May 1880, Page 2

PATEA MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1880. WANTED, A DOCTOR .

Doctors have been so scarce in Carlyle these few days past, that the one resident practitioner has been obliged to refuse attendance on several eases of serious illness in and hear the town. Our one doctor is of course so ‘overworked that be is obliged to;select bis patients with a fastidiousness that may seem unprofessional ; and hence there have been .complaints of brusque refusal to go here or there after persons*who have bad the indiscretion to fall sick at an inconvenient time. Doctors arc fre'ehgcnts, and can picasc'themaclvei. %’he' ’misfortune is, .that', in doing ate apt to displeaseapplicants who happen to . bo,'lmportunate, in demands M on . their services: In emergencies of life and: deajh doietpw: am ;expected, i from -motives’ of b*na««ity, to,d6 all that skill enables them; toidh *a : *l}eviating the agonies of Itlte slck' bed. But to this rule, so natural m -itself ind h’dnofhMjr observed; there are'exeeptions. : A ’chi!d was b'om hitho; towa yesterday pfit .theppor mothcr‘coi}l ; cj'hot'

lave tlie sndCsatisfaction of a visit from the one doctor; he being-engaged, from early morning “ till ten o’clock at night. .He said he, could, not see her : then he f ßaid he.would.not; ami he didn’t. There came another doctor to Patca from up country, and being favorably known he found himself “ wanted in adozen places at once.” Did he require' asking twice) when the woman’s desperate condition was stated to him ? He went instantcr, as any ordinary doctor would. Ho found the prdient had been in labor over 30 hours. Without help, two lives would soon have ended, for.the child bad to be forcibly delivered. It is doubtful whether the infant will live. At least one death has occurred near the town in the total absence of a doctor.