POOR LAW SALARIES.?LIFE ASSURANCE MEDICAL FEES.

Fees for Medical Reports for Life Assurance

To the Editor op the "Indian Medical Gazette." Dear Sir,? I send for perusal, .and publication, if you think fit, a copy of some correspondence which has taken place between the Manager of the Oriental Life Assurance Company of Bombay and myself, regarding the amount of the fee paid by that company for a medical report on an applicant for assurance. You will notice that the Manager considers th...

Demands of Medical Fees from Medical Men

Medical charities, medical politics: the Irish dispensary system and the poor law, 1836–1872

This volume marks a welcome addition to published research on the establishment of a system of state medicine in Ireland during the nineteenth century. The author's objective is to explore the significance of the Medical Charities Act, 1851, and to analyse its effect on medical relief and epidemic control in Ireland up to the conversion of the Poor Law Commission to the Local Govemment Board in...

A 'Scottish Poor Law of Lunacy'? Poor Law, Lunacy Law and Scotland's parochial asylums.

Scotland's parochial asylums are unfamiliar institutional spaces. Representing the concrete manifestation of the collision between two spheres of legislation, the Poor Law and the Lunacy Law, six such asylums were constructed in the latter half of the nineteenth century. These sites expressed the enduring mandate of the Scottish Poor Law 1845 over the domain of 'madness'. They were institutions...

Medical Fees in the Colonial Period *

A comparison of physicians' fees in the Colonial period with those of today should reveal much of interest and value. Numerous daybooks are available establishing the sums paid to the physician in the currency of the time, but obviously direct comparisons cannot be made because of the change in the purchasing value of the units. Consultation with historians, sociologists, and economists has ind...