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Medical Relief.
| Questions. | Answers of Applicant. | Inspector's Remarks. (Parish of Chargeability.) | Inspector's Remarks. (Parish of Residence.) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15. Has Applicant any other means or resources besides Parochial Relief,
and to what amount ? | |||
| 16. What is the amount of Relief now claimed by Applicant? | |||
| 17. State any other circumstances which may seem material . |
Signature of Applicant . Signature of Witness attesting mark .
Signature of Inspector . Parish . Date. Signature of Inspector . Parish . Date.
Approved by the Right Hon. Alexander Hugh Bruce, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Secretary for Scotland, 30th October 1895 .
2. Medical Relief.
RULES AS TO DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEDICAL RELIEF GRANT, APPROVED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE , MARCH 30, 1848, AND APRIL 29, 1854.
The Board had to determine on what principle it would propose to apportion to the different parishes the sum voted by Parliament. They were aware that, in apportioning a Grant for a similar purpose to the Unions in England, the Poor Law Commissioners had recommended that it should be distributed in sums proportioned to the actual expenditure in each Union; and were medical relief in Scotland everywhere administered on a system similar to that established in the English Unions, that principle of distribution would, no doubt, have been equally applicable to this Country. The expenditure in the English Unions, where the general system was uniform and efficient and had been established and acted upon for many years, afforded a sufficiently accurate measure of the comparative cost of adequate medical relief in the different Unions; and a distribution of the Grant, in sums proportioned to that expenditure, would, therefore, be a distribution in sums proportioned to their comparative wants. But from what has been stated, it is obvious