----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Rentals. |------------------------------------------------ | L10 to L25 | L25 to L50 | L50 to L100 ----------------------|----------------|----------------|-------------- Ordinary Visit | 2s 6d to 3s 6d | 3s 6d to 5s | 5s to 7s 6d Night Visit | Double an | Ordinary | Visit Mileage beyond two | | | miles from home | 1s 6d | 2s | 2s 6d Detention per hour | 2s 6d to 3s 6d | 3s 6d to 5s | 5s to 7s 6d Letters of Advice | Same charge as | for an Or- | dinary Visit Attendance on Servants| 2s 6d | 2s 6d to 3s 6d | 3s 6d to 5s Midwifery | 21s | 21s to 30s | 42s to 105s | | | CONSULTANTS. | | | | | | Advice or visit alone | 21s | 21s | 21s Advice or visit with | | | another Practitioner| 21s | 21s to 42s | 21s to 42s Mileage beyond two | | | miles from home | 10s 6d | 10s 6d | 10s 6d ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Special visits, _i.e._, of which due notice has not been given before the practitioner starts on his daily round, are charged at the rate of a visit and a half. Patients calling on the doctor are charged at the same rate as if visited by him. "There are about 23,000 physicians and surgeons in the United Kingdom, or one to every 1,600 inhabitants." It has been my privilege to know several doctors intimately. Our family doctor when I was a boy in Paisley, was Dr. Kerr, a man far in advance of his day. He was the means of introducing a pure water supply to the town of Paisley, always strenuously urging the importance of sanitary matters and good drainage, when such things were then but little understood, and greatly neglected. Shortly after the water had been introduced to the houses, from Stanley, an old man--who had been accustomed to purchase water from a cart which went through the streets selling it from a barrel--on being asked how he liked the new water, replied indignantly, "Wha's going to pay good siller for water that has neither smell nor taste?" On one occasion, an elderly gentleman, who was slightly hypochondriac, consulted Dr. Kerr about his clothing, saying that he regulated the thickness of his flannels by the thermometer. Dr. Kerr, losing patience, said, "Can you not use the thermometer your Maker has put in your inside, and put on clothes when you are cold?"