no EVERYDAY LIFE ON A 



neither cotton nor rubber. Ceylon is not the 



[)lace for any lazy young man, who likes to 

 ounge down to nine o'clock breakfast, unless 

 he means to turn over a very new leaf. 



I have mentioned before the necessity of a 

 Planter knowing something of medicine, and 

 during this unhealthy season, I have become 

 more and more convinced of the need. During 

 the last month my son has had to treat cases of 

 chicken-pox, measles, acute rheumatism, violent 

 and prolonged bleeding from the nose, dog bite, 

 numerous bad cuts, ophthalmia, as well as fever 

 of a more or less bad type. From four o'clock 

 in the afternoon until half past, and in the early 

 morning, patients may always be seen about 

 our bungalow, waiting to be prescribed for. 

 Yesterday a baby was brought with bad 

 opthalmia in one eye ; the poor little thing had 

 its head plastered over with a kind of mash of 

 green leaves, which on the advice of a Tamil 

 woman had been applied, fully expecting a 

 speedy cure. In all urgent cases the doctor is 

 sent for, but as he lives five miles off, and has 

 an enormous district to travel over, it is some- 

 times two days before he can come. There is 

 an excellent hospital for coolies at Teldeniya to 

 which any cases are sent who are too ill to be 

 nursed in their own 'Mines." It not only adds 

 greatly to the comfort of the labourers, but it 

 is a great saving to an Estate, when the super- 



