1. Arrival, Settlement, and an Initial Concern for Health Care, 1749 (o.s.)-1753 (n.s.) -- 2. A Decade of Military and Naval Surgeons, 1753-1763 -- 3. Poor Relief Takes Precedence over Health Care, 1763-1775 -- 4. A New Order of Medical Men: The Loyalists, 1775-1784 -- 5. Health Care and Poor Relief at the End of the Century, 1784-1799 -- Appendices: 1. Passengers in the Cornwallis Mess Lists with Health-Care Occupations -- 2. An Explanation of Medications and Treatments Administered by Surgeons in Halifax during the Period 1750-53 -- 3. An Act to Prevent the Spreading of Contagious Distempers, 1761 -- 4. An Act to Prevent Importing Impotent, Lame, and Infirm Persons into this Province -- 5. Loyalist Physicians and Surgeons Who Settled in Nova Scotia during 1783 -- 6. Summary of Claims for Property and Loss of Income Made by Loyalist Doctors Who Came to Nova Scotia, Compared with the Sums Allowed and the Pensions Awarded by the Loyalist Claims Commissioners -- 7. The Indenture of Apprenticeship of William James Allmon -- 8. Physicians and Surgeons in Charge of Hospitals in Halifax and Environs, 1749-991 -- 9. Causes of Death of Nova Scotians between 1749 and 1799
