The fact that more than half of the children whom these women had borne were dead at the time of the record comports with the reputation of the sugar colonies for heavy infant mortality.

With births so infrequent and infant deaths so many it may well appear that the notorious failure of the island-bred stock to maintain its numbers was not due to the working of the slaves to death.

The poor care of the young children may be attributed largely to the absence of a white mistress, an absence characteristic of Jamaica plantations.

There appears to have been no white woman resident on Worthy Park during the time of this record.

In 1795 and perhaps in other years the plantation had a contract for medical service at the rate of L140 a year.
"Robert Price of Penzance in the Kingdom of Great Britain Esquire" was the absentee owner of Worthy Park.