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1159 that economists and sanitary reformers should meet on this ground in considerable numbers. Connected to some extent with this latter subject is the International Congress of Architects, which also meets in June, from the l7th to the22nd. At this Congress the question of the diploma of Architecture will be discussed, and there should be someone present to insist that the study of architecture be made to comprisethe acquisition of some knowThis Congress is extensively ledge of the laws of patronised by both French and foreign architects. Eleven well-known English architects are on the list, most of them members of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Royal Society of Arts, &c., and among them is Mr. Statham, editor of the B-uilder, a paper which has always given a very prominent place to subjects relating to public health. common
health.
Paris, June 3rd. ________
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ANDERSON’S COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL. THE memorial stone of the new buildings of Anderson’s College Medical School was laid last week by Sir Jas. King, Bart., the Lord Provost, in presence of a large assemblage of interested spectators. The new College is situated on the west side of the entrance to the Western Infirmary, and faces the Partick-road. The building is designed in the Italian Renaissance style of architecture. The President, Mr. T. A. Mathieson, explained the
circumstances under which the old Andersonian institute, which had been in existence nearly 100 years, had been compelled by the action of the Endowed School Commissioners and by the Technical School Act to shift its medical department from the old premises in George-street to the present site. The School, when finished, would be not only an ornament to the city, but a benefit to the country
receive a printed slip to be filled up by him and returned to the Secretary, should he desire to vote by voting paper and not in person. Not less than ten days before the date of election, the Secretary will send by post to each Fellow from whom he shall have received this slip, duly filled up, a folded voting paper impressed with the College stamp, together with two envelopes, one in which to place the voting paper when duly addressed to the Secretary, in which to return marked, and the the first envelope to the College. The Fellow must affix his mark to the name or names of the candidate or candidates printed on the voting paper for whom he votes. He must then fold the voting paper with the names inwards, place it in the first envelope, fasten this envelope, and sign his name to the declaration printed thereon, adding his address, his signature being attested by a witness. The Fellow must thereupon place the first envelope thus sealed, signed, and attested in the second envelope, addressed to the secretary, and forward the same, postage prepaid, through the post so that it may be received at the College not later than forty-eight hours before the time appointed for the electionviz., not later than 2 o’clock P.M. on Tuesday, the 2nd of July next. The envelope, addressed to the secretary, will be opened by him on its receipt, and the unopened inner envelope, enclosing the voting paper, will be placed by him in a properly secured box, the signature of the voter having been verified and his name marked off in the list of Fellows as having recorded his vote in this manner. At the election the box containing these sealed envelopes will be placed on the table, when, in view of the Fellows present, the envelopes will be opened, and the still folded voting papers dropped into the ballot-box by the secretary. A voting paper once received by the secretary cannot be withdrawn by the Fellow voting, with a view to his voting in person. EDWARD TRIMMER, Secretary. May 31st, 1889.
other,
second
Public Health
and
Poor Law.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. REPORTS OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH.
Urban -District.-In submitting his first annual the health and sanitary condition of Cardiff, Dr. Walford takes the opportunity of expressing his indebtedness to the reports of his predecessor, Dr. Paine. at large. The death-rate for 1888 was 20’3 per 1000 on a population The Lord Provost, in laying the memorial stone, said of 118,828, the deaths under one year were 143 per 1000 that it seemed as if somewhat scant justice had been done by the Endowed Schools Commissioners when they registered births, and the zymotic rate was 2’9 per 1000 awarded only £5000 for the medical side of this institu- living. During the year measles was very prevalent, the tion. In all, £54,000 had been given by those who were disease being maintained by personal infection, in which interested in the progress and success of the institution, the schools played a part; indeed, towards the end of and though it was right to confess that the bulk of that November as many as 2385 were absent from school. The was intended for practical science rather than for medical greater fatality in this disease was noticed in the lowscience, still he thought a more liberal provision should have lying southern districts, where the soil is impervious and been made for this most important and valuable branch habitually damp, and where the surface water, instead of of the institution. A sum of £5000 was set aside for the draining away, causes dampness of the foundations of the purposes of the Act, and the directors who were appointed houses ; much of the fatality being due to pulmonary comwere enjoined within three years to spend the money in the plications. Amongst the other prevalences of disease, an erection of a building. The three years had not yet passed, account is given of a somewhat sudden outbreak of enteric and they had spent X9000 instead of f:5000, and almost the fever, the cause of which is presumed to be traced back to a whole of the £4000 additional had been willingly supplied dairy, where the milkseller’s son is stated to have been found to be convalescing from the same disease. The distribution by the citizens of Glasgow. Professor Morton said the new building had been much of the milk being stopped, the outbreak came to an end. needed. In the old Andersonian institute they had class- In connexion with death from diarrhoea, Dr. Walford gives rooms, but for some years they had been scarcely entitled some statistics to show its comparative rarity amongst to the name. Certainly, some of them had been for years children of the Irish community, with whom feeding of nearly as dangerous as that tuberculosis which was disturb- infants with breast milk is habitual; and he states that ing the public mind at the present time. At all events, in Cardiff, out of 296 deaths under one year in a period re-breathed air had not been unknown in these class-rooms. examined into, only three of the infants had been fed on A vote of thanks to the Lord Provost terminated the breast milk alone. The point is worth noting in connexion with Dr. Vaughan’s experiments as to the production of proceedings. tyrotoxicon in stale milk in bottles and bottle nipples. Spilsby Rural District.-After dealing with the history ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF of the various attacks and deaths from infectious diseases in this district during 1888, Dr. F. J. Walker explains that, ENGLAND. in view of the occurrence of small-pox over so extensive an area, a movable wooden hospital has been provided which IN view of the election to the Council on Thursday, can be carted about. We trust, when the time for its use July 4th next, the following statement explanatory of the comes, the difficulty and delay in securing a site for it will effect of the several sections of the recent Charter and Bye- not tend to hinder its usefulness. The current sanitary work laws and of the regulations governing the new mode of of the year is not particularly noteworthy; the birth-rate election of members of the Council, which has been issued was 25-19, and the death-rate 16’65 per 1000 living. Scarborough Urban District.-Dr. J. W. Taylor is able to by the Secretary of the College, will be of interest:for 1888 the lowest return on record as regards present By the new Charter, dated the 20th of July, 1888, Fellows of the zymotic diseases, and he congratulates the town on having the to vote at the election of members of the College possess right Council by sealed voting papers, forwarded by post to the Secretary, now formulated a Bill relating to a system for the comand personal attendance is no longer obligatory. pulsory notification of infectious diseases. An account is With the object of giving effect to this new power, the Council have given of the various measures as to which progress is being framed, in accordance with the Charter and Bye-laws, regulations of made; records of meteorology are submitted with a view of which the following is a summary-viz. : Each Fellow of the College, on health; and resident in the United Kingdom, whose address is known to the Secre- judging of the effect of heat, rainfall, &c., tary, will, together with the circular announcing the date of the election it is explained that a system of granting sanitary certifi___
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Cardiif
report
on
health.
Paris, June 3rd. ________
__
ANDERSON’S COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL. THE memorial stone of the new buildings of Anderson’s College Medical School was laid last week by Sir Jas. King, Bart., the Lord Provost, in presence of a large assemblage of interested spectators. The new College is situated on the west side of the entrance to the Western Infirmary, and faces the Partick-road. The building is designed in the Italian Renaissance style of architecture. The President, Mr. T. A. Mathieson, explained the
circumstances under which the old Andersonian institute, which had been in existence nearly 100 years, had been compelled by the action of the Endowed School Commissioners and by the Technical School Act to shift its medical department from the old premises in George-street to the present site. The School, when finished, would be not only an ornament to the city, but a benefit to the country
receive a printed slip to be filled up by him and returned to the Secretary, should he desire to vote by voting paper and not in person. Not less than ten days before the date of election, the Secretary will send by post to each Fellow from whom he shall have received this slip, duly filled up, a folded voting paper impressed with the College stamp, together with two envelopes, one in which to place the voting paper when duly addressed to the Secretary, in which to return marked, and the the first envelope to the College. The Fellow must affix his mark to the name or names of the candidate or candidates printed on the voting paper for whom he votes. He must then fold the voting paper with the names inwards, place it in the first envelope, fasten this envelope, and sign his name to the declaration printed thereon, adding his address, his signature being attested by a witness. The Fellow must thereupon place the first envelope thus sealed, signed, and attested in the second envelope, addressed to the secretary, and forward the same, postage prepaid, through the post so that it may be received at the College not later than forty-eight hours before the time appointed for the electionviz., not later than 2 o’clock P.M. on Tuesday, the 2nd of July next. The envelope, addressed to the secretary, will be opened by him on its receipt, and the unopened inner envelope, enclosing the voting paper, will be placed by him in a properly secured box, the signature of the voter having been verified and his name marked off in the list of Fellows as having recorded his vote in this manner. At the election the box containing these sealed envelopes will be placed on the table, when, in view of the Fellows present, the envelopes will be opened, and the still folded voting papers dropped into the ballot-box by the secretary. A voting paper once received by the secretary cannot be withdrawn by the Fellow voting, with a view to his voting in person. EDWARD TRIMMER, Secretary. May 31st, 1889.
other,
second
Public Health
and
Poor Law.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. REPORTS OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH.
Urban -District.-In submitting his first annual the health and sanitary condition of Cardiff, Dr. Walford takes the opportunity of expressing his indebtedness to the reports of his predecessor, Dr. Paine. at large. The death-rate for 1888 was 20’3 per 1000 on a population The Lord Provost, in laying the memorial stone, said of 118,828, the deaths under one year were 143 per 1000 that it seemed as if somewhat scant justice had been done by the Endowed Schools Commissioners when they registered births, and the zymotic rate was 2’9 per 1000 awarded only £5000 for the medical side of this institu- living. During the year measles was very prevalent, the tion. In all, £54,000 had been given by those who were disease being maintained by personal infection, in which interested in the progress and success of the institution, the schools played a part; indeed, towards the end of and though it was right to confess that the bulk of that November as many as 2385 were absent from school. The was intended for practical science rather than for medical greater fatality in this disease was noticed in the lowscience, still he thought a more liberal provision should have lying southern districts, where the soil is impervious and been made for this most important and valuable branch habitually damp, and where the surface water, instead of of the institution. A sum of £5000 was set aside for the draining away, causes dampness of the foundations of the purposes of the Act, and the directors who were appointed houses ; much of the fatality being due to pulmonary comwere enjoined within three years to spend the money in the plications. Amongst the other prevalences of disease, an erection of a building. The three years had not yet passed, account is given of a somewhat sudden outbreak of enteric and they had spent X9000 instead of f:5000, and almost the fever, the cause of which is presumed to be traced back to a whole of the £4000 additional had been willingly supplied dairy, where the milkseller’s son is stated to have been found to be convalescing from the same disease. The distribution by the citizens of Glasgow. Professor Morton said the new building had been much of the milk being stopped, the outbreak came to an end. needed. In the old Andersonian institute they had class- In connexion with death from diarrhoea, Dr. Walford gives rooms, but for some years they had been scarcely entitled some statistics to show its comparative rarity amongst to the name. Certainly, some of them had been for years children of the Irish community, with whom feeding of nearly as dangerous as that tuberculosis which was disturb- infants with breast milk is habitual; and he states that ing the public mind at the present time. At all events, in Cardiff, out of 296 deaths under one year in a period re-breathed air had not been unknown in these class-rooms. examined into, only three of the infants had been fed on A vote of thanks to the Lord Provost terminated the breast milk alone. The point is worth noting in connexion with Dr. Vaughan’s experiments as to the production of proceedings. tyrotoxicon in stale milk in bottles and bottle nipples. Spilsby Rural District.-After dealing with the history ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF of the various attacks and deaths from infectious diseases in this district during 1888, Dr. F. J. Walker explains that, ENGLAND. in view of the occurrence of small-pox over so extensive an area, a movable wooden hospital has been provided which IN view of the election to the Council on Thursday, can be carted about. We trust, when the time for its use July 4th next, the following statement explanatory of the comes, the difficulty and delay in securing a site for it will effect of the several sections of the recent Charter and Bye- not tend to hinder its usefulness. The current sanitary work laws and of the regulations governing the new mode of of the year is not particularly noteworthy; the birth-rate election of members of the Council, which has been issued was 25-19, and the death-rate 16’65 per 1000 living. Scarborough Urban District.-Dr. J. W. Taylor is able to by the Secretary of the College, will be of interest:for 1888 the lowest return on record as regards present By the new Charter, dated the 20th of July, 1888, Fellows of the zymotic diseases, and he congratulates the town on having the to vote at the election of members of the College possess right Council by sealed voting papers, forwarded by post to the Secretary, now formulated a Bill relating to a system for the comand personal attendance is no longer obligatory. pulsory notification of infectious diseases. An account is With the object of giving effect to this new power, the Council have given of the various measures as to which progress is being framed, in accordance with the Charter and Bye-laws, regulations of made; records of meteorology are submitted with a view of which the following is a summary-viz. : Each Fellow of the College, on health; and resident in the United Kingdom, whose address is known to the Secre- judging of the effect of heat, rainfall, &c., tary, will, together with the circular announcing the date of the election it is explained that a system of granting sanitary certifi___
___
Cardiif
report
on