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520 As to their detention, it is my practice to keep most AN inquest was held at Bromyard on Sept. 30th, patients exposed to the infection under observation for a on the body of Mr. Etheredge, surgeon. Deceased had been fortnight, in order to prevent annoyance to them, and the in the habit of taking chloral diluted with chlorodyne. On danger to the public, were they to suffer from the disease. Friday night he took a large dose, and as he did not recover In all such cases I vaccinate or revaccinate them ; those that from its effects, three medical men were called in, but their are vaccinated or revaccinated are detained for a few efforts were unavailing. A verdict was returned of " Accihours in order to get their clothing, &c., disinfected, bathe, dental poisoning." and discharge them. The baby was vaccinated only two SMALL-POX IN DUBLIN.-During the September months previous, but very carelessly, as the arm was still the deaths registered from this disease in Dublin quarter the other with child covered had" five indifferent scabs ; amounted to 65, being a decrease of 60 as compared with marks, simply foveated." I would have discharged them at the previous three months. once had it not been for the mother, who was badly vacciIN BELFAST.-During the past WHOOPING-COU&H nated, and I wanted to see the result of revaccination, which was satisfactory. I discharged them on the 9th of quarter the deaths from this disease in Belfast amounted to August, detaining them for eight days only. The very day 53, the affection having been prevalent in that town for Mr. Bonney writes to know if ’’ the cases have turned out many months past. to be small-pox." As I was away, my deputy informed UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. - Mr. Samuel him that they were cases of chicken-pox. The fourth case Cromwell Jones has obtained the Entrance Exhibition of was unvaccinated, but fortunately he took well the vaeannum, Mr. Edmund Walter Emtage that of ;t20 per 30 of a 16th and was on the cination, August, discharged annum, and Mr. Conrad Pereira that of £ 10 per annum, fortnight after his admission. Had he suffered from small- per each tenable for two years. he five to recover. would taken weeks have pox nearly YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL OFFICERS I remain, Sir, yours truly, M. D. MAKUNA, OF HEALTH.-The fourth annual meeting will be held on Medical Superintendent, Fulham Hospital. Thursday, October 16th, at the Town Hall, Bradford. Fulham, September 29th, 1879. After the delivery of the President’s address, papers will be read as follows :-By Mr. Harris Butterfield, on "Infantile FUNGUS POISONING. Diarrhoea ;" by Dr. Thomas Britton, on "A Difficulty in Water Supply." The dinner will take place at the To the Editor of THE LANCET. Talbot Hotel at 6 P.M. SiR,—Within the last few days four cases of fungus TYPHOID EPIDEMIC IN WARWICKSHIRE.-At a poisoning have been admitted into the Middlesex Hospital. of the Alcester Sanitary Authority on Sept. 23rd, Two cases occurred in one family, who had eaten fungi meeting a report was presented showing that 18 cases of typhoid gathered in Hyde Park, and two in another family, where fever and three deaths had occurred since the month of July. they had been taken from Regent’s Park. In both instances The epidemic was attributed to the pollution of the well they were eaten in mistake for mushrooms. The symptoms water, and a letter from the Local Government Board urged were those caused by a strong intoxicant, and in two cases that the wells should be immediately closed, and the Wateraccompanied by violent delirium. They all eventually works Company’s water be used instead of the well water. recovered, but it seems advisable that the public should be Steps were ordered by the local authority to be taken for cautioned against eating these fungi, as, if taken in large closing the wells. quantities, they might probably prove fatal. NORTHAMPTON GENERAL INFIRMARY.-At the I am, Sir, yours faithfully, meeting of Governors for appointing a physician, vice FairEDWARD A. FARDON, cloth, deceased, there was only one candidate, who, being Middlesex Hospital, Oct. lst, 1879. Resident Medical Officer. unable to attend, had written requesting that the meeting might be adjourned for a week or a fortnight ; but after SURGEON-MAJOR REYNOLDS. some discussion, in the course of which it was suggested To the Editor of THE LANCET. that in future there should be only one physician on the it was resolved to reappoint the sub-committee, " and SIR,-As our brave brother, Surgeon-Major Reynolds, staff, that they be instructed to make any further suggestions in soon arrive do think we could combine London, you may they might think proper with regard to the appointment or to receive him hospitably at a friendly dinner ?9 non-appointment of a second physician,"and report. Faithfully yours, BEQUESTS TO MEDICAL CHARITIES.-The General P. MAGENISS, L.R.C.P.E. Hospital, P. Euston-road, Sept. 27th, 18?9. Birmingham, has received X2000 towards the new works, from Mr. G. P. Wragge, out of the " Ingleby Fund." Mrs. Elizabeth Lansborough Gill, of Lee, Kent, bequeathed £ 200 each to the Royal Sea-Bathing Infirmary at Margate, and the East London Hospital for Children at Margate, and the "residue" of her estate, after the death of her servant, to several charities, among them being the A BUST of the President of the Queen’s College, Hospital for Diseases of Women and the Cancer Hospital. Belfast, has been placed in the consulting-room of the Mr. Alexander Turnbull Russell, of Easterton; Milngaire, Samaritan Hospital for Diseases of Women, Belfast, being ael000 to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and bequeathed the gift of a former student of the College.

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£ a00 to the Scottish National Institution for Imbecile

THE drinking of water from a foul well or tank, at Children. The Canterbury Dispensary has received ;E100 Banstead, Surrey, has, it is reported, resulted in the serious under the will of Miss Neame. " illness of a whole family, and the death of one of its memTHE TIMES " announces the deaths of two medical bers. The Epsom rural sanitary authority has accordingly men of note-Professor Mohr, of Bonn University, and Dr. ordered the immediate closing of the polluted well. Seng, of Vienna, the former aged seventy-two and the latter THE " Dumfriesshire and Galloway Mail," in its eighty. Mohr, likehis father, was originally an apothecary at issue of the 27th ult., reports the proceedings which took place Coblenz. In 1864 he was attached to Bonn University, and

the occasion when a complimentary dinner, a handsome gold watch, and a purse of 100guineas were given to Dr. J. D. Carruthers, who for upwards of twenty years attended the The sick poor of the Cramond district, Edinburgh, &c. dinner was largely attended by clergy and resident gentry, and the kindliest feeling appears to have been exhibited to the worthy doctor. These expressions of respect for, and confidence in, members of the profession engaged in the too frequently thankless work of attending on the poor cannot be too highly appreciated, and we heartily congratulate Dr. Carruthers in thus gaining the confidence and respect of his neighbours and friends. on

of his works on chemistry, geology, and physics have been translated into foreign languages. His activity was inexhaustible, and on his death-bed he dictated scientific treatises. Ignaz Seng, the son of a German, who on the outbreak of the first revolution left Paris for Vienna and entered the army, was a pupil of the surgeon Mozart, nephew of the composer, and he had many tales to tell of Napoleon, Beethoven, and other famous men with whom he had come in contact. He attended professionally at numerous duels, including those in which Count Jaroschinski and Prince Solm figured. His elder brother, Franz, was assistant to some

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