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rabbit nuisance has reached such proportions that any as can be gathered from the native returns, only 18 method of keeping down these ’’vermin " will probably be deaths of natives were due to cholera during the past year, tried in Queensland ; whilst, should it prove successful, it as compared with 928 in 1895. Among the natives 316 deaths that with are certified as due to small-pox. In the native hospitals vachas been cination is performed regularly twice a week by the native practitioners, whose returns show that the natives in and around Shanghai appreciate it more each year, and that 7160 vaccinations were performed in the city alone during 1896. COURSE. LONDON POST-GRADUATE were made against a threatened invasion of ON Monday, May 3rd, the summer term will commence, Preparations but the disease did not spread to Shanghai. During plague, and will include courses at Blackfriars (Skin), King’s September and October dengue prevailed extensively throughCollege (Bacteriology), London Throat Hospital, Parkes out the Settlement. This specific eruptive disease attacked Museum, Institute of Preventive Medicine (Urine Testing), alike foreigners and natives, adults and children, but in no and Cleveland-street Infirmary (General Medicine and case among foreigners was there a fatal termination. Surgery). All information will be afforded and fees received bypr. Fletcher Little, secretary, 32, Harley.street, OYSTERS AND DISEASE. London, W.
will be hailed with almost as much which Koch’s method for treating received by the South Africans.
delight as rinderpest
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AT their
THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON TUBERCULOSIS. WE understand that the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis has been much impressed with the general concurrence amongst the witnesses who have been heard as to the necessity of establishing public abattoirs wherever this is possible, both in the interest of the public health and to protect graziers and butchers against the present want of uniformity in the seizure of carcasses on account of tuberculosis. Several members of the Royal Commission have, therefore, commenced a tour of inspection of foreign cities to study this question and to learn generally what action is taken:abroad] both as to tuberculous carcasses and tuberculous milch cows. The first cities to be visited are Brussels, Cologne, Berlin, and Leipzig. Other visits will follow later. probably
Thursday, April 15th, the Brighton orporation drafted the petition which they intend to send ) the Local Government Board asking for a Bill to control 1e dissemination of oysters and other shell-fish proved to e contaminated by sewage. The support of other muniipalities is to be sought in the matter. Speaking first of he "increasing bulk of evidence" that enteric fever is meeting
on
ommunicated from this source, the memorial goes on to say hat certain of the memorialists have had within their listricts cases traced to this cause. The report of Dr. 3ulstrode, it is claimed, proves the danger and the need of emedial measures. It is suggested that these latter should nelude the giving of powers to locil authorities similar to 5hose of Section 4 of the Infectious Diseases Prevention Act, .890, in the case of milk-i.e., to prohibit the supply within iheir district of any shell-fish from any water proved to the ocal authority to be contaminated by sewage, the conTHE MUZZLING ORDER. sumption of such shell-fish being proved to be, or being to be, dangerous. An appeal to the Local GovernAN impassioned correspondence has been going on in the .ikely ment Board from the local authority is suggested. Further, daily press about the recent muzzling order and the Board ask that power to totally close oyster-beds or ponds on of Agriculture has been assailed with a virulence which they the representation of the local authority shall be vested in certainly seems excessive when we remember what slight the Local Government Board. it has for such abuse. On one we -
cause
given
point
can
agree with the objectors to the order, and that is we consider that the muzzling order ought to have been made universal throughout the kingdom, and that on the expiration of the appointed period a strict system of identification of dogs and their owners should be inaugurated by means of registration and the wearing of a marked collar by the dog. But in most ways many dog-owners seem to have completely lost their heads and to have imported political bias into the question, which is quite beside the mark. Anyone who is so foolish as to say that a Government or a candidate will lose his vote on account of this order is quite unfit to exercise the franchise If these silly persons had ever seen a case of at all. hydrophobia they would think no means too stringent to stamp out such a fearful disease, although we quite agree that the present methods of procedure are inadequate.
MORTALITY STATISTICS AMONG
THE Order of the Double Dragon has been conferred by the Emperor of China on four of the surgeons who took part in Red Cross hospital work during the Chino-Japanese war. The names of the recipients of the honour areThomas Brander, M.B., C.M. Edin., Dugald Christie,[L.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Edin., Charles De B. Daly, M.B., M.Ch. Dub., and D. C. Gray, M.B., C.1_12. Glasg.
THE East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell, has been recognised by the Conjoint Board for England as a place of instruction for students, at which six months of their fifth year under the new regulations may be spent in clinical work. Full information on all points may be obtained from the secretary at the hospital. now
FOREIGNERS IN
THE annual dinner of the Army Medical Staff will be held this year in the Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Metropole, at l P.M., on Monday, June 14th, the Director.General in THE annual report of Dr. J. Taylor Grant, municipal7.45 t the chair, and it is hoped that the Army Medical Staff band surgeon and medical officer of health, shows that during the f Aldershot will play during dinner. from year 1896 there were 141 deaths of foreigners registered in Shanghai, including 4 adults whose bodies were brought to Shanghai for burial and 2 stillborn infants. WE understand that Mr. Bennett May, Professor of Taking the whole foreign population, resident and non-resident, ESurgery in Mason College, Birmingham, is an intending including the French Concession and the foreign shipping, (candidate for the vacancy on the Council of the Roya this gives an annual death-rate of 22 per 1000, as compared
SHANGHAI.
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rabbit nuisance has reached such proportions that any as can be gathered from the native returns, only 18 method of keeping down these ’’vermin " will probably be deaths of natives were due to cholera during the past year, tried in Queensland ; whilst, should it prove successful, it as compared with 928 in 1895. Among the natives 316 deaths that with are certified as due to small-pox. In the native hospitals vachas been cination is performed regularly twice a week by the native practitioners, whose returns show that the natives in and around Shanghai appreciate it more each year, and that 7160 vaccinations were performed in the city alone during 1896. COURSE. LONDON POST-GRADUATE were made against a threatened invasion of ON Monday, May 3rd, the summer term will commence, Preparations but the disease did not spread to Shanghai. During plague, and will include courses at Blackfriars (Skin), King’s September and October dengue prevailed extensively throughCollege (Bacteriology), London Throat Hospital, Parkes out the Settlement. This specific eruptive disease attacked Museum, Institute of Preventive Medicine (Urine Testing), alike foreigners and natives, adults and children, but in no and Cleveland-street Infirmary (General Medicine and case among foreigners was there a fatal termination. Surgery). All information will be afforded and fees received bypr. Fletcher Little, secretary, 32, Harley.street, OYSTERS AND DISEASE. London, W.
will be hailed with almost as much which Koch’s method for treating received by the South Africans.
delight as rinderpest
------
AT their
THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON TUBERCULOSIS. WE understand that the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis has been much impressed with the general concurrence amongst the witnesses who have been heard as to the necessity of establishing public abattoirs wherever this is possible, both in the interest of the public health and to protect graziers and butchers against the present want of uniformity in the seizure of carcasses on account of tuberculosis. Several members of the Royal Commission have, therefore, commenced a tour of inspection of foreign cities to study this question and to learn generally what action is taken:abroad] both as to tuberculous carcasses and tuberculous milch cows. The first cities to be visited are Brussels, Cologne, Berlin, and Leipzig. Other visits will follow later. probably
Thursday, April 15th, the Brighton orporation drafted the petition which they intend to send ) the Local Government Board asking for a Bill to control 1e dissemination of oysters and other shell-fish proved to e contaminated by sewage. The support of other muniipalities is to be sought in the matter. Speaking first of he "increasing bulk of evidence" that enteric fever is meeting
on
ommunicated from this source, the memorial goes on to say hat certain of the memorialists have had within their listricts cases traced to this cause. The report of Dr. 3ulstrode, it is claimed, proves the danger and the need of emedial measures. It is suggested that these latter should nelude the giving of powers to locil authorities similar to 5hose of Section 4 of the Infectious Diseases Prevention Act, .890, in the case of milk-i.e., to prohibit the supply within iheir district of any shell-fish from any water proved to the ocal authority to be contaminated by sewage, the conTHE MUZZLING ORDER. sumption of such shell-fish being proved to be, or being to be, dangerous. An appeal to the Local GovernAN impassioned correspondence has been going on in the .ikely ment Board from the local authority is suggested. Further, daily press about the recent muzzling order and the Board ask that power to totally close oyster-beds or ponds on of Agriculture has been assailed with a virulence which they the representation of the local authority shall be vested in certainly seems excessive when we remember what slight the Local Government Board. it has for such abuse. On one we -
cause
given
point
can
agree with the objectors to the order, and that is we consider that the muzzling order ought to have been made universal throughout the kingdom, and that on the expiration of the appointed period a strict system of identification of dogs and their owners should be inaugurated by means of registration and the wearing of a marked collar by the dog. But in most ways many dog-owners seem to have completely lost their heads and to have imported political bias into the question, which is quite beside the mark. Anyone who is so foolish as to say that a Government or a candidate will lose his vote on account of this order is quite unfit to exercise the franchise If these silly persons had ever seen a case of at all. hydrophobia they would think no means too stringent to stamp out such a fearful disease, although we quite agree that the present methods of procedure are inadequate.
MORTALITY STATISTICS AMONG
THE Order of the Double Dragon has been conferred by the Emperor of China on four of the surgeons who took part in Red Cross hospital work during the Chino-Japanese war. The names of the recipients of the honour areThomas Brander, M.B., C.M. Edin., Dugald Christie,[L.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Edin., Charles De B. Daly, M.B., M.Ch. Dub., and D. C. Gray, M.B., C.1_12. Glasg.
THE East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell, has been recognised by the Conjoint Board for England as a place of instruction for students, at which six months of their fifth year under the new regulations may be spent in clinical work. Full information on all points may be obtained from the secretary at the hospital. now
FOREIGNERS IN
THE annual dinner of the Army Medical Staff will be held this year in the Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Metropole, at l P.M., on Monday, June 14th, the Director.General in THE annual report of Dr. J. Taylor Grant, municipal7.45 t the chair, and it is hoped that the Army Medical Staff band surgeon and medical officer of health, shows that during the f Aldershot will play during dinner. from year 1896 there were 141 deaths of foreigners registered in Shanghai, including 4 adults whose bodies were brought to Shanghai for burial and 2 stillborn infants. WE understand that Mr. Bennett May, Professor of Taking the whole foreign population, resident and non-resident, ESurgery in Mason College, Birmingham, is an intending including the French Concession and the foreign shipping, (candidate for the vacancy on the Council of the Roya this gives an annual death-rate of 22 per 1000, as compared
SHANGHAI.
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