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451 In illustration of the comparative progress of cholera in the more favourable to the medical officer than that of the previous in 1848 and 1853, in corresponding periods up to statute 8 and 9 Vict. c. 126, s. 55, "inasmuch as it defines the present time, the preceding table shows that in 1848, in more clearly the class of pauper lunatics whom he is to visit, the thirteen weeks ending October 29th, the deaths numbered and the proper mode of computing the quarters wherein his 261; while in 1853, in the corresponding weeks, the deaths visits are to be made. It diminishes the trouble of making numbered 457; and that in the four weeks ending the 29th of the report, since it requires him to prepare and sign one list October, the deaths in 1848 were 174, and in 1853 they were only instead of three, and provides that the forms which he is to fill up shall be supplied by the guardians. Lastly, a 290. certain fee is to be paid for every such quarterly visit." After pointing out the duty of the medical officer in other respects, and they conclude by stating: " The restriction contained in the former Act, which prevented the medical officer of the union MILITARY.-22nd Foot: Assistant-surgeon James Coghlan, or parish from certifying to the insanity before the justices who be applied to for the order to place a pauper lunatic in from the 86th Foot, to be surgeon, vice Currie, to the 70th; might is now W. G. LUMLEY, confinement, the Samuel to vice Currie, promoted 70th, Harvey, Assistant Secretary." repealed.-(Signed), Surgeon deceased.-86th Foot: Assist.-surg. Francis Lewis Fitzgerald, ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL: DEATH OF A SISTER from the Staff, vice Coghlan, promoted. -Ist West Indian Regiment : Humphrey John Gillett Atkinson, Gent., to be Assist. - FROM CHOLERA. -Our readers will not have forgotten that we recently recorded the lamentable case of a " sister" at the surg., vice Harris, deceased. HOSPITAL STAFF.-Duncan Alex. Campbell Frazer, Assist. - above hospital, who, after an attendance of three days upon a surg. to the Forces, vice Fitzgerald, M.D., appointed to the cholera patient, was herself attacked with the disease, and 86th Foot; Young Eldon Young, M.D., assist.-surg. to the died within forty-eight hours. The deceased, an excellent and most exemplary young woman, had been a nurse in one of Forces, vice Davidson, appointed to the 87th Foot. Dr. Smith, Director-general, has written to Assist.-surg. the medical wards for some years, and only a month ago was authorities, as a reward for her attentive and Boote, 6th Dragoons, complimenting him on the efficiency of appointed by the sister or superintendent of Radcliffe ward. the measures adopted for the preservation of the troops, while vigilant habits, hundreds were being carried off by the fearful malady that She has left a little boy, aged seven, totally unprovided for; as the poor woman died in the service of the hospital, her lately raged in Newcastle, and promising that when opportunity but naturally anticipated that the authorities offered, his services would be substantially acknowledged. Dr. friends and relatives in providing in some way for her child. An Ivey, of the 6th Foot, depot, received a similar communication. would assistwas therefore made to the treasurer, strenuously ROYAL WILTS MILITIA. -Surgeon George Waylen, vice application William Tucker, resigned. supported by one of the medical officers; but we are sorry to NAVAL APPOINTMEMTS.-Surgeon James C. Walsh, (1848,) say it has been wholly unsuccessful; for Mr. Bentley, refusing to the Frolic, 16, steam sloop, Portsmouth; Assistant- to advise his colleagues on the subject, has contented himself a very small personal gratuity. He has, howSurgeon J. B. Newton, (1852,) to the Bittern, 12, sloop, with bestowing E. I. Station; Herbert H. Mackenzie, (1839,) to the Rifleman, ever, sanctioned the circulation of an appeal for the private steam sloop, Woolwich; Charles B. Ward, (1847,) from the contributions of the officers and pupils of the hospital; nay, Royal Hospital, Plymouth, to the Juno, 26, Chatham; Charles even poor patients are, we believe, contributing their mites. E. Playfair, (1851,) to the Royal Hospital, Plymouth, vice Surely, when the position, influence, and numbers of the Wood. governors of St. Bartholomew’s are taken into account, it Small-pox has broken out in the troop ship Coldstream, must strike everybody as a very disgraceful and discreditable having on board detachments of the 12th Lancers, 43rd Light proceeding that the authorities should permit such an appeal to private charity to circulate within the walls of their instiInfantry, and 74th, bound for India. tution-an appeal, too, peculiarly distressing, as it is on behalf of the helpless child of a woman who has died in their service! Several correspondents have written to us, reprobating, in more or less severe terms, the conduct the treasurer has pursued with regard to this matter; and assuredly we consider RoYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.-The following gentle- that the line of proceeding the authorities have adopted reflects upon them the greatest discredit. men having undergone the necessary examinations for the were admitted members of the APPOINTMENT.-John Hilton,Esq., F.R.S. and F.R.C.S., at the diploma College meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 28th ult. :surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, has been appointed Consultingsurgeon to the St. Pancras Royal General Dispensary, vacant BOND, FREDERICK TRESTRAIL, H.E.I.C.S., Bombay. by the decease of the late Bransby B. Cooper, Esq. COLEMAN, JOHN MAJOR, Wolverhampton.
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DUNCAN, THOMAS, Chelsea. EusTACE, RICHARD, Royal Navy. HALL, THOMAS PRIOR, Knaresborough, Yorkshire. PACKARD, JOSEPH, Yoxford, Suffolk. POWELL, THOMAS JOSEPH COOKSON, Bristol. THOMAS, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. WRIGHT, JOHN, Mount Sorrell, Leicestershire. At the same meeting of the Court Mr. CHARLES HARPER passed his examination for naval surgeon; this gentleman had previously been admitted a member of the College, his diploma bearing date July 2nd, 1849. THE DUTY
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GUERNSEY.-Cholera has broken out in Guernsey. The first victim was an old woman completely destitute, being without food, fuel, or clothing, and residing in a filthy neighbourhood. It was a decided case of Asiatic cholera, which she only survived twelve hours. ITALIAN QUARANTINE.-No ship is allowed to debark its passengers into an Italian port unless it has cleared the
English coast seven days.
FRIGHTFUL SICKNESS
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- At Bucharest, the hospital is full of sick soldiers; and, in addition to the barracks, twenty-three houses are converted into receptacles for the sick, of whom forty wagon-loads arrived from the camp.
ACT RELATING TO LUNATICS. - The Poor-law Board have ’ addressed a communication to every medical officer in the QUEEN’S HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM. - Mrs. Wharton, unions and parishes of England and Wales on the subject of late of Henwick, has bequeathed £100 to this hospital. the provisions of the Act 16th and 17th Vict. cap. 97, which came into operation on the 1st inst., in which they call attenNEWCASTLE BOARD OF GUARDIANS.-A special meeting tion to the enactment by which it is required that all pauper of this Board was held at the Board-room, Pilgrim-street, on lunatics not in an asylum are to be visited once in every Friday evening, H. Ingledew, Esq., in the chair. For the quarter of a year by the medical officer of the union or parish third time this week the agreeable intelligence was conveyed where such lunatic is resident, and for which the medical officer to the Board that no cholera deaths had been registered during 18 to be paid a fee of 2s. 6d. a visit for each lunatic, and to the day. The Board agreed, after this (Saturday) evening, to make out a list of the lunatics visited, on a form to be pro- dispense with the services of the extra medical staff, and to vided by the guardians, stating whether they are properly close the dispensaries which had hitherto been open for the taken care of, and may properly remain out of an asylum, gratuitous supply of medicines. On the proposition of the which list they are to transmit to the clerk to the guardians or chairman, seconded by the vice-chairman, a vote of thanks was overseers, non-compliance with which subjects them to a also passed to Dr. Gavin, the inspector from the General penalty of not exceeding .620 and under £2. The Board then Board of Health, who had superintended the medical arrangelwoceed to point out in what respect this enactment is much ments during the epidemic. The meeting then separated.
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DUNCAN, THOMAS, Chelsea. EusTACE, RICHARD, Royal Navy. HALL, THOMAS PRIOR, Knaresborough, Yorkshire. PACKARD, JOSEPH, Yoxford, Suffolk. POWELL, THOMAS JOSEPH COOKSON, Bristol. THOMAS, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. WRIGHT, JOHN, Mount Sorrell, Leicestershire. At the same meeting of the Court Mr. CHARLES HARPER passed his examination for naval surgeon; this gentleman had previously been admitted a member of the College, his diploma bearing date July 2nd, 1849. THE DUTY
OF
MEDICAL OFFICERS
UNDER THE NEW
GUERNSEY.-Cholera has broken out in Guernsey. The first victim was an old woman completely destitute, being without food, fuel, or clothing, and residing in a filthy neighbourhood. It was a decided case of Asiatic cholera, which she only survived twelve hours. ITALIAN QUARANTINE.-No ship is allowed to debark its passengers into an Italian port unless it has cleared the
English coast seven days.
FRIGHTFUL SICKNESS
AMONGST THE
RUSSIAN TROOPS.
- At Bucharest, the hospital is full of sick soldiers; and, in addition to the barracks, twenty-three houses are converted into receptacles for the sick, of whom forty wagon-loads arrived from the camp.
ACT RELATING TO LUNATICS. - The Poor-law Board have ’ addressed a communication to every medical officer in the QUEEN’S HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM. - Mrs. Wharton, unions and parishes of England and Wales on the subject of late of Henwick, has bequeathed £100 to this hospital. the provisions of the Act 16th and 17th Vict. cap. 97, which came into operation on the 1st inst., in which they call attenNEWCASTLE BOARD OF GUARDIANS.-A special meeting tion to the enactment by which it is required that all pauper of this Board was held at the Board-room, Pilgrim-street, on lunatics not in an asylum are to be visited once in every Friday evening, H. Ingledew, Esq., in the chair. For the quarter of a year by the medical officer of the union or parish third time this week the agreeable intelligence was conveyed where such lunatic is resident, and for which the medical officer to the Board that no cholera deaths had been registered during 18 to be paid a fee of 2s. 6d. a visit for each lunatic, and to the day. The Board agreed, after this (Saturday) evening, to make out a list of the lunatics visited, on a form to be pro- dispense with the services of the extra medical staff, and to vided by the guardians, stating whether they are properly close the dispensaries which had hitherto been open for the taken care of, and may properly remain out of an asylum, gratuitous supply of medicines. On the proposition of the which list they are to transmit to the clerk to the guardians or chairman, seconded by the vice-chairman, a vote of thanks was overseers, non-compliance with which subjects them to a also passed to Dr. Gavin, the inspector from the General penalty of not exceeding .620 and under £2. The Board then Board of Health, who had superintended the medical arrangelwoceed to point out in what respect this enactment is much ments during the epidemic. The meeting then separated.