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42 until the disease is fairly well advanced, consequently alll such cases would escape notification for many months. With a speaker who took advantage of a smoking concert ati the Breck-road Branch of the Working Men’s Conservativei Association at Liverpool to explain in simple language thei means of spread of tuberculosis we are more in accord, for he dwelt mainly on the milk-supply and the importance of the superintendence of cattle, and we sympathise with the complaint embodied in the words "although tuberculosis is the principal cause of death in this city [Liverpool], the local authorities have no power to prosecute the vendor of the disease or insist upon the separation of diseased cows from healthy animals." .
Principal in &
East S.
Medical
Ollicer
of
the
Uganda
Protectorate
Africa, and Mr. J. S. Macpherson, L.R.C.P.
Edin., also of the
Uganda Administration,
are
the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Colonel William Ple’aCe Warburton, M.D. Edin., I.M.S., and Colonel David Sinclair, M.D. Aberd., I.M.S., receive Companionships of the Order of the Star of India, and Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Kellock McKay, M.R.C.S.Eng., I.M.S., and Major Winthrop Benjamin Browning, L.It.C.P. & S. Irel., I.M.S., Companionships of the Order of the Indian Empire ; Captain John Lloyd Thomas Jones, M.B. Durh., I.M.S., Captain William Ernest Jennings, M.B. Edin., I.M.S., Captain Arthur Frederick William King, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., I.M.S., and Lieutenant THE PRINCE OF WALES’S HOSPITAL FUND FOR William James Niblock, M.B. R.U.I., I.M.S., are to be LONDON. enrolled as Honorary Associates of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England. THE honorary secretaries of this Fund have issued E It is noticeable that the greater proportion of medical tabular statement of the awards granted during the yeai 1898. A short account of these awards has already appeared honours go to members of the Indian Medical Service, but it in the daily press and the method and scope of the distribu- must be remembered that the Soudan honours have only tion do not seem to have met with unqualified praise. The recently been issued when the British medical service did not go unrewarded. This large military proportion, we report states that only those hospitals lying within a radius shows the increased attention which is being paid to think, of 7 miles from Charing-cross which applied for grants in army matters and reflects in a large measure the medicine within the stated time in answer to the advertisement great military strength of our empire. inserted in the metropolitan journals have been assisted by the Fund. In all 46 hospitals received grants and 12 others THE LANCET RELIEF FUND. applied who did not receive them. Besides these 13 convalescent homes received grants. Of the metropolitan THE report made this year by the Almoners of this Fund, hospitals with medical schools attached two, namely, St. founded as it is upon the accounts of the tenth year of its Bartholomew’s and St. George’s, received nothing. On operation, suggests very naturally a somewhat more extended at the details of the will looking published review than that of the period of twelve months which comes grants (the report be found in another column) it would seem that some of directly under observation. The year itself repeats in a the hospitals aided will not be very much better off-so striking manner the features to which we last year drew far, that is to say, as regards their financial position-for in attention as being salient and satisfactory points in the many cases-e.g., the Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, experience of the charity. That is to say, it is again a Victoria Park, the Great Northern Central Hospital, and the notable feature of the report that the benefactions show North London Hospital for Consumption-the grant is made a reduction both in number and amount, a circumstance conditionally on the opening of beds now closed, and in one from which it seems to be a fair inference that the pressure case, that of the Female Lock Hospital, that the amount of necessity upon those of our professional brethren who have necessary for the reconstruction of the drainage of the fallen upon evil times has been sensibly less acute than in hospital be provided for as soon as possible, from which we some recent years. The experience of a single year would may presume that the grant from the Fund-a sum of seem to afford but a slender basis for any general conclusion .6500—is not to be used for this purpose. In our opinion it of this sort and it is therefore very pleasant to be able to is of some importance for a hospital to be in a solvent point to a sequence of two annual reports tending to the condition, unless, indeed, this would deprive the insti- same conclusion. When, moreover, it is borne in mind tution of the power of making the appeal ad miseri- that the same period of time has been marked by many eordian which a load of debt supplies. The distribution of signs of general prosperity it is reasonable to take a money is, however, always a thankless task. There are sanguine if not confident view that the diminished stress always undeserving establishments as well as undeserving is not more apparent than real and that the flood tide of a individuals and they are both apt to think that they are the prosperous time has found its way even into the shallows contrary. But all the same we give the managers of the where adversity is at home. Taking, however, the wider Fund every credit for a painstaking effort to make a worthy survey which is suggested by the close of a decade distribution. we note as matters of some special interest the figures which serve as indexes to the character of the charitable THE NEW YEAR HONOURS. work to which the Fund has been subservient. Chief among these are the items which denote the sums granted by way THE selection of names in the honours’ list for the New of and by way of gift respectively. loan Out of a Year is so varied that it is not likely to be anything else but total of 12s. the of distributed sum .62899 B1787 2s. popular. Of the rewards to members of the medical profeshas been the balance of rather sion a baronetcy goes to Sir Henry Thompson, F.R.C.S.Eng., given out-and-out, over been E1100 lent. We whose work in the domain of surgery and especially that having nominally say nominally of the bladder is well k’,c;wn to the profession. As lent because it is found in many cases that the borrower is not President of the Cremation Society he has done not a able to redeem his promise to repay and thus a considerable little to popularise cremation as a method for the disposal of proportion of the benefactions which figure as loans in the the dead. Dr. Hermann Weber, F.R.C.P. Lond., who is a well- annual statements of account are loans only in name-in known authority on climatology and balneology, receives a substance they also amount to gifts. The cases therefore knighthood, as does also Dr. G. Plunkett O’Farrell, Com- which can be effectively aided by a loan are shown by missioner of Control and Inspector of Lunatic Asylums experience to be fewer and to total to a less aggregate in Ireland. Sir Charles Cameron, M.D.Dub., is to be amount than those which demand the assistance of an unconmade a Companion of the Bath, an honour which is ditioned grant. And this is a feature which tends to become It was sufficiently marked well deserved. Mr. R. U. Moffat, M.B., C.M. Edin., more and mure pronounced. ,
___
to be made
Companions of
Principal in &
East S.
Medical
Ollicer
of
the
Uganda
Protectorate
Africa, and Mr. J. S. Macpherson, L.R.C.P.
Edin., also of the
Uganda Administration,
are
the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Colonel William Ple’aCe Warburton, M.D. Edin., I.M.S., and Colonel David Sinclair, M.D. Aberd., I.M.S., receive Companionships of the Order of the Star of India, and Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Kellock McKay, M.R.C.S.Eng., I.M.S., and Major Winthrop Benjamin Browning, L.It.C.P. & S. Irel., I.M.S., Companionships of the Order of the Indian Empire ; Captain John Lloyd Thomas Jones, M.B. Durh., I.M.S., Captain William Ernest Jennings, M.B. Edin., I.M.S., Captain Arthur Frederick William King, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., I.M.S., and Lieutenant THE PRINCE OF WALES’S HOSPITAL FUND FOR William James Niblock, M.B. R.U.I., I.M.S., are to be LONDON. enrolled as Honorary Associates of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England. THE honorary secretaries of this Fund have issued E It is noticeable that the greater proportion of medical tabular statement of the awards granted during the yeai 1898. A short account of these awards has already appeared honours go to members of the Indian Medical Service, but it in the daily press and the method and scope of the distribu- must be remembered that the Soudan honours have only tion do not seem to have met with unqualified praise. The recently been issued when the British medical service did not go unrewarded. This large military proportion, we report states that only those hospitals lying within a radius shows the increased attention which is being paid to think, of 7 miles from Charing-cross which applied for grants in army matters and reflects in a large measure the medicine within the stated time in answer to the advertisement great military strength of our empire. inserted in the metropolitan journals have been assisted by the Fund. In all 46 hospitals received grants and 12 others THE LANCET RELIEF FUND. applied who did not receive them. Besides these 13 convalescent homes received grants. Of the metropolitan THE report made this year by the Almoners of this Fund, hospitals with medical schools attached two, namely, St. founded as it is upon the accounts of the tenth year of its Bartholomew’s and St. George’s, received nothing. On operation, suggests very naturally a somewhat more extended at the details of the will looking published review than that of the period of twelve months which comes grants (the report be found in another column) it would seem that some of directly under observation. The year itself repeats in a the hospitals aided will not be very much better off-so striking manner the features to which we last year drew far, that is to say, as regards their financial position-for in attention as being salient and satisfactory points in the many cases-e.g., the Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, experience of the charity. That is to say, it is again a Victoria Park, the Great Northern Central Hospital, and the notable feature of the report that the benefactions show North London Hospital for Consumption-the grant is made a reduction both in number and amount, a circumstance conditionally on the opening of beds now closed, and in one from which it seems to be a fair inference that the pressure case, that of the Female Lock Hospital, that the amount of necessity upon those of our professional brethren who have necessary for the reconstruction of the drainage of the fallen upon evil times has been sensibly less acute than in hospital be provided for as soon as possible, from which we some recent years. The experience of a single year would may presume that the grant from the Fund-a sum of seem to afford but a slender basis for any general conclusion .6500—is not to be used for this purpose. In our opinion it of this sort and it is therefore very pleasant to be able to is of some importance for a hospital to be in a solvent point to a sequence of two annual reports tending to the condition, unless, indeed, this would deprive the insti- same conclusion. When, moreover, it is borne in mind tution of the power of making the appeal ad miseri- that the same period of time has been marked by many eordian which a load of debt supplies. The distribution of signs of general prosperity it is reasonable to take a money is, however, always a thankless task. There are sanguine if not confident view that the diminished stress always undeserving establishments as well as undeserving is not more apparent than real and that the flood tide of a individuals and they are both apt to think that they are the prosperous time has found its way even into the shallows contrary. But all the same we give the managers of the where adversity is at home. Taking, however, the wider Fund every credit for a painstaking effort to make a worthy survey which is suggested by the close of a decade distribution. we note as matters of some special interest the figures which serve as indexes to the character of the charitable THE NEW YEAR HONOURS. work to which the Fund has been subservient. Chief among these are the items which denote the sums granted by way THE selection of names in the honours’ list for the New of and by way of gift respectively. loan Out of a Year is so varied that it is not likely to be anything else but total of 12s. the of distributed sum .62899 B1787 2s. popular. Of the rewards to members of the medical profeshas been the balance of rather sion a baronetcy goes to Sir Henry Thompson, F.R.C.S.Eng., given out-and-out, over been E1100 lent. We whose work in the domain of surgery and especially that having nominally say nominally of the bladder is well k’,c;wn to the profession. As lent because it is found in many cases that the borrower is not President of the Cremation Society he has done not a able to redeem his promise to repay and thus a considerable little to popularise cremation as a method for the disposal of proportion of the benefactions which figure as loans in the the dead. Dr. Hermann Weber, F.R.C.P. Lond., who is a well- annual statements of account are loans only in name-in known authority on climatology and balneology, receives a substance they also amount to gifts. The cases therefore knighthood, as does also Dr. G. Plunkett O’Farrell, Com- which can be effectively aided by a loan are shown by missioner of Control and Inspector of Lunatic Asylums experience to be fewer and to total to a less aggregate in Ireland. Sir Charles Cameron, M.D.Dub., is to be amount than those which demand the assistance of an unconmade a Companion of the Bath, an honour which is ditioned grant. And this is a feature which tends to become It was sufficiently marked well deserved. Mr. R. U. Moffat, M.B., C.M. Edin., more and mure pronounced. ,
___
to be made
Companions of