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318 and (5) finally dysentery due to the various pseudo-dysenteric bacilli. Mlle. Brcido does not think that true dysentery can be caused by non-specific microbes. A
advantages for which we have always contended-namely, fixity of tenure, adequate salary, a free official residence, and a free annual holiday-i.e., with payment by the parish council of a locum-tenent. But we cannot help those who will not help themselves and we learn from the report that although there are 850 Poor-law medical officers in Scotland only 350 nominally belong to the association and of these many omit to pay their subscriptions. officer to obtain the
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POPULAR crazes in matters of medicine and of hygiene are often than not things to be deplored. If they are not actually harmful they are generally ridiculous, and if they This, as the report goes on -to say, is not fair. are of no benefit to the general public assuredly they are, as a rule, of equally little advantage to the medical proTHE PREVENTION OF LEPROSY. fession. The net result is most often a fine haul for a few OuR readers have probably read the correspondence which quacks and loss and disappointment for a large number of . "patients." It is with considerable complacency therefore has occasionally appeared in the Times on the causation and that we may view what seems almost to amount to a prevention of leprosy. A long letter was recently published "crazeat the present time. We allude to the prevalent from Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson who once more explains in exploitation of eating slowly and eating less. A more considerable detail his theory that leprosy is due in the main generally beneficial doctrine could hardly be chosen for the to the consumption as food of decomposing or imperfectly popular medical idol of the moment. A lay contemporary cured fish. This theory has received some support, editorially has recently devoted many paragraphs to the researches and and otherwise, in the columns of our contemporary. Mr. eaperiences of an American gentleman, Mr. Horace Fletcher, Hutchinson admits that the fish hypothesis has not as yet’ who has made it the business of his life to demonstrate that been openly endorsed by many of the leading members of the most people eat too much and eat too fast. Incidentally medical profession and we have throughout maintained that he believes that a new throat reflex has been discovered his theory has not yet been proved. His views, however, can insuring proper mastication for the I I slow feeder." Mr. only be received with respect and the hope expressed that Fletcher’sresults have interested physiologists and many of further investigations will be forthcoming which will his experiments were carried on at Cambridge in association corroborate or otherwise the conclusions at which he has with Sir Michael Foster and other physiologists at that arrived after the most painstaking efforts to discover the place. As an enthusiast Mr. Fletcher sees in the reduction truth. If he is correct in the etiology of the disease his of the quantity of food necessary for the individual far- remarks on its prevention should receive world-wide reaching results, amongst others the kernel of national attention. military success by the simplification of the commissariat THE BRITISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION. problem. Napoleon’s dictum that an army "moves on its belly " is to be altered and the instructed army will hardly AN extraordinary general meeting of the British Dental need a belly to move on. Whatever may be the wide was held on Jan. 23rd at the Examination Association of of the such a of as Mr. effects adoption system feeding Victoria Embankment, London, to consider the Fletcher proposes, at any rate there can be no quesof the question expediency of a degree in dentistry. A tion of the individual advantage that would follow in motion was proposed by Mr. J. H. Badcock and seconded most cases from such a course. A similar lesson, in a less Mr. L. Matheson :convincing form, is, of course, the central point cf the byThat a memorial he to the Senate of the University of mysterious successes that attend Mr. Barrie’s heroine in his London praying for the presented institution, in the interests of dental science, public, and the dental profession, of a degree in dental surgery in play of Lattle Mary, and if when lay writers deal with the the Faculty of Medicine, but expressing the further opinion that it medical subjects they were always to work in such dinc. would be undesirable to make the possession of the M.B., B.S. degrees tions the medical profession would welcome them as valu- a necessary qualification for such a degree. able ccoperators, as, indeed, we do in the case of Mr. An amendment was proposed by Mr. David Hepburn and Horace Fletcher. seconded by Mr. Montagu F. Hopson :That the creation of degrees in dentistry is undesirable and that the of this meeting, specially summoned to consider the exPOOR-LAW MEDICAL OFFICERS IN THE HIGH- opinion pediency of a degree in dentistry, be communicated to the universities of the United Kingdom. LANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND. A vigorous discussion ensued and the amendment was carried THE Scottish Poor Law Medical Officers’ Association, which a is a body formed for the purpose of looking after the interests by large majority. of a haid worked and very poorly paid body of men, has AND THE METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS just issued its report for 1903. 1’o Mr. J. Cathcart Wason, BOARD. and was Member of Parliament for more
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Orkney
Shetland,
intrusted the rEsponsible task of introducing in Pailiament a Bill promoued by the association. He was, however, unable to do so during the last session. The report further states that owing to the advertisements of the association which have appeared in the medical press applicants for vacant Highland and island appointments have applied to the secretary of the association for information with the result that the inquirers ceased to be applicants for the posts. The committee hopes this year to advertise also in the Scotsmart and the Ulasgorv Herald. Particulars are then given of various parishes which have been without medical officers during the greater part of the past year. The report ends with an appeal to all Poor-law medical officers in Scotland to join the association and this appeal we cordially endorse. We are always glad to do what lies in our power to assist a Scottish Poor-law medical
a meeting of the Metropolitan Asylums Board on 23rd the children’s committee reported that at the Downs Ringworm Schools during the year ending Dec. 31st, 1903, 618 children were admitted, 208 were discharged, and one had died. Of the discharges, 153 were pronounced cured, 14 were transferred to the Bridge School or elsewhere, and 41 were sent for by the guardians. The committee stated that it regretted to observe that so large a number of children were removed from the schools before they were cured of the disease, thus tending to defeat one object for which these schools were intended. Although the committee was not prepared to indicate a remedy it thought that some action should be taken and therefore recommended that the facts should be reported to the Local Government Board and that it should be asked to favour the managers with an expression of its
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advantages for which we have always contended-namely, fixity of tenure, adequate salary, a free official residence, and a free annual holiday-i.e., with payment by the parish council of a locum-tenent. But we cannot help those who will not help themselves and we learn from the report that although there are 850 Poor-law medical officers in Scotland only 350 nominally belong to the association and of these many omit to pay their subscriptions. officer to obtain the
PRAISEWORTHY FAD.
POPULAR crazes in matters of medicine and of hygiene are often than not things to be deplored. If they are not actually harmful they are generally ridiculous, and if they This, as the report goes on -to say, is not fair. are of no benefit to the general public assuredly they are, as a rule, of equally little advantage to the medical proTHE PREVENTION OF LEPROSY. fession. The net result is most often a fine haul for a few OuR readers have probably read the correspondence which quacks and loss and disappointment for a large number of . "patients." It is with considerable complacency therefore has occasionally appeared in the Times on the causation and that we may view what seems almost to amount to a prevention of leprosy. A long letter was recently published "crazeat the present time. We allude to the prevalent from Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson who once more explains in exploitation of eating slowly and eating less. A more considerable detail his theory that leprosy is due in the main generally beneficial doctrine could hardly be chosen for the to the consumption as food of decomposing or imperfectly popular medical idol of the moment. A lay contemporary cured fish. This theory has received some support, editorially has recently devoted many paragraphs to the researches and and otherwise, in the columns of our contemporary. Mr. eaperiences of an American gentleman, Mr. Horace Fletcher, Hutchinson admits that the fish hypothesis has not as yet’ who has made it the business of his life to demonstrate that been openly endorsed by many of the leading members of the most people eat too much and eat too fast. Incidentally medical profession and we have throughout maintained that he believes that a new throat reflex has been discovered his theory has not yet been proved. His views, however, can insuring proper mastication for the I I slow feeder." Mr. only be received with respect and the hope expressed that Fletcher’sresults have interested physiologists and many of further investigations will be forthcoming which will his experiments were carried on at Cambridge in association corroborate or otherwise the conclusions at which he has with Sir Michael Foster and other physiologists at that arrived after the most painstaking efforts to discover the place. As an enthusiast Mr. Fletcher sees in the reduction truth. If he is correct in the etiology of the disease his of the quantity of food necessary for the individual far- remarks on its prevention should receive world-wide reaching results, amongst others the kernel of national attention. military success by the simplification of the commissariat THE BRITISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION. problem. Napoleon’s dictum that an army "moves on its belly " is to be altered and the instructed army will hardly AN extraordinary general meeting of the British Dental need a belly to move on. Whatever may be the wide was held on Jan. 23rd at the Examination Association of of the such a of as Mr. effects adoption system feeding Victoria Embankment, London, to consider the Fletcher proposes, at any rate there can be no quesof the question expediency of a degree in dentistry. A tion of the individual advantage that would follow in motion was proposed by Mr. J. H. Badcock and seconded most cases from such a course. A similar lesson, in a less Mr. L. Matheson :convincing form, is, of course, the central point cf the byThat a memorial he to the Senate of the University of mysterious successes that attend Mr. Barrie’s heroine in his London praying for the presented institution, in the interests of dental science, public, and the dental profession, of a degree in dental surgery in play of Lattle Mary, and if when lay writers deal with the the Faculty of Medicine, but expressing the further opinion that it medical subjects they were always to work in such dinc. would be undesirable to make the possession of the M.B., B.S. degrees tions the medical profession would welcome them as valu- a necessary qualification for such a degree. able ccoperators, as, indeed, we do in the case of Mr. An amendment was proposed by Mr. David Hepburn and Horace Fletcher. seconded by Mr. Montagu F. Hopson :That the creation of degrees in dentistry is undesirable and that the of this meeting, specially summoned to consider the exPOOR-LAW MEDICAL OFFICERS IN THE HIGH- opinion pediency of a degree in dentistry, be communicated to the universities of the United Kingdom. LANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND. A vigorous discussion ensued and the amendment was carried THE Scottish Poor Law Medical Officers’ Association, which a is a body formed for the purpose of looking after the interests by large majority. of a haid worked and very poorly paid body of men, has AND THE METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS just issued its report for 1903. 1’o Mr. J. Cathcart Wason, BOARD. and was Member of Parliament for more
____
I
Hall,
____
-
RINGWORM
Orkney
Shetland,
intrusted the rEsponsible task of introducing in Pailiament a Bill promoued by the association. He was, however, unable to do so during the last session. The report further states that owing to the advertisements of the association which have appeared in the medical press applicants for vacant Highland and island appointments have applied to the secretary of the association for information with the result that the inquirers ceased to be applicants for the posts. The committee hopes this year to advertise also in the Scotsmart and the Ulasgorv Herald. Particulars are then given of various parishes which have been without medical officers during the greater part of the past year. The report ends with an appeal to all Poor-law medical officers in Scotland to join the association and this appeal we cordially endorse. We are always glad to do what lies in our power to assist a Scottish Poor-law medical
a meeting of the Metropolitan Asylums Board on 23rd the children’s committee reported that at the Downs Ringworm Schools during the year ending Dec. 31st, 1903, 618 children were admitted, 208 were discharged, and one had died. Of the discharges, 153 were pronounced cured, 14 were transferred to the Bridge School or elsewhere, and 41 were sent for by the guardians. The committee stated that it regretted to observe that so large a number of children were removed from the schools before they were cured of the disease, thus tending to defeat one object for which these schools were intended. Although the committee was not prepared to indicate a remedy it thought that some action should be taken and therefore recommended that the facts should be reported to the Local Government Board and that it should be asked to favour the managers with an expression of its
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