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Museum of the College. The second course of lectures will ful, and where a slight loss has been experienced this is be commenced by Dr. J. Rose Bradford (Arris and Gale generally attributed to the continuance of private slaughterLecturer), who will lecture on May 29th and 31st and houses side by side with the abattoirs. But the authorities of On June most towns say that profit was not the object sought for in June 2nd on "The Physiology of the Kidney." of the the lectures will be "The establishing the system, and that any loss is more than comand 9th 7th 5th, subject connected with the of Tumours Bladder." Pathology pensated by other benefits. Provincial towns have powers Mr. J. H. will delivered be F. R. C. S. by Targett, given them for closing private slaughter-houses by the Public They J. Professor Wilson Hutchinson, Lecturer). jun , Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890. In London the County (Erasmus will lecture on June 12th, 14th and 16th on "Injuries to Council, as the licensing authority, has-especially since the the Epiphyses and their Results," and Professor Bernardpassing of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891-absolutePitts, on June 19th, 21st and 23rd, on "The Surgery of control over these licences, except in the case of premises the Air Passages and Thorax in Children." The lectures under the authority of the City Corporation. will commence at 5 P. M. ____
THE COMMITTEE ON HOSPITALS.
MEMORIAL TO SIR RICHARD OWEN.
A MEETING- of the Committee for the final consideration of the recommendations of the Lords’ Committee on Hospitals,. and with special reference to the recommendation for the creation of a central body to supervise the hospital system with a view to its better working, will be held on Jan. 24th. We do not gather that we are likely to receive from this Committee any fully considered suggestions for placing the medical attendance in workhouses on a broader basis. Considering the growth of workhouse infirmaries, the great attendance. number of patients they contain and the number of gravediseases which are healed in them, this question needs mere THE THIRSK DISASTER. definite attention than it has yet received. These infirmaries, WHEN commenting recently on the evidence adduced at the too, are centres which afford unrivalled opportunities for the trial of the pointsman Holmes we pointed out that it was study of many interesting groups of disease. the breach of rule and not any defect in the provision made by the company’s regulations for dealing with the emergency GLYCOSURIA IN INFANCY. which had actually arisen to which the accident must be CONSIDERABLE attention has recently been directed toWe observe that this same conclusion has been traced. the occurrence of diabetes and glycosuria in young children. reached by Major Marindin, the officer appointed by the Dr. Julius Grosz of Prague, writing in the "Jahrbuch fur Board of Trade to conduct an inquiry into the circumBand xxxiv., Heft 1, comes to the following stances of the accident, as the result of his independent Kinderheilkunde, " conclusions : In certain digestive disturbances there is occainvestigation. sionally present in the urine of infants a strong reducing agent which gives the qualitative tests for sugar, and which is BELVIDERE HOSPITAL, GLASGOW. optically active but does not ferment (not answering, thereA vERY successful gathering took place under the auspices fore, to the yeast test). Minute quantities of carbo-hydrates of the Glasgow Southern Medical Society on the 12th inst., are also found. Dr. Grosz never found glycosuria in healthy when Dr. J. W. Allan, who has just retired from the office of breast-fed infants. When it did occur there was always somephysician superintendent of the Belvidere Fever Hospital, alimentary trouble, most commonly gastro-enteritis. Thereis, Dr. often an increase of reducing substances in the urine of was entertained at dinner by his professional brethren. the of the the chair, infants in addition to the substance referred to above, which Society, occupied Couper, president and, after proposing the health of "Our Guest," read is probably either lactose or some product of it. The limit of an address to Dr. Allan framed by the Society in which was assimilation of milk sugar in infants is very high, being in their of his sereighteen years’ expressed high appreciation healthy, breast-fed children about three grammes and threevice at the hospital, and of the courtesy which he invariably tenths per kilogramme against one gramme and four-tentlas showed to all seeking his advice and assistance. Dr. Allan in adults. This limit, however, is easily lowered, especially made an appropriate and feeling reply, and several other by digestive disturbances, and the glycosuria in such cases. toasts followed. is therefore probably due to this lowering of the assimilation imit and partly also to the action of intestinal bacteria. ABATTOIRS. H R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES, as chairman of the Owen Memorial Committee, will preside at a meeting to be held today (Saturday) in the rooms of the Royal Society, Burlington House, for the purpose of taking into consideration the most appropriate form of memorial and of appointing a working committee, as well as for the transaction of other The meeting business in connexion with the movement. is called for 11.30 A.M., and will, we doubt not, secure a full ____
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AN abstract is given in a daily contemporary of the report of the London Model Abattoir Society with reference to the
spread and working of the public slaughter-house system in English and Welsh towns. Forty-eight towns in all have obtained powers to raise loans for the provision of abattoirs, and there are other towns, such as Bolton, Birkenhead, Halifax, Leicester,- Huddersfield and Manchester, in which abattoirs have b’een built without recourse to loans requiring the sanction of the Local Government Board. As regards the sale of diseased meat there is, says the report, practical unanimity as to the establishment of abattoirs rendering this practice difficult and almost impossible. It also appears that there is the same unanimous evidence as to the great improvement in the public health and diminution of nuisance which have been found to result from abattoirs. As regards finances, the result in the majority of towns has been success-
FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. Berlin.-Dr. Adolf Baginsky has been promoted to an Extraordinary Professorship of the Diseases of Children. Breslau.-Dr. Gr6Douw has been recognised as privatdocent in Ophthalmology. Florence.-Dr. A. Lustig has been promoted to the Ordinary Professorship of General Pathology. Kharkoff.-Dr. Lomikovski has been promoted to the
Ordinary Professorship of Diagnosis. Naples.-Drs. Zagari and Volpe have been recognised as. privat-docenten in Medicine, Dr. A. Breglia as privat-docent in Human Anatomy and Dr. G. Corrado as privat-docent in Forensic Medicine. New York (Polyclinic).-Dr. W. H. Katzenbach has been appointed Professor of Medicine, Dr. A. J. McCosh Professor-
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Museum of the College. The second course of lectures will ful, and where a slight loss has been experienced this is be commenced by Dr. J. Rose Bradford (Arris and Gale generally attributed to the continuance of private slaughterLecturer), who will lecture on May 29th and 31st and houses side by side with the abattoirs. But the authorities of On June most towns say that profit was not the object sought for in June 2nd on "The Physiology of the Kidney." of the the lectures will be "The establishing the system, and that any loss is more than comand 9th 7th 5th, subject connected with the of Tumours Bladder." Pathology pensated by other benefits. Provincial towns have powers Mr. J. H. will delivered be F. R. C. S. by Targett, given them for closing private slaughter-houses by the Public They J. Professor Wilson Hutchinson, Lecturer). jun , Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890. In London the County (Erasmus will lecture on June 12th, 14th and 16th on "Injuries to Council, as the licensing authority, has-especially since the the Epiphyses and their Results," and Professor Bernardpassing of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891-absolutePitts, on June 19th, 21st and 23rd, on "The Surgery of control over these licences, except in the case of premises the Air Passages and Thorax in Children." The lectures under the authority of the City Corporation. will commence at 5 P. M. ____
THE COMMITTEE ON HOSPITALS.
MEMORIAL TO SIR RICHARD OWEN.
A MEETING- of the Committee for the final consideration of the recommendations of the Lords’ Committee on Hospitals,. and with special reference to the recommendation for the creation of a central body to supervise the hospital system with a view to its better working, will be held on Jan. 24th. We do not gather that we are likely to receive from this Committee any fully considered suggestions for placing the medical attendance in workhouses on a broader basis. Considering the growth of workhouse infirmaries, the great attendance. number of patients they contain and the number of gravediseases which are healed in them, this question needs mere THE THIRSK DISASTER. definite attention than it has yet received. These infirmaries, WHEN commenting recently on the evidence adduced at the too, are centres which afford unrivalled opportunities for the trial of the pointsman Holmes we pointed out that it was study of many interesting groups of disease. the breach of rule and not any defect in the provision made by the company’s regulations for dealing with the emergency GLYCOSURIA IN INFANCY. which had actually arisen to which the accident must be CONSIDERABLE attention has recently been directed toWe observe that this same conclusion has been traced. the occurrence of diabetes and glycosuria in young children. reached by Major Marindin, the officer appointed by the Dr. Julius Grosz of Prague, writing in the "Jahrbuch fur Board of Trade to conduct an inquiry into the circumBand xxxiv., Heft 1, comes to the following stances of the accident, as the result of his independent Kinderheilkunde, " conclusions : In certain digestive disturbances there is occainvestigation. sionally present in the urine of infants a strong reducing agent which gives the qualitative tests for sugar, and which is BELVIDERE HOSPITAL, GLASGOW. optically active but does not ferment (not answering, thereA vERY successful gathering took place under the auspices fore, to the yeast test). Minute quantities of carbo-hydrates of the Glasgow Southern Medical Society on the 12th inst., are also found. Dr. Grosz never found glycosuria in healthy when Dr. J. W. Allan, who has just retired from the office of breast-fed infants. When it did occur there was always somephysician superintendent of the Belvidere Fever Hospital, alimentary trouble, most commonly gastro-enteritis. Thereis, Dr. often an increase of reducing substances in the urine of was entertained at dinner by his professional brethren. the of the the chair, infants in addition to the substance referred to above, which Society, occupied Couper, president and, after proposing the health of "Our Guest," read is probably either lactose or some product of it. The limit of an address to Dr. Allan framed by the Society in which was assimilation of milk sugar in infants is very high, being in their of his sereighteen years’ expressed high appreciation healthy, breast-fed children about three grammes and threevice at the hospital, and of the courtesy which he invariably tenths per kilogramme against one gramme and four-tentlas showed to all seeking his advice and assistance. Dr. Allan in adults. This limit, however, is easily lowered, especially made an appropriate and feeling reply, and several other by digestive disturbances, and the glycosuria in such cases. toasts followed. is therefore probably due to this lowering of the assimilation imit and partly also to the action of intestinal bacteria. ABATTOIRS. H R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES, as chairman of the Owen Memorial Committee, will preside at a meeting to be held today (Saturday) in the rooms of the Royal Society, Burlington House, for the purpose of taking into consideration the most appropriate form of memorial and of appointing a working committee, as well as for the transaction of other The meeting business in connexion with the movement. is called for 11.30 A.M., and will, we doubt not, secure a full ____
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___
AN abstract is given in a daily contemporary of the report of the London Model Abattoir Society with reference to the
spread and working of the public slaughter-house system in English and Welsh towns. Forty-eight towns in all have obtained powers to raise loans for the provision of abattoirs, and there are other towns, such as Bolton, Birkenhead, Halifax, Leicester,- Huddersfield and Manchester, in which abattoirs have b’een built without recourse to loans requiring the sanction of the Local Government Board. As regards the sale of diseased meat there is, says the report, practical unanimity as to the establishment of abattoirs rendering this practice difficult and almost impossible. It also appears that there is the same unanimous evidence as to the great improvement in the public health and diminution of nuisance which have been found to result from abattoirs. As regards finances, the result in the majority of towns has been success-
FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. Berlin.-Dr. Adolf Baginsky has been promoted to an Extraordinary Professorship of the Diseases of Children. Breslau.-Dr. Gr6Douw has been recognised as privatdocent in Ophthalmology. Florence.-Dr. A. Lustig has been promoted to the Ordinary Professorship of General Pathology. Kharkoff.-Dr. Lomikovski has been promoted to the
Ordinary Professorship of Diagnosis. Naples.-Drs. Zagari and Volpe have been recognised as. privat-docenten in Medicine, Dr. A. Breglia as privat-docent in Human Anatomy and Dr. G. Corrado as privat-docent in Forensic Medicine. New York (Polyclinic).-Dr. W. H. Katzenbach has been appointed Professor of Medicine, Dr. A. J. McCosh Professor-