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ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
194 their profession. Dr. B. W. Richardson, President Association, Sir J. Crichton Browne, Surgeon-General Gordon, and Dr. Hicks, F.R.S., spoke in support of the Most of the recognised teachers of hygiene brought their memorial. Mr. Balfour and the Lord Advocate, in reply to
and the museum collection become mutually complementary to each other the value of each is enormously increased. The ordinary lectures to the members were well attended.
practise of the
classes to the Museum for practical instruction. The library, we are told, has been enriched during the past year by 450 books and pamphlets, and the card catalogue is completed, so that the work of reference is easily carried on. Those of our readers who issue annual reports on sanitary subjects would do well to remember the importance of sending such reports to this central library devoted to sanitation, which is yearly becoming of more and more
the deputation, assured them that the ancient University of St. Andrews was secure of the good-will of Her Majesty’s Government, and that the memorial itself and the arguments in support of it would receive due attention. They also intimated to the deputation that evidence upon the matter set forth in the memorial would be received by the Commission about to be appointed to inquire into the constitution and endowments ot the Scottish Universities, and the deputation importance. agreed to furnish this evidence to the Commission. A cordial The lectures for the ensuing year are to be given, not as vote of thanks to Mr. Balfour and to the Lord Advocate for heretofore in the evening, but at five in the afternoon-an their courtesy and attention was then proposed and carried hour which it is hoped may prove convenient to the unanimously. majority of members and their friends. The first lecture is arranged for Thursday next, Jan. 27th. The lecturer VITAL STATISTICS. is Mr. Ogle Tarbotton, M.Inst.C.E., and the subject is ″ and in relation to Architecture Sanitary Engineering Science." Captain Douglas Galton, F.R.S., will occupy the HEALTH OF ENGLISH TOWNS. chair. IN twenty-eight of the largest English towns 5856 births and 4263 deaths were registered during the week ending Jan. 15th. The annual death-rate in these towns, which had ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT. increased in the preceding four weeks from 20’7, to 26’5 per declined again last week to 24’1. During the thirteen A SPECIAL general meeting was held on Jan. 12th at the 1000, weeks of last quarter the death-rate in these towns Lecture-room of the Sheffield Pharmaceutical and Chemical averaged 20’3 per 1000, and was 2.1 below the mean rate in the Society, Norfolk-row. The meeting was called "to consider corresponding periods of the ten years 1876-85. The lowest the recent ruling at Sheffield Town Hall under theadultera- rates in these towns last week were 17’4 in Portsmouth, tion of Food and Drugs Act."’ The chair was occupied by 19’3 in Bradford, 19 3 in Sunderland, and 19’8 in Oldham. The rates in the other towns ranged upwards to 30’4 in the President, Mr. Newsholme, and there was a large attendCardiff, 30.8in Blackburn, 31’0 in Manchester, and 316 in ance, the room being almost filled. Wolverhampton. The deaths referred to the principal The Chairman proposed the first resolution, which was as zymotic diseases in the twenty-eight towns, which had follows: "That this meeting, specially convened, views been 537 and 475 in the preceding two weeks, were last with alarm the recent decision of the Sheffield stipendiary week 485; they included 195 from measles, 95 from magiscratethat a preparation containing any opium and whooping-cough, 82 from scarlet fever, 48 from "fever" any alcohol whatever may be legally sold as tincture of (principally enteric), 34 from diarrhcea, 31 from diphopium’; and this meeting is of opinion that if this be upheld theria, and not one from small-pox. These zymotic as legal, and is acted upon, it is likely to interfere dangerously diseases caused the lowest death-rates last week in with uniformity and with the public safety. It would Brighton, Portsmouth, Nottingham, and Bolton; and further affirm that the only tincture of opium acknowledged the highest rates in Leeds, Sunderland, and Huddersgenerally by the trade is that of the British Pharma- field. The greatest mortality from measles occurred in ______________
copœia.’’
The resolution ’
was
carried
unanimously,
as was
also the
following :Moved by Mr. Ward,
F.C.S.: " That this meeting expresses also its astonishment at the judgment recently given with respect to paregoric, that any preparation of a soothing nature may be sold under that name. It holds that the fact of two or more dissimilar prepartions having the same name is so dangerous to public health that it is desirable the Pharmacopoeia Committee should adopt, as a, synonym of the compound tincture of camphor of the Pharmacopoeia, that which is commonly known as paregoric, paregoric elixir, and elixir paregoric." Moved by Mr. Preston: "That this meeting desires to point out its determination strictly to conform to the British Pharmacopœia as binding upon it, in accordance with the Order in Her Majesty’s Privy Council made respecting thereto." This resolution was carried almost unanimously, and a vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the meeting.
ST. ANDREWS GRADUATES’ ASSOCIATION. ON Friday afternoon last, Mr. Balfour, Secretary for Scotland, and his colleague, the Lord Advocate, received a
of the St. Andrews Graduates’ Association at House, Whitehall. The memorial, signed by 789 graduates of the University, urged that an endowment be found for two additional professors-viz, a Professor of Anatomy and a Professor of Botany, so that the University may be enabled to give two anni medici. to medical students attending the University. After completing their two years’ course of preliminary and theoretical study, they could go for practical and clinical work to any of the great hospitals of the United Kingdom most convenient to them; they could then return to the University and submit themselves to examination, and thus obtain graduation and a licence to
deputation Dover
Liverpool, Wolverhampton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Halifax, Leicester, and Leeds; from whooping-cough in Bristol, Plymouth, Preston, Sunderland, and Huddersfield; from
scarlet fever in Norwich, Bristol, Manchester, Blackburn, Sheffield, and Sunderland ; and fromfever" in Birkenhead and Plymouth. The 31 deaths from diphtheria in the twentyeight towns included 18 in London and 5 in Birmingham. Small-pox caused no death in London and its outer ring, or in any of the twenty-seven large provincial towns. Only 2 cases of small-pox were under treatment on Saturday last in the metropolitan hospitals receiving cases of this disease. The deaths referred to diseases of the respiratory organs in London. which had increased in the preceding four weeks from 416 to 731, declined again last week to 591, but exceeded the corrected average by 89. The causes of 107, or 2’5 per cent., of the deaths in the twenty-eight towns last week were not certified either by a registered medical practitioner or by a coroner. All the causes of death were duly certified in Cardiff, Birkenhead, Derby, and Plymouth. The largest proportions of uncertified deaths were registered in Sheffield, Halifax, and Huddersfield. HEALTH OF SCOTCH TOWNS.
The annual rate of mortality in the eight Scotch towns, which had been 25-1 and 29’9 per 1000 in the preceding two weeks, declined again to 26-1 in the week ending Jan. 15th ; this rate exceeded, however, by 2’0 the mean rate during the same week in the twenty-eight large English towns. The rates in the Scotch towns last week ranged from 16-4 and 18 0 in Greenock and Leith, to 30.9in Glasgow and 33 3 in Paisley. The 652 deaths in the eight towns last week showed a decline of 94 from the number in the previous week, and included 26 which were referred to whooping-cough, 13 to scarlet fever, 10 to measles, 10 to diarrhoea, 7 to "fever" (typhus, enteric, or simple), 5 to diphtheria, and one to smallpox ; in all 72 deaths resulted from these principal zymotic diseases, against 63, 73, and 94 in the preceding three weeks. These 72 deaths were equal to an annual rate of
and the museum collection become mutually complementary to each other the value of each is enormously increased. The ordinary lectures to the members were well attended.
practise of the
classes to the Museum for practical instruction. The library, we are told, has been enriched during the past year by 450 books and pamphlets, and the card catalogue is completed, so that the work of reference is easily carried on. Those of our readers who issue annual reports on sanitary subjects would do well to remember the importance of sending such reports to this central library devoted to sanitation, which is yearly becoming of more and more
the deputation, assured them that the ancient University of St. Andrews was secure of the good-will of Her Majesty’s Government, and that the memorial itself and the arguments in support of it would receive due attention. They also intimated to the deputation that evidence upon the matter set forth in the memorial would be received by the Commission about to be appointed to inquire into the constitution and endowments ot the Scottish Universities, and the deputation importance. agreed to furnish this evidence to the Commission. A cordial The lectures for the ensuing year are to be given, not as vote of thanks to Mr. Balfour and to the Lord Advocate for heretofore in the evening, but at five in the afternoon-an their courtesy and attention was then proposed and carried hour which it is hoped may prove convenient to the unanimously. majority of members and their friends. The first lecture is arranged for Thursday next, Jan. 27th. The lecturer VITAL STATISTICS. is Mr. Ogle Tarbotton, M.Inst.C.E., and the subject is ″ and in relation to Architecture Sanitary Engineering Science." Captain Douglas Galton, F.R.S., will occupy the HEALTH OF ENGLISH TOWNS. chair. IN twenty-eight of the largest English towns 5856 births and 4263 deaths were registered during the week ending Jan. 15th. The annual death-rate in these towns, which had ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT. increased in the preceding four weeks from 20’7, to 26’5 per declined again last week to 24’1. During the thirteen A SPECIAL general meeting was held on Jan. 12th at the 1000, weeks of last quarter the death-rate in these towns Lecture-room of the Sheffield Pharmaceutical and Chemical averaged 20’3 per 1000, and was 2.1 below the mean rate in the Society, Norfolk-row. The meeting was called "to consider corresponding periods of the ten years 1876-85. The lowest the recent ruling at Sheffield Town Hall under theadultera- rates in these towns last week were 17’4 in Portsmouth, tion of Food and Drugs Act."’ The chair was occupied by 19’3 in Bradford, 19 3 in Sunderland, and 19’8 in Oldham. The rates in the other towns ranged upwards to 30’4 in the President, Mr. Newsholme, and there was a large attendCardiff, 30.8in Blackburn, 31’0 in Manchester, and 316 in ance, the room being almost filled. Wolverhampton. The deaths referred to the principal The Chairman proposed the first resolution, which was as zymotic diseases in the twenty-eight towns, which had follows: "That this meeting, specially convened, views been 537 and 475 in the preceding two weeks, were last with alarm the recent decision of the Sheffield stipendiary week 485; they included 195 from measles, 95 from magiscratethat a preparation containing any opium and whooping-cough, 82 from scarlet fever, 48 from "fever" any alcohol whatever may be legally sold as tincture of (principally enteric), 34 from diarrhcea, 31 from diphopium’; and this meeting is of opinion that if this be upheld theria, and not one from small-pox. These zymotic as legal, and is acted upon, it is likely to interfere dangerously diseases caused the lowest death-rates last week in with uniformity and with the public safety. It would Brighton, Portsmouth, Nottingham, and Bolton; and further affirm that the only tincture of opium acknowledged the highest rates in Leeds, Sunderland, and Huddersgenerally by the trade is that of the British Pharma- field. The greatest mortality from measles occurred in ______________
copœia.’’
The resolution ’
was
carried
unanimously,
as was
also the
following :Moved by Mr. Ward,
F.C.S.: " That this meeting expresses also its astonishment at the judgment recently given with respect to paregoric, that any preparation of a soothing nature may be sold under that name. It holds that the fact of two or more dissimilar prepartions having the same name is so dangerous to public health that it is desirable the Pharmacopoeia Committee should adopt, as a, synonym of the compound tincture of camphor of the Pharmacopoeia, that which is commonly known as paregoric, paregoric elixir, and elixir paregoric." Moved by Mr. Preston: "That this meeting desires to point out its determination strictly to conform to the British Pharmacopœia as binding upon it, in accordance with the Order in Her Majesty’s Privy Council made respecting thereto." This resolution was carried almost unanimously, and a vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the meeting.
ST. ANDREWS GRADUATES’ ASSOCIATION. ON Friday afternoon last, Mr. Balfour, Secretary for Scotland, and his colleague, the Lord Advocate, received a
of the St. Andrews Graduates’ Association at House, Whitehall. The memorial, signed by 789 graduates of the University, urged that an endowment be found for two additional professors-viz, a Professor of Anatomy and a Professor of Botany, so that the University may be enabled to give two anni medici. to medical students attending the University. After completing their two years’ course of preliminary and theoretical study, they could go for practical and clinical work to any of the great hospitals of the United Kingdom most convenient to them; they could then return to the University and submit themselves to examination, and thus obtain graduation and a licence to
deputation Dover
Liverpool, Wolverhampton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Halifax, Leicester, and Leeds; from whooping-cough in Bristol, Plymouth, Preston, Sunderland, and Huddersfield; from
scarlet fever in Norwich, Bristol, Manchester, Blackburn, Sheffield, and Sunderland ; and fromfever" in Birkenhead and Plymouth. The 31 deaths from diphtheria in the twentyeight towns included 18 in London and 5 in Birmingham. Small-pox caused no death in London and its outer ring, or in any of the twenty-seven large provincial towns. Only 2 cases of small-pox were under treatment on Saturday last in the metropolitan hospitals receiving cases of this disease. The deaths referred to diseases of the respiratory organs in London. which had increased in the preceding four weeks from 416 to 731, declined again last week to 591, but exceeded the corrected average by 89. The causes of 107, or 2’5 per cent., of the deaths in the twenty-eight towns last week were not certified either by a registered medical practitioner or by a coroner. All the causes of death were duly certified in Cardiff, Birkenhead, Derby, and Plymouth. The largest proportions of uncertified deaths were registered in Sheffield, Halifax, and Huddersfield. HEALTH OF SCOTCH TOWNS.
The annual rate of mortality in the eight Scotch towns, which had been 25-1 and 29’9 per 1000 in the preceding two weeks, declined again to 26-1 in the week ending Jan. 15th ; this rate exceeded, however, by 2’0 the mean rate during the same week in the twenty-eight large English towns. The rates in the Scotch towns last week ranged from 16-4 and 18 0 in Greenock and Leith, to 30.9in Glasgow and 33 3 in Paisley. The 652 deaths in the eight towns last week showed a decline of 94 from the number in the previous week, and included 26 which were referred to whooping-cough, 13 to scarlet fever, 10 to measles, 10 to diarrhoea, 7 to "fever" (typhus, enteric, or simple), 5 to diphtheria, and one to smallpox ; in all 72 deaths resulted from these principal zymotic diseases, against 63, 73, and 94 in the preceding three weeks. These 72 deaths were equal to an annual rate of