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through the presidents of the nineteen sections into which the work of the Congress has been distributed, and the result has been that, partly through direct appeal and partly through intermediate negotiation, men of light and leading in the various subjects these sections cover, have promised, or have actually sent in, contributions bearing on the topics prescribed. Within the last few days, in fact, communications in this sense have been received from Great Britain, France, Spain,
Germany, Switzerland, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, the A representative of the United States and Australasia. when Congress, passing through Calcutta, had an audience of the Viceroy, and, at the request of the Indian Government, the central committee has instituted in the Section of Hygiene a subsection to deal with Asiatic cholera, its etiology, its mode of propagation, its prevention and its treatment. The Surgeon-General (Dr. W. R. Rice) has, I understand, deputed Dr. Cunningham to represent Indian medicine at the Congress. The French Minister of Marine will also send in the person of the medical officer-in-chief a delegate of the navy, Dr. Rouvier, member of the superior council of the sanitary service of the fleet. The Peruvian Government has, further, notified the central committee that its deputy at the Congress will be Dr. Aurelio Alarco, one of the most distinguished consultants in the school at Lima; whilst the Governments of Paraguay, Columbia and Ecuador have responded to the invitation of the central committee by an undertaking to nominate their representatives quam primum. At the Policlinico itself-the seat of the Congress outside the Porta Pia and near the British Embassy-the Palazzo dell’Amministrazione, in which the sittings will be held, is progressing rapidly towards completion. The magnificent cornice of the palace-a chefd’œure of the Society of the Stuccatori (artists in stucco ornamentation)-has, thanks to the dry, sunny weather, been brought to a close in a wonderfully short time, the work employing as many as forty hands a day. This part of the building, indeed, will rank as one of the best artistic productions of modern Rome, worthy of the institution it ornaments and of the Congress which will be the first to witness it."
THE SHOP HOURS BILL.
factory inspectors, shopkeepers themselves and shop assist-ants all over the country, though uncombined by any plan of alliance, yet agreed in a general dissent from this established disorder of things. The new Bill is but the voice of the dissentient spirit. It is, therefore, no. forced
or
artificial
measure.
’
All that it seeks to do is
the right of a preponderating majority to essential matter of trade custom the hostile independence of a small and selfish minority. Its results can be guaranteed as beneficial, its method is regular and constitutional, and its ultimate success must therefore be only a It already possesses, in the support of matter of time. members on both sides of the House of Commons, an earnest of acceptance by the Legislature which we hope will not. wait long for its needful confirmation.
to assert control in
an
BLACK TONGUE. THE condition in which the dorsum of the tongue is more less covered by a black patch is not very uncommon, but its etiology is somewhat obscure. It has been called "hyper-keratosis " with the idea that the superficial layer of epithelium becomes hypertrophied, undergoing horny degeneration, with. atrophy of some of the cells and a development of black pigment. Drs. Ciaglinski and Hewelke, writing in the Iironika Lekarska, describe a case in which they were able to find a mould in the black patch somewhat resembling mucor rhizopodiformis, which contained black pigment. The case was or
.
that of a woman who a fortnight previously had had some kind of feverish attack-most probably influenza. The tongue looked as if it had been covered with blacking,. the discolouration extending as far back as the circumvallate papillae. By means of borax washes the tonguebecame clean in a couple of days. Examination showed ould be well c.. ivated on bread’ a black mould which or on potatoes at the temperature of the room, but which did not grow at 37° C. It was apparently of a harmless character, for it was injected into the veins of rabbitswithout effect. Drs. Ciaglinski and Hewelke distinguish two kinds of black tongue-the chronic, due to anatomical changes in the epithelial layer, and the acute, which depends. upon the presence of a mould. This is harmless apparently to internal organs, as it does not develop at the temperature of the body. -
WHATEVER may be the ultimate fate of the measure introduced by Sir John Lubbock for the reduction of hours of labour in shops, it is evident that public opinion as a whole is convinced of its utility and of its moderation. Twelve, fourteen and sixteen hours a day are terms which under any rational system of trade would much more than satisfy all commercial exigencies. Their duration bears no true proportion to the work in hand. It is merely the outcome and expression of an unregulated struggle for existence amongst traders, in which the public health and every other interest is subordinated to the ambition or the supposed necessities of the Its ruinous influence upon the health of the individual calls for no fresh assertion on our part. This has employed been proved beyond question in the experience of every medical practitioner whose calling brings him into contact with the class in question. Clergymen and others have its demoralising tendency, for obviously protested against the unfortunate whose every waking hour on every day save one in the week is practically spent in a routine of work or business worry can hardly be capable in any remaining fraction of leisure, even if he has the opportunity, of endeavours after mental or moral self-improvement. Life in his case becomes, but, for the mental slavery, we will not say activity, involved in his business duties, little better than a mere process of physical effort alternated with hurried attention to bodily necessities and appetites. It is, therefore, not to be wondered at that we find trade councils,
POPLAR AND STEPNEY SICK ASYLUM : RETIREMENT OF, AND TESTIMONIAL TO, DR. GOLDIE. EXTENSIVE alterations are in progress at the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum, Bromley. The present building was erected under Gathorne Hardy’s Act, which enabled unions. to combine together for the purpose of treating their sick poor. It was constructed on the pavilion system, and was opened for the reception of patients on Aug. 7th, 1871. It accommo-dated 586 patients, but the pressure on the institution has been so great during the la-t i tn years that Dr. R. W. Goldie, the medical superintendent, found it necessary to recommend, the managers to add three beds to each ward, bringing the , total number of beds up to 640. The beds are divided nearly equally between the two sexes. This temporary measurehaving proved insufficient the managers decided upon erecting two new pavilions at the east end of the institution, where there was a large vacant space used as a recreation ground. The new blocks will accommodate about 200 patients. It is expected that this much-needed extension will be ready for the reception of cases in about twelve months. At the west end of the building a large nursing home is being erected. It will include a large recreation hall and provide rooms for from forty to fifty nurses. After a service of twenty-two years at the hospital, Dr. Goldie has resigned his. appointment on account of ill-health and has been succeeded by Mr. W. H. Pearce, formerly house surgeon at the Sheffield ..
through the presidents of the nineteen sections into which the work of the Congress has been distributed, and the result has been that, partly through direct appeal and partly through intermediate negotiation, men of light and leading in the various subjects these sections cover, have promised, or have actually sent in, contributions bearing on the topics prescribed. Within the last few days, in fact, communications in this sense have been received from Great Britain, France, Spain,
Germany, Switzerland, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, the A representative of the United States and Australasia. when Congress, passing through Calcutta, had an audience of the Viceroy, and, at the request of the Indian Government, the central committee has instituted in the Section of Hygiene a subsection to deal with Asiatic cholera, its etiology, its mode of propagation, its prevention and its treatment. The Surgeon-General (Dr. W. R. Rice) has, I understand, deputed Dr. Cunningham to represent Indian medicine at the Congress. The French Minister of Marine will also send in the person of the medical officer-in-chief a delegate of the navy, Dr. Rouvier, member of the superior council of the sanitary service of the fleet. The Peruvian Government has, further, notified the central committee that its deputy at the Congress will be Dr. Aurelio Alarco, one of the most distinguished consultants in the school at Lima; whilst the Governments of Paraguay, Columbia and Ecuador have responded to the invitation of the central committee by an undertaking to nominate their representatives quam primum. At the Policlinico itself-the seat of the Congress outside the Porta Pia and near the British Embassy-the Palazzo dell’Amministrazione, in which the sittings will be held, is progressing rapidly towards completion. The magnificent cornice of the palace-a chefd’œure of the Society of the Stuccatori (artists in stucco ornamentation)-has, thanks to the dry, sunny weather, been brought to a close in a wonderfully short time, the work employing as many as forty hands a day. This part of the building, indeed, will rank as one of the best artistic productions of modern Rome, worthy of the institution it ornaments and of the Congress which will be the first to witness it."
THE SHOP HOURS BILL.
factory inspectors, shopkeepers themselves and shop assist-ants all over the country, though uncombined by any plan of alliance, yet agreed in a general dissent from this established disorder of things. The new Bill is but the voice of the dissentient spirit. It is, therefore, no. forced
or
artificial
measure.
’
All that it seeks to do is
the right of a preponderating majority to essential matter of trade custom the hostile independence of a small and selfish minority. Its results can be guaranteed as beneficial, its method is regular and constitutional, and its ultimate success must therefore be only a It already possesses, in the support of matter of time. members on both sides of the House of Commons, an earnest of acceptance by the Legislature which we hope will not. wait long for its needful confirmation.
to assert control in
an
BLACK TONGUE. THE condition in which the dorsum of the tongue is more less covered by a black patch is not very uncommon, but its etiology is somewhat obscure. It has been called "hyper-keratosis " with the idea that the superficial layer of epithelium becomes hypertrophied, undergoing horny degeneration, with. atrophy of some of the cells and a development of black pigment. Drs. Ciaglinski and Hewelke, writing in the Iironika Lekarska, describe a case in which they were able to find a mould in the black patch somewhat resembling mucor rhizopodiformis, which contained black pigment. The case was or
.
that of a woman who a fortnight previously had had some kind of feverish attack-most probably influenza. The tongue looked as if it had been covered with blacking,. the discolouration extending as far back as the circumvallate papillae. By means of borax washes the tonguebecame clean in a couple of days. Examination showed ould be well c.. ivated on bread’ a black mould which or on potatoes at the temperature of the room, but which did not grow at 37° C. It was apparently of a harmless character, for it was injected into the veins of rabbitswithout effect. Drs. Ciaglinski and Hewelke distinguish two kinds of black tongue-the chronic, due to anatomical changes in the epithelial layer, and the acute, which depends. upon the presence of a mould. This is harmless apparently to internal organs, as it does not develop at the temperature of the body. -
WHATEVER may be the ultimate fate of the measure introduced by Sir John Lubbock for the reduction of hours of labour in shops, it is evident that public opinion as a whole is convinced of its utility and of its moderation. Twelve, fourteen and sixteen hours a day are terms which under any rational system of trade would much more than satisfy all commercial exigencies. Their duration bears no true proportion to the work in hand. It is merely the outcome and expression of an unregulated struggle for existence amongst traders, in which the public health and every other interest is subordinated to the ambition or the supposed necessities of the Its ruinous influence upon the health of the individual calls for no fresh assertion on our part. This has employed been proved beyond question in the experience of every medical practitioner whose calling brings him into contact with the class in question. Clergymen and others have its demoralising tendency, for obviously protested against the unfortunate whose every waking hour on every day save one in the week is practically spent in a routine of work or business worry can hardly be capable in any remaining fraction of leisure, even if he has the opportunity, of endeavours after mental or moral self-improvement. Life in his case becomes, but, for the mental slavery, we will not say activity, involved in his business duties, little better than a mere process of physical effort alternated with hurried attention to bodily necessities and appetites. It is, therefore, not to be wondered at that we find trade councils,
POPLAR AND STEPNEY SICK ASYLUM : RETIREMENT OF, AND TESTIMONIAL TO, DR. GOLDIE. EXTENSIVE alterations are in progress at the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum, Bromley. The present building was erected under Gathorne Hardy’s Act, which enabled unions. to combine together for the purpose of treating their sick poor. It was constructed on the pavilion system, and was opened for the reception of patients on Aug. 7th, 1871. It accommo-dated 586 patients, but the pressure on the institution has been so great during the la-t i tn years that Dr. R. W. Goldie, the medical superintendent, found it necessary to recommend, the managers to add three beds to each ward, bringing the , total number of beds up to 640. The beds are divided nearly equally between the two sexes. This temporary measurehaving proved insufficient the managers decided upon erecting two new pavilions at the east end of the institution, where there was a large vacant space used as a recreation ground. The new blocks will accommodate about 200 patients. It is expected that this much-needed extension will be ready for the reception of cases in about twelve months. At the west end of the building a large nursing home is being erected. It will include a large recreation hall and provide rooms for from forty to fifty nurses. After a service of twenty-two years at the hospital, Dr. Goldie has resigned his. appointment on account of ill-health and has been succeeded by Mr. W. H. Pearce, formerly house surgeon at the Sheffield ..