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BRISTOL.
638 Radium Fund for Manchester. to this fund have now reached Noisy Schools and Physique-of School Children. nearly £4000. A general committee has been THE Manchester and Salford District Education appointed to secure a supply of radium for medical Association at its recent meeting in Manchester use in" Manchester and neighbourhood," with sub. discussed some important directions in which school committees, including a technical and scientific sublife in Manchester might be improved. One speaker committee, to report to the general committee on pointed out the noisiness of Manchester streets the subject of radium. It was agreed that there generally, and suggested that around all buildings should be but one fund and one public appeal in of a public character, such as churches, libraries, the matter. hospitals, and schools, silent pavements should be The Effect of the Insurance Act on Hospital laid. In one district in Moss Side it appears that Attendance. between 9 and 10 A.M. 120 cars go rattling and At the of the governors of Ancoats yearly meeting clanging past one school, in addition to miscellaneous traffic. While casement windows lessen Hospital it was stated that during the year there the noise, they obstruct light, hinder ventilation, had been a large reduction in the number of minor Of the 123,000 ailments and accidents treated at the hospital. It is and make the school unhealthy. scholars in Manchester Mr. J. M. MacLachlan assumed that these infirmities are now being treated said that fully one-half were in a defective by the Insurance Act doctors. The number of inthe year showed a very considerable bodily state through one cause or another. In patients during 1912 there were 1300 cases of anaemia, 600 of increase, and the average type was of a more serious rickets, 6500 of malnutrition-i.e., 1 in every 20 character. As to accidents, 504 of these cases were children, 2600 cases of defective sight or external of such a serious nature as to call for immediate During 1913 2115 indiseases of the eye, 560 of ear disease, 695 of defec-I admission to the wards. tive hearing, many thousand cases of skin disease keeping the children from school, and 4800 cases of
MANCHESTER.
The
or glands. There were 6000 children with six or more carious teeth. A resolution was passed urging the city council to replace setts paving by wooden blocks or some other approved form of silent pavement alongside school buildings, beginning at once in respect of 16 schools in the noisiest parts of the city.
subscriptions
enlarged tonsils, adenoids,
BRISTOL.
University of Bristol :Colston Society
Dinner.
THIS annual function was marked by some very interesting speeches. Both the guests of the evenTuberculosis Scheme for the County of Cheshire. ing, Principal E. H. Griffiths, of University College, The Cheshire county council have approved the Cardiff, and Professor H. H. Turner, of Oxford, spoke Public Health Committee’s scheme for a systematic in warmly commendatory terms of the spirit of treatment of tuberculosis throughout the county research which has made itself felt in Bristol. The area. The council undertakes to give sanatorium Lord Mayor of Bristol also spoke of the beneficent benefit to all insured persons on condition that it effects of the scholarships which gave a chance of from the receives annually irom line county insurance uomuniversity education to those who were capable of mittee 72d. of every 9d. available to them for such profiting by it, and who would have lost that chance benefit, and that the Treasury contributes one-half had it not been for financial help. The treasurer, of the net sum required. The scheme will cost a Mr. Arrowsmith-Brown, reported that the year’s capital expenditure of .:B20,360 and an annual ex- collection amounted to JE492, a sum which would penditure of £11,000. The county council, so far as be handed over to the Colston research fund of the accommodation will permit, agree to provide the University. sanatorium benefit on certain conditions for persons Bristol Hospitals and Subscriptions from Working who are not under the Act. The county will be Men. divided into four dispensary districts for the treataroused in hospital circles interest has been Some ment and supervision of cases. At Chester there in Bristol the movement set on foot by some of by will be a central dispensary and four sublocal labour leaders to gain representation for the dispensaries. Crewe will have two subdispensaries and the other two centres at Hyde and working men on the governing bodies of the hosNorthwich will also have two subdispensaries each. pitals. It is argued, and with considerable reasonA tuberculosis officer will be appointed for each ableness, that since they subscribe largely to the district to work under the county tuberculosis funds of these institutions the working men should officer and in cooperation with the various other be directly represented on the management comThe labour leaders stated, at meetings mittees. agencies of the public health service. held during the past month or two, that requests to Burnley Hospital Extension. this effect had been ignored or refused by the hosTwo years ago it was determined to raise £30,000 pital authorities, and they had determined to carry for a much-needed extension of the Burnley Victoria by storm the position refused to them by more peaceHospital. It is announced that £30,200 have been able means. Their plan is to " pool " the working promised or paid over to the institution. The men’s contributions (so far as they could secure extension will commemorate the jubilee of the them) and to allot to nominees the sums equivalent borough’s incorporation and the Coronation of King to a governor’s subscription. The first engagement in this campaign occurred last week at the George. MedicaZ Tickets in Salford. annual meeting of the Royal Infirmary. The labour At the end of January about 92,000 new medical representatives attended in force ; their first speaker, cards were sent out, and about 14,000 of these have Alderman Sheppard, used the moderation in argubeen returned through the dead letter office. These ment for which he is notable, and asked for a people - were nearly all members of Approved consideration of the plans whereby the hospitals of other cities, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Leicester, had Societies.
639 secured the confidence and support of the working men. Unfortunately his colleagues were less reasonable, and made vague insinuations against the treatment of patients which they were unable to substantiate. In his reply the president, Sir George White, repudiated these insinuations and passed over the other arguments brought forward. There is no evidence to show that these extremists represent the Bristol working man’s attitude towards hospitals ; nevertheless, it is probable that a good deal of misunderstanding between the institutions and their patients might be cleared up if the class from which the latter are mainly drawn were represented on the governing bodies of the former. Bristol Royal Infirmary. The conflict with the Labour representatives did not monopolise the interest of the infirmary annual meeting. The in-patients in 1913 numbered 5394, as against 5049 in the previous year (totals which include transfers from the preceding year in each case) ; this addition is explained entirely by the increased accommodation provided by the recent renovations. Out-patients fell from 58,923 to 42,051, an effect of the National Insurance Act. The total ordinary expenditure was .:B20,228, and the income £12,783. To this deficit has to be added that of JE4857 carried over from last year. Moreover, in order to pay for the new buildings, erected at a cost of £137,000, invested capital to the extent of £83,448 has been spent. The committee claim that this step is justified by its results, and that the increased efficiency of the buildings thus procured would have gratified the pious donors of the endowments just sold. In accordance with this belief every investment to which no specific trust is attached has been sold. BristoZ General
Hospital. years’ service, the secretary, Mr. William Thwaites, is retiring from his post to enjoy a wellearned rest. During this long term of office he has After 40
made many friends at the hospital, and the familiar presence will be very greatly missed. He is to be succeeded by Mr. T. W. Gregg, who was till now secretary to the Belgrave Hospital for Children. He has had considerable experience of institutional work. The new pathological department has been at work for some weeks, and constitutes a very important addition, not only to the hospital but also to the pathological resources of the West of England. It consists of a large laboratory admirably lit by windows extending the whole length of the bench wall and capable of accommodating at least six workers with ease, and a small private laboratory for the pathologist, Mr. George Scott Williamson, who has developed this department of the hospital in a remarkable way. These extensions set free the old laboratory for the use of students and at the same time provide space for original work. Feb. 24th.
SCOTLAND. Honour for Professor Ehrlich. THE Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh have awarded the Cameron Prize in Therapeutics, which is given for " highly important and valuable additions to practical therapeutics," to Professor Paul Ehrlich, director of the Royal Institution for Experimental Therapeutics, Frankfort, in recognition of his discovery of salvarsan, of
University of Edinburgh
his researches
on numerous
synthetic organic comimportant work on
and of his
arsenic, pounds imniunity. FOltndation of an Anæsthetists Society for of
Scotland.
A dinner was held on Feb. 20th at the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh, attended by anaesthetists from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Dundee, Dr. D. C. A. McAllum, of Edinburgh, in the chair. Edinburgh was further represented by Drs. Gibbs, Torrance Thomson, Jones, and Ross; Glasgow by Drs. Paton Boyd, Lamb, Napier, and Fairlie; Aberdeen by Dr. Johnston; and Dundee by Dr. Mills. Apologies were read from Dr. R. Home Henderson, of Glasgow, and Drs. Ogston and Robertson, of Aberdeen. At a business meeting held after the dinner it was resolved to form a society to be known as the Scottish Society of Anaesthetists, the objects of which should be "to further the study of the science and practice of anaesthetics, and the proper teaching thereof." It was resolved to limit the membership of the society to those practising the specialty of anaesthetics, but that other members of the profession interested in the subject should be invited as guests to the meeting to take part in the reading and discussion of papers.
Office-bearers were appointed as follows : President, Dr. D. C. A. McAllum ; Vice-President, Dr. J. Paton Boyd; and Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. J. Stuart Ross. Drs. Torrance Thomson, Lamb, Mills, and Johnston represent Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, and Aberdeen respectively on the executive. It is intended to hold two meetings yearly in April and October, taking each of the four cities in rotation.
Royal Navy Medical Service : Address to Edinburgh Medical Students. Surgeon-General A. W. May, Director-General of the Medical Department, Royal Navy, lately delivered
an
address to medical students in the
New University Buildings, Edinburgh.
Principal
Sir William Turner, who presided, said that they wished to give a word of welcome to a very distinguished professional brother. Perhaps there was a stronger feeling amongst Scottish medical graduates towards the land services rather than the sea service. But they must keep this in mind, that Scotland was now about to become one of the greatest resorts for the Navy, and therefore the Navy would come home to them much more closely than it had done, and this was an appropriate time for the Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy to come amongst them and tell- them something about the Navy as a service. Surgeon-General May said that he had come to try to persuade some, at any rate, of the young men to join the Navy Medical Service. They were short of men in the Royal Navy at the present time. Giving the reasons for that shortage, he said that one was the fact that the medical service was judged greatly by the conditions which existed 35 years ago, and that it was judged unfavourably because at that time the service was not efficient. If, he said, they had an efficient service they would have a popular service, and he was glad to say that at present there existed no finer body of working medical men, especially in the younger branches of the service. The organisation and equipment of the hospitals The men they were as fine as any in the world. wanted were first-rate men, hard workers, and if they got those men they would be able to reward them as their work and their merits deserved. On the motion of Professor Harvey Littlejohn, the
MANCHESTER.
The
or glands. There were 6000 children with six or more carious teeth. A resolution was passed urging the city council to replace setts paving by wooden blocks or some other approved form of silent pavement alongside school buildings, beginning at once in respect of 16 schools in the noisiest parts of the city.
subscriptions
enlarged tonsils, adenoids,
BRISTOL.
University of Bristol :Colston Society
Dinner.
THIS annual function was marked by some very interesting speeches. Both the guests of the evenTuberculosis Scheme for the County of Cheshire. ing, Principal E. H. Griffiths, of University College, The Cheshire county council have approved the Cardiff, and Professor H. H. Turner, of Oxford, spoke Public Health Committee’s scheme for a systematic in warmly commendatory terms of the spirit of treatment of tuberculosis throughout the county research which has made itself felt in Bristol. The area. The council undertakes to give sanatorium Lord Mayor of Bristol also spoke of the beneficent benefit to all insured persons on condition that it effects of the scholarships which gave a chance of from the receives annually irom line county insurance uomuniversity education to those who were capable of mittee 72d. of every 9d. available to them for such profiting by it, and who would have lost that chance benefit, and that the Treasury contributes one-half had it not been for financial help. The treasurer, of the net sum required. The scheme will cost a Mr. Arrowsmith-Brown, reported that the year’s capital expenditure of .:B20,360 and an annual ex- collection amounted to JE492, a sum which would penditure of £11,000. The county council, so far as be handed over to the Colston research fund of the accommodation will permit, agree to provide the University. sanatorium benefit on certain conditions for persons Bristol Hospitals and Subscriptions from Working who are not under the Act. The county will be Men. divided into four dispensary districts for the treataroused in hospital circles interest has been Some ment and supervision of cases. At Chester there in Bristol the movement set on foot by some of by will be a central dispensary and four sublocal labour leaders to gain representation for the dispensaries. Crewe will have two subdispensaries and the other two centres at Hyde and working men on the governing bodies of the hosNorthwich will also have two subdispensaries each. pitals. It is argued, and with considerable reasonA tuberculosis officer will be appointed for each ableness, that since they subscribe largely to the district to work under the county tuberculosis funds of these institutions the working men should officer and in cooperation with the various other be directly represented on the management comThe labour leaders stated, at meetings mittees. agencies of the public health service. held during the past month or two, that requests to Burnley Hospital Extension. this effect had been ignored or refused by the hosTwo years ago it was determined to raise £30,000 pital authorities, and they had determined to carry for a much-needed extension of the Burnley Victoria by storm the position refused to them by more peaceHospital. It is announced that £30,200 have been able means. Their plan is to " pool " the working promised or paid over to the institution. The men’s contributions (so far as they could secure extension will commemorate the jubilee of the them) and to allot to nominees the sums equivalent borough’s incorporation and the Coronation of King to a governor’s subscription. The first engagement in this campaign occurred last week at the George. MedicaZ Tickets in Salford. annual meeting of the Royal Infirmary. The labour At the end of January about 92,000 new medical representatives attended in force ; their first speaker, cards were sent out, and about 14,000 of these have Alderman Sheppard, used the moderation in argubeen returned through the dead letter office. These ment for which he is notable, and asked for a people - were nearly all members of Approved consideration of the plans whereby the hospitals of other cities, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Leicester, had Societies.
639 secured the confidence and support of the working men. Unfortunately his colleagues were less reasonable, and made vague insinuations against the treatment of patients which they were unable to substantiate. In his reply the president, Sir George White, repudiated these insinuations and passed over the other arguments brought forward. There is no evidence to show that these extremists represent the Bristol working man’s attitude towards hospitals ; nevertheless, it is probable that a good deal of misunderstanding between the institutions and their patients might be cleared up if the class from which the latter are mainly drawn were represented on the governing bodies of the former. Bristol Royal Infirmary. The conflict with the Labour representatives did not monopolise the interest of the infirmary annual meeting. The in-patients in 1913 numbered 5394, as against 5049 in the previous year (totals which include transfers from the preceding year in each case) ; this addition is explained entirely by the increased accommodation provided by the recent renovations. Out-patients fell from 58,923 to 42,051, an effect of the National Insurance Act. The total ordinary expenditure was .:B20,228, and the income £12,783. To this deficit has to be added that of JE4857 carried over from last year. Moreover, in order to pay for the new buildings, erected at a cost of £137,000, invested capital to the extent of £83,448 has been spent. The committee claim that this step is justified by its results, and that the increased efficiency of the buildings thus procured would have gratified the pious donors of the endowments just sold. In accordance with this belief every investment to which no specific trust is attached has been sold. BristoZ General
Hospital. years’ service, the secretary, Mr. William Thwaites, is retiring from his post to enjoy a wellearned rest. During this long term of office he has After 40
made many friends at the hospital, and the familiar presence will be very greatly missed. He is to be succeeded by Mr. T. W. Gregg, who was till now secretary to the Belgrave Hospital for Children. He has had considerable experience of institutional work. The new pathological department has been at work for some weeks, and constitutes a very important addition, not only to the hospital but also to the pathological resources of the West of England. It consists of a large laboratory admirably lit by windows extending the whole length of the bench wall and capable of accommodating at least six workers with ease, and a small private laboratory for the pathologist, Mr. George Scott Williamson, who has developed this department of the hospital in a remarkable way. These extensions set free the old laboratory for the use of students and at the same time provide space for original work. Feb. 24th.
SCOTLAND. Honour for Professor Ehrlich. THE Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh have awarded the Cameron Prize in Therapeutics, which is given for " highly important and valuable additions to practical therapeutics," to Professor Paul Ehrlich, director of the Royal Institution for Experimental Therapeutics, Frankfort, in recognition of his discovery of salvarsan, of
University of Edinburgh
his researches
on numerous
synthetic organic comimportant work on
and of his
arsenic, pounds imniunity. FOltndation of an Anæsthetists Society for of
Scotland.
A dinner was held on Feb. 20th at the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh, attended by anaesthetists from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Dundee, Dr. D. C. A. McAllum, of Edinburgh, in the chair. Edinburgh was further represented by Drs. Gibbs, Torrance Thomson, Jones, and Ross; Glasgow by Drs. Paton Boyd, Lamb, Napier, and Fairlie; Aberdeen by Dr. Johnston; and Dundee by Dr. Mills. Apologies were read from Dr. R. Home Henderson, of Glasgow, and Drs. Ogston and Robertson, of Aberdeen. At a business meeting held after the dinner it was resolved to form a society to be known as the Scottish Society of Anaesthetists, the objects of which should be "to further the study of the science and practice of anaesthetics, and the proper teaching thereof." It was resolved to limit the membership of the society to those practising the specialty of anaesthetics, but that other members of the profession interested in the subject should be invited as guests to the meeting to take part in the reading and discussion of papers.
Office-bearers were appointed as follows : President, Dr. D. C. A. McAllum ; Vice-President, Dr. J. Paton Boyd; and Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. J. Stuart Ross. Drs. Torrance Thomson, Lamb, Mills, and Johnston represent Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, and Aberdeen respectively on the executive. It is intended to hold two meetings yearly in April and October, taking each of the four cities in rotation.
Royal Navy Medical Service : Address to Edinburgh Medical Students. Surgeon-General A. W. May, Director-General of the Medical Department, Royal Navy, lately delivered
an
address to medical students in the
New University Buildings, Edinburgh.
Principal
Sir William Turner, who presided, said that they wished to give a word of welcome to a very distinguished professional brother. Perhaps there was a stronger feeling amongst Scottish medical graduates towards the land services rather than the sea service. But they must keep this in mind, that Scotland was now about to become one of the greatest resorts for the Navy, and therefore the Navy would come home to them much more closely than it had done, and this was an appropriate time for the Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy to come amongst them and tell- them something about the Navy as a service. Surgeon-General May said that he had come to try to persuade some, at any rate, of the young men to join the Navy Medical Service. They were short of men in the Royal Navy at the present time. Giving the reasons for that shortage, he said that one was the fact that the medical service was judged greatly by the conditions which existed 35 years ago, and that it was judged unfavourably because at that time the service was not efficient. If, he said, they had an efficient service they would have a popular service, and he was glad to say that at present there existed no finer body of working medical men, especially in the younger branches of the service. The organisation and equipment of the hospitals The men they were as fine as any in the world. wanted were first-rate men, hard workers, and if they got those men they would be able to reward them as their work and their merits deserved. On the motion of Professor Harvey Littlejohn, the