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BRITISH CHILD-STUDY ASSOCIATION.
ANNUAL DINNER OF THE WEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY.
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but carrying out the principles laid down by him. In forth- warning given by the numerous epidemics of typhoid fever coming numbers we hope to publish both the oration and the which have occurred at Philadelphia it is difficult to explain lecture referred to. why so important a city has been left for so long without a. ’ proper and safe water-supply.
THE DISTRIBUTION
OF PLAGUE.
A TELEGRAM from the Governor of the Mauritius received at the Colonial Office on Feb. 21st states that for the week
Feb. 20th there were. 13 cases of bubonic plague, of which 11 proved fatal. As regards Egypt during the week ending Feb. 16th 8 cases and 8 deaths from plague have been reported from all Egypt. 6 cases and 7 deaths were reported from Tantah and 2 cases and 1 death from Kom-elNur, a village near Mit-Ghamr. All these cases and deaths occurred among the native- population. 5 of the deaths at Tantah and the one at Kom-el-Nur occurred out of Hospital.
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THE VACCINATION LEAGUE.
BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL AND HOSPITAL.
THE report of the committee of the London branch of theBritish Child-Study Association for the year 1901, of which" Dr. Fletcher Beach is president, has just been issued. It states that 115 new members joined the branch during the’ past year, bringing the total of the roll to 216. The object of this association is to gather and to spread information’’ about the life and training of children by (1) collectings records of careful observations .of individual children ;. (2) collecting personal reminiscences of childhood; and (3) tabulating the results of studies of papers written so These collections and the results by obtained are carefully studied and as far as possibleconclusions are drawn from them. Various circles for are also formed in connexion with the society, and study lectures are delivered once a month in the Ruskin Room ofthe Sesame Club, Dover-street, Piccadilly, W. The subscription is 2s. 6d. a year, which entitles the member to a.. copy of the Faidologist the official organ. We regret tonote that the subscriptions last year did not cover theexpenses. An association which does such good work ought not to be in need of funds, and we feel sure that if theassociation were better known to the public adequate support. would be forthcoming.
children.
THOSE who are desirous of obtaining free literature dealing with the advantages of vaccination, or of organising popular illustrated lectures on the subject in their respective districts, should apply to the offices of the Vaccination League, 110, Strand, W.C. Among the influential names recently added to the long list of vice-presidents of the Vaccination League are those of the Bishop of London, Archdeacon Sinclair, and Lord Newton, It will be remembered that Lord Newton recently introduced a Bill into the House of Lords on the subject of Vaccination.
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BRITISH CHILD-STUDY ASSOCIATION.
CHRIST’S
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LORD BALFOUR of BURLEICU, the appointed arbitrator in THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE WEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY. the dispute between the authorities of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and Christ’s Hospital, gave his decision on THE West London Medico-Chirurgical Society held its Feb. 25th. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital is given an area of annual dinner on Feb. 19th at Frascati’s Restaurant, Oxford67,680 square feet at a cost of E238,781. Our readers will street, W. The President of the society, Mr. A. Cooper, occuremember that in our issue of August llth, 1900, p. 408, pied the chair. The Director-General of the Army Medical we published a map of the area in dispute. The area now Department, Surgeon-General W. Taylor, 0.13., in acknowawarded is slightly in excess of that marked in the map. ledging the toast of "The Imperial Forces," proposed by St. Bartholomew’s Hospital originally offered £117,000 for Mr. C. B. Keetley, said that he did not think that his wasabout 1 acres. It now has to pay .6238,781 for an area of the only depanment that had shown shortcomings, and he a little more than It acres, being an excess of £121,781. was sure that the oflicers and men of the Royal Army Medical Corps could hold up their heads equally well with TYPHOID FEVER AT PHILADELPHIA. Thethe members of any other department of the army. FOLLOWING upon the winter rains. the disturbance of mud, officers of his department were members of the medical proand deposits by the torrential flow in the water-courses, fession and they felt that the sympathy which they received. another epidemic of typhoid fever has broken out in from its civil members was their greatest reward. Dr. W. H. Philadelphia ; and in the havoc achieved this diseaseis Allchin (President of the Medical Society of London), who. running a neck-to-neck race with diphtheria and small-pox. replied to the toast of "The Kindred Societiesgiven. The city Bureau of Health reports that during January by Mr. Swinford Edwards, referred to the relationship that 334 cases of diphtheria, 433 cases of small-pox, and 432 existed between the Medical Society of London and thecases of typhoid fever were notified. But during thG week I West London Medico-Chirurgical Society in that both were" lst there were cases of Feb. 201 ending typhoid fever and founded to embrace all branches of the profession. Mr. L. A. this already cutstrips last year’s record. The worst Bidwell proposed" The Guests " which was replied to by Sir weeks in 1901 were those ending on May 25th with J. Crichton Browne who discoursed upon the appalling flood, 142 cases and on August 31stwith 152 cases. The of medical literature. Daylight and midnight oil, he said,. is considered to be the cause of the water-supply present could not sulnce to carry a man through even a small as it was of the previous epidemic, and 600 men are now portion of the works published, and he was compelled, employed, working day and night, in the construction of new like a swallow, to flit here and there and to pick up a,. filtering beds which are to yield 6,000,000 gallons every 24 miscellaneous cropful of undigested medical and surhours. But when the beds are completed the water must gical information. The toast of "The President" was. remain there for some time so as to press down the filtering proposed by Dr. James B. Ball and that of "The Oflicers materials and to impait sufficient compactness to ensure perfect of the Society" by Dr. F. J. McCann. The latter was filtration. Even when this is achieved the water can only acknowledged by Mr. H. Percy Dunn, the editor of the be delivered at the low levels. Another filtering bed of the journal of the society. and by Dr. L. C. T. Dobson, the same capacity is in course of construction at a higher level, senior secretary, who said that at their next meeting theand it will be necessary to pump the water up to this point. number of the members would be over 600. Among the These more extensive works will not be completed till the guests were Sir William Church, President of the Royal month of May at the earliest, so that there is still ample College of Physicians of London ; Mr. H. G. Howse, Pre-time for the epidemic to spread. Considering the emphatic sident of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ; Mr.W.-
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but carrying out the principles laid down by him. In forth- warning given by the numerous epidemics of typhoid fever coming numbers we hope to publish both the oration and the which have occurred at Philadelphia it is difficult to explain lecture referred to. why so important a city has been left for so long without a. ’ proper and safe water-supply.
THE DISTRIBUTION
OF PLAGUE.
A TELEGRAM from the Governor of the Mauritius received at the Colonial Office on Feb. 21st states that for the week
Feb. 20th there were. 13 cases of bubonic plague, of which 11 proved fatal. As regards Egypt during the week ending Feb. 16th 8 cases and 8 deaths from plague have been reported from all Egypt. 6 cases and 7 deaths were reported from Tantah and 2 cases and 1 death from Kom-elNur, a village near Mit-Ghamr. All these cases and deaths occurred among the native- population. 5 of the deaths at Tantah and the one at Kom-el-Nur occurred out of Hospital.
ending
THE VACCINATION LEAGUE.
BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL AND HOSPITAL.
THE report of the committee of the London branch of theBritish Child-Study Association for the year 1901, of which" Dr. Fletcher Beach is president, has just been issued. It states that 115 new members joined the branch during the’ past year, bringing the total of the roll to 216. The object of this association is to gather and to spread information’’ about the life and training of children by (1) collectings records of careful observations .of individual children ;. (2) collecting personal reminiscences of childhood; and (3) tabulating the results of studies of papers written so These collections and the results by obtained are carefully studied and as far as possibleconclusions are drawn from them. Various circles for are also formed in connexion with the society, and study lectures are delivered once a month in the Ruskin Room ofthe Sesame Club, Dover-street, Piccadilly, W. The subscription is 2s. 6d. a year, which entitles the member to a.. copy of the Faidologist the official organ. We regret tonote that the subscriptions last year did not cover theexpenses. An association which does such good work ought not to be in need of funds, and we feel sure that if theassociation were better known to the public adequate support. would be forthcoming.
children.
THOSE who are desirous of obtaining free literature dealing with the advantages of vaccination, or of organising popular illustrated lectures on the subject in their respective districts, should apply to the offices of the Vaccination League, 110, Strand, W.C. Among the influential names recently added to the long list of vice-presidents of the Vaccination League are those of the Bishop of London, Archdeacon Sinclair, and Lord Newton, It will be remembered that Lord Newton recently introduced a Bill into the House of Lords on the subject of Vaccination.
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BRITISH CHILD-STUDY ASSOCIATION.
CHRIST’S
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LORD BALFOUR of BURLEICU, the appointed arbitrator in THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE WEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY. the dispute between the authorities of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and Christ’s Hospital, gave his decision on THE West London Medico-Chirurgical Society held its Feb. 25th. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital is given an area of annual dinner on Feb. 19th at Frascati’s Restaurant, Oxford67,680 square feet at a cost of E238,781. Our readers will street, W. The President of the society, Mr. A. Cooper, occuremember that in our issue of August llth, 1900, p. 408, pied the chair. The Director-General of the Army Medical we published a map of the area in dispute. The area now Department, Surgeon-General W. Taylor, 0.13., in acknowawarded is slightly in excess of that marked in the map. ledging the toast of "The Imperial Forces," proposed by St. Bartholomew’s Hospital originally offered £117,000 for Mr. C. B. Keetley, said that he did not think that his wasabout 1 acres. It now has to pay .6238,781 for an area of the only depanment that had shown shortcomings, and he a little more than It acres, being an excess of £121,781. was sure that the oflicers and men of the Royal Army Medical Corps could hold up their heads equally well with TYPHOID FEVER AT PHILADELPHIA. Thethe members of any other department of the army. FOLLOWING upon the winter rains. the disturbance of mud, officers of his department were members of the medical proand deposits by the torrential flow in the water-courses, fession and they felt that the sympathy which they received. another epidemic of typhoid fever has broken out in from its civil members was their greatest reward. Dr. W. H. Philadelphia ; and in the havoc achieved this diseaseis Allchin (President of the Medical Society of London), who. running a neck-to-neck race with diphtheria and small-pox. replied to the toast of "The Kindred Societiesgiven. The city Bureau of Health reports that during January by Mr. Swinford Edwards, referred to the relationship that 334 cases of diphtheria, 433 cases of small-pox, and 432 existed between the Medical Society of London and thecases of typhoid fever were notified. But during thG week I West London Medico-Chirurgical Society in that both were" lst there were cases of Feb. 201 ending typhoid fever and founded to embrace all branches of the profession. Mr. L. A. this already cutstrips last year’s record. The worst Bidwell proposed" The Guests " which was replied to by Sir weeks in 1901 were those ending on May 25th with J. Crichton Browne who discoursed upon the appalling flood, 142 cases and on August 31stwith 152 cases. The of medical literature. Daylight and midnight oil, he said,. is considered to be the cause of the water-supply present could not sulnce to carry a man through even a small as it was of the previous epidemic, and 600 men are now portion of the works published, and he was compelled, employed, working day and night, in the construction of new like a swallow, to flit here and there and to pick up a,. filtering beds which are to yield 6,000,000 gallons every 24 miscellaneous cropful of undigested medical and surhours. But when the beds are completed the water must gical information. The toast of "The President" was. remain there for some time so as to press down the filtering proposed by Dr. James B. Ball and that of "The Oflicers materials and to impait sufficient compactness to ensure perfect of the Society" by Dr. F. J. McCann. The latter was filtration. Even when this is achieved the water can only acknowledged by Mr. H. Percy Dunn, the editor of the be delivered at the low levels. Another filtering bed of the journal of the society. and by Dr. L. C. T. Dobson, the same capacity is in course of construction at a higher level, senior secretary, who said that at their next meeting theand it will be necessary to pump the water up to this point. number of the members would be over 600. Among the These more extensive works will not be completed till the guests were Sir William Church, President of the Royal month of May at the earliest, so that there is still ample College of Physicians of London ; Mr. H. G. Howse, Pre-time for the epidemic to spread. Considering the emphatic sident of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ; Mr.W.-