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BUCHANAN PRESENTATION FUND.
1009 Mr. Carttar held an inquest on the body of a boy who died at Dilston-road, Rotherhithe. He had been living in a house in St. Helena-road with his father and eight other members of the family, but, having got into arrears with their rent, the landlord, after warning the father, had taken off the doors and windows in order to force him to leave the premises, and A sadder story can as a result the deceased died from chill. if be paid that the is rent cannot told. It obvious be scarcely landlord is entitled to possession, but the law must be very faulty if there is no better way of evicting the tenant than the course adopted in the last two cases. It may be hoped that this occurrence will not pass unnoticed and that its repetition will be rendered impossible.
OVERCROWDING OF THE PROFESSION IN NAPLES. ACCORDING tosome statistics collected by the Fi. forvacz 1lledi.ccz the number of medical men in Italy is steadily and rapidly increasing, and the overcrowding is especially great in Naples, where there is one medical practitioner to every 513 inhlbitants. Medical incomes are consequently diminishing, and are shown by the income-tax returns to be distinctly inferior to incomes earned by members of other liberal professions, as lawyers and engineers. The outlook is, according to the l/;iforma l4fediccc, a very gloomy one for medical men, and it does not seem possible to doubt that their position will soon become decidedly worse than it is now.
a post in an English Government. In replying, Sir Walter Foster said he had held almost every office in the British Medical Association, and that it was in the Association that he received his chief training for public work. He believed that in the great problems with which the Government would have in the future to deal the cooperation of medical men as authorities on the laws of public health would be more and more required. Mr. H. H. Fowler, President of the Local Government Board, whose health was most enthusiastically drunk, referred to the number of medical men with whom that department had become officially associated as being between 4000 and 5000 ; that department had recognised the fact that the most valuable part of a man’s property was his health, and the statistics of recent years showed a remarkable diminution in the death-rate.
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BUCHANAN PRESENTATION FUND. WE understand that a final meeting of the committee of the above fund is to be held on Thursday, November 3rd, at the residence of the treasurer, Dr. Bristowe. Any intending contributors to the fund should forward their subscriptions at once to one of the secretaries-Dr. W. H. Hamer, 73, Dartmouth-park-hill, N. ; Dr. J. C. Thresh, The Limes, Chelmsford, Essex. __
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST A MEDICAL OFFICER.
SERIOUS charges of neglect of duty have been made against one of the medical officers of the Birkenhead Union IT is premature to draw conclusions as to the numbers by certain of the guardians. He is accused of having commencing the study of medicine in the present year. So neglected three cases that he was called upon to attend. far as our returns go, in spite of the lengthened curriculum The inquiry has been adjourned, when it is hoped that the (mposed by regulation of the General Medical Council, these officer will be able to exonerate himself from the charges numbers show an increase. Our readers may remember that made against him. In the meantime it would be premature
THE NEW ENTRIES AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS.
east year there was a very considerable rise in the number of medical students registered during the year, a rush which was naturally attributed to the desire to get the advantage of the older and shorter curriculum. If the Scotch and Irish and other returns not yet to hand should show, as our present returns seem to do, a further rise, we shall have to seek another explanation. One thing seems clear : that that calamity once feared by Lord Playfair is not likely to be realised-a dearth in the supply of medical men.
TYPHOID FEVER ON SEWAGE FARMS. IT is alleged that two boys, each aged sixteen years, have died of typhoid fever, contracted from working on the sewage farm of the Manchester Corporation at Carrington. This is a very serious allegation against the management of the farm, which will doubtless be fully met by the corporation. For the negative evidence on this point of the production of enteric fever from sewage farm effluvia is so strong, from the history of the Croydon, Edinburgh, and other farms, (hat, if the facts be true, a strong presumption against the farm is raised. In the meantime, another question crops up, as to whether boys of such age should be employed at all on a sewage farm ; and whether, in view of enteric sewage being often dealt with on them, it would not be better to employ men of middle age for the purpose.
DINNER TO SIR WALTER FOSTER, M.P.
A DINNER, presided over by Dr. Withers Moore, President ’Jf the Council of the British Medical Association, and ’3ttended by a large gathering of leading members of the medical profession, was given on Wednesday evening last at the Hotel Metropole to Sir Walter Foster, M.P., in honour of his appointment as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board. The chairman, in proposing Sir Walter Foster’s health, congratulated him upon being the first member of the medical profession to be appointed
to comment upon the
case. -
TOUCH AND TEMPERATURE SENSE. interesting case. illustrating peculiarities in sensory perception, is recorded by Cavazzani and briefly mentioned It is that of a patient in the Nell’J’ologis(’ïzes Centralblrtit. whose median and ulnar nerves had been injured and then sutured. On testing the sensibility after this it wasfound that in certain areas where the temperature sense was retained there was no sensibility to ordinary impressions, and in other areas the converse was the case, thus giving support to Goldscheider’s idea that the end-organs and conducting paths are different for the different kinds of sensibility. As, too, there were areas where only cold was perceived, while tactile and thermal impressions were not felt, it seems as if there were separate paths for heat and cold. It was also curious that a trial made when the patient was about to leave the hospital at a time when he was somewhat excited should have furnished results not quite the same as those obtained before-a change which is ascribed to the altered condition of the nervous centres due to the excitement. AN
FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. Berlin.-The Second Anatomical Institute is now finished. It is under the direction of Professor Hertwig and will be devoted mainly to microscopical anatomy and development. Dr. van Ackeren has left the Second Medical Clinic for Chicago and Dr. Vogel has been appointed to his post. ?’yM.—Dr. Beerwald has been appointed Oberarzt of the hospital in place of Professor Rosenbach, who has
resigned. TM/c.—Dr. Juffinger of Vienna has been
appointed
Lecturer in Laryngology and Rhinology. 111oscoiV.-Dr. KrinkotI has been appointed Extraordinary Professor of Ophthalmology. TfM.—Dr. Barteneff of KharkotI has been appointed i Extraordinary Professor of Children’s Diseases.
Honorary
OVERCROWDING OF THE PROFESSION IN NAPLES. ACCORDING tosome statistics collected by the Fi. forvacz 1lledi.ccz the number of medical men in Italy is steadily and rapidly increasing, and the overcrowding is especially great in Naples, where there is one medical practitioner to every 513 inhlbitants. Medical incomes are consequently diminishing, and are shown by the income-tax returns to be distinctly inferior to incomes earned by members of other liberal professions, as lawyers and engineers. The outlook is, according to the l/;iforma l4fediccc, a very gloomy one for medical men, and it does not seem possible to doubt that their position will soon become decidedly worse than it is now.
a post in an English Government. In replying, Sir Walter Foster said he had held almost every office in the British Medical Association, and that it was in the Association that he received his chief training for public work. He believed that in the great problems with which the Government would have in the future to deal the cooperation of medical men as authorities on the laws of public health would be more and more required. Mr. H. H. Fowler, President of the Local Government Board, whose health was most enthusiastically drunk, referred to the number of medical men with whom that department had become officially associated as being between 4000 and 5000 ; that department had recognised the fact that the most valuable part of a man’s property was his health, and the statistics of recent years showed a remarkable diminution in the death-rate.
to
BUCHANAN PRESENTATION FUND. WE understand that a final meeting of the committee of the above fund is to be held on Thursday, November 3rd, at the residence of the treasurer, Dr. Bristowe. Any intending contributors to the fund should forward their subscriptions at once to one of the secretaries-Dr. W. H. Hamer, 73, Dartmouth-park-hill, N. ; Dr. J. C. Thresh, The Limes, Chelmsford, Essex. __
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST A MEDICAL OFFICER.
SERIOUS charges of neglect of duty have been made against one of the medical officers of the Birkenhead Union IT is premature to draw conclusions as to the numbers by certain of the guardians. He is accused of having commencing the study of medicine in the present year. So neglected three cases that he was called upon to attend. far as our returns go, in spite of the lengthened curriculum The inquiry has been adjourned, when it is hoped that the (mposed by regulation of the General Medical Council, these officer will be able to exonerate himself from the charges numbers show an increase. Our readers may remember that made against him. In the meantime it would be premature
THE NEW ENTRIES AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS.
east year there was a very considerable rise in the number of medical students registered during the year, a rush which was naturally attributed to the desire to get the advantage of the older and shorter curriculum. If the Scotch and Irish and other returns not yet to hand should show, as our present returns seem to do, a further rise, we shall have to seek another explanation. One thing seems clear : that that calamity once feared by Lord Playfair is not likely to be realised-a dearth in the supply of medical men.
TYPHOID FEVER ON SEWAGE FARMS. IT is alleged that two boys, each aged sixteen years, have died of typhoid fever, contracted from working on the sewage farm of the Manchester Corporation at Carrington. This is a very serious allegation against the management of the farm, which will doubtless be fully met by the corporation. For the negative evidence on this point of the production of enteric fever from sewage farm effluvia is so strong, from the history of the Croydon, Edinburgh, and other farms, (hat, if the facts be true, a strong presumption against the farm is raised. In the meantime, another question crops up, as to whether boys of such age should be employed at all on a sewage farm ; and whether, in view of enteric sewage being often dealt with on them, it would not be better to employ men of middle age for the purpose.
DINNER TO SIR WALTER FOSTER, M.P.
A DINNER, presided over by Dr. Withers Moore, President ’Jf the Council of the British Medical Association, and ’3ttended by a large gathering of leading members of the medical profession, was given on Wednesday evening last at the Hotel Metropole to Sir Walter Foster, M.P., in honour of his appointment as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board. The chairman, in proposing Sir Walter Foster’s health, congratulated him upon being the first member of the medical profession to be appointed
to comment upon the
case. -
TOUCH AND TEMPERATURE SENSE. interesting case. illustrating peculiarities in sensory perception, is recorded by Cavazzani and briefly mentioned It is that of a patient in the Nell’J’ologis(’ïzes Centralblrtit. whose median and ulnar nerves had been injured and then sutured. On testing the sensibility after this it wasfound that in certain areas where the temperature sense was retained there was no sensibility to ordinary impressions, and in other areas the converse was the case, thus giving support to Goldscheider’s idea that the end-organs and conducting paths are different for the different kinds of sensibility. As, too, there were areas where only cold was perceived, while tactile and thermal impressions were not felt, it seems as if there were separate paths for heat and cold. It was also curious that a trial made when the patient was about to leave the hospital at a time when he was somewhat excited should have furnished results not quite the same as those obtained before-a change which is ascribed to the altered condition of the nervous centres due to the excitement. AN
FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. Berlin.-The Second Anatomical Institute is now finished. It is under the direction of Professor Hertwig and will be devoted mainly to microscopical anatomy and development. Dr. van Ackeren has left the Second Medical Clinic for Chicago and Dr. Vogel has been appointed to his post. ?’yM.—Dr. Beerwald has been appointed Oberarzt of the hospital in place of Professor Rosenbach, who has
resigned. TM/c.—Dr. Juffinger of Vienna has been
appointed
Lecturer in Laryngology and Rhinology. 111oscoiV.-Dr. KrinkotI has been appointed Extraordinary Professor of Ophthalmology. TfM.—Dr. Barteneff of KharkotI has been appointed i Extraordinary Professor of Children’s Diseases.
Honorary