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consultations, he can depend on his having the and good management of the best advice the country can afford to secure. Prime ministers, lord chancellors, bishops and secretaries of state, peers and members of parliament, all send their children to sea now-a-days. I have wandered from my intention, however, and meant to say something upon the instances of gross treatment to thei assistant-surgeons noticed in THE LANCET for this year. At ’, that an assistant-surgeon in page 133, your readers are told the Mediterranean had been " cobbed," i. e. flogged over the buttocks,lowered down" by the head, so as to suffer from concussion of the brain, and pelted with potatoes and meat. Now, Sir, I beg to ask the secretary of the Admiralty if these atrocities were perpetrated on board the Frolic sloop of war during her present commissionand if so, how such a discreditable state of ruffianism and anarchy could be tolerated I also ask the secreon board one of her Majesty’s ships? tary of the Admiralty who the young men are who dared act in the way your correspondent represents, and what punishment has been inflicted upon them for these outrages ? Lastly, I ask, in what way the Admiralty has evinced its dissatisfaction with the captain and commanding officer of a ship where such a want of wholesome restraint could be so long permitted to go unchecked ?t I shall, next week, with your kind indulgence, make a few remarks upon the gagging in the Vanguard. and the night sentry work of the assistant-surgeons in the Howe. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, ATTIS.
line with the lecture room and the museum, and generally contains a considerable quantity of bed and other linen. In the centre of it a stove is placed, the smoke of which escapes by an ordinary tube, which communicates with the chimney flue. Sheets were being dried upon wooden rods running across the room, and it it supposed that one of these came in contact, either with the stove or the tube, and one or both of these being probably strongly heated, the sheet had ignited and the fire had soon reached the greater part of the linen in the room. Attention was first attracted by the smoke and flames issuing through the window; some students at Mr. Lane’s school, situated at the back of the hospital, saw them, and most of these young men repaired to the hospital in great haste. The precaution was taken to keep the door shut, and the water was plentifully thrown upon the fire through the broken windows. Mr. Ta’tersall’l:! men were very active in lending assistance; but though there was no lack of zeal, particularly on the part of the students, water and buckets were at first extremely scarce. The difficulty was, however, soon overcome by ntling the baths, and obtaining the water from the tubs. By the combined and praiseworthy exertions of Mr. Tattersall’s men, and the students, the fire was extinguished in about half an hour, but the amount of linen consumed was somewhat considerable. Just above the laundry the Oxford ward is situated: the patients here became very much alarmed, and it was thought prudent to remove the beds into the passages on the ground-floor ; this was done with great coolness and regularity, whilst every exertion was used to lessen the alarm felt by many of the patients in other parts of the house. The fire was completely extinguished when the engines arrived, and it would appear from this luckily unimCOURTESY OF DR. CHAMBERS. portant accident, that the precaution of having a set of buckets To the Editor of THE LANCET. and a small engine in each hospital should not be neglected. plenty of hands and water in nosocomial SiR,-In your excellent memoir of Dr. Chambers you state, There are always but these means of assistance should be ren(p. 637,) that " no medical man evermetDr. Chambers in con- establishments, sultation without being perfectly satisfied with him." I beg dered very effective by having constantly ready the objects to offer my testimony in support of the truth of this statement. we just pointed out. THE CHOLERA. About two years ago, I had the advantage of Dr. Chambers’s By the last accounts from opinion upon a very hazardous case; the hour of the consulta- Havannah, the cliolera was raging so violently that the deaths tion was fixed, but on proceeding to my patient’s residence, I were sixty per diem. It was also reported that the disease had again appeared on the Mississippi. was prevented from continuing my journey by sudden indisposition. When I reached the house, I was almost half an THE PARIs BOARD OF HEALTH have just ordered hour behind my time, and found that Dr. Chambers had the general cleansing of sewers, the continuous length of kindly waited for me, without any marks of impatience. I, of which is no less than 270miles. course, stated the imperious reasons of my delay, and Dr. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK, ending Chambers evinced his usual courtesy and consideration for young practitioners, in the consultation which followed. I June 1.ňThe public health, as indicated by unusual lightness of the bills of mortality, bears at the present time a favourable send my name and address, and remain, appearance. The mortality is low, not as compared with that Yours, obediently, which prevails in places of better sanitary condition, but with 1B1. D. June 4, 1850. what has been commonly observed in London at the same period of former years. The deaths registered in the week ending last Saturday, (May 25,) were 736; in the twentyMedical News. second week of the ten years 1840-9, they rose from 760, which
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and occurred in 1842, to 960 in 1847; was the lowest ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.ňňThe following the average wasnumber, 860, or if corrected for increase of population, gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for 938, the present decrease on which therefore amounts to 202.
the diploma, were admitted members of the college at the The deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive of consumption, were only 105, against 138 in the previous Rieeting of the Court of Examiners on the 31st ultimo:week; the average is 113. Consumption carried off 103 BERRY, JOHN, Leyland, Lancashire. persons, the corrected average being 153, and the lowest BROMLEY, HENRY WiLLiAM, Rippingdale, Lincolnshire. number in any corresponding week having been 118. The FLEMING, ALBERT, Calcutta. deaths enumerated in the class of zymotic or epidemic diseases JOHNSON, CHARLES, Dublin. were only 130, against 156 of the week previous; the corrected KIRKPATRICK, GEORGE HENRY, Whitchurch, Salop. average of ten corresponding weeks is 190. Six children died RAINEY, WiLLiAM BANES, Spilsby, Lincolnshire. of small-pox ; 11 children and a private of the Grenadier 8CATLIFF, ARTHUR, Sloane-square, Chelsea. Guards, aged 23 years, of measles; 17 children of scarlatina, STOATE, JAMES, Bristol. 28 of hooping-cough, and 26 persons of typhus, all of these THOMAS, RYSE SAER, Narbeth, Pembrokeshire. showing a decrease, especially the three first menAPOTHECARIES’ HALL.-Names of gentlemen who epidemics tioned. Diarrhaea was fatal to 15 persons, 9 of whom were passed their examination in the science and practice of medi- children, the average being 10; this is the only epidemic eine, and received certificates to practise, on amongst those that frequently prevail to a considerable extent, which does not show a decrease on the returns of correThursday, May 30, 1850. weeks. Two persons died of influenza, and two, sponding ALDRED, HENRY ALLEN, Blackfriars-road. both adults, of purpura. At 11, Brown’s-place, Shacklewell, THOMAS Bermuda. St. HIGGs, CoKE, George’s, the son of a plasterer, aged 3 years, died of "scarlet fever, BuLLOCK, CHARLES JOSEPH, Congleton. by effluvia from certain cesspools which they were aggravated FIRE AT ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL.-On Thursday, emptying." An inquest was held on this case, the child having May 23, a fire broke out at the above hospital, which has had no medical attendance. Mr. Martin, the registrar for proved but partially destructive, but which might have re- St. James’s, Bermondsey, states that " he never knew his losltlted in the total destruction of this noble building. It would cality so healthy as at present; the mortality has been very appear that, at the southern extremity of a range of rooms low for several months; no zymotic diseases prevail; the situated in the vaulted portion of the house, the so-called drainage is improved, the pavements in excellent condition, laundry or drying room is situated. This store room is on a and cleansing has not been interrupted. But the tidal ditch ,
consultations, he can depend on his having the and good management of the best advice the country can afford to secure. Prime ministers, lord chancellors, bishops and secretaries of state, peers and members of parliament, all send their children to sea now-a-days. I have wandered from my intention, however, and meant to say something upon the instances of gross treatment to thei assistant-surgeons noticed in THE LANCET for this year. At ’, that an assistant-surgeon in page 133, your readers are told the Mediterranean had been " cobbed," i. e. flogged over the buttocks,lowered down" by the head, so as to suffer from concussion of the brain, and pelted with potatoes and meat. Now, Sir, I beg to ask the secretary of the Admiralty if these atrocities were perpetrated on board the Frolic sloop of war during her present commissionand if so, how such a discreditable state of ruffianism and anarchy could be tolerated I also ask the secreon board one of her Majesty’s ships? tary of the Admiralty who the young men are who dared act in the way your correspondent represents, and what punishment has been inflicted upon them for these outrages ? Lastly, I ask, in what way the Admiralty has evinced its dissatisfaction with the captain and commanding officer of a ship where such a want of wholesome restraint could be so long permitted to go unchecked ?t I shall, next week, with your kind indulgence, make a few remarks upon the gagging in the Vanguard. and the night sentry work of the assistant-surgeons in the Howe. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, ATTIS.
line with the lecture room and the museum, and generally contains a considerable quantity of bed and other linen. In the centre of it a stove is placed, the smoke of which escapes by an ordinary tube, which communicates with the chimney flue. Sheets were being dried upon wooden rods running across the room, and it it supposed that one of these came in contact, either with the stove or the tube, and one or both of these being probably strongly heated, the sheet had ignited and the fire had soon reached the greater part of the linen in the room. Attention was first attracted by the smoke and flames issuing through the window; some students at Mr. Lane’s school, situated at the back of the hospital, saw them, and most of these young men repaired to the hospital in great haste. The precaution was taken to keep the door shut, and the water was plentifully thrown upon the fire through the broken windows. Mr. Ta’tersall’l:! men were very active in lending assistance; but though there was no lack of zeal, particularly on the part of the students, water and buckets were at first extremely scarce. The difficulty was, however, soon overcome by ntling the baths, and obtaining the water from the tubs. By the combined and praiseworthy exertions of Mr. Tattersall’s men, and the students, the fire was extinguished in about half an hour, but the amount of linen consumed was somewhat considerable. Just above the laundry the Oxford ward is situated: the patients here became very much alarmed, and it was thought prudent to remove the beds into the passages on the ground-floor ; this was done with great coolness and regularity, whilst every exertion was used to lessen the alarm felt by many of the patients in other parts of the house. The fire was completely extinguished when the engines arrived, and it would appear from this luckily unimCOURTESY OF DR. CHAMBERS. portant accident, that the precaution of having a set of buckets To the Editor of THE LANCET. and a small engine in each hospital should not be neglected. plenty of hands and water in nosocomial SiR,-In your excellent memoir of Dr. Chambers you state, There are always but these means of assistance should be ren(p. 637,) that " no medical man evermetDr. Chambers in con- establishments, sultation without being perfectly satisfied with him." I beg dered very effective by having constantly ready the objects to offer my testimony in support of the truth of this statement. we just pointed out. THE CHOLERA. About two years ago, I had the advantage of Dr. Chambers’s By the last accounts from opinion upon a very hazardous case; the hour of the consulta- Havannah, the cliolera was raging so violently that the deaths tion was fixed, but on proceeding to my patient’s residence, I were sixty per diem. It was also reported that the disease had again appeared on the Mississippi. was prevented from continuing my journey by sudden indisposition. When I reached the house, I was almost half an THE PARIs BOARD OF HEALTH have just ordered hour behind my time, and found that Dr. Chambers had the general cleansing of sewers, the continuous length of kindly waited for me, without any marks of impatience. I, of which is no less than 270miles. course, stated the imperious reasons of my delay, and Dr. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK, ending Chambers evinced his usual courtesy and consideration for young practitioners, in the consultation which followed. I June 1.ňThe public health, as indicated by unusual lightness of the bills of mortality, bears at the present time a favourable send my name and address, and remain, appearance. The mortality is low, not as compared with that Yours, obediently, which prevails in places of better sanitary condition, but with 1B1. D. June 4, 1850. what has been commonly observed in London at the same period of former years. The deaths registered in the week ending last Saturday, (May 25,) were 736; in the twentyMedical News. second week of the ten years 1840-9, they rose from 760, which
experience
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and occurred in 1842, to 960 in 1847; was the lowest ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.ňňThe following the average wasnumber, 860, or if corrected for increase of population, gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for 938, the present decrease on which therefore amounts to 202.
the diploma, were admitted members of the college at the The deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive of consumption, were only 105, against 138 in the previous Rieeting of the Court of Examiners on the 31st ultimo:week; the average is 113. Consumption carried off 103 BERRY, JOHN, Leyland, Lancashire. persons, the corrected average being 153, and the lowest BROMLEY, HENRY WiLLiAM, Rippingdale, Lincolnshire. number in any corresponding week having been 118. The FLEMING, ALBERT, Calcutta. deaths enumerated in the class of zymotic or epidemic diseases JOHNSON, CHARLES, Dublin. were only 130, against 156 of the week previous; the corrected KIRKPATRICK, GEORGE HENRY, Whitchurch, Salop. average of ten corresponding weeks is 190. Six children died RAINEY, WiLLiAM BANES, Spilsby, Lincolnshire. of small-pox ; 11 children and a private of the Grenadier 8CATLIFF, ARTHUR, Sloane-square, Chelsea. Guards, aged 23 years, of measles; 17 children of scarlatina, STOATE, JAMES, Bristol. 28 of hooping-cough, and 26 persons of typhus, all of these THOMAS, RYSE SAER, Narbeth, Pembrokeshire. showing a decrease, especially the three first menAPOTHECARIES’ HALL.-Names of gentlemen who epidemics tioned. Diarrhaea was fatal to 15 persons, 9 of whom were passed their examination in the science and practice of medi- children, the average being 10; this is the only epidemic eine, and received certificates to practise, on amongst those that frequently prevail to a considerable extent, which does not show a decrease on the returns of correThursday, May 30, 1850. weeks. Two persons died of influenza, and two, sponding ALDRED, HENRY ALLEN, Blackfriars-road. both adults, of purpura. At 11, Brown’s-place, Shacklewell, THOMAS Bermuda. St. HIGGs, CoKE, George’s, the son of a plasterer, aged 3 years, died of "scarlet fever, BuLLOCK, CHARLES JOSEPH, Congleton. by effluvia from certain cesspools which they were aggravated FIRE AT ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL.-On Thursday, emptying." An inquest was held on this case, the child having May 23, a fire broke out at the above hospital, which has had no medical attendance. Mr. Martin, the registrar for proved but partially destructive, but which might have re- St. James’s, Bermondsey, states that " he never knew his losltlted in the total destruction of this noble building. It would cality so healthy as at present; the mortality has been very appear that, at the southern extremity of a range of rooms low for several months; no zymotic diseases prevail; the situated in the vaulted portion of the house, the so-called drainage is improved, the pavements in excellent condition, laundry or drying room is situated. This store room is on a and cleansing has not been interrupted. But the tidal ditch ,