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FATALITY OF SMALL-POX AT DIFFERENT AGES.
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Society in question. We must say that we learnt with small-pox is epidemic there, by the customary spring exodus regret that practitioners of respectability should have been of tramps from the metropolis into the provinces ; he thereso shortsighted as to have cast in their lot with any such fore urges upon the Guildford authorities the strict enforceSociety; but alas! medical men are too often very un- ment of the Vaccination Act, and especially to procure as knowing in their investments-witness how few doctors far as possible the revaccination of the keepers of and manage to lay by their earnings in safety for their children, residents in all the lodging-houses of the town. The local -and the prospect of a few additional patients, even at a board expect shortly to obtain possession of the land chosen ruinously low rate, will too often tempt a needy man to do by their consulting engineer for the site of the new well what his better nature resists. for the improved water-supply. We hope that none of the medical referees of this Society have been induced to invest money in it as well as THE PARTRIDGE TESTIMONIAL. ibrains, for if they have, we fear their Christmas accounts WE understand that a very handsome sum, amounting to will be somewhat on the wrong side. And here we may between five and six hundred pounds, has been subscribed venture a word of caution which, to judge from letters confor the purpose of presenting a testimonial to Professor stantly reaching us, is still required, at least by the younger his friends and old pupils at King’s College. members of the profession. The worst investment a doctor Partridge by The Committee appointed to carry out the wishes of the -can make is to spend money in order that he may do unsubscribers have handed Mrs. Partridge a cheque for the remunerative work. To buy a share of a good practice is a amount, with a request that she would kindly undertake perfectly legitimate investment of capital, and one which its disposal in the way most agreeable to the Professor, as .a lawyer would sanction, with due precautions as to terms; felt that she would best be able to ascertain his wishes they but to take shares in any company with the view of being in the matter. appointed a medical referee, is simple madness; nor can much more be said for the expenditure of large sums in A NEW BIRMINGHAM HOSPITAL. ’ anvassing for a public appointment which has no emoluWELL-AUTHENTICATED reports warrant the belief that a ment whatever, and the prospective advantages of which scheme is on foot for establishing in Birmingham a Hosare almost nil. pital for Diseases of Women. Reserving our opinion on the FATALITY OF SMALL-POX AT DIFFERENT project until its details shall have been published, a timely AGES. warning may be of service. Scientific and administrative THE Registrar-General states that of 755 deaths regis- experience is against the multiplication of special hostered in London from small-pox during the past five weeks, pitals ; in favour of developing special departments in .’348 occurred to children under five years of age, 196 to general hospitals. Science is rarely promoted, the proyoung people aged between five and twenty years, 168 to fession frequently injured, and much public money wasted persons between the ages of twenty and forty, and 43 to by endeavours to enclose fields for practice for enterprising persons over forty years of age. Taking the ages of the specialists. We do not deny exceptions, while deeming it living into account, the mortality in the five weeks from our duty to utter a word of caution. - small-pox was at the annual rate of 10’6 per 1000 among young children, of 2’6 per 1000 between the ages of five QUEENWOOD COLLEGE, HANTS. and twenty, of 2’1 per 1000 between twenty and forty, and NOT a few medical men who have distinguished themof less than 1 per 1000 above forty years of age. It is thus selves at the examinations of the London University have shown that the fatality of the disease is four times as great received their education at this institution, flourishing in the first five years of life as it is at any subsequent which has had among its teachers Professors Tyndall, Hirst, period, and we hope that the knowledge of this fact will be Debus, Frankland, and Galloway, and among its pupils can spread abroad as affording indisputable proof of the im- now boast of the senior wrangler of the present year at portance of early vaccination. Cambridge, Dr. John Hopkinson. This gentleman, who is in only the twenty-second year of his age, had previously "MALINGERING." earned much distinction at the London University, where MALINGERING is one of the proclivities of mankind which he matriculated in honours in 1867, and subsequently oball medical officers of public services and public institutions tained the exhibition for Chemistry and Natural Philosophy should study closely, carefully, and systematically; for we at the first B.Sc. examination, the Mathematical Scholardare to say that many physicians and surgeons, holding ship at the final B.Sc. examination, and the degree of high rank in the profession, have, in the course of their Doctor of Science in two branches in 1870. Dr. Hopkinson’s -career, and far oftener than they would care to confess, been career at Cambridge has been not less brilliant till it has deceived by skulkers " of one grade or other. Malin
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the army, navy, and mercantile marine, but is affected to some extent by a few members of all clubs. It is a favourROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT FUND OF ite line of action with prisoners, and an art in which the IRELAND. in-door pauper is particularly proficient. All institutions, WE are happy to find, in the Northern Whig, an account I indeed, that partake as much of the home as of the strictly of a successful meeting of the Belfast branch of this excharacter of are a liable to have constant supply hospital cellent institution. The kindliness and warmth of heart of Mack sheep of this sort among their inmates. our Irish brethren are in nothing more conspicuous than in their admirable society for the relief of professional distress; HEALTH OF GUILDFORD. and are, moreover, supported by a very high degree of orDR. MoBTON’s report on the health of Guildford during ganising power,-as one evidence of which we may mention 1870 shows a death-rate of 21-6 per 1000. The deaths from that members are appointed to the special duty of seeking enteric fever were 13, and from all zymotics 33, the total subscriptions in their respective localities. We fancy that from all causes being 210. Dr. Morton points out the danger some of our own medical charities might take a hint from with advantage. to which towns surrounding London are exposed, now that
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Society in question. We must say that we learnt with small-pox is epidemic there, by the customary spring exodus regret that practitioners of respectability should have been of tramps from the metropolis into the provinces ; he thereso shortsighted as to have cast in their lot with any such fore urges upon the Guildford authorities the strict enforceSociety; but alas! medical men are too often very un- ment of the Vaccination Act, and especially to procure as knowing in their investments-witness how few doctors far as possible the revaccination of the keepers of and manage to lay by their earnings in safety for their children, residents in all the lodging-houses of the town. The local -and the prospect of a few additional patients, even at a board expect shortly to obtain possession of the land chosen ruinously low rate, will too often tempt a needy man to do by their consulting engineer for the site of the new well what his better nature resists. for the improved water-supply. We hope that none of the medical referees of this Society have been induced to invest money in it as well as THE PARTRIDGE TESTIMONIAL. ibrains, for if they have, we fear their Christmas accounts WE understand that a very handsome sum, amounting to will be somewhat on the wrong side. And here we may between five and six hundred pounds, has been subscribed venture a word of caution which, to judge from letters confor the purpose of presenting a testimonial to Professor stantly reaching us, is still required, at least by the younger his friends and old pupils at King’s College. members of the profession. The worst investment a doctor Partridge by The Committee appointed to carry out the wishes of the -can make is to spend money in order that he may do unsubscribers have handed Mrs. Partridge a cheque for the remunerative work. To buy a share of a good practice is a amount, with a request that she would kindly undertake perfectly legitimate investment of capital, and one which its disposal in the way most agreeable to the Professor, as .a lawyer would sanction, with due precautions as to terms; felt that she would best be able to ascertain his wishes they but to take shares in any company with the view of being in the matter. appointed a medical referee, is simple madness; nor can much more be said for the expenditure of large sums in A NEW BIRMINGHAM HOSPITAL. ’ anvassing for a public appointment which has no emoluWELL-AUTHENTICATED reports warrant the belief that a ment whatever, and the prospective advantages of which scheme is on foot for establishing in Birmingham a Hosare almost nil. pital for Diseases of Women. Reserving our opinion on the FATALITY OF SMALL-POX AT DIFFERENT project until its details shall have been published, a timely AGES. warning may be of service. Scientific and administrative THE Registrar-General states that of 755 deaths regis- experience is against the multiplication of special hostered in London from small-pox during the past five weeks, pitals ; in favour of developing special departments in .’348 occurred to children under five years of age, 196 to general hospitals. Science is rarely promoted, the proyoung people aged between five and twenty years, 168 to fession frequently injured, and much public money wasted persons between the ages of twenty and forty, and 43 to by endeavours to enclose fields for practice for enterprising persons over forty years of age. Taking the ages of the specialists. We do not deny exceptions, while deeming it living into account, the mortality in the five weeks from our duty to utter a word of caution. - small-pox was at the annual rate of 10’6 per 1000 among young children, of 2’6 per 1000 between the ages of five QUEENWOOD COLLEGE, HANTS. and twenty, of 2’1 per 1000 between twenty and forty, and NOT a few medical men who have distinguished themof less than 1 per 1000 above forty years of age. It is thus selves at the examinations of the London University have shown that the fatality of the disease is four times as great received their education at this institution, flourishing in the first five years of life as it is at any subsequent which has had among its teachers Professors Tyndall, Hirst, period, and we hope that the knowledge of this fact will be Debus, Frankland, and Galloway, and among its pupils can spread abroad as affording indisputable proof of the im- now boast of the senior wrangler of the present year at portance of early vaccination. Cambridge, Dr. John Hopkinson. This gentleman, who is in only the twenty-second year of his age, had previously "MALINGERING." earned much distinction at the London University, where MALINGERING is one of the proclivities of mankind which he matriculated in honours in 1867, and subsequently oball medical officers of public services and public institutions tained the exhibition for Chemistry and Natural Philosophy should study closely, carefully, and systematically; for we at the first B.Sc. examination, the Mathematical Scholardare to say that many physicians and surgeons, holding ship at the final B.Sc. examination, and the degree of high rank in the profession, have, in the course of their Doctor of Science in two branches in 1870. Dr. Hopkinson’s -career, and far oftener than they would care to confess, been career at Cambridge has been not less brilliant till it has deceived by skulkers " of one grade or other. Malin
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the army, navy, and mercantile marine, but is affected to some extent by a few members of all clubs. It is a favourROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT FUND OF ite line of action with prisoners, and an art in which the IRELAND. in-door pauper is particularly proficient. All institutions, WE are happy to find, in the Northern Whig, an account I indeed, that partake as much of the home as of the strictly of a successful meeting of the Belfast branch of this excharacter of are a liable to have constant supply hospital cellent institution. The kindliness and warmth of heart of Mack sheep of this sort among their inmates. our Irish brethren are in nothing more conspicuous than in their admirable society for the relief of professional distress; HEALTH OF GUILDFORD. and are, moreover, supported by a very high degree of orDR. MoBTON’s report on the health of Guildford during ganising power,-as one evidence of which we may mention 1870 shows a death-rate of 21-6 per 1000. The deaths from that members are appointed to the special duty of seeking enteric fever were 13, and from all zymotics 33, the total subscriptions in their respective localities. We fancy that from all causes being 210. Dr. Morton points out the danger some of our own medical charities might take a hint from with advantage. to which towns surrounding London are exposed, now that
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