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HEALTH MATTERS GENERALLY AT HOME AND ABROAD.
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Edinburgh and Dundee, and 4’3 in Leith. The fatal cases of which had been 26 and 24 in the two preceding weeks, further declined to 21 last week, of which 9 occurred in Glasgow, 4 in Edinburgh, and 3 in Leith. The 15 deaths from diarrhcea showed an increase upon those returned in the previous week, and included 5 in Dundee, 4 in Edinburgh, and 3 in Glasgow, The 9 deaths from diphtheria, of which 5 occurred in Glasgow and 2 in Dundee, showed an increase upon those in the previous week. The deaths referred to "fever" (typhus, enteric or typhoid, and simple continued), which .had been 7 and 11 in the two previous weeks, declined again to 7 last week, of which 5 were returned in Glasgow, and 1 each in Edinburgh and Perth ; th annual death-rate from this cause was equal to 0-28 per 1000, and slightly exceeded the average rate from the same cause during last The fatal cases of week in the twenty English towns. measles and scarlet fever showed a considerable decline from recent weekly numbers. The death from small-pox (the first that has occurred in any of these eight towns since January, when one was registered in Dundee) was returned in Glasgow. The deaths referred to acute diseases of the lungs in the eight towns, which had been 163, 144, and 135 in the three preceding weeks, further declined to 116 last week, and were equal to an annual rate of 4’6 per 1000, against 4’2 from the same diseases in London. The greatest proportional fatality from lung diseases in the Scotch towns occurred last week in Aberdeen and Paisley.
THE SERVICES.
whooping-cough,
HEALTH OF DUBLIN.
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The rate of mortality was not quite so high in Dublin last week. The annual death-rate in the city, which had been equal to 29’0 and 32’6 per 1000 in the two preceding weeks, declined again to 30’7 last week. During the first four weeks of the current quarter the death-rate in the city averaged 30’8 per 1000, against 22’2 in London and 21.2 in Edinburgh. The 196 deaths in Dublin last week showed a decline of 12 from the number in the previous week; they included 19, or not quite 10 per cent., which were referred to the principal zymotic diseases, against only 12 and 9 in the two previous weeks. These 19 deaths from zymotic diseases included 14 from fever (typhus, enteric or typhoid, and simple continued), 3 from diarrhoea, 1 from scarlet fever, 1 from whooping-cough, and not 1 either from small-pox, measles, or diphtheria. The annual death-rate from these zymotic diseases was equal to 3’0 per 1000 in Dublin last week; the rate from the same diseases was equal to 3’2 in London and 2’9 in Edinburgh. The deaths referred to fever in Dublin, which had been but 8, 7, and 2 in the three previous weeks, rose to 14 last week, and exceeded any weekly number since the end of February ; the annual death-rate from this cause in Dublin last week was equal to 2’19 per 1000, and was more than nine times the average rate from the same cause prevailing in the twenty English towns. The deaths referred to diarrhoea showed a slight increase, while the fatal cases of the other principal zymotic diseases were again exceptionally few. The deaths of infants and of elderly persons differed but slightly from those returned in recent weeks.
Surgeon-Majors G. C. Gribbon, H. B. White, and Sugeon Smyth are on passage home from India in H.M, troopship Malabar, which left Bombay on April 12tb. Deputy Surgeon-General C. D. Madden has been ordered to Aldershot for duty, vice Deputy Surgeon - General J, Ogilvy, transferred to Bermuda. ADMIRALTY.—Staff-Surgeon Stephen Sweetman has been promoted to the rank of Fleet Surgeon in Her Majesty’s Fleet, with seniority of April 1st, 1881. Fleet Surgeon Stephen Sweetman has been appointed to the Invincible, vice Endey. C. C. H.
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MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT. IN the House of Commons on Thursday, April 28th, petitions were presented as follows :-From Clogheen L’nioB for inquiry into the subject of butter adulteration; from Hampstead against a loan to the Metropolitan Asylums. Board in connexion with the proceedings in the small-pox hospital case; from a large number of provincial towns against the opium trade ; and from various places against the Rivers Conservancy Bill. Mr. Mellor gave notice that he will move the rejection of the Poor Removal (Ireland) Bill. Sir Sydney Waterlow gave notice that in Committee on the Alkali Works Bill he will move the following amend.
ment:--" It shall be necessary to prove to the satisfaction of the judge before whom any action for fines under this Act is or may be tried, that injury has been caused to the health of the inhabitants of the district from or in consequence of the management of any such work, and from the emission of gases therefrom, or that damage has accrued to some per. son or persons, to an extent of not less than ten pounds."
Fulham Small-pox Hospital. On Friday Colonel Makins asked the President of the Local Government Board whether it was a fact that the authorities of the Fulham Small-pox Hospital, or the parish authorities, were erecting a temporary wooden buildingfor the reception of small-pox patients on the surface and extending to the whole width of the Imperial-road leading to the river Thames from the Fulham-road; and, if so, by what authority such an erection was placed upon a highway dedi, cated to the use of the public. In putting the question, the hon. member said he believed the erection was really a tent surrounded by a wooden hoarding, and that the authorities There were nine patients in were the Local District Board. the tent, and he believed there was great local excitement, and some talk of an attempt to pull it down, Mr. Dodson said the Local Government Board had no information as to the erection of any such building. The only authorities over whom the Board had jurisdiction who had power to provide hospital accommodation in Fulham were the managers of the metropolitan district and the guardians, From neither of these bodies had the Board received information of their intention to adopt the extraordinary pro’ ceeding of setting up a small-pox hospital on a public highHEALTH MATTERS GENERALLY AT HOME way. Subsequently Col. Makins asked the Home Secretary whether he would make inquiry into the matter, and Sir AND ABROAD. W. Harcourt at once agreed to order an inquiry to be made. Messrs. Edwards and Son, of Great Marlborough-street, On Monday a petition from various Scotch burghs was announce they have constructed a fire-grate founded upon presented in favour of the Lunacy Law Amendment Dr. Arnold’s principle, for which they claim a practical im- Bill. The following notice was given for Thursday :munity from smoke, a long-continued fire without need for Mr. John Hollond to ask the Secretary of State for the interference, and the doing away of chimney-sweeping except Home Department whether any action has been taken by at intervals, perhaps, often years. Mr. R. H. the local authorities under " The Artisans’ and Labourers moreover, of Lonsdale-chambers, Chancery-lane, has intro- Dwellings Act (1868) Amendment Act, 1879;" and, if so, duced a fire-grate combining the merits of the closed hot-air whether any account of the funds spent in carrying out the stove and the ordinary register stove, with the additional Act has been presented by the local authorities in accordance with section 18. And whether any application has been professed advantage of giving off a minimum of smoke. The National Health Society have made arrangements for made to the Home Office under section 38 of " The Sanitary a series of lectures to be delivered to working plumbers, at Act, 1866." the Rooms of the Society of Arts, on " The Science and Art On Tuesday, the Select Committee on the Coroners (Ireof Sanitary Plumbing." The lecturer will be Mr. S. Stevens land) Bill was nominated as follows :-The Attorney-General Hellyer, and the lectures will be delivered on the evenings of for Ireland, Mr. Daly, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Healy, Mr. R. May 17th, June 1st, 14th,.and 28th, and on July 12th and 28th. Fowler, Mr. Litton, Mr. Richardson, and Mr. Tottenham. A considerable amount of fever-typhus and enteric-exists The Committee were instructed to consider the operation of at present in the Union of Waterford, and additional the law relating to coroners in Ireland, and if they think accommodation for patients in the Fever Hospital is urgently fit to amend the Bill accordingly. Mr. Healy moved that the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, snd required.
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Edinburgh and Dundee, and 4’3 in Leith. The fatal cases of which had been 26 and 24 in the two preceding weeks, further declined to 21 last week, of which 9 occurred in Glasgow, 4 in Edinburgh, and 3 in Leith. The 15 deaths from diarrhcea showed an increase upon those returned in the previous week, and included 5 in Dundee, 4 in Edinburgh, and 3 in Glasgow, The 9 deaths from diphtheria, of which 5 occurred in Glasgow and 2 in Dundee, showed an increase upon those in the previous week. The deaths referred to "fever" (typhus, enteric or typhoid, and simple continued), which .had been 7 and 11 in the two previous weeks, declined again to 7 last week, of which 5 were returned in Glasgow, and 1 each in Edinburgh and Perth ; th annual death-rate from this cause was equal to 0-28 per 1000, and slightly exceeded the average rate from the same cause during last The fatal cases of week in the twenty English towns. measles and scarlet fever showed a considerable decline from recent weekly numbers. The death from small-pox (the first that has occurred in any of these eight towns since January, when one was registered in Dundee) was returned in Glasgow. The deaths referred to acute diseases of the lungs in the eight towns, which had been 163, 144, and 135 in the three preceding weeks, further declined to 116 last week, and were equal to an annual rate of 4’6 per 1000, against 4’2 from the same diseases in London. The greatest proportional fatality from lung diseases in the Scotch towns occurred last week in Aberdeen and Paisley.
THE SERVICES.
whooping-cough,
HEALTH OF DUBLIN.
.
The rate of mortality was not quite so high in Dublin last week. The annual death-rate in the city, which had been equal to 29’0 and 32’6 per 1000 in the two preceding weeks, declined again to 30’7 last week. During the first four weeks of the current quarter the death-rate in the city averaged 30’8 per 1000, against 22’2 in London and 21.2 in Edinburgh. The 196 deaths in Dublin last week showed a decline of 12 from the number in the previous week; they included 19, or not quite 10 per cent., which were referred to the principal zymotic diseases, against only 12 and 9 in the two previous weeks. These 19 deaths from zymotic diseases included 14 from fever (typhus, enteric or typhoid, and simple continued), 3 from diarrhoea, 1 from scarlet fever, 1 from whooping-cough, and not 1 either from small-pox, measles, or diphtheria. The annual death-rate from these zymotic diseases was equal to 3’0 per 1000 in Dublin last week; the rate from the same diseases was equal to 3’2 in London and 2’9 in Edinburgh. The deaths referred to fever in Dublin, which had been but 8, 7, and 2 in the three previous weeks, rose to 14 last week, and exceeded any weekly number since the end of February ; the annual death-rate from this cause in Dublin last week was equal to 2’19 per 1000, and was more than nine times the average rate from the same cause prevailing in the twenty English towns. The deaths referred to diarrhoea showed a slight increase, while the fatal cases of the other principal zymotic diseases were again exceptionally few. The deaths of infants and of elderly persons differed but slightly from those returned in recent weeks.
Surgeon-Majors G. C. Gribbon, H. B. White, and Sugeon Smyth are on passage home from India in H.M, troopship Malabar, which left Bombay on April 12tb. Deputy Surgeon-General C. D. Madden has been ordered to Aldershot for duty, vice Deputy Surgeon - General J, Ogilvy, transferred to Bermuda. ADMIRALTY.—Staff-Surgeon Stephen Sweetman has been promoted to the rank of Fleet Surgeon in Her Majesty’s Fleet, with seniority of April 1st, 1881. Fleet Surgeon Stephen Sweetman has been appointed to the Invincible, vice Endey. C. C. H.
,
MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT. IN the House of Commons on Thursday, April 28th, petitions were presented as follows :-From Clogheen L’nioB for inquiry into the subject of butter adulteration; from Hampstead against a loan to the Metropolitan Asylums. Board in connexion with the proceedings in the small-pox hospital case; from a large number of provincial towns against the opium trade ; and from various places against the Rivers Conservancy Bill. Mr. Mellor gave notice that he will move the rejection of the Poor Removal (Ireland) Bill. Sir Sydney Waterlow gave notice that in Committee on the Alkali Works Bill he will move the following amend.
ment:--" It shall be necessary to prove to the satisfaction of the judge before whom any action for fines under this Act is or may be tried, that injury has been caused to the health of the inhabitants of the district from or in consequence of the management of any such work, and from the emission of gases therefrom, or that damage has accrued to some per. son or persons, to an extent of not less than ten pounds."
Fulham Small-pox Hospital. On Friday Colonel Makins asked the President of the Local Government Board whether it was a fact that the authorities of the Fulham Small-pox Hospital, or the parish authorities, were erecting a temporary wooden buildingfor the reception of small-pox patients on the surface and extending to the whole width of the Imperial-road leading to the river Thames from the Fulham-road; and, if so, by what authority such an erection was placed upon a highway dedi, cated to the use of the public. In putting the question, the hon. member said he believed the erection was really a tent surrounded by a wooden hoarding, and that the authorities There were nine patients in were the Local District Board. the tent, and he believed there was great local excitement, and some talk of an attempt to pull it down, Mr. Dodson said the Local Government Board had no information as to the erection of any such building. The only authorities over whom the Board had jurisdiction who had power to provide hospital accommodation in Fulham were the managers of the metropolitan district and the guardians, From neither of these bodies had the Board received information of their intention to adopt the extraordinary pro’ ceeding of setting up a small-pox hospital on a public highHEALTH MATTERS GENERALLY AT HOME way. Subsequently Col. Makins asked the Home Secretary whether he would make inquiry into the matter, and Sir AND ABROAD. W. Harcourt at once agreed to order an inquiry to be made. Messrs. Edwards and Son, of Great Marlborough-street, On Monday a petition from various Scotch burghs was announce they have constructed a fire-grate founded upon presented in favour of the Lunacy Law Amendment Dr. Arnold’s principle, for which they claim a practical im- Bill. The following notice was given for Thursday :munity from smoke, a long-continued fire without need for Mr. John Hollond to ask the Secretary of State for the interference, and the doing away of chimney-sweeping except Home Department whether any action has been taken by at intervals, perhaps, often years. Mr. R. H. the local authorities under " The Artisans’ and Labourers moreover, of Lonsdale-chambers, Chancery-lane, has intro- Dwellings Act (1868) Amendment Act, 1879;" and, if so, duced a fire-grate combining the merits of the closed hot-air whether any account of the funds spent in carrying out the stove and the ordinary register stove, with the additional Act has been presented by the local authorities in accordance with section 18. And whether any application has been professed advantage of giving off a minimum of smoke. The National Health Society have made arrangements for made to the Home Office under section 38 of " The Sanitary a series of lectures to be delivered to working plumbers, at Act, 1866." the Rooms of the Society of Arts, on " The Science and Art On Tuesday, the Select Committee on the Coroners (Ireof Sanitary Plumbing." The lecturer will be Mr. S. Stevens land) Bill was nominated as follows :-The Attorney-General Hellyer, and the lectures will be delivered on the evenings of for Ireland, Mr. Daly, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Healy, Mr. R. May 17th, June 1st, 14th,.and 28th, and on July 12th and 28th. Fowler, Mr. Litton, Mr. Richardson, and Mr. Tottenham. A considerable amount of fever-typhus and enteric-exists The Committee were instructed to consider the operation of at present in the Union of Waterford, and additional the law relating to coroners in Ireland, and if they think accommodation for patients in the Fever Hospital is urgently fit to amend the Bill accordingly. Mr. Healy moved that the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, snd required.
Griffin,