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1378 tages, and in so doing he might have admitted, if not days. We are glad to know that so far there has been no pointed out, certain drawbacks which make " the national dissemination of the disease in Newcastle, and that every game" a doubtful, in some cases a dangerous, indul- care has been taken to prevent its spread. Revaccination has Cricket exacts, not only been resorted to very freely by all students and nurses and gence for growing youth. a violent, but what is worse, an irregular expenditure others of the staft who may have been exposed to risk. of effort, thereby incurring the just censure of those The case, moreover, points to the necessity for increased who find muscular exertion salutary and profitable in vigilance and for efficient vaccination and revaccination. proportion to its being graduated and equable. A boy Sea-ports like Newcastle must of necessity be open to
will stand at the wicket for several overs and have risks of this nature from time to time. hardly any call made upon his strength or his running powers, or he may be playing a brisk game and putting on runs at INCREASED DRUNKENNESS IN WOMEN. the top of his speed for an hour or more. He may lose a IT is a matter of common belief that drunkenness in partner who has aided him in this violent exercise, and, bathed in perspiration, he may have to stand quiescent ini women is increasing very much. This view received conrain or in cutting wind while his next partner does firmation at an inquest a few days ago touching the nothing but block balls. The same irregularity of exer- death cf Mary Zeig, aged sixty-seven, an habitual drunkard. cise, the same sudden alternation of high-pressure exer- Dr. Norman Kerr testifiei that death was due to apoplexy tion with nearly absolute inactivity, characterises the consequent on habits of intemperance. She had been fielding, to the manifest overstrain of heart and lungs, drinking three weeks continuously, and on the Friday had darticularly of the former. Football is open to much gone to a public-house and taken a quantity of rum. the same kind of objection, and competitive rowing has Dr. Kerr said he had never seen such a number of drunken it3 drawbacks. In the case of adults, and especially of women as in the Whitsun tide holidays. He had frequently those who are somewhat past their prime, not one of seen groups of four or five-some quite young-in a state these pastimes can cope with golf as a means of gently, more or less intoxicated. He could only attribute it to the systematically, and effectively evoking muscular energy hot weather. We are afraid the cause lies deeper than in and maintainivg the whole body, for a stated time, in the weather. Dr. Danford Thomas stated that he had held equable exercise. Here there is no alternation of fierce lately an increased number of inquests upon women, many exertion and semi-dormant quiescence; no sudden "spurts" comparatively young, whose death was clearly due to alcoholic excess. This kind of evidence is very serious, and emphasises or violent efforts of energy ; no heats succeeded by chills ; an evil which is about to be inquired into by a Departmental no " sharp curves " in muscular action when the limbs, stiffened by hours of disuse, are called upon for prompt Committee. The jury were affected by the representations and intense practice. Golf, moreover, requires in the of the coroner and Dr. Kerr, and urged on the Committee much exercise of judgment, of self- the urgent necessity of compulsion in the treatment of as good player quite of of steadiness, and patience under chronic inebriates. The existing law is entirely inadequate. control, pluck, as circumstances adverse any game followed out in the It is of use only to the wealthy, who can afford to go to old men and young can join retreats, and to those who have self-respect enough left to that The fact, too, open. in a match, with manifold advantage to both, is a go voluntarily. Dr. Kerr suggested the creation of a further point in its favour not scored by cricket, or rowing, special prison for the compulsory treatment of such cases. or football. The wider area over which it is played, in- It might) be called by some other name. But the sugges. and extended movement, explains tion is in the right direction and should be seriously conmore continuous volving the popularity it enjoys with robust youth and vale- sidered by the committee. The condition of our chronic tudinarian middle age alike. Mr. Lyttleton might add to inebriates, and of the laws relating to them, are disgraceful his vindication of school sports an Apologia" for golf, to us, and deserve the anxious attention of statesmen of all which could not fail to react for good, educationally and parties. hygienically, on the rising generation. Certainly in grace, THE ORGANISATION OF SCIENCE. not to say dignity, and in the postures and sway of person SPECIALISM with centralisation forms the sum and sub. it ; calls forth, it is more in harmony with the classical palestra than either of its more violent congeners-cricket stance of a short paper bearing the above title, and issued or football. with the object of introducing a new method into scientific publication. A society of investigation, says the author, MALIGNANT SMALL-POX AT NEWCASTLE: should concern itself with some one particular field of A DANGEROUS "CASUAL." research. Such institutions as the Royal. Society, with its OUR Northern Counties correspondent, in his letter this many and varied interests, are overgrown monstrosities. week, notes that a case of malignant small-pox occurred at Their function, if they are allowed to exist at all in Newcastle last week. The circumstances of the case are their present form, should be that of arranging for somewhat unusual. A sailor came from North Shields presentation to the general scientific intellect, the from the Sailors’ Home, where he had been staying, and discoveries of smaller but more active pioneer societies. presented himself for treatment amongst the casual patients The formation of a scientific literature we axe told is the waiting at the Royal Infirmary. As the case on being seen chief purpose of a society. Lectures and discussions are did not appear very clear, he was taken in and placed in a little accounted of. There is truth in this, no doubt, but ward. Examination showed that the man was suffering from it is not the whole truth, and the author adds rather incon. hsemorrhagic small-pox, and he was at once removed to the sistently a word in warm approval of what he calls informal proper hospital, where he died the next day. It appears personal discussions. He has a firm belief in London as. that the unfortunate sailor had come home from a foreign the only possible headquarters of any society, though he port and had stayed a few days at the North Shields also advocates the formation of local sections for country Sailors’ Home, where probably he passed through the members. Allindependent-i. e., non-metropolitan-associastage of incubation. We know that the malignant or tions are expected to obliterate their separate identity and haemorrhagic form of small-pox is by no means easy to become branches of a central organisation. Any preference diagnose at first, as often there are no characteristic eruptions; for an individual existence is mere esprit de valle and antagostill the whole system is as it were saturated with the nistic to the principles of scientific order. The author’s variolous poison, and death follows in from three to five pet society is evidently the Linnean. He resents ’
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will stand at the wicket for several overs and have risks of this nature from time to time. hardly any call made upon his strength or his running powers, or he may be playing a brisk game and putting on runs at INCREASED DRUNKENNESS IN WOMEN. the top of his speed for an hour or more. He may lose a IT is a matter of common belief that drunkenness in partner who has aided him in this violent exercise, and, bathed in perspiration, he may have to stand quiescent ini women is increasing very much. This view received conrain or in cutting wind while his next partner does firmation at an inquest a few days ago touching the nothing but block balls. The same irregularity of exer- death cf Mary Zeig, aged sixty-seven, an habitual drunkard. cise, the same sudden alternation of high-pressure exer- Dr. Norman Kerr testifiei that death was due to apoplexy tion with nearly absolute inactivity, characterises the consequent on habits of intemperance. She had been fielding, to the manifest overstrain of heart and lungs, drinking three weeks continuously, and on the Friday had darticularly of the former. Football is open to much gone to a public-house and taken a quantity of rum. the same kind of objection, and competitive rowing has Dr. Kerr said he had never seen such a number of drunken it3 drawbacks. In the case of adults, and especially of women as in the Whitsun tide holidays. He had frequently those who are somewhat past their prime, not one of seen groups of four or five-some quite young-in a state these pastimes can cope with golf as a means of gently, more or less intoxicated. He could only attribute it to the systematically, and effectively evoking muscular energy hot weather. We are afraid the cause lies deeper than in and maintainivg the whole body, for a stated time, in the weather. Dr. Danford Thomas stated that he had held equable exercise. Here there is no alternation of fierce lately an increased number of inquests upon women, many exertion and semi-dormant quiescence; no sudden "spurts" comparatively young, whose death was clearly due to alcoholic excess. This kind of evidence is very serious, and emphasises or violent efforts of energy ; no heats succeeded by chills ; an evil which is about to be inquired into by a Departmental no " sharp curves " in muscular action when the limbs, stiffened by hours of disuse, are called upon for prompt Committee. The jury were affected by the representations and intense practice. Golf, moreover, requires in the of the coroner and Dr. Kerr, and urged on the Committee much exercise of judgment, of self- the urgent necessity of compulsion in the treatment of as good player quite of of steadiness, and patience under chronic inebriates. The existing law is entirely inadequate. control, pluck, as circumstances adverse any game followed out in the It is of use only to the wealthy, who can afford to go to old men and young can join retreats, and to those who have self-respect enough left to that The fact, too, open. in a match, with manifold advantage to both, is a go voluntarily. Dr. Kerr suggested the creation of a further point in its favour not scored by cricket, or rowing, special prison for the compulsory treatment of such cases. or football. The wider area over which it is played, in- It might) be called by some other name. But the sugges. and extended movement, explains tion is in the right direction and should be seriously conmore continuous volving the popularity it enjoys with robust youth and vale- sidered by the committee. The condition of our chronic tudinarian middle age alike. Mr. Lyttleton might add to inebriates, and of the laws relating to them, are disgraceful his vindication of school sports an Apologia" for golf, to us, and deserve the anxious attention of statesmen of all which could not fail to react for good, educationally and parties. hygienically, on the rising generation. Certainly in grace, THE ORGANISATION OF SCIENCE. not to say dignity, and in the postures and sway of person SPECIALISM with centralisation forms the sum and sub. it ; calls forth, it is more in harmony with the classical palestra than either of its more violent congeners-cricket stance of a short paper bearing the above title, and issued or football. with the object of introducing a new method into scientific publication. A society of investigation, says the author, MALIGNANT SMALL-POX AT NEWCASTLE: should concern itself with some one particular field of A DANGEROUS "CASUAL." research. Such institutions as the Royal. Society, with its OUR Northern Counties correspondent, in his letter this many and varied interests, are overgrown monstrosities. week, notes that a case of malignant small-pox occurred at Their function, if they are allowed to exist at all in Newcastle last week. The circumstances of the case are their present form, should be that of arranging for somewhat unusual. A sailor came from North Shields presentation to the general scientific intellect, the from the Sailors’ Home, where he had been staying, and discoveries of smaller but more active pioneer societies. presented himself for treatment amongst the casual patients The formation of a scientific literature we axe told is the waiting at the Royal Infirmary. As the case on being seen chief purpose of a society. Lectures and discussions are did not appear very clear, he was taken in and placed in a little accounted of. There is truth in this, no doubt, but ward. Examination showed that the man was suffering from it is not the whole truth, and the author adds rather incon. hsemorrhagic small-pox, and he was at once removed to the sistently a word in warm approval of what he calls informal proper hospital, where he died the next day. It appears personal discussions. He has a firm belief in London as. that the unfortunate sailor had come home from a foreign the only possible headquarters of any society, though he port and had stayed a few days at the North Shields also advocates the formation of local sections for country Sailors’ Home, where probably he passed through the members. Allindependent-i. e., non-metropolitan-associastage of incubation. We know that the malignant or tions are expected to obliterate their separate identity and haemorrhagic form of small-pox is by no means easy to become branches of a central organisation. Any preference diagnose at first, as often there are no characteristic eruptions; for an individual existence is mere esprit de valle and antagostill the whole system is as it were saturated with the nistic to the principles of scientific order. The author’s variolous poison, and death follows in from three to five pet society is evidently the Linnean. He resents ’
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