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141 Natural History, who had been aiready superannuated, has been allowed by the Minister of Public Instruction to retain The first annual meeting of the subscribers to this institu- office for another period of five years. Paris, Jan. 15th, 1884. tion was held last week. The report of the medical staff for the past year showed that the cases treated amounted to 331, and included patients suffering from consumption, INDIA. Of 126 cases of consumption, bronchitis, asthma, &e. in fifteen the disease was arrested ; but in the greater numa (From Correspondent.)) ber of patients suffering from this affection the disease had advanced too far to hope for more than alleviation. ConTHE GERMAN CHOLERA COMMISSION. sumption is a disease very prevalent in Belfast, and for with Dr. von Koch as the chief, was to have landed THIS, many years its steady increase has been a subject of con- in Bombay about the middle of November last (and I prosiderable anxiety. The conditions under which the linen trade is so largely carried on in Belfast, and the dampness ceeded to Bombay to meet it, and to watch its proceedof the place, appear to be important factors in the large ings), but as there was no cholera in Bombay Dr. Koch and increase of cases of chest diseases. In the Ballymacarrett his colleagues went to Calcutta by sea direct. The Indian district alone the number of deaths for the past year from MedicalGazette (Dec.) says that Dr. Koch and his comthis cause amounted to upwards of 300. Of course every are coming straight to Calcutta. ST. KEVIN’S CHURCHYARD, DUBLIN. be offered them for will facility prosecuting their researches Dr. MacCabe, Local Government Board Inspector, held in the home of cholera. an inquiry last week, on the application of the Public THE ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION. Committee, to have this graveyard closed against Dr. Balfour of Bombay, to whom is due the credit of further interments, on the ground that it was overcrowded, and was a source of danger to the health of those residing setting this movement on foot, and under whom ambulance in the locality. Evidence in favour of closing the graveyard classes are now being held there, has issued a Maharatta translation of Prof. Esmarch’s " First Aid to the Inwas given by Drs. Cameron and Mapother, and, the inquiry a Dr. will in due course forward MacCabe jured," which he has, with permission, dedicated to Sir concluded, having James Fergusson, Governor of Bombay. report to the Local Government Board. An election for a medical officer to the Ballineen DispenTHE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF BOMBAY. sary took place last week, but there having been recorded an A monthly meeting of this Society was held in the Uniequal number of votes for Messrs. Neville and Leirs, a fresh versity Hall in Bombay on Nov. 7th last, the chair being election will have to take place. Dr. Vandyke Carter. Notes of a "Case of Mrs. Stoney has given a donation to the City of Dublin occupied by with Remarks," were read by Dr. Lucas; Intussusception, Hospital of a number of ophthalmic instruments, the pro- and a paper on " The Value of Kairin," by Dr. Kirtikar. perty of her husband, the late Dr. Loftie Stoney, ophthal- In the discussion which followed some very interesting and mic surgeon to the hospital. instructive remarks fell from the chairman. Dr. O’Connor, medical officer of the Limerick Workhouse, AN ASSISTANT HEALTH OFFICER FOR BOMBAY. has sent in his resignation. There are already five candidates in the field for the vacancy. At the instance of Dr. Blanc, member of the Municipal Dublin, Jan. 15th, 1884. Corporation, the Assistant Health Officership of Bombay, which was formerly held by a layman, is now divided into two posts, the holder of one of which must be a medical PARIS. man. The salary for these appointments is to be four hundred rupees per mensem, rising in course of years to six (From our Paris Correspondent.) hundred rupees. In consequence of the small pay it is very DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE IN AID OF HOSPITAL FUNDS. unlikely that any member of the Indian Medical Service himself as a candidate, and therefore it will proA RATHER novel means of raising money for benevolent to a nat’ve local medical graduate. It would seem bably go purposes was tried at the Hopital Saint Louis on Saturday a the corporation should not be brought to think last. The internes of the hospital got up an amateur it essential to offer a decent remuneration to obtain the " "opera bouffe in three acts, accompanied with appropriate services of some member of the Indian Service well up in scenery, and composed by themselves, for the benefit of the hygiene and sanitary engineering. The special training and patients of the hospital. The performance took place in the education of the school at Netley, it would seem, are not new pavilion that was lately annexed to the institution, in availed of to secure a competent colleague for the hardthe presence of about 400 persons. The troupe included worked health officer, Dr. Weir. It is to be hoped that the some of the first artistes of Paris, as well as amateur per- matter will receive reconsideration, and that it will be formers selected from among the internes of the hospital. made worth the while of a good and able man to seek The piece was entitled "Louis IX,, Opera polymorphe," and the post, and to devote his whole time and full energy to the sanitation of such an immense city as Bombay. It was well arranged, the performance being wound up by a ballet, followed by an apotheosis representing different must be remembered that the assistant health officer he categories of patients. The affair was a great success, and would by virtue of the experience gained, and provided be an accomplished and hard-working sanitarian, be the no less than 7000 francs were realised on the occasion. fittest man to succeed, either temporarily or permanently, to PROFESSOR DAMASCHINO. the higher office. It would be well perhaps for the authoA banquet was given on Friday last to Prof. Damaschino rities to do away with the office of lay assistant health officer; roy his friends and pupils, on the occasion of his recent; by this means funds would become available to offer the nomination to the Professorship of Medical Pathology necessary inducement to an Indian medical officer. at the Paris School of Medicine. The banquet was presided over by Prof. Gavarret, the guest of the evening DR. CORNISH, CIVIL SURGEON-GENERAL, AS MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF THE GOVERNOR being on his right, and Senator Bardou, former Minister OF MADRAS. of Public Instruction, on his left. Appropriate toasts were The Madras Mail thus remarks on this new appointand and off in the ; proposed responded to, everything passed ment :-" The appointment comes with peculiarly good most cordial manner. grace from the grandson of that Sir Whitelaw Ainslie, M.D., HONOURS TO MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH CHOLERA who was upwards of half a century ago head of the Madras MISSION. Medical Department, and the Council will be strengthened Dr. Straus, agrégé of the Faculty of Medicine, and Dr. in public estimation by the presence at its meetings of a Nocard, Professor of the Veterinary School at Alfort, have beeni well-known and much-respected public officer, who has given nominated Chevaliers of the Legion of Honour for theirr abundant proof of talent, honesty, and independence. At zeal and for the service they have rendered to science duringEr long intervals and in a very grudging manner, Companiontheir mission to Egypt to study the etiology of cholera. ships of the Bath, the Star of India, and the Indian Empire M. Frémy, Professor of Chemistry at the Museum oiIf have been bestowed upon military doctors, but there is no HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, BELFAST.

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142 instance on record of the Indian knighthood having been conferred on an Indian doctor. Mr. Grant Duff has now established a precedent which may set other Governors thinking that a mam who is a competent surgeon-general may also prove a competent legislator. The Madras Medical Service cannot fail to appreciate as a personal and departmental compliment the unique honour that has been conferred on the Hon. the Surgeon-General." THE BANGALORE MURDER.

Obituary. WILLIAM DEPUTY

FASKEN, M.D., R.N.,

INSPECTOR-GENERAL,

RETIRED LIST.

DR. FASKEN was born in 1819 at Madras, the son of W. Fasken, M. D., Madras Artillery, which service he entered after the peace with France, having served nine years with

a brutal outrage was perpetrated the Peninsular Army. The subject of our notice was educated European woman in the streets at night. at Udney Academy, Aberdeenshire, under Dr. Bissitt, and The form of murder is as revolting as it is peculiarly Oriental. proceeded to Marischal College, Aberdeen, where he obtained A stick-presumably a walking-stick-was violently thrust a bursary for five years for his proficiency in the classics. into the vagina, thereby rupturing not only the parts about the He then went to the University of Edinburgh, at which he organs of generation, but also the more vital parts, the took a high position in the medical classes, and passed for viscera; the cause of death being haemorrhage. It is surgeon in 1840, and took the degree of M.D. in 1841. believed that the dastardly culprits were natives (Maho- Continuing his medical studies two years he then entered medans), but no trace of them has been brought to light. the Royal Navy, in 1843, and was promoted to surgeon’s rank in 1859, to staff-surgeon 1866, to fleet surgeon 1872, and to Deputy Inspector-General, on retirement, in 1875. His career had been retarded by retrospective Orders in Council MEDICAL " LOG " OF A VOYAGE affecting prejudicially the appointment he was holding. Dr. OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP. Fasken’s first appointment was to the West Indian station, the home of yellow fever, where he completed two years, (By a Correspondent.)

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which made him familiar with that scourge of our seamen. extensive emigration has been On his return he was rewarded with six months’ service at Plymouth Hospital, from which he was appointed to H.M.S. on between the Azores and the Sandwich Islands in the Mediterranean, and was senior assistant Bellerophon, in the former. On owing to the failure of the orange crops surgeon of her during the alarming visitation of the cholera. Aug. 30th last the steamship Bell Rock sailed from St. to the fleet in 1850, by which his ship was one of the principal Michael’s with 1465 Portuguese emigrants, under the sufferers. For his conspicuous service on that occasion he medical charge of Dr. C. C. Fitzsimon, arriving at hono- was appointed to the Royal Marines and Melville Hospital lulu on Oct. 31st, the distance run being nearly 13,000 at Chatham, where he served nine years. On leaving there miles. The utmost attention to sanitary arrangements was he went to the Australian station as surgeon of the Fawn, observed throughout the voyage, and perfect order and and was subsequently staff-surgeon of the Terrible and fleet, discipline maintained. The provisons were excellent ; the surgeon of the Monarch, and finally the chief medical officer., diet scale liberal; and 2000 gallons of water were condensed of Portsmouth Yard until his final retirement. daily. All those unvaccinated were vaccinated as soon as In every position Dr. Fasken was respected for his attainments and beloved for his urbanity, and, above all, for possible after arrival on board. Of the 1465 emigrants 564 his were children, whose ages averaged from four days to twelve unwearying attentions to the wants and best interests years. A large proportion were infants under one year, of the sick under his charge, towards whom he displayed these, as a rule, being very puny and delicate. It was the higher qualifications of the truly Christian character noted afterwards that nearly all the children were literally with which he was endowed. Through many years his infested with round worms. Ten days after leaving St. physical power was enfeebled by a painful articular affecMichael’s-acase of measles broke out, followed twelve days tion, which, however, in no wise caused him to defer or later on by another ; in all 49 cases occurred, and the depute his personal duties. Among his testimonials he average period of incubation was found to be eleven days. valued none so highly as an illuminated one, accompanying Several of the cases were complicated with severe at- a salver, tea and coffee service, and a clock, presented by the tacks of bronchitis and pneumonia. There were, however, artificers and police of H.M. Dockyard at Portsmouth on no deaths. Five children were born during the voyage. the expiration of his term of service in medical charge. Dr. Fasken leaves two representatives in the profession he Five deaths were also registered : one old man, aged sixtyseven, from chronic peritonitis ; and four infants (under one loved so much, the elder a surgeon-major in the Indian year), two from marasmus, one from diarrhcea, and one from a service, who feel deeply their bereavement of so worthy and tumour in the brain. The following is a list of the principal respected a guide and exemplar, who was called away on. diseases that occurred during the voyage, exclusive of sea- Oct. Ilth, 1883. sickness :-Abscess (all kinds), 28 ; ulcers, 18 ; wounds, 9 ;

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contusions, 12; sprains, 4; whitlow, 4 ; boils, 18; simple erythemata, 12; erysipelas, 3 ; urticaria, 5 ;lichen tropicus, 28 ; eczema, 14 ; ringworm, 26 ; measles 49 ; febricula, 6 ; rheumatism (muscular), 10; epilepsy, 1; convulsions, 5; hysteria, 6 ; marasmus, 4 ; general debility, 8 ; ansemia, 5 ; secondary syphilis, 4 ; bubo, 5 ; gonorrhoea, 6 ; orchitis, 3 ; paraphimosis, 2; hydrocele, 3; laryngitis, 1; pharyngitis, 2 ; tonsillitis, 8 ; phthisis, 3; pneumonia (acute), 8 ; bronchitis, 18; pleuro-pneumonia, 3; burns and scalds, 14; fracture of femur, 1; miscarriage, 2 ; menorrhagia, 4; bursitis of knee, 1 ; tumour of brain, 1; obstruction of bowels, 1; rickets, 1 ; cyst of neck, 3; goitre, 1; hip disease, 1 ; neuralgia, 5 ; conjunctivitis (catarrhal and purulent), 21. On arrival at Honolulu, the medical officer was presented with a handsome testimonial by the emigrants, and was also warmly congratulated by the authorities on the exceptionally low mortality. His majesty King Kalakua also visited the steamer, and expressed himself well satisfied with the arrangements.

THE ROGERS TESTIMONIAL. To the Editor of THE LANCET. SiR,—Will you kindly insert the enclosed eleventh list of and oblige,yours truly, subscriptions in subscriptions in this week’s LANCET, and oblige, truly, J. WICKHAM BARNES. Poor-law Medical Officers’ Officers’ Association, Association, 3, Bolt-court, this

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Norton, Esq., John-st., Bedford-row, £22s.; Dr. Henry Drinkwater, Sunderland, £1Is.; Dr. Montague Thomas, Nottingham-place, Regent’s-park, £1Is.; City of London Infirmary, £1Is.; F. Sadd, Esq., Rugby, £1Is.; Dr. Irvine.Milne, Shipdham, Norfolk, jElIs.; Dr. Milsome, Addlestone, 10s. 6d. ; Dr. Robert Tiffen, Wigton, 10s. 6d. ; Dr. Lush, Fyfield, Andover, 10s. 6d. ; E. Snell, Esq., Ketton, Stamford, 10s.; Dr. Turtle, Woodford, 10s.; W. Moore, Esq., Stourport, 10s.; Dr. Nicholas, Church-row, Wandsworth, 10s.; George Harrison, Esq., Whitefriars, Chester, 5s.;. C.Read, Esq., Stradbroke, 5s.; Dr. T. J. Hughes, Woolwich, 5s. ; Dr. R. T. Jones, Harlech, 5s.; Dr. E. T. Thompson, Wolston, Coventry, 5s. ; W. Arras, Esq., Wetheral, 5s. ; H. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.—The Special Board Horton, Esq., Bromyard, Worcester, 5s. for Medicine have issued for the guidance of students proceeding to medical and surgical degrees a schedule defining the HOSPITAL SUNDAY IN LIVERPOOL.-The collection range of the examination in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, copies of which may be obtained at the Ana- for hospitals in Liverpool was taken last Sunday. It is too-

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