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INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN ENGLAND AND WALES DURING THE WEEK ENDED SEPT. 19TH, 1931.
OBITUARY.-THE SERVICES.
and three women were treated by induced malaria and 14 men and one woman by intramuscular injections of colloidal sulphur. No benefit was found after sulphur in dementia praecox, and it is yet too
to estimate its effects in general paralysis. The results of early ultra-violet ray treatment were disappointing. Parole was granted to as many patients as possible, and over 65 per cent. were kept usefully employed, mostly in the grounds, wards, or hospital services. Of the nursing staff 67-6 per cent. The adjoining now hold the R.M.P.A. certificate. fever hospital with grounds of n acres was taken over by the Mental Hospitals’ Committee towards the end of last year. The nurses’ home there will provide accommodation for 100 nurses and the five detached blocks are to be used for some 200 women patients. GLOUCESTER had 1237 patients in residence at its COUNTY AND CITY MENTAL HOSPITALS at WOTTON and CONEY HILL at the end of last year. Consideration is being given to means of reducing the present overcrowding. The recovery-rate was 34 96 per cent. and the death-rate 5 49 per cent. These excellent
early
are ascribed by the medical superintendent to the improvement in diet and hygiene of recent years, and also to the higher standard of nursing. The hospital gardens supplied an exceptionally large quantity of fresh fruit for the patients. The general health was good ; there were four cases of enteric, five of erysipelas, two of scarlet fever, two of diphtheria, and nine .of pulmonary tuberculosis. The system of parole has been extended, but is only allowed to men. An out-patient clinic has been opened at the Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary. A pharmacist and a trained laboratory assistant have been appointed, together with a complete staff of visiting specialists. General paralysis is now being treated with malaria. Every effortis made to keep the patients usefully employed ; 592 were working during the year in the service of the hospital. A canteen has been opened and has proved self-supporting. During the year 10 men and 15 women nurses obtained their R.M.P.A. certificate, bringing the total certificated to 40 men and 36 women.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN ENGLAND AND WALES DURING THE WEEK ENDED
SEPT. 19TH, 1931. VocaMoM.—The following cases of infectious disease were notified during the week : Small-pox, 45 (last week 19); scarlet fever, 1750 ; diphtheria, 948 ; enteric fever, 43 ; pneumonia, 583 ; puerperal fever, 27 ; puerperal pyrexia, 116 ; cerebro-spinal fever, 24 ; acute poliomyelitis, 7 ; acute polio-encephalitis, 3 ; encephalitis lethargica, 14 ; dysentery, 51 ; ophthalmia neonatorum, 98. No case of cholera, plague, or typhus fever was notified during the week.
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OBITUARY MARK PURCELL MAYO COLLIER, M.S. Lond., F.R.C.S. Eng.
Mr. Mayo Collier, who died on Sept. 20th at the age of 74, had retired from active practice a good many years ago, and had made his home at Kearsney Abbey, in Kent. He was the son of G. F. Collier, physician-in-ordinary to George IV. and William IV., and was educated at Godolphin Grammar School, Hammersmith, University College, London, and St. Thomas’s Hospital. Qualifying as L.S.A. in 1878 he went to the Turko-Russian war in medical charge of the Dardanelles expedition. Returning to England he held a number of resident posts at St. Thomas’s Hospital, graduated as M.B. with honours in 1881, and was appointed surgeon to the throat and ear department at the North-West London Hospital. At one time he was also assistant demonstrator of anatomy and physiology at the London Hospital Medical College, and later, in 1889, he was professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons. His various interests expressed themselves in a book on the " Physiology of the Vascular System " and in research on the mechanism of the heart beat (1887), as well as in numerous papers on general surgery. He soon joined the full surgical staff of the NorthWest London Hospital, but remained in charge of his old department and paid close attention to his specialty. He held office as president of the British Laryngological Society some 30 years ago, and was elected an honorary member of similar societies abroad. At the same time his outlook was unusually broad, and comprised many branches of medicine besides the one he made his own. As an author he collaborated with Morell Mackenzie in a book on " The Hygiene of the Vocal Organs," and with Lennox Browne in " Diseases of the Throat and Nose." His independent work included studies of mouth breathing, progressive deafness, and intermittent nasal obstruction. Mr. Collier married, in 1901, Florence, daughter of the late Dr. Spooner Hart, of Calcutta, and Corowa, New South Wales. She survives him.
THE
SERVICES
ROYAL NAVAL MEDICAL SERVICE. The number of cases in the Infectious Hospitals of the z’ London County Council on Sept. 22nd-23rd was as follows :e ’, Lt.-Comdr. A. G. Bee to be Surg.-Comdr. Surg. Small-pox, 55 under treatment, 5 under observation (last Surg. Lts. E. T. S. Rudd and R. C. Foster to be Surg. week 43 and 3 respectively) ; scarlet fever, 1184 ; diphtheria, Lt.-Comdrs. enteric fever, 15 ; measles, 95 ; whooping-cough, 1350 ; ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE. 357 ; puerperal fever, 15 (plus 10 babies) ; encephalitis Surg. Lt. F. M. B. Allen to be Surg. Lt.-Comdr. lethargica, 215 ; poliomyelitis, 9 ; " other diseases," 94. Surg. Sub-Lt. C. P. Collins to be Surg. Lt. At St. Margaret’s Hospital there were 16 babies (plus 12 The following appts. are notified: Surg. Lt.-Comdrs. with neonatorum. mothers) ophthalmia G. F. Abercrombie to Malaya, and St. G. B. D. Gray to
Deaths.-In the aggregate of great towns, including London, there was no death from small-pox, 2 (1) Repulse. ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. from enteric fever, 10 (1) from measles, 3 (0) from Maj. E. C. Lambkin retires on retd. pay. scarlet fever, 21 (4) from whooping-cough, 25 (1) Lt. E. F. Hunt relinquishes his temp. commn. from diphtheria, 44 (8) from diarrhoea and enteritis under two years, and 27 (5) from influenza. The REGULAR ARMY RESERVE OF OFFICERS. figures in parentheses are those for London itself. Lt.-Gen. Sir T. H. John C. Goodwin, K.C.B., C.M.G., The fatal
case of enteric fever outside London occurred at Two deaths from measles were reported at Four fatal cases of whooping-cough occurred at Liverpool, 3 at Manchester, and 2 each at Birmingham and Newcastle-on-Tyne. Liverpool and Leeds each reported 4 deaths from diphtheria, Halifax 2. Diarrhoea was credited with 6 deaths at Liverpool, 4 at Hull, and 3 at Bolton.
Norwich. Bradford.
The number of stillbirths notified during the week was 277 (corresponding to a rate of 43 per 1000 births), including 53 in London.
D.S.O., liability
late R.A.M.C., having attained the age limit of to recall, ceases to belong to the Res. of Off. TERRITORIAL ARMY.
Lt. J. D. Robertson to be
Capt.
INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE. Lts. E. A. R. Ardeshir and P. L. O’Neill to be
Capts’
-
(prov.).
Lt.-Col. J. V. MacDonald retires
on
account of ill-health.
and three women were treated by induced malaria and 14 men and one woman by intramuscular injections of colloidal sulphur. No benefit was found after sulphur in dementia praecox, and it is yet too
to estimate its effects in general paralysis. The results of early ultra-violet ray treatment were disappointing. Parole was granted to as many patients as possible, and over 65 per cent. were kept usefully employed, mostly in the grounds, wards, or hospital services. Of the nursing staff 67-6 per cent. The adjoining now hold the R.M.P.A. certificate. fever hospital with grounds of n acres was taken over by the Mental Hospitals’ Committee towards the end of last year. The nurses’ home there will provide accommodation for 100 nurses and the five detached blocks are to be used for some 200 women patients. GLOUCESTER had 1237 patients in residence at its COUNTY AND CITY MENTAL HOSPITALS at WOTTON and CONEY HILL at the end of last year. Consideration is being given to means of reducing the present overcrowding. The recovery-rate was 34 96 per cent. and the death-rate 5 49 per cent. These excellent
early
are ascribed by the medical superintendent to the improvement in diet and hygiene of recent years, and also to the higher standard of nursing. The hospital gardens supplied an exceptionally large quantity of fresh fruit for the patients. The general health was good ; there were four cases of enteric, five of erysipelas, two of scarlet fever, two of diphtheria, and nine .of pulmonary tuberculosis. The system of parole has been extended, but is only allowed to men. An out-patient clinic has been opened at the Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary. A pharmacist and a trained laboratory assistant have been appointed, together with a complete staff of visiting specialists. General paralysis is now being treated with malaria. Every effortis made to keep the patients usefully employed ; 592 were working during the year in the service of the hospital. A canteen has been opened and has proved self-supporting. During the year 10 men and 15 women nurses obtained their R.M.P.A. certificate, bringing the total certificated to 40 men and 36 women.
figures
INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN ENGLAND AND WALES DURING THE WEEK ENDED
SEPT. 19TH, 1931. VocaMoM.—The following cases of infectious disease were notified during the week : Small-pox, 45 (last week 19); scarlet fever, 1750 ; diphtheria, 948 ; enteric fever, 43 ; pneumonia, 583 ; puerperal fever, 27 ; puerperal pyrexia, 116 ; cerebro-spinal fever, 24 ; acute poliomyelitis, 7 ; acute polio-encephalitis, 3 ; encephalitis lethargica, 14 ; dysentery, 51 ; ophthalmia neonatorum, 98. No case of cholera, plague, or typhus fever was notified during the week.
767
OBITUARY MARK PURCELL MAYO COLLIER, M.S. Lond., F.R.C.S. Eng.
Mr. Mayo Collier, who died on Sept. 20th at the age of 74, had retired from active practice a good many years ago, and had made his home at Kearsney Abbey, in Kent. He was the son of G. F. Collier, physician-in-ordinary to George IV. and William IV., and was educated at Godolphin Grammar School, Hammersmith, University College, London, and St. Thomas’s Hospital. Qualifying as L.S.A. in 1878 he went to the Turko-Russian war in medical charge of the Dardanelles expedition. Returning to England he held a number of resident posts at St. Thomas’s Hospital, graduated as M.B. with honours in 1881, and was appointed surgeon to the throat and ear department at the North-West London Hospital. At one time he was also assistant demonstrator of anatomy and physiology at the London Hospital Medical College, and later, in 1889, he was professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons. His various interests expressed themselves in a book on the " Physiology of the Vascular System " and in research on the mechanism of the heart beat (1887), as well as in numerous papers on general surgery. He soon joined the full surgical staff of the NorthWest London Hospital, but remained in charge of his old department and paid close attention to his specialty. He held office as president of the British Laryngological Society some 30 years ago, and was elected an honorary member of similar societies abroad. At the same time his outlook was unusually broad, and comprised many branches of medicine besides the one he made his own. As an author he collaborated with Morell Mackenzie in a book on " The Hygiene of the Vocal Organs," and with Lennox Browne in " Diseases of the Throat and Nose." His independent work included studies of mouth breathing, progressive deafness, and intermittent nasal obstruction. Mr. Collier married, in 1901, Florence, daughter of the late Dr. Spooner Hart, of Calcutta, and Corowa, New South Wales. She survives him.
THE
SERVICES
ROYAL NAVAL MEDICAL SERVICE. The number of cases in the Infectious Hospitals of the z’ London County Council on Sept. 22nd-23rd was as follows :e ’, Lt.-Comdr. A. G. Bee to be Surg.-Comdr. Surg. Small-pox, 55 under treatment, 5 under observation (last Surg. Lts. E. T. S. Rudd and R. C. Foster to be Surg. week 43 and 3 respectively) ; scarlet fever, 1184 ; diphtheria, Lt.-Comdrs. enteric fever, 15 ; measles, 95 ; whooping-cough, 1350 ; ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE. 357 ; puerperal fever, 15 (plus 10 babies) ; encephalitis Surg. Lt. F. M. B. Allen to be Surg. Lt.-Comdr. lethargica, 215 ; poliomyelitis, 9 ; " other diseases," 94. Surg. Sub-Lt. C. P. Collins to be Surg. Lt. At St. Margaret’s Hospital there were 16 babies (plus 12 The following appts. are notified: Surg. Lt.-Comdrs. with neonatorum. mothers) ophthalmia G. F. Abercrombie to Malaya, and St. G. B. D. Gray to
Deaths.-In the aggregate of great towns, including London, there was no death from small-pox, 2 (1) Repulse. ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. from enteric fever, 10 (1) from measles, 3 (0) from Maj. E. C. Lambkin retires on retd. pay. scarlet fever, 21 (4) from whooping-cough, 25 (1) Lt. E. F. Hunt relinquishes his temp. commn. from diphtheria, 44 (8) from diarrhoea and enteritis under two years, and 27 (5) from influenza. The REGULAR ARMY RESERVE OF OFFICERS. figures in parentheses are those for London itself. Lt.-Gen. Sir T. H. John C. Goodwin, K.C.B., C.M.G., The fatal
case of enteric fever outside London occurred at Two deaths from measles were reported at Four fatal cases of whooping-cough occurred at Liverpool, 3 at Manchester, and 2 each at Birmingham and Newcastle-on-Tyne. Liverpool and Leeds each reported 4 deaths from diphtheria, Halifax 2. Diarrhoea was credited with 6 deaths at Liverpool, 4 at Hull, and 3 at Bolton.
Norwich. Bradford.
The number of stillbirths notified during the week was 277 (corresponding to a rate of 43 per 1000 births), including 53 in London.
D.S.O., liability
late R.A.M.C., having attained the age limit of to recall, ceases to belong to the Res. of Off. TERRITORIAL ARMY.
Lt. J. D. Robertson to be
Capt.
INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE. Lts. E. A. R. Ardeshir and P. L. O’Neill to be
Capts’
-
(prov.).
Lt.-Col. J. V. MacDonald retires
on
account of ill-health.