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The late Dr. D. J. Leeeh. Manchester has suffered stroke upon stroke of late from the hand of death, and the medical profession is left much the poorer by the loss of a physician so able, so conscientious, and so universally respected as Dr. Leech. His painful illness was borne with fortitude and resignation touching to witness in one whom we had known for years as an almost perfect illustration of strength and energy, of the sound mind in a sound body. It is remarkable that three, if not four, members of the infirmary staff should have fallen victims one after the other to some form of the same disease.
July 10th.
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SCOTLAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) The Public Health Congress, Aberdeen. THE official programme now issued shows that the proceedings of the Congress of Public Health to be held at Aberdeen will last from August 2nd to 7th inclusive. The patron of the Institute (the Royal Institute of Public Health) is Her Majesty the Queen. Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Secretary for Scotland, is patron of the Congress and Lord Aberdeen is the president, while Lord Provost Fleming (Aberdeen) is the honorary president. Professor W. R. Smith, M.D. Aterd., D.Sc., F.R.S.Edin. (London), is the president of the Institute and Mr. Henry C. Jones (197, High Holborn, London, W.C.), is the honorary secretary ; Professor Matthew Hay, M.D. (Aberdeen), and Mr. Kenneth Cameron (chief sanitary inspector, Aberdeen), are the honorary secretaries of the Congress. The various sectional presidents are as follows :-Preventive Medicine and Vital Statistics section: Dr. W. J. Simpson, Professor of Hygiene, King’s College, London. Bacteriology and Comparative Pathology section : Dr. D. J. Hamilton, Professor of Pathology, University of Aberdeen. Chemistry and Meteorology section: Dr. C. Hunter Stewart, Professor of Public Health, University of Edinburgh. Architecture and Engineering section : Mr. John Honeyman, R.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., architect, Glasgow. Municipal and Parliamentary Hygiene section: Dr. Robert Farquharson, M.P. The various conferences will meet in Marischal College, commencing on Monday, August 6th, at 11 A.M. The president of the Medical Officers of Health Conference will be Dr. John C. McVail, medical officer of the counties of Stirling and Dumbarton ; of the Sanitary Inspectors’ Conference, Mr. Peter Fyfe, F.R.S.Edin., chief sanitary inspector of Glasgow; of the Veterinary Surgeons’ Conference, Mr. W. Williams, F.R.C.V.S., principal of the New
members to the statement that part of the Mourne range of mountains had been scheduled as a portion of the area over which the summer military manoeuvres are to becon. ducted, and that this part so specified actually included the catchment area purchased by the Belfast Water Commissioners. The Water Commissioners have (or will shortly have) paid a million of money in connexion with this scheme, and in order to ensure the purity of their catchment area they had bought it up, minerals and all. Very naturally the Water Commissioners, seeing what has taken place recently in Africa, protest very strongly against any risk of their catchment area being in any way interfered with owing to the great risk of the sanitary conditions accompanying an army in the field, and they call upon the Belfast Members of Parliament and the city corporation to use their influence to prevent such an occurrence taking place as their catchment area being made a camping ground for military manoeuvres. Some years ago, the Commissioners having restrained the colonel of a regi. ment stationed in Belfast from washing his dogs in one of their reservoirs, that military authority in martial dudgeon refused to allow the regimental band to play any more in the pleasure grounds of the waterworks, whereupon the Commissioners were much blamed by the Press for needlessly interfering with the recreations of the people. The Press, however, it is hoped now will uphold the Commissioners in their rightful efforts to prevent defilement of their catchment area at the Mourne Mountains.
North of Ireland Branch of the British Medical Association. The twenty-second annual meeting of the North of Ireland Branch of the British Medical Association was held in the town-hall, Portrush, on July 5tb. From the annual reports it appears that the society is in a most flourishing condition, there being 271 members, of whom 153 are country and 118 from Belfast. Financially there is a balance in the treasurer’s hands of &13 18s. 9½d. The following office-bearers for 1900-1901 were then elected :-President : Professor Byers. Vice-Presidents: Dr. J. S. Darling (Lurgan) and Professor Lindsay. Secretary : Dr. W. Calwell. Treasurer: Dr. George Gray (Newcastle). Members of Council-Country : Dr. E. C. Thompson (Omagh), Dr. J. Stuart (Bally mena), Dr. J. C. Martin (Portrush), Dr. J. C. Hall (Monaghan), Mr. St. George (Fishburn), Dr. Agnew (Lurgan), Mr. R. Gray (Armagh), and Dr. D. Gaussen (Dunmurry). Belfast members : Dr. John Campbell, Dr. A. Dempsey, Professor Sinclair, Dr. M’Kisack, Professor Whitla, Dr. McCaw, Dr. E. C. Bigger, and Dr. A. B. Mitchell. The President (Dr. J. C. Martin) read an interesting paper on Portrush from a Medical Point of View. The Samaritan Hospital, Belfast. A summer f 6te and fancy fair was held at Norwood Tower, Belfast (kindly lent by the ladies and gentlemen of the Veterinary College, Edinburgh. Henderson family who placed their beautiful grounds at the The Illness of Professor Ogston of Aberdeen University. of the undertaking), on July 6th of the disposal A telegram from South Africa recently received in and 7th. The promoters was to clear off a debt from the object Aberdeen stated that Professor Ogston’s illness was enteric Samaritan Dr. St. Clair Boyd, one of the surgeons Hospital. fever, that he was still a patient in hospital at Bloemfontein, to the hospital, has offered in the most generous manner to but was progressing favourably. be responsible for any deficiency in case the debt is not July 10th. cleared off. A sum of about &300 has been raised.
July 10th.
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IRELAND. (FROM
OUR OWN
CORRESPONDENTS.)
(FROM Principal llTediacl Offleer in Ireland. DURING the absence on leave extending to August 4th of the Principal Medical Officer in Ireland his duties will be performed by Lieutenant-Colonel F. G. Adye-Carran, Royal Army Medical Corps. The Hospital at Bloemfontein. In connexion with the treatment of the sick and wounded at Bloemfontein it is interesting to note that the Raadzaal (Parliament House) there has been converted into a hospital and is under the charge of Colonel W. W. Kenny, R.A.M.C., well known in Dublin. Under him are Surgeon Henry Moore of the City of Dublin Hospital (a volunteer), Lieutenant Archer, R.A.M.C. (also from Ireland), with Surgeon Williams of London. Eight nursing sisters are attached to the hospital in addition to the usual staff of orderlies. Military Mccnceuvres and the Belfast TYater-s1tpply. At a meeting of the Belfast Water Commissioners on July 5th attention was publicly called by one of the
OUR
PARIS. OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The Last Lecture of Professor Potain. ON Tuesday, July 3rd, at 10 A.M., Professor Potain in the theatre of the Charity Hospital gave his last lecture upon Clinical Medicine. The rules as to age limit are inflexible. Hospital physicians must retire at the age of 65 years and hospital surgeons at 62. If, however, the physician is also professor in a clinic he may hold his appointment up to the age of 70 years, and if he is a member of the institute he may continue until he reaches the age of 75 years. Professor Potain, who is 75 years of age, has thus gone to the extreme limit which his accumulated offices allow, and he resigns his chair while still in full possession of his faculties and enriched by his long experience. Few medical careers have been so worthy as that of the venerable professor. A consummate clinician whose labours on diseases of the heart and lungs have gained him a world-wide reputation ; an exemplary professor who for 30 years without a break took up his parable before an audience composed of listeners of every
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The late Dr. D. J. Leeeh. Manchester has suffered stroke upon stroke of late from the hand of death, and the medical profession is left much the poorer by the loss of a physician so able, so conscientious, and so universally respected as Dr. Leech. His painful illness was borne with fortitude and resignation touching to witness in one whom we had known for years as an almost perfect illustration of strength and energy, of the sound mind in a sound body. It is remarkable that three, if not four, members of the infirmary staff should have fallen victims one after the other to some form of the same disease.
July 10th.
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SCOTLAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) The Public Health Congress, Aberdeen. THE official programme now issued shows that the proceedings of the Congress of Public Health to be held at Aberdeen will last from August 2nd to 7th inclusive. The patron of the Institute (the Royal Institute of Public Health) is Her Majesty the Queen. Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Secretary for Scotland, is patron of the Congress and Lord Aberdeen is the president, while Lord Provost Fleming (Aberdeen) is the honorary president. Professor W. R. Smith, M.D. Aterd., D.Sc., F.R.S.Edin. (London), is the president of the Institute and Mr. Henry C. Jones (197, High Holborn, London, W.C.), is the honorary secretary ; Professor Matthew Hay, M.D. (Aberdeen), and Mr. Kenneth Cameron (chief sanitary inspector, Aberdeen), are the honorary secretaries of the Congress. The various sectional presidents are as follows :-Preventive Medicine and Vital Statistics section: Dr. W. J. Simpson, Professor of Hygiene, King’s College, London. Bacteriology and Comparative Pathology section : Dr. D. J. Hamilton, Professor of Pathology, University of Aberdeen. Chemistry and Meteorology section: Dr. C. Hunter Stewart, Professor of Public Health, University of Edinburgh. Architecture and Engineering section : Mr. John Honeyman, R.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., architect, Glasgow. Municipal and Parliamentary Hygiene section: Dr. Robert Farquharson, M.P. The various conferences will meet in Marischal College, commencing on Monday, August 6th, at 11 A.M. The president of the Medical Officers of Health Conference will be Dr. John C. McVail, medical officer of the counties of Stirling and Dumbarton ; of the Sanitary Inspectors’ Conference, Mr. Peter Fyfe, F.R.S.Edin., chief sanitary inspector of Glasgow; of the Veterinary Surgeons’ Conference, Mr. W. Williams, F.R.C.V.S., principal of the New
members to the statement that part of the Mourne range of mountains had been scheduled as a portion of the area over which the summer military manoeuvres are to becon. ducted, and that this part so specified actually included the catchment area purchased by the Belfast Water Commissioners. The Water Commissioners have (or will shortly have) paid a million of money in connexion with this scheme, and in order to ensure the purity of their catchment area they had bought it up, minerals and all. Very naturally the Water Commissioners, seeing what has taken place recently in Africa, protest very strongly against any risk of their catchment area being in any way interfered with owing to the great risk of the sanitary conditions accompanying an army in the field, and they call upon the Belfast Members of Parliament and the city corporation to use their influence to prevent such an occurrence taking place as their catchment area being made a camping ground for military manoeuvres. Some years ago, the Commissioners having restrained the colonel of a regi. ment stationed in Belfast from washing his dogs in one of their reservoirs, that military authority in martial dudgeon refused to allow the regimental band to play any more in the pleasure grounds of the waterworks, whereupon the Commissioners were much blamed by the Press for needlessly interfering with the recreations of the people. The Press, however, it is hoped now will uphold the Commissioners in their rightful efforts to prevent defilement of their catchment area at the Mourne Mountains.
North of Ireland Branch of the British Medical Association. The twenty-second annual meeting of the North of Ireland Branch of the British Medical Association was held in the town-hall, Portrush, on July 5tb. From the annual reports it appears that the society is in a most flourishing condition, there being 271 members, of whom 153 are country and 118 from Belfast. Financially there is a balance in the treasurer’s hands of &13 18s. 9½d. The following office-bearers for 1900-1901 were then elected :-President : Professor Byers. Vice-Presidents: Dr. J. S. Darling (Lurgan) and Professor Lindsay. Secretary : Dr. W. Calwell. Treasurer: Dr. George Gray (Newcastle). Members of Council-Country : Dr. E. C. Thompson (Omagh), Dr. J. Stuart (Bally mena), Dr. J. C. Martin (Portrush), Dr. J. C. Hall (Monaghan), Mr. St. George (Fishburn), Dr. Agnew (Lurgan), Mr. R. Gray (Armagh), and Dr. D. Gaussen (Dunmurry). Belfast members : Dr. John Campbell, Dr. A. Dempsey, Professor Sinclair, Dr. M’Kisack, Professor Whitla, Dr. McCaw, Dr. E. C. Bigger, and Dr. A. B. Mitchell. The President (Dr. J. C. Martin) read an interesting paper on Portrush from a Medical Point of View. The Samaritan Hospital, Belfast. A summer f 6te and fancy fair was held at Norwood Tower, Belfast (kindly lent by the ladies and gentlemen of the Veterinary College, Edinburgh. Henderson family who placed their beautiful grounds at the The Illness of Professor Ogston of Aberdeen University. of the undertaking), on July 6th of the disposal A telegram from South Africa recently received in and 7th. The promoters was to clear off a debt from the object Aberdeen stated that Professor Ogston’s illness was enteric Samaritan Dr. St. Clair Boyd, one of the surgeons Hospital. fever, that he was still a patient in hospital at Bloemfontein, to the hospital, has offered in the most generous manner to but was progressing favourably. be responsible for any deficiency in case the debt is not July 10th. cleared off. A sum of about &300 has been raised.
July 10th.
________________
IRELAND. (FROM
OUR OWN
CORRESPONDENTS.)
(FROM Principal llTediacl Offleer in Ireland. DURING the absence on leave extending to August 4th of the Principal Medical Officer in Ireland his duties will be performed by Lieutenant-Colonel F. G. Adye-Carran, Royal Army Medical Corps. The Hospital at Bloemfontein. In connexion with the treatment of the sick and wounded at Bloemfontein it is interesting to note that the Raadzaal (Parliament House) there has been converted into a hospital and is under the charge of Colonel W. W. Kenny, R.A.M.C., well known in Dublin. Under him are Surgeon Henry Moore of the City of Dublin Hospital (a volunteer), Lieutenant Archer, R.A.M.C. (also from Ireland), with Surgeon Williams of London. Eight nursing sisters are attached to the hospital in addition to the usual staff of orderlies. Military Mccnceuvres and the Belfast TYater-s1tpply. At a meeting of the Belfast Water Commissioners on July 5th attention was publicly called by one of the
OUR
PARIS. OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The Last Lecture of Professor Potain. ON Tuesday, July 3rd, at 10 A.M., Professor Potain in the theatre of the Charity Hospital gave his last lecture upon Clinical Medicine. The rules as to age limit are inflexible. Hospital physicians must retire at the age of 65 years and hospital surgeons at 62. If, however, the physician is also professor in a clinic he may hold his appointment up to the age of 70 years, and if he is a member of the institute he may continue until he reaches the age of 75 years. Professor Potain, who is 75 years of age, has thus gone to the extreme limit which his accumulated offices allow, and he resigns his chair while still in full possession of his faculties and enriched by his long experience. Few medical careers have been so worthy as that of the venerable professor. A consummate clinician whose labours on diseases of the heart and lungs have gained him a world-wide reputation ; an exemplary professor who for 30 years without a break took up his parable before an audience composed of listeners of every