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JUVENILE FIRST OFFENDERS.
891 on this occasion. At the Cohen out that the inquest, George pointed room was very badly ventilated, and another witness stated that " the room was stiflingly hot, the walls were wet with moisture, and the ceiling was black with carbon deposit."’ This picture of a bath-room is untortunately not a rare one, elsewhere. and it is just such deplorable occurrences as this that will cause the public to set about clearing away the miserable JUVENILE FIRST OFFENDERS. THE Home Secretary has issued a circular to justices onsepulchres which abound throughout the country under the the subject of the commitment of juvenile first offendersname of bath-rooms, and to construct rooms for the perof their daily ablutions in’: harmony with the to reformatories, which will, we hope, have a salutaryformance of the in importance and necessity of bodily cleanliness. effect
ment of lepers. The National Leprosy Fund Committee will also, as soon as funds permit, endow two studentshipsone student to make the United Kingdom and the remainder of Europe his field of investigation, and the other to go abroad and study the disease in China, the colonies, and
geyser, which had been lit
however, Mr.
-
upon practice provincial magistrates dealing with this important class of cases. The triviality
of the offences dealt with on such occasions is apt to obscure the importance of the consequences which attend upon their judicial treatment. The moral atmosphere of a reformatory school is, unhappily, such as may seriously injure the character of a comparatively innocent child, and we, for our part, fully share the regret which Mr. Matthews expressed that nearly half of the total annual commitments to reformatories are on a first conviction. In London it M customary to make inquiries into the antecedents of every young delinquent before committing him to the reformatory, and the general adoption of such a practice ought to follow at once upon the Home Office suggestion. A schedule of particulars which is suggested for adoption comprises, we are glad to observe, a well-considered series of details concerning the child’s health and physical condition. It is at the present time pretty generally understood that the punishment of crime ought to be a remedial as well as a repressive agency, and if, in any circumstances, the remedial character may be hopefully expected to develop, it is in those which surround the juvenile offender convicted for the first time.
THE HARVEIAN DINNER.
THE annual dinner of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians took place in the College on St. Luke’s Day, when about eighty of the Fellows and their guests assembled. The President (Sir Andrew Clark, Bart.) was supported by the Lord Chancellor and the Bishop of Peterborough, Admiral Sir Edward Inglefield, K.C.B.; Prof. Grainger Stewart, Pre sident of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; the remaining guests including Mr. John Marshall, President, of the General Medical Council; Mr. H. G. Croly, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland; Prof. W. H. Flower, C.B.; Sir James Paget, Bart., Vice-Chancellor of of London; Mr. T. Bryant, President of the the Royal College of Surgeons ; Mr. J. N. Dick, C.B., DirectorNavy Medical Department; Dr. Wade, President of the Medical Association ; and the Rev. W. Page Roberts. As may be expected, the oratory of the evening was of a high order, and the gathering was in all respects a. great success. During the evening the President read a congratulatory telegram sent from a similar gathering of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians in Irelanda in reply to greetings sent earlier in the evening.
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LIFE ASSURANCE AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
CHOLERA INTELLIGENCE.
daily receiving replies to the inquiries on this THE most recent statistical information as to cholera in topic which we addressed to our readers in our last deals with the first fortnight of the present month, impression, and have been furnished with a large body Spain when 486 cases and 259 deaths occurred in the provinces of of valuable information and suggestions by numerous Valencia, Albacete, Castellon, Cuenca, Tarragona, and The correspondents. promptitude with which these replies the total number of cases and deaths now having have been sent in has enabled us to push our preparations Toledo, reached and 2775 respectively. Valencia is still suffering 5336 for the special number of THE LANCET to an advanced most severely, some fiveor six cholera deaths taking place stage; but, as the value of the ultimate result will in a but on the whole the epidemic is distinctly on the large measure depend upon our succeeding in dealing with daily, in Spain. From Jeddah we also learn that cholera is decline the subject in a fully comprehensive manner, we trust that at an end on the Red Sea, the first ship any of our readers who may have suggestions to put practically from that port with a clean bill of health forward, and have not already communicated with us, will sailing left on the 20th inst. On the other hand, the disease having take an early opportunity of doing so. is maintained in Asia Minor. Indeed, at Aleppo, the daily fatality is very considerable ; the whole vilayet is said to be infected, and the disease is spreading in the direction of GEYSER BATHS. The extension of cholera to both Damascus and MucH has been said of the advantages and disad-Damascus. = is also feared by reason of the traffic along the vantages of the use in the bath-room of the geyser as a -Beyrout of the routes trade Tigris. means of procuring a warm bath with expedition and comWE
are
_
now and then cases of death are recorded which are alleged to be in some way connected with the use of this apparatus. An inquest has recently been held concerning the death of a young man, nineteen years of age, who was found dead in the bath-room. He had always enjoyed good health, and had returned to his home for a few days’ holiday. On Monday he had been out and returned at half-past five, when he went to the bath-room. The family sat down to dinner at 6.30 P.M., and as he did not appear as usual, the door of the bath-room was burst open, and he was found lying face downwards, with his legs drawn up, at the bottom of the bath. This bath-room was fitted with a
parative ease, and every
THE MUTUAL SERVICES OF
MEDICAL MEN.
AT Dover County Court last week, Mr. Long, surgeon, of Dover, sued Dr. Chittenden, retired medical practitioner, for .621, for professional attendance. The case, a report of which will be found in another column, arose in the High Court, and had been sent down for trial by Judge Selfe. The defendant contended that it was the custom in the medical profession for one member not to charge another for attendance. He also said that from words used by Mr. Long he assumed that an atrangement had been come to by which they would attend and help each other. On the question of custom, it was stated by the plaintiff and
ment of lepers. The National Leprosy Fund Committee will also, as soon as funds permit, endow two studentshipsone student to make the United Kingdom and the remainder of Europe his field of investigation, and the other to go abroad and study the disease in China, the colonies, and
geyser, which had been lit
however, Mr.
-
upon practice provincial magistrates dealing with this important class of cases. The triviality
of the offences dealt with on such occasions is apt to obscure the importance of the consequences which attend upon their judicial treatment. The moral atmosphere of a reformatory school is, unhappily, such as may seriously injure the character of a comparatively innocent child, and we, for our part, fully share the regret which Mr. Matthews expressed that nearly half of the total annual commitments to reformatories are on a first conviction. In London it M customary to make inquiries into the antecedents of every young delinquent before committing him to the reformatory, and the general adoption of such a practice ought to follow at once upon the Home Office suggestion. A schedule of particulars which is suggested for adoption comprises, we are glad to observe, a well-considered series of details concerning the child’s health and physical condition. It is at the present time pretty generally understood that the punishment of crime ought to be a remedial as well as a repressive agency, and if, in any circumstances, the remedial character may be hopefully expected to develop, it is in those which surround the juvenile offender convicted for the first time.
THE HARVEIAN DINNER.
THE annual dinner of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians took place in the College on St. Luke’s Day, when about eighty of the Fellows and their guests assembled. The President (Sir Andrew Clark, Bart.) was supported by the Lord Chancellor and the Bishop of Peterborough, Admiral Sir Edward Inglefield, K.C.B.; Prof. Grainger Stewart, Pre sident of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; the remaining guests including Mr. John Marshall, President, of the General Medical Council; Mr. H. G. Croly, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland; Prof. W. H. Flower, C.B.; Sir James Paget, Bart., Vice-Chancellor of of London; Mr. T. Bryant, President of the the Royal College of Surgeons ; Mr. J. N. Dick, C.B., DirectorNavy Medical Department; Dr. Wade, President of the Medical Association ; and the Rev. W. Page Roberts. As may be expected, the oratory of the evening was of a high order, and the gathering was in all respects a. great success. During the evening the President read a congratulatory telegram sent from a similar gathering of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians in Irelanda in reply to greetings sent earlier in the evening.
University
General,British
LIFE ASSURANCE AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
CHOLERA INTELLIGENCE.
daily receiving replies to the inquiries on this THE most recent statistical information as to cholera in topic which we addressed to our readers in our last deals with the first fortnight of the present month, impression, and have been furnished with a large body Spain when 486 cases and 259 deaths occurred in the provinces of of valuable information and suggestions by numerous Valencia, Albacete, Castellon, Cuenca, Tarragona, and The correspondents. promptitude with which these replies the total number of cases and deaths now having have been sent in has enabled us to push our preparations Toledo, reached and 2775 respectively. Valencia is still suffering 5336 for the special number of THE LANCET to an advanced most severely, some fiveor six cholera deaths taking place stage; but, as the value of the ultimate result will in a but on the whole the epidemic is distinctly on the large measure depend upon our succeeding in dealing with daily, in Spain. From Jeddah we also learn that cholera is decline the subject in a fully comprehensive manner, we trust that at an end on the Red Sea, the first ship any of our readers who may have suggestions to put practically from that port with a clean bill of health forward, and have not already communicated with us, will sailing left on the 20th inst. On the other hand, the disease having take an early opportunity of doing so. is maintained in Asia Minor. Indeed, at Aleppo, the daily fatality is very considerable ; the whole vilayet is said to be infected, and the disease is spreading in the direction of GEYSER BATHS. The extension of cholera to both Damascus and MucH has been said of the advantages and disad-Damascus. = is also feared by reason of the traffic along the vantages of the use in the bath-room of the geyser as a -Beyrout of the routes trade Tigris. means of procuring a warm bath with expedition and comWE
are
_
now and then cases of death are recorded which are alleged to be in some way connected with the use of this apparatus. An inquest has recently been held concerning the death of a young man, nineteen years of age, who was found dead in the bath-room. He had always enjoyed good health, and had returned to his home for a few days’ holiday. On Monday he had been out and returned at half-past five, when he went to the bath-room. The family sat down to dinner at 6.30 P.M., and as he did not appear as usual, the door of the bath-room was burst open, and he was found lying face downwards, with his legs drawn up, at the bottom of the bath. This bath-room was fitted with a
parative ease, and every
THE MUTUAL SERVICES OF
MEDICAL MEN.
AT Dover County Court last week, Mr. Long, surgeon, of Dover, sued Dr. Chittenden, retired medical practitioner, for .621, for professional attendance. The case, a report of which will be found in another column, arose in the High Court, and had been sent down for trial by Judge Selfe. The defendant contended that it was the custom in the medical profession for one member not to charge another for attendance. He also said that from words used by Mr. Long he assumed that an atrangement had been come to by which they would attend and help each other. On the question of custom, it was stated by the plaintiff and