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KING EDWARD VII. SANATORIUM.
1318
George Ryerson Fowler, New York, and Surgeon Henry nry ion Gnstav Beyer, U.S. Navy. The secretary of the association I is Major James Evelyn Pilcher, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, ’a z U.S.A. The essayist securing first place will receive a gold medal of the value of$100. The essayist securing second Ind place will receive a life membership in the association of the
I
-
value of$50. ___
An address
was
then read
by
Sir WILLIAM H.
BROADBENT,
Bart., K.C.V.O., the chairman of the advisory committee. The committee consisted of the following: Sir William Broadbent (chairman), Sir Richard Douglas Powell, Bart., K.C.V.O., Sir Francis Inking, Bart., G 0. V. 0., -Sir Felix Semon, C.Y.O., Sir Hermann Weber, Dr. C. Theodore Williams, Lord Sandhurst, Lieutenant Colonel LasceIIes, Sir Frederick Treves, Bart., K.C.V.O., C.B, and Dr. P. HortonSmith and Dr. John F. H. Broadbent, secretaries.
THE ADDRESS. The advisory committee appointed by your Majesty to carry out your Majesty s gracious intention of providing for the open-air and sanatorium treatment of consumption occurring in the classes above the very poor but unable to meet the expense of prolonged residence in private sanatoria, desire humbly to express their satisfaction that the project has reached the stage which offers the occasion for your Majesty’s presence here to day. The site, which after examination of many parts of the country they were able to secure, fulfils in their judgment every requirement for such an institution and they trust that its advantages will be apparent to your Majesty even at this period of the year. The extent of land acquired is 151 acres and was purchased from Lord Egmont. To the south it is open and covered by heather and bracken, while the northern and higher part is well timbered by fine fir-trees. The ground slopes gently to the south, 32t nt affording a maximum of exposure THE annual dinner of the staff and past and present to the sun; the soil is the loer greensand and the climate particularly suitable. The building Dental of London on students and friends of the will stand at the elevation of nearly 500 feet and will command will take on 11 a view over the valley of the Rother to the South Downs. It Nov. 21st, in the Whitehall all will be sheltered from the north and east by a gradual rise of under the Rooms of the Hotel of Mr. rr the ground to a height of 630 feet and by beautiful pine woods All communications n F. J. Bennett, M R. C. S., which will be laid out in walks suitable for the graduated exercise which forms part of the treatment. To the west is an open should be addressed to the Dean at the on the al a common with fioe views which will be accessible to patients who are convalescent and capable of vigorous exercise The plans and Dental London. 32, elevations of the sanatorium as designed by Mr. Percy Adams, the been to have submitted In order that the architect, your Majesty. best principles of construction and management, as approved by the THE November dinner of the Aberdeen Club in experience of existing sanatoria. and new suggestions in advance of these might be brought to bear upon the institution, your Majesty London will be held at the Trocadero Restaurant, Shaftesgoffered prizes of the value of -E5CO, £ 200 and BlOO respectively for the on Nov. 18th, at 7 P.M., Pro0best essays and plans and with the same object members of the committee and the architect visited sanatoria on the continent and in this in the chair. Members Pirie fessor 19 ° country. The part of the building to be occupied by the patients will to be should communicate with the secreebe a long two-storey building. Each patient will have a separate room there will be a balcony upon which the patients can sit out or ’ taries, Mr. J. Malcolm Bulloch and Dr. Robert J. Collie, 25,upon which the bed in case of need can be wheeled. For the further I of open air there will be Liegehallen and shelters in the Porchester-terrace, W. enjoyment The total number of beds will be 100 and at your Majesty’s I grounds. suggestion accommodation has been provided for 12 well-to-do pat.ents s as not to shut out entirely the more wealthy classes from the special ,d d so THE authorities of Yale U.S.A., have advantages which it is hoped will be afforded by the institution. Some of Dr. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S., Holt y y delay has been occasioned by difficulties with regard to the waterEsupply. in the of to succeed Dr. J. J. Thomson, According to the geological survey water of excellent quality 1, was to be found in the greensand underlying the bite. This proved to of of in the F.R.S., professor be the case on boring, but the water was laden with extremely fine sand which would have interfered with pumping and rendered the S as lecturer under the Silliman Memorial Endowment. The g uncertain It was therefore to go elsewhere and in the of )f, gsupp!y issuing from the same stratumnecessary lectures will be delivered at Yale of greensand to the north and c of a have been secured by day capable supplying 60,000 gallons next year. purchase from Lord Egmont. The water collected as it emerges from tthe ground is conveyed to a collecting reservoir near Henley c and pumped up to a cistern holding 160,000 gallons at the A GENERAL of the members of the 1 bCommon highest point of the site, about 100 feet above the roof of the building. I will thm be available in case of fire as well as for the daily demand Institution was held on Nov. 2nd, Sir James Crichton- It of the sanatorium which is estimated at 20,000 gallons as a maximum. Browne, treasurer and being in the The committee desire to tender their humble thanks to your Majesty f, the encouragement afforded them in their task and for the interest Mr. A. K. Sir Oliver Mr. J. Franciss for n manifested in the beneficent work placed unrler their supervision, a and Mr. Edward H. Woods were elected members. Mason, striking instance of which is given in your Majesty’s presence here t, It is their earnest hope that the erection of which your to-day. ______.__.___ Majesty now lays the foundation-stone may be worthy of the name it will, bv your gracious permission, be honoured in bearing-the King Edward VII. Sanatorium.
THE annual general meeting of the Society of the Members ers cf the Royal College of Surgeons of England will be held eld rid at the Frascati Restaurant, Oxford-street, on Tuesday, "’ ,V Nov. 10th, at 7 P.M. The meeting will be followed by a dinner at 7.30. Any member wishing to dine will oblige z by communicating with the honorary secretary, Society of Members of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, id, d Elmbank, West Hill, Putney, S. W.
place
R3yal Saturday, Metropole
Hospital
presidency
,.
LD. S. Eng.
subject Hospital,
Royal
Leicester-square,
University
bury-avenue, W., George
Wednesday, being
desiring
i
honorary
present
5and
____ -
University
University, professor Liverpool, University physics University
invited
physiology
Cambridge,x
spriuge
spring
r
-
monthly meeting
vice-president, Huntingdon, Lodge,
Royal ,
’
chair.
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si
KING EDWARD VII. SANATORIUM.
The KING, in
Lords and Gentlemen,-It to-day to lay the His MAJESTY THE KING went on Nov. 3rd to Lord’s of my sanatorium for tuberculosis. When Common, Midhurst, and laid the foundation-stone of King a generous donor, whom I regret I am not allowed publicly Edward VII. Sanatorium. Special trains from London took to thans, placed at my dispcsa.’ a large sum of money for any philanthropic object which I might have in view I at down many medical men interested in the open-air treatment once decided to devote it to the erection of an opeia-air of tuberculosis and they were taken to the site fromsanatorium, having been so greatly impressed with the Midhurst and Haslemere stations in brakes, but the steep- immense benefit which institutions of this nature conness of the accent to Lord’s Common rendered the proferred on those suffering from pulmonary diseases. It is gress of the party very slow, inducing many to proceed to my hope that by these means the malady may be arrested in their detination on foot. The sanatorium is placed in park- the case of not a few of those who would be treated in the inlike grounds at an altitude of about 500 feet. The spot stitution, while I further trust that on their return home, by where the buildings will be erected is sheltered by pine trees diffusing among their relatives and friends a knowledge of on rising ground, while the southern aspect is open and the infinite importance of frash air and sunshine in mainaffords a charming view over the South Downs towards taining health, the conditions under which in so many Chanctonbury Rirg. The sanatorium will be built in two homes tuberculosis flourished will be sensibly diminished. portions-an administrative building and a building for the I note with satisfaction that the site which my committee patients. As far as could be made out in the present un have secured fulfils all the essential requirements of a sanafinished state the institution promises to be the most perfect torium, and I trust that the sandy soil, the southern aspect, of its kind. and the pine trees which give protection from the north and The King arrived at the sanatorium shortly before the east will assist in restoring health to the inmates of the one o’clock and was immediately conducted by Lord institution. I am aware that this site has not been chosea Abergavenny to the pavilion where the foundation-stone wasJ investigating many others, and I thank my comf mittee, and eospended in readiness for the ceremony. especially among them Dr. Theodore Williams,
gives
me
foundation-stone ’
’
without
reply,
said :
great pleasure
My
to come here
1319 An excellent report by Mr. R. Fox Symons, medical officer for the many visits which they have paid to other pos< health of Pretoria and district, pecifies the causes of sible sites in various parts of England. You, Sir William of < Broadbent, have alluded to the difficulty experienced in deaths registered in his district during the year 1902, and obtaining a satisfactory supply of water and to theshows that of 486 deaths 51 persons died from dysentery delay which has in consequence been caused in com-and 29 from enteric fever. Pneumonia caused 57 deaths and i 61. The high percentage of deaths due to intestinal mencing the building of the institution. This was unavoid- enteritis able, for without a proper supply of water an otherwiseailments, enteric fever, enteritis, and dysentery, was the excellent site becomes va ueless. I am glad now to knowmost striking feature of the report. Mr. C. L. Sansom, medical officer of health of the that through the ingenuity and skill of Mr. Brough Taylor all difficulties have been overcome and that all amplesupply Witwatersrand district, divides his report for the year into I obfervedtwo, the first part ending June 30th, 1902. In almost all of absolutely pure watar has been obtained. with satisfaction in driving here the condition of the roaddistricts he comments on the unsatisfactory condition of the leading to the institution, which has recently been con- water-supply. At the bacteriological laboratory at Daspoort, under structed. The great rapidity with which this has been completed, under the supervision of Messrs. John Aird and the direction of Dr. Theiler, valuable work was done in Sons, is, I hope, an earnest of the way in which the bailding prosecuting the study of horse-sickness, the so-called of the sanatorium itself will be pushed forward now that all Rhodesian red-water disease amongsL cattle, rinderpest, and preliminary difficulties have been overcome. You have biliary fever in horses. Trypano"omiasis was also studied alluded in general terms to the character of the building and Dr. Theiler states that a fly belonging to the genus which will be erected. As you have rightly stated it will hippoboeea was responsible for the spread of the disease. Mr. W. C C. Pakes during the year 1902 examined 860 be for theaccommodation not of the very poor-they are already being provided for-but of those of slender means specimens sent to him at the Government laboratories for Of these 805 required chemical investigation, who are unable to meet the expenses of prolonged resi- analysis. 16 tûxicological examination, and 39 bacteriological examinaA certain number of beds dence in private sanatoria. will also be reserved for more wealthy patients. I am glad ti n. The Transvaal medical department, althcugh not by any to know that while no nece-sary comforts wHoh will add to the well-being of the patients will be omitted there means completed, seems to be rapidly becoming organised, will be a total absence of all luxury and of expenditure of and on the basis of the work indicated in this report we look money on superfluous appointments. I regret that it was forward to many valuable additions to our knowledge in the near future. not possible for the Queen to accompany me here to-day. Like myself, she is deeply interested in the fight against tuberculosis and has proved it by permitting the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium at Davos to be called by her name. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS We both of us pray that the institution of which I am OF LONDON. about to lav the foundation stone may receive the blesting of God and that those who come to reside here may find AN ordinary Comitia was held on Oct. 29th, Sir WILLIAM renewed health and strength to enable them to carry out S. CHURCH, Bart , K.C.B., the President, being in the chair. their duties in the world. The Bishop of CHICHESTER then conducted the religious The following gentlemen having passed the required service and the stone was declared to be well and truly laid examination were admitted as Members : Dr. Sydney Walter by the King. Dr. Charles Edwin Percy Forsyth, Dr. James Edward His Majesty before leaving spent some time conversing Curl, with the members of the advisory committee and recognised Hill Sawyer, Dr. Jacob Snowman, and Dr. James George one or two of the general company present. Taylor. Licences to practise were granted to 102 gentlemen who had passed the required examinations. that Mr. Arthur Richardson, late TRANSVAAL ADMINISTRATION REPORTS of The PRESIDENT announced Epsom College, had been appointed Jenks scholar for the FOR 1902. ensuing year. He also announced that he had nominated Dr. T. H. Green, Dr. E. C. Seaton, and Dr. F. J. Wethered to be adjudicators of the Weber-Parkes prize and medals at PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. OUT of a volume consisting of 264 pages of Blue-book the next award in 1906. The PRESIDENT also asked the permission of the College dimensions 28 are devoted to the report of the health of the to permit Sir Hermann Weber to deliver a lectuie at the Transvaal during 1902. Dr. George Turner, medical officer College on a date to be announced on Measut es for proof health of the Transvaal, laments the impossibility of longing Life. The request was granted. The following communications were received : 1. From getting a trustworthy report owing to insufficiency of returns, This can be readily understood when it is the Board of Trade, forwarding a translation into English statistics, &c. remembered that up to June lst, 1902, warlike operations of a report by a Norwegian committt e respecting beri-beri A committee was were still in progress. The group of diseases classed together occurring on European sailing ships. as "typhus, typhoid, enteric, gastric, or typho-malarial fever appointed to consider the report, consisting of the President, accounted for 194 deaths out of a total of 2906 patients under Sir Patrick Manson, and Dr. J. F. Payne. 2. From the observation. Of the 194 deaths 78 were of white people and secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 116 were of coloured. Dysentery claimed the largest number reporting certain proceedings of its Council on August 4th of victims, however, amounting to 228 out of the total of and Oct. 15th. 3. From the Society of Arts inviting the 2906. Malaria accounted for only 17 deaths. One death only College to form with it a joint committee for advising on from scarlet fever is recorded and six from measles. Clai-si- the award of the Swiney Prize in January next. The cfficers fied with small-pox and chicken-pox we find the unfamiliar of the College were appointed to serve on the committee. term of "amaas," a term which no doubt has a local meaning 4. From Professor Silvanus Thompson on the approaching but is not included amongst the official nomenclature of tercentenary of the death of Sir William Gilbert, President diseases and therefore requires explanation. In the leper of the College in 1600. The treasurer and senior censor (Sir asylum at Pretoria there were 230 leper patients on Dec. 31st, Dyce Ituckworth), Dr. W. H. Allchin, and Dr. J. Aber1902, being an increase of 14 upon the number resident in crombie were appointed to act on any committee which the asylum on Jan. lst, 1902. Dr. Turner states that might be formed to carry out suitable arrangements to it is very doubtful if heredity plays any part in mark the occasion. The audited accounts for the year ending Sept. 29th last causing leprosy ; that leprosy is conveyed in some way by contagion is incontestable ; and that in the Trans- were received and adopted. vaal there is not a particle of evidence that fish in The quarterly report of the Finance Committee was any way influences the spread of the disease. As regards received and adopted. vaccination the result of experience in the Transvaal is A report from the Committee of Management dated summed up thus: "II am by no means impressed with the Oct. 5th was received and adopted. The committee recomdesirability of using calf lymph. I am of opinion that arm- mended that Cranbrook School should be added to the list of to-arm vaccination is more efficient and when properly institutions recognised by the Examining Board in England carried out is perfectly safe." for instruction in chemistry, physics, and practical chemistry. "
George Ryerson Fowler, New York, and Surgeon Henry nry ion Gnstav Beyer, U.S. Navy. The secretary of the association I is Major James Evelyn Pilcher, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, ’a z U.S.A. The essayist securing first place will receive a gold medal of the value of$100. The essayist securing second Ind place will receive a life membership in the association of the
I
-
value of$50. ___
An address
was
then read
by
Sir WILLIAM H.
BROADBENT,
Bart., K.C.V.O., the chairman of the advisory committee. The committee consisted of the following: Sir William Broadbent (chairman), Sir Richard Douglas Powell, Bart., K.C.V.O., Sir Francis Inking, Bart., G 0. V. 0., -Sir Felix Semon, C.Y.O., Sir Hermann Weber, Dr. C. Theodore Williams, Lord Sandhurst, Lieutenant Colonel LasceIIes, Sir Frederick Treves, Bart., K.C.V.O., C.B, and Dr. P. HortonSmith and Dr. John F. H. Broadbent, secretaries.
THE ADDRESS. The advisory committee appointed by your Majesty to carry out your Majesty s gracious intention of providing for the open-air and sanatorium treatment of consumption occurring in the classes above the very poor but unable to meet the expense of prolonged residence in private sanatoria, desire humbly to express their satisfaction that the project has reached the stage which offers the occasion for your Majesty’s presence here to day. The site, which after examination of many parts of the country they were able to secure, fulfils in their judgment every requirement for such an institution and they trust that its advantages will be apparent to your Majesty even at this period of the year. The extent of land acquired is 151 acres and was purchased from Lord Egmont. To the south it is open and covered by heather and bracken, while the northern and higher part is well timbered by fine fir-trees. The ground slopes gently to the south, 32t nt affording a maximum of exposure THE annual dinner of the staff and past and present to the sun; the soil is the loer greensand and the climate particularly suitable. The building Dental of London on students and friends of the will stand at the elevation of nearly 500 feet and will command will take on 11 a view over the valley of the Rother to the South Downs. It Nov. 21st, in the Whitehall all will be sheltered from the north and east by a gradual rise of under the Rooms of the Hotel of Mr. rr the ground to a height of 630 feet and by beautiful pine woods All communications n F. J. Bennett, M R. C. S., which will be laid out in walks suitable for the graduated exercise which forms part of the treatment. To the west is an open should be addressed to the Dean at the on the al a common with fioe views which will be accessible to patients who are convalescent and capable of vigorous exercise The plans and Dental London. 32, elevations of the sanatorium as designed by Mr. Percy Adams, the been to have submitted In order that the architect, your Majesty. best principles of construction and management, as approved by the THE November dinner of the Aberdeen Club in experience of existing sanatoria. and new suggestions in advance of these might be brought to bear upon the institution, your Majesty London will be held at the Trocadero Restaurant, Shaftesgoffered prizes of the value of -E5CO, £ 200 and BlOO respectively for the on Nov. 18th, at 7 P.M., Pro0best essays and plans and with the same object members of the committee and the architect visited sanatoria on the continent and in this in the chair. Members Pirie fessor 19 ° country. The part of the building to be occupied by the patients will to be should communicate with the secreebe a long two-storey building. Each patient will have a separate room there will be a balcony upon which the patients can sit out or ’ taries, Mr. J. Malcolm Bulloch and Dr. Robert J. Collie, 25,upon which the bed in case of need can be wheeled. For the further I of open air there will be Liegehallen and shelters in the Porchester-terrace, W. enjoyment The total number of beds will be 100 and at your Majesty’s I grounds. suggestion accommodation has been provided for 12 well-to-do pat.ents s as not to shut out entirely the more wealthy classes from the special ,d d so THE authorities of Yale U.S.A., have advantages which it is hoped will be afforded by the institution. Some of Dr. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S., Holt y y delay has been occasioned by difficulties with regard to the waterEsupply. in the of to succeed Dr. J. J. Thomson, According to the geological survey water of excellent quality 1, was to be found in the greensand underlying the bite. This proved to of of in the F.R.S., professor be the case on boring, but the water was laden with extremely fine sand which would have interfered with pumping and rendered the S as lecturer under the Silliman Memorial Endowment. The g uncertain It was therefore to go elsewhere and in the of )f, gsupp!y issuing from the same stratumnecessary lectures will be delivered at Yale of greensand to the north and c of a have been secured by day capable supplying 60,000 gallons next year. purchase from Lord Egmont. The water collected as it emerges from tthe ground is conveyed to a collecting reservoir near Henley c and pumped up to a cistern holding 160,000 gallons at the A GENERAL of the members of the 1 bCommon highest point of the site, about 100 feet above the roof of the building. I will thm be available in case of fire as well as for the daily demand Institution was held on Nov. 2nd, Sir James Crichton- It of the sanatorium which is estimated at 20,000 gallons as a maximum. Browne, treasurer and being in the The committee desire to tender their humble thanks to your Majesty f, the encouragement afforded them in their task and for the interest Mr. A. K. Sir Oliver Mr. J. Franciss for n manifested in the beneficent work placed unrler their supervision, a and Mr. Edward H. Woods were elected members. Mason, striking instance of which is given in your Majesty’s presence here t, It is their earnest hope that the erection of which your to-day. ______.__.___ Majesty now lays the foundation-stone may be worthy of the name it will, bv your gracious permission, be honoured in bearing-the King Edward VII. Sanatorium.
THE annual general meeting of the Society of the Members ers cf the Royal College of Surgeons of England will be held eld rid at the Frascati Restaurant, Oxford-street, on Tuesday, "’ ,V Nov. 10th, at 7 P.M. The meeting will be followed by a dinner at 7.30. Any member wishing to dine will oblige z by communicating with the honorary secretary, Society of Members of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, id, d Elmbank, West Hill, Putney, S. W.
place
R3yal Saturday, Metropole
Hospital
presidency
,.
LD. S. Eng.
subject Hospital,
Royal
Leicester-square,
University
bury-avenue, W., George
Wednesday, being
desiring
i
honorary
present
5and
____ -
University
University, professor Liverpool, University physics University
invited
physiology
Cambridge,x
spriuge
spring
r
-
monthly meeting
vice-president, Huntingdon, Lodge,
Royal ,
’
chair.
z
si
KING EDWARD VII. SANATORIUM.
The KING, in
Lords and Gentlemen,-It to-day to lay the His MAJESTY THE KING went on Nov. 3rd to Lord’s of my sanatorium for tuberculosis. When Common, Midhurst, and laid the foundation-stone of King a generous donor, whom I regret I am not allowed publicly Edward VII. Sanatorium. Special trains from London took to thans, placed at my dispcsa.’ a large sum of money for any philanthropic object which I might have in view I at down many medical men interested in the open-air treatment once decided to devote it to the erection of an opeia-air of tuberculosis and they were taken to the site fromsanatorium, having been so greatly impressed with the Midhurst and Haslemere stations in brakes, but the steep- immense benefit which institutions of this nature conness of the accent to Lord’s Common rendered the proferred on those suffering from pulmonary diseases. It is gress of the party very slow, inducing many to proceed to my hope that by these means the malady may be arrested in their detination on foot. The sanatorium is placed in park- the case of not a few of those who would be treated in the inlike grounds at an altitude of about 500 feet. The spot stitution, while I further trust that on their return home, by where the buildings will be erected is sheltered by pine trees diffusing among their relatives and friends a knowledge of on rising ground, while the southern aspect is open and the infinite importance of frash air and sunshine in mainaffords a charming view over the South Downs towards taining health, the conditions under which in so many Chanctonbury Rirg. The sanatorium will be built in two homes tuberculosis flourished will be sensibly diminished. portions-an administrative building and a building for the I note with satisfaction that the site which my committee patients. As far as could be made out in the present un have secured fulfils all the essential requirements of a sanafinished state the institution promises to be the most perfect torium, and I trust that the sandy soil, the southern aspect, of its kind. and the pine trees which give protection from the north and The King arrived at the sanatorium shortly before the east will assist in restoring health to the inmates of the one o’clock and was immediately conducted by Lord institution. I am aware that this site has not been chosea Abergavenny to the pavilion where the foundation-stone wasJ investigating many others, and I thank my comf mittee, and eospended in readiness for the ceremony. especially among them Dr. Theodore Williams,
gives
me
foundation-stone ’
’
without
reply,
said :
great pleasure
My
to come here
1319 An excellent report by Mr. R. Fox Symons, medical officer for the many visits which they have paid to other pos< health of Pretoria and district, pecifies the causes of sible sites in various parts of England. You, Sir William of < Broadbent, have alluded to the difficulty experienced in deaths registered in his district during the year 1902, and obtaining a satisfactory supply of water and to theshows that of 486 deaths 51 persons died from dysentery delay which has in consequence been caused in com-and 29 from enteric fever. Pneumonia caused 57 deaths and i 61. The high percentage of deaths due to intestinal mencing the building of the institution. This was unavoid- enteritis able, for without a proper supply of water an otherwiseailments, enteric fever, enteritis, and dysentery, was the excellent site becomes va ueless. I am glad now to knowmost striking feature of the report. Mr. C. L. Sansom, medical officer of health of the that through the ingenuity and skill of Mr. Brough Taylor all difficulties have been overcome and that all amplesupply Witwatersrand district, divides his report for the year into I obfervedtwo, the first part ending June 30th, 1902. In almost all of absolutely pure watar has been obtained. with satisfaction in driving here the condition of the roaddistricts he comments on the unsatisfactory condition of the leading to the institution, which has recently been con- water-supply. At the bacteriological laboratory at Daspoort, under structed. The great rapidity with which this has been completed, under the supervision of Messrs. John Aird and the direction of Dr. Theiler, valuable work was done in Sons, is, I hope, an earnest of the way in which the bailding prosecuting the study of horse-sickness, the so-called of the sanatorium itself will be pushed forward now that all Rhodesian red-water disease amongsL cattle, rinderpest, and preliminary difficulties have been overcome. You have biliary fever in horses. Trypano"omiasis was also studied alluded in general terms to the character of the building and Dr. Theiler states that a fly belonging to the genus which will be erected. As you have rightly stated it will hippoboeea was responsible for the spread of the disease. Mr. W. C C. Pakes during the year 1902 examined 860 be for theaccommodation not of the very poor-they are already being provided for-but of those of slender means specimens sent to him at the Government laboratories for Of these 805 required chemical investigation, who are unable to meet the expenses of prolonged resi- analysis. 16 tûxicological examination, and 39 bacteriological examinaA certain number of beds dence in private sanatoria. will also be reserved for more wealthy patients. I am glad ti n. The Transvaal medical department, althcugh not by any to know that while no nece-sary comforts wHoh will add to the well-being of the patients will be omitted there means completed, seems to be rapidly becoming organised, will be a total absence of all luxury and of expenditure of and on the basis of the work indicated in this report we look money on superfluous appointments. I regret that it was forward to many valuable additions to our knowledge in the near future. not possible for the Queen to accompany me here to-day. Like myself, she is deeply interested in the fight against tuberculosis and has proved it by permitting the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium at Davos to be called by her name. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS We both of us pray that the institution of which I am OF LONDON. about to lav the foundation stone may receive the blesting of God and that those who come to reside here may find AN ordinary Comitia was held on Oct. 29th, Sir WILLIAM renewed health and strength to enable them to carry out S. CHURCH, Bart , K.C.B., the President, being in the chair. their duties in the world. The Bishop of CHICHESTER then conducted the religious The following gentlemen having passed the required service and the stone was declared to be well and truly laid examination were admitted as Members : Dr. Sydney Walter by the King. Dr. Charles Edwin Percy Forsyth, Dr. James Edward His Majesty before leaving spent some time conversing Curl, with the members of the advisory committee and recognised Hill Sawyer, Dr. Jacob Snowman, and Dr. James George one or two of the general company present. Taylor. Licences to practise were granted to 102 gentlemen who had passed the required examinations. that Mr. Arthur Richardson, late TRANSVAAL ADMINISTRATION REPORTS of The PRESIDENT announced Epsom College, had been appointed Jenks scholar for the FOR 1902. ensuing year. He also announced that he had nominated Dr. T. H. Green, Dr. E. C. Seaton, and Dr. F. J. Wethered to be adjudicators of the Weber-Parkes prize and medals at PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. OUT of a volume consisting of 264 pages of Blue-book the next award in 1906. The PRESIDENT also asked the permission of the College dimensions 28 are devoted to the report of the health of the to permit Sir Hermann Weber to deliver a lectuie at the Transvaal during 1902. Dr. George Turner, medical officer College on a date to be announced on Measut es for proof health of the Transvaal, laments the impossibility of longing Life. The request was granted. The following communications were received : 1. From getting a trustworthy report owing to insufficiency of returns, This can be readily understood when it is the Board of Trade, forwarding a translation into English statistics, &c. remembered that up to June lst, 1902, warlike operations of a report by a Norwegian committt e respecting beri-beri A committee was were still in progress. The group of diseases classed together occurring on European sailing ships. as "typhus, typhoid, enteric, gastric, or typho-malarial fever appointed to consider the report, consisting of the President, accounted for 194 deaths out of a total of 2906 patients under Sir Patrick Manson, and Dr. J. F. Payne. 2. From the observation. Of the 194 deaths 78 were of white people and secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 116 were of coloured. Dysentery claimed the largest number reporting certain proceedings of its Council on August 4th of victims, however, amounting to 228 out of the total of and Oct. 15th. 3. From the Society of Arts inviting the 2906. Malaria accounted for only 17 deaths. One death only College to form with it a joint committee for advising on from scarlet fever is recorded and six from measles. Clai-si- the award of the Swiney Prize in January next. The cfficers fied with small-pox and chicken-pox we find the unfamiliar of the College were appointed to serve on the committee. term of "amaas," a term which no doubt has a local meaning 4. From Professor Silvanus Thompson on the approaching but is not included amongst the official nomenclature of tercentenary of the death of Sir William Gilbert, President diseases and therefore requires explanation. In the leper of the College in 1600. The treasurer and senior censor (Sir asylum at Pretoria there were 230 leper patients on Dec. 31st, Dyce Ituckworth), Dr. W. H. Allchin, and Dr. J. Aber1902, being an increase of 14 upon the number resident in crombie were appointed to act on any committee which the asylum on Jan. lst, 1902. Dr. Turner states that might be formed to carry out suitable arrangements to it is very doubtful if heredity plays any part in mark the occasion. The audited accounts for the year ending Sept. 29th last causing leprosy ; that leprosy is conveyed in some way by contagion is incontestable ; and that in the Trans- were received and adopted. vaal there is not a particle of evidence that fish in The quarterly report of the Finance Committee was any way influences the spread of the disease. As regards received and adopted. vaccination the result of experience in the Transvaal is A report from the Committee of Management dated summed up thus: "II am by no means impressed with the Oct. 5th was received and adopted. The committee recomdesirability of using calf lymph. I am of opinion that arm- mended that Cranbrook School should be added to the list of to-arm vaccination is more efficient and when properly institutions recognised by the Examining Board in England carried out is perfectly safe." for instruction in chemistry, physics, and practical chemistry. "