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Bombay. Several schemes of improvement are ready and one complimented the board on the excellent work they were of them is likely to come up for sanction almost immediately. carrying out in the administration of the Poor-law and in The proposal is to buy up the whole property of one large their treatment of the 850 sick poor in the Mill-road institu.and thickly populated district-not one street only but a tion in particular. Alderman Houlding (the late Lord Mayor large area. Money will be raised by loan on the land of the of Liverpool) and Mr. Mitchell Banks also spoke in comand wider plimentary terms of the admirable arrangements made by properties, the houses will be pulled down and newwill laid be con- the West Derby guardians for the comfort and treatment of will be while streets out, sanitary dwellings structed to replace the present overcrowded chanvls. One the sick poor of their union. ’district only will be taken at a time. While this is being Medical Faculty of University College, Liverpool. done the people will be turned adrift to find accommodation The biennial dinner of the Medical Faculty of University wherever they can, but it is anticipated that the displacement will be held on Jan. 28th, 1899. Professor A. M. of the people will not be of long duration. It is obvious, College the Dean of the Medical Faculty, is particularly Paterson, thowever, that other districts will be excessively overcrowded desirous of making the re-union a most successful one. must that at least the time and a twelvemonth for being Ladies’ Charity and Lyimg-in Hospital :the Proposed .elapse before the new buildings will be ready for occupation. Admission of Unmarried F’enaccles. Probably also 25 per cent. of the population of the given area will have to find permanent accommodation elsewhere. I understand that summonses have been issued for a The distinguishing feature of the new trust is that it can general meeting of the subscribers to the Ladies’ Charity 4eal with large areas. The rebuilding of houses for 20,000 and Lying-in Hospital which has been fixed for an early date, .evicted people cannot be done in a day. when the question of the admission of unmarried females Notwithstanding the detailed account of the proposed (about to be confined) to the wards of the lying-in hospital Pasteur Institute for Hyderabad which was published will be discussed in all its bearings. There is every reason apparently on high authority I have it from the Secretary to to believe that the subject will be treated in a broad and *the Nizam’s Government that the question has not yet been generous spirit and that a long-deferred concession in the laid officially before the Government. case of first confinements is within measurable distance of The public are still put to considerable annoyance fromrealisation. the irregular manner in which the plague regulations are Centenary of the Liverpool Athenæum. enforced. There is no uniformity even in the same The centenary of the Liverpool Athenæum was celebrated Presidency and travellers are subject to all sorts of incon- on Dec. 19th under auspicious circumstances. The proveniences from ignorance of the varying regulations. At gramme of the proceedings included an address by the Lord Poona the local authorities have been acting contrary to the Bishop of London and a reception afterwards in St. George’s recent pronouncement of the Government of India Hall. The Athenasum owes its foundation to the late concerning the abolition of passes and detention camps, Dr. James Currie, the biographer of Robert Burns, the late .and besides enforcing passes have been offensively Dr. Rutter, Mr. Roscoe, and a few other prominent citizens huddling together different classes of passengers and of Liverpool, to whom a graceful tribute of admiration was insisting without discrimination on the disinfection paid by Mr. Alfred Booth, the President, in his introductory In Madras the remarks of all clothes and wearing apparel. relating to the history of the institution. The officials have actually prosecuted the Postmaster-General Athenasum contains a well-stored library in which are to be ’for a purely technical breach of the plague regulations not- found many rare and valuable works. It is situated in a vithstanding that he had been inoculated and that the central part of the city in Church-street and numbers 500 offence committed was practically cleared by the fresh members, largely recruited from the cream of the mercantile regulations which appeared on the day of his prosecution. and professional classes. ’These are examples of the want of business-like administraDec. 20th. tion which has characterised the plague work from the very beginning. The management is placed in the hands of .civilians or military men instead of with medical officers, and SCOTLAND. the consequence is that these exceptional powers have been OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) OUR (FROM exercised in a high-handed and indiscriminate manner. .
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Glasgow Medical Pioneers." this subject to the Anderson’s College LIVERPOOL. Medico-Chirurgical Society was delivered on Dec. 17th (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) by Dr. Erskine, honorary president of the society. The lecturer gave a history of the leading local medical authoThe Mill-road Infirmary :: Opening of a New Operating rities since the institution of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons at the end of the sixteenth century. In connexion Theatre. with this event there was necessarily special reference made THE new operating theatre at the Mill-road Infirmary was to Maister Peter Lowe who was in his physician to formally opened last week in the presence of a large Henry IV. of Navarre and to Prince Henry,day son of James I., - gathering of guardians and members of the medical pro- and to whom the foundation of the Faculty is due. fession. The theatre is situated in the upper storey of the The work of medicine in of, Cullen when building and is constructed upon highly approved scientific the university and of Johnprofessor the first Burns, principles. To the right is the anaesthetic room whence the fessor of surgery, was also discussed and allusion prowas patient will be wheeled on an ambulance into the operating made to the special local associations of the brothers ’room. The theatre is well lighted by a large roof, the light William and John Hunter. other interesting facing south and west. The walls are lined with white particulars in connexion with theAmong note was Royal Infirmary glazed tiles and the floor is of marble, sloping to a sink taken of the work of Dr. Robert Perry as one of the first to for flushing purposes. Needless to say that artificial establish an essential distinction between typhus and typhoid ’lighting is by means of electricity, the current of fever. The same institution could also claim the establishwhich is also utilised for medical and surgical purposes. ment by Lord Lister of the antiseptic treatment of wounds All the instruments for use in operations will be sterilised and more recently the surgical triumphs of Dr. Macewen. .and the dressings before being applied will also be sterilised Professor Moses Buchanan and his son, the present professor by drying heat at a temperature of 220° F. Injectors for the of clinical surgery, and Professor Allen Thomson were .supply of absolutely sterile water are provided and all the among others on the roll of fame, whilst the lecture was fitted are with wash-basins foot-pedals, thus obviating the up to date by a description of the valuable sanitary necessity of touching the taps with the hand. The instru. brought work performed by Sir William Gairdner and Dr. J. B. Russell. ments are kept on glass shelves in a dust-proof case tc The address was illustrated by lantern pictures, and was ’ensure absolute cleanliness and to carry out the asepti( much appreciated by the audience. system of surgery. An average of 250 major operations are University of Glasgow. performed in the infirmary annually. After the inspectior the company sat down to luncheon at the invitation o: ! The special committee appointed to consider the developDr. N. Raw, the medical superintendent. Professor Patersoi L ment and extension of the medical school has proposed a ’of University College, who was one of the guests, in pro scheme for the provision of a pharmacological laboratory posing the toast of " The West Derby Board of Guardians’ and the proposal has received the approval of the University "
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Bombay. Several schemes of improvement are ready and one complimented the board on the excellent work they were of them is likely to come up for sanction almost immediately. carrying out in the administration of the Poor-law and in The proposal is to buy up the whole property of one large their treatment of the 850 sick poor in the Mill-road institu.and thickly populated district-not one street only but a tion in particular. Alderman Houlding (the late Lord Mayor large area. Money will be raised by loan on the land of the of Liverpool) and Mr. Mitchell Banks also spoke in comand wider plimentary terms of the admirable arrangements made by properties, the houses will be pulled down and newwill laid be con- the West Derby guardians for the comfort and treatment of will be while streets out, sanitary dwellings structed to replace the present overcrowded chanvls. One the sick poor of their union. ’district only will be taken at a time. While this is being Medical Faculty of University College, Liverpool. done the people will be turned adrift to find accommodation The biennial dinner of the Medical Faculty of University wherever they can, but it is anticipated that the displacement will be held on Jan. 28th, 1899. Professor A. M. of the people will not be of long duration. It is obvious, College the Dean of the Medical Faculty, is particularly Paterson, thowever, that other districts will be excessively overcrowded desirous of making the re-union a most successful one. must that at least the time and a twelvemonth for being Ladies’ Charity and Lyimg-in Hospital :the Proposed .elapse before the new buildings will be ready for occupation. Admission of Unmarried F’enaccles. Probably also 25 per cent. of the population of the given area will have to find permanent accommodation elsewhere. I understand that summonses have been issued for a The distinguishing feature of the new trust is that it can general meeting of the subscribers to the Ladies’ Charity 4eal with large areas. The rebuilding of houses for 20,000 and Lying-in Hospital which has been fixed for an early date, .evicted people cannot be done in a day. when the question of the admission of unmarried females Notwithstanding the detailed account of the proposed (about to be confined) to the wards of the lying-in hospital Pasteur Institute for Hyderabad which was published will be discussed in all its bearings. There is every reason apparently on high authority I have it from the Secretary to to believe that the subject will be treated in a broad and *the Nizam’s Government that the question has not yet been generous spirit and that a long-deferred concession in the laid officially before the Government. case of first confinements is within measurable distance of The public are still put to considerable annoyance fromrealisation. the irregular manner in which the plague regulations are Centenary of the Liverpool Athenæum. enforced. There is no uniformity even in the same The centenary of the Liverpool Athenæum was celebrated Presidency and travellers are subject to all sorts of incon- on Dec. 19th under auspicious circumstances. The proveniences from ignorance of the varying regulations. At gramme of the proceedings included an address by the Lord Poona the local authorities have been acting contrary to the Bishop of London and a reception afterwards in St. George’s recent pronouncement of the Government of India Hall. The Athenasum owes its foundation to the late concerning the abolition of passes and detention camps, Dr. James Currie, the biographer of Robert Burns, the late .and besides enforcing passes have been offensively Dr. Rutter, Mr. Roscoe, and a few other prominent citizens huddling together different classes of passengers and of Liverpool, to whom a graceful tribute of admiration was insisting without discrimination on the disinfection paid by Mr. Alfred Booth, the President, in his introductory In Madras the remarks of all clothes and wearing apparel. relating to the history of the institution. The officials have actually prosecuted the Postmaster-General Athenasum contains a well-stored library in which are to be ’for a purely technical breach of the plague regulations not- found many rare and valuable works. It is situated in a vithstanding that he had been inoculated and that the central part of the city in Church-street and numbers 500 offence committed was practically cleared by the fresh members, largely recruited from the cream of the mercantile regulations which appeared on the day of his prosecution. and professional classes. ’These are examples of the want of business-like administraDec. 20th. tion which has characterised the plague work from the very beginning. The management is placed in the hands of .civilians or military men instead of with medical officers, and SCOTLAND. the consequence is that these exceptional powers have been OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) OUR (FROM exercised in a high-handed and indiscriminate manner. .
Dec. 3rd. _____
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Glasgow Medical Pioneers." this subject to the Anderson’s College LIVERPOOL. Medico-Chirurgical Society was delivered on Dec. 17th (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) by Dr. Erskine, honorary president of the society. The lecturer gave a history of the leading local medical authoThe Mill-road Infirmary :: Opening of a New Operating rities since the institution of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons at the end of the sixteenth century. In connexion Theatre. with this event there was necessarily special reference made THE new operating theatre at the Mill-road Infirmary was to Maister Peter Lowe who was in his physician to formally opened last week in the presence of a large Henry IV. of Navarre and to Prince Henry,day son of James I., - gathering of guardians and members of the medical pro- and to whom the foundation of the Faculty is due. fession. The theatre is situated in the upper storey of the The work of medicine in of, Cullen when building and is constructed upon highly approved scientific the university and of Johnprofessor the first Burns, principles. To the right is the anaesthetic room whence the fessor of surgery, was also discussed and allusion prowas patient will be wheeled on an ambulance into the operating made to the special local associations of the brothers ’room. The theatre is well lighted by a large roof, the light William and John Hunter. other interesting facing south and west. The walls are lined with white particulars in connexion with theAmong note was Royal Infirmary glazed tiles and the floor is of marble, sloping to a sink taken of the work of Dr. Robert Perry as one of the first to for flushing purposes. Needless to say that artificial establish an essential distinction between typhus and typhoid ’lighting is by means of electricity, the current of fever. The same institution could also claim the establishwhich is also utilised for medical and surgical purposes. ment by Lord Lister of the antiseptic treatment of wounds All the instruments for use in operations will be sterilised and more recently the surgical triumphs of Dr. Macewen. .and the dressings before being applied will also be sterilised Professor Moses Buchanan and his son, the present professor by drying heat at a temperature of 220° F. Injectors for the of clinical surgery, and Professor Allen Thomson were .supply of absolutely sterile water are provided and all the among others on the roll of fame, whilst the lecture was fitted are with wash-basins foot-pedals, thus obviating the up to date by a description of the valuable sanitary necessity of touching the taps with the hand. The instru. brought work performed by Sir William Gairdner and Dr. J. B. Russell. ments are kept on glass shelves in a dust-proof case tc The address was illustrated by lantern pictures, and was ’ensure absolute cleanliness and to carry out the asepti( much appreciated by the audience. system of surgery. An average of 250 major operations are University of Glasgow. performed in the infirmary annually. After the inspectior the company sat down to luncheon at the invitation o: ! The special committee appointed to consider the developDr. N. Raw, the medical superintendent. Professor Patersoi L ment and extension of the medical school has proposed a ’of University College, who was one of the guests, in pro scheme for the provision of a pharmacological laboratory posing the toast of " The West Derby Board of Guardians’ and the proposal has received the approval of the University "
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on