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advantages possessed by this filter made of kieselguhr. The microscope shows this substance to consist of a great number of exceedingly fine pores, and these pores are surrounded and overlaid by a network of small ladder-like diatoms, which are interlaid in such a manner that complete retention of the smallest particles is secured. Thus it is that the kieselguhr filter is able to yield large quantities of filtered liquid. With a water pressure of 45 lb. to 50 lb., such as exists in the ordinary mains, a single kieselguhr cylinder will yield 750 gallons in twenty-four hours, the water so obtained being absolutely free from solid particles and devoid of organisms. In addition to this, the filtering medium may not only be easily cleansed, but by the same operation a thin film of the surface is removed and a new one exposed, so that clogging is avoided, and the .filtering capacity but little impaired. ____________
MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH AND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. AT the meeting of St. Luke’s (Middlesex) vestry in their hall, City-road, on Tuesday, Mr. Churchwarden Guffin in the chair, a discussion arose on the stipend paid to and the duties performed by their medical officer of health, some of the members objecting to his retention of several other professional appointments which he holds in the district. The following letter was read from Mr. Dalton, the Assistant Secretary of the authorities at Whitehall :-" I am directed by the Local Government Board to adverb to your letter of the 17th June last, from which it appears that it is proposed that the medical officer of health, who has been appointed by the vestry of the parish of St. Luke’s, should be allowed
also to continue in the office of medical officer of the City-road Workhouse, public vaccinator for the St. Luke’s district, surgeon to the Lying-in Hospital, City-road, and at the same time to practise as a consulting surgeon and physician. The Board direct me to point out that the arrangement which is contemplated as regards the medical officer of health must necessarily result in a considerable portion of his time being devoted to duties other than those which would devolve on him as an officer of the vestry, and to state that they are of opinion that it is very desirable that the vestry should secure the whole time of an efficient medical officer of health, devoted to its sanitary improvement. The Board may observe that the Board of Works for the St. Giles’s district-a district of which the circumstances are in many respects parallel to those of St. Luke’shave appointed a medical officer of health at a salary of E600 per annum, with the condition that he should devote his whole time to his duties. The Board had no doubt that such an expenditure in securing the efficiency of sanitary administration will, from every point of view, be attended with advantage to the district. The Board direct me to request that the vestry will be so good as to give the subject their further consideration." The Vestry Clerk, in reply to a member, said that the present stipend of their medical officer was 9400 a year, his acceptance of this sum being conditional on the vestry agreeing to his retention of the other offices mentioned in the letter from the Local Government Board. He received an advance of JE50 some time ago under the Notification of Infectious Diseases Act. Mr. Enos Howes, in proposing that the communication from the Local Government Board be sent to the Sanitary Committee for consideration, remarked that year by year, pari passu with the demolition of whole streets of dwellinghouses, to be replaced by warehouses and offices, and the complete transformation of the residential character of the parish, there was less sanitary work for their medical officer, who had ably performed his duties, and conse. quently no urgency for adopting the suggestion of the Local Government Board and incurring an additional yearly outlay.-Mr. Hewlett seconded the resolution, which was adopted by the vestry.
In the application of a Scotch member threatened with a libel action for expressing his opinion that a club member was loafing and malingering, it was decided to instruct solicitors to defend. In the application from a member in Staffordshire, based upon the circulation of states ments in a quack pamphlet reflecting upon his professional ability, it was resolved, "That the solicitors be instructed to take proceedings with the utmost rigour against the printer, or circulator, or all of these." Two. applications of a debt-collecting character were refused. The action of the secretaries was confirmed in (1) threatening to report a surgeon for newspaper advertising; (2) in requesting apology and payment of a donation to a hospital, by a man who circulated a serious libel against a member. The secretaries were directed to report a practitioner to the< Medical Council for newspaper advertising. The prosecution under the Medical Act, and under the Apothecaries Act of an unqualified practitioner in Worcestershire, who* held club and other appointments, was unanimously authorised. It was moved by Mr. Lawson Tait, seconded by Dr. Leslie Phillips, and resolved, " That in accordance with Article 45 Caleb Charles Whitefoord be excluded from, membership of the Union"-the secretary reporting that this man had been condemned to five years’ penal servitude for abortion mongering, that he had applied to the Union for assistance in his defence, and that that application had, with the approval of the metropolitan branch, been refused. The organising secretary (Dr. Leslie Phillips) reported that he had effected a fidelity guarantee policy for E200 on the name of the clerk. He also reported that he had summoned, and attended a meeting of the profession of the four North of England counties at Newcastle under the presidency of Dr. Philipson, and that an important branch of the Union had then been formed, also that a branch for Dorset and West Hants had been formed during the Bournemouth meeting. The thanks of the meeting were given to the Council of the University of Durham College of Medicine for the use of their council chamber, and also to the Bourne-. mouth local branch of the British Medical Association. The secretary reported that the woman who persecuted & medical practitioner by anonymous letter writing had been, successfully convicted (by the action of the Union) at the last Durham Assizes. Dr. Leslie Phillips reported that the rapid growth ot the Union had rendered many of the Articles of Association unworkable, and expressed his opinion that for the easy carrying on of the work of the Union a reconsideration of many of its by-laws was. essential; for example, twenty days only was allowed for the preparation of annual reports, auditing, printing of reports, and list of members, at a time when all business matters were largely dislocated. All companies knew that January was the very worst month for annual meetings. The present machinery for the authorisation of prosecutione, of irregular practitioners was costly and cumbersome. The collection of arrears, the desirability of having power to refuse admission to notorious black sheep, the conduct of branches and other matters, required specifically defining. A committee of nine was appointed to consider and report on the subject.
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. REPORTS OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH.
Marylebone.-Mr. Wynter Blyth, in his summary for 1890 of the sanitary chronicles of Marylebone, gives an account of the more important matters affecting the. public health, and of the work done by the sanitary department. Amongst the improvements in progress is the extension of such preparatory measures as are necessary for a constant supply of water ; new regulations as to houses let in lodgings, and with respect to house drainage, have also been adopted. A full and useful account is given in the report of the year’s legislation in so far as it affects the MEDICAL DEFENCE UNION, LIMITED. Marylebone Sanitary Department, and it is stated that out of a thousand notices issued it was only necessary to take A UOUNCIL MEETING was held at the registered offices, proceedings in twenty-four instances. A number of tables, Birmingham, on August 20th, Mr. Lawson Tait in the and a statement of the prevailing meteorological conditions, chair, and the following is an epitome of the business are also included in the report. transacted. St. Helens Urban District.-Mr. Robert McNicoll has to The applications from fifty-seven new members records a severe epidemic of scarlet fever during 1890, by
were
advantages possessed by this filter made of kieselguhr. The microscope shows this substance to consist of a great number of exceedingly fine pores, and these pores are surrounded and overlaid by a network of small ladder-like diatoms, which are interlaid in such a manner that complete retention of the smallest particles is secured. Thus it is that the kieselguhr filter is able to yield large quantities of filtered liquid. With a water pressure of 45 lb. to 50 lb., such as exists in the ordinary mains, a single kieselguhr cylinder will yield 750 gallons in twenty-four hours, the water so obtained being absolutely free from solid particles and devoid of organisms. In addition to this, the filtering medium may not only be easily cleansed, but by the same operation a thin film of the surface is removed and a new one exposed, so that clogging is avoided, and the .filtering capacity but little impaired. ____________
MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH AND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. AT the meeting of St. Luke’s (Middlesex) vestry in their hall, City-road, on Tuesday, Mr. Churchwarden Guffin in the chair, a discussion arose on the stipend paid to and the duties performed by their medical officer of health, some of the members objecting to his retention of several other professional appointments which he holds in the district. The following letter was read from Mr. Dalton, the Assistant Secretary of the authorities at Whitehall :-" I am directed by the Local Government Board to adverb to your letter of the 17th June last, from which it appears that it is proposed that the medical officer of health, who has been appointed by the vestry of the parish of St. Luke’s, should be allowed
also to continue in the office of medical officer of the City-road Workhouse, public vaccinator for the St. Luke’s district, surgeon to the Lying-in Hospital, City-road, and at the same time to practise as a consulting surgeon and physician. The Board direct me to point out that the arrangement which is contemplated as regards the medical officer of health must necessarily result in a considerable portion of his time being devoted to duties other than those which would devolve on him as an officer of the vestry, and to state that they are of opinion that it is very desirable that the vestry should secure the whole time of an efficient medical officer of health, devoted to its sanitary improvement. The Board may observe that the Board of Works for the St. Giles’s district-a district of which the circumstances are in many respects parallel to those of St. Luke’shave appointed a medical officer of health at a salary of E600 per annum, with the condition that he should devote his whole time to his duties. The Board had no doubt that such an expenditure in securing the efficiency of sanitary administration will, from every point of view, be attended with advantage to the district. The Board direct me to request that the vestry will be so good as to give the subject their further consideration." The Vestry Clerk, in reply to a member, said that the present stipend of their medical officer was 9400 a year, his acceptance of this sum being conditional on the vestry agreeing to his retention of the other offices mentioned in the letter from the Local Government Board. He received an advance of JE50 some time ago under the Notification of Infectious Diseases Act. Mr. Enos Howes, in proposing that the communication from the Local Government Board be sent to the Sanitary Committee for consideration, remarked that year by year, pari passu with the demolition of whole streets of dwellinghouses, to be replaced by warehouses and offices, and the complete transformation of the residential character of the parish, there was less sanitary work for their medical officer, who had ably performed his duties, and conse. quently no urgency for adopting the suggestion of the Local Government Board and incurring an additional yearly outlay.-Mr. Hewlett seconded the resolution, which was adopted by the vestry.
In the application of a Scotch member threatened with a libel action for expressing his opinion that a club member was loafing and malingering, it was decided to instruct solicitors to defend. In the application from a member in Staffordshire, based upon the circulation of states ments in a quack pamphlet reflecting upon his professional ability, it was resolved, "That the solicitors be instructed to take proceedings with the utmost rigour against the printer, or circulator, or all of these." Two. applications of a debt-collecting character were refused. The action of the secretaries was confirmed in (1) threatening to report a surgeon for newspaper advertising; (2) in requesting apology and payment of a donation to a hospital, by a man who circulated a serious libel against a member. The secretaries were directed to report a practitioner to the< Medical Council for newspaper advertising. The prosecution under the Medical Act, and under the Apothecaries Act of an unqualified practitioner in Worcestershire, who* held club and other appointments, was unanimously authorised. It was moved by Mr. Lawson Tait, seconded by Dr. Leslie Phillips, and resolved, " That in accordance with Article 45 Caleb Charles Whitefoord be excluded from, membership of the Union"-the secretary reporting that this man had been condemned to five years’ penal servitude for abortion mongering, that he had applied to the Union for assistance in his defence, and that that application had, with the approval of the metropolitan branch, been refused. The organising secretary (Dr. Leslie Phillips) reported that he had effected a fidelity guarantee policy for E200 on the name of the clerk. He also reported that he had summoned, and attended a meeting of the profession of the four North of England counties at Newcastle under the presidency of Dr. Philipson, and that an important branch of the Union had then been formed, also that a branch for Dorset and West Hants had been formed during the Bournemouth meeting. The thanks of the meeting were given to the Council of the University of Durham College of Medicine for the use of their council chamber, and also to the Bourne-. mouth local branch of the British Medical Association. The secretary reported that the woman who persecuted & medical practitioner by anonymous letter writing had been, successfully convicted (by the action of the Union) at the last Durham Assizes. Dr. Leslie Phillips reported that the rapid growth ot the Union had rendered many of the Articles of Association unworkable, and expressed his opinion that for the easy carrying on of the work of the Union a reconsideration of many of its by-laws was. essential; for example, twenty days only was allowed for the preparation of annual reports, auditing, printing of reports, and list of members, at a time when all business matters were largely dislocated. All companies knew that January was the very worst month for annual meetings. The present machinery for the authorisation of prosecutione, of irregular practitioners was costly and cumbersome. The collection of arrears, the desirability of having power to refuse admission to notorious black sheep, the conduct of branches and other matters, required specifically defining. A committee of nine was appointed to consider and report on the subject.
accepted.
publisher,
__
Public Health
__
and
Poor Law.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. REPORTS OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH.
Marylebone.-Mr. Wynter Blyth, in his summary for 1890 of the sanitary chronicles of Marylebone, gives an account of the more important matters affecting the. public health, and of the work done by the sanitary department. Amongst the improvements in progress is the extension of such preparatory measures as are necessary for a constant supply of water ; new regulations as to houses let in lodgings, and with respect to house drainage, have also been adopted. A full and useful account is given in the report of the year’s legislation in so far as it affects the MEDICAL DEFENCE UNION, LIMITED. Marylebone Sanitary Department, and it is stated that out of a thousand notices issued it was only necessary to take A UOUNCIL MEETING was held at the registered offices, proceedings in twenty-four instances. A number of tables, Birmingham, on August 20th, Mr. Lawson Tait in the and a statement of the prevailing meteorological conditions, chair, and the following is an epitome of the business are also included in the report. transacted. St. Helens Urban District.-Mr. Robert McNicoll has to The applications from fifty-seven new members records a severe epidemic of scarlet fever during 1890, by
were