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MEDICAL MEMBERS OF THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.
724 years ago and carried on a successful career as pirates, but the classical instance of a woman passing as a man is that of James Barry, M.D., of the Army Medical Staff, a full account of whose remarkable career was incorporated into a novel, "A Modern Sphinx," by Lieutenant-Colonel Rogers.1 The sexual problems involved in such cases form a curious chapter in medical psychology.
powers to contribute towards the cost of converting privy middens into water-closets. While from one point of view this step, as he points out, is commendatory, it may be, perhaps, scarcely equitable from the standpoint of the general ratepayer. In considering the cases of some large Midland towns he shows that the assumption that the results are in favour of local bodies contributing towards the work of conversion in a wholesale manner is hardly justified when certain points in the information are emphasised. MEDICAL MEMBERS OF THE LONDON COUNTY Rather it is evident that care should be exercised COUNCIL. in taking advantage of the clauses of a private THE following medical men are among the members of Act or the general body of ratepayers may have to the newly-elected County Council of London: Dr. W. J. bear the whole of the cost of transforming foul and Collins (St. Pancras, W.), Mr. G. J. Cooper (Southwark, dilapidated privies into efficient water-closets. In the same Bermondsey), Dr. G. B. Longstaff (Wandsworth), and Dr. number of the journal referred to Mr. C. W. Laskey, the J. F. Little (Marylebone, E.). With the exception of Dr. chief sanitary inspector of Eccles, contributes a paper on Little, who gained his seat by one vote, all these gentlemen the same question in which he points out that, owing to the were members of the last council. Among the members of late Lord Chief Justice’s decision, magistrates have now no the profession who unfortunately failed to secure a seat on power to order the conversion of an existing privy into a the council was Dr. E. B. Forman who offered himself for water-closet under the Nuisances Clauses of the 1875 Act, re-election. and that local authorities must either have recourse to section 36 or else obtain a private Act of Parliament. FARQUHAR, NORTH, AND CO. v. LLOYD. ___
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IN commenting upon this case in an annotation in oui issue of Dec. lst, 1900, we expressed the view that the damages awarded by the jury were excessive, even assuming that the article complained of which appeared in the Daily Chronicle exceeded the limits of fair comment upon the proceedings in the county-court. It may be remembered that the plaintifEs were manufacturers of tinned provisions and had sold goods to a tradesman who had refused to pay for them, contending that they were defective and that had he sold them they would have proved dangerous The defective condition of the goods was to the public. admitted, but the Daily Chronicle appears to have erred in its criticism by implying, in accordance with the view of the jury, that the stock of the plaintiffs’ beyond those articles sold to the retailer in the case would be found in an equally defective and dangerous condition. For ourselves we maintain that the press does the public an eminent service by its honest criticism and, if need be, censure. This particular case is one which concerns us as medical journalists, for we are constantly dealing critically with foods and proprietary preparations, and if we found poisonous material in a food or a food dangerous to health we should not hesitate to say so. But in thus performing a public duty it is of course most desirable to restrict all censure to the real facts of the case and to keep it free from the smallest external implication. This the Daily Chronicle did not do. All the same, the damages awarded were very excessive, but we are glad to find that on contesting the award of .61900 in the Court of Appeal this week the proprietors of the Daily Ohronicle were allowed a new trial. The Master of the Rolls said that only a very gross libel could command such excessive damages. The verdict, he added, was a scandal, and there must be a new trial unless the parties would agree that the damages should be reduced to .B500. The ultimate issue will be interesting.
AUTHORITIES AND THE COST OF CONVERTING CONSERVANCY TO WATERCARRIAGE SYSTEMS.
LOCAL
DR. MEREDITH YOLTNG, the medical officer of health of
Stockport, raises some pertinent points in a paper in the January number of the Sanita’r!f Inspector in regard to the position of local authorities in embarking on large schemes in connexion with the conversion of conservancy systems to water-carriage systems. As is well known, a number of towns have within the past few years obtained Parliamentary 1
THE LANCET, Jan. 4th,
1896, p. 82 et seq.
THE annual clinical debate of the Chelsea Clinical Society will be held at the Jenner Institute of Preventive Medicine The subject for debate is "The on March 12th and 19th. Clinical and Pathological Relations of the Chronic Rheumatic and Rheumatoid Affections to Acute Infective Rheumatism." The debate will be opened by Dr. Archibald Garrod, and the following gentlemen will speak, amongst others, on March 12th, Dr. F. J. Poynton, Dr. Alexander Paine, Dr. G. A. Bannatyne, Mr. N. C. Macnamara, and Dr. C. O. Hawthorne. The meeting will be held at 8.30 P.M. THE Brussels Medical Graduates’ Association have unanito send an address to the King which sets forth that the members of the association humbly desire to offer their respectful sympathy to His Majesty in his recent bereavement,"caused by the death of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria." The address further congratulates the King on his accession and prays that he may long occupy that exalted position and may worthily extend the beneficence of that rule so happily inaugurated by her late Majesty."
mously resolved
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IT is announced that the honorary degree of LL.D. is about to be conferred by the University of Edinburgh upon Sir John Williams, Bart., M,D., F.R.C.P. Lond. ; upon Dr> James Little, Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Dublin ; and upon Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay, the Attorney-General. Sir Robert Finlay, who has attained such great distinction in the faculty of law, began his career as a medical man and graduated as M.D. at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of
Edinburgh.
A
TELEGRAM
Milner,
to Mr.
on Feb. the week
--
from the Governor of
Cape Colony,
Chamberlain, received
Sir Alfred
at the Colonial Office
plague report for Feb. 23rd was as follows : There were 29 cases under treatment at the end of the week, seven deaths have occurred since the commencement of the outbreak, and there are 21 cases remaining under treatment and 167 " contacts." 27th,
states that the bubonic
ending remaining
____
WE
regret to hear that the Lord Chief Justice is so unwell to be obliged to cease work temporarily, though we are glad to learn that he is not likely to be much longer confined to his bed. There is no doubt that Lord Alverstone’s illness had its origin in the atmosphere of the Central Criminal Court where he presided for six days over the trial as
powers to contribute towards the cost of converting privy middens into water-closets. While from one point of view this step, as he points out, is commendatory, it may be, perhaps, scarcely equitable from the standpoint of the general ratepayer. In considering the cases of some large Midland towns he shows that the assumption that the results are in favour of local bodies contributing towards the work of conversion in a wholesale manner is hardly justified when certain points in the information are emphasised. MEDICAL MEMBERS OF THE LONDON COUNTY Rather it is evident that care should be exercised COUNCIL. in taking advantage of the clauses of a private THE following medical men are among the members of Act or the general body of ratepayers may have to the newly-elected County Council of London: Dr. W. J. bear the whole of the cost of transforming foul and Collins (St. Pancras, W.), Mr. G. J. Cooper (Southwark, dilapidated privies into efficient water-closets. In the same Bermondsey), Dr. G. B. Longstaff (Wandsworth), and Dr. number of the journal referred to Mr. C. W. Laskey, the J. F. Little (Marylebone, E.). With the exception of Dr. chief sanitary inspector of Eccles, contributes a paper on Little, who gained his seat by one vote, all these gentlemen the same question in which he points out that, owing to the were members of the last council. Among the members of late Lord Chief Justice’s decision, magistrates have now no the profession who unfortunately failed to secure a seat on power to order the conversion of an existing privy into a the council was Dr. E. B. Forman who offered himself for water-closet under the Nuisances Clauses of the 1875 Act, re-election. and that local authorities must either have recourse to section 36 or else obtain a private Act of Parliament. FARQUHAR, NORTH, AND CO. v. LLOYD. ___
,
IN commenting upon this case in an annotation in oui issue of Dec. lst, 1900, we expressed the view that the damages awarded by the jury were excessive, even assuming that the article complained of which appeared in the Daily Chronicle exceeded the limits of fair comment upon the proceedings in the county-court. It may be remembered that the plaintifEs were manufacturers of tinned provisions and had sold goods to a tradesman who had refused to pay for them, contending that they were defective and that had he sold them they would have proved dangerous The defective condition of the goods was to the public. admitted, but the Daily Chronicle appears to have erred in its criticism by implying, in accordance with the view of the jury, that the stock of the plaintiffs’ beyond those articles sold to the retailer in the case would be found in an equally defective and dangerous condition. For ourselves we maintain that the press does the public an eminent service by its honest criticism and, if need be, censure. This particular case is one which concerns us as medical journalists, for we are constantly dealing critically with foods and proprietary preparations, and if we found poisonous material in a food or a food dangerous to health we should not hesitate to say so. But in thus performing a public duty it is of course most desirable to restrict all censure to the real facts of the case and to keep it free from the smallest external implication. This the Daily Chronicle did not do. All the same, the damages awarded were very excessive, but we are glad to find that on contesting the award of .61900 in the Court of Appeal this week the proprietors of the Daily Ohronicle were allowed a new trial. The Master of the Rolls said that only a very gross libel could command such excessive damages. The verdict, he added, was a scandal, and there must be a new trial unless the parties would agree that the damages should be reduced to .B500. The ultimate issue will be interesting.
AUTHORITIES AND THE COST OF CONVERTING CONSERVANCY TO WATERCARRIAGE SYSTEMS.
LOCAL
DR. MEREDITH YOLTNG, the medical officer of health of
Stockport, raises some pertinent points in a paper in the January number of the Sanita’r!f Inspector in regard to the position of local authorities in embarking on large schemes in connexion with the conversion of conservancy systems to water-carriage systems. As is well known, a number of towns have within the past few years obtained Parliamentary 1
THE LANCET, Jan. 4th,
1896, p. 82 et seq.
THE annual clinical debate of the Chelsea Clinical Society will be held at the Jenner Institute of Preventive Medicine The subject for debate is "The on March 12th and 19th. Clinical and Pathological Relations of the Chronic Rheumatic and Rheumatoid Affections to Acute Infective Rheumatism." The debate will be opened by Dr. Archibald Garrod, and the following gentlemen will speak, amongst others, on March 12th, Dr. F. J. Poynton, Dr. Alexander Paine, Dr. G. A. Bannatyne, Mr. N. C. Macnamara, and Dr. C. O. Hawthorne. The meeting will be held at 8.30 P.M. THE Brussels Medical Graduates’ Association have unanito send an address to the King which sets forth that the members of the association humbly desire to offer their respectful sympathy to His Majesty in his recent bereavement,"caused by the death of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria." The address further congratulates the King on his accession and prays that he may long occupy that exalted position and may worthily extend the beneficence of that rule so happily inaugurated by her late Majesty."
mously resolved
-
IT is announced that the honorary degree of LL.D. is about to be conferred by the University of Edinburgh upon Sir John Williams, Bart., M,D., F.R.C.P. Lond. ; upon Dr> James Little, Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Dublin ; and upon Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay, the Attorney-General. Sir Robert Finlay, who has attained such great distinction in the faculty of law, began his career as a medical man and graduated as M.D. at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of
Edinburgh.
A
TELEGRAM
Milner,
to Mr.
on Feb. the week
--
from the Governor of
Cape Colony,
Chamberlain, received
Sir Alfred
at the Colonial Office
plague report for Feb. 23rd was as follows : There were 29 cases under treatment at the end of the week, seven deaths have occurred since the commencement of the outbreak, and there are 21 cases remaining under treatment and 167 " contacts." 27th,
states that the bubonic
ending remaining
____
WE
regret to hear that the Lord Chief Justice is so unwell to be obliged to cease work temporarily, though we are glad to learn that he is not likely to be much longer confined to his bed. There is no doubt that Lord Alverstone’s illness had its origin in the atmosphere of the Central Criminal Court where he presided for six days over the trial as