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MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT.
410 THE MUZZLING ORDER.—As
a
dogs have been received during Dogs’ Home, Battersea.
1100
the
DRAINAGE
OF
result of this the last few
order,
days
into
MARGATE.—It is understood that
of8cial sanction has been given to Mr. Baldwin Latham’s scheme for the sewerage of Margate.
LEWES HOSPITAL
AND
INFIRMARY.-At the
forty-
second annual meeting of the governors of this institution it was announced that the last Hospital Sunday collection in aid of the funds of the institution amounted to £20217s. 7d., but the receipts still show a small deficiency. Mr. W. T. Martin was re-elected hon. surgeon-dentist. -
THE MEASLES EPIDEMIC
ABERDEEN. - The
AT
medical officer of health, Dr. Hay, in his July report, states ;significantly that the decrease in the measles epidemic has been found to be coincident with the advent of the ;school holidays. Such being the case, it is manifest that extra precautions should be taken at the close of the vacation.
present time, when considerable excitement prevailed in connexion with a case that was occupying the public mind.-The Lord Chancellor said he would prefer not to discuss the subject now in reference to any future alteration in the law, and that was as satisfactory an answer as the noble lord was likely to get from the Government. -Lord Fitzgerald said that, in view of the unsatisfactory statement made by the Lord Chancellor, he would take upon himself the duty of introducing a Bill next session dealing with the question. Poor La2v Bill. The report of amendments on this Bill was brought up and agreed to. The Bill contains provisions enabling the Metropolitan Asylums Board to receive into their asylums patients suffering from diphtheria, and to hire out the Board’s ambulances for the conveyance of fever patients from one place to another. The Bill was subsequently read a third time and passed. Civilian Doctors and Military Service. In the House of Commons on Thursday, the 15th inst., Dr. Kenny asked the Secretary of State for War whether Dr. Richard Nicholls of Navan, who was for over seventeen years civil medical officer to the regular troops stationed in that town, and also for some years medical officer to the Meath Militia, had recently, under some new regulation, been deprived of those appointments without com. pensation.—In reply, Mr. E. Stanhope stated that Dr. Nicholls held no appointment. He was employed, as medical men were all over the to attend at contract rates detachments of troops when no military medical officer should be present. A military medical officer having been stationed at Navan, the necessity for Dr. Nicholls’s service ceased. It had always been a condition of the employment of a civilian medical practitioner that his employment might cease at any time without notice and without the creation of any claim to com.
kingdom,
VESTRIES.-A conference was held at the Metropolitan Hall, Blackfriars-road, last week, to protest against the system of sweating adopted by a number of London vestries with respect to the women pensation. in the of the vestries and who ALLEGED SWEATING
BY
"
employed dust-sifting yards only receive the wage of 7s. a week. meeting that women stood working
"
It was stated at the all day up to their
waists in dirt and filth. Resolutions were passed denouncing the system, and calling upon the Government to grant a Royal Commission to inquire into the question with a view to the scandal being suppressed. A committee to collect the necessary information was appointed and the conference
adjourned. THE CALEDONIAN MEDICAL SOCIETY.-This Society,
the membership of which is rapidly increasing, held its ninth annual reunion in the Grand Hotel, Trafalgar-square, on the 16th inst., Wm. A. Macnaughton, M.A., M.D., the President of the Society, in the chair. The objects of the Society are for purposes of mutual support, and for the advancement of medical science among its members, who must be graduates of a British university, and have some connexion with the Highlands of Scotland. The following are the office-bearers for the ensuing year :-President : Allan Macfadyen, M.D., D.Sc. Vice-President: J. Duncan Greenlees, M.B. Secretary and Treasurer: T. F. Tannahill, M.B., Rochester. Editor of Journal: J. Macpherson, M.B., Larbert, Stirling, N.B.
BEQUESTS
AND
DONATIONS
TO
HOSPITALS.—The
Dowager Countess of
Kintore has subscribed £1000 to the Jubilee Fund for the extension of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.-The guardians of the City of London Union have voted a donation of 910 to the Infirmary at Bow.-The late Miss Harriet Barton Denton, of Bank Road, Bootle, has bequeathed 9110 to the Bootle Borough Hospital. -Mr. Adam Geck, late of Chiswell Street, London, has left by his will £300 to the German Hospital, Dalston, and :fl00 to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest.-On Aug. 13th, delegates from the various friendly, benefit, and trade societies met at the Old Friends’ Hall, Upper St. Martin’s Lane, London, for the purpose of presenting 9139 to the secretary of the Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street, being the net result of a demonstration held on June 30th.The proprietors of the People’s Friend, Aberdeen, have handed to the directors of the Aberdeen Hospital for Sick Children the whole receipts of the recent National Wild Flower Exhibition, amounting to E160 18s. lld., making no deduction for expenses.
Londonderry Gaol. On Friday, the 16th, Mr. Balfour, in reply to Dr. Kenny, Mr. Sexton, and others, stated that the results now received of the special investiga. tion made by the medical member of the General Prisons Board, showed that Londonderry Prison had for at least a period of twenty years enjoyed a remarkable immunity from the principal zymotic diseases. There had been no case of fever among the prisoners during that period, nor was there any now.
Unqualified Medical Practitioners. Mr. Ritchie, replying to Mr. Causton, said that he had made inquiry of the Registrar-General, and was informed that the death of a child was registered on the certificate of a duly registered medical practitioner, who stated on his certificate that he had attended the child during its last illness, and that the cause of death was, to the best of his knowledge, " dentition convulsions." An inquest was held, and a verdict that the cause of death was narcotic poisoning. The coroner requested the registrar to inform the Registrar-General that the practitioner had certified that he had attended the child, although he had, in fact, never seen it, the child having been attended by his unqualified assistant. The registrar had asked to be furnished with a copy of the depositions. He had not yet received them, and he had therefore at present no evidence on which to take action.
found
Contagious’ -Diseases Act. Mr. Cavendish-Bentinck asked whether there were any statistics from India as to the alleged increase of contagious disease in the Indian army since the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act. - Mr. E. Stanhope, in reply, stated that, so far as the British troops were concerned, the admissions for venereal disease had risen from a yearly ratio of 323 per 1000 for the year 1887 to 560 per 1000 for the first four months of 1889.-In reply to a further question from Mr. Cavendish. Sir J. Gorst said that the Cantonment Bill contained proBentinck, visions for mitigating the prevalence of all contagious diseases within cantonments, and regulations for that purpose were now under the con. sideration of the Government of India. Hospitals in Ireland. the 17th, in Committee of Supply, on the vote to com. plete the sum of £16,658 for hospitals and infirmaries in Ireland, Mr. Sexton promised the support of the Irish members if the Government would bring in a Bill embodying the recommendations of the Royal Com. mission in favour of capitalising the whole grant for hospitals in Ireland, and putting the control of the sum realised under a central body, which should distribute the income according to the number and value of the various hospitals.-Mr. Jackson, in reply, stated that such a Bill had been drafted, and he believed it was just about ready. He would endeavour, after what Mr. Sexton had said, to introduce it during the present session. Lunatic Asylums in Ireland. On Monday, the 19th, Mr. Balfour, in reply to Mr. O’Keefe, stated that the scheme for the nomination by the Irish Government of governors on the various boards of lunatic asylums in Ireland was now practically comple ed, and the names would shortly be published. On
MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT. The Lunacy Laws. IN the House of Lords on Thursday, the 15th inst., a Bill to consolidate the Lunacy Laws was brought in by the Lord Chancellor and read a first time. A Court of Criminal Appeal. Lord Fitzgerald raised the question of establishing a Court of Criminal Appeal, and asked the Government to consider the matter during the recess and present a measure to Parliament during next session to effect that object.-The Lord Chancellor, Lord Herschell, and Viscount Cross condemned Lord Fitzgerald’s action in raising this question at the
Scotch Universities.
In Committee of Supply, on the vote to complete the sum of £16,888 for Scotch Universities, Mr. Hunter moved to reduce it by £1316, the amount proposed to be paid to the University Professors of Theology. At the Aberdeen University the education of about thirty divinity students was ;H62 a year each. The medical endowments were smaller than those for divinity, but the number of students in medicine was more than ten times the number of divinity students, while the cost was only £4 16s. per student. The University of Edinburgh had an income of £1944 for divinity, and the number of students was 107; while the endowments for medicine amounted to £1776, the number of medical students being 1879 ; so that the cost per medical student was 19s., and for each divinity student £18 3s. Taking the whole of Scot. land, the endowments for medicine amounted to £5800, and there were 3000 students, the cost being less than £2 per head. The endowments for divinity amounted to £7664, and the students numbered 278.-The Solicitor-General for Scotland replied, and the vote was carried on a division by 123 against 73.
Saturday,
411 Typhoid Fever in the West-end. On Tuesday, the 20th, in reply to the Marqnis of Granby,
Mr. Ritchio
said his attention had been called to the outbreak of typhoid fever in the West-end of London, and especially in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square. He had been assured that the vestry of that parish had a constant staff of men flushing the sewers at a large cost, allll that the London County Council also had a staff of flnsliers for the purpose of flushing their main sewer. He had also received a provisional report from Dr. Corfield, the medical officer of health of the parish, from - which it appeared that the outbreak took place almost entirely in the Hayfair sub-district. The outbreak had been limited to fourteen houses, and was confined to residences of the better class ; and from the uniformity in the date of the attacks and the fact that the sanitary arrangements of most of the houses where the cases occurred had been carefully carried out, Dr. Corfield had come to the conclusion that the outbreak was not due to any defect of sanitary arrangements, but to some temporary cause, which had apparently ceased to operate, The Vaccination Acts. In reply to Mr. Bradlaugh, Mr. Matthews promised to make inquiries into a case tried at Enfield, wherein the magistrates adjourned a summons for two months against a man who had failed to have his child vaccinated. The medical attendant swore in court that the child was not then fit, and would not be fit for at least a year, to be vaccinated. In default of the father finding sureties to appear in two months, be was committed to gaol.
Health of Prison Officials. On the report of the vote for superannuation and retiring allowances, Sir G. Campbell called attention to the enormous number of prison officials who had retired on account of ill-health.-Mr. Jackson explained that the phrase "ill-health"in connexion with prison warders was different from what it would mean in the case of other Government servants. A prison warder had to be in very full physical vigour, having to take charge of men not always of the most orderly character. It was therefore perfectly within the proper meaning of ill-health when the doctor certified that the warder’s physical vigour and capacity were not equal to the arduous duties he had to discharge.
GARRY—ROBERTS.—On Aug. 17th, at Sydenham, T. Gerald Garry, M.D., M.Ch., &c., of Princes-road, Liverpool, to Bridget, only daughter of the ltte Kdmund Cleaton, J.11., of Vaenor Park, LIanidloes, and widow of the late W. 1). Roberts, of Princes-road, Liverpool, and Bodhyfryd, Llanrwst. JOSEPH—DUNDER.—On Aug. 17th, at St. Luke’s Church, Little Bay Mines, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland, Louis Joseph, M.B., C.M., to Alice Jane Duder. (By cablegram.) MILLS—MUDGE.—On Aug. 15th, at the Parish Church, St. Elwyn, Hayle, by the Rev. W. Horsburgh, B.A., Vicar, Joseph Mills, of 28, Queen Anne-street, W., younger son of the late Robert Mills, of West Court, Inkpen, Berks, to Mary, youngest daughter of James Mudge, of Bonaér, Hayle, Cornwall. WIGHTWICK—D’ALTON.—On Aug. 14th, at St. James’s Church, Spanishplace, London, Fallon Percy Wightwick, M.B., only son of William Wightwick, J.P., Hilden, Folkestone, to Helen D’Alton, only daughter of the late John J.P., Cork, Ireland.
Shea,
DEATHS. CHAMBERS.—On Aug. 15th, at Shrubs Hill House, Sunningdale, Thomas King Chambers, M.D., F.R.C.P., Honorary Physician to H.R.H. the Prince of
Wales, aged 71. Aug. 21st, at Ipswich, Barrington Chevallier, M.B. Oxon., M.D., M.R.C.P. Lond., Medical Superintendent of the Borough Asylum. COMBE.-On Aug. 15th, at Holly House, North Walsham, Lancelot Orloff, second son of Orloff Combe, M.D. CUMBERBATCH.—On Aug. 18th, suddenly, on board the yacht Evangeline, at Salen, Loch Sunart, Argyllshire, Lawrence Trent Cumberbatch, M.D., of Cadogan-place. TAYLOR.—On Aug. 17th, at Nottingham, Henry Taylor, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., aged 76. CHEVALLIER.—On
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N.B.—A fee of 5s. is charged for the Insertion of Notices of Births, ffrarriages, and Deaths.
Appointments.
METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD.
Return of Patients remaining in the several Fever Hospitals
of the Board at
midnight
on
August 20th,
1889.
Successful applicants for Vacancies, Secretaries of Public Institutions, and others possessing information suitable for this column are invited to forward it to THE LANCET Office, directed to the Sub-Editor, not later than 9 o’clock on the Thursday morning of each week for publication in the next number.
FIELD, EDGAR A. H., L.D.S. Eng., has been appointed House Surgeon to the National Dental Hospital, Great Portland-street, W. GILL, JOHN, L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., has been reappointed Medical Officer of Guilsfield District, Llanfyllin Union. KELLETT, R. G., L.K.Q.C.P., L.R.C.S.Irel., has been reappointed Medical Officer of No. 1 District, Halstead Union. MALET, HENRY, M.B., B.S., M.D. Dub., has been reappointed Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Wolverhampton. WHEELER, THOMAS, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., has been reappointed Medical Officer of Health, Bexley Union District. WiLKiNSOx, ARTHUR T., B.A., B.Sc., M.D. Lond., M.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointed Honorary Physician to the Ancoats Hospital, Manchester.
Vacancies. For further information
regarding each vacancy reference should be made to the advertisement.
Births, Marriages, and Deaths. BIRTHS. COCKEY.—On Aug. llth, at Little Waltham, near Chelmsford, Essex, the wife of E. Percival Cockey, M.D. Lond., of a daughter. DILL.-On Aug. 17th, at Brunswick-place, Brighton, the wife of John Gordon Dill, M.A.,
M.D., of a
son.
GRACE.—On Aug. 15th, at Park House, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, the wife of Dr. Edward Mills Grace, Coroner for the Lower Division of
Gloucestershire, of a son. NICHOLLS.—On July 30th, at Dominica, West Indies, the wife of H. A. Alford Nicholls, M.D., F.L.S., of a daughter.
WELLS.-On Aug. 14th, at Belsize-park, N.W., the wife of Poulett Wells,
M.B., of a daughter.
WILKINS.—On Aug. 19th, at Windsor-road, Ealing, W., the wife of H. G. G. Wilkins, L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., of a daughter.
MARRIAGES. BUCKMASTER—BROOKS.—On Aug. 14th, at Worsley, Lancashire, George Alfred Buckmaster, M.D., Oxford, to Amy Elizabeth Brooks, eldest daughter of the late Charles Brooks, of Chester and Newton.
DILLON—STRELLEY.—On Aug. 13th, at the Parish Church, Reynoldstone, Glamorganshire, Charles Frederick Dillon, M.B., fourth son of Charles Forbes Hodson Shaw-Mackenzie, D.L. & J.P., of Newhall, Ross-shire, to Ada Maud, third daughter of the late Richard Clayton .Strelley, of Oakerthorpe, Derbyshire.
BIRMINGHAM MEDICAL AID ASSOCIATION
(Secretary, Westminsterchambers, Corporation-street, Birmingham). -Several additional Medical Officers in the borough and suburbs. BOROUGH HOSPITAL, Birkenhead.—Junior House Surgeon. Salary J::60, with board, lodging, and washing, also fees for notifying infectious cases.
No wine
or
beer.
ASYLUM, Birmingham.-Resident Clinical Assistant. Board, lodging, and washing provided, but no salary. KINGSTON UNION (Offices : St. James’s-road, Kingston-on-Thames).CITY
District Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator for the Parish of Teddington. Commencing salary £80 per annum, in addition to extra medical fees for operations, amputations, and to the payment for quinine, cod-liver oil, and linseed meal, at cost prioe. METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD (Offices: Norfolk House, Norfolk-st., Strand, W.C.)-Assistant Medical Officer, at the Eastern Fever Hospital, The Grove, Homerton, E.-Salary £15 per month, with board, furnished apartments, and washing. NORTH LONDON CONSUMPTION HOSPITAL, Hampstead, N.W.-Resident Medical Officer. Honorarium 40 a year, with board, rooms, &c. ROTHERHAM HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon. In lieu of salary, rooms, commons, and washing provided in the hospital. STAMFORD, RUTLAND, AND GENERAL INFIRMARY.—HOUSE Surgeon and Secretary. Salary £100 a year, with board, lodging, and washing. SWANSEA HOSPITAL. -Resident Medical Officer. Salary £100 per annum, with board, furnished apartments, coals, gas, laundress, and attendance.
VICTORIA INFIRMARY, Glasgow.-Superintendent and Resident Medical Officer. Salary £125 per annum, with apartments and board. WALLASEY DISPENSARY (Honorary Secretary, Elm Mount, Penkett-road, Liscard, Cheshire).—House Surgeon. Salary J::UO per annum, with furnished apartments, coals, and gas.
a
dogs have been received during Dogs’ Home, Battersea.
1100
the
DRAINAGE
OF
result of this the last few
order,
days
into
MARGATE.—It is understood that
of8cial sanction has been given to Mr. Baldwin Latham’s scheme for the sewerage of Margate.
LEWES HOSPITAL
AND
INFIRMARY.-At the
forty-
second annual meeting of the governors of this institution it was announced that the last Hospital Sunday collection in aid of the funds of the institution amounted to £20217s. 7d., but the receipts still show a small deficiency. Mr. W. T. Martin was re-elected hon. surgeon-dentist. -
THE MEASLES EPIDEMIC
ABERDEEN. - The
AT
medical officer of health, Dr. Hay, in his July report, states ;significantly that the decrease in the measles epidemic has been found to be coincident with the advent of the ;school holidays. Such being the case, it is manifest that extra precautions should be taken at the close of the vacation.
present time, when considerable excitement prevailed in connexion with a case that was occupying the public mind.-The Lord Chancellor said he would prefer not to discuss the subject now in reference to any future alteration in the law, and that was as satisfactory an answer as the noble lord was likely to get from the Government. -Lord Fitzgerald said that, in view of the unsatisfactory statement made by the Lord Chancellor, he would take upon himself the duty of introducing a Bill next session dealing with the question. Poor La2v Bill. The report of amendments on this Bill was brought up and agreed to. The Bill contains provisions enabling the Metropolitan Asylums Board to receive into their asylums patients suffering from diphtheria, and to hire out the Board’s ambulances for the conveyance of fever patients from one place to another. The Bill was subsequently read a third time and passed. Civilian Doctors and Military Service. In the House of Commons on Thursday, the 15th inst., Dr. Kenny asked the Secretary of State for War whether Dr. Richard Nicholls of Navan, who was for over seventeen years civil medical officer to the regular troops stationed in that town, and also for some years medical officer to the Meath Militia, had recently, under some new regulation, been deprived of those appointments without com. pensation.—In reply, Mr. E. Stanhope stated that Dr. Nicholls held no appointment. He was employed, as medical men were all over the to attend at contract rates detachments of troops when no military medical officer should be present. A military medical officer having been stationed at Navan, the necessity for Dr. Nicholls’s service ceased. It had always been a condition of the employment of a civilian medical practitioner that his employment might cease at any time without notice and without the creation of any claim to com.
kingdom,
VESTRIES.-A conference was held at the Metropolitan Hall, Blackfriars-road, last week, to protest against the system of sweating adopted by a number of London vestries with respect to the women pensation. in the of the vestries and who ALLEGED SWEATING
BY
"
employed dust-sifting yards only receive the wage of 7s. a week. meeting that women stood working
"
It was stated at the all day up to their
waists in dirt and filth. Resolutions were passed denouncing the system, and calling upon the Government to grant a Royal Commission to inquire into the question with a view to the scandal being suppressed. A committee to collect the necessary information was appointed and the conference
adjourned. THE CALEDONIAN MEDICAL SOCIETY.-This Society,
the membership of which is rapidly increasing, held its ninth annual reunion in the Grand Hotel, Trafalgar-square, on the 16th inst., Wm. A. Macnaughton, M.A., M.D., the President of the Society, in the chair. The objects of the Society are for purposes of mutual support, and for the advancement of medical science among its members, who must be graduates of a British university, and have some connexion with the Highlands of Scotland. The following are the office-bearers for the ensuing year :-President : Allan Macfadyen, M.D., D.Sc. Vice-President: J. Duncan Greenlees, M.B. Secretary and Treasurer: T. F. Tannahill, M.B., Rochester. Editor of Journal: J. Macpherson, M.B., Larbert, Stirling, N.B.
BEQUESTS
AND
DONATIONS
TO
HOSPITALS.—The
Dowager Countess of
Kintore has subscribed £1000 to the Jubilee Fund for the extension of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.-The guardians of the City of London Union have voted a donation of 910 to the Infirmary at Bow.-The late Miss Harriet Barton Denton, of Bank Road, Bootle, has bequeathed 9110 to the Bootle Borough Hospital. -Mr. Adam Geck, late of Chiswell Street, London, has left by his will £300 to the German Hospital, Dalston, and :fl00 to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest.-On Aug. 13th, delegates from the various friendly, benefit, and trade societies met at the Old Friends’ Hall, Upper St. Martin’s Lane, London, for the purpose of presenting 9139 to the secretary of the Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street, being the net result of a demonstration held on June 30th.The proprietors of the People’s Friend, Aberdeen, have handed to the directors of the Aberdeen Hospital for Sick Children the whole receipts of the recent National Wild Flower Exhibition, amounting to E160 18s. lld., making no deduction for expenses.
Londonderry Gaol. On Friday, the 16th, Mr. Balfour, in reply to Dr. Kenny, Mr. Sexton, and others, stated that the results now received of the special investiga. tion made by the medical member of the General Prisons Board, showed that Londonderry Prison had for at least a period of twenty years enjoyed a remarkable immunity from the principal zymotic diseases. There had been no case of fever among the prisoners during that period, nor was there any now.
Unqualified Medical Practitioners. Mr. Ritchie, replying to Mr. Causton, said that he had made inquiry of the Registrar-General, and was informed that the death of a child was registered on the certificate of a duly registered medical practitioner, who stated on his certificate that he had attended the child during its last illness, and that the cause of death was, to the best of his knowledge, " dentition convulsions." An inquest was held, and a verdict that the cause of death was narcotic poisoning. The coroner requested the registrar to inform the Registrar-General that the practitioner had certified that he had attended the child, although he had, in fact, never seen it, the child having been attended by his unqualified assistant. The registrar had asked to be furnished with a copy of the depositions. He had not yet received them, and he had therefore at present no evidence on which to take action.
found
Contagious’ -Diseases Act. Mr. Cavendish-Bentinck asked whether there were any statistics from India as to the alleged increase of contagious disease in the Indian army since the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act. - Mr. E. Stanhope, in reply, stated that, so far as the British troops were concerned, the admissions for venereal disease had risen from a yearly ratio of 323 per 1000 for the year 1887 to 560 per 1000 for the first four months of 1889.-In reply to a further question from Mr. Cavendish. Sir J. Gorst said that the Cantonment Bill contained proBentinck, visions for mitigating the prevalence of all contagious diseases within cantonments, and regulations for that purpose were now under the con. sideration of the Government of India. Hospitals in Ireland. the 17th, in Committee of Supply, on the vote to com. plete the sum of £16,658 for hospitals and infirmaries in Ireland, Mr. Sexton promised the support of the Irish members if the Government would bring in a Bill embodying the recommendations of the Royal Com. mission in favour of capitalising the whole grant for hospitals in Ireland, and putting the control of the sum realised under a central body, which should distribute the income according to the number and value of the various hospitals.-Mr. Jackson, in reply, stated that such a Bill had been drafted, and he believed it was just about ready. He would endeavour, after what Mr. Sexton had said, to introduce it during the present session. Lunatic Asylums in Ireland. On Monday, the 19th, Mr. Balfour, in reply to Mr. O’Keefe, stated that the scheme for the nomination by the Irish Government of governors on the various boards of lunatic asylums in Ireland was now practically comple ed, and the names would shortly be published. On
MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT. The Lunacy Laws. IN the House of Lords on Thursday, the 15th inst., a Bill to consolidate the Lunacy Laws was brought in by the Lord Chancellor and read a first time. A Court of Criminal Appeal. Lord Fitzgerald raised the question of establishing a Court of Criminal Appeal, and asked the Government to consider the matter during the recess and present a measure to Parliament during next session to effect that object.-The Lord Chancellor, Lord Herschell, and Viscount Cross condemned Lord Fitzgerald’s action in raising this question at the
Scotch Universities.
In Committee of Supply, on the vote to complete the sum of £16,888 for Scotch Universities, Mr. Hunter moved to reduce it by £1316, the amount proposed to be paid to the University Professors of Theology. At the Aberdeen University the education of about thirty divinity students was ;H62 a year each. The medical endowments were smaller than those for divinity, but the number of students in medicine was more than ten times the number of divinity students, while the cost was only £4 16s. per student. The University of Edinburgh had an income of £1944 for divinity, and the number of students was 107; while the endowments for medicine amounted to £1776, the number of medical students being 1879 ; so that the cost per medical student was 19s., and for each divinity student £18 3s. Taking the whole of Scot. land, the endowments for medicine amounted to £5800, and there were 3000 students, the cost being less than £2 per head. The endowments for divinity amounted to £7664, and the students numbered 278.-The Solicitor-General for Scotland replied, and the vote was carried on a division by 123 against 73.
Saturday,
411 Typhoid Fever in the West-end. On Tuesday, the 20th, in reply to the Marqnis of Granby,
Mr. Ritchio
said his attention had been called to the outbreak of typhoid fever in the West-end of London, and especially in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square. He had been assured that the vestry of that parish had a constant staff of men flushing the sewers at a large cost, allll that the London County Council also had a staff of flnsliers for the purpose of flushing their main sewer. He had also received a provisional report from Dr. Corfield, the medical officer of health of the parish, from - which it appeared that the outbreak took place almost entirely in the Hayfair sub-district. The outbreak had been limited to fourteen houses, and was confined to residences of the better class ; and from the uniformity in the date of the attacks and the fact that the sanitary arrangements of most of the houses where the cases occurred had been carefully carried out, Dr. Corfield had come to the conclusion that the outbreak was not due to any defect of sanitary arrangements, but to some temporary cause, which had apparently ceased to operate, The Vaccination Acts. In reply to Mr. Bradlaugh, Mr. Matthews promised to make inquiries into a case tried at Enfield, wherein the magistrates adjourned a summons for two months against a man who had failed to have his child vaccinated. The medical attendant swore in court that the child was not then fit, and would not be fit for at least a year, to be vaccinated. In default of the father finding sureties to appear in two months, be was committed to gaol.
Health of Prison Officials. On the report of the vote for superannuation and retiring allowances, Sir G. Campbell called attention to the enormous number of prison officials who had retired on account of ill-health.-Mr. Jackson explained that the phrase "ill-health"in connexion with prison warders was different from what it would mean in the case of other Government servants. A prison warder had to be in very full physical vigour, having to take charge of men not always of the most orderly character. It was therefore perfectly within the proper meaning of ill-health when the doctor certified that the warder’s physical vigour and capacity were not equal to the arduous duties he had to discharge.
GARRY—ROBERTS.—On Aug. 17th, at Sydenham, T. Gerald Garry, M.D., M.Ch., &c., of Princes-road, Liverpool, to Bridget, only daughter of the ltte Kdmund Cleaton, J.11., of Vaenor Park, LIanidloes, and widow of the late W. 1). Roberts, of Princes-road, Liverpool, and Bodhyfryd, Llanrwst. JOSEPH—DUNDER.—On Aug. 17th, at St. Luke’s Church, Little Bay Mines, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland, Louis Joseph, M.B., C.M., to Alice Jane Duder. (By cablegram.) MILLS—MUDGE.—On Aug. 15th, at the Parish Church, St. Elwyn, Hayle, by the Rev. W. Horsburgh, B.A., Vicar, Joseph Mills, of 28, Queen Anne-street, W., younger son of the late Robert Mills, of West Court, Inkpen, Berks, to Mary, youngest daughter of James Mudge, of Bonaér, Hayle, Cornwall. WIGHTWICK—D’ALTON.—On Aug. 14th, at St. James’s Church, Spanishplace, London, Fallon Percy Wightwick, M.B., only son of William Wightwick, J.P., Hilden, Folkestone, to Helen D’Alton, only daughter of the late John J.P., Cork, Ireland.
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DEATHS. CHAMBERS.—On Aug. 15th, at Shrubs Hill House, Sunningdale, Thomas King Chambers, M.D., F.R.C.P., Honorary Physician to H.R.H. the Prince of
Wales, aged 71. Aug. 21st, at Ipswich, Barrington Chevallier, M.B. Oxon., M.D., M.R.C.P. Lond., Medical Superintendent of the Borough Asylum. COMBE.-On Aug. 15th, at Holly House, North Walsham, Lancelot Orloff, second son of Orloff Combe, M.D. CUMBERBATCH.—On Aug. 18th, suddenly, on board the yacht Evangeline, at Salen, Loch Sunart, Argyllshire, Lawrence Trent Cumberbatch, M.D., of Cadogan-place. TAYLOR.—On Aug. 17th, at Nottingham, Henry Taylor, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., aged 76. CHEVALLIER.—On
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Appointments.
METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD.
Return of Patients remaining in the several Fever Hospitals
of the Board at
midnight
on
August 20th,
1889.
Successful applicants for Vacancies, Secretaries of Public Institutions, and others possessing information suitable for this column are invited to forward it to THE LANCET Office, directed to the Sub-Editor, not later than 9 o’clock on the Thursday morning of each week for publication in the next number.
FIELD, EDGAR A. H., L.D.S. Eng., has been appointed House Surgeon to the National Dental Hospital, Great Portland-street, W. GILL, JOHN, L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., has been reappointed Medical Officer of Guilsfield District, Llanfyllin Union. KELLETT, R. G., L.K.Q.C.P., L.R.C.S.Irel., has been reappointed Medical Officer of No. 1 District, Halstead Union. MALET, HENRY, M.B., B.S., M.D. Dub., has been reappointed Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Wolverhampton. WHEELER, THOMAS, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., has been reappointed Medical Officer of Health, Bexley Union District. WiLKiNSOx, ARTHUR T., B.A., B.Sc., M.D. Lond., M.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointed Honorary Physician to the Ancoats Hospital, Manchester.
Vacancies. For further information
regarding each vacancy reference should be made to the advertisement.
Births, Marriages, and Deaths. BIRTHS. COCKEY.—On Aug. llth, at Little Waltham, near Chelmsford, Essex, the wife of E. Percival Cockey, M.D. Lond., of a daughter. DILL.-On Aug. 17th, at Brunswick-place, Brighton, the wife of John Gordon Dill, M.A.,
M.D., of a
son.
GRACE.—On Aug. 15th, at Park House, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, the wife of Dr. Edward Mills Grace, Coroner for the Lower Division of
Gloucestershire, of a son. NICHOLLS.—On July 30th, at Dominica, West Indies, the wife of H. A. Alford Nicholls, M.D., F.L.S., of a daughter.
WELLS.-On Aug. 14th, at Belsize-park, N.W., the wife of Poulett Wells,
M.B., of a daughter.
WILKINS.—On Aug. 19th, at Windsor-road, Ealing, W., the wife of H. G. G. Wilkins, L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., of a daughter.
MARRIAGES. BUCKMASTER—BROOKS.—On Aug. 14th, at Worsley, Lancashire, George Alfred Buckmaster, M.D., Oxford, to Amy Elizabeth Brooks, eldest daughter of the late Charles Brooks, of Chester and Newton.
DILLON—STRELLEY.—On Aug. 13th, at the Parish Church, Reynoldstone, Glamorganshire, Charles Frederick Dillon, M.B., fourth son of Charles Forbes Hodson Shaw-Mackenzie, D.L. & J.P., of Newhall, Ross-shire, to Ada Maud, third daughter of the late Richard Clayton .Strelley, of Oakerthorpe, Derbyshire.
BIRMINGHAM MEDICAL AID ASSOCIATION
(Secretary, Westminsterchambers, Corporation-street, Birmingham). -Several additional Medical Officers in the borough and suburbs. BOROUGH HOSPITAL, Birkenhead.—Junior House Surgeon. Salary J::60, with board, lodging, and washing, also fees for notifying infectious cases.
No wine
or
beer.
ASYLUM, Birmingham.-Resident Clinical Assistant. Board, lodging, and washing provided, but no salary. KINGSTON UNION (Offices : St. James’s-road, Kingston-on-Thames).CITY
District Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator for the Parish of Teddington. Commencing salary £80 per annum, in addition to extra medical fees for operations, amputations, and to the payment for quinine, cod-liver oil, and linseed meal, at cost prioe. METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD (Offices: Norfolk House, Norfolk-st., Strand, W.C.)-Assistant Medical Officer, at the Eastern Fever Hospital, The Grove, Homerton, E.-Salary £15 per month, with board, furnished apartments, and washing. NORTH LONDON CONSUMPTION HOSPITAL, Hampstead, N.W.-Resident Medical Officer. Honorarium 40 a year, with board, rooms, &c. ROTHERHAM HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon. In lieu of salary, rooms, commons, and washing provided in the hospital. STAMFORD, RUTLAND, AND GENERAL INFIRMARY.—HOUSE Surgeon and Secretary. Salary £100 a year, with board, lodging, and washing. SWANSEA HOSPITAL. -Resident Medical Officer. Salary £100 per annum, with board, furnished apartments, coals, gas, laundress, and attendance.
VICTORIA INFIRMARY, Glasgow.-Superintendent and Resident Medical Officer. Salary £125 per annum, with apartments and board. WALLASEY DISPENSARY (Honorary Secretary, Elm Mount, Penkett-road, Liscard, Cheshire).—House Surgeon. Salary J::UO per annum, with furnished apartments, coals, and gas.