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chemically pure, and that thebasement draintraps Eventually the magistrate decided the case in favour of the prosecution, and made an order to close, which was to be suspended for a fortnight, to see whether some improvement could not be made in the meantime. At the adjourned hearing on the 13th inst. the health officer reported that he was substantially satisfied with what had been done, and the magistrate thereupon withdrew the order to close, but inflicted a penalty of 910 and 1 Is. costs in each case. We congratulate the Southwark Vestry and Dr. Waldo upon their vigour and on the success attending this important prosecution.
the water
the ratepayers as respects infected houses, rooms, This sensitive consideration for the ownerarticles &c. even if perfectly able to do his own disinfection-at the cost of the ratepayer is a feature which distinguishes the Public Health Act of London from that of the provinces. True he is offered the choice and chance of doing it ;but what tenant or landlord will undertake such duties when he knows that if he does not do so within twenty-four hours it will be all done for him at other people’s expense? The legislation suggests the influence of property owners not only in London vestries but nearer the seat of Government, and is a part of that system which demoralises’the individual and We are glad to notice that burdens the State. does not undertake the defence the Asylums’ Manager the He the of Managers are not to system. says blame. Who is ? In the name of the poor, for whom these hospitals and these provisions for disinfection are made, and in the name of the overburdened ratepayer, who has no right to bear the cost of the avoidable diseases of the rich, we press this question. We are only at the beginning of this system of making the State responsible for infectious diseases. Within limits it is certainly a right system, though it involves public vaccination, isolation, and all sorts of invasions of private liberty; but the limits are already becoming invisible, and we must not overdo it. on
was
were secure.
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THERAPEUTICS
THE WESTERN GLASGOW.
IN
INFIRMARY,
DR. CHABTERIS, Professor of Materia Medica and Thera-
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DISEASES OF ANIMALS. A CONTEMPORARY states that cancer is reported to have made its appearance in one of the ponds of the Dunedin Acclimatisation Society of New Zealand. American brook trout only have been attacked, and none of the fish suffering from cancer have recovered. The statement that the disease has hitherto been unknown amongst fish is open to serious doubt.I New growths are often found in animals, especially when they have been kept long in confinement. The animals which die in the Gardens of the Zoological Society are rarely of much use for dissection, as they so commonly suffer from tumours of the bones and viscera. Such diseases probably also occur in a state of nature, but would most likely lead to early death, the animal succumbing in the struggle for existence. In fish myxomatous and sarcomatous tumours have been seen. The fish Platax arthriticus has been known from the time of Hunter as possessing very commonly, if not always, in the adult dense bony tumours symmetrically disposed on many of its bones. Reptiles and birds appear to be the lower animals that are most subject to malignant sarcomatous growths.
peutics in the University of Glasgow, has not obtained the appointment of visiting physician to the Western Infirmary, in spite of the highest personal claims and the reasonableness of giving to a teacher of therapeutics the opportunity of illustrating the action of medicines in actual cases. We adhere to our view that such a professor ought to have such a clinical appointment, and that without it both the students and he are placed at a great disadvantage. The appointment was given to Dr. Samson Gemmell, lecturer on the practice of medicine at Anderson’s College, Glasgow. Dr. Gemmell will of course make good use of his new appointment, but the defect of Professor Charteris’s position remains. MR.
BRAXTON
HICKS ON ASSISTANTS.
UNQUALIFIED
MR. BRAXTON HiCKS has made some very strong observaon the employment of unqualified asoistants at an inquest on Robert Barnet, aged eighty-two, who had died of
tions
I apoplexy.
INSANITARY ARTISANS’ MODEL DWELLINGS. I2 is not usual to find the
owners
The friends sent for Mr. Graham, whose private Upper Kennington-lane, but whose surgery is at 123, Tyer-street. An unqualified assistant went, and administered brandy. Mr. Graham maintained that in using an unqualified assistant so, at a different residence even from his own, he was only doing what was the practice of the medical profession. He did not tell the jury what he ought to know, that it is a practice which has been severely condemned by the Medical Council and one for which many practitioners have been removed from the Register. It is lamentable to see a medical man not only doing that which is forbidden, but saying that it is the practice of the profession. The coroner intimated his intention to report this and every such case to the Medical Council.
residence is 56,
of so-called model
AN AMENDED
RABIES ORDER. dtvellings in the police-court to answer a charge of allowing A NEW rabies order will come into effect on the lst proximo, their premises to remain in a condition dangerous to health. But the owners of the artisans’ dwellings in Gun-street were which, it is to be presumed, the Board of Agriculture expect recently summoned by the Southwark Vestry for allowing will tend to allay apprehensions excited by the reports of Nos. 1 and 2 Blocks in those buildings to be in such a state. outbreaks of the disease in different parts of the country and The proceedings were taken at the Southwark Police-court of persons dying from hydrophobia. The order only extends under the Housing of the Working Classes Act of 1890. The to England, Wales and Scotland, with the exception of the sanitary inspector found the dust shoots in a bad state of county and city of London, and its provisions are left to be repair, and with absent or deficient coverings ; the soil- carried out optionally by the local authorities. The order inpipe ventilators were defective and only a few feet from the cludes cattle, sheep, goats and swine, in addition to horses, water of the uncovered cisterns on the roof, which contained asses, mules and dogs, and it sanctions compensation in those vegetation from two to three inches in depth ; on account cases in which slaughter of animals is found to be necessary. In of the absence of proper air inlets into the drain there was respect to dogs, every local authority is empowered to seize danger of the traps at the bottom of the soil pipe being forced those which have wandered into its district, subject to uy backward pressure of sewer gas ; the waterclosets were the usual provisions as to the duration of detention, giving unprovided with casements. Indeed the whole property was notice to owners, recovery of penalties for infringein a dilapidated and neglected condition. It was shown that ment of the order and repayment to the authority of these conditions were associated with a prevalence of enteric reasonable expenses incurred. If dogs are not claimed fever and bowel complaints in the dwellings. Dr. Waldo, the within three days they may be destroyed ; if the owner has medical officer of health, gave evidence on behalf of the had notice, slaughter may take place within two days. Every vestry; and some rebutting evidence was called to show that person who has possession or charge of any rabid animal
chemically pure, and that thebasement draintraps Eventually the magistrate decided the case in favour of the prosecution, and made an order to close, which was to be suspended for a fortnight, to see whether some improvement could not be made in the meantime. At the adjourned hearing on the 13th inst. the health officer reported that he was substantially satisfied with what had been done, and the magistrate thereupon withdrew the order to close, but inflicted a penalty of 910 and 1 Is. costs in each case. We congratulate the Southwark Vestry and Dr. Waldo upon their vigour and on the success attending this important prosecution.
the water
the ratepayers as respects infected houses, rooms, This sensitive consideration for the ownerarticles &c. even if perfectly able to do his own disinfection-at the cost of the ratepayer is a feature which distinguishes the Public Health Act of London from that of the provinces. True he is offered the choice and chance of doing it ;but what tenant or landlord will undertake such duties when he knows that if he does not do so within twenty-four hours it will be all done for him at other people’s expense? The legislation suggests the influence of property owners not only in London vestries but nearer the seat of Government, and is a part of that system which demoralises’the individual and We are glad to notice that burdens the State. does not undertake the defence the Asylums’ Manager the He the of Managers are not to system. says blame. Who is ? In the name of the poor, for whom these hospitals and these provisions for disinfection are made, and in the name of the overburdened ratepayer, who has no right to bear the cost of the avoidable diseases of the rich, we press this question. We are only at the beginning of this system of making the State responsible for infectious diseases. Within limits it is certainly a right system, though it involves public vaccination, isolation, and all sorts of invasions of private liberty; but the limits are already becoming invisible, and we must not overdo it. on
was
were secure.
-
THERAPEUTICS
THE WESTERN GLASGOW.
IN
INFIRMARY,
DR. CHABTERIS, Professor of Materia Medica and Thera-
___
DISEASES OF ANIMALS. A CONTEMPORARY states that cancer is reported to have made its appearance in one of the ponds of the Dunedin Acclimatisation Society of New Zealand. American brook trout only have been attacked, and none of the fish suffering from cancer have recovered. The statement that the disease has hitherto been unknown amongst fish is open to serious doubt.I New growths are often found in animals, especially when they have been kept long in confinement. The animals which die in the Gardens of the Zoological Society are rarely of much use for dissection, as they so commonly suffer from tumours of the bones and viscera. Such diseases probably also occur in a state of nature, but would most likely lead to early death, the animal succumbing in the struggle for existence. In fish myxomatous and sarcomatous tumours have been seen. The fish Platax arthriticus has been known from the time of Hunter as possessing very commonly, if not always, in the adult dense bony tumours symmetrically disposed on many of its bones. Reptiles and birds appear to be the lower animals that are most subject to malignant sarcomatous growths.
peutics in the University of Glasgow, has not obtained the appointment of visiting physician to the Western Infirmary, in spite of the highest personal claims and the reasonableness of giving to a teacher of therapeutics the opportunity of illustrating the action of medicines in actual cases. We adhere to our view that such a professor ought to have such a clinical appointment, and that without it both the students and he are placed at a great disadvantage. The appointment was given to Dr. Samson Gemmell, lecturer on the practice of medicine at Anderson’s College, Glasgow. Dr. Gemmell will of course make good use of his new appointment, but the defect of Professor Charteris’s position remains. MR.
BRAXTON
HICKS ON ASSISTANTS.
UNQUALIFIED
MR. BRAXTON HiCKS has made some very strong observaon the employment of unqualified asoistants at an inquest on Robert Barnet, aged eighty-two, who had died of
tions
I apoplexy.
INSANITARY ARTISANS’ MODEL DWELLINGS. I2 is not usual to find the
owners
The friends sent for Mr. Graham, whose private Upper Kennington-lane, but whose surgery is at 123, Tyer-street. An unqualified assistant went, and administered brandy. Mr. Graham maintained that in using an unqualified assistant so, at a different residence even from his own, he was only doing what was the practice of the medical profession. He did not tell the jury what he ought to know, that it is a practice which has been severely condemned by the Medical Council and one for which many practitioners have been removed from the Register. It is lamentable to see a medical man not only doing that which is forbidden, but saying that it is the practice of the profession. The coroner intimated his intention to report this and every such case to the Medical Council.
residence is 56,
of so-called model
AN AMENDED
RABIES ORDER. dtvellings in the police-court to answer a charge of allowing A NEW rabies order will come into effect on the lst proximo, their premises to remain in a condition dangerous to health. But the owners of the artisans’ dwellings in Gun-street were which, it is to be presumed, the Board of Agriculture expect recently summoned by the Southwark Vestry for allowing will tend to allay apprehensions excited by the reports of Nos. 1 and 2 Blocks in those buildings to be in such a state. outbreaks of the disease in different parts of the country and The proceedings were taken at the Southwark Police-court of persons dying from hydrophobia. The order only extends under the Housing of the Working Classes Act of 1890. The to England, Wales and Scotland, with the exception of the sanitary inspector found the dust shoots in a bad state of county and city of London, and its provisions are left to be repair, and with absent or deficient coverings ; the soil- carried out optionally by the local authorities. The order inpipe ventilators were defective and only a few feet from the cludes cattle, sheep, goats and swine, in addition to horses, water of the uncovered cisterns on the roof, which contained asses, mules and dogs, and it sanctions compensation in those vegetation from two to three inches in depth ; on account cases in which slaughter of animals is found to be necessary. In of the absence of proper air inlets into the drain there was respect to dogs, every local authority is empowered to seize danger of the traps at the bottom of the soil pipe being forced those which have wandered into its district, subject to uy backward pressure of sewer gas ; the waterclosets were the usual provisions as to the duration of detention, giving unprovided with casements. Indeed the whole property was notice to owners, recovery of penalties for infringein a dilapidated and neglected condition. It was shown that ment of the order and repayment to the authority of these conditions were associated with a prevalence of enteric reasonable expenses incurred. If dogs are not claimed fever and bowel complaints in the dwellings. Dr. Waldo, the within three days they may be destroyed ; if the owner has medical officer of health, gave evidence on behalf of the had notice, slaughter may take place within two days. Every vestry; and some rebutting evidence was called to show that person who has possession or charge of any rabid animal