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the demise of its partner. Sixteen males and 11 females perishes much more speedily than in the water of the lake. still blessed with loving spouses, but we are not told 5. The quantity of organic matter (peptone) in redistilled whether in any case husband and wife had both reached water influences fundamentally the life of the typhoid fever their century. Finally, one lady is a divorcée, and apparently bacillus, so small an increment as 0’0126 organic nitrogen attained to that condition since she became a centenarian. (part per 100,000) causing a perceptible lengthening of life. "Never," exclaims the writer in a paroxysm of mock-heroic 6. In sterilised lake water the addition of a still smaller virtue-" never could a man be found sufficiently hard- quantity of organic nitrogen-0’0012-affects the longevity hearted after 100 years to endeavour to strike a balance with of the typhoid fever bacilli introduced. his bride after that fashion." were
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS AND MEDICAL CERTIFICATES. WE see it announced that at the meeting of the Association of Municipal Corporations, now being held in London, among other resolutions to be considered is one for the abolition or reduction of payment to medical men for certificates issued under the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889. We are curious to hear on what grounds their resolution is going to be supported. Is it that the proposer finds the Act vicious in its working, and so the certificates unnecessary ?If so, he will have some rather awkward evidence against him to surmount. Or is it that he thinks medical If so, he will have to give men should work for nothing ?‘! reasons for holding that our profession should be exempt from the business conditions universally prevailing.
THE NEW ENTRIES AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS. OUR statistical returns of the students who have entered
THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE FOOD AND DRUGS ACT AT BRISTOL. AT the last meeting of the Bristol Town Council the resolution was moved : "That the administration of Food and Drug Acts be entrusted to the Sanitary Committee." It was stated that at present this power is in the hands of the watch committee and police, and that Bristol was the only city in the kingdom where the A’jt was administered by the police, but that almost invariably it was in the hands of the health committee of the corporation. It was admitted that the police and the chief constable A member of the council were in favour of the transfer. remarked that during his connexion with the watch committee he had never heard any member ask that any single article should be examined. The objection, according to one speaker, was that the sanitary committee was a spending committee, and that it would appoint paid inspectors to carry out the working of the Act. Unfortunately the resolution was defeated, and consequently the power is still in the hands of the police. Bristol should certainly follow the example of other towns, and place this authority in the hands of the sanitary committee, as this is the most suilable body to select articles which have to be examined and
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npon a course of medical study at the London and provincial medical schools are not yet complete and we must hold over our analysis of the figures for a future issue of THE LANCET. Up to the present time 187 new students have entered at St. Bartholomew’s analysed. Hospital, 83 at Charing-cross Hospital, 55 at St. George’s Hospital, 184 at Guy’s Hospital, 112 at King’s College, 138 THE WEATHER AND DISEASE. at London Hospital, 158 at St. Mary’s Hospital, and 203 at PoHTM and writers in all ages have made reference to the University College Hospital. At the provincial schools there eftects which changes of the weather produce in the human have been 28 new entries at University College, Bristol ; 91 the archives of folk-lore would furnish and at Mason College, Birmingham ; 59 at University College, organism, much evidence that these effects have not passed unCardiff ; 17 at Yorkshire College, Leeds; and 16 at the noticed by the proletariat. Unfortunately, however, the Sheffield Medical College. It will be seen that the list is by been adulterated with a great deal of superhas subject no means complete, and the figures when analysed later will which has in a great measure tended to retard stition, require considerable explanation. intelligent inquiry. That the various atmospheric changes some effect upon our bodies is easily underDRINKING-WATER. should forhave TYPHOID FEVER BACILLI IN we know that alteration in the surface temperastood, IT is now generally admitted that drinking-water is often a ture, change in the blood pressure or in the air pressure the vehicle of infection in typhoid fever. The exact con- of the lungs, may affect the nervous system, and all these ditions that befriend or antagonise the specific germ in changes may be brought about by some peculiarity of the water have naturally been made the object of study by natural phenomena which we call weather. In recent years These studies, however, have led the many investigators. subject has attracted attention by those most competent in many cases to results so conflicting, and have been to deal with the matter, and lately a meteorological station based in general on methods and material so diverse, has been attached to the laboratories of the Public Health A paper on that the chief outcome has been confusion. Department at Rome, where lectures are given to students on this subject entitled " On some Conditions affecting the the application of meteorology to hygiene. At present our Behaviour of the Typhoid Bacillus in Water" appears in knowledge of the way in which the weather acts upon the body the Philadelphia ffledical Ne7vs of Sept. 28th from the pen is very limited, and must remain so until a larger number of of Dr. E. 0. Jordan of Chicago. The nature of the experi- data are collected. An attempt to trace the relation between ments is carefully given. Without going further into detail weather and disease has recently been made by a Fellow of we here give the general results arrived at by Dr. Jordan. the Royal Meteorological Society’by bringing together a 1. The age of the typhoid fever stock influences greatly the number of statistics dealing with the phenomena of the life of the bacilli introduced into water, a freshly isolated weather and some well-known diseases, chiefly zymotic, prestock possessing distinctly greater vitality than one that senting them by a graphic method in a systematic manner. has been under cultivation for some months. 2. The Little attempt has been made to draw conclusions from fever when introduced with bacillus, typhoid proper pre- these statistics, and until they have been digested by many cautions into sterilised Lake Michigan water, does not minds perhaps the writer was wise in his omission. There multiply, but may, under certain conditions, maintain its are few people who could not give instances of the influence vitality for upwards of ninety-three days. 3. The colon which the weather has upon them either mentally or bacillus, on the contrary, under similar conditions, under1 Weather and Disease: a Curve History of their Variations in Recent goes rapid multiplication and may remain alive for upwards Years. By Alex. B. MacDowall, M.A., F.R. Met.S. (The Graphotone Co., of 262 days. 4. In redistilled water the typhoid fever bacillus London, E.C. Price 2s. 6d.) -
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the demise of its partner. Sixteen males and 11 females perishes much more speedily than in the water of the lake. still blessed with loving spouses, but we are not told 5. The quantity of organic matter (peptone) in redistilled whether in any case husband and wife had both reached water influences fundamentally the life of the typhoid fever their century. Finally, one lady is a divorcée, and apparently bacillus, so small an increment as 0’0126 organic nitrogen attained to that condition since she became a centenarian. (part per 100,000) causing a perceptible lengthening of life. "Never," exclaims the writer in a paroxysm of mock-heroic 6. In sterilised lake water the addition of a still smaller virtue-" never could a man be found sufficiently hard- quantity of organic nitrogen-0’0012-affects the longevity hearted after 100 years to endeavour to strike a balance with of the typhoid fever bacilli introduced. his bride after that fashion." were
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS AND MEDICAL CERTIFICATES. WE see it announced that at the meeting of the Association of Municipal Corporations, now being held in London, among other resolutions to be considered is one for the abolition or reduction of payment to medical men for certificates issued under the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889. We are curious to hear on what grounds their resolution is going to be supported. Is it that the proposer finds the Act vicious in its working, and so the certificates unnecessary ?If so, he will have some rather awkward evidence against him to surmount. Or is it that he thinks medical If so, he will have to give men should work for nothing ?‘! reasons for holding that our profession should be exempt from the business conditions universally prevailing.
THE NEW ENTRIES AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS. OUR statistical returns of the students who have entered
THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE FOOD AND DRUGS ACT AT BRISTOL. AT the last meeting of the Bristol Town Council the resolution was moved : "That the administration of Food and Drug Acts be entrusted to the Sanitary Committee." It was stated that at present this power is in the hands of the watch committee and police, and that Bristol was the only city in the kingdom where the A’jt was administered by the police, but that almost invariably it was in the hands of the health committee of the corporation. It was admitted that the police and the chief constable A member of the council were in favour of the transfer. remarked that during his connexion with the watch committee he had never heard any member ask that any single article should be examined. The objection, according to one speaker, was that the sanitary committee was a spending committee, and that it would appoint paid inspectors to carry out the working of the Act. Unfortunately the resolution was defeated, and consequently the power is still in the hands of the police. Bristol should certainly follow the example of other towns, and place this authority in the hands of the sanitary committee, as this is the most suilable body to select articles which have to be examined and
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npon a course of medical study at the London and provincial medical schools are not yet complete and we must hold over our analysis of the figures for a future issue of THE LANCET. Up to the present time 187 new students have entered at St. Bartholomew’s analysed. Hospital, 83 at Charing-cross Hospital, 55 at St. George’s Hospital, 184 at Guy’s Hospital, 112 at King’s College, 138 THE WEATHER AND DISEASE. at London Hospital, 158 at St. Mary’s Hospital, and 203 at PoHTM and writers in all ages have made reference to the University College Hospital. At the provincial schools there eftects which changes of the weather produce in the human have been 28 new entries at University College, Bristol ; 91 the archives of folk-lore would furnish and at Mason College, Birmingham ; 59 at University College, organism, much evidence that these effects have not passed unCardiff ; 17 at Yorkshire College, Leeds; and 16 at the noticed by the proletariat. Unfortunately, however, the Sheffield Medical College. It will be seen that the list is by been adulterated with a great deal of superhas subject no means complete, and the figures when analysed later will which has in a great measure tended to retard stition, require considerable explanation. intelligent inquiry. That the various atmospheric changes some effect upon our bodies is easily underDRINKING-WATER. should forhave TYPHOID FEVER BACILLI IN we know that alteration in the surface temperastood, IT is now generally admitted that drinking-water is often a ture, change in the blood pressure or in the air pressure the vehicle of infection in typhoid fever. The exact con- of the lungs, may affect the nervous system, and all these ditions that befriend or antagonise the specific germ in changes may be brought about by some peculiarity of the water have naturally been made the object of study by natural phenomena which we call weather. In recent years These studies, however, have led the many investigators. subject has attracted attention by those most competent in many cases to results so conflicting, and have been to deal with the matter, and lately a meteorological station based in general on methods and material so diverse, has been attached to the laboratories of the Public Health A paper on that the chief outcome has been confusion. Department at Rome, where lectures are given to students on this subject entitled " On some Conditions affecting the the application of meteorology to hygiene. At present our Behaviour of the Typhoid Bacillus in Water" appears in knowledge of the way in which the weather acts upon the body the Philadelphia ffledical Ne7vs of Sept. 28th from the pen is very limited, and must remain so until a larger number of of Dr. E. 0. Jordan of Chicago. The nature of the experi- data are collected. An attempt to trace the relation between ments is carefully given. Without going further into detail weather and disease has recently been made by a Fellow of we here give the general results arrived at by Dr. Jordan. the Royal Meteorological Society’by bringing together a 1. The age of the typhoid fever stock influences greatly the number of statistics dealing with the phenomena of the life of the bacilli introduced into water, a freshly isolated weather and some well-known diseases, chiefly zymotic, prestock possessing distinctly greater vitality than one that senting them by a graphic method in a systematic manner. has been under cultivation for some months. 2. The Little attempt has been made to draw conclusions from fever when introduced with bacillus, typhoid proper pre- these statistics, and until they have been digested by many cautions into sterilised Lake Michigan water, does not minds perhaps the writer was wise in his omission. There multiply, but may, under certain conditions, maintain its are few people who could not give instances of the influence vitality for upwards of ninety-three days. 3. The colon which the weather has upon them either mentally or bacillus, on the contrary, under similar conditions, under1 Weather and Disease: a Curve History of their Variations in Recent goes rapid multiplication and may remain alive for upwards Years. By Alex. B. MacDowall, M.A., F.R. Met.S. (The Graphotone Co., of 262 days. 4. In redistilled water the typhoid fever bacillus London, E.C. Price 2s. 6d.) -
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