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1400 taken for dealing with all cases of infectious diseases arising in their own and adjoining districts." Information is asked for from the rural councils, and it will be interesting to observe the success of a systematic and courageous method of organising preventive measures such as this one .of the East Sussex County Council.
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the Mediterranean for which the advisers to the Crown are responsible. But we trust the time will soon come when the local legislators and counsellors of those colonies will have learnt that real measures for the prevention of disease lie in sanitary improvements, and that trust in quarantine restrictions does away with the strongest incentive to expenditure in the promotion of measures of public health.
THE HEALTH OF SIR WILLIAM MACCORMAC.
SIR WILLIAM MAC CORMAC’S condition has, on the whole, IT is announced that Professor R. Koch is on his way to he Cape, the Cape Government having invited him to improved during the past week. He has decidedly gained inquire into the outbreak of rinderpest in the colony. His strength and takes more nourishment. The temperature anvestigations will doubtless be characterised by the carealso shows some improvement and the lung has further and thoroughness with which his work is always performed. cleared up; all of which points to progress in the right Yet we cannot help thinking that one of the leading coloniesdirection. of the empire should have been able to select an investigator THE EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY CLUB. tfrom the ranks of British bacteriologists. THE members of this club gathered in great force on Wednesday A NON-MEDICAL CORONER ON HYDROPHOBIA. evening under the presidency of Dr. Conan The feature of the evening was a fine strong speech Doyle. ON Nov. 3rd an inquest was held by the Bristol city from the chairman on the qualities of the Edinburgh - coroner upon the body of Thomas Scammell, aged sixty-one University as a parent-somewhat stern in character and _years, who committed suicide by hanging himself. Accordbut with all the more advantage to her alumni discipline, ing to the report in the local press Scammell had been bitten when they came to the duties of life. by a dog fifteen years ago, and ever since during the "dog ’days" had suffered from the effects of the bite. The coroner MUNICIPAL HONOURS TO MEDICAL MEN. ’’ said that it was a most distressing case and was largely a .result of that terrible disease hydrophobia." Now supposing LAST year we had to record a considerable falling off in the coroner to have been properly reported, we would ask the number of those members of the profession who had what justification had he for assuming that the unfortunate been chosen their fellow-townsmen to by preside over their .man’s suicide was largely a result of hydrophobia. There interests from the chair. We are mayoral happy to see, ,was no evidence to show that he had ever had hydrophobia therefore, that this year the number of medical men who .at all. The jury, we are glad to see, simply returned a have been elected or re-elected as mayors has increased. The verdict that the deceased had hanged himself while of following is the list of which we have been notified : Mr. unsound mind, which is a rational verdict ; but that a Henry Grey-Edwards, B.A. Dubl., M.D., M.B., B.Ch. coroner should make such an utterance on a medical ques(Bangor) ; Alderman J. A. Hosker, M.R.C.S. Eng. (Bournetion as-if the report be correct-this one appears to have mouth) ; Mr. R. A. Prichard, L.R.C.P. Edin., and L.M., ,done is only one more argument for the appointment of M.R.C.S.Eng. (Conway); Mr.SamuelEvans,L.R.C.P.Lond., ,medical men to this office. M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A. (Harwich); Mr. T. W. Thursfield, ____
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M.D. Aberd., F.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.P. Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng. (Leamington Spa); Mr. J. Oliver, M.R.C.P.Edin., L.S.A. (Maids tone) ; Mr. G. H. Pollard, M.D. Edin., C.M. (Southport) ; G. R. Cundell, M.D. Durh., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A.
ON the 9th inst. the Public Health Act, 1896, came into .operation, and that Act finally abolished the last remnant of (Richmond, Surrey). - quarantine which was maintained in this country against SHELTERS IN LONDON. yellow fever and plague in order to secure our commerce ,against unnecessary restrictions in foreign ports. In con- I THE need of adequate accommodation for poor persons ,sequence of this change the duty of preventing and con- during the disinfection of their rooms has long been reco’trolling yellow fever and plague in ports of the United gnised, and the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, made it .Kingdom has been transferred from the Privy Council to the obligatory on London sanitary authorities to make such Local Government Boards of the three divisions of the provision. Much difference of opinion, however, has been ,kingdom, and on the 9th inst. the Local Government Board expressed as to the character of the accommodation which ?for England and Wales issued an order embodying the was needed, and hence while some authorities have either regulations which they have laid down with regard to yellow erected a specially designed building with suitable day and fever and plague, and also as to cholera, all preventive sleeping rooms and with ample arrangements for bathing, ,action as to the two former diseases being placed on much other authorities have not gone beyond providing a few the same footing as that which has been so successful in rooms that could be used only by day and not furnished the case of cholera. We anticipate no difficulty with foreign with baths. But beyond this there are certain authorities.nations on account of the change, for they have gradually who, we hope, will not be long before they abandon their ,come to see that our method of dealing with cholera at our disregard of public convenience-who have not done more effectual as than instruct their officers to hire rooms when they ,are the as to and it has least, theirs, say ports is, The vestry of St. Pancras are, properly, not altothat unless notorious to been be required. ships presumed long snfected with either yellow fever or plague happened to gether satisfied with the arrangements they have made, select the Solent for purposes of arrival the ordinary inasmuch as they they have not provided any sleeping rooms sport sanitary authorities would deal with the matter, for the use of the poor who are thus temporarily deprived ,and, indeed, have done so as regards yellow fever. In the of their rooms ; they have therefore instructed their medical above heading we have referred only to the United Kingdom. officer of health to ascertain for their information the nature We wish that we could have added that the same abandon- of the provision which has been made in other districts. ment of antiquated forms of restrictions for health purposes Dr. Sykes has now presented them with a report which - had also been effected as regards those Crown colonies of contains useful information and which will no doubt
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THE CAPE GOVERNMENT AND PROFESSOR KOCH’S MISSION.
the Mediterranean for which the advisers to the Crown are responsible. But we trust the time will soon come when the local legislators and counsellors of those colonies will have learnt that real measures for the prevention of disease lie in sanitary improvements, and that trust in quarantine restrictions does away with the strongest incentive to expenditure in the promotion of measures of public health.
THE HEALTH OF SIR WILLIAM MACCORMAC.
SIR WILLIAM MAC CORMAC’S condition has, on the whole, IT is announced that Professor R. Koch is on his way to he Cape, the Cape Government having invited him to improved during the past week. He has decidedly gained inquire into the outbreak of rinderpest in the colony. His strength and takes more nourishment. The temperature anvestigations will doubtless be characterised by the carealso shows some improvement and the lung has further and thoroughness with which his work is always performed. cleared up; all of which points to progress in the right Yet we cannot help thinking that one of the leading coloniesdirection. of the empire should have been able to select an investigator THE EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY CLUB. tfrom the ranks of British bacteriologists. THE members of this club gathered in great force on Wednesday A NON-MEDICAL CORONER ON HYDROPHOBIA. evening under the presidency of Dr. Conan The feature of the evening was a fine strong speech Doyle. ON Nov. 3rd an inquest was held by the Bristol city from the chairman on the qualities of the Edinburgh - coroner upon the body of Thomas Scammell, aged sixty-one University as a parent-somewhat stern in character and _years, who committed suicide by hanging himself. Accordbut with all the more advantage to her alumni discipline, ing to the report in the local press Scammell had been bitten when they came to the duties of life. by a dog fifteen years ago, and ever since during the "dog ’days" had suffered from the effects of the bite. The coroner MUNICIPAL HONOURS TO MEDICAL MEN. ’’ said that it was a most distressing case and was largely a .result of that terrible disease hydrophobia." Now supposing LAST year we had to record a considerable falling off in the coroner to have been properly reported, we would ask the number of those members of the profession who had what justification had he for assuming that the unfortunate been chosen their fellow-townsmen to by preside over their .man’s suicide was largely a result of hydrophobia. There interests from the chair. We are mayoral happy to see, ,was no evidence to show that he had ever had hydrophobia therefore, that this year the number of medical men who .at all. The jury, we are glad to see, simply returned a have been elected or re-elected as mayors has increased. The verdict that the deceased had hanged himself while of following is the list of which we have been notified : Mr. unsound mind, which is a rational verdict ; but that a Henry Grey-Edwards, B.A. Dubl., M.D., M.B., B.Ch. coroner should make such an utterance on a medical ques(Bangor) ; Alderman J. A. Hosker, M.R.C.S. Eng. (Bournetion as-if the report be correct-this one appears to have mouth) ; Mr. R. A. Prichard, L.R.C.P. Edin., and L.M., ,done is only one more argument for the appointment of M.R.C.S.Eng. (Conway); Mr.SamuelEvans,L.R.C.P.Lond., ,medical men to this office. M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A. (Harwich); Mr. T. W. Thursfield, ____
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THE LAST OF QUARANTINE KINGDOM.
IN THE
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M.D. Aberd., F.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.P. Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng. (Leamington Spa); Mr. J. Oliver, M.R.C.P.Edin., L.S.A. (Maids tone) ; Mr. G. H. Pollard, M.D. Edin., C.M. (Southport) ; G. R. Cundell, M.D. Durh., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A.
ON the 9th inst. the Public Health Act, 1896, came into .operation, and that Act finally abolished the last remnant of (Richmond, Surrey). - quarantine which was maintained in this country against SHELTERS IN LONDON. yellow fever and plague in order to secure our commerce ,against unnecessary restrictions in foreign ports. In con- I THE need of adequate accommodation for poor persons ,sequence of this change the duty of preventing and con- during the disinfection of their rooms has long been reco’trolling yellow fever and plague in ports of the United gnised, and the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, made it .Kingdom has been transferred from the Privy Council to the obligatory on London sanitary authorities to make such Local Government Boards of the three divisions of the provision. Much difference of opinion, however, has been ,kingdom, and on the 9th inst. the Local Government Board expressed as to the character of the accommodation which ?for England and Wales issued an order embodying the was needed, and hence while some authorities have either regulations which they have laid down with regard to yellow erected a specially designed building with suitable day and fever and plague, and also as to cholera, all preventive sleeping rooms and with ample arrangements for bathing, ,action as to the two former diseases being placed on much other authorities have not gone beyond providing a few the same footing as that which has been so successful in rooms that could be used only by day and not furnished the case of cholera. We anticipate no difficulty with foreign with baths. But beyond this there are certain authorities.nations on account of the change, for they have gradually who, we hope, will not be long before they abandon their ,come to see that our method of dealing with cholera at our disregard of public convenience-who have not done more effectual as than instruct their officers to hire rooms when they ,are the as to and it has least, theirs, say ports is, The vestry of St. Pancras are, properly, not altothat unless notorious to been be required. ships presumed long snfected with either yellow fever or plague happened to gether satisfied with the arrangements they have made, select the Solent for purposes of arrival the ordinary inasmuch as they they have not provided any sleeping rooms sport sanitary authorities would deal with the matter, for the use of the poor who are thus temporarily deprived ,and, indeed, have done so as regards yellow fever. In the of their rooms ; they have therefore instructed their medical above heading we have referred only to the United Kingdom. officer of health to ascertain for their information the nature We wish that we could have added that the same abandon- of the provision which has been made in other districts. ment of antiquated forms of restrictions for health purposes Dr. Sykes has now presented them with a report which - had also been effected as regards those Crown colonies of contains useful information and which will no doubt
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