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484 This work is course of operations on the cadaver. Progress in the Care and Prevention of Tuberculosis. carried out with the personal assistance of...

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484 This work is course of operations on the cadaver. Progress in the Care and Prevention of Tuberculosis. carried out with the personal assistance of the teacher, It is a matter of surprise and congratulation that the preand in this manner a competent knowledge can be ob- vention of tuberculosis and the better care of those suffertained. With regard to gynaecological operations, the from that disease have taken such a deep and abiding hold best way to secure any return for the trouble and ing the upon public mind and conscience. Throughout the entire expense of studying at Budapest is to pay for a course United States the common people are moving with a deterof instruction under one of the chief assistants of the mined purpose of exterminating the pestilence. It is gynaecological surgeons, and this secures a welcome in interesting to notice the great variety of methods pursued to the operating theatre. The amount of material in the accomplish this object. In the State of Missouri societies hospitals of Budapest attracts a large number of students ; for the prevention of tuberculosis are being formed in every but it is well for foreigners to remember that much time town and all of these societies will be under the direction of can be saved by careful selection of the methods of study. a central organisation in order to secure harmony in their operations. The intention of the promoters of this scheme Myopia in Hungarian Sohools. At a recent meeting of the Hygienic Society a report was is to unite the entire people of the State in the common object read on an inquiry into the subject of myopia in Bihar of exterminating the disease in that section. In the State of a travelling " Tuberculosis Exhibit " has been county. About 2500 children were examined and the results Maryland for the general education of the people in the most organised of examination of the various school classes were tabulated. In the first school class the cases of myopia amounted to approved methods of prevention and relief of tuberculosis. 12 per cent. ; in the second the percentage was 8, in the Besides showing charts, photographs, pathological specimens third 4, in the fourth 3’ 3, in the fifth 1’ 8, and in the sixth and models, the association, which has the management of the 0’ 2, showing a gradually increased percentage with length- exhibit, will provide for lectures with stereopticon views ened period of study. The reporter said that the tables where lanterns are available. In the State of Pennsylvania demonstrated the great influence of the school in the the immense public forests are about to be given up to the and treatment of the tuberculous poor, the State pro" development of myopia. For a comparison he also examined care viding simple shaks at the rate of a dollar per week. In .560 pupils in private schools, where the well-to-do people the York an abandoned ferry boat has been of New city send their children to learn. He found that there the

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moored at a dock and made a very simple day-camp for was only 1’ 4, a proof that the unfavourable conditions prevalent in public schools were the consumptives. There is a trained nurse in charge with a He observed very little follicular regular visiting staff of physicians; the number of patients cause of the eye trouble. inflammation and never met with trachoma. There was one is 50 and the results obtained are in every way most satisfactory. These instances of novel methods of combating case of congenital cataract in a boy of 11 years who had been looked upon as idiotic, the ophthalmic affection having com- the common enemy might be multiplied indefinitely. pletely escaped the notice of the teachers. The school Military Hygiene in Public Schools. buildings were inspected from a hygienic point of view and In a prize essay Colonel Hoff, of the United States Army, condemned. Although newly constructed the seats were of makes the suggestion that the American Red Cross should an old-fashioned type and compelled a faulty position of the exert its influence to have the elements of military hygiene children sitting on them. The class rooms were comparataught to boys in the public schools. He states that such tively dark, only one-third of the area of one large room teaching would not add much to the course, nor would it receiving direct light from without. The heating of all the make any intellectual demand beyond that which could be schools was also very imperfect and on account of the street met by an average student. Its value would lie in teachnoises the ventilation had to be subordinated to the comfort the student how to take care of himself in the field, ing of the occupants of the class rooms. what to do and what to avoid, and would give him the August 10th. rules of right living and the reasons under the stress of a campaign. Boys who have learned these facts in early life would enter the military service so enlightened in regard to NEW YORK. the best methods of preserving good health that the ordinary (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) camp diseases would disappear. The same writer advises that the colleges and universities should be required to recognise these hygienic studies in their curricula. Especially Assistant Army Surgeons. is this true of the medical colleges which should make an THE recent examination of applicants for the position of adequate knowledge of military hygiene obligatory not only assistant surgeon in the army demonstrates the disadvantages for the degree in medicine but for the State licences to under which the Medical Department labours on account of practise medicine. It seems to Colonel Hoff that it is the failure of Congress to approve of measures of reform peculiarly the mission of the Red Cross to secure the reform which would place that service on the same basis as other in education which he proposes. branches. There is nothing now in the medical service The Insurance Fee Question. which invites young surgeons to enter it. The rank of the The final action of the American Medical Association on - surgeon is inferior and the opportunities for promotion are few and far between. Of 33 candidates who were invited the question of fees for medical examination in insurance to appear and take the examination only 11 responded. Of companies was to commit the subject to the State and these 11 who took the entire examination seven were found county societies for such action as they may deem wise and qualified, an unusally large proportion of successful can- proper. Heretofore, each physician was to fix the fee in didates in comparison with past experience. There are now each individual case as he might deem proper and the result .31 vacancies in the junior grade of the Medical Department was that there was no uniform charge on the part of the and the prospects of filling them are less favourable than for profession for these services. The insurance companies took many years past. advantage of this condition and succeeded in reducing the fee in many instances to a ridiculous figure. The recent Prohibiting Publicity of Treatment of S’exual or Menstrual action of the association makes it incumbent for local Disorders. medical societies to fix the fees, and thus there will be The Legislature of the State of Colorado has passed an Act of rates in each State or county. to protect the public morals by prohibiting the giving general uniformity 3rd. August publicity to treatment and devices for the cure or prevention of sexual or menstrual diseases. The law provides that it shall be unlawful for any person, association, partnership, or AUSTRALIA.

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