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OUR ARMY.
402 of the Army Reserve in 1888 was 54,395 noncommissioned officers and men, of whom 51,174 were in the first class and 3221 in the second. The deaths among the former were 303 and among the latter 61, being respectively in the ratio of 5’92 and 18’94 per 1000 of strength. The difference in the death-rate was doubtless the result of the different age distribution of the two classes;. in the first class almost all the men were under forty,. and three-fifths of them were under thirty, while in the. second class they were nearly all above forty years of age. The average strength of the Militia, exclusive of the manent staff, was 110,441, and among them the deaths reported were 408, or 3’69 per 1000, but this is probably understated, as a considerable number were struck off the strength as absentees, some of them in all likelihood being deaths. The Militia Reserve averaged 30,503, with 113: deaths reported, or 3’70 per 1000, but they also had a number struck off as deserters and absentees. The average strength of the Yeomanry Cavalry was 11,081, and they lost 81 by death, being 5’32 per 1000. The difference in the death-rate of Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry may be in a considerabledegree a result of age, as in the latter the proportion of men above thirty was 375 per 1000 of strength, while in theformer it was only 260. There was also a marked difference in the numbers struck off for absence, amounting in the Militia to 79’6, while in the Yeomanry Cavalry they were only 19-2 per 1000. The average strength of the Volunteers during the year was 227,253, and the deaths. reported were 746, or 3’28 per 1000; but it is probable that the omission to report deaths has been even greater than in the Militia. The Volunteers are comparatively young, th& proportion above thirty years of age being only 221 per 1000. We have prepared from the report the following table, showing the relativeages of the men forming the home force of the kingdom:—
strength
THE NEW SYDENHAM SOCIETY. THE thirty-first annual meeting of the new Sydenham Society was held at Leeds on Friday, Aug. 16th, Dr. Robert Barnes in the chair. The report, as below, was read and adopted, as was also the balance-sheet. During the year which has just clo3ed the following works were issued :-Second and concluding volume of Spiegelberg’s Midwifery; the fifteenth fasciculus of the
per-
Lexicon of Medical Terms ; the first volume of Cohnheim’s Lectures on General Pathology; the first volume of Henoch’s Lectures on Diseases of Children. For the year just commenced (1889) two works are already in the members’ hands; these are-the seventh fasciculus of the Atlas of Pathology, comprising Diseases of the Gall-bladder, Calculi, &c., with one plate, illustrating Osteitis Deformans ; the third volume of Charcot’s Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System. Respecting the Lexicon of Medical Terms, the Council is glad to know that its value is being more and more widely appreciated, and that new members are not rarely attracted by the wish to obtain it. The editors have now completed considerably more than half of their onerous task, and although their work does not proceed so rapidly as could be wished, its progress is steady. Respecting the excellence of their work, the Council believes there is but one opinion, and that nothing has been omitted likely to hasten its conclusion may readily be believed. The following works will be ready within the next six months, and the date of their issue will depend entirely upon the funds placed at the Council’s disposal :-The second volume of Henoch’s Lectures on Diseases of Children; the second volume of Cohnheim’s Lectures on General Pathology ; the sixteenth and seventeenth fasciculi of the Lexicon of Medical Terms; Fliigge’s Treatise on Micro-parasites. The Council wishes it to be clearly understood by local secretaries and members generally that the question as to the number of works to be issued in the current year rests with themselves. The works mentioned are almost finished, but most of them must of necessity be held over for another year unless subscriptions now due are paid up promptly, and a certain number of new members enlisted. It may be understood in a general way that the addition of j6500 to the Society’s income carries for all members an additional volume for the year. If, then, that number of new members can be added for 1889, or half that number for the two years 1888 and 1889, an additional volume will be given. In this matter the Council cannot but feel that it has discharged its share of duty to the Society, for From this it appears that the Militia has the highest pro. the works in question are in readiness. of lads under twenty, and that the Regular Army portion The receipts for the year amounted to .S1887 Ils. ld., has the smallest proportion of men of thirty and upwards. and the expenditure to £ l i 99 13s. 7. Dr. W. T. Gairdner was elected President for the ensuing year, and Dr. Sedgwick Saunders and Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson were re-elected Treasurer and Secretary respectively. IRISH LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
OUR ARMY. FRoii the " Preliminary Return of the British Army," prepared by the Adjutant-General, we learn that the average strength of officers in 1888 was 7822, and of warrant, officers, non-commissioned officers, and men 203,783. Of the latter, 103,140 were serving at home and 100,643 abroad. The deaths reported among them during the year were 1852 and the number discharged as invalids 2750, being respectively in the ratio of 9-11 and 13’53 per 1000 of strength. There were 8409 men, or 41’36 per 1000, transferred to the Army Reserve. There were 47,503 recruits inspected, of whom 14,973 were rejected before, and 1616 after, attestation, making a total of 16,589, or 349 per 1000 examined. Of the total enlisted, 25,156 ultimately joined, being in the proportion of 529 per 1000. Of the recruits who joined, 17,129, or 682 per 1000, were under twenty years of age. This is unsatisfactory, as it shows an increase in .
the
it Of the January lst, 1889, 234 per 1000
proportion under twenty compared with 1887, when
was
642, and with 1886, when it
was
636 per 1000.
serving at home on under twenty years of age. Arranged by nationalities, of every 10,000 serving, 7580 were English, 908 Scotch, 1379 Irish, 128 colonials, and 5 foreigners. The
men
were
averageI
THE thirty-eighth report on the District, Criminal, ana Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland has just been issued. The report has been prepared by Dr. Nugent, the other inspector having retired on pension. The continued and progressive decrease of the population of this country, to the extent of 776,000 individuals within the present decade, and of whom no less than 78,600 emigrated last year, has. materially influenced, as regards Ireland, the proportion between the sane and insane. The accepted ratio of mental disease, as judged by reliable data in the United Kingdom, had hitherto been estimated at about 2’86 cases in every 10,000 inhabitants; that proportion has been undergoing; a progressive and marked change in Ireland, through emigration and from the fact that the mentally affected of all ages are abandoned by their departing relatives;. while the indigent and those in the humbler walks of life are relegated to poorhouses or public asylums. The result is that about 36 to 10,000 would at present represent in Ireland the proportion of the insane to the sane. Of the 15,685 patients mentally affected on Jan. 1st last, 10,825 were located in district asylums, and 4083 in workhouses. As contrasted with the number of insane on Jan. lst, 1888, there has been an increase of 442. The total number under treatment for the past year in district asylums was 13,320, of whom 1207 were discharged recovered, 356 improved, 144 incurable, and 786 died. The mor-
strength
THE NEW SYDENHAM SOCIETY. THE thirty-first annual meeting of the new Sydenham Society was held at Leeds on Friday, Aug. 16th, Dr. Robert Barnes in the chair. The report, as below, was read and adopted, as was also the balance-sheet. During the year which has just clo3ed the following works were issued :-Second and concluding volume of Spiegelberg’s Midwifery; the fifteenth fasciculus of the
per-
Lexicon of Medical Terms ; the first volume of Cohnheim’s Lectures on General Pathology; the first volume of Henoch’s Lectures on Diseases of Children. For the year just commenced (1889) two works are already in the members’ hands; these are-the seventh fasciculus of the Atlas of Pathology, comprising Diseases of the Gall-bladder, Calculi, &c., with one plate, illustrating Osteitis Deformans ; the third volume of Charcot’s Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System. Respecting the Lexicon of Medical Terms, the Council is glad to know that its value is being more and more widely appreciated, and that new members are not rarely attracted by the wish to obtain it. The editors have now completed considerably more than half of their onerous task, and although their work does not proceed so rapidly as could be wished, its progress is steady. Respecting the excellence of their work, the Council believes there is but one opinion, and that nothing has been omitted likely to hasten its conclusion may readily be believed. The following works will be ready within the next six months, and the date of their issue will depend entirely upon the funds placed at the Council’s disposal :-The second volume of Henoch’s Lectures on Diseases of Children; the second volume of Cohnheim’s Lectures on General Pathology ; the sixteenth and seventeenth fasciculi of the Lexicon of Medical Terms; Fliigge’s Treatise on Micro-parasites. The Council wishes it to be clearly understood by local secretaries and members generally that the question as to the number of works to be issued in the current year rests with themselves. The works mentioned are almost finished, but most of them must of necessity be held over for another year unless subscriptions now due are paid up promptly, and a certain number of new members enlisted. It may be understood in a general way that the addition of j6500 to the Society’s income carries for all members an additional volume for the year. If, then, that number of new members can be added for 1889, or half that number for the two years 1888 and 1889, an additional volume will be given. In this matter the Council cannot but feel that it has discharged its share of duty to the Society, for From this it appears that the Militia has the highest pro. the works in question are in readiness. of lads under twenty, and that the Regular Army portion The receipts for the year amounted to .S1887 Ils. ld., has the smallest proportion of men of thirty and upwards. and the expenditure to £ l i 99 13s. 7. Dr. W. T. Gairdner was elected President for the ensuing year, and Dr. Sedgwick Saunders and Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson were re-elected Treasurer and Secretary respectively. IRISH LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
OUR ARMY. FRoii the " Preliminary Return of the British Army," prepared by the Adjutant-General, we learn that the average strength of officers in 1888 was 7822, and of warrant, officers, non-commissioned officers, and men 203,783. Of the latter, 103,140 were serving at home and 100,643 abroad. The deaths reported among them during the year were 1852 and the number discharged as invalids 2750, being respectively in the ratio of 9-11 and 13’53 per 1000 of strength. There were 8409 men, or 41’36 per 1000, transferred to the Army Reserve. There were 47,503 recruits inspected, of whom 14,973 were rejected before, and 1616 after, attestation, making a total of 16,589, or 349 per 1000 examined. Of the total enlisted, 25,156 ultimately joined, being in the proportion of 529 per 1000. Of the recruits who joined, 17,129, or 682 per 1000, were under twenty years of age. This is unsatisfactory, as it shows an increase in .
the
it Of the January lst, 1889, 234 per 1000
proportion under twenty compared with 1887, when
was
642, and with 1886, when it
was
636 per 1000.
serving at home on under twenty years of age. Arranged by nationalities, of every 10,000 serving, 7580 were English, 908 Scotch, 1379 Irish, 128 colonials, and 5 foreigners. The
men
were
averageI
THE thirty-eighth report on the District, Criminal, ana Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland has just been issued. The report has been prepared by Dr. Nugent, the other inspector having retired on pension. The continued and progressive decrease of the population of this country, to the extent of 776,000 individuals within the present decade, and of whom no less than 78,600 emigrated last year, has. materially influenced, as regards Ireland, the proportion between the sane and insane. The accepted ratio of mental disease, as judged by reliable data in the United Kingdom, had hitherto been estimated at about 2’86 cases in every 10,000 inhabitants; that proportion has been undergoing; a progressive and marked change in Ireland, through emigration and from the fact that the mentally affected of all ages are abandoned by their departing relatives;. while the indigent and those in the humbler walks of life are relegated to poorhouses or public asylums. The result is that about 36 to 10,000 would at present represent in Ireland the proportion of the insane to the sane. Of the 15,685 patients mentally affected on Jan. 1st last, 10,825 were located in district asylums, and 4083 in workhouses. As contrasted with the number of insane on Jan. lst, 1888, there has been an increase of 442. The total number under treatment for the past year in district asylums was 13,320, of whom 1207 were discharged recovered, 356 improved, 144 incurable, and 786 died. The mor-