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740 and Professor Ramsay, was adopted. Sir William Laird moved, and it was resolved, that a committee be appointed to cooperate with the council of the association. On the motion of Dr. G. C. Beatson, chairman of the council of the association, a vote of thanks was awarded to the Lord Provost for presiding.
Chapman
MEDICAL
HIGH
SHERIFF.-Dr.
A.
Garrod
Thomas, J.P., of Clytha Park, Newport, Mon., has been
appointed High
Sheriff of
Cardiganshire. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND.At the request of the Secretary of State for War the President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland has nominated Mr. F- G. Fitzgerald, L.R.C.P. & S.Irel., to a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps. ANn-VACCINATIONISTS AS VACCINATION OFFICERS. -At the meeting of the Liskeard Board of Guardians held on Feb. 24th Mr. Preston Thomas, of the Local Government Board, who attended the meeting, said that he did so at the express wish of Mr. Henry Chaplin, M.P., in reference to the
refusal of the Local Government Board to sanction the appointment of an anti-vaccinationist as vaccination officer for the Collington district. After some discussion it was decided to agree to the wishes of the Local Government Board and to advertise for a vaccination officer for the district and that the words " no anti-vaccinationist need apply " should be added to the advertisement.
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that actually cooked had been found to be uneatable and had been treated in the same way; (3) whether any reports had been received from South Africa on the condition of some of the troops when landed to the effect that they had evidently been underfed on the voyage ; and (4) whether steps had been taken to secure that the meat issued to the troops on board transports shall be of good quality and the provisions on sale cheap and plentiful.-Mr. MACARTNEY : Reports have been received from officers commanding troops on board 60 transports victualled by the Admiralty. On seven transports the salt meat ration was condemned on different occasions and other rations were issued. Five commanding officers have reported that the troops disliked the salt beef rations because they were either too salt, or hard, or unpalatable. The answer to the third paragraph is in the negative. Every care has been taken to secure that the rations issued to the troops should be of the best quality, and in a few cases where complaints had been made that the prices of the canteen were high and the stock of articles sold there insufficient the attention of the owners has been called to these matters and they have been rectified. I may add that in the case of every ship where comwere made the salt beef has been landed at the Cape and that the report of the board which has surveyed it is to the effect that it is quite satisfactory.-Sir JAMES FERGUSSON: Is it not the fact that in some of the transports the cases of salt beef were marked "1893"?Mr. MACARTNEY : No, sir, I have not had any report to that effect and I do not believe there is any foundation for the statement.-Sir JAMES FERGUSSON I will give you proof.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 2ND. Proposed Special Night Staff for Netley Hospital.
Captain NORTON asked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Army Medical Corps are on duty for long hours in attendance upon sick and wounded at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, he would consider the advisability of organising a special staff of night orderlies, who would be excused day duty as in all large civil hospitals, in order that the sick or wounded might be at least as well attended to as the civilian patient.-Mr. POWELL WILLIAMS: The question has been very carefully considered and in view of the number of experienced men of the Medical Staff Corps who have applied to re-enlist and by whose help the pressure will be greatly diminished it is not thought expedient to form the special staff suggested. The Meat on Board the Transports. Sir JAMES FERGUSSON asked the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty whether he had inquired into his statement that cases of salt beef marked 1893" were shipped for the rations of troops going to South
NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS. The Lunacy Bill. MACARTNEY : 1842 pounds of beef of the date "1893" have SEVERAL amendments were made in the Lunacy Bill during its returned from the Kildonan Castle. I must therefore apologise to been passage through Committee in the House of Lords and several subsec- my right hon. friend for making a statement on the subject which was tions and new clauses were added. Among the additions are a provision not correct. No beef of that date was supplied to any other transport that the judicial authority shall in his report to the Commissioners from which complaints have been received. I made inquiries on that state definitely’whether in his opinion the detention is or is not proper point by telegraph yesterday. The complaint that the beef was hard as regards the Kildonan Castle did not come from the commanding officer and another to the effect that the power of two or more local authorities of the Kildonan Castle. to agree to unite in providing and maintaining a district asylum shall MONDAY, MARCH 5TH. be construed as including a power to unite in providing and maintainFood Standards. Proposed ing a laboratory for pathological research in connexion with lunacy. Mr. HEDDERWICK asked the President of the Board of Agriculture The Cost of the Medical Establishment of the Army. whether any and what steps had been taken by the Board of The effects of the war are visible in almost every item of the Agriculture in exercise of the power conferred by Section 4 of the of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, upon the Board, to set up preestimates for the medical establishment of the army. The total vote for Sale sumptive standards of quality in respect of milk, cream, butter, and it is no less than £555.000. 1899-1900 was B305.800, whereas for 1&00-1901 cheese.-Mr. WALTER LONG: No regulations under the section referred of the Army Medical Service there to have as yet been made, but I have appointed a Departmental ComUnder the head of pay, &c., mittee, of which Lord Wenlock is chairman, to consider whether any is an increase of £41,800 ; of pay of civilian medical practitioners, &c., such regulation can with advantage be made in respect of milk and an increase of £120,600, the figures being £134,500 as against B13.900; cream, and upon the report of the committee the further action to be of corps pay and extra duty pay of the Royal Army Medical Corps, taken will to a great extent depend. nurses, clerks, and other subordinates, an increase of E36,300 ; and of TUESDAY, MARCH 6TH. cost of medicines, &c., an increase of £80.000. In his explanatory statement the Secretary of State said that all the available officers of The Nursing Staff of the new Bethnal-green Infirmary. the Royal Army Medical Corps ordinarily on the home establishment Sir MANCHERJEE BHOWNAGGREE asked the President of the Loea had been sent to South Africa and their places at home had been Government Board whether the Board of Guardians of St. Matthew’s, foi the appointfilled by the employment of retired officers and civil medical practi- Bethnal-green, applied some months ago for sanction ment and salaries of the nursing staff for the new Bethnal-green Intioners. In addition 223 civil surgeons had been sent to the seat of firmary, and that, although that institution was completed and ready
Af rica.-Mr.
Provision, it was further said, had been made for a large increase of officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and a further addition had been made to the establishment of non-commissioned officers and war.
men. ____
HOUSE OF COMMONS. MARCH 1ST. Small-pox Precautions. Mr. TATTON EGERTON asked tne President of the Local Government Board whether his attention had been called to two cases of small-pox in London which had been oiistinctly traced to neglect of due precautions by the authorities at Hull: and wbat steps he intended to take in the matter to p - evei -t simi Irr cases of outbreak of small-pox.-Mr. OHAPlur: I have made inquiries with rwgaro to this matter. It appears that the two men from whom the cases referred to are thought to have derived the infection were employed by a contractor in erecting additional buildings at the small-pox hospital at Hull. I am informed that it was desired by the Hull authorities that the men employed should be revaccinated before entering on this work. It was also arranged that the men should not be required t work within 60 feet of any building in which there were 8maii-pox patients, but there is some conflict of testimony as to whether this arrangement was strictly observed. The only effective precaution that can be taken in cases of this kind is revaccination, a’td inthe p-fsent instance gratuitous revaccination was offered to the men but unfortunately they declined to accept the offer. The Meat on Board the Transports. Mr. BAIRD asked the Firrancial Secretary to the Admiralty (1) whether any reports bad been received trom officers commanding troops on board transports for South Africa un the quality of meat supplied to the troops ; (2) whether on several occasions the meat had been condemned by the medical officer and thrown overboard in bulk, while
THURSDAY,
to receive patients, and was formally opened yesterday, the sanction has not been accorded ; and, if so, would he take immediate steps to comply with the request of the guardians.-Mr. CHAPLIN: The Local Government Board have received the application referred to and there has been considerable correspondence on the subject. The Board’s decision in the matter has been communicated to the guardians. They have sanctioned the number of nurses required, and I hope that the matter may now be regarded as settled.
Workhouse Dietary Scales. Mr. CHAPLIN, replying to a question by Mr. HAZELL, said he was sorry there had been delay in the issue of the regulations with regard to workhouse dietaries. The delay had been mainly caused by the great care which had been requisite in framing the model dietary scales which the Committee on the subject recommended should be issued. He was unable to name a date when the regulations would be ready, but they ‘were being preased forward and there wouid be no avoidable delay in their issue. The Inspection of Cows and Dairies. In their Bill now before the House of Commons the Corporation of Taunton seek power to inspect cows and dairies outside the limits of the borough, a power already enjoyed by other urban local authorities. After the Bill had been read a second time Mr. STRACHEY moved an instruction to the committee by whom the measure will have to be considered to provide that this power shall not be exercised without the previous order of two justices sitting in petty sessions who shall not grant the order unless they are satisfied that the local authority of the district in which the ptemifies are situated has not a ready dealt with the case.-Sir WALTER FOSTER and other members opposed this instruction on the ground that its effect would be to hamper the corporation in its public health work and on a division it was rejected by 63 votes.
Chapman
MEDICAL
HIGH
SHERIFF.-Dr.
A.
Garrod
Thomas, J.P., of Clytha Park, Newport, Mon., has been
appointed High
Sheriff of
Cardiganshire. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND.At the request of the Secretary of State for War the President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland has nominated Mr. F- G. Fitzgerald, L.R.C.P. & S.Irel., to a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps. ANn-VACCINATIONISTS AS VACCINATION OFFICERS. -At the meeting of the Liskeard Board of Guardians held on Feb. 24th Mr. Preston Thomas, of the Local Government Board, who attended the meeting, said that he did so at the express wish of Mr. Henry Chaplin, M.P., in reference to the
refusal of the Local Government Board to sanction the appointment of an anti-vaccinationist as vaccination officer for the Collington district. After some discussion it was decided to agree to the wishes of the Local Government Board and to advertise for a vaccination officer for the district and that the words " no anti-vaccinationist need apply " should be added to the advertisement.
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that actually cooked had been found to be uneatable and had been treated in the same way; (3) whether any reports had been received from South Africa on the condition of some of the troops when landed to the effect that they had evidently been underfed on the voyage ; and (4) whether steps had been taken to secure that the meat issued to the troops on board transports shall be of good quality and the provisions on sale cheap and plentiful.-Mr. MACARTNEY : Reports have been received from officers commanding troops on board 60 transports victualled by the Admiralty. On seven transports the salt meat ration was condemned on different occasions and other rations were issued. Five commanding officers have reported that the troops disliked the salt beef rations because they were either too salt, or hard, or unpalatable. The answer to the third paragraph is in the negative. Every care has been taken to secure that the rations issued to the troops should be of the best quality, and in a few cases where complaints had been made that the prices of the canteen were high and the stock of articles sold there insufficient the attention of the owners has been called to these matters and they have been rectified. I may add that in the case of every ship where comwere made the salt beef has been landed at the Cape and that the report of the board which has surveyed it is to the effect that it is quite satisfactory.-Sir JAMES FERGUSSON: Is it not the fact that in some of the transports the cases of salt beef were marked "1893"?Mr. MACARTNEY : No, sir, I have not had any report to that effect and I do not believe there is any foundation for the statement.-Sir JAMES FERGUSSON I will give you proof.
I plaints
FRIDAY, MARCH 2ND. Proposed Special Night Staff for Netley Hospital.
Captain NORTON asked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Army Medical Corps are on duty for long hours in attendance upon sick and wounded at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, he would consider the advisability of organising a special staff of night orderlies, who would be excused day duty as in all large civil hospitals, in order that the sick or wounded might be at least as well attended to as the civilian patient.-Mr. POWELL WILLIAMS: The question has been very carefully considered and in view of the number of experienced men of the Medical Staff Corps who have applied to re-enlist and by whose help the pressure will be greatly diminished it is not thought expedient to form the special staff suggested. The Meat on Board the Transports. Sir JAMES FERGUSSON asked the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty whether he had inquired into his statement that cases of salt beef marked 1893" were shipped for the rations of troops going to South
NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS. The Lunacy Bill. MACARTNEY : 1842 pounds of beef of the date "1893" have SEVERAL amendments were made in the Lunacy Bill during its returned from the Kildonan Castle. I must therefore apologise to been passage through Committee in the House of Lords and several subsec- my right hon. friend for making a statement on the subject which was tions and new clauses were added. Among the additions are a provision not correct. No beef of that date was supplied to any other transport that the judicial authority shall in his report to the Commissioners from which complaints have been received. I made inquiries on that state definitely’whether in his opinion the detention is or is not proper point by telegraph yesterday. The complaint that the beef was hard as regards the Kildonan Castle did not come from the commanding officer and another to the effect that the power of two or more local authorities of the Kildonan Castle. to agree to unite in providing and maintaining a district asylum shall MONDAY, MARCH 5TH. be construed as including a power to unite in providing and maintainFood Standards. Proposed ing a laboratory for pathological research in connexion with lunacy. Mr. HEDDERWICK asked the President of the Board of Agriculture The Cost of the Medical Establishment of the Army. whether any and what steps had been taken by the Board of The effects of the war are visible in almost every item of the Agriculture in exercise of the power conferred by Section 4 of the of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, upon the Board, to set up preestimates for the medical establishment of the army. The total vote for Sale sumptive standards of quality in respect of milk, cream, butter, and it is no less than £555.000. 1899-1900 was B305.800, whereas for 1&00-1901 cheese.-Mr. WALTER LONG: No regulations under the section referred of the Army Medical Service there to have as yet been made, but I have appointed a Departmental ComUnder the head of pay, &c., mittee, of which Lord Wenlock is chairman, to consider whether any is an increase of £41,800 ; of pay of civilian medical practitioners, &c., such regulation can with advantage be made in respect of milk and an increase of £120,600, the figures being £134,500 as against B13.900; cream, and upon the report of the committee the further action to be of corps pay and extra duty pay of the Royal Army Medical Corps, taken will to a great extent depend. nurses, clerks, and other subordinates, an increase of E36,300 ; and of TUESDAY, MARCH 6TH. cost of medicines, &c., an increase of £80.000. In his explanatory statement the Secretary of State said that all the available officers of The Nursing Staff of the new Bethnal-green Infirmary. the Royal Army Medical Corps ordinarily on the home establishment Sir MANCHERJEE BHOWNAGGREE asked the President of the Loea had been sent to South Africa and their places at home had been Government Board whether the Board of Guardians of St. Matthew’s, foi the appointfilled by the employment of retired officers and civil medical practi- Bethnal-green, applied some months ago for sanction ment and salaries of the nursing staff for the new Bethnal-green Intioners. In addition 223 civil surgeons had been sent to the seat of firmary, and that, although that institution was completed and ready
Af rica.-Mr.
Provision, it was further said, had been made for a large increase of officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and a further addition had been made to the establishment of non-commissioned officers and war.
men. ____
HOUSE OF COMMONS. MARCH 1ST. Small-pox Precautions. Mr. TATTON EGERTON asked tne President of the Local Government Board whether his attention had been called to two cases of small-pox in London which had been oiistinctly traced to neglect of due precautions by the authorities at Hull: and wbat steps he intended to take in the matter to p - evei -t simi Irr cases of outbreak of small-pox.-Mr. OHAPlur: I have made inquiries with rwgaro to this matter. It appears that the two men from whom the cases referred to are thought to have derived the infection were employed by a contractor in erecting additional buildings at the small-pox hospital at Hull. I am informed that it was desired by the Hull authorities that the men employed should be revaccinated before entering on this work. It was also arranged that the men should not be required t work within 60 feet of any building in which there were 8maii-pox patients, but there is some conflict of testimony as to whether this arrangement was strictly observed. The only effective precaution that can be taken in cases of this kind is revaccination, a’td inthe p-fsent instance gratuitous revaccination was offered to the men but unfortunately they declined to accept the offer. The Meat on Board the Transports. Mr. BAIRD asked the Firrancial Secretary to the Admiralty (1) whether any reports bad been received trom officers commanding troops on board transports for South Africa un the quality of meat supplied to the troops ; (2) whether on several occasions the meat had been condemned by the medical officer and thrown overboard in bulk, while
THURSDAY,
to receive patients, and was formally opened yesterday, the sanction has not been accorded ; and, if so, would he take immediate steps to comply with the request of the guardians.-Mr. CHAPLIN: The Local Government Board have received the application referred to and there has been considerable correspondence on the subject. The Board’s decision in the matter has been communicated to the guardians. They have sanctioned the number of nurses required, and I hope that the matter may now be regarded as settled.
Workhouse Dietary Scales. Mr. CHAPLIN, replying to a question by Mr. HAZELL, said he was sorry there had been delay in the issue of the regulations with regard to workhouse dietaries. The delay had been mainly caused by the great care which had been requisite in framing the model dietary scales which the Committee on the subject recommended should be issued. He was unable to name a date when the regulations would be ready, but they ‘were being preased forward and there wouid be no avoidable delay in their issue. The Inspection of Cows and Dairies. In their Bill now before the House of Commons the Corporation of Taunton seek power to inspect cows and dairies outside the limits of the borough, a power already enjoyed by other urban local authorities. After the Bill had been read a second time Mr. STRACHEY moved an instruction to the committee by whom the measure will have to be considered to provide that this power shall not be exercised without the previous order of two justices sitting in petty sessions who shall not grant the order unless they are satisfied that the local authority of the district in which the ptemifies are situated has not a ready dealt with the case.-Sir WALTER FOSTER and other members opposed this instruction on the ground that its effect would be to hamper the corporation in its public health work and on a division it was rejected by 63 votes.