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POOR-LAW MEDICAL OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION OF ENGLAND AND WALES.
103 is also an account in the supplement of Mme. de Miramion, whose h6tel, now the central pharmacy of the hospitals, as was mentioned in the February number (reviewed in THE LANCET of April 4th), it is desired to acquire for a Museum of the History of Medicine in Paris.
prince.-There
The Hospital Gazette.-The June issue is a special number devoted to historical and constructional accounts of the
institutional lines, and all indoor Poor-law medical officers would tend to become whole-time officers. Unions might combine to create a common infirmary, or the Poorlaw infirmary might become a State institution and be utilised in connexion with State schemes for changes in the general medical practice of the country. The National Insurance Act was considered by many to be a step in that more on
It seems that Birmingham is direction. In the evening the annual dinner was held at which of as almost great a variety of institutions as possessed London. Mr. Howard J. Collins describes the General Surgeon-General Evatt presided over a good assembly, Hospital and Mr. Arthur Hulme the Queen’s Hospital. The having the Mayoress (Mrs. Sellers Kay) on his right hand Free Hospital for Sick Children, the Eye Hospital, the and the Mayor on his left. Hospital for Women, the Ear and Throat Hospital, and the for Skin and Urinary Diseases, all of which have Hospital " MEDICINE AND THE LAW. Birmingham and Midland " as part of their titles, are described by their secretaries, as also are the Royal Orthopaedic and Spinal Hospital, the Birmingham Dental HosProceedings icncler the Apothecaries Act, 1815. pital, the Birmingham and Midland Counties Sanatorium, AT the Bow county court on June 29th the and the Moseley Convalescent Hospital for Children. The number closes with a history of the convalescent homes of Society of Apothecaries recovered a penalty of .B20 the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund at Tyn-y-Coed against John Charles Purdue, described as a medical (men) and Marle Hall (women), Llanrhos ; the Red House, herbalist, of 28, Roscoe-street, Canning Town, for a Great Barr (children) ; and the Romsley Hill Home (Sir breach of the Apothecaries Act, 1815, in that he had William Cook memorial) for Consumptives.
Birmingham hospitals.
acted and practised as an apothecary or medical practitioner in attending and medically treating the infant daughter of Arthur Thompson, of 21, ScottPOOR-LAW MEDICAL OFFICERS’ ASSO- street, Canning Town, whose death in January last was the subject of an inquest conducted CIATION OF ENGLAND AND WALES. by the local coroner. It appeared from the evidence that the child had become ill on Tuesday, THE annual meeting of this association took place on Jan. 27th, and was taken by her mother to the July 2nd at Burnley. The MAYOR (Alderman J. Sellers Kay), defendant’s shop, who examined her and said in welcoming the members in the council chamber of the He Town-hall, alluded to the dispute which had been going that she was suffering from pneumonia. on in Burnley for some 18 months between the Poor-law medical officers and the Poor-law authorities. He held no brief for either party, he said, and if as Mayor he could be of any assistance in bringing about a settlement, he would be pleased to render that assistance. Surgeon-General G. J. H. EvATT, President of the association, then took the chair, and spoke first of the pleasure with which he had inspected the Poor-law hospital in Burnley. He had also visited the general hospital, and as far as he could see the Poor-law hospital was the better. The council of the association, he said, regretted that friction should have taken place between the Poor-law medical officers and the authorities, and thanked the Mayor for the offer of help. Mr. A. E. BIRD, honorary secretary of the Burnley Division of the British Medical Association, extended a welcome to the meeting. After the minutes of the last annual meeting had been read, confirmed, and signed by the chairman, the annual report of the council and their report on the Poor-law Institutions Order were unanimously received and adopted, and the honorary secretary was instructed to send a copy of the latter to the Local Government Board. The balance sheet for the year was then considered by the meeting, and its details were explained by the honorary secretary, and it
further gave the mother medicine for the child and oil to rub her chest with. He was to child summoned the mother see the by again on the same afternoon, and then administered further medicine, also using the stethoscope and taking the child’s temperature with a clinical thermometer. The defendant attended the child
further on the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, The on the evening of which day the child died. defendant was paid the sum of 2s. in respect of his medicine and attendance. It appeared from the medical evidence given at the inquest that the child actually died from meningitis. At the hearing of the case the defendant’s counsel endeavoured to argue that he was protected by a statute of Henry VIII. sometimes called the Herbalists Act. The county court judge held that the statute was inapplicable and that there had been a clear breach of Section 20 of the Apothecaries Act, 1815, and he consequently gave judgment for the society with costs on the higher scale.
unanimously approved. Surgeon-General Evatt, presiTHE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSIdent, and Dr. Major Greenwood, honorary secretary, were re-elected to their posts for the ensuing year with acclama- TION AT SAN FRANCISCO.-This exposition, which will be tion. Mr. A. A. Napper was re-elected treasurer and Dr. opened on Feb. 20th, 1915, in view of the fact that the was
A. Withers Green auditor. Mr. D. B. Balding was also re-elected chairman of council. The following were elected members of council for 1914-15 :-Mr. W. Holder (Hull), Mr. J. B. G. Gidley-Moore (Fyfield), Dr. Lloyd Brown (Tunbridge Wells), Mr. P. Withers Green (London), Mr. George Jackson (Plymouth), Dr. A. Drury (Halifax), Mr. C. Biddle (Merthyr Tydfil), Dr. C. Thackray Parsons (London), Dr. W. Brown (Bristol), and Dr. A. P. Agnew (Burnley). Mr. C. E. BYGRAVE, clerk to the guardians of the Blackburn Union, then read a paper on Recent Legislation Affecting the Duties of Poor-law Medical Officers. He attributed the diminution in the number of persons in receipt of out relief between 1910 and 1911 to the removal of oldThe need for inage pensioners from the outdoor relief. stitutional medical treatment did not seem to be diminished as a result of the National Insurance Act. Dr. MAJOR GREENWOOD read a paper on the Future of the Poor-law and the Poor-law Medical Service. He believed, he said, that in the future the work would develop more and
canal could not have been successfully carried out but for the aid rendered by medical and sanitary science, will devote much attention to medical matters. Among the exhibits will be hospital wards in the tropics, a huge model of a mosquito by Philip Rauer, to demonstrate the dangers of the insect, a model emergency hospital, civic and health exhibits from the Urban Exhibition of Lyons, and the whole of the British exhibit from Ghent, as well by Argentina, Japan, France, Germany, the Philippines, and 30 other countries. Large industrial concerns will display their health and human welfare and life protecting methods. The Rockefeller Foundation will display measures for the eradication of hookworm. Other bodies taking part are the Russel Sage Foundation, the Carnegie institutions, the Social Survey, the American Academy of Medicine, the National Commission on Mental Hygiene, several special medical organisations, antituberculosis societies, the International Congress of Nurses, and many others. There will also be a dental congress.
prince.-There
The Hospital Gazette.-The June issue is a special number devoted to historical and constructional accounts of the
institutional lines, and all indoor Poor-law medical officers would tend to become whole-time officers. Unions might combine to create a common infirmary, or the Poorlaw infirmary might become a State institution and be utilised in connexion with State schemes for changes in the general medical practice of the country. The National Insurance Act was considered by many to be a step in that more on
It seems that Birmingham is direction. In the evening the annual dinner was held at which of as almost great a variety of institutions as possessed London. Mr. Howard J. Collins describes the General Surgeon-General Evatt presided over a good assembly, Hospital and Mr. Arthur Hulme the Queen’s Hospital. The having the Mayoress (Mrs. Sellers Kay) on his right hand Free Hospital for Sick Children, the Eye Hospital, the and the Mayor on his left. Hospital for Women, the Ear and Throat Hospital, and the for Skin and Urinary Diseases, all of which have Hospital " MEDICINE AND THE LAW. Birmingham and Midland " as part of their titles, are described by their secretaries, as also are the Royal Orthopaedic and Spinal Hospital, the Birmingham Dental HosProceedings icncler the Apothecaries Act, 1815. pital, the Birmingham and Midland Counties Sanatorium, AT the Bow county court on June 29th the and the Moseley Convalescent Hospital for Children. The number closes with a history of the convalescent homes of Society of Apothecaries recovered a penalty of .B20 the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund at Tyn-y-Coed against John Charles Purdue, described as a medical (men) and Marle Hall (women), Llanrhos ; the Red House, herbalist, of 28, Roscoe-street, Canning Town, for a Great Barr (children) ; and the Romsley Hill Home (Sir breach of the Apothecaries Act, 1815, in that he had William Cook memorial) for Consumptives.
Birmingham hospitals.
acted and practised as an apothecary or medical practitioner in attending and medically treating the infant daughter of Arthur Thompson, of 21, ScottPOOR-LAW MEDICAL OFFICERS’ ASSO- street, Canning Town, whose death in January last was the subject of an inquest conducted CIATION OF ENGLAND AND WALES. by the local coroner. It appeared from the evidence that the child had become ill on Tuesday, THE annual meeting of this association took place on Jan. 27th, and was taken by her mother to the July 2nd at Burnley. The MAYOR (Alderman J. Sellers Kay), defendant’s shop, who examined her and said in welcoming the members in the council chamber of the He Town-hall, alluded to the dispute which had been going that she was suffering from pneumonia. on in Burnley for some 18 months between the Poor-law medical officers and the Poor-law authorities. He held no brief for either party, he said, and if as Mayor he could be of any assistance in bringing about a settlement, he would be pleased to render that assistance. Surgeon-General G. J. H. EvATT, President of the association, then took the chair, and spoke first of the pleasure with which he had inspected the Poor-law hospital in Burnley. He had also visited the general hospital, and as far as he could see the Poor-law hospital was the better. The council of the association, he said, regretted that friction should have taken place between the Poor-law medical officers and the authorities, and thanked the Mayor for the offer of help. Mr. A. E. BIRD, honorary secretary of the Burnley Division of the British Medical Association, extended a welcome to the meeting. After the minutes of the last annual meeting had been read, confirmed, and signed by the chairman, the annual report of the council and their report on the Poor-law Institutions Order were unanimously received and adopted, and the honorary secretary was instructed to send a copy of the latter to the Local Government Board. The balance sheet for the year was then considered by the meeting, and its details were explained by the honorary secretary, and it
further gave the mother medicine for the child and oil to rub her chest with. He was to child summoned the mother see the by again on the same afternoon, and then administered further medicine, also using the stethoscope and taking the child’s temperature with a clinical thermometer. The defendant attended the child
further on the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, The on the evening of which day the child died. defendant was paid the sum of 2s. in respect of his medicine and attendance. It appeared from the medical evidence given at the inquest that the child actually died from meningitis. At the hearing of the case the defendant’s counsel endeavoured to argue that he was protected by a statute of Henry VIII. sometimes called the Herbalists Act. The county court judge held that the statute was inapplicable and that there had been a clear breach of Section 20 of the Apothecaries Act, 1815, and he consequently gave judgment for the society with costs on the higher scale.
unanimously approved. Surgeon-General Evatt, presiTHE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSIdent, and Dr. Major Greenwood, honorary secretary, were re-elected to their posts for the ensuing year with acclama- TION AT SAN FRANCISCO.-This exposition, which will be tion. Mr. A. A. Napper was re-elected treasurer and Dr. opened on Feb. 20th, 1915, in view of the fact that the was
A. Withers Green auditor. Mr. D. B. Balding was also re-elected chairman of council. The following were elected members of council for 1914-15 :-Mr. W. Holder (Hull), Mr. J. B. G. Gidley-Moore (Fyfield), Dr. Lloyd Brown (Tunbridge Wells), Mr. P. Withers Green (London), Mr. George Jackson (Plymouth), Dr. A. Drury (Halifax), Mr. C. Biddle (Merthyr Tydfil), Dr. C. Thackray Parsons (London), Dr. W. Brown (Bristol), and Dr. A. P. Agnew (Burnley). Mr. C. E. BYGRAVE, clerk to the guardians of the Blackburn Union, then read a paper on Recent Legislation Affecting the Duties of Poor-law Medical Officers. He attributed the diminution in the number of persons in receipt of out relief between 1910 and 1911 to the removal of oldThe need for inage pensioners from the outdoor relief. stitutional medical treatment did not seem to be diminished as a result of the National Insurance Act. Dr. MAJOR GREENWOOD read a paper on the Future of the Poor-law and the Poor-law Medical Service. He believed, he said, that in the future the work would develop more and
canal could not have been successfully carried out but for the aid rendered by medical and sanitary science, will devote much attention to medical matters. Among the exhibits will be hospital wards in the tropics, a huge model of a mosquito by Philip Rauer, to demonstrate the dangers of the insect, a model emergency hospital, civic and health exhibits from the Urban Exhibition of Lyons, and the whole of the British exhibit from Ghent, as well by Argentina, Japan, France, Germany, the Philippines, and 30 other countries. Large industrial concerns will display their health and human welfare and life protecting methods. The Rockefeller Foundation will display measures for the eradication of hookworm. Other bodies taking part are the Russel Sage Foundation, the Carnegie institutions, the Social Survey, the American Academy of Medicine, the National Commission on Mental Hygiene, several special medical organisations, antituberculosis societies, the International Congress of Nurses, and many others. There will also be a dental congress.