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120 this region was in several cases demonstrated, practically identical with that of the anterior horn cells. Professor Medin has also seen polio-encephalitis occur in the same epidemic, indicating an apparent identity of the poisons of the two diseases. The prognosis is worst if the lumbar cord is affected, less if the cervical is the part affected, and is The more favourable in polyneuritis than in polio-myelitis. conditions found post mortem were the signs of general infection proceeding from bloodvessels and causing acute inflammation in the anterior horn, with consequent degeneration of the ganglion cells and of the nerve fibres. Professor Medin regards the disease as an independent and peculiar one and separates from infantile paralysis all paralytic conditions which occur in association with other infective processes.
held the post of senior
physician to the principal native in we regret to say, reported to is, hospital Bombay, have died from plague on the morning of the 6th inst. The health of Calcutta, according to the latest intelligence that has reached us, seems to be fairly satisfactory, but the news from Bombay is rather alarming. It is stated that at Karachi the plague is taking an extremely virulent form, and that the panic in Bombay is increasing. Director-General of the Medical Service, has left Calcutta for Bombay to report upon the plague. We print in another column (p. 131) a very interesting account sent us by an eye-witness in Bombay.
Surgeon-Major-General Cleghorn,
PUBLIC
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GLOUCESTER AND THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO JENNER.
WHILE the exact form of national memorial to Jenner is
yet undetermined it is proper
to remember that the Jenner of Gloucester has been in the field as a local society for purposes similar to those of the committee in London Gloucestershire has a now organising a national movement. in this It was in Gloucestershire place question. peculiar that Jenner’s immortal discovery was made and confirmed. Alas, it was in Gloucester itself that the light of Jenner’s discovery went out almost completely, with the result that hundreds died during last year for want of vaccination, but with the effect of scaring the survivors into a rush to the vaccination stations. A society of enlightened citizens of Gloucester, calling themselves the Jenner Society for promoting the honour of Jenner and a knowledge of the real truth about vaccination, was formed at an early stage of the epidemic which has so terribly afflicted Gloucester. Dr. Bond, the honorary secretary of this society, has forwarded to us a printed statement of the objects of the society and especially of its plans for circulating sound and instructive literature on the subject. We sincerely hope that the London Committee for the national memorial will consider the claims of this society to affiliation and will apportion a grant from its funds for the literary defence of vaccination as provided for in the publications issued by the Jenner Society.
Society
HEALTH AT MONTREUX AND TERRITET,
THOSE of our readers who may have friends residing at Montreux and Territet will welcome the announcement that the rumours as to the existence of typhoid fever in that wellknown health resort are quite unfounded. Our information is derived from a most trustworthy source and refers not only to the town itself but to the surrounding district. Last year there was an epidemic of very mild scarlet fever, in the course of which there was only one death, and not a single The water-supply is of case has occurred since last spring. the purest description, being derived from Les Avants. The water reaches Montreux under a pressure of about six atmospheres, and there are no cisterns in the town the service being constant. -
STREET NOISES. THE agitation against totally unnecessary noises is slowly growing and we begin to see some likelihood of, if not relief, at any rate legislation towards that desirable end. The Parliamentary and General Purposes Committee of the Islington Vestry have approved of the adoption in London of a by-law suggested by the Home Secretary. This by-law, which is most admirable, is in force in various provincial towns and
runs as
follows :-
"No person shall, for the purpose of hawking, selling, or distributing any newspaper or other article, shout or use any bell, gong, or noisy instrument in such a manner as to cause nuisance or annoyance to the residents or passengers."
County Council are we believe considering the subject well, so we have hopes that even if we cannot
The as
"* Forget
THE PLAGUE AT BOMBAY.
six counties *
*
with smoke overhung « *
x "
Forget the spreading of the hideous town AS regards the epidemic of bubonic plague at Hombay it the said town may be made less hideous by the silencing of is always difficult to ascertain the figures representing the the demon "winner" shouter, the even more offensive fogexact prevalence of the disease at any given time, but there horn voiced ruffians who howl in pairs, and the snufily does not seem to be any doubt that the state of affairs in who comes out on Sundays. Bombay is very serious. The Government returns areinfant reliable as far as they go, but they do not usually afford HÆMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS IN AN INFANT. the latest information, for which we have frequently to from other sources. depend upon telegraphic intelligence MCPHEDRAN1records what he claims to be the only case There has been an enormous exodus of the population from in an infant of this rare disease. Of all previous cases the Bombay, and it is still going on ; business is temporarily youngest was twenty years of age and the majority about fortyparalysed and more or less panic prevails among the native five years. The patient was a male infant, in good health, with The total number of cases of plague returned to the end of December last amounted to 2430, with 1735 deaths; and during the first two days of the present year 130 fresh cases occurred, of which 120 are stated to have proved fatal. The general death-rate of Bombay is also excessive ; nearly 1000 of the deaths that occurred during the last week of 1896 were attributable to the various kinds of fevers and 90 to bubonic plague. Altogether, 11 Europeans are stated to have been attacked since the outbreak, 2 of whom had died, and there were, according to the Central News Agency, 3 Europeans in hospital on Dec. 31st suffering from the disease. Cases of plague have, as we said last week, likewise been reported as having occurred at Karachi and Poona. At the former place the disease is stated to be assuming a very virulent form. Surgeon-Major Robert Manser, who
population.
tendency to constipation. In the ninth month the mother became pregnant, and he failed slightly in general condition. Weaning was attempted and peptonised milk given. He vomited and refused everything but the breast. Therefore the attempt was abandoned. On resuming suckling he vomited profusely, became prostrate, and was attacked with colic. On the next day he was in great distress and pallid. All attempts to give nourishment were followed by vomiting. He was constipated, and calomel followed by repeated doses of fluid magnesia failed to produce effect. Only a smal green motion, chiefly mucus, was passed. The abdomen was slightly distended. In the region of the ascending colon was an elongated mass about the size of the middle finger, a
1 Canadian Practitioner,
September, 1896.
held the post of senior
physician to the principal native in we regret to say, reported to is, hospital Bombay, have died from plague on the morning of the 6th inst. The health of Calcutta, according to the latest intelligence that has reached us, seems to be fairly satisfactory, but the news from Bombay is rather alarming. It is stated that at Karachi the plague is taking an extremely virulent form, and that the panic in Bombay is increasing. Director-General of the Medical Service, has left Calcutta for Bombay to report upon the plague. We print in another column (p. 131) a very interesting account sent us by an eye-witness in Bombay.
Surgeon-Major-General Cleghorn,
PUBLIC
-
GLOUCESTER AND THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO JENNER.
WHILE the exact form of national memorial to Jenner is
yet undetermined it is proper
to remember that the Jenner of Gloucester has been in the field as a local society for purposes similar to those of the committee in London Gloucestershire has a now organising a national movement. in this It was in Gloucestershire place question. peculiar that Jenner’s immortal discovery was made and confirmed. Alas, it was in Gloucester itself that the light of Jenner’s discovery went out almost completely, with the result that hundreds died during last year for want of vaccination, but with the effect of scaring the survivors into a rush to the vaccination stations. A society of enlightened citizens of Gloucester, calling themselves the Jenner Society for promoting the honour of Jenner and a knowledge of the real truth about vaccination, was formed at an early stage of the epidemic which has so terribly afflicted Gloucester. Dr. Bond, the honorary secretary of this society, has forwarded to us a printed statement of the objects of the society and especially of its plans for circulating sound and instructive literature on the subject. We sincerely hope that the London Committee for the national memorial will consider the claims of this society to affiliation and will apportion a grant from its funds for the literary defence of vaccination as provided for in the publications issued by the Jenner Society.
Society
HEALTH AT MONTREUX AND TERRITET,
THOSE of our readers who may have friends residing at Montreux and Territet will welcome the announcement that the rumours as to the existence of typhoid fever in that wellknown health resort are quite unfounded. Our information is derived from a most trustworthy source and refers not only to the town itself but to the surrounding district. Last year there was an epidemic of very mild scarlet fever, in the course of which there was only one death, and not a single The water-supply is of case has occurred since last spring. the purest description, being derived from Les Avants. The water reaches Montreux under a pressure of about six atmospheres, and there are no cisterns in the town the service being constant. -
STREET NOISES. THE agitation against totally unnecessary noises is slowly growing and we begin to see some likelihood of, if not relief, at any rate legislation towards that desirable end. The Parliamentary and General Purposes Committee of the Islington Vestry have approved of the adoption in London of a by-law suggested by the Home Secretary. This by-law, which is most admirable, is in force in various provincial towns and
runs as
follows :-
"No person shall, for the purpose of hawking, selling, or distributing any newspaper or other article, shout or use any bell, gong, or noisy instrument in such a manner as to cause nuisance or annoyance to the residents or passengers."
County Council are we believe considering the subject well, so we have hopes that even if we cannot
The as
"* Forget
THE PLAGUE AT BOMBAY.
six counties *
*
with smoke overhung « *
x "
Forget the spreading of the hideous town AS regards the epidemic of bubonic plague at Hombay it the said town may be made less hideous by the silencing of is always difficult to ascertain the figures representing the the demon "winner" shouter, the even more offensive fogexact prevalence of the disease at any given time, but there horn voiced ruffians who howl in pairs, and the snufily does not seem to be any doubt that the state of affairs in who comes out on Sundays. Bombay is very serious. The Government returns areinfant reliable as far as they go, but they do not usually afford HÆMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS IN AN INFANT. the latest information, for which we have frequently to from other sources. depend upon telegraphic intelligence MCPHEDRAN1records what he claims to be the only case There has been an enormous exodus of the population from in an infant of this rare disease. Of all previous cases the Bombay, and it is still going on ; business is temporarily youngest was twenty years of age and the majority about fortyparalysed and more or less panic prevails among the native five years. The patient was a male infant, in good health, with The total number of cases of plague returned to the end of December last amounted to 2430, with 1735 deaths; and during the first two days of the present year 130 fresh cases occurred, of which 120 are stated to have proved fatal. The general death-rate of Bombay is also excessive ; nearly 1000 of the deaths that occurred during the last week of 1896 were attributable to the various kinds of fevers and 90 to bubonic plague. Altogether, 11 Europeans are stated to have been attacked since the outbreak, 2 of whom had died, and there were, according to the Central News Agency, 3 Europeans in hospital on Dec. 31st suffering from the disease. Cases of plague have, as we said last week, likewise been reported as having occurred at Karachi and Poona. At the former place the disease is stated to be assuming a very virulent form. Surgeon-Major Robert Manser, who
population.
tendency to constipation. In the ninth month the mother became pregnant, and he failed slightly in general condition. Weaning was attempted and peptonised milk given. He vomited and refused everything but the breast. Therefore the attempt was abandoned. On resuming suckling he vomited profusely, became prostrate, and was attacked with colic. On the next day he was in great distress and pallid. All attempts to give nourishment were followed by vomiting. He was constipated, and calomel followed by repeated doses of fluid magnesia failed to produce effect. Only a smal green motion, chiefly mucus, was passed. The abdomen was slightly distended. In the region of the ascending colon was an elongated mass about the size of the middle finger, a
1 Canadian Practitioner,
September, 1896.