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1190 far from improbable that this indulgence was of considerable members of the Association attended, and the dinner, which effect in upsetting an unstable mental equilibrium. And was honoured by the presence of several guests of distinc,what has been said as regards the evil effects of excessive tea- tion, had its accustomed success. After the usual loyal Navy, Army, and drinking in women applies even more strongly to children. toasts, Mr. MacKellar proposed "The Johnston and Dr. Unfortunately it is the ambition cf many parents, both Reserve Forces," for which Dr. Beech
Mr. Bruce and the Rev. Mr. Bailey Guests," also proposed by the replied President. Mr. Gregono gave the toast of The Chairman." Nelson Hardy, - superior robustness, or from the slight saving of trouble in " The Medical Press " was proposed by Mr. which it may result, of its existence and of the evil effects and Mr. Battle replied for the Editors of THE LANCET. proposed by Mr. Farr, and accruing to the child in consequence of it there can be The toast of the evening was who referred to the growth mo doubt. replied to by Mr. MacKellar, We desire to assist in impressing upon women especially and extension of the Association. "The Dinner Comthe fact that the immoderate use of their favourite mittee " was proposed by Mr. Phillips, and replied to by ’beverage is fraught with considerable danger to health, and Dr. Waters. During the evening some excellent glees &c. ,that this is especially true of those who lead for the most were given by members of the Lyric Vocal Union. Songs part an in-door life. Too often, unfortunately, con- were sung by Miss Kellaway and Mr. C. E. Yarrow, which viction that the habit is injurious comes only after the gave great pleasure to the audience. Before the dinner the break down, and the harm which has been done takes a annual meeting for the election of officers and the presentagood deal of undoing. It ia idle to argue that Australian tion of the report was held. shepherds or half-savage Tartars drink tea in immoderate quantities, and are none the worse for it. Their mode of .life enables them to do many things-we shall not say with CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL. impunity-which town dwellers cannot do, and we are convinced that no one living for the most part an in-door city life THE triennial festival of the governors and friends of can continue to indulge freely in tea five or six times a day without suffering for it in the end. Whether or not " envy,, Charing.cross Hospital was held on Tuesday, 17th inst., at malice, and all uncharitableness"are, as some assert, pro- the Hôtel Metropole, under the presidency of the Right ductive of indigestion, there is no doubt that excessive tea- Honourable David ; Evans, the Lord Mayor. In submitting drinking is, and for our own part we are inclined to think the toast of " The Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest that indigestion is at least as often the parent as it is the; of the Royal Family," the chairman, who was cordially rechild of the vices which have been mentioned. ceived, and to whom we venture to offer our congratulations on the fact that his first public duty was discharged on behalf of a medical charity, referred in sympathetic terms to the cloud now overhanging Marlborough House, and exIN DUBLIN. SANITARY WORK pressed an earnest hope for the speedy recovery of Prince DUBLIN is well supplied with main sewers, the contents George. Sir Joseph Fayrer proposed "The Navy, the Army, and Reserve Forces," for which Sir John Corbett, General -of which are discharged into the river Liffey, but a large and Colonel Ward respectively replied. The chairman Kent, portion of the city lies so low that the floors of basement then asked the company to drink "Prosperity to Charingstories are below high-water level, and in consequence the cross Hospital."Of all the charities which Lord Mayors were called upon to promote, he said none were more worthy of sewers cannot continuously empty their contents into the than this. The hospital was in the very heart of support river. The mouths of the sewers are provided with valves which open outwards, and which are closed when the water London, and the importance of the work it did could hardly in the river rises to the level of the sewer mouth, and it be exaggerated. During the past three years it had not been follows that the sewers situated near the mouth of the prosperous, partly in consequence of the agricultural deriver are often sealed during the greater part of the twenty- pression that had fallen upon the country. The receipts four hours. In order to prevent their contents from during this period had amounted to .f28,OOOj the expenditure to £42,000. While the sum received from legacies becoming impounded to such an extent as to prevent the showed a great falling-off, the number of patients had from houses the the sewers, powerful drainage entering Mr. Passmore Edwards had written to increased. steadily steam-pumps are employed to lift the surplus sewage to a the treasurer : "II have good reason to know the great good level above high water. Dublin therefore is unfavourably is doing, and that it is a permanent placed in respect of its sewage, and at no distant date, as that the tohospital central London, and, in fact, to the public in out blessing Sir Charles we to see Cameron, pointed by may expect I also know what a pressing need there is for a the Dublin sewage either conveyed to a distant point and general. convalescent home in connexion with the hospital. I have, into the or to some sea, discharged open subjected with interest and anxiety the efforts watched precipitation process. On economic and other grounds consequently, he prefers the latter method. The decayed condi- made for some time past to secure such a home, and have tion of a large number of the tenement houses is been a little surprised at the slow progress made towards also a serious factor in the sanitary condition of Dublin. its attainment. I therefore ask the privilege to be allowed Before 1880 waterelosets were unknown in the tenement to build and furnish, solely at my own expense, a conI houses, some not having any sanitary accommodation at all. valescent home with accommodation for fifty beds ; andfor as an earnest of to a enclose intention, beg, my cheque Figures would seem to show that ten years’ sanitary work, while it has slightly lowered the general death-rate, has f:5000, and I hereby undertake to give a cheque for the of the estimated cost of the home when its apparently greatly reduced the zymotic death-rate. This remainder is laid. The only condition I attach to foundation-stone and the first weeks during thirty improvement continues, the is that home shall remain in perpetuity under the gift of the present year the death-rate was 2’8 under the mean rate for the corresponding period in the previous ten years. the control of the governors and the council of CharingThe Lord Mayor said that he was Typhus fever, which formerly caused terrible ravages in cross Hospital." Dublin, has almost completely disappeared, but no decrease delighted that it had fallen to his lot to announce this splendid gift, which he hoped would act as an incentive, has taken place in typhoid fever. and not as a deterrent, to further charity. Mr. Martin acknowledged the toast, incidentally stating that on the day of the great Trafalgar.square meeting no fewer than ninety cases of injury were treated in the hospital. Sir THE METROPOLITAN POLICE SURGEONS’ John Puleston proposed "The Medical Staff," for whom ASSOCIATION. Dr. Green responded. The secretary announced donations to the amount of £7576, including the f:5000 from Mr. THE annual dinner of this important Association was Passmore Edwards. ’held at the Criterion Restaurant on Thursday, Nov. 12th, DEPUTY CORONER FOR OSWESTRY DISTRICT.—The under the able presidency of the surgeon-in-chief to the Lord Chancellor has confirmed the appointment of Dr. John Mr. MacKellar. A of number Metropolitan Police, large of Oswestry, to the office of deputy coroner for the Griffiths, 1 Report upon the State of the Public Health of Dublin for 1890. Oswestry district.
fathers and mothers, to get their children as soon as possible to have 11 a share of what is going," and whether this wish arises from the delusion that the ability to do so is a sign of
.
, .
Burton
responded.
to the toast of "Our
Mr. Bruce and the Rev. Mr. Bailey Guests," also proposed by the replied President. Mr. Gregono gave the toast of The Chairman." Nelson Hardy, - superior robustness, or from the slight saving of trouble in " The Medical Press " was proposed by Mr. which it may result, of its existence and of the evil effects and Mr. Battle replied for the Editors of THE LANCET. proposed by Mr. Farr, and accruing to the child in consequence of it there can be The toast of the evening was who referred to the growth mo doubt. replied to by Mr. MacKellar, We desire to assist in impressing upon women especially and extension of the Association. "The Dinner Comthe fact that the immoderate use of their favourite mittee " was proposed by Mr. Phillips, and replied to by ’beverage is fraught with considerable danger to health, and Dr. Waters. During the evening some excellent glees &c. ,that this is especially true of those who lead for the most were given by members of the Lyric Vocal Union. Songs part an in-door life. Too often, unfortunately, con- were sung by Miss Kellaway and Mr. C. E. Yarrow, which viction that the habit is injurious comes only after the gave great pleasure to the audience. Before the dinner the break down, and the harm which has been done takes a annual meeting for the election of officers and the presentagood deal of undoing. It ia idle to argue that Australian tion of the report was held. shepherds or half-savage Tartars drink tea in immoderate quantities, and are none the worse for it. Their mode of .life enables them to do many things-we shall not say with CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL. impunity-which town dwellers cannot do, and we are convinced that no one living for the most part an in-door city life THE triennial festival of the governors and friends of can continue to indulge freely in tea five or six times a day without suffering for it in the end. Whether or not " envy,, Charing.cross Hospital was held on Tuesday, 17th inst., at malice, and all uncharitableness"are, as some assert, pro- the Hôtel Metropole, under the presidency of the Right ductive of indigestion, there is no doubt that excessive tea- Honourable David ; Evans, the Lord Mayor. In submitting drinking is, and for our own part we are inclined to think the toast of " The Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest that indigestion is at least as often the parent as it is the; of the Royal Family," the chairman, who was cordially rechild of the vices which have been mentioned. ceived, and to whom we venture to offer our congratulations on the fact that his first public duty was discharged on behalf of a medical charity, referred in sympathetic terms to the cloud now overhanging Marlborough House, and exIN DUBLIN. SANITARY WORK pressed an earnest hope for the speedy recovery of Prince DUBLIN is well supplied with main sewers, the contents George. Sir Joseph Fayrer proposed "The Navy, the Army, and Reserve Forces," for which Sir John Corbett, General -of which are discharged into the river Liffey, but a large and Colonel Ward respectively replied. The chairman Kent, portion of the city lies so low that the floors of basement then asked the company to drink "Prosperity to Charingstories are below high-water level, and in consequence the cross Hospital."Of all the charities which Lord Mayors were called upon to promote, he said none were more worthy of sewers cannot continuously empty their contents into the than this. The hospital was in the very heart of support river. The mouths of the sewers are provided with valves which open outwards, and which are closed when the water London, and the importance of the work it did could hardly in the river rises to the level of the sewer mouth, and it be exaggerated. During the past three years it had not been follows that the sewers situated near the mouth of the prosperous, partly in consequence of the agricultural deriver are often sealed during the greater part of the twenty- pression that had fallen upon the country. The receipts four hours. In order to prevent their contents from during this period had amounted to .f28,OOOj the expenditure to £42,000. While the sum received from legacies becoming impounded to such an extent as to prevent the showed a great falling-off, the number of patients had from houses the the sewers, powerful drainage entering Mr. Passmore Edwards had written to increased. steadily steam-pumps are employed to lift the surplus sewage to a the treasurer : "II have good reason to know the great good level above high water. Dublin therefore is unfavourably is doing, and that it is a permanent placed in respect of its sewage, and at no distant date, as that the tohospital central London, and, in fact, to the public in out blessing Sir Charles we to see Cameron, pointed by may expect I also know what a pressing need there is for a the Dublin sewage either conveyed to a distant point and general. convalescent home in connexion with the hospital. I have, into the or to some sea, discharged open subjected with interest and anxiety the efforts watched precipitation process. On economic and other grounds consequently, he prefers the latter method. The decayed condi- made for some time past to secure such a home, and have tion of a large number of the tenement houses is been a little surprised at the slow progress made towards also a serious factor in the sanitary condition of Dublin. its attainment. I therefore ask the privilege to be allowed Before 1880 waterelosets were unknown in the tenement to build and furnish, solely at my own expense, a conI houses, some not having any sanitary accommodation at all. valescent home with accommodation for fifty beds ; andfor as an earnest of to a enclose intention, beg, my cheque Figures would seem to show that ten years’ sanitary work, while it has slightly lowered the general death-rate, has f:5000, and I hereby undertake to give a cheque for the of the estimated cost of the home when its apparently greatly reduced the zymotic death-rate. This remainder is laid. The only condition I attach to foundation-stone and the first weeks during thirty improvement continues, the is that home shall remain in perpetuity under the gift of the present year the death-rate was 2’8 under the mean rate for the corresponding period in the previous ten years. the control of the governors and the council of CharingThe Lord Mayor said that he was Typhus fever, which formerly caused terrible ravages in cross Hospital." Dublin, has almost completely disappeared, but no decrease delighted that it had fallen to his lot to announce this splendid gift, which he hoped would act as an incentive, has taken place in typhoid fever. and not as a deterrent, to further charity. Mr. Martin acknowledged the toast, incidentally stating that on the day of the great Trafalgar.square meeting no fewer than ninety cases of injury were treated in the hospital. Sir THE METROPOLITAN POLICE SURGEONS’ John Puleston proposed "The Medical Staff," for whom ASSOCIATION. Dr. Green responded. The secretary announced donations to the amount of £7576, including the f:5000 from Mr. THE annual dinner of this important Association was Passmore Edwards. ’held at the Criterion Restaurant on Thursday, Nov. 12th, DEPUTY CORONER FOR OSWESTRY DISTRICT.—The under the able presidency of the surgeon-in-chief to the Lord Chancellor has confirmed the appointment of Dr. John Mr. MacKellar. A of number Metropolitan Police, large of Oswestry, to the office of deputy coroner for the Griffiths, 1 Report upon the State of the Public Health of Dublin for 1890. Oswestry district.
fathers and mothers, to get their children as soon as possible to have 11 a share of what is going," and whether this wish arises from the delusion that the ability to do so is a sign of
.
, .
Burton
responded.
to the toast of "Our