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304 and Physician of Belvidere Fever Hospital. It is significant of the esteem in which Dr. Allan is very justly held that this increase was granted without the usual haggling and " bickering"so common at municipal meetings when matters of salary are under discussion. VACCINATION DEFAULTERS.
Duringthe last two years vaccination defaulters have been looked after in Glasgow by the sanitary inspectors, with very satisfactory results. On information received from the various city registrars these defaulters are followed up and brought within the operation of the Vaccination Act. It was found that in nearly all instances the defaulters were people who had changed their residence (and were thus difficult to trace), there being no systematic opposition to vaccination in Glasgow. As the result of this supervision by the sanitary inspectors, it is pointed out that while previous to 1876 the proportion of children born in Glasgow and not accounted for either by vaccination, death before vaccination, or postponement on medical certificate, was 4 per cent., this proportion has now been reducea to 2 per cent. In the rest of Scotland the proportion of children not accounted for under the Vaccination Act has increased.
but if that is seriously interfered with to satisfy the wordy warriors for the Corporations and bogus Fellowships, the university interests will give battle of such a strenuous kind as to jeopardise the passing of the measure this session Mr. Mundella’s plain speaking has possibly acted as a shower- bath upon the deputation detachments from the various Corporations, and at least proves that he is not to be hoodwinked by violent statements on the part of defeated candidates for professorships in institutions which seem now devoid of all merit. The speaking has been done by a few, and it is impossible to believe that the great body of extra. mural lecturers can suppose themselves injured by a Bill which places their students, for the first time, upon an equal platform with those from the universities. It should be distinctly remembered that it was only upon the constitution of the Divisional Board being arranged as it passed the Lords that the Scottish Universities became friendly to the measure, and that if this is interfered with their hands are again untied. Mr. Mundella and Sir Lyon Playfair will be able to show independent members that the present arrangement is eminently fair, and promises to work well for medical education in Scotland.
PARIS. SCOTTISH NOTES. (From our own Correspondent.)
(From our Paris Correspondent.)
THE members of the scientific mission organised by PROFESSOR M’INTOSH of St. Andrews, who has acted M. Pasteur to study the nature of the cholera prevailing in Egypt only embarked on Friday, the 10th instant. It is to be as medical superintendent of the Murthly District Asylum, hoped that they will yet reach there in time to fulfil their near Perth, since its opening about twenty years ago, has now resigned. During last session leave of absence was important mission. directors that the professor might conduct M. LESSEPS ON RACIAL CHARACTERISTICS. granted by the his class. The management at Murthly has been most In presenting the fourth volume of "L’Histoire U niverselle," efficient and economical. In these days, when the rapacity by M. MarinsFontane, entitled "Les Asiatiques," atarecent of teachers is sometimes hinted at, it is worth while men- meeting of the Academy of Sciences, M. de Lesseps made tioning that in Professor M’Intosh’s zeal for zoology he has some very interesting remarks on the necessity of Governaccepted his new position at considerable pecuniary sacrifice. ments having a thorough knowledge of the peculiarities of the It is understood that a fitting successor to Dr. M’Intosh, different races that constitute a nation, taking into account and one most favourably known to the directors, has already their sentiments and with the view of satisfying passions, presented himself. or combating them, according to the exigencies of civiliCOTTAGE HOSPITAL FOR DUNOON. sation, which, he said, was the basis of all good government The Earl of Glasgow opened a bazaar, or "artistic fair," and diplomacy. In the various revolutions that have taken last week, held with a view to providing a cottage hospital place in the civilised world the populations have been moved for Dunoon and neighbourhood. Infectious diseases will by various impulses, which disclose the influence of the not be admitted, but cases of ordinary illness and accident. different races amalgamated on a given territory, each About £1000 are required, and already handsome subscrip- nation betraying certain aptitudes or inherent qualities tions are promised. The proposal meets the approval of the which are more or less accentuated according to the difference of the races of which it is composed. In the volumes above local medical men. referred to, M. Marins Fontane gives an account of the TYPHUS IN SKYE. current of emigration of the Phoenicians, consequently great Mr. Masson, M.B., has written to state that the reported Asiatics, who, tormented by the Greeks, took possession of epidemic of typhus at Elgol in Skye is of a very limited ’ the Levant, gradually scattered themselves westward, and in it is illness of the character. Perhaps the worst element occupied the whole of the Mediterranean coasts, passed the Dr. Mackenzie, who caught the infection while on duty in Straits of Gibraltar, and great numbers of them, steering the neighbourhood. The few cases are completely isolated, the western coast of Europe, went as far as the along and tourists need have no fear in visiting this rugged district. " Cassiterides Isles, and even to Great Britain. It is evident, concludes M. de Lesseps, that since those remote THE PROFESSORSHIP OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AT ages, there has been established in England a foundation of ABERDEEN. whose mercantile impatience and exaggerations, Phoenicians, The lengthy list of candidates for this chair has not altered since my last reference to the subject, and, as far as with a certain degree of contempt for the rights of others, are manifested by the English, who, however, may be noted, the only change occasionally opinion in the having a strong mixture of the Anglo-Saxon blood in their seems to be in favour of Dr. Matthew Hay, of Edinburgh. I hear from a lecturer on medical jurisprudence that he is veins, possess the cool and calculating qualities of the latter, have a counter-balancing influence, and enable them most anxious to have Dr. Hay as a fellow worker, feeling which that his past opportunities have been taken advantage of, to master the most difficult social and international problems. and that his future is of the most promising character. Dr. This is very complimentary, but it is at the same time doubtless intended as a rebuke to the who are charged Angus Fraser has so far enlisted the sympathy of students by the continental press in general,English, and that of the French and junior graduates, who have opportunity of knowing his excellent qualities, that already over 200 undergraduates in particular, with motives of mercantilism and egoism, as is have petitioned the University Court in his favour, and said to have been manifested by them in Egypt both during war and at the present time, where they entirely recent alumni are joining heartily to promote his election. the late With candidates like Drs. Beveridge, Fraser, and Hay, the ignore the sanitary laws established by the International which was held at nearly University Court can scarcely go wrong in their selection ; Sanitary Congress The French cannotConstantinople twenty years ago. get over the English and friends of the medical school will expect a talented evading the quarantine regulations; and although the note successor to one of the ablest medical jurists who ever from the Foreign Office has been severely commented on in a such chair. occupied this country as being officious and presumptuous, it has had THE MEDICAL BILL. the effect of showing that the English were actuated by So far as Scotland is concerned, the whole discussion of this other motives than those imputed to them, and that their Bill will hinge upon the constitution of the Divisional Board ; decision was based on scientific observations and experience, ’
profession
,
Duringthe last two years vaccination defaulters have been looked after in Glasgow by the sanitary inspectors, with very satisfactory results. On information received from the various city registrars these defaulters are followed up and brought within the operation of the Vaccination Act. It was found that in nearly all instances the defaulters were people who had changed their residence (and were thus difficult to trace), there being no systematic opposition to vaccination in Glasgow. As the result of this supervision by the sanitary inspectors, it is pointed out that while previous to 1876 the proportion of children born in Glasgow and not accounted for either by vaccination, death before vaccination, or postponement on medical certificate, was 4 per cent., this proportion has now been reducea to 2 per cent. In the rest of Scotland the proportion of children not accounted for under the Vaccination Act has increased.
but if that is seriously interfered with to satisfy the wordy warriors for the Corporations and bogus Fellowships, the university interests will give battle of such a strenuous kind as to jeopardise the passing of the measure this session Mr. Mundella’s plain speaking has possibly acted as a shower- bath upon the deputation detachments from the various Corporations, and at least proves that he is not to be hoodwinked by violent statements on the part of defeated candidates for professorships in institutions which seem now devoid of all merit. The speaking has been done by a few, and it is impossible to believe that the great body of extra. mural lecturers can suppose themselves injured by a Bill which places their students, for the first time, upon an equal platform with those from the universities. It should be distinctly remembered that it was only upon the constitution of the Divisional Board being arranged as it passed the Lords that the Scottish Universities became friendly to the measure, and that if this is interfered with their hands are again untied. Mr. Mundella and Sir Lyon Playfair will be able to show independent members that the present arrangement is eminently fair, and promises to work well for medical education in Scotland.
PARIS. SCOTTISH NOTES. (From our own Correspondent.)
(From our Paris Correspondent.)
THE members of the scientific mission organised by PROFESSOR M’INTOSH of St. Andrews, who has acted M. Pasteur to study the nature of the cholera prevailing in Egypt only embarked on Friday, the 10th instant. It is to be as medical superintendent of the Murthly District Asylum, hoped that they will yet reach there in time to fulfil their near Perth, since its opening about twenty years ago, has now resigned. During last session leave of absence was important mission. directors that the professor might conduct M. LESSEPS ON RACIAL CHARACTERISTICS. granted by the his class. The management at Murthly has been most In presenting the fourth volume of "L’Histoire U niverselle," efficient and economical. In these days, when the rapacity by M. MarinsFontane, entitled "Les Asiatiques," atarecent of teachers is sometimes hinted at, it is worth while men- meeting of the Academy of Sciences, M. de Lesseps made tioning that in Professor M’Intosh’s zeal for zoology he has some very interesting remarks on the necessity of Governaccepted his new position at considerable pecuniary sacrifice. ments having a thorough knowledge of the peculiarities of the It is understood that a fitting successor to Dr. M’Intosh, different races that constitute a nation, taking into account and one most favourably known to the directors, has already their sentiments and with the view of satisfying passions, presented himself. or combating them, according to the exigencies of civiliCOTTAGE HOSPITAL FOR DUNOON. sation, which, he said, was the basis of all good government The Earl of Glasgow opened a bazaar, or "artistic fair," and diplomacy. In the various revolutions that have taken last week, held with a view to providing a cottage hospital place in the civilised world the populations have been moved for Dunoon and neighbourhood. Infectious diseases will by various impulses, which disclose the influence of the not be admitted, but cases of ordinary illness and accident. different races amalgamated on a given territory, each About £1000 are required, and already handsome subscrip- nation betraying certain aptitudes or inherent qualities tions are promised. The proposal meets the approval of the which are more or less accentuated according to the difference of the races of which it is composed. In the volumes above local medical men. referred to, M. Marins Fontane gives an account of the TYPHUS IN SKYE. current of emigration of the Phoenicians, consequently great Mr. Masson, M.B., has written to state that the reported Asiatics, who, tormented by the Greeks, took possession of epidemic of typhus at Elgol in Skye is of a very limited ’ the Levant, gradually scattered themselves westward, and in it is illness of the character. Perhaps the worst element occupied the whole of the Mediterranean coasts, passed the Dr. Mackenzie, who caught the infection while on duty in Straits of Gibraltar, and great numbers of them, steering the neighbourhood. The few cases are completely isolated, the western coast of Europe, went as far as the along and tourists need have no fear in visiting this rugged district. " Cassiterides Isles, and even to Great Britain. It is evident, concludes M. de Lesseps, that since those remote THE PROFESSORSHIP OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AT ages, there has been established in England a foundation of ABERDEEN. whose mercantile impatience and exaggerations, Phoenicians, The lengthy list of candidates for this chair has not altered since my last reference to the subject, and, as far as with a certain degree of contempt for the rights of others, are manifested by the English, who, however, may be noted, the only change occasionally opinion in the having a strong mixture of the Anglo-Saxon blood in their seems to be in favour of Dr. Matthew Hay, of Edinburgh. I hear from a lecturer on medical jurisprudence that he is veins, possess the cool and calculating qualities of the latter, have a counter-balancing influence, and enable them most anxious to have Dr. Hay as a fellow worker, feeling which that his past opportunities have been taken advantage of, to master the most difficult social and international problems. and that his future is of the most promising character. Dr. This is very complimentary, but it is at the same time doubtless intended as a rebuke to the who are charged Angus Fraser has so far enlisted the sympathy of students by the continental press in general,English, and that of the French and junior graduates, who have opportunity of knowing his excellent qualities, that already over 200 undergraduates in particular, with motives of mercantilism and egoism, as is have petitioned the University Court in his favour, and said to have been manifested by them in Egypt both during war and at the present time, where they entirely recent alumni are joining heartily to promote his election. the late With candidates like Drs. Beveridge, Fraser, and Hay, the ignore the sanitary laws established by the International which was held at nearly University Court can scarcely go wrong in their selection ; Sanitary Congress The French cannotConstantinople twenty years ago. get over the English and friends of the medical school will expect a talented evading the quarantine regulations; and although the note successor to one of the ablest medical jurists who ever from the Foreign Office has been severely commented on in a such chair. occupied this country as being officious and presumptuous, it has had THE MEDICAL BILL. the effect of showing that the English were actuated by So far as Scotland is concerned, the whole discussion of this other motives than those imputed to them, and that their Bill will hinge upon the constitution of the Divisional Board ; decision was based on scientific observations and experience, ’
profession
,