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THE BELGIAN DOCTORS' AND PHARMACISTS' RELIEF FUND.
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OUR OWN
plaintiffs were boycotted, punished, and pecuniarily without just cause in law, and he felt compelled to come to the reluctant conclusion that the plaintiffs had established actual malice against the defendants. Plaintiffs, view the
IRELAND.
damaged
CORRESPONDENTS.) "
The LUS8 of the .. Leinster. IN the destruction of the R.M.S. Leinster last week at least three medical men were on board and have not since been traced, and several nurses have also disappeared. Along with the names of Captain Digby Burns, R.A.M.C., and Dr. R. E. Lee, is that of Sir W. Henry Thompson, D.Sc., whose loss is deeply felt in Belfast. In 1893 when, on the resignation of the late Dr. Peter Redfern, the double chair held by that distinguished teacher of anatomy and physiology in Queen’s College, Belfast, was divided into separate departments, Dr. W. H. Thompson was appointed as Dunville professor of physiology, a position he occupied until 1902, when he leftBelfast on being selected as King’s Professor of Institutes of Medicine in Trinity College, Dublin. He married Miss Isabel Redfern, the eldest daughter of Professor Peter Redfern, and to her and to their son and four daughters the sincerest sympathy of a very large circle of old friends in Belfast and the north of Ireland will be extended in their tragic and terrible loss. Sir W. H. Thompson came to Belfast a complete stranger, with a high record as a Galway College student, and as a demonstrator of anatomy in Trinity College, Dublin. He most worthily maintained and increased his fine early professional promise, and put the new department of physiology in the Belfast School of Medicine in a sound position. A thoroughly hard-working man, of marked independence of character, and determined to succeed, he impressed his colleagues with his great worth, while socially he took his proper position among the people and the affairs of the City of Belfast, following Professor Redfern’s admirable example.
Soheme for Medical Attendance on Discharged Disabled Men. The National Health Insurance Commission (Ireland) have now issued to the members of the medical profession an invitation to join in the scheme for giving medical attenddisabled sailors, soldiers, marines, ance to and airmen resident in Ireland. The necessity for the scheme arises from the absence of the medical benefit from the National Health Insurance Acts as applied The Government is providing a sum of to Ireland. money equal to a capitation-rate of 12s. 6d. per head for each discharged disabled man resident in the large towns and 15s. for those in the country. The fund for the whole country will go into a common pool, and payment will be made to the practitioners who give treatment in proportion to the work done by each. An elaborate system of token values has been arranged for the several services likely to be rendered. Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland. The annual general meeting of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland was held on Oct. llth. The number of Fellows increased during the year from 131 to 133, and the number of Members decreased from 17 to 15. The results of elections to the various offices were announced. Sir John Moore, D.Sc., succeeds Dr. R. D. Purefoy as President, and Major F. C. Purser succeeds Sir John Moore as secretary for foreign correspondence.
discharged
Oct. 14th.
MEDICINE AND THE LAW.
he added, must have the costs of the action, save in so far as any costs arose on issues in which they had failed. The terms of injunction remain for consideration. .1?: Aldacious .Impestar. At Liverpool recently a man named Blacklin, 35 years of age, was convicted of giving false information on a registraform, with being an unauthorised person wearing six and with wearing uniform so closely military decorations, resembling that of the Royal Navy that it was calculated to deceive. On the first two charges he received concurrent sentences of six months’ imprisonment, and on the third was ordered to pay a fine of £50, with the alternative of imprisonment for three months. He had engaged a room at a hotel in the character of Black, Surgeon, R.N., and had shown a card with the printed inscription, " Surgeon-Major Sir Patrick Black, Bart., M.V.O.," an assumption of titles which would have led to his immediate undoing on the exhibition of such a card to anyone with a glimmer of social knowledge. According to his own tale told to the police, with possible inaccuracies and exaggerations, he had been before the war in turn a messenger boy at the War Office, attached to the R.A.M.O., and a dispenser in New Zealand. He joined the Expeditionary Force and had been wounded twice, and had afterwards selected the name of Patrick Black in the Medical Register because that was a name resembling his own, and he saw opportunities. He had written to the Registrar of the General Medical Council asking him to change the address of that gentleman to his own address. He had no difficulty in obtaining the post of medical officer on board a steamship, and in that capacity had made two voyages. Whatever amount of truth there may be in this story, it points to the necessity for taking every reasonable precaution on the part of those controlling medical appointments. The adoption of the name of a medical practitioner actually on the Register is, however, probably not very often practised, and to obtain the alteration of the address is so obviously likely to lead to speedy detection that the example of Blacklin will hardly be followed by others.
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BELGIAN DOCTORS’ AND PHARMACISTS’ RELIEF FUND.
THE
SUBSCRIPTIONS
TO THE
THE
SECOND APPEAL. been received up to
following subscriptions have Monday last, Oct. 14the :-
2 s.d.• £ s. d. 1 00 Dr. F. Bell 2 2 Majar L.G. Dillon... 1 1 0 ’ Dr.J. Chalmers...... 2 2 0 Dr. 0. W. Ogden 0 1 10 5 5 (quarterly) Dr. Percival 0 Mr. E. Spencer Evans A. S. 110 : D. 0 Revie 0 10 Dr. 1 1 0 (monthly) Dr. J. W. Papillon Dr. G. H. Lowe ...... 110 Q 0 10 6 0 Dr. J. Charles 2 2 (quarterly) North of England Branch Mr. Morison Johnston 1 10 B.M.A.1 Dr. F. Barker ......... 1 1 0 Dr. T. L. Bunting 5 5 0 Dr. H. E. Mortis (second 3 0 0 Dr. F. Beaton I 1 0 donation this year) ... 1 Per Dr. J. Don, Hon. Sec.
Miss Agnes M. Cowan, M.O. i/c Q.M.A.A.C. Dr. W. H. Daviess
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Subscriptions to the Fund should be sent to the treasurer of the Fund, Dr. H. A. Des Voeux, at 14, Buckingham Gate, London, S. W. 1, and should be made payable to the Belgian Doctors’ and Pharmacists’ Relief Fund, crossed Lloyds Bank, Limited.
Pratt and Otlcers v. The British Medical Association. JUDGMENT was delivered by Mr. Justice MoCardie on Tuesday last in the case in which several Coventry doctors sued the British Medical Association, and three of its local SIDMOUTH ISOLATION HOSPITAL.-At the last members, for conspiracy, libel, and slander. The Associa- meeting of the Devon County Council it was reported that tion had charged the plaintiffs with conduct detrimental .the Sidmouth Urban Council had received notice to quit the to the honour and interests of the profession in carrying premises they occupy as a temporary isolation hospital.
dispensary at Coventry on principles fundamentally The Sidmouth council are anxious to provide a permanent requested the opposed to those approved of by the Coventry division isolation hospital for their district, and of the Association. His lordship, sitting without a jury, county council to release them from the scheme for the found in favour offthe plaintiffs, and awarded damages constitution of a hospital district (including Sidmouth) and provision of an isolation hospital for East Devon. The as follows: For unlawful molestation Dr. Burke £1000, county council decided to inform the Sidmouth authorities Dr. Holmes £700, and Dr. Pratt 700; for defamation, that there was no objection to the provision of a temporary Dr. Burke £420, Dr. Pratt £630, and Dr. Holmes 360. hospital during the war, but that the county scheme would In delivering judgment Mr. Justice McCardie said that in his be proceeded with as soon as circumstances permitted. on a
(FROM
OUR OWN
plaintiffs were boycotted, punished, and pecuniarily without just cause in law, and he felt compelled to come to the reluctant conclusion that the plaintiffs had established actual malice against the defendants. Plaintiffs, view the
IRELAND.
damaged
CORRESPONDENTS.) "
The LUS8 of the .. Leinster. IN the destruction of the R.M.S. Leinster last week at least three medical men were on board and have not since been traced, and several nurses have also disappeared. Along with the names of Captain Digby Burns, R.A.M.C., and Dr. R. E. Lee, is that of Sir W. Henry Thompson, D.Sc., whose loss is deeply felt in Belfast. In 1893 when, on the resignation of the late Dr. Peter Redfern, the double chair held by that distinguished teacher of anatomy and physiology in Queen’s College, Belfast, was divided into separate departments, Dr. W. H. Thompson was appointed as Dunville professor of physiology, a position he occupied until 1902, when he leftBelfast on being selected as King’s Professor of Institutes of Medicine in Trinity College, Dublin. He married Miss Isabel Redfern, the eldest daughter of Professor Peter Redfern, and to her and to their son and four daughters the sincerest sympathy of a very large circle of old friends in Belfast and the north of Ireland will be extended in their tragic and terrible loss. Sir W. H. Thompson came to Belfast a complete stranger, with a high record as a Galway College student, and as a demonstrator of anatomy in Trinity College, Dublin. He most worthily maintained and increased his fine early professional promise, and put the new department of physiology in the Belfast School of Medicine in a sound position. A thoroughly hard-working man, of marked independence of character, and determined to succeed, he impressed his colleagues with his great worth, while socially he took his proper position among the people and the affairs of the City of Belfast, following Professor Redfern’s admirable example.
Soheme for Medical Attendance on Discharged Disabled Men. The National Health Insurance Commission (Ireland) have now issued to the members of the medical profession an invitation to join in the scheme for giving medical attenddisabled sailors, soldiers, marines, ance to and airmen resident in Ireland. The necessity for the scheme arises from the absence of the medical benefit from the National Health Insurance Acts as applied The Government is providing a sum of to Ireland. money equal to a capitation-rate of 12s. 6d. per head for each discharged disabled man resident in the large towns and 15s. for those in the country. The fund for the whole country will go into a common pool, and payment will be made to the practitioners who give treatment in proportion to the work done by each. An elaborate system of token values has been arranged for the several services likely to be rendered. Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland. The annual general meeting of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland was held on Oct. llth. The number of Fellows increased during the year from 131 to 133, and the number of Members decreased from 17 to 15. The results of elections to the various offices were announced. Sir John Moore, D.Sc., succeeds Dr. R. D. Purefoy as President, and Major F. C. Purser succeeds Sir John Moore as secretary for foreign correspondence.
discharged
Oct. 14th.
MEDICINE AND THE LAW.
he added, must have the costs of the action, save in so far as any costs arose on issues in which they had failed. The terms of injunction remain for consideration. .1?: Aldacious .Impestar. At Liverpool recently a man named Blacklin, 35 years of age, was convicted of giving false information on a registraform, with being an unauthorised person wearing six and with wearing uniform so closely military decorations, resembling that of the Royal Navy that it was calculated to deceive. On the first two charges he received concurrent sentences of six months’ imprisonment, and on the third was ordered to pay a fine of £50, with the alternative of imprisonment for three months. He had engaged a room at a hotel in the character of Black, Surgeon, R.N., and had shown a card with the printed inscription, " Surgeon-Major Sir Patrick Black, Bart., M.V.O.," an assumption of titles which would have led to his immediate undoing on the exhibition of such a card to anyone with a glimmer of social knowledge. According to his own tale told to the police, with possible inaccuracies and exaggerations, he had been before the war in turn a messenger boy at the War Office, attached to the R.A.M.O., and a dispenser in New Zealand. He joined the Expeditionary Force and had been wounded twice, and had afterwards selected the name of Patrick Black in the Medical Register because that was a name resembling his own, and he saw opportunities. He had written to the Registrar of the General Medical Council asking him to change the address of that gentleman to his own address. He had no difficulty in obtaining the post of medical officer on board a steamship, and in that capacity had made two voyages. Whatever amount of truth there may be in this story, it points to the necessity for taking every reasonable precaution on the part of those controlling medical appointments. The adoption of the name of a medical practitioner actually on the Register is, however, probably not very often practised, and to obtain the alteration of the address is so obviously likely to lead to speedy detection that the example of Blacklin will hardly be followed by others.
tion
BELGIAN DOCTORS’ AND PHARMACISTS’ RELIEF FUND.
THE
SUBSCRIPTIONS
TO THE
THE
SECOND APPEAL. been received up to
following subscriptions have Monday last, Oct. 14the :-
2 s.d.• £ s. d. 1 00 Dr. F. Bell 2 2 Majar L.G. Dillon... 1 1 0 ’ Dr.J. Chalmers...... 2 2 0 Dr. 0. W. Ogden 0 1 10 5 5 (quarterly) Dr. Percival 0 Mr. E. Spencer Evans A. S. 110 : D. 0 Revie 0 10 Dr. 1 1 0 (monthly) Dr. J. W. Papillon Dr. G. H. Lowe ...... 110 Q 0 10 6 0 Dr. J. Charles 2 2 (quarterly) North of England Branch Mr. Morison Johnston 1 10 B.M.A.1 Dr. F. Barker ......... 1 1 0 Dr. T. L. Bunting 5 5 0 Dr. H. E. Mortis (second 3 0 0 Dr. F. Beaton I 1 0 donation this year) ... 1 Per Dr. J. Don, Hon. Sec.
Miss Agnes M. Cowan, M.O. i/c Q.M.A.A.C. Dr. W. H. Daviess
0
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0I
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...
...
......
.........
......
.
...
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Subscriptions to the Fund should be sent to the treasurer of the Fund, Dr. H. A. Des Voeux, at 14, Buckingham Gate, London, S. W. 1, and should be made payable to the Belgian Doctors’ and Pharmacists’ Relief Fund, crossed Lloyds Bank, Limited.
Pratt and Otlcers v. The British Medical Association. JUDGMENT was delivered by Mr. Justice MoCardie on Tuesday last in the case in which several Coventry doctors sued the British Medical Association, and three of its local SIDMOUTH ISOLATION HOSPITAL.-At the last members, for conspiracy, libel, and slander. The Associa- meeting of the Devon County Council it was reported that tion had charged the plaintiffs with conduct detrimental .the Sidmouth Urban Council had received notice to quit the to the honour and interests of the profession in carrying premises they occupy as a temporary isolation hospital.
dispensary at Coventry on principles fundamentally The Sidmouth council are anxious to provide a permanent requested the opposed to those approved of by the Coventry division isolation hospital for their district, and of the Association. His lordship, sitting without a jury, county council to release them from the scheme for the found in favour offthe plaintiffs, and awarded damages constitution of a hospital district (including Sidmouth) and provision of an isolation hospital for East Devon. The as follows: For unlawful molestation Dr. Burke £1000, county council decided to inform the Sidmouth authorities Dr. Holmes £700, and Dr. Pratt 700; for defamation, that there was no objection to the provision of a temporary Dr. Burke £420, Dr. Pratt £630, and Dr. Holmes 360. hospital during the war, but that the county scheme would In delivering judgment Mr. Justice McCardie said that in his be proceeded with as soon as circumstances permitted. on a