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THE BLOOD IN THE INSANE.
870 my state that the deaths
in following a course of conduct which at once incurred the emphatic protest of their consulting staff and laid them open to the imputation that they badly understand their duty towards the public as stewards of a public charity.
last week distributed over those of Islington (6), Camberwell (6), Chelsea and Stepney with 4 deaths each, and Kensington, Falham, Pancra", Wandsworth, and Whitechapel with 3 deaths in each. The patients certified to be suffering from diphtheria on admission to hospital last week were 98, a daily average of 14, against 101 and 90 in the preceding two weeks ; and at the close of the weak the patients under treatment numbered 502. against 485, 495, and 496 on the three preceding Saturdays. numerous
were
districts, including
THE
CHELSEA
HOSPITAL
FOR
THE BLOOD IN THE
on the’
blood of several insane patients by the method of Ehrlich, and although the results are by no means conclusive they possess some interest. In general paralysis eosinophiloug corf uncles were somewhat uncommon except in cases iDwhich tremor was extreme. In these they were numerous. In cretinism they were increased in the proportion of 20 per cent., while in idiots they were normal, and in epileptics a. little below this. Of three criminals examined, in two they were below normal, but in the third were very numerous.
WOMEN.
publish this week a report of the proceedings at a fpecial meeting of the Governors of the Chelsea Hospital for Women held on Wednesday last. The meeting was summoned ith a twofold object : (1) to report concerning the carrying out of the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry, as authorised by the governors, and the action taken upon the Report of the Medical Officer of Health, and to receive a statement from the Board of Management ; and (2) to receive the resignations of the Chairman, Vice- Chairman, Treasurer, and the other Members of the Board of Management. We understand there were about forty Governors present. In the course of the meeting the chairman, Mr. T. W. Brookes, who is also vice-chairman of the Board of Management, dealt with matters relating to the recent election of the medical staff in a report from the Board of Management in a manner upon which we beg leave to comment. Tnis report stated that a committee consisting of three members of the consulting staff and three lay members of the Board had been appointed to The consider the application of those seeking election. committee sent up twelve names to the Board of Management, from which it proceeded to elect six gentlemen to the staff. Subsequently the three members of the consulting staff resigned. At the meeting on Wednesday last Dr. Travers said he had letters from Mr. Hutchinson, Sir Spencer Wells, and Dr. Robert Barnes stating that they had nothing whatever to do with the election of physicians to the hospital and disapproving of the mode in which the election had been made. Copies of two of those letters are in our possm:sion, and if these three gentlemen are the three members of the consulting staff who are publicly supposed to be responsible for the elections the sooner Mr. Brookes contradicts this supposition in public the better. In answer to questions at the meeting the chairman professed himself unable to understand why Sir Spencer Wells and Mr. Hutchinson had resigned. Surely, however, the reason is not far to seek. They resigned to show their disof of the Board of Management in the conduct approval relation to the election. Dr. Barnes has done the same for the same reason. Here were three men of the highest professional standing, equally well known to the public and to the profession, to whom the Board of Management might well have appealed for advice as to what its conduct should be in a crisis of great importance in the history of the hospital. Had this course been taken there can be little doubt that the Board would have been advised to resign and leave the duty of electing a new medical r,taff to a representative committee, the constitution of which would have been a guarantee that a new departure was about to be made, and that at all events everything possible had been done to place the hospital for the future in a position deserving of public confidence. As matters stand, however, we think that the view expressed by the Rev. Mr. Myers at Wednesday’s meeting will be the one taken by all indel endent people-viz., that the Board of Management, having been censured by the Commission, should have resigned before proceeding to elect the new medical staff ; and that it is decidedly anomalous that, with a record such as the Board of Management itself had to show, it should have, nevertheless, felt no hesitation
INSANE.
HONCORONI has recordedhis observations made
WE
THE
NEW ENTRIES AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS. THE returns of the entry of new students at the various medical Echools are not yet complete, and it is probable that. in the case of those already furnished to us some additions may yet have to be made. These returns show that of the whole Lumber of new entries at each of the seven following schools the number of general students are : St. Mary’s, 76;. Lordon, 56; St. George’s, 33; Royal Free, 29; Middlesex, 26 ;, Charing-cross, 24 ; and at the Sheffield School of Medicine, 6. These figures, which do not include Guy’s, St. Bartholomew’s, St. Thomas’s, or the Westminster Hospitals, show but slight, variations from those of last year.
ATROPHY OF THE CEREBELLUM. AMALDI has recently recorded in the Revue Ne?iro7ogiqit-the curious case of a melancholic woman who during life had never shown any signs of disturbed sensory or motor power, although at the necropsy the left cerebellar hemisphere was found to be reduced to half its usual A careful examination of the nervous system bulk. Thus the" disclosed an interesting series of changes. left column of Clarke was found to be atrophied as well as the nuclei of the posterior columns on the lefk. side, especially the nucleus of the column of Burdach in its. external part. The’right olivary body also was atrophied, and the fibres of side of the pons which came from the opposite side, as well as the right cerebral peduncle.
the right
z,
of the sixty-fourth Society will be held at the Sta:fford rooms, Tichborne-street, Edgware-road, on Thursday, Oct. 18th, at 8.30 P.M., when all members of the profession are invited to attend upon presentation of visiting card. THE first
meeting (clinical evening)
session of the Harveian
THE memorial portrait of the late Arthur Hill HasEall, M.D., M.R.C.P., the founder of the Royal National Hospital for Consumption, Ventnor, will be unveiled on Monday, Oct. 15’.h, at 3 30 P.M., at that hospital, by Sir Richard E. Webster, Q.C., M.P. -
THE annual dinner of past and present students o Charing-cross Hospital will be held at the Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly, London, on Thursday, Oct. 25b, when Mr. J. Grosvenor-Mackinley, F.R.C.S. Edin., will preside. -
AT the opening meeting of the session of the Manchester Medical Society, held on Oct. 3rd, Dr. Gowers, F.R.S., delivered the inaugural address on the Nature of Epilepsy in relation to the Dynamics of Life. DR. FREDERICK T. ROBERTS will deliver the Lettsomian Lectures before the Medical Society of London in January next. Tbe Diary is of no use at present as to date. 1
Revue Neurologique, No.11.
in following a course of conduct which at once incurred the emphatic protest of their consulting staff and laid them open to the imputation that they badly understand their duty towards the public as stewards of a public charity.
last week distributed over those of Islington (6), Camberwell (6), Chelsea and Stepney with 4 deaths each, and Kensington, Falham, Pancra", Wandsworth, and Whitechapel with 3 deaths in each. The patients certified to be suffering from diphtheria on admission to hospital last week were 98, a daily average of 14, against 101 and 90 in the preceding two weeks ; and at the close of the weak the patients under treatment numbered 502. against 485, 495, and 496 on the three preceding Saturdays. numerous
were
districts, including
THE
CHELSEA
HOSPITAL
FOR
THE BLOOD IN THE
on the’
blood of several insane patients by the method of Ehrlich, and although the results are by no means conclusive they possess some interest. In general paralysis eosinophiloug corf uncles were somewhat uncommon except in cases iDwhich tremor was extreme. In these they were numerous. In cretinism they were increased in the proportion of 20 per cent., while in idiots they were normal, and in epileptics a. little below this. Of three criminals examined, in two they were below normal, but in the third were very numerous.
WOMEN.
publish this week a report of the proceedings at a fpecial meeting of the Governors of the Chelsea Hospital for Women held on Wednesday last. The meeting was summoned ith a twofold object : (1) to report concerning the carrying out of the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry, as authorised by the governors, and the action taken upon the Report of the Medical Officer of Health, and to receive a statement from the Board of Management ; and (2) to receive the resignations of the Chairman, Vice- Chairman, Treasurer, and the other Members of the Board of Management. We understand there were about forty Governors present. In the course of the meeting the chairman, Mr. T. W. Brookes, who is also vice-chairman of the Board of Management, dealt with matters relating to the recent election of the medical staff in a report from the Board of Management in a manner upon which we beg leave to comment. Tnis report stated that a committee consisting of three members of the consulting staff and three lay members of the Board had been appointed to The consider the application of those seeking election. committee sent up twelve names to the Board of Management, from which it proceeded to elect six gentlemen to the staff. Subsequently the three members of the consulting staff resigned. At the meeting on Wednesday last Dr. Travers said he had letters from Mr. Hutchinson, Sir Spencer Wells, and Dr. Robert Barnes stating that they had nothing whatever to do with the election of physicians to the hospital and disapproving of the mode in which the election had been made. Copies of two of those letters are in our possm:sion, and if these three gentlemen are the three members of the consulting staff who are publicly supposed to be responsible for the elections the sooner Mr. Brookes contradicts this supposition in public the better. In answer to questions at the meeting the chairman professed himself unable to understand why Sir Spencer Wells and Mr. Hutchinson had resigned. Surely, however, the reason is not far to seek. They resigned to show their disof of the Board of Management in the conduct approval relation to the election. Dr. Barnes has done the same for the same reason. Here were three men of the highest professional standing, equally well known to the public and to the profession, to whom the Board of Management might well have appealed for advice as to what its conduct should be in a crisis of great importance in the history of the hospital. Had this course been taken there can be little doubt that the Board would have been advised to resign and leave the duty of electing a new medical r,taff to a representative committee, the constitution of which would have been a guarantee that a new departure was about to be made, and that at all events everything possible had been done to place the hospital for the future in a position deserving of public confidence. As matters stand, however, we think that the view expressed by the Rev. Mr. Myers at Wednesday’s meeting will be the one taken by all indel endent people-viz., that the Board of Management, having been censured by the Commission, should have resigned before proceeding to elect the new medical staff ; and that it is decidedly anomalous that, with a record such as the Board of Management itself had to show, it should have, nevertheless, felt no hesitation
INSANE.
HONCORONI has recordedhis observations made
WE
THE
NEW ENTRIES AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS. THE returns of the entry of new students at the various medical Echools are not yet complete, and it is probable that. in the case of those already furnished to us some additions may yet have to be made. These returns show that of the whole Lumber of new entries at each of the seven following schools the number of general students are : St. Mary’s, 76;. Lordon, 56; St. George’s, 33; Royal Free, 29; Middlesex, 26 ;, Charing-cross, 24 ; and at the Sheffield School of Medicine, 6. These figures, which do not include Guy’s, St. Bartholomew’s, St. Thomas’s, or the Westminster Hospitals, show but slight, variations from those of last year.
ATROPHY OF THE CEREBELLUM. AMALDI has recently recorded in the Revue Ne?iro7ogiqit-the curious case of a melancholic woman who during life had never shown any signs of disturbed sensory or motor power, although at the necropsy the left cerebellar hemisphere was found to be reduced to half its usual A careful examination of the nervous system bulk. Thus the" disclosed an interesting series of changes. left column of Clarke was found to be atrophied as well as the nuclei of the posterior columns on the lefk. side, especially the nucleus of the column of Burdach in its. external part. The’right olivary body also was atrophied, and the fibres of side of the pons which came from the opposite side, as well as the right cerebral peduncle.
the right
z,
of the sixty-fourth Society will be held at the Sta:fford rooms, Tichborne-street, Edgware-road, on Thursday, Oct. 18th, at 8.30 P.M., when all members of the profession are invited to attend upon presentation of visiting card. THE first
meeting (clinical evening)
session of the Harveian
THE memorial portrait of the late Arthur Hill HasEall, M.D., M.R.C.P., the founder of the Royal National Hospital for Consumption, Ventnor, will be unveiled on Monday, Oct. 15’.h, at 3 30 P.M., at that hospital, by Sir Richard E. Webster, Q.C., M.P. -
THE annual dinner of past and present students o Charing-cross Hospital will be held at the Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly, London, on Thursday, Oct. 25b, when Mr. J. Grosvenor-Mackinley, F.R.C.S. Edin., will preside. -
AT the opening meeting of the session of the Manchester Medical Society, held on Oct. 3rd, Dr. Gowers, F.R.S., delivered the inaugural address on the Nature of Epilepsy in relation to the Dynamics of Life. DR. FREDERICK T. ROBERTS will deliver the Lettsomian Lectures before the Medical Society of London in January next. Tbe Diary is of no use at present as to date. 1
Revue Neurologique, No.11.