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THE EARNINGS OF MEDICAL MAN IN FRANCE.
496 thus practically abolished. In this unsatisfactory state - matters remained up to 1892, when once more public attention in France was directed to the hard fate of the men engaged in the fishing industry. Several minor reforms were at once instituted, and in 1895, under the auspices of the above-named society, the despatch of hospital ships after the English model was decided on. Since then ’three sailing vessels have been equipped, each making up 30 beds, but the society has had to contend with a series of misfortunes which would have discouraged less strenuous workers. The first hospital ship, the Saint-Pierre, was wrecked in Placentia Bay. Her sister ship, the totally was on the rocks at Reykiavik ; while the driven Baint-Pa1tl, Saint-Pierre No. 2 had a serious collision with a fishing ’smack soon after her arrival at the scene of operations. TIappily no lives were lost in these deplorable accidents, and in spite of them the society, as Dr. Bonnafy puts it, is running fairly before the wind. In addition to the two renovated hospital ships "family houses" have been established on shore, in competition with the cabarets or grog-
poisoning by the carbolic acid which sedulously used. The hsematuria ceased in about a fortnight. Carbolic acid should be carefully used in the case of children, as they are especially susceptible to it.
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TRANSMISSION OF DELETERIOUS MATTER BY POST.
THE following notice has been issued by the Post Office:Deleterious liquids or substances, though otherwise prohibited from transmission by post, may be sent for medical examination or analysis by registered letter post under the following conditions :Any such liquid or substance must be enclosed in a receptacle hermetically sealed, which receptacle must itself be placed in a strong wooden, leathern, or metal case in such a way that it cannot shift about, and with a sufficient quantity of some absorbent material (such as sawdust or cotton-wool) so packed about the receptacle as absolutely to prevent any possible leakage from the package in the event of damage to the receptacle. The packet so made up must be marked " Fragile with care," and tendered at a post-office for transmission by shops, and are a great success. registered letter post. It must on no account be dropped into a letter-box or sent by parcel post. These regulations will be rigidly enforced. Any postal packet of the kind THE EARNINGS OF MEDICAL MEN IN FRANCE. found in the parcel post or any postal packet of the kind, ]B’1. HENRI BÉRENGER discourses in the Revue des Revue whether registered or not, found in the letter post not more or less pleasantly, but apparently with authority, on I packed as directed will be at once stopped and disposed of the Postmaster-General shall direct. the Intellectual Proletariat in France. Here are some of his as who sends by post a liquid or substance for Any observations referable to the medical profession. There are medicalperson examination or analysis otherwise than as provided in the whole of France, inclusive of Corsica but excluding by these regulations is liable to prosecution even if he be a Algeria, between 12,000 and 13,000 practising medical men, patient sending something to his medical adviser for his of whom 2500 live in Paris, the remainder being distributed opinion, or a medical practitioner sending something to a or elsewhere. throughout the provinces. As regards the metropolitan laboratory No liquid or substance of the kind may, under any circumpractitioners the following is the approximate scale of earn- stances, be sent by post to or from any place outside the ings : 5 or 6 earn between .68000 and .612,000 per annum, United Kingdom. from 10 to 15 earn about .66000, 100 earn .62000, 300 earn We can ourselves testify to the need that there is for such between L600 and .61200, 800 earn between .6320 and as the above. It is by no means unusual for regulations Of the 10,000 pro1200 earn less than .6320. <6600, of both fluid and solid, to reach us packed matters, samples vincial practitioners not more than half make a decent in an careless manner and more than occasionexceedingly livelihood. Every year the various universities turn out ally the containing vessel has perished in the transit, not about 1200 qualified doctors of medicine. The average only to our loss, but also to the damage presumably of other duration of a practice may be set down as between twenty in charge of the Post Office. Many medical men parcels and twenty-five years ; it follows, therefore, that the pro- have had the same experience, for specimens transmitted by duction is twice as great as the demand. M. Berenger’s for analysis or microscopical examination are, as a patients statistics may be correct, but apparently he neglects rule, ill-packed, but now that official notice is taken of to make allowances for the young medical men who the matter we have no doubt more care will be taken. are absorbed each year in the army, navy, and colonial services. 10,000 practitioners for the whole of provincial NURSING IN WORKHOUSE INFIRMARIES. France seems, moreover, to be anything but a liberal IF it be true that we have the poor always with us it is no estimate, seeing that the number on the British Medical less true that the question of their proper care and nursing is at least three times Register greater. is a perennial problem which so far seems incapable of solution. At the meeting of the Aylesbury Board of TOXIC EFFECTS FROM THE USE OF CARBOLIC Guardians, held on August 10th, the medical officer, Mr. T. ACID. G. Parrott, attended to give reasons why trained nurses Toxic symptoms have occasionally resulted from the use should be obtained for the workhouse infirmary. He gave it of carbolic acid as an antiseptic. At a recent meeting of as his opinion that though he had no complaint to make the Société Medicale des Hopitaux Dr. M. J. Comby related against the present nurse, yet her standard of nursing was the following case. A child, aged five years, was treated for not very high and he considered that a trained nurse would otorrhcea with carbolic acid. Injections of 1t per cent. be very desirable. He allowed that there were no cases at were employed six times a day ; after the last injection in present under his care which required trained nursing and the evening five drops of glycerine of carbolic acid (5 per also that he knew the master had powers in case of cent.) were instilled and in addition the ear was bathed with emergency to secure better nursing. The chairman said the first solution. This treatment was scrupulously carried he could quite understand the medical officer advocating But two trained nursing, it was only natural that he should be out for ten days, when the otorrhoea ceased. afterwards and in favour of it as it afforded a good opportunity for had hasmaturia the child days persistent headache. Careful physical examination revealed no other someone to help him in his work. It was very kind signs of disease and the general condition was satisfactory. of the Local Government Board to order things, but that body did not have to pay for them. After a great Symptoms of acute nephritis-pyrexia, cedema, &c.-were deal more discussion Mr. Locke moved the following the and there was no evidence of tuberculosis absent; case hsemothat the was not one of showed proposition : ’’ Considering that the present nurse has been microscope the in the house for three and a half years, and as that therefore concluded Dr. nursing Comby globinuria.
poisoning by the carbolic acid which sedulously used. The hsematuria ceased in about a fortnight. Carbolic acid should be carefully used in the case of children, as they are especially susceptible to it.
hasmaturia had been
THE
was
due to
so
TRANSMISSION OF DELETERIOUS MATTER BY POST.
THE following notice has been issued by the Post Office:Deleterious liquids or substances, though otherwise prohibited from transmission by post, may be sent for medical examination or analysis by registered letter post under the following conditions :Any such liquid or substance must be enclosed in a receptacle hermetically sealed, which receptacle must itself be placed in a strong wooden, leathern, or metal case in such a way that it cannot shift about, and with a sufficient quantity of some absorbent material (such as sawdust or cotton-wool) so packed about the receptacle as absolutely to prevent any possible leakage from the package in the event of damage to the receptacle. The packet so made up must be marked " Fragile with care," and tendered at a post-office for transmission by shops, and are a great success. registered letter post. It must on no account be dropped into a letter-box or sent by parcel post. These regulations will be rigidly enforced. Any postal packet of the kind THE EARNINGS OF MEDICAL MEN IN FRANCE. found in the parcel post or any postal packet of the kind, ]B’1. HENRI BÉRENGER discourses in the Revue des Revue whether registered or not, found in the letter post not more or less pleasantly, but apparently with authority, on I packed as directed will be at once stopped and disposed of the Postmaster-General shall direct. the Intellectual Proletariat in France. Here are some of his as who sends by post a liquid or substance for Any observations referable to the medical profession. There are medicalperson examination or analysis otherwise than as provided in the whole of France, inclusive of Corsica but excluding by these regulations is liable to prosecution even if he be a Algeria, between 12,000 and 13,000 practising medical men, patient sending something to his medical adviser for his of whom 2500 live in Paris, the remainder being distributed opinion, or a medical practitioner sending something to a or elsewhere. throughout the provinces. As regards the metropolitan laboratory No liquid or substance of the kind may, under any circumpractitioners the following is the approximate scale of earn- stances, be sent by post to or from any place outside the ings : 5 or 6 earn between .68000 and .612,000 per annum, United Kingdom. from 10 to 15 earn about .66000, 100 earn .62000, 300 earn We can ourselves testify to the need that there is for such between L600 and .61200, 800 earn between .6320 and as the above. It is by no means unusual for regulations Of the 10,000 pro1200 earn less than .6320. <6600, of both fluid and solid, to reach us packed matters, samples vincial practitioners not more than half make a decent in an careless manner and more than occasionexceedingly livelihood. Every year the various universities turn out ally the containing vessel has perished in the transit, not about 1200 qualified doctors of medicine. The average only to our loss, but also to the damage presumably of other duration of a practice may be set down as between twenty in charge of the Post Office. Many medical men parcels and twenty-five years ; it follows, therefore, that the pro- have had the same experience, for specimens transmitted by duction is twice as great as the demand. M. Berenger’s for analysis or microscopical examination are, as a patients statistics may be correct, but apparently he neglects rule, ill-packed, but now that official notice is taken of to make allowances for the young medical men who the matter we have no doubt more care will be taken. are absorbed each year in the army, navy, and colonial services. 10,000 practitioners for the whole of provincial NURSING IN WORKHOUSE INFIRMARIES. France seems, moreover, to be anything but a liberal IF it be true that we have the poor always with us it is no estimate, seeing that the number on the British Medical less true that the question of their proper care and nursing is at least three times Register greater. is a perennial problem which so far seems incapable of solution. At the meeting of the Aylesbury Board of TOXIC EFFECTS FROM THE USE OF CARBOLIC Guardians, held on August 10th, the medical officer, Mr. T. ACID. G. Parrott, attended to give reasons why trained nurses Toxic symptoms have occasionally resulted from the use should be obtained for the workhouse infirmary. He gave it of carbolic acid as an antiseptic. At a recent meeting of as his opinion that though he had no complaint to make the Société Medicale des Hopitaux Dr. M. J. Comby related against the present nurse, yet her standard of nursing was the following case. A child, aged five years, was treated for not very high and he considered that a trained nurse would otorrhcea with carbolic acid. Injections of 1t per cent. be very desirable. He allowed that there were no cases at were employed six times a day ; after the last injection in present under his care which required trained nursing and the evening five drops of glycerine of carbolic acid (5 per also that he knew the master had powers in case of cent.) were instilled and in addition the ear was bathed with emergency to secure better nursing. The chairman said the first solution. This treatment was scrupulously carried he could quite understand the medical officer advocating But two trained nursing, it was only natural that he should be out for ten days, when the otorrhoea ceased. afterwards and in favour of it as it afforded a good opportunity for had hasmaturia the child days persistent headache. Careful physical examination revealed no other someone to help him in his work. It was very kind signs of disease and the general condition was satisfactory. of the Local Government Board to order things, but that body did not have to pay for them. After a great Symptoms of acute nephritis-pyrexia, cedema, &c.-were deal more discussion Mr. Locke moved the following the and there was no evidence of tuberculosis absent; case hsemothat the was not one of showed proposition : ’’ Considering that the present nurse has been microscope the in the house for three and a half years, and as that therefore concluded Dr. nursing Comby globinuria.