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THE GOVERNMENT AND LEADLESS GLAZE ON POTTERY.
355 become restless and fickle in disposition, to commit a important improvement, however, is the introduction of leadthousand extravagancies, and to be no longer capable of less glazes which, as we mentioned on the same occasion, exercising ordinary volition. Later the mental symptoms give the finished ware an excellent appearance, quite would improve but he would continue to exhibit some con- equal to that produced by the ordinary lead glaze. In a fusion as to what had occurred during the first period further article on the same subject,2 adverting to the report Then there came a time when the submitted to the Government by Professor Thorpe and of his attack. mental and emotional change attained its climax, and Dr. Oliver, we expressed the opinion that the Governat this stage he would commit petty thefts and ment was now in a position to compel the adoption of safe practise cheating apparently semcndicrra artem. The "frits"" or leadless glazes, and we therefore welcome the patient, however, retained no memory or recollection of announcement just made that the authorities of the Office this state and on waking from it would usually find himself of Works require leadless glazes to be used in the manufacin prison or in an asylum. Amnesia for this second period of ture of all earthenware for domestic use supplied under his attack was complete. His normal life was now once contract for the Public Department, the Houses of Parliamore resumed until a second attack or crisis launched him ment, and such of the Royal palaces as are under their in into a condition which his " other " rose self and charge. This action of the Government, backed by the again assumed dominance in acts and conduct after the manner stimulating influence of the profits to be obtained from referred to above. The case is of great interest from the important contracts, will supply the necessary impetus for medico-psychological standpoint, for examples of such a con- turning the thoughts of practical potters to the capabilities dition are not numerous and yet when they do occur they are of great medico-legal importance inasmuch as they afford a well-marked example of the relations subsisting between hysteria and alternations of personality with petty criminal tendencies.
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HONOUR TO SIR JOSEPH FAYRER.
SIR JOSEPH FAYRER has received a letter from the Military Department of the Government of India saying that upon the recommendation of the Governor-General of India in THE SALE OF THE MANCHESTER INFIRMARY Council Her Majesty’s Government has been pleased to SITE. confer upon him, as a reward for distinguished and A SPECIAL meeting of the Manchester Infirmary Board was meritorious service, a good service pension of .6100 per held on Monday July lst to consider the question of annum. This we have already announced in our column,-,, the sale of the Infirmary site to the Corporation. The but the Secretary to the Government of India goes on to say : "am directed to add that, with a view to make this mark. following minutes of a sub-committee were confirmed :1. That the Manchester Corporation pay in cash the sum of Her Majesty’s approbation of your conduct in the service as public as possible, your nomination has appeared in the’ of f.2S0,OOO. 2. That a further sum of 100,000 be paid in the following Gazette of India, and your name will also be inserted in the manner: (a) collected by the Manchester Corporation from List as one of those officers who have been selected to the public E50,000; (b) to be paid by the Manchester Army a reward for distinguished or meritorious service. I receive Corporation in 20 annual sums of £ 2500- £ 50,000. Total, am further desired to to the satisfaction with convey you 350,000. 3. That the Manchester Corporation reserve on the present which the Government of India view Her Majesty’s gracious Infirmary site an area facing Piccadilly of 3000 square yards recognition of your good services to the State." We confor a receiving house and out-patients’ department upon the gratulate Sir Joseph Fayrer on this public and graceful. condition that not more than 7216 square yards altogether be of the value of his life-work. covered with buildings. The site of such area of 3000 acknowledgment square yards thus reserved to be hereafter mutually agreed upon. THE SANATORIUM, LIMITED. ____
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THE GOVERNMENT AND LEADLESS GLAZE ON POTTERY. ALTHOUGH much has been done of late years to protect the health of workers engaged in dangerous trades the frequency of lead-poisoning in potteries continues with little The causes of the disease are well underabatement. stood and certain precautions to be observed in potteries are made obligatory by official regulations. Theoretically these precautions should suffice, but in practice it is found that the class of humble folk following this occupation, many of whom are young women, are careless of their own interests and not over-anxious to cooperate in the task of preserving their health. From the frequent references to the subject in THE LANCET our readers are aware that pottery is glazed with compounds containing oxide of lead-almost invariably in the form of powder called "raw lead"-and the dangerous stage of the work is the mixing of these glazes and the application of them to the ware previously to firing in the ovens. In THE LANCET Commission on Some Leadless Glazes1 we explained that lead glazes could be rendered much less harmless by making them, not with I I raw lead,"but with "fritted lead,"a com. pound produced by fusing I I raw lead"with borax, silica, &c., and subsequently powdering this mass. A much more 1
THE LANCET, Jan. 7th,
1899, 49. p.
THIS association, the object of which is to provide a sanatorium for middle-class patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, held its statutory meeting on July 26th at the Medical Society’s Rooms, 11, Chandosstreet, Cavendish-square, W. Mr. Bidwell, F.R.C.S. Eng., who was in the chair, after referring with regret to the resignation of Mr. George Briggs, C.C., congratulated the shareholders on having secured an exceptionally suitable site close to Crooksbury Hill in Surrey, with ample room if necessary for 300 or 400 patients. The ground of 32 acres is on a southern slope, well wooded with pine trees and protected against cold winds. The highest part is over 400 feet above the sea level; the sandy soil (lower greensand) dries rapidly after heavy rain; and a plentiful supply of pure water will be obtained by sinking a well. It had originally been intended to erect a building for 48 patients, but the subscriptions being insufficient it was proposedto quickly erect a smaller building for 12 patients, leaving further extensions to a future time. Dr. F. R. Walters, who, will act as resident medical officer, explained that the sanatorium was being started by a company because charitable appeals could not be made for paying patients, while grave objections existed to private ventures, and benevolent millionaires were scarce. The medical management would be entirely under his own control, but he had nothing t,,,,, do with the financial 2
THE LANCET,
matters. which
April 1st, 1899, p. 919.
were
left
of leadless
glazes.
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HONOUR TO SIR JOSEPH FAYRER.
SIR JOSEPH FAYRER has received a letter from the Military Department of the Government of India saying that upon the recommendation of the Governor-General of India in THE SALE OF THE MANCHESTER INFIRMARY Council Her Majesty’s Government has been pleased to SITE. confer upon him, as a reward for distinguished and A SPECIAL meeting of the Manchester Infirmary Board was meritorious service, a good service pension of .6100 per held on Monday July lst to consider the question of annum. This we have already announced in our column,-,, the sale of the Infirmary site to the Corporation. The but the Secretary to the Government of India goes on to say : "am directed to add that, with a view to make this mark. following minutes of a sub-committee were confirmed :1. That the Manchester Corporation pay in cash the sum of Her Majesty’s approbation of your conduct in the service as public as possible, your nomination has appeared in the’ of f.2S0,OOO. 2. That a further sum of 100,000 be paid in the following Gazette of India, and your name will also be inserted in the manner: (a) collected by the Manchester Corporation from List as one of those officers who have been selected to the public E50,000; (b) to be paid by the Manchester Army a reward for distinguished or meritorious service. I receive Corporation in 20 annual sums of £ 2500- £ 50,000. Total, am further desired to to the satisfaction with convey you 350,000. 3. That the Manchester Corporation reserve on the present which the Government of India view Her Majesty’s gracious Infirmary site an area facing Piccadilly of 3000 square yards recognition of your good services to the State." We confor a receiving house and out-patients’ department upon the gratulate Sir Joseph Fayrer on this public and graceful. condition that not more than 7216 square yards altogether be of the value of his life-work. covered with buildings. The site of such area of 3000 acknowledgment square yards thus reserved to be hereafter mutually agreed upon. THE SANATORIUM, LIMITED. ____
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THE GOVERNMENT AND LEADLESS GLAZE ON POTTERY. ALTHOUGH much has been done of late years to protect the health of workers engaged in dangerous trades the frequency of lead-poisoning in potteries continues with little The causes of the disease are well underabatement. stood and certain precautions to be observed in potteries are made obligatory by official regulations. Theoretically these precautions should suffice, but in practice it is found that the class of humble folk following this occupation, many of whom are young women, are careless of their own interests and not over-anxious to cooperate in the task of preserving their health. From the frequent references to the subject in THE LANCET our readers are aware that pottery is glazed with compounds containing oxide of lead-almost invariably in the form of powder called "raw lead"-and the dangerous stage of the work is the mixing of these glazes and the application of them to the ware previously to firing in the ovens. In THE LANCET Commission on Some Leadless Glazes1 we explained that lead glazes could be rendered much less harmless by making them, not with I I raw lead,"but with "fritted lead,"a com. pound produced by fusing I I raw lead"with borax, silica, &c., and subsequently powdering this mass. A much more 1
THE LANCET, Jan. 7th,
1899, 49. p.
THIS association, the object of which is to provide a sanatorium for middle-class patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, held its statutory meeting on July 26th at the Medical Society’s Rooms, 11, Chandosstreet, Cavendish-square, W. Mr. Bidwell, F.R.C.S. Eng., who was in the chair, after referring with regret to the resignation of Mr. George Briggs, C.C., congratulated the shareholders on having secured an exceptionally suitable site close to Crooksbury Hill in Surrey, with ample room if necessary for 300 or 400 patients. The ground of 32 acres is on a southern slope, well wooded with pine trees and protected against cold winds. The highest part is over 400 feet above the sea level; the sandy soil (lower greensand) dries rapidly after heavy rain; and a plentiful supply of pure water will be obtained by sinking a well. It had originally been intended to erect a building for 48 patients, but the subscriptions being insufficient it was proposedto quickly erect a smaller building for 12 patients, leaving further extensions to a future time. Dr. F. R. Walters, who, will act as resident medical officer, explained that the sanatorium was being started by a company because charitable appeals could not be made for paying patients, while grave objections existed to private ventures, and benevolent millionaires were scarce. The medical management would be entirely under his own control, but he had nothing t,,,,, do with the financial 2
THE LANCET,
matters. which
April 1st, 1899, p. 919.
were
left