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THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT.
1776 to its bitterest
dregs.
Yet
throughout
it all he
never com-
plained, was deeply moved by the practical tokens of sympathy, to him quite unexpected, which his illness brought from old friends, students and colleagues, and was touchingly grateful for the all too inadequate efforts made to smooth his downward path. ’’ At the funeral service at the hospital we sangNow the labourer’s task is o’er,’ and rarely perhaps have the pathetic lines been more appropriate than in his case, for as we gathered round the coffin we remembered that only a few short months before, in the building in which we were assembled, he had seen his last patient, performed his last operation, delivered his last lecture, and then gone home to await a lingering death. His last effort was devoted, the last work of which he was capable was given to the hospital which he loved so well and served so faithfully, and to the students to whom he has bequeathed so fine an example of professional conduct and of devotion to duty." GEORGE HENRY
ROQU]T DABBS, M.D.,
announced : Dr. John W. Kyger, professor of children’s diseases in the University of Kansas.-Dr. Conrad Gabriel Hallsten, formerly professor of anatomy and physiology in the University of Helsingfors, in the eightieth year of his age. He published a large number of papers dealing with physiological subjects in Finnish and Scandinavian medical journals; also several descriptions of skulls found in Finland and Russia, together with important dissertations on anthropological and ethnological matters.-Dr. A. Bochanek, professor of descriptive anatomy in the University of Cracow. - Dr. Theodor Weyl, lecturer on hygiene in the Charlottenburg Technical School, the well-known editor of the great "Handbook of Hygiene." He was born in 1851, and soon after qualification became assistant to Dr. J. Rosenthal, professor of physiology in Erlangen. He afterwards migrated to Berlin, and worked under du Bois Reymond, Helmholtz, A. W. Hofmann, and Robert Koch. He has -held various official positions, and has acted as adviser to the municipal and government authorities on many important questions.-Dr. Antonio Marro, privat-docent of psychiatry in the University of Turin.
C.M. ABERD., M.R.C.S. ENG. WE regret to record the death on June 10th at his residence in Westminster of Dr. G. H. R. Dabbs, medical officer THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT. to the managers of the London Stock Exchange. Dr. Dabbs was born in 1846 at Southsea, the son of a naval staff surgeon. At the age of 18 he joined King’s GLOUCESTERSHIRE INSURANCE COMMITTEE. College Hospital, and qualified M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.S.A. in AT the last meeting of the Gloucestershire Insurance In the he the same obtained C.M. 1867. M.B., degrees year at the University of Aberdeen, and proceeded to the M.D. in Committee it was reported that the number of insured 1868. After travelling on the continent for a year or two he persons in the county is about 95,000, and there are 13,000 settled in practice at Shanklin in the Isle of Wight, where of these who have not yet selected their medical attendant. he remained for over 30 years. For some time Dr. Dabbs It was stated that 71 medical men had up to 300 names on their panels, 40 between 300 and 600, 10 between 900 and was Tennyson’s medical adviser, and he attended the poet 1200, and one practitioner, who employs two through his last illness. He was a J.P. for the county of 1200, 10 over has over 3000. assistants, Dabbs For Dr. the ten practised years Southampton. past at 25, Austin Friars, in the City of London. He had marked DEVON INSURANCE COMMITTEE. literary tastes, and published several books of poems and a At the last meeting of the Devon Insurance Committee it number of plays. For some time his heart had been affected, and his sad death from an overdose of chloroform, was reported that there was an amply adequate panel of inhaled for the relief of anginal attacks, formed the subject of practitioners and pharmacists for the county, consisting of 274 medical men and 178 pharmacists. It was stated that a coroner’s inquest, which is referred to in another column. Mr. Macleod Yearsley sends the following appreciation :- there were 16 insured people on Lundy Island, and that it The sudden death of Dr. G. H. R. Dabbs, in circumstances took 102 capitation grants to cover the cost of one visit to little short of tragic, removes one of the finest types from the island. The Committee decided to give Mr. G. Adkins, the profession and loses me and many others a true friend. the medical officer of health of Devon, an honorarium of Dabbs was a man of many parts. He was not only a good 100 guineas in recognition of his services in connexion with doctor, but his literary ability was much above the average, the Insurance Act. and he was, in addition, possessed of the true poetic spirit. THE INSURANCE DIFFICULTY IN WALES. As a friend he was very true and loyal; he could not do a mean action or wittingly hurt even an enemy. As a comTo the Editor of THE LANCET. panion he was most interesting, for he had moved with so SIR,-Under this heading in your issue of June 14th you many interesting people, to his reminiscences of whom Dabbs thatannounce imparted additional value by his own individuality. He had, As was expected, the Welsh county councils and the Association for as his physician, been much with Lord Tennyson. But, a National Memorial to King Edward VII. have failed to agree besides this, he had, as a student, lived with both H. J. Erecting on the administration of the sanatoriums for tuberculosis under the and Tom Robertson. He once informed me that he Act. Byron believed himself to be the first person who had heard Seldom, indeed, is a greater number of blunders found ’ Caste read. One evening,’ he said, ’Byron having gone in so short a space. out to dinner, Robertson read me the first act of Caste. compressed 1. 1 1 The " insurance difficulty in Wales has no existence. When he had finished Byron returned, and as he was inclined 2. A failure of agreement between Welsh county councils to be noisy we settled him in an armchair, where he went and the Edward VII. Welsh National Memorial AssoKing of the apparently to sleep. At the end of the reading ciation was not "expected." 3. Such a failure has not second act he opened his eyes and remarked :ITom, if the taken place. 4. There are 17 county councils and county first act is as good as the second, that play will live."’ conncils in Wales and Monmouthshire ; all of these borough Dabbs was well known in the Isle of Wight, and many are constituent bodies of the association under the charter ; stories of his kindness and also of his astuteness are told have taken, and are taking, through their representathey there. Perhaps the best, certainly the most characteristic, an active part in the work of the association. 5. Out of is one of how Ihe was called into consultation over a tives, the 17 councils only two have under consideration a proposal hysterical fasting girl, with whom no one could do any- to formulate a scheme apart from that of the association. thing. Dabbs, to the annoyance of all, won her confidence Your paragraph concludes with an equally erroneous by telling her that she was quite right to refuse to eat. Then statement, viz. :the she suffered from and he elicited fact that thirst, The county councils consider that the association is claiming a casually remarked that milk was the best thirst quencher he position of independence which cannot be sanctioned by the Local knew. He thus obtained her promise to take whatever Government Board. medicine he sent her, and that medicine consisting of strong When and where and by whom was this alleged view of brine she improved in health on about 24 glasses of milk the county councils expressed ? a dayI Dabbs was always keen on keeping his work up to I am, Sir, yours faithfully, date, and the profession is poorer by his loss." GWILYM -
____
HUGHES,
DEATHS OF EMINENT FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN.—The deaths of the following eminent foreign medical men are
I
Secretary,
**
This letter arrived
The King Edward VII. Welsh National Memorial Association. as we were
going to press.—ED.
L.
dregs.
Yet
throughout
it all he
never com-
plained, was deeply moved by the practical tokens of sympathy, to him quite unexpected, which his illness brought from old friends, students and colleagues, and was touchingly grateful for the all too inadequate efforts made to smooth his downward path. ’’ At the funeral service at the hospital we sangNow the labourer’s task is o’er,’ and rarely perhaps have the pathetic lines been more appropriate than in his case, for as we gathered round the coffin we remembered that only a few short months before, in the building in which we were assembled, he had seen his last patient, performed his last operation, delivered his last lecture, and then gone home to await a lingering death. His last effort was devoted, the last work of which he was capable was given to the hospital which he loved so well and served so faithfully, and to the students to whom he has bequeathed so fine an example of professional conduct and of devotion to duty." GEORGE HENRY
ROQU]T DABBS, M.D.,
announced : Dr. John W. Kyger, professor of children’s diseases in the University of Kansas.-Dr. Conrad Gabriel Hallsten, formerly professor of anatomy and physiology in the University of Helsingfors, in the eightieth year of his age. He published a large number of papers dealing with physiological subjects in Finnish and Scandinavian medical journals; also several descriptions of skulls found in Finland and Russia, together with important dissertations on anthropological and ethnological matters.-Dr. A. Bochanek, professor of descriptive anatomy in the University of Cracow. - Dr. Theodor Weyl, lecturer on hygiene in the Charlottenburg Technical School, the well-known editor of the great "Handbook of Hygiene." He was born in 1851, and soon after qualification became assistant to Dr. J. Rosenthal, professor of physiology in Erlangen. He afterwards migrated to Berlin, and worked under du Bois Reymond, Helmholtz, A. W. Hofmann, and Robert Koch. He has -held various official positions, and has acted as adviser to the municipal and government authorities on many important questions.-Dr. Antonio Marro, privat-docent of psychiatry in the University of Turin.
C.M. ABERD., M.R.C.S. ENG. WE regret to record the death on June 10th at his residence in Westminster of Dr. G. H. R. Dabbs, medical officer THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT. to the managers of the London Stock Exchange. Dr. Dabbs was born in 1846 at Southsea, the son of a naval staff surgeon. At the age of 18 he joined King’s GLOUCESTERSHIRE INSURANCE COMMITTEE. College Hospital, and qualified M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.S.A. in AT the last meeting of the Gloucestershire Insurance In the he the same obtained C.M. 1867. M.B., degrees year at the University of Aberdeen, and proceeded to the M.D. in Committee it was reported that the number of insured 1868. After travelling on the continent for a year or two he persons in the county is about 95,000, and there are 13,000 settled in practice at Shanklin in the Isle of Wight, where of these who have not yet selected their medical attendant. he remained for over 30 years. For some time Dr. Dabbs It was stated that 71 medical men had up to 300 names on their panels, 40 between 300 and 600, 10 between 900 and was Tennyson’s medical adviser, and he attended the poet 1200, and one practitioner, who employs two through his last illness. He was a J.P. for the county of 1200, 10 over has over 3000. assistants, Dabbs For Dr. the ten practised years Southampton. past at 25, Austin Friars, in the City of London. He had marked DEVON INSURANCE COMMITTEE. literary tastes, and published several books of poems and a At the last meeting of the Devon Insurance Committee it number of plays. For some time his heart had been affected, and his sad death from an overdose of chloroform, was reported that there was an amply adequate panel of inhaled for the relief of anginal attacks, formed the subject of practitioners and pharmacists for the county, consisting of 274 medical men and 178 pharmacists. It was stated that a coroner’s inquest, which is referred to in another column. Mr. Macleod Yearsley sends the following appreciation :- there were 16 insured people on Lundy Island, and that it The sudden death of Dr. G. H. R. Dabbs, in circumstances took 102 capitation grants to cover the cost of one visit to little short of tragic, removes one of the finest types from the island. The Committee decided to give Mr. G. Adkins, the profession and loses me and many others a true friend. the medical officer of health of Devon, an honorarium of Dabbs was a man of many parts. He was not only a good 100 guineas in recognition of his services in connexion with doctor, but his literary ability was much above the average, the Insurance Act. and he was, in addition, possessed of the true poetic spirit. THE INSURANCE DIFFICULTY IN WALES. As a friend he was very true and loyal; he could not do a mean action or wittingly hurt even an enemy. As a comTo the Editor of THE LANCET. panion he was most interesting, for he had moved with so SIR,-Under this heading in your issue of June 14th you many interesting people, to his reminiscences of whom Dabbs thatannounce imparted additional value by his own individuality. He had, As was expected, the Welsh county councils and the Association for as his physician, been much with Lord Tennyson. But, a National Memorial to King Edward VII. have failed to agree besides this, he had, as a student, lived with both H. J. Erecting on the administration of the sanatoriums for tuberculosis under the and Tom Robertson. He once informed me that he Act. Byron believed himself to be the first person who had heard Seldom, indeed, is a greater number of blunders found ’ Caste read. One evening,’ he said, ’Byron having gone in so short a space. out to dinner, Robertson read me the first act of Caste. compressed 1. 1 1 The " insurance difficulty in Wales has no existence. When he had finished Byron returned, and as he was inclined 2. A failure of agreement between Welsh county councils to be noisy we settled him in an armchair, where he went and the Edward VII. Welsh National Memorial AssoKing of the apparently to sleep. At the end of the reading ciation was not "expected." 3. Such a failure has not second act he opened his eyes and remarked :ITom, if the taken place. 4. There are 17 county councils and county first act is as good as the second, that play will live."’ conncils in Wales and Monmouthshire ; all of these borough Dabbs was well known in the Isle of Wight, and many are constituent bodies of the association under the charter ; stories of his kindness and also of his astuteness are told have taken, and are taking, through their representathey there. Perhaps the best, certainly the most characteristic, an active part in the work of the association. 5. Out of is one of how Ihe was called into consultation over a tives, the 17 councils only two have under consideration a proposal hysterical fasting girl, with whom no one could do any- to formulate a scheme apart from that of the association. thing. Dabbs, to the annoyance of all, won her confidence Your paragraph concludes with an equally erroneous by telling her that she was quite right to refuse to eat. Then statement, viz. :the she suffered from and he elicited fact that thirst, The county councils consider that the association is claiming a casually remarked that milk was the best thirst quencher he position of independence which cannot be sanctioned by the Local knew. He thus obtained her promise to take whatever Government Board. medicine he sent her, and that medicine consisting of strong When and where and by whom was this alleged view of brine she improved in health on about 24 glasses of milk the county councils expressed ? a dayI Dabbs was always keen on keeping his work up to I am, Sir, yours faithfully, date, and the profession is poorer by his loss." GWILYM -
____
HUGHES,
DEATHS OF EMINENT FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN.—The deaths of the following eminent foreign medical men are
I
Secretary,
**
This letter arrived
The King Edward VII. Welsh National Memorial Association. as we were
going to press.—ED.
L.