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THE NETTLESHIP PRIZE FUND. To commemorate his work in ophthalmic surgery a gold medal has been established by the friends and pupils of Mr. E. Nettleship, to be awarded periodically for work done in ophthalmology. At its last meeting the medal was handed over to the custody of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom by Sir Thomas Barlow, representing the subscribers to the fund.
and Pediatrics will take place at Rouen in April. The sittings will begin on Tuesday, the 5th, and terminate on Sunday, The secretary of the Congress is Dr. Albert the 10th. Martin, 6, Place de la Catbedrale, who will be glad to furnish any other information which may be desired. A MEETING of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of London will be held at the University Buildings, South Kensington, at 5 P.M., to day (Friday), for the purpose of receiving a communication from His Majesty the King concerning the proposed Institute of Medical Sciences.
A GRAND festival dinner will be held to celebrate the the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields Eye Hospital), City-road, E.C., in the Grand Hall of the Hotel Cecil on Friday, April 22nd.
centenary of
THE SANDGATE SCANDAL. THE report of the medical officer of health of Sandgate will not fail, we hope, to attract the attention of the Local Government Board. Sand gate has a population of 1955 " The Medical Aspect of Motoring " is the title of a paper inhabitants and consists practically of a long street built by which is to be read at a meeting of the Western Section of the sea shore. It should be one of the healthiest places in the Scottish Automobile Club in Glasgow on March 7th by England, but there were last year no less than 64 deaths. Professor Hugh Galt, M.B., C.M. Glasg. The birth-rate is equal to 18- 9 per 1000, there being in all 37 births. These extraordinary figures find their explanation within the walls of those so-called sanatoriums which were THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL: THE fully described in these columns and which are run as a MIDWIVES 1902. money-making business by the too notorious Mr. J. J. Jones.1 deaths the of the Sandgate Among general population AT the usual weekly meeting of the London County amounted to only 7’1 per 1000, for no less than 50 out of the 64 deaths occurred in the institutions or convalescent homes Council held at Spring-gardens on Feb. 9th, Lord MoNxsthat abound at Sandgate. Of these, 45 deaths were due to WELL, the chairman, presiding, the general purposes compulmonary tuberculosis, and 43 out of the 45 took place in mittee brought up a report as to the administration of the Jones’s homes or "sanitoria." At the Bevan Home 1600 Act, powers under which the Council in December last patients have been received during the course of the year and decidedto exercise. The general purposes committee having health and public control comonly 16 of these were suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis ; conferred with the public to the order of reference to the that But in the Jones’s homes no less than 881 one died. health committee should be added for consideration public patients were suffering from this disease and, as already and report all questions relating to the Act. stated, 43 of them died. Here, then, we have a total Mr. E. A. CORNWALL (vice-chairman of the Council and of 897 tuberculous patients set down in the midst of chairman o the general purposes committee) moved the a population of 1955 persons, and this in the course reception of the report. Mr. R. MELVILL BEACHCROFT (Paddington North) reIt must be borne in mind, as we of a single year. that the general purposes committee had not conin our account of that Jones’s homes, fully explained sidered one matter which was very important in connexion these are not situated in the outskirts and in the open with the administration of the Act and that was whether or not the Council meant to exercise the power that the Act country but in the very centre and most crowded of the town. Further, these patients are not placed gave to add to the committee people from outside who were under the care of a medical board but the sovereign versed in the wants of the poorer parts of London, especially He doubted whether many members of the Council women. master and organiser of these homes is a layman who has a very important influence this action might taken this up as a matter of business and is just as ready to have on future generations of Londoners. The report precontract for burying the dead as for nursing the living, so sented to the committee by the officials of the Council, he long as a profit can be made out of the transaction. Should believed, indicated that some such action as was here hinted He suggested the addition to the such trading as this be allowed ? Can we afford to sanction at should take place. recommendation of the committee of the following words : such speculation in hunan misery, and, if so, should it be "With instructions to report forthwith whether the Council permitted to continue in the midst of a town ? Unwholesome should be advised to avail themselves of the provisions of industries are not allowed in towns. Is it a wholesome the Act which enable them to add to the committee persons, industry to receive and to crowd together and to make a especially women, conversant with the needs of the poor." Sir HENRY BLISS (Holborn) seconded the amendment. profit out of 881 persons suffering from pulmonary tuberMr. CORNWALL was sorry he was not able on behalf of culosis*! tne general purposes committee to accept tne amenamenc. THE medical officer of health of the Cape Colony states The committee had before it a report which set out that the Council had the power to co-opt members on a special comthat for the week ending Jan. 23rd no case of plague mittee for the purpose of carrying out its duties under the occurred throughout the colony. Plague-infected rats were Midwives Act, but the public health committee and the found at Port Elizabeth and East London, and " one rodent, general purposes committee after consideration came to the probably plague infected," was found at Knysna. Of 369 conclusion that it would be undesirable for the Council to rats examined during the week in the Cape Town and adopt such a course as that. On the other hand, they were Harbour Board area none was affected with plague. As of opinion that it would be much better to place the administration of the Act, so far as the Council was conregards the Mauritius a telegram from the acting Governor, cerned, in the hands of the public health committee. He received at the Colonial Office on Feb. l2th- states that for did not think the Council was at all likely to agree with the the week ending Feb. llth there were four cases of plague idea or generally to agree with the views of Mr. Beachcroft that they strengthened a committee by adding outside and three deaths from the disease. representatives. They must remember that under this Act and the Council had THE French National Congress of Gynaecology, Obstetrics, there was a Central Midwives Board as would necessitate not such large and extensive duties the bringing in of outside people. There were councils in 1 See THE LANCET, August 22nd, 1903, p. 565.
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THE NETTLESHIP PRIZE FUND. To commemorate his work in ophthalmic surgery a gold medal has been established by the friends and pupils of Mr. E. Nettleship, to be awarded periodically for work done in ophthalmology. At its last meeting the medal was handed over to the custody of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom by Sir Thomas Barlow, representing the subscribers to the fund.
and Pediatrics will take place at Rouen in April. The sittings will begin on Tuesday, the 5th, and terminate on Sunday, The secretary of the Congress is Dr. Albert the 10th. Martin, 6, Place de la Catbedrale, who will be glad to furnish any other information which may be desired. A MEETING of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of London will be held at the University Buildings, South Kensington, at 5 P.M., to day (Friday), for the purpose of receiving a communication from His Majesty the King concerning the proposed Institute of Medical Sciences.
A GRAND festival dinner will be held to celebrate the the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields Eye Hospital), City-road, E.C., in the Grand Hall of the Hotel Cecil on Friday, April 22nd.
centenary of
THE SANDGATE SCANDAL. THE report of the medical officer of health of Sandgate will not fail, we hope, to attract the attention of the Local Government Board. Sand gate has a population of 1955 " The Medical Aspect of Motoring " is the title of a paper inhabitants and consists practically of a long street built by which is to be read at a meeting of the Western Section of the sea shore. It should be one of the healthiest places in the Scottish Automobile Club in Glasgow on March 7th by England, but there were last year no less than 64 deaths. Professor Hugh Galt, M.B., C.M. Glasg. The birth-rate is equal to 18- 9 per 1000, there being in all 37 births. These extraordinary figures find their explanation within the walls of those so-called sanatoriums which were THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL: THE fully described in these columns and which are run as a MIDWIVES 1902. money-making business by the too notorious Mr. J. J. Jones.1 deaths the of the Sandgate Among general population AT the usual weekly meeting of the London County amounted to only 7’1 per 1000, for no less than 50 out of the 64 deaths occurred in the institutions or convalescent homes Council held at Spring-gardens on Feb. 9th, Lord MoNxsthat abound at Sandgate. Of these, 45 deaths were due to WELL, the chairman, presiding, the general purposes compulmonary tuberculosis, and 43 out of the 45 took place in mittee brought up a report as to the administration of the Jones’s homes or "sanitoria." At the Bevan Home 1600 Act, powers under which the Council in December last patients have been received during the course of the year and decidedto exercise. The general purposes committee having health and public control comonly 16 of these were suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis ; conferred with the public to the order of reference to the that But in the Jones’s homes no less than 881 one died. health committee should be added for consideration public patients were suffering from this disease and, as already and report all questions relating to the Act. stated, 43 of them died. Here, then, we have a total Mr. E. A. CORNWALL (vice-chairman of the Council and of 897 tuberculous patients set down in the midst of chairman o the general purposes committee) moved the a population of 1955 persons, and this in the course reception of the report. Mr. R. MELVILL BEACHCROFT (Paddington North) reIt must be borne in mind, as we of a single year. that the general purposes committee had not conin our account of that Jones’s homes, fully explained sidered one matter which was very important in connexion these are not situated in the outskirts and in the open with the administration of the Act and that was whether or not the Council meant to exercise the power that the Act country but in the very centre and most crowded of the town. Further, these patients are not placed gave to add to the committee people from outside who were under the care of a medical board but the sovereign versed in the wants of the poorer parts of London, especially He doubted whether many members of the Council women. master and organiser of these homes is a layman who has a very important influence this action might taken this up as a matter of business and is just as ready to have on future generations of Londoners. The report precontract for burying the dead as for nursing the living, so sented to the committee by the officials of the Council, he long as a profit can be made out of the transaction. Should believed, indicated that some such action as was here hinted He suggested the addition to the such trading as this be allowed ? Can we afford to sanction at should take place. recommendation of the committee of the following words : such speculation in hunan misery, and, if so, should it be "With instructions to report forthwith whether the Council permitted to continue in the midst of a town ? Unwholesome should be advised to avail themselves of the provisions of industries are not allowed in towns. Is it a wholesome the Act which enable them to add to the committee persons, industry to receive and to crowd together and to make a especially women, conversant with the needs of the poor." Sir HENRY BLISS (Holborn) seconded the amendment. profit out of 881 persons suffering from pulmonary tuberMr. CORNWALL was sorry he was not able on behalf of culosis*! tne general purposes committee to accept tne amenamenc. THE medical officer of health of the Cape Colony states The committee had before it a report which set out that the Council had the power to co-opt members on a special comthat for the week ending Jan. 23rd no case of plague mittee for the purpose of carrying out its duties under the occurred throughout the colony. Plague-infected rats were Midwives Act, but the public health committee and the found at Port Elizabeth and East London, and " one rodent, general purposes committee after consideration came to the probably plague infected," was found at Knysna. Of 369 conclusion that it would be undesirable for the Council to rats examined during the week in the Cape Town and adopt such a course as that. On the other hand, they were Harbour Board area none was affected with plague. As of opinion that it would be much better to place the administration of the Act, so far as the Council was conregards the Mauritius a telegram from the acting Governor, cerned, in the hands of the public health committee. He received at the Colonial Office on Feb. l2th- states that for did not think the Council was at all likely to agree with the the week ending Feb. llth there were four cases of plague idea or generally to agree with the views of Mr. Beachcroft that they strengthened a committee by adding outside and three deaths from the disease. representatives. They must remember that under this Act and the Council had THE French National Congress of Gynaecology, Obstetrics, there was a Central Midwives Board as would necessitate not such large and extensive duties the bringing in of outside people. There were councils in 1 See THE LANCET, August 22nd, 1903, p. 565.
ACT,
the
mittees, recommended
--
parts
gretted
knew what
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