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THE NEW WARRANT FOR THE ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE.
FELLOWS’ DINNER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY. of tuberculosis and may inform our readers that copies of the leaflet for distribution can be obtained from the secretary of the Union, Trafalgar-buildings, Charing-cross, W.C. We may remark in addition that the London Reform Union could do another excellent work by pointing out how to avoid, or at all events to minimise, the effects of small-pox, a disease at present very prevalent in the metropolis. If the London Reform Union would issue a simple leaflet dealing with this disease and with the figures reoently published by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as to the incidence of small-pox in vaccinated and n non-vaccinated persons respectively it would go far to do away with the honest if altogether foolish prejudice which exists against vaccination in so many
quarters.
Sir William Mitchell Banks, and others, and was carried. The keystone of all the speeches was progress ; there was no thought of rivalry with the old universities.
THE
THE
ARMY
MEDICAL
MR. BRODRICK has announced in Parliament that the speedy appearance of the new warrant for the Army Medical Service may be expected. We hope and indeed believe that when it appears it will be found that due consideration has been given to the objections urged against the original scheme by the subcommittee of the British Medical Association and by ourselves. -
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FELLOWS’ DINNER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY.
THE annual Fellows’ dinner of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society will be held at the Whitehall Rooms of the Hotel Metropole on Wednesday evening, Feb. 26th, at 7.30. It used to be -aid that the premier medical society was inhospitable, but since the excellent precedent of inviting guests to the annual dinner was created by Mr. Timothy Holmes, when he filled the chair, the interesting series of Fellows’ dinners has removed any ground, if it ever existed, for such a reproach. At the next dinner the chair will be taken by the President, Dr. F. W. Pavy, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., and among the guests are included the President of the Royal
of
NEW WARRANT FOR
SERVICE.
THE
THE
College
327
Physicians
of London
(Sir
William S.
Church),
NOTIFICATION OF CHICKEN-POX.
THE London County Council have issued an order pursuant a resolution of the Council passed on Jan. 28th. The order was advertised on Jan., 30th and comes into force at the expiration of one week from that date. Our readers will remember that in our issue of Jan. 25th we noted that eight metropolitan boroughs had already declared chicken-pox to be a notifiable disease. The London County Council order runs as follows :to
The London County Council do hereby resolve and order that Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, with respect to the notification of infectious disease shall apply in the administrative county of London, for a period of three calendar months, to the disease known as chicken-pox, and the Council do hereby declare that the case is one of emergency owing to the prevalence of small-pox in London, and the fact that the failure in many cases to distinguish between chicken-pox and small-pox has led, and is leading, to the spread of the latter disease. _____
the President of the General Medical Council (Sir William Turner), the Director-General of the Royal Navy Medical Service (Sir Henry Norbury), the Director-General of the Army Medical Service (Surgeon-General Taylor), the Principal of the University of London (Professor Rucker), the Secretary of the Royal Society (Sir Michael Foster, M.P.), Mr. Ouless, R.A., and Dr. Conan Doyle.
THE SANITARY INSTITUTE
LECTURES.
THE thirty-third course of Lectures and Demonstrations for Sanitary Officers will be delivered during the months of February, March, and April, 1902, at the Parkes Museum, Margaret.street, London, W. The lectures, which will be given at 7 P.M., are divided into two courses, the first dealing with Elementary Physics and Chemistry in relation to Water, THE PROPOSED UNIVERSITY FOR LIVERPOOL. Soil, Air, Ventilation, and Meteorology, Public Health I together with THE public meeting of the citizens of Liverpool heldStatutes, By-laws, Municipal Hygiene, &c., and of measurements demonstrations 1 drawing plans at the Liverpool Town-hall on Jan. 27th to consider thepractical to scale. The second course embraces lectures on Meat and for that desirability of establishing a separate university and the taking of Samples of Water, Food, Food city was a pronounced success. The meeting was presided and Inspection for Analysis. Arrangements have also been made Drugs over by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Mr. A. C. Petrie) and for the inspection of disinfecting stations, soap-works, was attended by a thoroughly representative and influential C common lodging-houses, sewage-farms, waterworks, dairy gathering, which included the Earl of Derby, K. G., the Lord and such like places, practical demonstrations being farms, Bishop of Liverpool (Dr. Chavasse), Sir John at the same time where necessary. J Among the given Bart., M.P., Sir William H. Tate, Bart., Sir lecturers are Dr. E. J. Steegmann, Dr. J. Priestley, Mr. A. W. Mitchell Banks, Sir William Forwood, the principal of Dr. E. Petronell Manby, and Dr. H. R. Kenwood. University College, Liverpool (Mr. A. W. W. Dale), Arch-Harris, The fee for Part I. (25 lectures) is Z2 12s. 6d., and for deacon Madden, the Rev. Dr. Watson (Ian MacLaren), and Part II. (seven lectures) J?11 ls. The fee for the complete others. The Lord Mayor announced that .E80,000 had already course is J?3 3s. been subscribed towards the realisation of the project, and pointed out that, although differences- of opinion THE POISONOUS COÖPERATION OF ALCOHOL existed in Liverpool on many subjects in connexion with AND TOBACCO. the "omnibus"Bill of the Liverpool Corporation about IT cannot be doubted that when evil effects ensue upon to be promoted in Parliament, not a single vote had been I tobacco they are very much intensified by indulgrecorded against that part of it which asked for power tosmoking assist the proposed university. The motion relating to theIence in alcohol. Further, though even after a more than establishment of a university for Liverpool was proposed bymoderate indulgence in tobacco no toxic symptoms such the Earl of Derby, who said that they wanted to bringas headache and stupor may supervene yet such would university facilities within the reach of all they possibly probably be the case if alcoholic drinking was praccould. Dr. Chavasse seconded the motion in antised at the same time. The powerfully solvent action eloquent speech and said that University College, Liver-of alcohol is sufficient explanation of this. It is, of I well known in pharmacology that the active conpool, with its 26 professors and some 60 readers, hadcourse, surely a claim to be recognised as a university whichistituents of drugs are, as a rule, readily soluble in alcohol would be a coping-stone of -the educational system for though not in water, and hence the class of preparations which Liverpool was famous. It would help on merchants,known as tinctures. Similarly nicotine and the pyridine engineers, and men of science to compete with those of the bases are very easily soluble in alcohol. The chief poisonous continent. The motion was supported by Principal Dale,constituent of tobacco smoke is pyridine and not nicotine
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Brunner,
William
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quarters.
Sir William Mitchell Banks, and others, and was carried. The keystone of all the speeches was progress ; there was no thought of rivalry with the old universities.
THE
THE
ARMY
MEDICAL
MR. BRODRICK has announced in Parliament that the speedy appearance of the new warrant for the Army Medical Service may be expected. We hope and indeed believe that when it appears it will be found that due consideration has been given to the objections urged against the original scheme by the subcommittee of the British Medical Association and by ourselves. -
-
FELLOWS’ DINNER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY.
THE annual Fellows’ dinner of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society will be held at the Whitehall Rooms of the Hotel Metropole on Wednesday evening, Feb. 26th, at 7.30. It used to be -aid that the premier medical society was inhospitable, but since the excellent precedent of inviting guests to the annual dinner was created by Mr. Timothy Holmes, when he filled the chair, the interesting series of Fellows’ dinners has removed any ground, if it ever existed, for such a reproach. At the next dinner the chair will be taken by the President, Dr. F. W. Pavy, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., and among the guests are included the President of the Royal
of
NEW WARRANT FOR
SERVICE.
THE
THE
College
327
Physicians
of London
(Sir
William S.
Church),
NOTIFICATION OF CHICKEN-POX.
THE London County Council have issued an order pursuant a resolution of the Council passed on Jan. 28th. The order was advertised on Jan., 30th and comes into force at the expiration of one week from that date. Our readers will remember that in our issue of Jan. 25th we noted that eight metropolitan boroughs had already declared chicken-pox to be a notifiable disease. The London County Council order runs as follows :to
The London County Council do hereby resolve and order that Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, with respect to the notification of infectious disease shall apply in the administrative county of London, for a period of three calendar months, to the disease known as chicken-pox, and the Council do hereby declare that the case is one of emergency owing to the prevalence of small-pox in London, and the fact that the failure in many cases to distinguish between chicken-pox and small-pox has led, and is leading, to the spread of the latter disease. _____
the President of the General Medical Council (Sir William Turner), the Director-General of the Royal Navy Medical Service (Sir Henry Norbury), the Director-General of the Army Medical Service (Surgeon-General Taylor), the Principal of the University of London (Professor Rucker), the Secretary of the Royal Society (Sir Michael Foster, M.P.), Mr. Ouless, R.A., and Dr. Conan Doyle.
THE SANITARY INSTITUTE
LECTURES.
THE thirty-third course of Lectures and Demonstrations for Sanitary Officers will be delivered during the months of February, March, and April, 1902, at the Parkes Museum, Margaret.street, London, W. The lectures, which will be given at 7 P.M., are divided into two courses, the first dealing with Elementary Physics and Chemistry in relation to Water, THE PROPOSED UNIVERSITY FOR LIVERPOOL. Soil, Air, Ventilation, and Meteorology, Public Health I together with THE public meeting of the citizens of Liverpool heldStatutes, By-laws, Municipal Hygiene, &c., and of measurements demonstrations 1 drawing plans at the Liverpool Town-hall on Jan. 27th to consider thepractical to scale. The second course embraces lectures on Meat and for that desirability of establishing a separate university and the taking of Samples of Water, Food, Food city was a pronounced success. The meeting was presided and Inspection for Analysis. Arrangements have also been made Drugs over by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Mr. A. C. Petrie) and for the inspection of disinfecting stations, soap-works, was attended by a thoroughly representative and influential C common lodging-houses, sewage-farms, waterworks, dairy gathering, which included the Earl of Derby, K. G., the Lord and such like places, practical demonstrations being farms, Bishop of Liverpool (Dr. Chavasse), Sir John at the same time where necessary. J Among the given Bart., M.P., Sir William H. Tate, Bart., Sir lecturers are Dr. E. J. Steegmann, Dr. J. Priestley, Mr. A. W. Mitchell Banks, Sir William Forwood, the principal of Dr. E. Petronell Manby, and Dr. H. R. Kenwood. University College, Liverpool (Mr. A. W. W. Dale), Arch-Harris, The fee for Part I. (25 lectures) is Z2 12s. 6d., and for deacon Madden, the Rev. Dr. Watson (Ian MacLaren), and Part II. (seven lectures) J?11 ls. The fee for the complete others. The Lord Mayor announced that .E80,000 had already course is J?3 3s. been subscribed towards the realisation of the project, and pointed out that, although differences- of opinion THE POISONOUS COÖPERATION OF ALCOHOL existed in Liverpool on many subjects in connexion with AND TOBACCO. the "omnibus"Bill of the Liverpool Corporation about IT cannot be doubted that when evil effects ensue upon to be promoted in Parliament, not a single vote had been I tobacco they are very much intensified by indulgrecorded against that part of it which asked for power tosmoking assist the proposed university. The motion relating to theIence in alcohol. Further, though even after a more than establishment of a university for Liverpool was proposed bymoderate indulgence in tobacco no toxic symptoms such the Earl of Derby, who said that they wanted to bringas headache and stupor may supervene yet such would university facilities within the reach of all they possibly probably be the case if alcoholic drinking was praccould. Dr. Chavasse seconded the motion in antised at the same time. The powerfully solvent action eloquent speech and said that University College, Liver-of alcohol is sufficient explanation of this. It is, of I well known in pharmacology that the active conpool, with its 26 professors and some 60 readers, hadcourse, surely a claim to be recognised as a university whichistituents of drugs are, as a rule, readily soluble in alcohol would be a coping-stone of -the educational system for though not in water, and hence the class of preparations which Liverpool was famous. It would help on merchants,known as tinctures. Similarly nicotine and the pyridine engineers, and men of science to compete with those of the bases are very easily soluble in alcohol. The chief poisonous continent. The motion was supported by Principal Dale,constituent of tobacco smoke is pyridine and not nicotine
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Brunner,
William
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