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THE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL.
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The fact of a board school worthless and the grocer who has been furnishing the near to railways. the site would not in our opinion, unless it is proposed supplies refuses longer to accept it. The physicians and? to use the hospital for small-pox, militate against it. There guards are practically getting no pay. Under these" is no evidence indicating that hospitals other than those circumstances the State Board of Health threatened to used for small-pox are detrimental to the surrounding popu- withdraw all guards and physicians and quarantine the. lation. entire county unless the county provided funds to care for the epidemic." On March 14th, the day of the report, ther THE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL MEDICAL patients were without food. 11 numerous little towns and COUNCIL. within a radius of twenty miles have instituted ’shot. and will allow no one to enter or leave’ gun’ quarantine, WE are authorised to say that there is no truth in the statehave no small-pox in them....... Some of’ them, though they ment recently widely circulated in the lay press-namely, will not allow anyone to get off the train." places that the election of Sir William Turner as President of the
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General Medical Council would involve his resignation of the Chair of Anatomy at Edinburgh University and also his taking up his residence in London. No conditions were attached by the Council to his appointment as President.
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"A QUESTION OF FRANCHISE." IN a recent leading article we referred to the fact that the Corporate and Medical Reform Committee had presented a petition to the Council of the Royal! College of Surgeons of England claiming that the right of electing a representative of the College on the General Medical Council belonged to the Fellows and Members of the College and not to the Council and asking the Council to receive a deputation on the subject. The Council of the College have replied that they "see no reason to alter the mode of election which has been in force for the last forty years and consider that no useful purpose would be served by ’receiving a deputation." A protest against this action of the Council is being prepared by the petitioners for signature.
THE ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN AND WOMEN. THE festival dinner of this institution (of which Her Majesty the Queen is a patron and the Lord Mayor of London the president) was held at the Hotel Cecil on. Wednesday, April 20th, Sir Edwin Durning Lawrence, Bart., M.P., the treasurer, presiding. Situated as it is in the’ Waterloo-bridge-road this hospital naturally ministers to, the medical and surgical needs of large numbers of thepoor women and children of South London. The number of in-patients amounts to some 486 yearly, while the average: number of beds occupied is 44. The yearly average attendThis means a larger ance of out-patients is over 8000. expenditure and it is earnestly to be hoped that there will be a hearty response to the appeal of the committeefor funds. In proposing the toast of the evening the chairman said that Iin many respects the south side of London was the poorest. In Lambeth especially there were.. many cases of real misery, more so than in East London,
but the
income of this hospital was barely> enough support the institution for a third of theIf the year. public only realised the value of the services which the IT is a remarkable coincidence that small-pox is epidemic ’ hospital rendered to the south of London) I in Middlesbrough, Kentucky, U.S.A. An account of thegreater support would be forthcoming." Mr. J. F. Eastwood, I the treasurer, supported the chairman’s earnest appeal" epidemic is published in the official Public Health Report of that the hospital required at least £2000 more. the United States for the week ending March 25th, 1898.remarking in a annual The disease was imported from Birmingham, Alabama, and year subscriptions. Subscriptions to the’ amount of were announced by the secretary in, 700 the first case occurred in October, 1897. The State Board of nearly the course of the evening. The health of the chairmar’) Health took charge of the epidemic on Feb. 28th, 1898, Dr. was proposed by Septimus Sunderland and some compli declaring the disease epidemic, and since that time there to the terminated the proceedings of an interestments press have been 169 cases and 2 deaths to March 14th, 34 of the cases being those of white men and 135 those of negroes ; one ing evening. of the latter was that of a child one day old, the eruption THE POLLUTION OF THE RIVER BRENT. appearing at the same time on mother and child. On THE pollution of the River Brent is again exciting the March 13th there were 49 cases of variola and 23 suspects in the pest-house and 400 suspects quarantined at their interest of those who live in what has been described as the, homes. The population numbers about 4200 and about "healthy and pleasant neighbourhood"on its banks, and’ half are negroes. The town, we are told, "has been abso- Mr. W. L. Williams, chairman of the Financial Committee lutely quarantined since Feb. 28th, no one being allowed of the Hanwell and Urban District Council, has written to either to enter or leave it. Sixteen guards, one day and one the Times to state his views as to the course which should night, guard each of the eight roads leading to the town, be adopted to lessen or abolish the nuisance which it. The! and no tickets are allowed to be sold either to or from the must be admitted exists at the present time. town and practically there is no travel. Since the Board of general question of the purity of the streams whicb Health took charge 1960 people have been vaccinated and discharge into the Thames is one of very great, forcible vaccination is still progressing.......... Middles- importance to the people of London as well as to, brough was aboom’ town started some ten years ago and those who live in the immediate neighbourhood of the several million dollars were invested here in various enter- streams themselves. At the present time the Brent is not, prises. In two or three years theboom’ collapsed and the only tributary of the Thames which is grossly polluted. left the town stranded with a heavy debt. When this The Lee and the Wandle are both in a disgraceful state. epidemic came it found the town without a dollar in It is a good and hopeful sign that people on the board.’ the treasury. The place is practically owned by two of local authorities are beginning to take some intelliø or three companies and everybody works on a salary. gent interest in the matter of the pollution of the streams These companies paid up their taxes in advance and, in their districts. The difficulties which have to be, all having been expended, there were no funds for theI overcome in preventing pollution are not small, while’ city to draw on. The county, which is also heavily in unfortunately the conflicts between neighbouring sanitary debt, has been haggling with the city in regard to an authorities often cause much delay in carrying out:. appropriation, but none has been made. The city script isi reforms. No reform can be easily carried out without a SMALL-POX IN MIDDLESBROUGH, U.S.A.
KENTUCKY,
ordinary
to
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being
The fact of a board school worthless and the grocer who has been furnishing the near to railways. the site would not in our opinion, unless it is proposed supplies refuses longer to accept it. The physicians and? to use the hospital for small-pox, militate against it. There guards are practically getting no pay. Under these" is no evidence indicating that hospitals other than those circumstances the State Board of Health threatened to used for small-pox are detrimental to the surrounding popu- withdraw all guards and physicians and quarantine the. lation. entire county unless the county provided funds to care for the epidemic." On March 14th, the day of the report, ther THE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL MEDICAL patients were without food. 11 numerous little towns and COUNCIL. within a radius of twenty miles have instituted ’shot. and will allow no one to enter or leave’ gun’ quarantine, WE are authorised to say that there is no truth in the statehave no small-pox in them....... Some of’ them, though they ment recently widely circulated in the lay press-namely, will not allow anyone to get off the train." places that the election of Sir William Turner as President of the
very
near
___
General Medical Council would involve his resignation of the Chair of Anatomy at Edinburgh University and also his taking up his residence in London. No conditions were attached by the Council to his appointment as President.
villages these
"A QUESTION OF FRANCHISE." IN a recent leading article we referred to the fact that the Corporate and Medical Reform Committee had presented a petition to the Council of the Royal! College of Surgeons of England claiming that the right of electing a representative of the College on the General Medical Council belonged to the Fellows and Members of the College and not to the Council and asking the Council to receive a deputation on the subject. The Council of the College have replied that they "see no reason to alter the mode of election which has been in force for the last forty years and consider that no useful purpose would be served by ’receiving a deputation." A protest against this action of the Council is being prepared by the petitioners for signature.
THE ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN AND WOMEN. THE festival dinner of this institution (of which Her Majesty the Queen is a patron and the Lord Mayor of London the president) was held at the Hotel Cecil on. Wednesday, April 20th, Sir Edwin Durning Lawrence, Bart., M.P., the treasurer, presiding. Situated as it is in the’ Waterloo-bridge-road this hospital naturally ministers to, the medical and surgical needs of large numbers of thepoor women and children of South London. The number of in-patients amounts to some 486 yearly, while the average: number of beds occupied is 44. The yearly average attendThis means a larger ance of out-patients is over 8000. expenditure and it is earnestly to be hoped that there will be a hearty response to the appeal of the committeefor funds. In proposing the toast of the evening the chairman said that Iin many respects the south side of London was the poorest. In Lambeth especially there were.. many cases of real misery, more so than in East London,
but the
income of this hospital was barely> enough support the institution for a third of theIf the year. public only realised the value of the services which the IT is a remarkable coincidence that small-pox is epidemic ’ hospital rendered to the south of London) I in Middlesbrough, Kentucky, U.S.A. An account of thegreater support would be forthcoming." Mr. J. F. Eastwood, I the treasurer, supported the chairman’s earnest appeal" epidemic is published in the official Public Health Report of that the hospital required at least £2000 more. the United States for the week ending March 25th, 1898.remarking in a annual The disease was imported from Birmingham, Alabama, and year subscriptions. Subscriptions to the’ amount of were announced by the secretary in, 700 the first case occurred in October, 1897. The State Board of nearly the course of the evening. The health of the chairmar’) Health took charge of the epidemic on Feb. 28th, 1898, Dr. was proposed by Septimus Sunderland and some compli declaring the disease epidemic, and since that time there to the terminated the proceedings of an interestments press have been 169 cases and 2 deaths to March 14th, 34 of the cases being those of white men and 135 those of negroes ; one ing evening. of the latter was that of a child one day old, the eruption THE POLLUTION OF THE RIVER BRENT. appearing at the same time on mother and child. On THE pollution of the River Brent is again exciting the March 13th there were 49 cases of variola and 23 suspects in the pest-house and 400 suspects quarantined at their interest of those who live in what has been described as the, homes. The population numbers about 4200 and about "healthy and pleasant neighbourhood"on its banks, and’ half are negroes. The town, we are told, "has been abso- Mr. W. L. Williams, chairman of the Financial Committee lutely quarantined since Feb. 28th, no one being allowed of the Hanwell and Urban District Council, has written to either to enter or leave it. Sixteen guards, one day and one the Times to state his views as to the course which should night, guard each of the eight roads leading to the town, be adopted to lessen or abolish the nuisance which it. The! and no tickets are allowed to be sold either to or from the must be admitted exists at the present time. town and practically there is no travel. Since the Board of general question of the purity of the streams whicb Health took charge 1960 people have been vaccinated and discharge into the Thames is one of very great, forcible vaccination is still progressing.......... Middles- importance to the people of London as well as to, brough was aboom’ town started some ten years ago and those who live in the immediate neighbourhood of the several million dollars were invested here in various enter- streams themselves. At the present time the Brent is not, prises. In two or three years theboom’ collapsed and the only tributary of the Thames which is grossly polluted. left the town stranded with a heavy debt. When this The Lee and the Wandle are both in a disgraceful state. epidemic came it found the town without a dollar in It is a good and hopeful sign that people on the board.’ the treasury. The place is practically owned by two of local authorities are beginning to take some intelliø or three companies and everybody works on a salary. gent interest in the matter of the pollution of the streams These companies paid up their taxes in advance and, in their districts. The difficulties which have to be, all having been expended, there were no funds for theI overcome in preventing pollution are not small, while’ city to draw on. The county, which is also heavily in unfortunately the conflicts between neighbouring sanitary debt, has been haggling with the city in regard to an authorities often cause much delay in carrying out:. appropriation, but none has been made. The city script isi reforms. No reform can be easily carried out without a SMALL-POX IN MIDDLESBROUGH, U.S.A.
KENTUCKY,
ordinary
to
"
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