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THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.
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chance of an equal amount of air finding its way through the floor at the farther extremities of the passage. Then, again, THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS as this passage is about 10 feet wide there is room here to OF LONDON. arrange for a mixing chamber if it should be found that the warming batteries dry up the air too much. Therefore, if A MEETING of the Comitia was held on April 26th, the criticism with regard to the batteries holds good, the at hand. is Dr. W. S. CHURCH, President, being in the chair. remedy ready By the side of the space or little passage on the exit The PRESIDENT read a telegram from H.R.H. the Prince side of the fan where the warming batteries are placed of Wales, thanking the College for the telegram which had there is a second parallel passage where there 7S no warm- been sent to him after the recent attempt on his life. ing apparatus. A door connects the two passages. By openThe PRESIDENT announced that the fourth chapter of the ing this door the air can be sent through without Plague Commission Report had recently been presented to passing over the steam coils. This will be done in the College by the Government. hot weather when it is not necessary to warm the The following gentleman was admitted as a Member of the building. Further, the domed roof in the centre can be College :-John Roger Charles, M.B., B.A. Cantab., L.R.C.P. removed, and thus, when the weather is warm and fine, the Licences to practise were granted to 114 gentlemen who summit of the auditorium will be uncovered and open to the had passed the requisite examinations. sky. The air being admitted at the top of the building and The Murchison Scholarship was awarded to Mr. Thomas at a great height has time and space to spread out and lose Crisp English, L.R.C.P., a student of St. George’s Hospital. much of its velocity before it reaches the audience. At the The following gentlemen were elected as Fellows of the Sorbonne, where the air enters under each seat, it at first College: Clement Dukes, M.D. Lond. ; Robert Bridges, only travels at the rate of 10 inches per second, but at the M.B.Oxon; Seymour Taylor, M.D. Aberd.; Amand Jules final outlet in the roof, which is 14 metres square, it travels McConnel Routh, M.D. Lond.; Charles Montagu HandfieldAt the London at the rate of 1’20 metres per second. Richard Thomas Williamson, M.D. M.D. Lond. ; Jones, Hippodrome the reverse is the case. The air enters quickly Lond. ; Leonard George Guthrie, M.D. Oxon. ; Frederick at the farthest point from the audience and spreads out and Foord Caiger, M.D. Lond.; Herbert Morley Fletcher, M.D. travels slower as it approaches the spectators. As it passes Cantab.; Henry Albert Caley, M.D. Lond.; Henry Head, through the ceiling to reach the audience it is said to travel and Fleming Mant Sandwith, M.D. Durh. at the rate of three miles an hour, but when it reaches the A report, dated March 26th, was received from the Comspectators its velocity should be considerably slower. As the mittee of Management. The Committee made the following current is from above and from the centre it passes out by recommendation :all the side exits. Therefore, if a door is opened-for That time spent as assistant in one of the hospitals attached to the instance, the door of a box-the pressure being from within army in South Africa, not exceeding a period of six months, be allowed the tendency is for the air to rush out, and hence there is an to count for the equivalent period of medical and surgical hospital absence of draught. Below, in the basement, there are practice and for three months of the required period of surgical on the understanding that allowance will only be made numerous apertures which communicate with two upright dressership, for the number of months, not six, during which the student exhaust shafts. In each shaftthere is an electric motor shall be in the service of the exceeding hospital, and for which a satisfactory from the certificate medical officer of the hospital shall be fan which helps to draw away the spent air, and it is disprincipal produced. over the roof. the side of the where charged By cages the lions are kept an extra electric motor fan has been The Committee also recommended that the Southampton inserted so that all the air near the dens shall go direct Fever Hospital should be added to the list of fever hospitals to the nearest exhaust shaft and not spread to any other part recognised by the Examining Board in England. of the building. Thus there is no odour, and it would be On the motion of Dr. NORMAN MOORE, seconded by the difficult to believe that there are so many lions on the REGISTRAR (Dr. E. Liveing), the report was adopted. A report was received and adopted from the Laboratories premises but for an occasional sinister roar of a very unmistakeable and threatening character. As the air is Committee. Communications were received from (1) the Secretary of warmed before admission there are no hot-air coils about the building. These are never ornamental and they harbour ’i the Royal College of Surgeons of England and (2) the dust and people are apt to stumble over them. The method General Medical Council forwarding a report by their Public of warming and ventilating is not expensive, for one outlay Health Committee respecting the course of study for the infuel suffices for both purposes. This may be taken either Diploma in Public Health. A copy was received of the statutes made for the Univerway: the cost of the fuel to create the motive power which works the fan and thus supplies the ventilation also sity of London by the University Commissioners as laid provides the steam for the heating batteries, or else the before Parliament, and also a copy of the Regulations heating batteries provide the steam for the engine which sets relating to the same. Dr. W. H. ALLCHIN made a few remarks on the statutes the fan in motion. The process of warming and ventilating is generally commenced about three-quarters of an hour and Dr. NORMAN MooltE referred to the excellent work before the doors are opened for a performance and the done by Dr. Allchin in relation to the scheme which has now public therefore find a pleasant atmosphere and temperature been adopted. After some formal business had been transacted the when they enter. As to the beauty of the building and as to the comfort of PRESIDENT dissolved the Comitia. the seats, which from the cheapest to the dearest all command a complete view of the stage and the arena, we must leave the public to judge for themselves. We do not propose to criticise the architecture of the structure, the decorative ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW art lavished upon it, or the performances, whether ZEALAND BRANCH OF THE theatrical or "variety," carried on within it ; but we can say that the greater the perfection attained in all these BRITISH MEDICAL respects the more complete are the relaxation and pleaASSOCIATION. sure afforded and the more wholesome will be the effect produced on mind and body. No amount of good acting and no beauty of decoration can THE fourth annual meeting of the New Zealand Branch of possibly mitigate the evil effects of draughts, of unsuitable the British Medical Association was opened on Monday aftertemperature, or of foul air. The constructors of the London noon, Feb. 19th, at the City Council Chambers, ChristHippodrome, and notably Messrs. James Stott and Co. who have been entrusted with the warming and ventilating of the church, New Zealand. Dr. W. G. SCOTT of Onehunga, building, have acted in accordance with these principles. presided. The annual report of the Council stated that since the Beauty in design and in decoration has been combined with the desire to provide. comfort in respect to the seats, the issue of the last report 31 new members had been admitted, and the purity of the air breathed. This making a total of 241 now on the rolls. The Council noticed temperature, is a very great improvement and it is high time that with regret that death had removed two’ members of the the proprietors of other theatrical establishments should branch, Dr. J. Cunninghame of Port Chalmers, and Dr. Niven, endeavour in regard to these matters to put their houses of Oamaru. The Council would be pleased to receive in reference to drugs derived from native n order. information any
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chance of an equal amount of air finding its way through the floor at the farther extremities of the passage. Then, again, THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS as this passage is about 10 feet wide there is room here to OF LONDON. arrange for a mixing chamber if it should be found that the warming batteries dry up the air too much. Therefore, if A MEETING of the Comitia was held on April 26th, the criticism with regard to the batteries holds good, the at hand. is Dr. W. S. CHURCH, President, being in the chair. remedy ready By the side of the space or little passage on the exit The PRESIDENT read a telegram from H.R.H. the Prince side of the fan where the warming batteries are placed of Wales, thanking the College for the telegram which had there is a second parallel passage where there 7S no warm- been sent to him after the recent attempt on his life. ing apparatus. A door connects the two passages. By openThe PRESIDENT announced that the fourth chapter of the ing this door the air can be sent through without Plague Commission Report had recently been presented to passing over the steam coils. This will be done in the College by the Government. hot weather when it is not necessary to warm the The following gentleman was admitted as a Member of the building. Further, the domed roof in the centre can be College :-John Roger Charles, M.B., B.A. Cantab., L.R.C.P. removed, and thus, when the weather is warm and fine, the Licences to practise were granted to 114 gentlemen who summit of the auditorium will be uncovered and open to the had passed the requisite examinations. sky. The air being admitted at the top of the building and The Murchison Scholarship was awarded to Mr. Thomas at a great height has time and space to spread out and lose Crisp English, L.R.C.P., a student of St. George’s Hospital. much of its velocity before it reaches the audience. At the The following gentlemen were elected as Fellows of the Sorbonne, where the air enters under each seat, it at first College: Clement Dukes, M.D. Lond. ; Robert Bridges, only travels at the rate of 10 inches per second, but at the M.B.Oxon; Seymour Taylor, M.D. Aberd.; Amand Jules final outlet in the roof, which is 14 metres square, it travels McConnel Routh, M.D. Lond.; Charles Montagu HandfieldAt the London at the rate of 1’20 metres per second. Richard Thomas Williamson, M.D. M.D. Lond. ; Jones, Hippodrome the reverse is the case. The air enters quickly Lond. ; Leonard George Guthrie, M.D. Oxon. ; Frederick at the farthest point from the audience and spreads out and Foord Caiger, M.D. Lond.; Herbert Morley Fletcher, M.D. travels slower as it approaches the spectators. As it passes Cantab.; Henry Albert Caley, M.D. Lond.; Henry Head, through the ceiling to reach the audience it is said to travel and Fleming Mant Sandwith, M.D. Durh. at the rate of three miles an hour, but when it reaches the A report, dated March 26th, was received from the Comspectators its velocity should be considerably slower. As the mittee of Management. The Committee made the following current is from above and from the centre it passes out by recommendation :all the side exits. Therefore, if a door is opened-for That time spent as assistant in one of the hospitals attached to the instance, the door of a box-the pressure being from within army in South Africa, not exceeding a period of six months, be allowed the tendency is for the air to rush out, and hence there is an to count for the equivalent period of medical and surgical hospital absence of draught. Below, in the basement, there are practice and for three months of the required period of surgical on the understanding that allowance will only be made numerous apertures which communicate with two upright dressership, for the number of months, not six, during which the student exhaust shafts. In each shaftthere is an electric motor shall be in the service of the exceeding hospital, and for which a satisfactory from the certificate medical officer of the hospital shall be fan which helps to draw away the spent air, and it is disprincipal produced. over the roof. the side of the where charged By cages the lions are kept an extra electric motor fan has been The Committee also recommended that the Southampton inserted so that all the air near the dens shall go direct Fever Hospital should be added to the list of fever hospitals to the nearest exhaust shaft and not spread to any other part recognised by the Examining Board in England. of the building. Thus there is no odour, and it would be On the motion of Dr. NORMAN MOORE, seconded by the difficult to believe that there are so many lions on the REGISTRAR (Dr. E. Liveing), the report was adopted. A report was received and adopted from the Laboratories premises but for an occasional sinister roar of a very unmistakeable and threatening character. As the air is Committee. Communications were received from (1) the Secretary of warmed before admission there are no hot-air coils about the building. These are never ornamental and they harbour ’i the Royal College of Surgeons of England and (2) the dust and people are apt to stumble over them. The method General Medical Council forwarding a report by their Public of warming and ventilating is not expensive, for one outlay Health Committee respecting the course of study for the infuel suffices for both purposes. This may be taken either Diploma in Public Health. A copy was received of the statutes made for the Univerway: the cost of the fuel to create the motive power which works the fan and thus supplies the ventilation also sity of London by the University Commissioners as laid provides the steam for the heating batteries, or else the before Parliament, and also a copy of the Regulations heating batteries provide the steam for the engine which sets relating to the same. Dr. W. H. ALLCHIN made a few remarks on the statutes the fan in motion. The process of warming and ventilating is generally commenced about three-quarters of an hour and Dr. NORMAN MooltE referred to the excellent work before the doors are opened for a performance and the done by Dr. Allchin in relation to the scheme which has now public therefore find a pleasant atmosphere and temperature been adopted. After some formal business had been transacted the when they enter. As to the beauty of the building and as to the comfort of PRESIDENT dissolved the Comitia. the seats, which from the cheapest to the dearest all command a complete view of the stage and the arena, we must leave the public to judge for themselves. We do not propose to criticise the architecture of the structure, the decorative ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW art lavished upon it, or the performances, whether ZEALAND BRANCH OF THE theatrical or "variety," carried on within it ; but we can say that the greater the perfection attained in all these BRITISH MEDICAL respects the more complete are the relaxation and pleaASSOCIATION. sure afforded and the more wholesome will be the effect produced on mind and body. No amount of good acting and no beauty of decoration can THE fourth annual meeting of the New Zealand Branch of possibly mitigate the evil effects of draughts, of unsuitable the British Medical Association was opened on Monday aftertemperature, or of foul air. The constructors of the London noon, Feb. 19th, at the City Council Chambers, ChristHippodrome, and notably Messrs. James Stott and Co. who have been entrusted with the warming and ventilating of the church, New Zealand. Dr. W. G. SCOTT of Onehunga, building, have acted in accordance with these principles. presided. The annual report of the Council stated that since the Beauty in design and in decoration has been combined with the desire to provide. comfort in respect to the seats, the issue of the last report 31 new members had been admitted, and the purity of the air breathed. This making a total of 241 now on the rolls. The Council noticed temperature, is a very great improvement and it is high time that with regret that death had removed two’ members of the the proprietors of other theatrical establishments should branch, Dr. J. Cunninghame of Port Chalmers, and Dr. Niven, endeavour in regard to these matters to put their houses of Oamaru. The Council would be pleased to receive in reference to drugs derived from native n order. information any
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