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THE SMALL - POX OBJECT LESSON AT GLOUCESTER.
THE SMALL-POX OBJECT
1006 whose
address is
57,
Basinghall -street,
deserves
114ESSON AT GLOUCESTER.
increase of from 4960 to 8810. These made up of 4204 adult males, 553 adult females, and 164 children under sixteen years of age in 1891 ; and of 7631, 879, and 297 respectively in 1895. Speaking of proportions, the adult females have not largely increased their numbers, but the disparity between them and the males in actual amount remains enormous and has continued to be increasingly highways and who in many instances have adopted its great. In London the aggregate of 754 vagrants relieved in principles and circulated its instructions amongst their men. 1891 has grown to 1211, and in the groups of counties comAlthough the services of the committee of the Association prised in the South Midland, West Midland, North Midland, and those of its secretary are given voluntarily the expenses and Welsh divisions the totals have more than dnubled attaching to the distribution of a large quantity of literature themselves in the four years. Taking as an example the are necessarily great, and the support of the public is county of Gloucester, where small-pox now rages, we find that. needed. on the first day of each successive half-year since January, 1893, the vagrants relieved have been 69, 134, 134, 56, and on, THE SMALL - POX OBJECT LESSON AT Jan. lst, 1895, as many as 146. This increase, however, has GLOUCESTER. no relation to the vagrants treated in the city workhouse, APPEALING for donations in aid of the small-pox stricken which on the latter date were only 3 in number. Increases in community at Gloucester the Very Reverend H. D. Spence, Yorkshire and the counties still further north have been the Dean of that city, in a letter to the Times, concludes relatively small. with the following remarks: "If the serious object-lesson GIFT TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM. which Gloucester now presents be laid to heart by those cities of England who are content to rest upon the dilatory proMR. E. WHEELER, a druggist of Clifton, has recently preceedings of the Commission on Vaccination appointed some sented to the British Museum an accurate and scientific seven years ago, and in consequence are neglecting the register of the actual form and colouring of 2500 of the one precaution, vaccination, which it has been proved by 3000 specimens of fungi which occur in the British Isles. overwhelming evidence can alone save our people from the The work is the labour of many years and consists of twelve horrors of this fatal malady, the sufferers for whom we plead volumes of water colour drawings. In acknowledging th1Ð These are handsome gift Professor Flower so earnestly will not have suffered in vain." says : "The trustees desire words of wisdom, and we hope that the cities referred to will me to assure you of their high appreciation of the extreme no longer delay the enforcement of the one prophylactic accuracy and beauty with which you have delineated the which can prevent epidemics of the deadly scourge. and to return you their cordial character of the en-
couragement. The Association is doing good work by directing the attention of the various surveyors and other highway officials throughout England and Wales to the system of road-making and repairing advocated by the Association, which appears to be much appreciated not only by the public in general and by cyclists in particular, but by the various authorities who have charge of our
1895, showed numbers
an
were
_
-
INTERESTING
originals,
A CENSUS
FOR EGYPT.
ALTHOUGH it is quite true that the reform record in Egypt is, as Lord Cromer puts it, one of ’’ steady and unostentatious progress," there are, nevertheless, some matters to which we venture to think a sufficiency of attention has not as yet been directed. In the first place it is absolutely necessary that an accurate census of the people should forthwith be established. This very elementary step towards civilisation should have been taken long since ; but, on the principle of better late than never, we trust that no more time will now be lost. The sanitary department makes laudable efforts to furnish vital statistics, but for lack of a reliable basis to work on the results There is not a civilised State are shorn of half their value. in the world in which the rulers do not regard a correct census as a matter of the utmost importance, and it little becomes Englishmen to allow the country they are reforming to be behindhand in this respect. In Egypt the cost of a census would not be great, for a good deal of the machinery is already in existence, and the Sheikhs and Omdehs are said to be thoroughly alive to the beneficent intentions Now that the towards them of their English controllers. finances of Egypt are so marvellously prosperous it is surely not unreasonable to ask, in the interests of hygiene and demography, that steps should be immediately taken to establish a trustworthy census throughout the country.
VAGRANTS. T HE
.
part played in the dissemination of infectious disease by persons of the vagrant class and particularly just now the interest centred in the West of England and South Wales by reason of an extending small-pox outburst render the issue of the latest Parliamentary return of the numbers of vagrants relieved in England and Wales more than usually important. As compared with the 1irst day of 1891 the vagrants relieved in the several unions on Jan. lst,
thanks for so munificent of natural history."
a
donation to the national collecticn -
THE RECENT OUTBREAK OF ILLNESS AT
TWYFORD SCHOOL. DR. FREDERICK W. ANDBBWES, in his report on the recent, epidemic of sore-throat at Twyford School, gives it as has opinion that the outbreak depended solely on the introduction of diphtheritic poison from outside the school, and that its spread was not affected in any way by lack of proper sanitation. His investigations show that the ventilation, watersupply, and milk-supply were and are most satisfactory. The drainage in a few minor instances might be improved. THE next annual meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland will be held in London, at the rooms of the association, 11, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W., in the latter part of July. Notice of the dates and other particulars will be issued in due course, and the council confidently hope that a large gathering of members will be present to show their interest in the work of the association, to read papers, and to take part in the discussions. __
THE
Huxley Memorial Committee will strike a medal. other among purposes, for award by the Royal College of London. The committee desire designs for this, Science, and particulars will be furnished by the honorary secretary of the Huxley Memorial Committee, Professor G. B. Howes, Royal College of Science, South Kensington, S.W. THE next meeting of the Odontological Society of Great Britain will be held on Monday evening next, at eight o’clock, when papers will be read by Mr. A. Marmaduke Sheild, Mr. Storer Bennett, and Mr. Charles Tomes, F.R.S.
MR. CHAPLIN, President of the Local Government Board,
1006 whose
address is
57,
Basinghall -street,
deserves
114ESSON AT GLOUCESTER.
increase of from 4960 to 8810. These made up of 4204 adult males, 553 adult females, and 164 children under sixteen years of age in 1891 ; and of 7631, 879, and 297 respectively in 1895. Speaking of proportions, the adult females have not largely increased their numbers, but the disparity between them and the males in actual amount remains enormous and has continued to be increasingly highways and who in many instances have adopted its great. In London the aggregate of 754 vagrants relieved in principles and circulated its instructions amongst their men. 1891 has grown to 1211, and in the groups of counties comAlthough the services of the committee of the Association prised in the South Midland, West Midland, North Midland, and those of its secretary are given voluntarily the expenses and Welsh divisions the totals have more than dnubled attaching to the distribution of a large quantity of literature themselves in the four years. Taking as an example the are necessarily great, and the support of the public is county of Gloucester, where small-pox now rages, we find that. needed. on the first day of each successive half-year since January, 1893, the vagrants relieved have been 69, 134, 134, 56, and on, THE SMALL - POX OBJECT LESSON AT Jan. lst, 1895, as many as 146. This increase, however, has GLOUCESTER. no relation to the vagrants treated in the city workhouse, APPEALING for donations in aid of the small-pox stricken which on the latter date were only 3 in number. Increases in community at Gloucester the Very Reverend H. D. Spence, Yorkshire and the counties still further north have been the Dean of that city, in a letter to the Times, concludes relatively small. with the following remarks: "If the serious object-lesson GIFT TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM. which Gloucester now presents be laid to heart by those cities of England who are content to rest upon the dilatory proMR. E. WHEELER, a druggist of Clifton, has recently preceedings of the Commission on Vaccination appointed some sented to the British Museum an accurate and scientific seven years ago, and in consequence are neglecting the register of the actual form and colouring of 2500 of the one precaution, vaccination, which it has been proved by 3000 specimens of fungi which occur in the British Isles. overwhelming evidence can alone save our people from the The work is the labour of many years and consists of twelve horrors of this fatal malady, the sufferers for whom we plead volumes of water colour drawings. In acknowledging th1Ð These are handsome gift Professor Flower so earnestly will not have suffered in vain." says : "The trustees desire words of wisdom, and we hope that the cities referred to will me to assure you of their high appreciation of the extreme no longer delay the enforcement of the one prophylactic accuracy and beauty with which you have delineated the which can prevent epidemics of the deadly scourge. and to return you their cordial character of the en-
couragement. The Association is doing good work by directing the attention of the various surveyors and other highway officials throughout England and Wales to the system of road-making and repairing advocated by the Association, which appears to be much appreciated not only by the public in general and by cyclists in particular, but by the various authorities who have charge of our
1895, showed numbers
an
were
_
-
INTERESTING
originals,
A CENSUS
FOR EGYPT.
ALTHOUGH it is quite true that the reform record in Egypt is, as Lord Cromer puts it, one of ’’ steady and unostentatious progress," there are, nevertheless, some matters to which we venture to think a sufficiency of attention has not as yet been directed. In the first place it is absolutely necessary that an accurate census of the people should forthwith be established. This very elementary step towards civilisation should have been taken long since ; but, on the principle of better late than never, we trust that no more time will now be lost. The sanitary department makes laudable efforts to furnish vital statistics, but for lack of a reliable basis to work on the results There is not a civilised State are shorn of half their value. in the world in which the rulers do not regard a correct census as a matter of the utmost importance, and it little becomes Englishmen to allow the country they are reforming to be behindhand in this respect. In Egypt the cost of a census would not be great, for a good deal of the machinery is already in existence, and the Sheikhs and Omdehs are said to be thoroughly alive to the beneficent intentions Now that the towards them of their English controllers. finances of Egypt are so marvellously prosperous it is surely not unreasonable to ask, in the interests of hygiene and demography, that steps should be immediately taken to establish a trustworthy census throughout the country.
VAGRANTS. T HE
.
part played in the dissemination of infectious disease by persons of the vagrant class and particularly just now the interest centred in the West of England and South Wales by reason of an extending small-pox outburst render the issue of the latest Parliamentary return of the numbers of vagrants relieved in England and Wales more than usually important. As compared with the 1irst day of 1891 the vagrants relieved in the several unions on Jan. lst,
thanks for so munificent of natural history."
a
donation to the national collecticn -
THE RECENT OUTBREAK OF ILLNESS AT
TWYFORD SCHOOL. DR. FREDERICK W. ANDBBWES, in his report on the recent, epidemic of sore-throat at Twyford School, gives it as has opinion that the outbreak depended solely on the introduction of diphtheritic poison from outside the school, and that its spread was not affected in any way by lack of proper sanitation. His investigations show that the ventilation, watersupply, and milk-supply were and are most satisfactory. The drainage in a few minor instances might be improved. THE next annual meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland will be held in London, at the rooms of the association, 11, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W., in the latter part of July. Notice of the dates and other particulars will be issued in due course, and the council confidently hope that a large gathering of members will be present to show their interest in the work of the association, to read papers, and to take part in the discussions. __
THE
Huxley Memorial Committee will strike a medal. other among purposes, for award by the Royal College of London. The committee desire designs for this, Science, and particulars will be furnished by the honorary secretary of the Huxley Memorial Committee, Professor G. B. Howes, Royal College of Science, South Kensington, S.W. THE next meeting of the Odontological Society of Great Britain will be held on Monday evening next, at eight o’clock, when papers will be read by Mr. A. Marmaduke Sheild, Mr. Storer Bennett, and Mr. Charles Tomes, F.R.S.
MR. CHAPLIN, President of the Local Government Board,