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THE SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY.
101 will deliver his address. Sectional meetings will be held from 11 A.M. to 3 P.M., and visits to various institutions will follow until 7 P.M. At 8 P.M. a banquet will be given at the Rathaus to the members of the Congress by the municipality of Berlin. On the 26th sectional meetings from 9 A.M. until 3 P.M. will be followed until 6.30 P.M. by visits to At 8.15 P.M. there will be a revarious institutions. ception to meet the members of the English colony in Berlin at the Rennbahn Grunewald restaurant. On the 27th, after the sectional meetings in the morning and visits to the institutions in the afternoon, the Congress dinner, to which ladies are invited, will take place at 7.30 P.M. in the restaurant of the Zoological Gardens. On Sunday, July 28th, there will be a special service in St. George’s Church, followed by a steamer excursion to Potsdam and the Royal palaces, with a luncheon at Bannsee and tea in the Forest Restaurant. Among the institutions to be visited are the sanatoriums of the National Insurance Institute for Berlin at Beelitz, the Imperial Board of Health,
the
municipal
insurance
offices,
the Kaiserin Friedrich
Institute for Advanced Medical Studies, the Kaiser Wilhelm
ASYLUM REPORTS.
C’e2cnty and City fif lYorcester Lunatic AsyZu.m, Pon’ick, (annual report for the Tear end’ing March 31st, 1912).At this asylum the average daily number resident was 1056. There were admitted 267 patients, and of these 104 were transferred from other asylums. A previous attack was noted in 20’ 9 per cent. of the direct admissions. Mr. G. M. P. Braine-Hartnell, the medical superintendent, notes that whereas in the report of the Commissioners issued in 1911 heredity is assigned as the cause in 25 per cent. of the admissions, it was only found in 9’ 8 per cent. of those admitted to this asylum during the year under review. Of the admitted 30 have been discharged recovered and 18 have died. 218 persons were discharged during the year, and of these 75 were discharged recovered, being rate of 46 per cent. on the direct admissions. a The deaths numbered 73, being a rate of 6-91 per The chief cent. on the daily average number resident. causes of death were heart disease in 24’7 per cent., phthisis in 20’6 per cent., senile decay 11 per cent., pneumonia 9-6 per cent., and general paralysis in 8’22 per cent. cases. Post-mortem examinations were made in 60 out of the 73 deaths.
Academy for Army Medical Instruction, the Robert Koch Royal Institute for Infectious Diseases, the Royal Charite, B1lClls Coitnty Lqinatic Asylqtm at Stone (Annzccal Report Rudolf Virchow and Charlottenburg municipal hospitals, and the Jear 1911).-The average daily number on the for the Royal Institute of Hygiene of the University. Special registers during the year was 697. The total number of arrangements have also been made for drives round Berlin, patients resident was the highest at the end of the year since receptions, and other social functions. It is desirable that the opening of the asylum. Dr. H. Kerr, the medical members of the Congress should take with them their superintendent, points out that the increase in the number of patients during the past two years has been much academic, municipal, or other robes. The importance from Bucks above the average, so much so that the question of providing a scientific point of view of this opportunity for comparing further accommodation for the insane of the county will methods of two countries so advanced in sanithe
sanitary
Great Britain and Germany can hardly be over-estimated. Not less important is the evidence of the influence of science in advancing the comity of nations afforded by this invitation extended to a purely national body of one country to hold its annual meeting in the confines of another.
tary practice
as
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THE SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY. THIS society (La Societe de Pathologie Compare) is
organising an
International
Congress
of
ComparativePatho-
logy to be held in Paris in October of this year, and the French officials are desirous to obtain the active cooperation and participation of English pathologists and bacteriologists in this Congress. The subjects for discussion will range over the whole field of pathology and will include veterinary and plant pathology. Among the problems already entered for discussion are : Tuberculosis (pathogenesis), human and avian diphtheria, cancer, variola and vaccinia, parasites common to man and animals, hydrophobia, comparative The council study of the cirrhoses, vegetable pathology, &c. of the Pathological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine recommends this Congress to the members of the section for their support. All desirous of making communications at the Congress or of taking part in the discussions should communicate with the general secretary of the Congress, 42, Rue de Villejust, Paris. -
THE trustees of the American Medicine Gold Medal Award that the medal for 1912 has been conferred upon Dr. William C. Gorgas, Ancon, Panama, as the American physician who in their judgment has performed the most conspicuous and noteworthy service in the domain of medicine during the past year.
announce
Dr. Theodor Kocher, the great Swiss surgeon, who has recently celebrated the fortieth year of his tenure of the chair of surgery in the University of Berne, has presented the University with the sum of 200,000 francs for the purposes of research.
probably have to be considered at no very distant date. The proportion of the insane to the population shows a fairly constant tendency to increase, having risen from 2-7 per
1000 in 1891 to 3’3 per 1000 in 1911. The number of the insane maintained in the asylum shows a disproportionate increase, having risen from 2’11 per 1000 in 1891 to 29per 1000 in 1911. This increase appears to be partly due to the larger number of congenital and senile cases that are now taken to the asylum instead of being kept in the workhouse or at home. Many of these cases are only certified on being sent to the asylum, and they consequently swell the There is further an numbers of the certified insane. It is possible cases. of chronic accumulation increasing that if institutions for the feeble-minded are provided, some relief may be afforded. The admissions during the year numbered 198. Of those admitted; 22 were congenital cases, 3 suffered from epilepsy, and 12 from general paralysis. In 66 cases only was the prospect of recovery considered at all hopeful. Ninety-eight patients were discharged, of whom 69 had recovered. The deaths during the year numbered 77, giving a rate of 11 per cent. of the daily average number resident. Two male patients endeavoured to evade treatboth, however, were taken back to the asylum within a few hours.
ment ;
ÞIental Hospital, Aberdeen (Annllal Report for 1911).-There were 560 persons under treatthis hospital during the year. The admissions
Kingseat the Year ment at
numbered 115, and of these 88 were certified as insane for the first time and 27 had suffered from one or more previous attacks. Of the direct admissions 73 had been ill for less than three months, 6 under 12 months, and 8 were congenital cascs. It was ascertained that 33 were hereditarily predisposed to nervous or mental affections. A large number of cases of senile insanity were admitted. The increase in the admission of these cases appears to be general over Scotland, and has been attributed to the recognition by the public of the more satisfactory management of asylums which nowadays prevail. Dr. H. de Maine Alexander, the medical superintendent, is of opinion that a more likely explanation of the increased admission rate of these senile cases is that there are more old people living nowadays than there were 10-20 years ago. The discharges during the year numbered 61. The percentage The deaths of recoveries on the admissions was 365. numbered 39, giving a rate of 8’1 own the average number
resident.
the
municipal
insurance
offices,
the Kaiserin Friedrich
Institute for Advanced Medical Studies, the Kaiser Wilhelm
ASYLUM REPORTS.
C’e2cnty and City fif lYorcester Lunatic AsyZu.m, Pon’ick, (annual report for the Tear end’ing March 31st, 1912).At this asylum the average daily number resident was 1056. There were admitted 267 patients, and of these 104 were transferred from other asylums. A previous attack was noted in 20’ 9 per cent. of the direct admissions. Mr. G. M. P. Braine-Hartnell, the medical superintendent, notes that whereas in the report of the Commissioners issued in 1911 heredity is assigned as the cause in 25 per cent. of the admissions, it was only found in 9’ 8 per cent. of those admitted to this asylum during the year under review. Of the admitted 30 have been discharged recovered and 18 have died. 218 persons were discharged during the year, and of these 75 were discharged recovered, being rate of 46 per cent. on the direct admissions. a The deaths numbered 73, being a rate of 6-91 per The chief cent. on the daily average number resident. causes of death were heart disease in 24’7 per cent., phthisis in 20’6 per cent., senile decay 11 per cent., pneumonia 9-6 per cent., and general paralysis in 8’22 per cent. cases. Post-mortem examinations were made in 60 out of the 73 deaths.
Academy for Army Medical Instruction, the Robert Koch Royal Institute for Infectious Diseases, the Royal Charite, B1lClls Coitnty Lqinatic Asylqtm at Stone (Annzccal Report Rudolf Virchow and Charlottenburg municipal hospitals, and the Jear 1911).-The average daily number on the for the Royal Institute of Hygiene of the University. Special registers during the year was 697. The total number of arrangements have also been made for drives round Berlin, patients resident was the highest at the end of the year since receptions, and other social functions. It is desirable that the opening of the asylum. Dr. H. Kerr, the medical members of the Congress should take with them their superintendent, points out that the increase in the number of patients during the past two years has been much academic, municipal, or other robes. The importance from Bucks above the average, so much so that the question of providing a scientific point of view of this opportunity for comparing further accommodation for the insane of the county will methods of two countries so advanced in sanithe
sanitary
Great Britain and Germany can hardly be over-estimated. Not less important is the evidence of the influence of science in advancing the comity of nations afforded by this invitation extended to a purely national body of one country to hold its annual meeting in the confines of another.
tary practice
as
____
THE SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY. THIS society (La Societe de Pathologie Compare) is
organising an
International
Congress
of
ComparativePatho-
logy to be held in Paris in October of this year, and the French officials are desirous to obtain the active cooperation and participation of English pathologists and bacteriologists in this Congress. The subjects for discussion will range over the whole field of pathology and will include veterinary and plant pathology. Among the problems already entered for discussion are : Tuberculosis (pathogenesis), human and avian diphtheria, cancer, variola and vaccinia, parasites common to man and animals, hydrophobia, comparative The council study of the cirrhoses, vegetable pathology, &c. of the Pathological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine recommends this Congress to the members of the section for their support. All desirous of making communications at the Congress or of taking part in the discussions should communicate with the general secretary of the Congress, 42, Rue de Villejust, Paris. -
THE trustees of the American Medicine Gold Medal Award that the medal for 1912 has been conferred upon Dr. William C. Gorgas, Ancon, Panama, as the American physician who in their judgment has performed the most conspicuous and noteworthy service in the domain of medicine during the past year.
announce
Dr. Theodor Kocher, the great Swiss surgeon, who has recently celebrated the fortieth year of his tenure of the chair of surgery in the University of Berne, has presented the University with the sum of 200,000 francs for the purposes of research.
probably have to be considered at no very distant date. The proportion of the insane to the population shows a fairly constant tendency to increase, having risen from 2-7 per
1000 in 1891 to 3’3 per 1000 in 1911. The number of the insane maintained in the asylum shows a disproportionate increase, having risen from 2’11 per 1000 in 1891 to 29per 1000 in 1911. This increase appears to be partly due to the larger number of congenital and senile cases that are now taken to the asylum instead of being kept in the workhouse or at home. Many of these cases are only certified on being sent to the asylum, and they consequently swell the There is further an numbers of the certified insane. It is possible cases. of chronic accumulation increasing that if institutions for the feeble-minded are provided, some relief may be afforded. The admissions during the year numbered 198. Of those admitted; 22 were congenital cases, 3 suffered from epilepsy, and 12 from general paralysis. In 66 cases only was the prospect of recovery considered at all hopeful. Ninety-eight patients were discharged, of whom 69 had recovered. The deaths during the year numbered 77, giving a rate of 11 per cent. of the daily average number resident. Two male patients endeavoured to evade treatboth, however, were taken back to the asylum within a few hours.
ment ;
ÞIental Hospital, Aberdeen (Annllal Report for 1911).-There were 560 persons under treatthis hospital during the year. The admissions
Kingseat the Year ment at
numbered 115, and of these 88 were certified as insane for the first time and 27 had suffered from one or more previous attacks. Of the direct admissions 73 had been ill for less than three months, 6 under 12 months, and 8 were congenital cascs. It was ascertained that 33 were hereditarily predisposed to nervous or mental affections. A large number of cases of senile insanity were admitted. The increase in the admission of these cases appears to be general over Scotland, and has been attributed to the recognition by the public of the more satisfactory management of asylums which nowadays prevail. Dr. H. de Maine Alexander, the medical superintendent, is of opinion that a more likely explanation of the increased admission rate of these senile cases is that there are more old people living nowadays than there were 10-20 years ago. The discharges during the year numbered 61. The percentage The deaths of recoveries on the admissions was 365. numbered 39, giving a rate of 8’1 own the average number
resident.