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738 i working; and because they are convinced that a satismay truly assert that the comfort of invalids who in be from thus roused and the ifactory effluent can be obtained. Apparently the greatest needful may noisily repose, I of the are alike both. amenity general public, difficulty in contemplation is the sludge, which it is suggested disregarded by It would be somewhat captious, perhaps, though certainly may be pressed into small bulk, as at Acton and Coventry, not unreasonable, to call for the suppression of one or the or burned into useful clinkers by means pi a destructor, other obnoxious custom by authoritative legal machinery; which also receives ashes &c. as at Ealing. but there is no reason why the householder’s one remedy in all such cases, his power of objection, should not be effectually THE LESSON OF THE FATE OF THE -exercised for his protection against one or both of the PHARMACY BILL. nuisances above named. We may also be allowed to suggest that religions bodies, of whatever denomination, would do ON the second reading of the Pharmacy Bill the House well to cultivate that quiet but efficient form of energy was counted out, there not being forty members present. which was the synonym of successful effort in the early This fact shows how impossible it is to get any adequate Christian Church. We believe that the only lawful ringiDg attention in Parliament to such questions as those raised in of church bells is for a convenient time previously to the Pharmacy Bill-the education of druggists. They ar, morning and evening prayer, and that all other bell-ringing, of course, of enormous importance. The life and death of hundreds perhaps in the year turn upon such question!. except for funerals, is quite illegal. But forty members could not be got to consider them, Gentlemen who know nothing of such subjects, and whose ARMY MEDICAL STAFF CORPS. tastes are spoiled by the highly spiced debates on pa!ty WE observe with regret that the Commander-in-Chief has subjects, cannot be expected to come down to the con. s issued a General Order on the-subject of recruiting which, in ssideration of such tame questions as the education which fits our opinion, will act most injuriously on the hospital service. f the druggist’s business. There are many other questions for It restricts the enlistment of men for the Medical Staff Corps cof which the same is true. The lesson is obvious. Such to "three years’ Army and nine years’ Reserve service, whichsubjects E should be threshed out in a committee appointed will be converted into four years’ Army and eight years’ for f this special purpose. Unless and until this is done the Reserve service if the period of army service expires while legislation 1 on such subjects will either be inadequate or the man is serving abroad." The effect of this will be thatpositively 1 injurious. the men of the corps will scarcely have become skilled in UNHEALTHY HOUSES IN LEEDS. their duties as orderlies when will be removed

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and replaced by raw, unskilled men, to the great detriment THE Sanitary Committee of the Leeds Corporation are of the sick. There is nothing on which, in many cases, 1taking some decided action towards dealing with the large the successful treatment depends so much as on careful number 1 of dwelling-houses which, in their present state,are skilled nursing, and yet the new regulation will put thisiunwholesome, and as such unfit for habitation. The task of almost out of the power of the medical officers. AnotherIdealing with unwholesome property is very generally a disdrawback to the system will be the want of the older men onagreeable one, and many sanitary authorities need the whom much of the steadiness and regularity of conduct of thestimulus of outside pressure before undertaking it heartily i A with the and composed entirely, corps depends. body probable thoroughly. The sanitary state and the mortality of of of untrained non-commissioned Leeds are believed to be unfavourably influenced to an officers, young, exception men, on whom the duties of the care and nursing of the important extent by property of the class referred to, and sick will depend, holds out a most unpromising prospect the borough medical officer of health has more than once for the soldiers who come under hospital treatment. We reported adversely in this sense. Hence we are glad to see cannot believe that the new regulation has been made with that the action of the committee receives the full support the concurrence of the Director-General. Sir T. Crawford of an important portion of the local press. knows too well the value of trained orderlies in a hospital to be likely to have consented, if, indeed, he were consulted "HAUNCHING HORSES." at all, to a measure which"is certain to produce such unUNDER the above heading, we would draw the attention satisfactory results as this General Order. Can this possibly be one of the benefits to be derived from the new organisation of our readers to a game which is said to be fairly common of the War Office ? in the south of London amongst stable boys and their friends. Th3 game is one which is hardly known to the SEWAGE DISPOSAL AT HUDDERSFIELD. public at large, but its dangerous character will be at once LARGE works of sewerage have within recent years been apparent when we add that two boys were admitted into carried out in Huddersfield, especially in the matter of an St. Thomas’s Hospital last week suffering from compound intercepting sewer. By this means there is now collected fracture of the skull received whilst playing at this game, at Deighton a dry-weather daily flow of 4,000,000 gallons It is called by the boys hunching," and is played as which passes in its crude state into the Colne. To meet this follows: The stable boys either hold the horse’s head evil, the corporation have decided to adopt some measures or the horse may be tied up by a halter, and then the for properly dealing with the sewage at the outfall, and a younger boys hit the horse across the haunches with committee, including Mr. R. S. Dagdale, the borough surveyor, a knotted rope in order to make him kick out, and Dr. Cameron, the medical officer of health, have visited whilst the striker rushes out of the way, to avoid a number of towns with a view of eliciting information as the kick. The game is generally played in a stable to the success of the various methods of treating sewage yard, but sometimes when horses are being led to water, now in operation. The report issued by them will be of The patients, boys aged twelve and eight, although they considerable value as summarising a large amount of useful had often played at it, have never seen anyone seriously knowledge as to existing processes. As to the Huddersfield damaged by it. These boys were admitted under the care sewage, the committee have decided to recommend pre- of Mr. Anderson on April 3rd and 5th respectively, from Battercipitation upon the intermittent system, and subsequent sea and Lambeth, and were strangers, but each presented filtration. They do this on financial grounds, both as to a compound fracture of the skull in the temporal region first cost and maintenance expenses; for reasons of simplicity almost identical in position, though the second boy had ___