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WHAT SHALL WE DRINK?
THE THAMES IN EFFERVESCENCE.—WHAT SHALL WE DRINK ?
96
The total cases and deaths up to June 29th
are are as
which can be regarded as possessing anything like the same degree of palatability. What temperance drink, for example, can equal a good cider, a well-brewed beer, not to mention a sound wine. The so-called temperancedrinks, if not simply effervescing water are at their best washy concoctions, with a flavour it is true, but one not Then it is the fashion to make up a stock often pleasing. and to liquor charge it artificially with carbonic acid gas, and so instead of the good old-fashioned stone ginger-beer we encounter a perfectly clear decoction containing sometimes ginger and sometimes capsicum. Similarly lemonadeis often merely a sugary solution of tartaric or citric acid into. which carbonic acid gas is forced, the gas helping in no small measure to keep the composition of the beverage a mystery.. Though these may be wholesome enough in their way they are respectively very inferior to brewed ginger-beer orto a lemon squash in which the juice of a fresh lemon. is used. Brewed ginger-beer, however, is, strictly speaking, not non-alcoholic, though we doubt if it has ever been. recorded that a person got intoxicated on’it. In hot weather it is often forgotten that what we drink hot in the winter will afford excellent and wholesome beverages when iced in summer. Thus, iced weak tea and coffee, or even soups, aremost refreshing, wholesome, and palatable. Then plain oraerated barley or oatmeal water with a little lemon is an ex-
follows :
Europeans, 184 cases and 63 deaths ; other nationalities (Asiatics and African natives), 538 cases and 284 deaths. Total up to June 29th, 722 cases and 347 deaths. The returns at Port Elizabeth for the week ending June 29th are as follows. Fresh cases : Europeans, 3 ; coloured person, 1 ; total, 4. Deaths, 0. The total cases and deaths up to June 29th are as follows : Europeans, 5 cases and 1 death ; other nationalities (Asiatics and African natives), 13 cases and 8 deaths. The total cases of plague at all other places up to June 29th are as follows : Europeans, 4 ; coloured person, 1 ; natives, 4 ; total 9. On June 30th four cases of suspicious illness occurred in soldiers at Imvani station, midway between Cathcart and Queenstown in the Eastern Province, where an infected rat was found on June 25th, and a case of plague developed in an employe of the Railway Department on June 27th ; otherwise the area of infection remains unchanged. Only nine cases have been reported from the whole of Egypt during the week ending June 30th. Eight of these cases have been reported from Zagazig, among which three deaths have occurred ; one death out of hospital has occurred in Alexandria.
plague
THE THAMES IN
EFFERVESCENCE.
IT is sometimes said of a person of no particular promise or brilliancy that he will never set the Thames on fire," or again, a similar expression is used for describing a chimerical and impossible scheme. Thus You may as well attempt to set the Thames ablaze " is a frequent criticism and very often a perfectly just one. Portions of the Thames, however, been fired owing to the fact that oil in flames has apparently been seen floating upon its surface, leaking away perhaps from a large oil store-house on fire on its bank or an oil-ship But it is seldom that any part on its waters "well alight." of the great historic waterway is seen to present the appearance of water in a rapid state of ebullition. We have known it as a babbling, but scarcely ever as a bubbling, A bubbling turmoil of this kind, however, may stream. just now be witnessed going on a little to the south of Charing-cross railway bridge. The phenomenon is very singular and calls to mind the natural effervescing springs which are so abundant in Germany, and particularly in the Rhine valley ; indeed, the waters of the Rhine itself may at several points be seen to be bubbling violently with carbonic acid gas. It is not so with the Thames in the instance we are describing, for the effervescence is due to the air escaping from a caisson in which men are engaged excavating beneath the bed of the river for the purpose of constructing an electric railway tunnel. The bubbling indicates exactly where the work is proceeding. Sometimes it is near either bank, sometimes in mid-stream, and again in other places, altogether presenting a curious spectacle. It is enough to make the spectator shudder to think what would happen if at any moment the air pressure failed which keeps out the water, for if the pressure were relaxed the water would pour in. And so the sight of a copious stream of huge air-bubbles in the river on this occasion is a welcome one : it means that a superabundance of air exists and that they who labour beneath the bed of the stream may live.
cellent and very salutary beverage. Lime-juice moderately aerated may also be counted as a healthful hot-weather But it is well to bear in mind that even innocent drink. beverages like these can be easily partaken of to a harmful Too much iced-water drinking often proves inexcess. jurious. To sip rather than to drink should be the guidingprinciple when thirst is excessive and frequent, and at such times alcohol should be avoided, those beverages rather beingchosen which have a cooling effect upon the system. Sodaand-milk is an excellent beverage taken in moderatequantities. Let it be remembered that thirst is a perfectly healthy manifestation and a demand which calls for a.
have
healthy
answer.
STRUCTURAL
-
IMPROVEMENTS AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL.
THE opening of the new Pathological Institute and the distribution of prizes to the students and the nursing pro. bationers by Sir Henry E. Roscoe, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, took place on July 10th. The new Pathological Institute has been erected by the House Committee to replace the old post-mortem room and mortuary. The institute consists of two post-mortem rooms with a complete set of laboratories for pathological anatomy, chemistry, and bacteriology in the floor above. Two rooms have been set apart for those who intend to undertake some serious research in pathological anatomy. The Hon. Sidney Holland, speaking on behalf of the Committee of the London Hospital and of the staff, invited Sir Henry Roscoe to’ declare as open for all time the Pathological Institute, thebuilding of which was an attempt by the hospital authorities to recognise their responsibility to utilise all possible opportunities of helping future generations. Sir Henry Roscoe said that the pathological anatomist, unlike the chemist and physicist, must stand in the closest possible relation to hospital practice. His was the ultimate court of appeal for both physician and surgeon, and in order that his WHAT SHALL WE DRINK? subject might advance he must have access to complete clinical THE hot days are upon us, when the tendency to thirst is records based on the most advanced knowledge of practical considerably increased and the question may be profitably medicine. Moreover, from the nature of the material that and discussed as to how it is best quenched. occupied his attention the work of the pathological anatomist I A perfectly safe answer, we know, would be, not with an was intimately bound up with the work of the hospital. In alcoholic beverage, but that is only an evasive reply. The every well-organised laboratory the workers, from the highest reproach is constantly hurled at the extreme temperance to the lowest, formed a together by what might advocate that while he forbids wine and all other alco- properly be termed the laboratory spirit. The true "laboratory" holic beverages he has no substitute to suggest ’, atmosphere was not that of mastersand pupils, but rather
appropriately
I
family bound
96
The total cases and deaths up to June 29th
are are as
which can be regarded as possessing anything like the same degree of palatability. What temperance drink, for example, can equal a good cider, a well-brewed beer, not to mention a sound wine. The so-called temperancedrinks, if not simply effervescing water are at their best washy concoctions, with a flavour it is true, but one not Then it is the fashion to make up a stock often pleasing. and to liquor charge it artificially with carbonic acid gas, and so instead of the good old-fashioned stone ginger-beer we encounter a perfectly clear decoction containing sometimes ginger and sometimes capsicum. Similarly lemonadeis often merely a sugary solution of tartaric or citric acid into. which carbonic acid gas is forced, the gas helping in no small measure to keep the composition of the beverage a mystery.. Though these may be wholesome enough in their way they are respectively very inferior to brewed ginger-beer orto a lemon squash in which the juice of a fresh lemon. is used. Brewed ginger-beer, however, is, strictly speaking, not non-alcoholic, though we doubt if it has ever been. recorded that a person got intoxicated on’it. In hot weather it is often forgotten that what we drink hot in the winter will afford excellent and wholesome beverages when iced in summer. Thus, iced weak tea and coffee, or even soups, aremost refreshing, wholesome, and palatable. Then plain oraerated barley or oatmeal water with a little lemon is an ex-
follows :
Europeans, 184 cases and 63 deaths ; other nationalities (Asiatics and African natives), 538 cases and 284 deaths. Total up to June 29th, 722 cases and 347 deaths. The returns at Port Elizabeth for the week ending June 29th are as follows. Fresh cases : Europeans, 3 ; coloured person, 1 ; total, 4. Deaths, 0. The total cases and deaths up to June 29th are as follows : Europeans, 5 cases and 1 death ; other nationalities (Asiatics and African natives), 13 cases and 8 deaths. The total cases of plague at all other places up to June 29th are as follows : Europeans, 4 ; coloured person, 1 ; natives, 4 ; total 9. On June 30th four cases of suspicious illness occurred in soldiers at Imvani station, midway between Cathcart and Queenstown in the Eastern Province, where an infected rat was found on June 25th, and a case of plague developed in an employe of the Railway Department on June 27th ; otherwise the area of infection remains unchanged. Only nine cases have been reported from the whole of Egypt during the week ending June 30th. Eight of these cases have been reported from Zagazig, among which three deaths have occurred ; one death out of hospital has occurred in Alexandria.
plague
THE THAMES IN
EFFERVESCENCE.
IT is sometimes said of a person of no particular promise or brilliancy that he will never set the Thames on fire," or again, a similar expression is used for describing a chimerical and impossible scheme. Thus You may as well attempt to set the Thames ablaze " is a frequent criticism and very often a perfectly just one. Portions of the Thames, however, been fired owing to the fact that oil in flames has apparently been seen floating upon its surface, leaking away perhaps from a large oil store-house on fire on its bank or an oil-ship But it is seldom that any part on its waters "well alight." of the great historic waterway is seen to present the appearance of water in a rapid state of ebullition. We have known it as a babbling, but scarcely ever as a bubbling, A bubbling turmoil of this kind, however, may stream. just now be witnessed going on a little to the south of Charing-cross railway bridge. The phenomenon is very singular and calls to mind the natural effervescing springs which are so abundant in Germany, and particularly in the Rhine valley ; indeed, the waters of the Rhine itself may at several points be seen to be bubbling violently with carbonic acid gas. It is not so with the Thames in the instance we are describing, for the effervescence is due to the air escaping from a caisson in which men are engaged excavating beneath the bed of the river for the purpose of constructing an electric railway tunnel. The bubbling indicates exactly where the work is proceeding. Sometimes it is near either bank, sometimes in mid-stream, and again in other places, altogether presenting a curious spectacle. It is enough to make the spectator shudder to think what would happen if at any moment the air pressure failed which keeps out the water, for if the pressure were relaxed the water would pour in. And so the sight of a copious stream of huge air-bubbles in the river on this occasion is a welcome one : it means that a superabundance of air exists and that they who labour beneath the bed of the stream may live.
cellent and very salutary beverage. Lime-juice moderately aerated may also be counted as a healthful hot-weather But it is well to bear in mind that even innocent drink. beverages like these can be easily partaken of to a harmful Too much iced-water drinking often proves inexcess. jurious. To sip rather than to drink should be the guidingprinciple when thirst is excessive and frequent, and at such times alcohol should be avoided, those beverages rather beingchosen which have a cooling effect upon the system. Sodaand-milk is an excellent beverage taken in moderatequantities. Let it be remembered that thirst is a perfectly healthy manifestation and a demand which calls for a.
have
healthy
answer.
STRUCTURAL
-
IMPROVEMENTS AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL.
THE opening of the new Pathological Institute and the distribution of prizes to the students and the nursing pro. bationers by Sir Henry E. Roscoe, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, took place on July 10th. The new Pathological Institute has been erected by the House Committee to replace the old post-mortem room and mortuary. The institute consists of two post-mortem rooms with a complete set of laboratories for pathological anatomy, chemistry, and bacteriology in the floor above. Two rooms have been set apart for those who intend to undertake some serious research in pathological anatomy. The Hon. Sidney Holland, speaking on behalf of the Committee of the London Hospital and of the staff, invited Sir Henry Roscoe to’ declare as open for all time the Pathological Institute, thebuilding of which was an attempt by the hospital authorities to recognise their responsibility to utilise all possible opportunities of helping future generations. Sir Henry Roscoe said that the pathological anatomist, unlike the chemist and physicist, must stand in the closest possible relation to hospital practice. His was the ultimate court of appeal for both physician and surgeon, and in order that his WHAT SHALL WE DRINK? subject might advance he must have access to complete clinical THE hot days are upon us, when the tendency to thirst is records based on the most advanced knowledge of practical considerably increased and the question may be profitably medicine. Moreover, from the nature of the material that and discussed as to how it is best quenched. occupied his attention the work of the pathological anatomist I A perfectly safe answer, we know, would be, not with an was intimately bound up with the work of the hospital. In alcoholic beverage, but that is only an evasive reply. The every well-organised laboratory the workers, from the highest reproach is constantly hurled at the extreme temperance to the lowest, formed a together by what might advocate that while he forbids wine and all other alco- properly be termed the laboratory spirit. The true "laboratory" holic beverages he has no substitute to suggest ’, atmosphere was not that of mastersand pupils, but rather
appropriately
I
family bound