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Corps, and it is satisfactory to know that Northumberland, further resolved that if and when the University College is which was the first county in England to raise a yeomanry merged into the University of the title of the society detachment for service in South Africa, still maintains her shall be changed to "Bristol University Colston Society." interest in the voluntary national defences. Hospital Sunday Fund in Bristol. University of Durham Act. At a meeting of the council of the Bristol Hospital The University of Durham Act sub-committee of the Sunday Fund, held on Feb. 22nd, it was reported that up to Durham County Education Authority has considered the the present £1514 had been received. It was decided at once question of seeking representation on the new senate of to grant E522 to the Royal Infirmary ; E433 to the General Durham University and has resolved that a committee Hospital ; E162 to the Children’s Hospital ; and E78 to the should represent the education authority before the Com- Eye Hospital..E45 were granted to three of the smaller missioners appointed under the Act, in order to urge the medical charities. desirability of granting the authority representation on the Dr. Thomas Dover. senate and the council of the Durham colleges. The grounds The Bristol Times and Mirror of Feb. 27th contains some upon which this representation is to be urged are not stated interesting notes in reference to Dr. Thomas Dover who nor do reasons appear why such representation is desirable. "invented" " the well-known Dover’s powder (pulv. ipecac.). The Durham County Education Authority appears to have no In Bristol Dr. Dover is chiefly associated with the locus standi whatever in the University. If it contributed I Duke (of Duke and D2zchoss fame), which sailed from that a sum of money yearly towards the expenses of education in port in 1708. commanded the expedition the University the education authority might think it desir- and he made Thomas Dover captain of the Duke, with in own interest that it should able its have representa- excellent results to the venture. Dover acted as captain of on the of the as tion governing body University, but it the Marines, he sacked Guayaquil, and it was his ship that contributes nothing to the University chest even this possibly rescued . When sickness (a "plague") conceivable claim vanishes. broke out among the sailors he is said to have cured nearly Glasgo7v University Club. 200 of them. Dr. Dover’s name is mentioned repeatedly in The annual dinner of the North of England Glasgow Woodes Rogers’s diary and he often acted as president of councils of war. University Club was held on Feb. 18th. The guests Union. of the evening were Sir Hector C. Cameron, pro- University College fessor of clinical surgery in Glasgow University, and Sir The Medical Dramatic Society gave its annual perform- Thomas Oliver. The dinner was preceded by an address ance at the All Saints’ Hall, Clifton, from Feb. 15th to 20th,’ given by Sir Hector Cameron in the Medical Theatre of the the play performed being Grossmith’s Jedbury Jqtnior, which College of Medicine, at which a large number of medical proved very popular. The actual total of the receipts is not men and students were present. Sir Hector Cameron chose yet known but it is certain that it will be a substantial sum. for his subject " Some Clinical Facts regarding Mammary It is to be devoted to reduction of the debt still remaining Cancer " and in the course of a most interesting paper from the purchase and finishing of the union’s new athletic reviewed the results of his very large experience of malignant ground. disease, especially from the point of view of prognosis. The Bristol General Hospital. conclusion at which he had arrived was that it was im- At a special meeting on Feb. 23rd the committee of the possible in malignant disease to give a prognosis with any hospital elected Miss A. E. Densham to fill the post of certainty of being right whatever the condition at the time, matron about to be vacated by Miss A. J. Angus. Miss the patient was first seen. Densham was trained at Leeds, where she acted as night Northumberland and Durham Medical Society. superintendent and as assistant matron to the General for the four years she has held the of Sir Lauder Brunton has to an address on Infirmary ; past post promised give matron to the General The Treatment of Heart Disease" before the members of; Northampton Infirmary. March . 2nd. this society on Thursday, March 18th. The annual dinner will be held the same evening, when Sir Lauder Brunton will be the guest of the society. WALES AND WESTERN COUNTIES NOTES. March 2nd. ______(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) BRISTOL. School Inspection in the County of Carmarthen. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) AT the beginning of last year the Carmarthenshire Educa- tion Committee appointed several private practitioners in the University of Bristol. county to conduct the medical inspections of school children until the end of 1908 for a fee of ls. child examined. Mr. E. Wills’s recent donation of f.l0,000 has per Chaning were instructed to examine those children admitted the fund to taken They brought University up .6200,000, which, since Jan. and those to leave school with in the form of valued at lst, 1908, likely together property buildings before the end of December, 1908. The last Code issued by f.55,000, overpasses the of f.250,000 fixed the figure by Privy the Board of Education an examination to be made Council as the minimum at which the requires capital University of children who will leave before the end of next the start. There have been 19 donors of £1000 or July ; might education committee asked the medical in- of seven are members of the Wills consequently upwards ; these, family, had been to continue their whose benefactions added amount to spectors who appointed inspections together f.161,OOO. until that date. A fee of 1s. had been found to be At a meeting held on Feb. 27th the governors of University already quite and in an interview which the medical College confirmed the resolution them at a pre- inadequate, gentlemen adopted by a of it vious meeting approving the Bill for dissolving the College had with subcommittee the education committee was that in future it should be 2s. 6d. and transferring its property and liabilities to the University mutually arranged of Bristol. The Mr. Lewis of the loss per child, with an allowance of ls. per mile for travelling mover, Fry, spoke i sustained by the in the deaths of Sir Frederick Wills beyond the first five miles. When this proposal, which College does err on and Mr. E. Thomas, and said that the Bill in not the side of extravagance, for the medical Harry approved officer has to not the their resolution had passed its first in the House of transport only himself to schools but reading also a machine Lords The of Bristol, who seconded the weighing and other apparatus, came before unopposed. Bishop the full committee several members of the resolution, anticipated some delay but no serious opposition spoke indignantly rate of 2s. 6d. child, and it was resolved to its passage through the House. high per eventually to offer a fee of ls. 6d. per child. The practitioners of the University College Colston Society. district will be well advised if they refuse to accept these The collections made in connexion with the University lowered terms and insist upon those which were agreed to College Colston Society since its establishment in 1900 have by responsible members of the commiteee. A proposal of realised a total of £5258. At the tenth of the series of the subcommittee to pay E25 to one of the medical inspectors dinners, held in January last, a sum of £521 was received, for preparing the annual report required by the Board of so that the committee has been enabled to vote Z550 Education was negatived by the committee, and it was towards the sustentation fund of University College. It decided to offer the absurdly low sum of .610, which would 725 hardly repay anyone for the labour involved in compiling a hhave hesitated to convict, and they would suggest that if report of any value. fthe defendants wished to avoid further prosecution they Refuse Destructor. should publish on the wrapper the fact that chemicals were Newport used. The question of providing a refuse destructor for Newport Longevity in NortA Devon. has been the town council the frequently discussed by during Mr. M. R. the medical officer of health for the few and at the end of last definite Gooding, past years year steps wereBidefordI urban district, in his annual for states taken for making such At the last of report 1908, provision. meeting the thatt during the year 200 births were registered, which was a council, however, it was again decided to postpone taking rater of 21’ 33 per 1000. 129 deaths occurred, giving a death- any action in the matter. The reason for this apparent rater of 13 76, or, non-residents, 11’ 84. 47 of the of front was the additional cost involved in excluding change burningòdeaths were in over 70 years of age, which Mr. the town’s refuse instead of as is now people tipping it, done, inGooding( considers remarkable and testifying to the different of the and in some cases near longevity parts borough quite of residents in North Devon. 20 deaths were in children to the houses of the artisan inhabitants. It is to only just under one a rate of 100 1000 births. The that nine of the councillors out of 26 year, per zymotic say protested vigorouslydeath-rateë was 0 - 53. Ten deaths were due to tuberculosis. against the existing insanitary practice. One of them very IMr. Gooding refers to the wholesomeness of the water, but said that the of a increase in the properly argument slight statess that its insufficiency was becoming marked. rates was contemptible when the health of the people was at stake. The Nemport and Monmouthshire Hospital. Kington Cottage Hospital. The annual meeting of the subscribers of the Newport and was on 26th under the The Kington (Herefordshire) Cottage Hospital was estab- IMonmouthshire Hospital held Feb. lished in 1888 and has accommodation for five patients. presidencyI of Lord Tredegar. The medical report was satis- During last year the late Mr. Thomas Webb, who was afactoryf and the financial statement showed that the income native of the town, bequeathed to the inhabitants the sum of ofc the hospital had increased but that a deficit of .E236 £1000 to be used by them for some charitable purpose. They remainedr at the close of the year; this was due to the decided that it could be most usefully expended in improvingexpensesE incurred on building a room for the provision of the hospital accommodation, with the result that a new electricalE apparatus and x rays. theatre will be with a March 2nd. operating provided, together single- ______bed ward and increased out-patient accommodation. Mr. Webb was engaged in business in Cardiff and was a very generous supporter of the Cardiff Infirmary, for which he SCOTLAND. defrayed the cost of a modern operating theatre and a new (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS. ) casualty department, besides presenting large sums for other purposes. Registration of Nurses in Scotland. The Health of Exeter in 1908. A MEETING of those interested in the of nurses The medical officers of health of in their annual registration Exeter, iin Scotland was held last week in the Merchants’ Hall, for 1908, which has been issued, state that on an report just Glasgow. Lord presided and there was a estimated of 48,578 the birth-rate the Inverclyde population during yearcrowdedi attendance of representatives from almost all parts was 23’2, the for the seven 22 - 31. average past years being ofi Scotland. After a few remarks by the chairman dealing The death-rate was 15- 57 with the of 15’ compared average 69 ,with the question of promoting a Bill for the registration for the seven 1908 the death-rate preceding years. During ofofi nurses to Scotland, the results of a infants in their first amounted to 126 the specially applicable year per 1000, plebiscite taken amongst nurses was put before the meeting average for the previous seven years having been 143 per by Dr. D. J. Mackintosh of the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. 1000. This decrease is stated to be largely due to the goodThis showed that there had signed in favour of the work the health visitor. There were 33 performed by deathsestablishment of a council for Scotland from in the 64 from separate registration whooping-cough city during 1908, 114 matrons and superintendents of nurses, 57 assistant 55 from bronchitis, 64 from pulmonary phthisis, pneumonia, matrons, 218 sisters, 163 nurses, 736 nurses at 66 from and 37 from violence and charge malignant diseases, on in 440 accident. present duty general hospitals, private nurses, 162 Queen’s nurses, 377 mental nurses in hospitals, 416 The South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, Plymouth. fever nurses in hospitals, and 35 private nurses trained The annual meeting of the subscribers of the South Devonin special and cottage hospitals, making a total of 2718. When it was to the that it is the wish of and East Cornwall Hospital was held on Feb. 26th. The put meeting ’’ medical report stated that during 1908 the in-patientsScottish nurses that Parliament be solicited to pass an Act a council for the of nurses numbered 1317 and that 2921 out-patients were treated. The establishing separate registration in the motion was carried a daily number of occupied beds was 126. The financial Scotland," by large majority, ’ seven for the amendment that there should not be statement showed that with an ordinary income of .67726 only voting a separate Nurses’ Registration Bill for Scotland. there was a balance against the institution of I?3496. , The committee proposes to call a special general meeting of Poisoning from Sewage Gas in Glasgow. the governors of the hospital and to ask them to authorise the The dangers arising from the escape of sewage gas into trustees to sell stock sufficient to meet this deficit. The inhabited houses have been amply illustrated in Glasgow committee in its report states that it is " glad to record that during the past month. The first occurrence was about a Mr. on his had the Connell Whipple, retirement, accepted fortnight ago, when some 40 persons are said to have to the and a seat appointment of consulting surgeon hospital suffered more or less severely, and in two warehouses in on the as an thus committee honorary member, enabling the affected area business had to be suspended for a day. the the benefit of his sound committee to retain judgment That the outbreak was not attended with any fatal result and advice." is probably due to the fact that a man residing in Boric Acid as a Preservative. the tenement mainly affected was awakened by one of At Exeter on Feb. 22nd a local grocer was summoned for his children who had been seized with sudden and un- selling sausages containing boric acid to the extent of accountable sickness. In attending to this child he dis- 35 grains to the pound. The medical witnesses for the covered that his two other children were also ill. On the prosecution stated that the amount of boric acid contained in arrival of the casualty surgeon from the police office the the sausages would be injurious to health, but the medical various families in the tenement were warned of their men who were called for the defence contended that there danger, when it was found that some who had fainted had was no reason to believe that 35 grains of boric acid con- to be carried into the fresh air, while others who were too tained in a pound of sausages would be injurious to health. weak to walk unaided had to be assisted. While the analyst The magistrates eventually dismissed the case, the chairman at a later period of the day was engaged in procuring stating that they found, although the facts were not in dis- samples of water and air from the sewer he was overcome pute, that the allegation that the article sold was injurious by the fumes and had to be removed to the Royal Infirmary to health was, owing to conflicting evidence, open to doubt. where he recovered under treatment. A week later in the He added . that had the prosecution been taken under same district there was a series of cases somewhat of Section 6 of the Adulteration Act the bench would not the same nature but not so widely distributed. The matter