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And Especially to the Secretary-General, Sir Wilmot Mittee Wishes to Draw Special Attention to the Remarkable Herringham 116 of orthopasdics and dermatology, from whom no contribu- President : Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart., K.C.V.O. Secretaries : tions have been received) towards meeting the expected Dr. Olive Riviere, 19, Queen Anne-street, W., and Mr. H. J. deficiency resulted in the collection of £646 Os. 6d. In Paterson, 9, Upper Wimpole-street, W. consequence, however, of editorial curtailment of some of the papers and discussions, and the unexpected receipt of a The following resolutions were passed by the sum of £347 Os. 7d. by sales of the Transactions (up to date), meeting arising out of the report:- the publishers’ provisional estimate proved to have been 1. That it be left to the officers of the Congress to decide excessive, with the result that the honorary treasurers found how the eventual balance from the general funds should be themselves with a balance of £337 19s. 8d. at the bank, as well disposed of. as with a credit balance with the publishers of .659 2s. 4d. 2. That the Royal Society of Medicine be asked to deposit Since the sum realised by the special appeal was subscribed the minute books and other records of the Congress in their for the exclusive object of completing the Transactions, the library. finance committee decided that the balance of the money should be returned to the respective donors in proportion to The meeting terminated with a brief speech from the amount subscribed, and this decision has been already the President, Sir THOMAS BARLOw, expressing the carried into effect. It may be noted that in spite of con- gratitude of all concerned in the working of the siderable curtailment the volumes of Transactions extend to Congress to the secretaries of the various sections, the formidable total of 12,498 pages. The finance com- and especially to the secretary-general, Sir Wilmot mittee wishes to draw special attention to the remarkable Herringham. ______________ promptitude and success with which this great undertaking has been carried out by the editorial secretaries of sections and the editorial committee, and also to the excellence with PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION IN which the volumes, printed in three languages, have been produced, in a space of little more than six months, by the EGYPT DURING 1913. Oxford Press. Now that all expenditure has been met, a sum of Earl Kitchener, in his on the Adminis- L49 ls. 2d. lies in the hands of the treasurers, which may Report Finances, still be slightly augmented by the sale of further copies of tration, and Condition of Egypt and the Sudan in 1913, the Transactions, and it remains for the general committee publishes an annual summary of progress, in continuation to decide what shall be done with the eventual balance. of the intellectual and literary reports with which Lord Mr. D’ARCY POWER moved, and the GENERAL SECRETARY Cromer used to charm us. In of the low Nile of followed seconded, and it was resolved that the following gentlemen spite abnormally 1913, by a water was the worst on for more be nominated as members of the National Committee of shortage of which record than a the was far more Great Britain and Ireland for the purposes of the Inter- century, year’s progress satisfactory than have been the national Congresses of Medicine, with power to add to their might anticipated. Famine, necessary number : Dr. Theodore Dyke Acland, Sir Clifford Allbutt, accompaniment in the past of a very low Nile flood, was K.C.B., Professor F. W. Andrewes, Sir Charles Ball, Bart., averted by the thickening and heightening of the Assuan Mr. C. A, Ballance, M V.O., Professor H. G. Barling, Sir dam, which fortunately had just been completed. Sanitary James Barr, Dr. E. F. Bashford, Sir A. A. Bowlby, C.M G., improvements depend upon the state of the Treasury, and Mr. Stanley Boyd, Sir J. Rose Bradford, K.C.M.G., funds in rainless Egypt are dependent upon agriculture, Dr. Mitchell Bruce, Sir Lauder Brunton, Bart., Dr. which in its turn requires every year a wealth of Nile water. Sir John Sir Francis H. Dudley Buxton, Byers, Champneys, The Public Health Bart., Sir Havelock Charles, G.C.V.O., Mr. Arthur Cheatle, Department. Sir W. Watson Cheyne, Bart., C.B., Sir T. S. Clouston, Space compels us to restrict ourselves to the Public Mr. Treacher Collins, Sir James Crichton-Browne, Sir Health Department, which now, for the first time in its Anderson Critchett, Bart., C.V.O., Sir Halliday Croom, Sir history, has a strictly scientific Director-General in Sir David Bertrand Dawson, K.C.V.0., Dr. J. Gordon Dill, Professor Semple. In order to give him a freer hand for dealing with A. F. Dixon, Sir Dyce Duckworth, Bart., Sir Frederick Eve, the endemic diseases of the country two sections have been Mr. Hurry Fenwick, Sir David Ferrier, Dr. Magee Finny, pruned away ; the two lunatic asylums have been made into Sir J. Kingston Fowler, K. C. V. O., Professor Sir Thomas a separate department under Dr. J. Warnock, and the Fraser, Dr. Galloway, Dr. Garrod, Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, veterinary section and school have been transferred to the K.C.V.O., Dr. Dundas Grant, the Director-General of the Ministry of Agriculture. Historyin Egypt invariably repeats Medical Department of the Navy, the Director-General of itself, and a new Board of Health, with consultative and the Army Medical Service, the Medical Adviser to the India advisory powers only, has been created to assist the Director- Office, Dr. de Havilland Hall, Dr. C. 0. Hawthorne, General. We may hope that it will prove more useful than Sir Wilmot Herringham, Sir F. W. Hewitt, M.V.O., its predecessor, which came into existence in 1825 and was Mr. W. H. H. Jessop, Dr. Robert Armstrong-Jones, abolished in 1884, chiefly because it was incompetent to deal Mr. Robert Jones, Sir Alfred Keogh, KO.B., Dr. Percy Kidd, with the cholera epidemic which devastated Egypt soon after Mr. Ernest Lane, Sir Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., Mr. J. B. our occupation of the country. Lawford, Colonel Sir William B. Leishman, Professor J. A. For many years the energy of the Public Health Depart- Lindsay, Professor Alexander Macalister, Sir Donald ment has been principally occupied in fighting three epi- MacAlister, K.C.B., Sir Wm. Macewen, Sir John McFadyean, demic diseases-plague, cholera, and rinderpest; but Lord Mr. G. H. Makins, C.B , Professor Howard Marsh, Dr. Kitchener has now decreed that the ehief endemic diseases, Mercier, Sir J. W. Moore, Sir Henry Morris, Bart., Sir such as ankylostomiasis, bilharziasis, pellagra, and typhus Malcolm Morris, K.C.V.O., Dr. F. W. Mott, Sir Berkeley fever, must be seriously studied and taken in hand. He G. A. Moynihan, Sir Shirley Murphy, Professor G. R. rightly points out that the equipment of hospitals for treating Murray, Sir T. Myles, Dr. Newsholme, C.B., Sir the sick does not strike at the root of the evil, and that pre- Thomas Oliver, Sir William Osler, Bart., Sir George ventive measures must begin with village sanitation. He Hare Philipson, Mr. D’Arcy Power, Sir James Reid, has already persuaded the villagers to fill up many of their Bart., G. C. V. O. , K.C.B., Professor Arthur Robinson, ponds, which are fruitful sources of bilharzial and other Dr. Rolleston, Sir Ronald Ross, K.C.B., Dr. Amand Routh, infection. The land thus reclaimed is useful for providing Dr. F. M. Sandwith, Professor R. Saundby, Sir Edward open spaces for the inhabitants of the villages, which Schafer, Mrs. Scharlieb, Sir Felix Semon, K.C.V.0., Sir consist of overcrowded mud huts, unventilated, and for the Seymour Sharkey, Professor S. G. Shattock, Professor most part unprovided with latrines. With the help of prison Sherrington, Professor T. Sinclair, Dr. Percy Smith, Dr. labour 109 ponds, with an area of 98 acres, were filled in Herbert Spencer, Dr. Squire Sprigge, Professor Starling, during the year. The lines upon which he thinks sanitary Dr. G. F. Still, Dr. G. A. Sutherland, Mr. Charters Symonds, progress in the villages should proceed are (1) education of Dr. Fred. Taylor, Professor Alexis Thomson, Professor Arthur the people in the causes and prevention of their common Thomson, Sir StClair Thomson, Professor Thorburn, Sir diseases ; (2) formation of partly trained inspectors of the John Tweedy, Mr. E. F. White, Dr. Hale White, Professor sergeant class to work under the district doctors ; (3) im- Sinclair White, Sir Arthur Whitelegge, K. C. B., Sir William provement of houses and water-supply, with the gradual Whitla, Dr. Dawson Williams, and Sir Almroth Wright. introduction of simple latrines. 117 Travelling Hospitals : Campaign against Ankylostomiasis. that the vigorous personality of the present Agent and Consul-General is them to bear fruit. The The success of the travelling ophthalmic hospitals and causing practical dispensaries, which take the operator and treatment into area of the country infected by plague remains as before, but the total number of cases fell the from 884 the heart of the country, has been so great that the Public during year Health Department determined to imitate this system, and to 654. The School of Medieine.-Edueation Girls. accordingly last September a temporary ankylostoma hos- of pital was opened outside the town of Kaliub, about one The School of Medicine continues to flourish, with a total hour’s distance by train from Cairo. The ankylo,,,tomiasis of 258 students, but it is still difficult to find young campaign will also include investigation into bilharziasis Egyptians who are willing to devote their lives to the purely and pellagra, because the unfortunate peasant is often the scientific and less remunerative branches of the medical victim of all three scourges, and in order to ensure that it profession.
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