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Principal Heath, in responding, observed that they owed a time must elapse before the bread-winner, struck down so great debt of gratitude to the universities, but the problem sadly while employed in charity, is in a condition, if ever. they had to face in a busy city like was different to earn his living again, and during that time help is and toto G1E10 from that of the ancient universities. They were in will be urgently needed. We desire to supplement Mr. Henry the middle of great industrial enterprise, and the training they Morris’s generous appeal. to had to bear to that The I had give relationship industry. Sltts, -I hear that the merit of this case is known to quality of bread winning demanded a great deal more serious but I desire to make it known also to the attention from them than it did from the of Oxford yourselves, University profession through your columns. or Cambridge. At the same time, they had had pointed out 11 Charles Townshend. L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Irel., to them how technical education was not inconsistent with Bryan aged forty-two, was until recently in practice in King’s-road, a liberal education, and how a ideal and a lofty high plane Chelsea. The work was hard, the poor, and bad of were and also patients intelligence necessary attainable, although debts him from His health a their had to bear close to the prevented saving. requiring training relationship practical change from Chelsea he sold his as a is5ues of life. had cause for in practice going They great gratitude having concern of ;f:500 a year and with the of the considerable sums the from proceeds received during year generous sale started in in Richmond-road, In friends. In that the had been a favourable con- practice Kingston. respect year in a woman - a that had it. April, 1891, attending poor gratuitous trastto many years preceded TheyhadreceivEd patient-in her confinement he became inoculated with this no less a sum than The late Alderman year n7,OOO on the of the hand. He did rot left them will and that syphilis forefinger right Avery by f,2000, just recently realise the nature of the sore, and had no treatment bad been a of 2000 from the general supplemented by gift until he came under in 1891. He then executors of his estate. An endowment of 5000 for the my charge June, underwent a treatment. after the had also been prolonged specific Shortly maintenance of physical laboratory anony- Christmas last he became affected with disease. For contributed the To endow the rew spinal mously during year. this I recommended him to consult Dr. which he of education for teachers Mr. Buzzard, department elementary George did. Mr. Townshend is now seriously ill with para- Kenrick had to the council securities an complete conveyed producing He is a married man, with six cbildren between income of a and had been a plegia. 200 year. that supplemented by the of ten and He had formed further gift from Mr. George Dixon, M.P., of 1000 for the ages eighteen years. a nucleus of practice at Kingston, but by his present same purpose. Lastly, Mr. John Corbett of Droitwich had illness, which quite him, he and his founded with a sum of to bear incapacitates scholarships capital 1000, are of any means of subsistence. his name. That was and it was to be family entirely deprived very encouraging, Neither Mr. Townshend nor his wife, who has also been in that a tide had set in in their favour that would lead hoped very bad health, have any of assistance from their them on to fortune. prospect own immediate and for this reason I have decided Professor Windle also He said that in relatives, replied. Birmingham to appeal for him in his sad condition to his professional they had nothing to complain of with respect to the clinical brethren. will be received and acknow- for the In addition to Subscriptions duly field provided students. the General ledged by his brother, the Rev. Horace Townshend, M.A. Dub. and Qaeen’s Hospitals, at which the ordinary course of and Camb., Chaplain of Islington Wokhouse, 41, King instruction was followed, students were able to attend the Henry’s-road, South and I am authorised Fever and Lunatic which were Hampstead, by Hospital Asylum, corporation Dr. Buzzard to that be will start this list with a donation institutions, and also the kindness of their staffs the say by Eye, of five and I shall be happy to give a similar sum and Ear and Throat at which were guineas, Orthopedic, Hospitals, they myself. "I aam, Sirs, yours faithfully, able to follow some of the more branches of important special "Cavendish-square." "HENRY" HENRY MORRIS. the profession. Nor had Birmingham anything to complain of in the medical school. It provided at present more than 50 per cent. of the honorary and paid staffs of the hospitals, a fact which was an eloquent vote of confidence in the VITAL STATISTICS. school on the part of the managers of those institutions. The presence of medical students, moreover, at the hospitals had a very important bearing on the prosperity, of those HEALTH OF ENGLISH TOWNS. institutions. He thought it was hardly recognised what a IN thirty-three of the largest English towns 6866 birtha difference it would make to the if there were no managers and 6014 deaths were registered during the week ending medical students in the city, and if the work which they Feb. 23rd. The annual rate of mortality in these towns, gratuitously performed in the hospitals had to be carried out which had increased in the four preceding weeks from 18’7 by paid officers. to 26-7 per 1000, further rose last week to 29’6. In Professor to which the Lapworth proposed "The City," London the rate was as high as 34’0 per 1000, while it Mayor responded. 26 5 in the towns. The lowest Professor the toast of "The Visitors." averaged thirty-two provincial Barling gave rates in these towns were 17-4 in Gateshead, 19-8 in Derby, Sir Walter Foster, M.P,, in response, spoke of the educa- 19’9 in Leicester, 20 3 in Oldham and 205 in Hull ; the tional facilities of which bad been Birmingham, largely highest rates were 31’5 in Cardiff 34’0 in London, 35 2 in brought about by the munificence of its citizens. He trusted Nottingham, 38 0 in and 46 in The that the set would be followed for there Plymouth, Liverpool. example by others, 6014 deaths included 317 which were referred to the was nothing a man could do better than distribute his wealth principal zymotic diseases, against 312 and 315 in the two while he lived. He was glad to know that in Birmingham preceding weeks ; of these, 94 resulted from whooping-cough, one of its foremost citizens had founded an institution by 70 from measles, 55 from diphtheria, 43 from diarrhoea, 33 which a child could climb to the highest position of culture from scarlet fever, 20 from "’fever " (principally enteric), and and learning, and having that heritage the need for leaving 2 from small-pox. The lowest death-rates from these diseases him of wealth wave taken to the piles away. Referring were recorded in Leicester, Sunderland, Bristol, Swansea, medical school, from his position on the General Medical and Birkenhead ; and the highest rates in Norwich, Sheffield, Council he was able to say that the high standard of passes Burnley, , and . The greatest mortality fer which the Birmingham Medical School had always been from measles occurred in Bolton, Sheffield, and Gatesbead ; distinguished was maintained, and more than maintained. from scarlet fever in Wolverhampton, Salford, and Rudders- Although no longer directly connected with the school he and from in Norwich, was still interested in its field ; whooping-cough Manchester, deeply prosperity. and The from "fever" showed no Mr. Oliver Pemberton, in Chairman," Burnley. mortality submitting "The marked excess in any of the towns. The 55 deaths sud in him had one of the most brilliant large they examples of from included 29 in 4 in 3 in the union of science with the of medicine. diphtheria London, Leeds, practice West Ham, and 3 in Sheffield. One fatal case of Toe Chairman and the ter- small-pox briefly replied, proceedings was in London and 1 in but not one in dicated. registered Derby, any other of the thirty-three large towns. There were 75 cases of small-pox under treatment in the Metropolitan AN APPEAL. Asylum Hospitals and in the Higbgate Small-pox Hospital on Saturday last, Feb. 23rd, against 51, 56, and 67 at the end of the three 19 new cases were WE have received the letter from Mr. preceding weeks ; following Henry admitted during the week, against 18 in each of the two Morris. It has reference to a sad case which we also desire preceding weeks. The number of scarlet fever patients in the to ’tU’ge upon our readers as an exceedingly deserving one. Metropolitan Asylum Hospitals and in the London Fever Hos- We have been able to be of some temporary service, but some pital at the end of the week was 1658, against 1653, 1667, and