341 inspired by the excitement of battle, and he reminded business. In the absence of the Right Hon. the Lord Myor, the young officers that in times of peace, when the com- the chair was taken by Sir SYDNEY WATERLOW, Vice-presi- batants were largely engaged in the somewhat tedious duties dent of the Fund. of drill, they themselves would be ever occupied in observing The report stated that the Committee of Distribution the variations of disease and in making inquiries whereby recommend awards this year to 186 institutions, being an they would often have opportunities of advancing medical increase of 81 since the first awards were made in 1873 and science. As an example of the quiet bravery shown by a 2 less than last year. The total amount available for dis- medical officer Lord Lister recalled the work done by tribution, after allowing for liabilities and the usual current. Sir Joseph Fayrer at Lucknow when exposed constantly to expenses, is .635,000. Of this tot.l .f.34,304 is now recom- the greatest peril. Continuing his short address his lord- mended to be paid to 132 hospitals and 54 dispensaries - ship adjured the young officers to keep in view the nobility This year 195 institutions have made applications for grants of their calling. He congratulated them upon the knowledge from the fund. Of this number it was found necessary they had acquired in the great school they were leaving, to invite the attendance of deputations from the governing upon the bright prospects before them, and above all upon bodies of 17. In 6 of these cases, including two applications being about to enter on the active practice of a profession which were withdrawn, the committee were not able to make the due performance of which brought its own never-failing any recommendation. Deputations from twelve hospitals great reward. and from one dispensary conferred with the committee and The DIRECTOR-GENERAL, in asking the company to accord in nearly every case the committee received explanations Lord Lister a very hearty welcome to Netley, said that his modifying the causes of adverse criticism and enabling them visit was especially interesting to them because of his lord- to raise the bases of awards as now recommended. Arrange-- ship’s great services to the world in general and to the army ments for restricting the advantages of the out-patient system in connexion with aseptic surgery. He mentioned that to the poor have been made at nearly all the large and at during the late frontier war in India no death had been some of the smaller hospitals. The practice of making due to a wound becoming septic and that all the nine a small charge to out-patients is rather on the increase, cases of compound fracture of the thigh did well and The amount available for distribution is less than that dis-- that we owed these results to Lord Lister’s great dis- tributed last year, but the committee feel that following on coveries and work. He said that among both officers a Jubilee year in which strong appeals were made in other and men a feeling still lingered that the oftener their directions, the collections this year on Hospital Sunday wounds were dressed the better it would be for them, maintain a fair average, and that the confidence of the and that there were those who gauged the attention shown public in the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund is well to them by the frequency of wound dressing, while the fact sustained. was that if wounds were treated on the principles which Previously to the consideration of the report the CHAIRMAN Lord Lister had introduced the less a wound were touched announced that Mr. Ludwig Mond had for the eleventh time after the first dressing the better-that, in fact, wounds given his annual subscription of .6100. should not be redressed for eight or ten days. He hoped that In moving the adoption of the annual report for the tBB enty Lord Lister’s visit would do something to spread these truths sixth time Sir SYDNEY H. WATERLOW said that he coul’!’- among the officers and soldiers of the army and remove pre- congratulate the fund on the amount collected this year, from the mind a of the sum was smaller than in to judice concerning system treatmentI though previous years. Up which the whole medical profession regarded as scientific. date .638,741 12s. 6d. had been received and when the ’’ He asked the audience to extend to Lord Lister a very difficulties under which collections were made in 1898 as hearty welcome on his visit to Netley. ’ compared with former years were remembered there was Sir JOSEPH FAYRER added a few words of congratulation very much reason, he thought, to be thankful to ministers of to the successful officers and said that although his official all denominations who had succeeded in collecting so large- connexion with the school had long ceased it was a source a sum. Many of their large contributors had either trans- of pleasure to him to watch its progress and to see the ferred their subscriptions to the Prince of Wales’s Fund or results which the Netley teaching had achieved both in had divided their contributions. Referring to hospital abuse India and in other parts of the world. He hoped that the he said he believed that it did not exist to any large extent knowledge which they had gained would suggest further and the hospitals were doing what they could to check it by investigations, for there was still a great deal lying open to appointing officers to inquire into the merits of patients. discovery, and he urged and advised them to do their best Sir Sydney Waterlow concluding by moving :- so that become benefactors to their they might thereby great That the report of the Committee of Distribution for the year 1898 be profession and to the army. In conclusion he congratulated and is hereby approved, and that the several awards recommended B1ó> them upon the new titles which Lord Lansdowne had con- paid as soon as possible. ferred upon them, remarking that in the army only one set of Dr. J. G. GLOVER, who seconded the adoption of the report, titles carried and enabled men to out their any weight carry said he could not suppress his disappointment at the fact duties these titles had now been to them properly ; granted that there were .65000 less to distribute than last year. and would, he felt sure, be used by them to carry out their The Hon. SYDNEY HOLLAND, supporting the motion. duties as the medical officers of the responsible army pleaded for more support from the public. Hospital No medical officer wanted to command effectively. regi- managers who devoted their time to the management of ments, but as they had other duties to perform it was to be relieved of the work of that should have and hospitals ought disagreeable necessary they military authority begging, and he asked the press to make it known that unless ’ control. the more than Medical Officer of public supported hospitals energetically they Surgeon - General NASH, Principal did at present very evil times were in front of us. said he had now to close the session of the Netley, The motion before the meeting was then parsed unani-- school. He hoped that those leaving Netley would feel that mously. their stay there had been profitable and that they would Lord STAMFORD proposed :- look back upon the time spent in the school as a pleasant That the cordial thanks of the Council be and are to one. He wished them success in the services to which hereby given they Sir Sydney H. Waterlow, Bart. (chairman), and to the other members. belonged and in which they that day became officers. of the Committee of Distribution for the discretion which they havc- Lord Lister and the company were subsequently entertained exercised in interviewing numerous deputations and ior the care at luncheon by the officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps. bestowed in the preparation of the awards they have recommended. Canon FLEMING seconded the motion, which was adopted. Sir EDMUND HAY CURRIE proposed :— That the thanks of the council be and are hereby given to the editors THE METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL SUNDAY of newspapers who have pleaded lthe needs of hospitals and advocated the cause of this fund. FUND. In seconding this Sir HENRY BURDETT suggested that greater prominence should be given to the fund by supplying editor"! A MEETING of the Council of the Metropolitan Hospital of newspapers with literature relating to the fund from time to time and before Fund was held on 3rd, at the especially just Hospital Sunday. Sunday Wednesday, Aug. Sir SYDNEY WATERLOW said the matter of increased Mansion to receive the of the Committee House, report advertising wrs under consideration. of Distribution and to order payment of awards to hospitals The resolution was carried. a vote of thanks tc and dispensaries’as well as for the transaction of general Sir SYDNEY WATERLOW. in proposing 342
the Lord Mayor, which was unanimously adopted, referred labours on behalf of the College in connexion with the to the advantage the fund received from having its home at University question. the Mansion House. On the motion of Dr. DICKINSON, seconded by Dr. Dr. GLOVER asked to be allowed to propose a motion to CHURCH, it was unanimously resolved :- the effect that the Distribution Committee be requested to The Royal College of Physicians having learnt that certain change investigate and consider the cause of the diminution in the are likely to be made in the laws relating to vaccination think it their amount collected this year, and to report to the Council at duty to reiterate their conviction that vaccination, properly performed and duly repeated, is the only known preventive of small-pox, and this the next meeting. opinion they consider to he fully confirmed by the report of the present Mr. THOMAS CHRISTY seconded. Commission. Sir H. BURDETT said he was in a to state that with position It was further resolved that copies of this resolution should the exception of four hospitals, where the circumstances were be communicated to Lord Salisbury, Mr. Arthur Balfour, special and the reasons apparent, every hospital in London Mr. Chaplin, and the journals. last year had a more prosperous year than before. What- The Censors and other officers, members of committees, ever be the cause of the fall in the amount collected might and examiners for the ensuing year were then elected. (See for the Hospital Sunday Fund it was certainly not due to the appended list.) of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee or to the Prince of year An elaborate report was received from Dr. SIMS WOODHEAD Wales’s Hospital Fund. of arrow-head which had Sir that it upon specimens Uganda poison, SYDNEY WATERLOW said would be invidious to been sent to the from the Office. A of make between the two funds. College Foreign copy any comparison the was directed to be sent to the Office and Dr. GLOVER disclaimed the wish to make report Foreign slightest any the thanks of the College were voted to Dr. Woodhead. reflections on the Prince of Wales’s Fund. from the Committee of and the On the matter to the vote three members of Reports Management being put Laboratories Committee were read and also from the Council voted for the motion and three reports against. representative of the College on the General Medical Council The proceedings then terminated. and from Dr. C. T. Williams, the representative of the College on the Council of Mason College, Birmingham, the latter detailing the proceedings of the meeting lately held ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS to promote the establishment of a midland university. Reports from the Finance, Museum, and Library Com- OF LONDON. mittees and from the examiners for the Licence were also presented. THE ordinary Comitia of the Fellows of the Royal College The following is the list of cfficers and examiners who were at the :-Censors : Dr. Walter of Physicians of London was held on July 28th, the appointed meeting Butler Cheadle, Dr. William Miller Ord, Dr. Philip John President, Sir SAMUEL WILKS, Bart., being in the chair. Hensley, and Sir R. Douglas Powell, Bart., M.D. Lond. It was announced that the Gulstonian Lectures for 1899 Treasurer: Sir Dyce Duckworth, M.D. Edin. Emeritus would be delivered by Dr. G. R. Murray, who had chosen Registrar: Sir Henry Pitman, M.D. Cantab. Registrar : the Pathology of the Thyroid Gland for his subject. The Dr. Edward Liveing. Harveian librarian: Dr. William Munk.