Dzc. 20, BRITLSH BENEVOLENT TB= ,x 1902.11 MEDIOAL FUND. -,I JOMWAZ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_1919 i1t is to be hoped that future investigations will bring to PROFESSOR NOTHNAGEL, who holds the Chair of Clinical 4ight some method of escaping the enormous increase of Medicine and Therapeutics in the University of Vienna,; labour which this would necessarily involve. has been nominated a life member of the Upper House of the Austrian Parliament. BRITISH MEDICAL BENEVOLENT FUND. WE regret to record the death at the age of 8i of THE Committee of the British Medical Benevolent Fund Dr. Samuel Fenwick, for many years Physician to the held its monthly meeting on December i6th. Twenty- London 8ospital. We hope to give some account of his eight applications came before it, but as the sum available career in a subsequent issue. {or distribution amounted to only ioo i59. gd., I5 only of them could receive relief, and that in sums much smaller than the need demanded.. Many of the cases still standing THE Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Liverpool will ever are of a very distressiDg character, and money is hold a reception at the Town Hall on Monday evening next urgently required to enable the Fund to meet the demands to congratulate Professor Ronald Ross, C.B., F.R.S., on the made upon it. The Committee appeals very earnestly for award to him of the Nobel prize for his discovery in con- increased support, and trusts that the claims of the Fand nexion with malaria. will not be forgotten at this time of the year. Subscriptions AT the meeting of the Obstetrical Society of London on and donations may be sent to the Treasurer, Dr. Samuel Wednesday, January 7tb, at 8 p.m., a discussion on puer- West, i5, Wimpole Street. W., or to Mr. W. E. Sargant, peral insanity will be opened by Dr. Robert Jones, Medical St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Smithfield, E.G. (Hon. Secretary Superintendent of the London County Asylum, Claybuty. for Cases). Among those who are expected to take part in the discts- sion are: Sir John Williams, Bart., Dr. G. F. Blandford, Dr. THE VACANT PRINCIPALSHIP OF THE UNIVERSITY F. H. Champneys, Dr. W. S. A. Griffith, Dr. G. E. Herman, OF EDINBURGH. Dr. T. B. Hyslop, Dr. Chas. Mercier, Dr. W. D. Moore, Dr. A MEETING of the Carators of Patronage of the University F. W. Mott, F.R.S., Dr. G. H. Savage, Dr. Percy Smith,'Dr. of Edinburgh was held on December i6th, to talk over the Seymour Tuke, and Dr. Ernest White. question of the vacant Principalship, brought about by the resignation of Sir William Muir. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh presided, and all the curators were present save Treasurer Cranston, who is ill. After interchange of MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT. opinions, it was resolved to resume consideration of the matter on January 20th next, when it is expected that an [FROM OUR LOBBY CORRESPONDENT.] appointment will be made. The VaccInatIon Aot, 1898.-Sir Francis Powell asked the President of the Local Government Board on Tuesday OYSTERS AND TYPHOID FEVER. whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce in the course of next session a measure extending the dura- A CONSIDERABLE number of cases of typhoid fever, believed tion of or rendering permanent the provisions of the Vac- to be due to the eating of oysters, have* occurred in Win- cination Act, I898, which would otherwise expire on January chester and Portsmouth. Dr. Fraser, M.O.H., has reported Ist, 1904. Mr. Grant Lawson, the Parliamentary Secretary.of to the Health Committee of the Portsmouth Town Council the Local Government Board, replied that it would be neces- that he had found that I3 cases of typhoid existed at Ems- sary to deal with the matter next session. worth, that the sewage of the town contaminated the oyster beds, and that a number of patients at Portsmouth suffering from typhoid fever had recently eaten Emsworth oysters. The Army Medical School and Professor Wright.-On The Committee has asked the Local Government Board Monday Mr. Goulding asked the Secretary of State for War to hold an official inquiry. An inspector of the Board has whether Professor Wright was resigning his appointment in visited Winchester; among the victims to the epidemic the Army Medical School in consequence of the refusal of the there is Dr. William England, authorities to allow him to pursue his investigations in con- formerly surgeon to the nection with typhoid inoculation at a London hospital. Mr.' Royal Hampshire County Hospital. Secretary Brodrick answered that it was considered that as the duties of the post to which Professor Wright had been PROPOSED LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY. appointed at St. Mary's Hospital would seriously interfere with THE hearing of the petition with regard to the proposed those in the Medical 8taff College, he should not be allowed Liverpool University was commenced on December 17th, to hold this appointment at the hospital. Professor Wright' before a Committee of the Privy Council, consisting preferred to retain the latter, and had acoordingly resigned of the Lord President (Duke of Devonshire), the Earl his appointment in the Medical Staff College. of. Rosebery, Lord Balfour, Lord James of Hereford, and Sir Edward Fry. The case in support of the application The Deaths In the Punjab from Contaminated Plague Serum. for a charter to incorporate a university at Liverpool -Last week Mr. Weir obtained some important information was opened by the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, K.C., who on this subject irom Lord George Hamilton in answer to a said that the petitioners embraced the Liverpool University question as to the number of deaths which had occurred Committee, the University College, Liverpool, the Corpora- among natives from inoculation with contaminated plague tion of Liverpool, the Chamber of Commerce, the School serum, and the length of time which elapsed before the use Board, the Liverpool Institute, and the Council of Liver- of the serum was stopped, and the officers responsible for the pool College. After Mr. Lyttelton's opening speech, Pro- issue of the serum. The Secretary of State-for India replied fessor A. N. Dale, M.A.,Priuicipal of the UIniversity College, that certain changes, stated to be in accordance with the re- and Mr. M.P., commendations of the Plague Commission, were recent-ly' Haldane,'..C., gave evidence, and the inquiry made in the manufacture of plague serum in the Plague --Re.' was adjourned. We ihope to publish a report of the searclh Laboratory, Bombay,:by the director, 'with the object proceedings in a subsequent issue. of expediting manufacture,' reducing the dose, and increasing protective efficiency. On complaints reaching the -Govern- ment of the Punjab from the inoculating staff that certain MR. G. G. HAMILTON, M.B., F.R.C.S., has-been appointed bottles of the flaid thus prepared had been found to be putrid,' Honorary Surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, in the that Government, on November ist, directed its discontinua' vacancy caused by the resignation of Sir William Banks. ance, after it had been ina use for 'exactlya month.:- At that' Damsx I I1920 MZDICA.LNSITh JO,TRNALJ MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT. [Die. 2o, IgO?; date only2 suspicious deAths had been reported,but subse- the Local Government (Ireland) Act, I898, to the contraryno'^* quently to the issue. of the order he regretted to say that 21 withstanding. This was agreed to, and the Bill again con- others occurred, 19 ensuing from the use of one particular sidered and reported and the-third reading taken. The Bill bottle. The doctor using this bottle had offered to inoculate had an easy run through the House of Lords, was read a thircd himself first, but the villagers accepted inoculation without time on Monday, and will become law in due course. this, no official pressure being employed. A thorough inquiry was being made as to the cause of the contaminated The Notifleation of Acoldents.-Last week Sir Charles- serum. and the precise degree of responsibility attaching to Dilke asked the Home Secretary whether the Departmental the-officers concerned, and he had requested that the result Committee on the Notification of Accidents had yet reported,. might be telegraphed without delay. Inoculation had now and if so whether they had made any recommendation which been resumed with the fluid as previously used, under special would have the effect of distinguishing in the statistics of precautions as to purity. The temper of the people was re- mining accidents between those occurring to male persons- ported to be excellent. The Viceroy had authorized the under i6 years, and thoose under 20 or 21 years of age. The- Punjab Government to grant compensation to the familie3 of Home Secretary said in -reply that he hadjust received the. the sufferers. report, and would lay it on the table with .a view to its issue. to members as soon as possible. The suggestion mentioned. and Irish Poor-law Maledal Offloers their Esalaries.-Mr. was dealt with in the report. Tully, who has brought this matter before the House on several occasions, last week asked the Chief Secretary whether the. attention of the Local; Government Board had The Uxbridge Rural Dlstriot Counoll and Dranagae Works.. been directed to the meeting of medical men at the Whit- -Sir F. Dixon-Hartland last week asked the Prcsident of the. worth Hall, Drogheda, on November 27th, when it was agreed Local Government Board whether he was aware that a sum of not to accept the vacant Drumconrath Disppnsary at a lesa nearly £/40,000 was raised and had been spent drainage salary than £200 and to the fact that the County works in the Parish of Ruislip (including Northwood) by the a,year, Uxbridge Rural District Council under the sanction of the. Galway medical men at a meeting on November 26th passed a similar resolution regarding vacant dispensary appointments Local Government Board, whether he had received any in their county, and whether steps would be taken by the official reports to the effect that the contractors had been paidp Local Government Board to secure payment of larger salaries in fall before the dates named in the contracts' and- variations to Irish poor-law medical officers. Mr. Wyndham said that, inconsistent with the approved scheme made without the the reply to the fst two questions was in the affirmative. In consent of the Local Government Board, and whether he. answer to the last inquiry he had to refer to his reply on would reconsider the necessity of holding an inquiry. Mr. been November 6tih, which was to the effect that the matters were Long, in reply, said that loans amounting to £39,ooo had not such as could be dealt with by means of a reply to a sanctioned by the Local Government Board for purposes of question. Mr. Tully asked the Chief Secretary on Tuesday sewerage and sewage disposal in the parish referred to. He reports whether he could state if any appointments had yet had not recelved any oficial to the effect'that the. been made to the vacant dispensary appointments in the .contractors had been paid in full before the dates named in the- Counties of Louth, Waterford, and Wexford, for which contracts, but he understood that there had been departures: the Branches of the Medical Association had decided from the approved scheme. Be was in communication with that no candidates would apply unless the salaries were the rural district council on the subject, but it did not at present appear to him to be necessary that there should be a. aQxed at £200 a year, and what steps the Local Government Board had taken in the matter. Mr. Wyndham replied that further local inquiry. was no vacancy in as it was up on there Wexford, filled Overcrowding November 6th at the salary of £125 per annum. An election In Gravesend Barracks.-Sir Gilbert Parkee on to fill the one vacancy in Louth was ;fixed for next Tuesday. asked the Secretary of State for War Monday if he would As regards Waterford the rearrangement of the boundaries- of state what steps he intended to take in view of the reeent case. district was still under the consideration of the of death by suffocation through overcrowding in Grav6susidF the vacant Barracks,-to which his attention had been called by the' guardians. On. Wednesday Mr. Tully asked the Chief Secre- tary whether he could state why the Local Government coroner's jury. Mr. Brodrick, in reply, said that the matter Board had cndeavoured to have a lady medical officer ap- had been inquired into, and steps were immediatelv taken tt pointed to, the vacant Carrigbyrne dispensary district, when stop the overcrowding referred to. The eauses of the over- the medical men had refused to become candidates at the crowding were being made the subject of a careful inquiry. salary sanctioned b the Local Government Board. Mr. Wyndham replied that the guardians had appointed a gentle- The London Water Bill has this week passed. through man, named Dr. De La Hunt, to the post of dispensary doctor three stages in the House of Lords and only a few drafting. at Carrigbyrne. Lady doctors- were not disqualified for amendments have been made. The third reading was taken tlhese posts, butthe Local Government Board had never taken on Tuesday, and the Bill will pass on to the Statute Book any steps to promote their candidature. practically as it left the Lower House. The Looal Government (Irs!and) (No. 2) B111.-On Decep- The Hanwill Poor-law Schools.-On Monday -Sir, Walter- ber 12th there were nearly eleven pages of amendmends down Foster asked the President of the Local Government. Board if to this Bill on the report stage, but when the Bill came on he could give information as to the number of children in the. only a few Irish members were present in a thin House. Mr. Hanwell Poor-law Schools who were now suffering from. Wyndham was in,a conciliatory mood, and had little difficulty diseasesaffectingtheears andtthroat: whether he could say, in adding some new clauees to the Bill dealing with tenders, what number out of the 88 mentioned in Mr. Cheatle's. report,, audits, and some financial mnatters. The Irish members were published early in the year, as being in danger of their lives not in either fighting strength or fighting temper, and although and requiring surgical attention, had been operated on; and, some amendments were moved they were not pressed, and the whether the Board of Management had issued a report on the Bill passed its report stage after Clause 6 had been omitted on subject. Mr. Long, in reply, said that he had made inquiry,. the motion of Mr. Healy.- Mr. Wyndham then moved that but had not at present received definite information as to the the Bill be recommitted in respect of Clauses 8 to 12, and a number of children in the Hanwell Schools suffering from, new clause relating to an increase of contributions to county diseases affecting the ears and throat. Many of the children infirmaries standing on the paper in the name of Dr. Thomp- who were examined by Mr. Cheatle had since left, while there son. The new clause was as follows: The county council of had been many new admissions. Of the number of cases any county shall, on the application of the committee of mentioned in the report referred to, 73 had been successfully~ management of any county infirmary and subject to the .treated at the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat and Ear, approval of the Local Government l,pard, add to the annual Golden Square, and 12 more were going to the hospital that copunty, presentment of the standard year,a sum not exceeding .day. Under .an arrangement with the hospital authorities twpo pounds for every internal patient beyond the number:of x2.cases were received weekly for examination and,operation. 4ve- hundreO. anything in Sepion y, S.qlaectjo; I of iThe managers had not yet issued a report thereon.,