Obituary. Infirmary and Dispensary He Practised in Holywell And
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958 The Devon County Council and the Question of Venereal life of the town, being twice chairman of the local board of Disease. health and the first chairman of the urban district council At the last meeting of the Devon county council, held on its formation in 1895, holding the office for three years. under the presidency of Earl Fortescue, Dr. R. Hogarth Clay, Mr. Williams leaves two daughters and two sons, one of the of Plymouth, moved a resolution calling upon the Govern- latter, Mr. Herbert W. S. Williams, having been associated ment to give immediate consideration to the resolution with him in his practice.-The death of Dr. John Albert passed at the recent International Medical Congress on the Nunneley occurred recently at his residence in Bath. He question of venereal disease. Earl Fortescue, who spoke in was the son of the late Mr. Thomas Nunneley, F.R.C.S. favour of the proposal, said that the resolution at the Inter- He received his medical education at Leeds, Guy’s national Medical Congress appeared to him to indicate a Hospital, and in Paris, and qualified as M.R.C.S. in desire to apply the principles of notification to venereal 1863. He took the M.B. Lond. in 1864. The deceased, diseases, and to give facilities for the better diagnosis of who had been for 30 years on the honorary surgical staff of these complaints, and he thought this suggestion would meet the Leeds General Infirmary, was at one time lecturer on with the sympathy of most people. Dr. Clay’s resolution anatomy at the Leeds Medical School, senior surgeon to the and on was agreed to, and it was resolved to send copies to the Leeds Eye and Ear Infirmary, lecturer ophthalmic Prime Minister, the President of the Local Government diseases at the Yorkshire College and Victoria University. Board, and also to the county councils of England and Since his retirement Dr. Nunneley had resided at Bath, Wales, inviting them to pass a similar resolution. where he was highly esteemed. He took great interest in the medical charities of the was elected a The Devon Education 001nmittee and the Medical Treatment city, governor of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital in 1901, and was also of School Children. connected with other Bath institutions.-The death of At the last meeting of the Devon county council the Mr. George William Pauli occurred recently at his resi- education committee that it was in reported correspond- dence in Weston-super-Mare in his forty-fifth year. He ence with the Board of Education in reference to a scheme was a son of Mr. Churton Pauli, surgeon to the for the medical treatment of school children, but that in Bristol City Hospitals, and received his medical educa- view of recent it had referred the matter back legislation tion at the Bristol Medical School. He qualified as to the special subcommittee to consider whether it was now L. R. C. P. 8r. S. Edin. and L. F. P. S. Glasg. in 1899. Shortly desirable to modify the scheme in any way. afterwards he commenced practice in Birmingham, and Proposed Salaries for the Medical Staff of the Plymouth about four years ago went to Weston-super-Mare, where he was esteemed. Mr. Pauli had never . Public Dispensary. highly enjoyed good but his kindness and manner him The committee of the Plymouth Public Dispensary has health, genial made very He leaves a widow and for whom much issued a to the subscribers of that institution recom- popular. child, report is felt. mending that (with the exception of the honorary consulting sympathy Sept. 23rd. medical staff) the medical staff shall be salaried. The com- __________________ mittee suggests that three "general practitioners" (to be elected annually and to become ineligible after six years’ service) shall constitute the medical staff of the dispensary, SCOTLAND. the senior of which shall receive .E80 per annum, and the two (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) other officers each .E70 a year. A special meeting of the governors of the charity will shortly be held to consider the report, when it is expected that the recommendation of the - EMtM&MA Sanatorium Benefit. committee will be adopted. A MEETING of the Sanatorium Benefit Subcommittee of£ Health of Oornrmall in August. the Edinburgh Insurance Committee was held recently, at which a statement was made as to the communications The medical officer of health of the of Cornwall county which had between the subcommittee and the that the mean was a little below the passed reports temperature Scottish Insurance Commissioners with to the normal for and sunshine above the The regard August, average. estimate for the treatment of tuberculous under death-rate was 11’42 with 10’ 94 subjects general per 1000, compared the National Insurance Act for 1913-14. The for 1912. Twelve deaths were due to following August, zymotic is the estimate of the subcommittee of diseases. 106 cases of infectious disease were notified :-Expendit2cre Insurance Committee treatment, 200 beds at the month. Three cases of were Hospital during poliomyelitis .865, treatment, 105,000 at 6d., one each from Helston rural Launceston 813,000; domiciliary reported, district, .82625 ; additional domiciliary treatment for dependents and borough, and Looe. The birth-rate was 21 per 1000, the same medicines, &c., to insured persons, .8800; dispensary and as in August, 1912. officers, .81000, less R100 charged to administrative expenses, Death caused by Eating Yew Berries. .8900—817,325. Reventbe of Insurance Oommittee: For hos- A coroner’s inquiry was recently held upon the death of a pital treatment, 105,000 at 9d., .83937, but say .64000; for man, aged 47 years, an imbecile patient at the Stapleton domiciliary treatment, .82625—.86625 ; deficit .810,700. This (Bristol) workhouse. Evidence showed that the deceased estimate has been approved by the Insurance Commissioners, had been eating yew berries. Post-mortem examination with the express provision that the item of .8800’’ for additional proved that death was due to ’’ acute intestinal inflammation domiciliary treatment for dependents and medicines, &c., to produced by eating yew berries," and a verdict to that effect insured persons " includes the provision of medical comforts. was returned. The estimate runs from Jan. 13th of the current year to Jan. 12th, 1914. Obituary. A Limit to the Names on the Panel. Through the death on Sept. 19th, in his eighty-ninth year, of Mr. James Williams at Holywell, Flintshire, there At Dundee the Local Medical Committee under the has been removed one of the oldest and best-known medical National Insurance Act have taken a highly suggestive step. practitioners in North Wales. Mr. Williams received his They have recorded as the opinion of a majority of their medical education at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary and body that the maximum number of insured persons that can St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, qualifying as M.R.C.S. be adequately cared for by a practitioner on the panel is in the year 1848 and taking the L. S. A. in the following 2000. The Dundee Insurance Committee, to whom a report year. After acting as house surgeon to the Warrington to this effect was made by the Local Medical Committee, Infirmary and Dispensary he practised in Holywell and early saw clearly that they could take no action in the matter, the became connected with the Flintshire Dispensary and Cottage formation of the panel lists being definitely provided for Hospital in that town, to which he was attached as honorary under the Act, and no limitation to the number of surgeon until quite recently. For over 50 years he was one persons on any one such list being suggested. The of the district Poor-law medical officers of the Holywell chairman of the meeting, while pointing out that the union, and for over 30 years one of the medical officers of committee had no power of compulsion in the matter, health of the Holywell rural district. In 1868 he was thought they should adopt a motion which he had proposed president of the North Wales branch of the British Medical three months previously, that practitioners who had more Association. At one time he acted as surgeon to the Cheshire than 2000 names on their list should take means to reduce it Artillery Volunteers. He took an active part in the public to 2000 or less at an early opportunity. It was, however, 959 suggested that as nothing could be done till January nextt Post- Gradtbate Oonrses in Dublin. the doctors be invited to confer on their viewss panel might The post-graduate courses of study arranged by Trinity of a satisfactory arrangement. This was agreed to. It was,s and the Royal College of Surgeons both began this- the view of the Dundee Insurance Committee that itt College clearly week. Each College arranges for one course of three weeks to the best of the Act that - was prejudicial working any prac- in the year, and by a stupid arrangement the courses run titioner should be in accordance with the Act for responsible r concurrently. This can hardly be due to any special suit- more than 2000 and this is the I off persons, opinion, believe, ability of the period of year for the work. To clinical teachers. as medical men as quite many laymen. no more inconvenient time could be chosen. The hospital The late 2)?-. Gavin Tennent. wards are only opening after their annual cleaning, and it is not so in the session to have at hand a The medical profession and the general public of Glasgowv possible early supply of clinical material.