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510 NORTHERN COUNTIES NOTES. IRELAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) The -British Medical Association Meeting at Newcastle, 1893. Queen’s College, Cork : Annual Report. A PRELIMINARY to the of this meeting promote objects DURING the session 1891-2 the students on the books of at Newcastle in 1893 was held last at the meeting Thursday the were of whom 251 were matriculated and 4 of Dr. in the chair. College 255, College Medicine, Philipson, president-elect, non-matriculated. Of these 255 students 199 were enrolled Berwick. in the Faculty of Medicine. Among the pressing wants of A very successful bazaar has been held at Berwick to pro- the College that of a new chemical laboratory stands fore- mote improvements at its suburb- Spittal, including a sea- most. The professor reports that not half the requisite wall and a promenade on its splendid beach. Earl Percy number of working benches was available for the students opened the proceedings. who attended lectures in the practical branch of his for ventilation and for The Thompson Bequest to the Poor of Byker, Newcastle. subject. The arrangements storage of apparatus are also defective. The rooms occupied ’The ceremony of a wreath over the tomb of the laying by this department are required for a physical labo- late Mr. Thomas of Jesmond was observed Thompson duly ratory and for an engineering and technical museum. last week at a Jesmond Cemetery. A few years ago Mr. The need of the former is shown the fact that the ’Louis of by pro- Thompson Byker, Newcastle, left the handsome fessor of Natural I’hilosophy is obliged, by the small- amount of to the of on condition that a £15,000 poor Byker ness of his to divide his class in Practical wreath should lecture-room, be placed on his father’s tomb annually by the into several sections. An excellent site for of the of the should the Physics building guardians poor district ; ceremony, may be had in the Materia Medica garden. The President however, be omitted for three the amount is to be years paid points out that a new chemical laboratory, fully provided over to the national interest of this exchequer. The large with the most recent appliances and apparatus, is approach- sum has been duly paid to the Poor-law guardians of the ing completion in Queen’s College, Belfast, and he therefore district, and is a relief to the rates. great hopes that a similar boon, so often applied for, will no longer Small-pox in the North of England. be withheld from Queen’s College, Cork. A good deal of concern is expressed as to the continuance Lurgan Waterworks. of small-pox in the north of England from Leeds to Stockton It has been determined to supply Lurgan with water from and Middlesbrough. At the last place there were fourteen Lough Neagh, and the Government have promised to advance - cases in the twelve from and hospital, being Middlesbrough a sum of £21,000 to carry out the necessary works. A special two from Stockton. So far Newcastle and the Tyneside meeting of the Town Commissioners was held last Saturdav ,continue the health of the district is clear ; indeed, general to consider tenders for the carrying out a contract for the .excellent. construction and erecticn of reservoirs, filter beds, machinery North-Eastern Convalescent Home. houses &c. A tender for £10,650 was accepted. The of the North-Eastern half-yearly meeting Friendly De aths of Centenarians. -Societies’ Convalescent Home at Grange-over-Sandswas held Daniel died at Castleisland last week 103 last week at Sunderland, and the report was very satisfactory. Lyons aged years. in the Peninsular and had been a After doing a very useful amount of work, there remains a Lyons fought War, pen- sioner for the last James died at balance in so that this institution is a of sixty-eight years. Lynch hand, good example also 103. He retained his ?the coöperative system applied to medical purposes. The Ballycumber, King’s County, aged mental faculties to the and attended to his work until a Home was built for working men, being managed and sup- last, ported by them. few minutes before his death. He dropped down dead while out walking. Ambulance Work in the North. Military Infirmary, Phœnix Park. Mr. of near Galbraith, surgeon, Gosforth, Newcastle, The military authorities, acting on the suggestion of the ’having delivered a course of ambulance lectures and given principal medical officers, have determined to close the Royal - instructions to a class of students the session thirty during Infirmary to the admission of patients in consequence of ’1891-92, an examination took place by Dr. Mears with highly the insanitary condition of the grounds. It is stated that - -satisfactory results. Last week the students were presented the at present in the infirmary and the attendants ’with their medals and Mr. Galbraith at patients certificates, receiving will be accommodated in a portion of Steevens’ Hospital. the same time an address and presentation in appreciation of ’Mis services. Death of Mr. Gregory Sale. , I record with the death of this Death Mr. John Currie L.F.P.S. Glas. regret gentleman-highlv of Steele, in the locality in which he Mr. John Currie of died esteemed practised—which Steele, surgeon, Willington Quay, occurred on last, at his residence, Newpark House, s’last week at the of much He Sunday early age forty-eight, regretted. Kilmeague, co. Kildare, after a tedious illness from the was one of the first of the district to surgeons give systematic effects of influenza ; he was forty-seven years of age. He was .ambulance instruction to the numerous workmen of mid- naturally of a somewhat delicate constitution, and suffered where his services were much and he was Tyne, appreciated, of late a good deal from rheumatism. The complications of numerous the recipient of public testimonials in recognition influenza which he suffered from were abscess and .of his worth. prostatic neuritis of the arm. The latter caused such intolerable The Accident to Dr. Cook of Gateshead. agony that he required very large doses of opiates several times to intense Further news of the late severe accident in Norway to repeated produce any sleep. Suffering such Dr. Cook of Gateshead has been received in Newcastle. torture, and with an already enfeebled constitution, it is not that he succumbed after several months’ suffer- Mrs. Cook is now with her husband where he is laid up but surprising He leaves a widow and a to mourn doing well at a private hospital in Bergen. It appears ing. daughter their loss. ’that when the horse bolted the vehicle was overthrown Health of Dublin for 1891. by coming in contact with the wall of a bridge, below The report of Sir Charles Cameron, medical officer of health at a distance of rolled a turbulent stream ’which, forty feet, for the past year, has just been issued. The births in Dublin ’,over boulders. Dr. Cook had his sternum fractured granite Registration District numbered for the year 9850, or 29 per was well as several ribs. He first received attention from 1000 ; while the deaths amounted to 9195, or 25-5 per 1000. ’Mr. of and Dr. Burton of Hudders- Taylor Braintree, Essex, Zymotic diseases caused 865 deaths, or 390 below the average field. The Drs. Christie and Norwegian surgeons, Sandberg number for the past ten years. It is gratifying to note that under whose care Dr. Cook is now, have been Middlefast, the mortality among children has of late fallen con- rmost kind and attentive. He will of course have to remain siderably. There was not a single death from small-pox in Norway for some time, as the North Sea is no respecter in Dublin during 1891, only 2 deaths from measles, and of fractured sternum and ribs. 3 from typhus fever ; while whooping-cough caused 134 A beautiful stained glass window has been placed in Blyth deaths. But, although typhus fever may be said to have dis- Parish Church by Mr. Gilbert Ward of Blyth in memory of appeared, typhoid fever shows no decrease. During 1891 his son Dr. Henry Debord Ward. the deaths from typhoid fever numbered 172, or in the ratio Newcastle-on-Tyne, Aug. 23rd. of 52 per 100,000, and as to the cause of this increase of.