414 T and the reasoning of science and utility will find it hard to e:expenditure had reached .65307, which included a balance break down so strong a resistance. oowing to the bank of .61172, and there was now the amount 0 the for 11 Chocolate Chumps." of .6362 still due to bank. The actual receipts the ppast year amounted to .B3988. The report contains an ex- Under this a form of sweetmeat has designation pernicious p of from the committee that in a short time an attractive to the in the pression hope proved young, unfortunately resulting eextension of the convalescent home at Wilmslow will enable death of a little eleven who had girl aged years freely partaken tthe men as well as the women and children to obtain the of this In the the deadly dainty. investigation by coroner benefith of pure air during convalescence. for South Staffordshire the analyst stated that he found the Death Sunstroke. three ounces of sweets submitted to contain 29½- grains of from paraffin wax which was absolutely indigestible. In view Much sympathy is felt for Dr. C. J. Renshaw, of Ashton- of the fact that these sweets were eaten after a repast upon-Mersey,r who has just lost a son twenty-one years of age of pork-pie there seems to be no surprise that the verdict of ffrom sunstroke. He was found lying insensible near a field the jury was death from peritonitis, in all probability causedpath,I his breathing being short and jerky, and was removed by the paraffin wax in the" chocolate chumps." Thus in tot a neighbouring cottage, where he died the same evening. the pursuit of pleasure death lurks among the innocent andSunday, July 12th, was one of the very hot days we have had victims succumb readily to the allurement. thist summer. Dr. Herbert Renshaw of Sale, whose help was The 2Ve?u General Hospital. obtained,( said there were no symptoms of opium or any other form of and in his death was caused The of this has made strides poisoning, opinion progress building lately rapid l heat or sunstroke, and a verdict to this effect and of the functions are by apoplexy anticipations opening being indulged was returned. in. It is that June, 1897, the will be hoped by building Suicide of a Nurse. sufficiently completed for occupation, and that this period The recent suicide of a nurse at the will mark the time of a new era in the history of the charity. Pendlebury Hospital raises some worth consideration. It that This hope is the more favoured since the occurrence of the questions appears musical festival in the following October will form anothershe inhaled chloroform, was partially restored, but relapsed died. a short of source of funds to which the authorities look for aid. In and During period consciousness she said to the effect that the work and the sense of the interests of the sick poor any delay will be a matter for something were more than she could bear. There is regret, and from a financial point of view protraction means responsibility a rush for the career of the increased expenses which can ill be afforded. A strong great1 nursing among girls middle, and in cases of the class from all sorts appeal has yet to be made for the necessary amount to furnish many upper-middle, of motives. of them have been without and equip the building. Apropos of the area of land facing Many brought up definite aim and find their home as think the front of the building vigorous efforts are being made to any very lives, they or or in some uncomfortable. secure an open space. The corporation of the city, while fancy, empty, frivolous, way feeling the desirability of this object, do not quite accept Some have a sentimental idea that they could more willingly to sick the and somewhat the responsibility of ceding the land they hold in trust on give strangers kindly wearying behalf of the ratepayers. Some solution of the will attention required by their own kith and kin. Others take to difficulty from straitened circumstances and probably be found before the time comes for the permanent nursing courageously settling of the question. The hospital committee will gladly determine to get their own living. A few have been "crossed in but one and all dream that a life in welcome a grant in their favour for this very laudable and love," they spent sick will be a for all their real or almost necessary purpose. nursing humanity panacea troubles. The labour and the hours, West Bromwich District imaginary physical long Hospital. even in these days of lawn-tennis and cycling, are too much At the annual meeting of this institution recently held a for some of them to stand for any long period, and, coupled significant observation is embodied in the medical report. with actual contact with disease in its realism-robbed of It regrets the increase in number of the out-patients, and all romantic associations-soon break down their strength points out that it had been a great tax upon the resources both of body and mind. Suicide is happily rare, and with of the institution and was a sure indication that the charity good health and its accompaniment, good spirits, many had been abused to a considerable extent. The number of nurses, perhaps the majority, enjoy their hospital work and in-patients treated was 774. The number of out-patients lead happy lives. These young ladies have frequently been was 7834, against 7254 in 1895. In a district composed delicately and tenderly brought up, and some of them are largely of working men and their families, with trade ill fitted for their vocation. For their own sakes, as well as flourishing and wages high, the occurrence of a large attend- for the sake of the patients, it is desirable that admission ance in the out-patient department is suggestive of other to the calling of nurse should be prefaced by a stricter and interests being displaced and of some explanation being more careful consideration of their fitness both as to physical afforded. strength and mental qualities than is sometimes the case at Aug. 4th. present. A nurse equal to her work, sufficiently sensible of her duty and of the responsibility of her calling, is worthy of all respect and even reverence, but there is no room for MANCHESTER. those who look upon nursing as a pleasant pastime, especially as it can be carried on in a costume so and (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) picturesque attractive that its assumption by others than nurses is not a very rare occurrence. In many hospitals the nurses are Ancoats Hospital. worked much too heavily, and if their work were a little easier it would be so much the better THE annual meeting of Ancoats Hospital was held on accomplished. July 22nd, the chair being occupied by Sir W. H. Holds- JULY 28th. worth, Bart., M.P. The report stated that though the work presented no very startling facts there had been a large amount of activity in all departments and the SCOTLAND. continued in in-patients to increase numbers. There had (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) been 6316 accidents, and there was still an average of 16 or 17 a day, many of which were serious and required immediate attention. The home-patients numbered 2205, University of Glasgow. the out-patients 3713, the in-patients 1051, and the dental THE University Commissioners, in the ordinances they cases 291. From the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Funds issued dealing with the conditions governing graduation in 607 10s. had been allotted, and from the Workpeople’s medicine, left to the discretion of the authorities of the Committee 355 7s. During the year a legacy of .6600 different universities the enactment of various details deter- had been received from Mrs. Fraser, the widow of the mining the amount of attendance required in classes treating late Bishop of Manchester, one of 5000 from the late Mr. of certain special subjects. In pursuance of this responsi- William Berry, and one of £500 from the late Mr. Edward bility the senate of the University of Glasgow, with the Pinder, while the committee recorded with gratitude the gift approval of the University court, has now determined of f.1000 from an Ancoats friend. There is a convalescent that each candidate for the degrees of M. B. and Ch.B. home at Wilmslow which has been found to be of advantage shall be required to attend: 1. Demonstrations in the to the women and children who had been inmates. During post-mortem room of a recognised hospital with instruc- the year f.1427 had been received from subscriptions. The tions in making post-mortem examinations ; not less 415 than twenty examinations must be attended. 2. A Bristol, are not yet due. The following scholarships granted course of clinical instruction in fevers, consisting of at in 1894 have been exceptionally renewed for a third year :- least ten meetings in a hospital for infectious diseases con- 1. University of Edinburgh-John Carruthers Beattie, B.Se., Uni- taining not less than fifty beds. 3. A practical course of versities of Vienna and Berlin. in of not less than 2. University of Aberdeen-William Brown Davidson, M.A., B.Se., instruction Ophthalmology twenty Universities of Wurzburg and Leipzig. meetings. The course must be conducted in a recognised hospital or dispensary and must include sufficient practical Aberdeen Royal Lunatic Asylum : NeyL Hospital. instruction in the methods of examining the eye. Candidates The new hospital and administrative offices, the contracts are also recommended to attend the following :-(a) Diseases for the erection of which were entered into in August, 1893, of t’hildren, (b) Diseases of the Ear, (c) Diseases of the have now been finished and were opened for the inspection of Throat and Nose, (d) Diseases of the Skin, in short practical the public this week. The total cost has been upwards of courses of at least ten meetings. It is intimated that the f.30,OOO. The new buildings have been described in the University will make the necessary arrangements to enable columns of THE LANCET, and it may be sufficient now to candidates to carry out these recommendations in so far as mention that the hospital has accommodation for 150 they are not at present provided. patient?, and is divided into administrative, observation, and In connexion with the higher degrees of M.D. and Ch.M. sick blocks. The design, as explained by Dr. William Reid, the Commissioners prescribed an examination in clinical the medical superintendent, is that all cases requiring medicine and clinical surgery respectively, but left the scope special attention shall be concentrated in the hospital, where and conditions of this examination to be determined by each there will be one nurse to every five patients. There will be University for itself. The regulations in the University of resident the senior medical assistant of the asylum and a Glasgow for the session 1896-97 are to be as follows :- qualified and experienced lady nurse. All patients on (a,) Doctor of Medicine.-The examination shall for each admission will pass through the administrative division, and candidate consist of a written report and commentary, with those who exhibit any signs of curability will be relegated any oral questions that may be considered desirable upon at to the portion of the observation block designed for the least three medical cases. In the selection of the cases special treatment of their type of case. The sick from all special regard shall be given to the opportunities they afford parts of the institution will be cared for in wards and single for testing the candidate not only in the ordinary methods rooms specially designed for the treatment of the different. of clinical investigation, but also in the more advanced bodily diseases. methods requiring practical knowledge in the application of Aberdeen Volunteer Medical the and in the chemical and University Staff Corps. ophthalmoscope laryngoscope, of this left Aberdeen for microscropical examination of excreta, the quantitative Fifty representatives corps camp, at Aldershot on the 31st ult. are under the command determination and microscopic characters of the chief con- They stituents of blood possessing clinical importance, the of Surgeon-Captain A. Macgregor. recording by instruments of the condition of the circulation, Aug. 4th. the applications of electricity, &c. A candidate may, if he so desires, have one of the cases selected from one of the following departments-viz., diseases of women, diseases IRELAND. of children, mental diseases, diseases, or diseases zymotic (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) of the eye, throat, ear, or skin ; if the candidate specialises in one of these departments he will be ex- pected to show high proficiency in it. (b) Master of The Sale of Poisons by Druggists in Dublin. examination is to include a or Surgery.-The report IT seems that chloroform is not the on three strange among commentary surgical cases, surgical anatomy, which are to enter in ’’ the and The candidate in the poisons druggists compelled operative surgery. may specialise sale of book," and this in the law is diseases of women or in diseases of the or poisons deficiency surgical eye, a lamentable which or ear. For each the usual thesis is demanded prominently exemplified by fatality throat, degree occurred in Dublin. The facts as at the and candidates must enter their names Oct. 1896. recently deposed by 10th, were as follows. Mrs. suffered The examination is to be held before the Christmas inquest briefly Kerrigan holidays. from toothache or and after The immediate interest of these new arises from severely neuralgia using regulations without effect sent a little with the fact that in medicine and under laudanum, &c., locally girl graduates (M. B. C. M.) a written to a Please bearer small old to the M.D. if message druggist-" give the regulations may proceed degree they bottle of chloroform,’’ A. The so desire it under the rules as formulated above. It has been signed Kerrigan." druggist asked the whether it was required for toothache that a class in shall be girl arranged post-graduate pathology and on an affirmative hur a conducted the autumn Professor Coats. receiving reply gave during by Joseph small bottle containing half an ounce of chloroform. Science Research Scholarships. This, it appeared, was mixed by the deceased with a small quantity of whisky and swallowed. Some hours later she Her Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 Majesty’s was found in a comatose state, and before she reached the have made the to Science Research following appointments hospital was dead. At the inquest it was stated that the for the 1896 on the recommendation of the Scholarships year druggist was quite within his legal in selling half an authorities of the universities and The right respective colleges. ounce of pure chloroform without an order from a medical are of the value of £150 a and are ordi- scholarships year, man, and the coroner in his address to the jury acknow- tenable for two to a narily years (subject satisfactory report ledged this, but remarked that a man might act within his at the end of the first in at home and year) any university legal rights and yet might be sufficiently incautious as to abroad or in some other institution of the Com- approved by incur severe criticism. He further stated that in his opinion missioners. The scholars are to devote themselves exclu- no drug of the insidious character of chloroform should be sively to study and research in some branch of science, the sold in large and doses without restriction. The extension of which is to the industries of the poisonous important jury, after finding that death was due to accidental poison- country. A limited number of the scholarships are renewed ing by chloroform taken to relieve neuralgia, added to, for a third year where it appears that the renewal is likely to their verdict the " We consider that the sale result in work of scientific following: directly importance. of chloroform under circumstances such as were detailed in 1. of University Glasgow-William Craig Henderson, M.A., B.Sc. this case without an order from a doctor is and 2. University of Aberdeen-Alexander M.A.., B Sc. dangerous ugg, ought to be discouraged." The following scholarships granted in 1895 have been con- tinued for a second year on receipt of a satisfactory report of The Coombe Lying-in Hospital, Dublin. work done during the first year :-- From the purely sanitary point of view this hospital seems 1. University of Glasgow-Walter Stewart, M.A., B.Sc., Universities to be in a very unsatisfactory condition. At the annual of Glasgow and Berlin. of its friends and which took last 2. of St. meeting supporters place University Andrews-Henry Charles Williamson, M.A., month of the B.Sc, Marine Laboratories, Napies and Kiel. Mr. Edward Fottrell alluded to the overflow 3 Uni,.ersity College, Dundee-James Henderson, B.Sc., Poly- Poddle river and the consequent flooding of the basement of technicum. Munich. the hospital. When it is remembered that this subterranean The scholars from the University of Edinburgh and the stream, which traverses the south side of Dublin to open into. Owens College, Manchester, have resigned cn obtaining the Liffey, is practically one of the city sewers, the serious pli,::c appointments. The reports ;of the scholars from the character of the nuisance will be apparent. It was stated, Mason College, Birmingham, and the University College, moreover, that the corporation could do but little to remedy