PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION AND OTHER FORMS OF TUBERCULOSIS
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1693 I PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION AND OTHER FORMS OF TUBERCULOSIS. Press, Limited (28 and 29, Southampton-street, Strand, London, W.C.), and Messrs. Rebman, Limited (129, Shaftes- bury-avenue, Cambridge-circus, London, W.C.). PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION AND OTHER FORMS OF TUBERCULOSIS. HEREFORDSHIRE. THE latest branch of the National Association for the Pre- vention of Consumption and other Forms of Tuberculosis has been established in Herefordshire. The meeting at which the branch was inaugurated was held at Hereford on May 20th and was presided over by the Lord Lieutenant of the county, the audience, which numbered about 130 persons, having been brought together at the instance of the Herefordshire Medical Association. The first presi- dent of the branch is the Lord Lieutenant, and the Earl of Chesterfield, the Bishop of Hereford, the Dean of Here- ford, the mayors of Hereford and Leominster, the Members of Parliament for the county, and the chairman of the county council have been invited to become vice-presidents. The meeting on May 20th was addressed by Dr. C. Theodore Williams who attended to represent the National Association. Dr. Williams spoke of the comparatively favourable position held by Herefordshire with regard to the death-rate from consumption and he attributed the diminution in the mor- tality from the disease over the whole of the United Kingdom as mainly due to the administration of the Factory Acts, to subsoil drainage, and to the improved condition of the working classes who now have better food and live in better houses than formerly. Although Dr. Williams admitted that the open-air treatment could be successfully carried out in private he advocated the erection of sanatoriums, because in them people were taught how to live and the influence which the patients exerted upon leaving such institutions did in- calculable good among their acquaintances. WINSLEY SANATORIUM. On June 4th Lady Dickson-Poynder laid the foundation- stone of the Winsley Sanatorium for consumptive patients from the counties of Gloucester, Somerset, and Wilts. There was a large gathering which included the Bishop of Bristol, Sir John Dickson-Poynder, M.P., Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, M.P., and Dr. L. A. Weatherly. An administrative block for 60 patients and bedrooms for 20 patients will be built at a cost of &6877 and as funds come in additional accom- modation will be provided for patients until the full com- plement of 60 beds is made up. The funds in hand, after the purchase of the site and other expenses, are £6840 and the building and furnishing will involve an outlay of £8327. To complete the whole scheme about .&9000 are required The endowment of 15 beds in the institution has alread3 been promised. BELFAST. The annual meeting of the Ulster Branch of the Nationa Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other Forms of Tuberculosis was held on June 5th in the Medica Institute, College-square North, Belfast, Sir William Whitl being in the chair. The annual report, which was read b Mr. Robert Brown, the honorary secretary, stated that th death-rate from tuberculosis was decreasing in England an. Wales but was increasing in Ireland, having risen from a average of 19 per 10,000 during the period 1870-75 t 23 per 10,000 in 1900. Dr. A. K. Chalmers, medical OffiCE of health of Glasgow, delivered an address the title of whic was "How to Reduce the Death-rate from Consumption." THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. THERE are only four candidates for the three vacancies on the Council. Mr. H. T. Butlin seeks re-election and Mr. Clinton T. Dent of St. George’s Hospital, Mr. Frederic S. Eve of the London Hospital, and Mr. G. H. Makins of St. Thomas’s Hospital are also applying. On only a few previous occasions have there been so few candidates. Looking Back. FROM THE LANCET, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1825. HOWEVER it may arise, whether because man is an imitative animal, or because his attention is roused to activity by the necessities which surround him, an ardent disposition to act gregariously may be plainly perceived ; or, in other words, whatever may be commenced by one man is immediately prosecuted by a host of others. But this state of things does not commonly obtain long, some improve- ment is made, and other more inviting, or more profitable projects succeed, which forthwith, true as shadow to the substance, become the standing order of the day, till the bubble bursts, or till they are deposed to make room for some novel or more specious objects of pursuit, by which means the energies of the flock are directed into other and sometimes, though but rarely, more useful channels. Whence arises the present apathy for mathematical investigations? Is it not because the sublime discoveries of NEWTON kindled a spirit of enthusiasm so ardent, that improvements were multiplied and perfection approached so nearly, that in our day the laurels to be gathered are comparatively few and extremely difficult to be obtained ? Botany, too, has had its day, and Chemistry has lost much of the attraction which, in our juvenile years, it was wont to possess. CAVENDISH and BLACK, PRIESTLEY and LAVOISIER, are now almost for- gotten, and even the name of DAVY is heard but seldom. At one period the study of this science was almost universal ; and oxygen and hydrogen, and chlorine and nitrogen, 11 familiar in men’s mouths as household words," manifested the interest which it then excited, and which (agreeably to the general law) has since been followed by a corresponding degree of . neglect. That which is true of the science as a whole is also true of its various departments ; and we have only to cite mineralogy as an example in order to show, that the ardour with which a subject may be pursued is strictly in - proportion to its infancy, and that all sciences will be more and more neglected as they approach nearer and nearer to perfection, for it is the nature of men to endeavour to dis- ’ tinguish or enrich themselves. That mine will be most ’ worked from which the greatest quantity of ore can be s extracted ; and that stream will be most frequented by tanglers which most abounds with fish. This disposition, - or fashionable mania, is far from being confined to ’- philosophy or the arts, for in our own profession the same J- disposition to simultaneous movements obviously obtains, dand particular diseases have particular asras in which they are cultivated with more than usual ardour, just 1. as epidemic book-making among the profession always y marches in the rear of pestilential visitations. But the extent of an evil is not to be inferred from the number of individuals who may sound the alarm ; or, in other words, because a host of professional writers may start up at once, r like the soldiers of CADMUS, it must not be inferred that the particular disease upon which they may choose to exercise la their talents is therefore making dreadful, or more than ordinary, havoc amongst us, any more than that the downfall le of our ecclesiastical establishments may be predicated from ld the senseless cry of "the church is in danger." Not long since nothing but consumptive maladies occupied the attention of to the profession, and cart loads of books were written on the er subject. Now, however, although the evil remains unmiti- gated and unarrested, that I I song has ceased," and spinal distortions are become the reigning topic of the day.1 BATTLE OF THE CLUBS. MEDICAL MEN AND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES : THE MEDICAL ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. AT the Oddfellows annual moveable committee, held in Cheltenham last week, Bro. F. G. Green (South London) called attention to the introduction of the Medical Acts - 1 Extract from Review of books on Spinal Distortions by John Shaw, r Surgeon and Lecturer on Anatomy; and R. W. Bampfield, Surgeon to the Royal Metropolitan Infirmary for Diseases of Children. London. 1824. Longmans and Co.
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1693I PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION AND OTHER FORMS OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Press, Limited (28 and 29, Southampton-street, Strand,London, W.C.), and Messrs. Rebman, Limited (129, Shaftes-bury-avenue, Cambridge-circus, London, W.C.).
PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION ANDOTHER FORMS OF TUBERCULOSIS.
HEREFORDSHIRE.THE latest branch of the National Association for the Pre-
vention of Consumption and other Forms of Tuberculosishas been established in Herefordshire. The meeting at
which the branch was inaugurated was held at Herefordon May 20th and was presided over by the Lord Lieutenantof the county, the audience, which numbered about 130persons, having been brought together at the instance ofthe Herefordshire Medical Association. The first presi-dent of the branch is the Lord Lieutenant, and the Earlof Chesterfield, the Bishop of Hereford, the Dean of Here-ford, the mayors of Hereford and Leominster, the Membersof Parliament for the county, and the chairman of the countycouncil have been invited to become vice-presidents. The
meeting on May 20th was addressed by Dr. C. TheodoreWilliams who attended to represent the National Association.Dr. Williams spoke of the comparatively favourable positionheld by Herefordshire with regard to the death-rate fromconsumption and he attributed the diminution in the mor-tality from the disease over the whole of the United Kingdomas mainly due to the administration of the Factory Acts, tosubsoil drainage, and to the improved condition of theworking classes who now have better food and live in betterhouses than formerly. Although Dr. Williams admitted thatthe open-air treatment could be successfully carried out inprivate he advocated the erection of sanatoriums, because inthem people were taught how to live and the influence whichthe patients exerted upon leaving such institutions did in-calculable good among their acquaintances.
WINSLEY SANATORIUM.On June 4th Lady Dickson-Poynder laid the foundation-
stone of the Winsley Sanatorium for consumptive patientsfrom the counties of Gloucester, Somerset, and Wilts. Therewas a large gathering which included the Bishop of Bristol,Sir John Dickson-Poynder, M.P., Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice,M.P., and Dr. L. A. Weatherly. An administrative blockfor 60 patients and bedrooms for 20 patients will be builtat a cost of &6877 and as funds come in additional accom-modation will be provided for patients until the full com-plement of 60 beds is made up. The funds in hand, afterthe purchase of the site and other expenses, are £6840 andthe building and furnishing will involve an outlay of £8327.To complete the whole scheme about .&9000 are requiredThe endowment of 15 beds in the institution has alread3been promised.
BELFAST.The annual meeting of the Ulster Branch of the Nationa
Association for the Prevention of Consumption and otherForms of Tuberculosis was held on June 5th in the MedicaInstitute, College-square North, Belfast, Sir William Whitlbeing in the chair. The annual report, which was read bMr. Robert Brown, the honorary secretary, stated that thdeath-rate from tuberculosis was decreasing in England an.Wales but was increasing in Ireland, having risen from aaverage of 19 per 10,000 during the period 1870-75 t23 per 10,000 in 1900. Dr. A. K. Chalmers, medical OffiCEof health of Glasgow, delivered an address the title of whicwas "How to Reduce the Death-rate from Consumption."
THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OFENGLAND.
ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.THERE are only four candidates for the three vacancies
on the Council. Mr. H. T. Butlin seeks re-election andMr. Clinton T. Dent of St. George’s Hospital, Mr. FredericS. Eve of the London Hospital, and Mr. G. H. Makins ofSt. Thomas’s Hospital are also applying. On only a fewprevious occasions have there been so few candidates.
Looking Back.FROM
THE LANCET, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1825.HOWEVER it may arise, whether because man is an
imitative animal, or because his attention is roused to
activity by the necessities which surround him, an ardentdisposition to act gregariously may be plainly perceived ; or,in other words, whatever may be commenced by one man isimmediately prosecuted by a host of others. But this stateof things does not commonly obtain long, some improve-ment is made, and other more inviting, or more profitableprojects succeed, which forthwith, true as shadow to thesubstance, become the standing order of the day, till thebubble bursts, or till they are deposed to make room forsome novel or more specious objects of pursuit, by whichmeans the energies of the flock are directed into other andsometimes, though but rarely, more useful channels. Whencearises the present apathy for mathematical investigations?Is it not because the sublime discoveries of NEWTON kindleda spirit of enthusiasm so ardent, that improvements weremultiplied and perfection approached so nearly, that in ourday the laurels to be gathered are comparatively few andextremely difficult to be obtained ? Botany, too, has had itsday, and Chemistry has lost much of the attraction which, inour juvenile years, it was wont to possess. CAVENDISH andBLACK, PRIESTLEY and LAVOISIER, are now almost for-
gotten, and even the name of DAVY is heard but seldom. Atone period the study of this science was almost universal ; andoxygen and hydrogen, and chlorine and nitrogen, 11 familiarin men’s mouths as household words," manifested the interest
which it then excited, and which (agreeably to the generallaw) has since been followed by a corresponding degree of
. neglect. That which is true of the science as a whole isalso true of its various departments ; and we have only tocite mineralogy as an example in order to show, that theardour with which a subject may be pursued is strictly in
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proportion to its infancy, and that all sciences will be moreand more neglected as they approach nearer and nearer toperfection, for it is the nature of men to endeavour to dis-
’ tinguish or enrich themselves. That mine will be most’ worked from which the greatest quantity of ore can bes extracted ; and that stream will be most frequented bytanglers which most abounds with fish. This disposition,-
or fashionable mania, is far from being confined to’- philosophy or the arts, for in our own profession the sameJ- disposition to simultaneous movements obviously obtains,dand particular diseases have particular asras in which
they are cultivated with more than usual ardour, just1. as epidemic book-making among the profession alwaysy marches in the rear of pestilential visitations. But the
extent of an evil is not to be inferred from the number ofindividuals who may sound the alarm ; or, in other words,because a host of professional writers may start up at once,
r like the soldiers of CADMUS, it must not be inferred that theparticular disease upon which they may choose to exercise
la their talents is therefore making dreadful, or more than
ordinary, havoc amongst us, any more than that the downfallle of our ecclesiastical establishments may be predicated fromld the senseless cry of "the church is in danger." Not long since
nothing but consumptive maladies occupied the attention ofto the profession, and cart loads of books were written on theer subject. Now, however, although the evil remains unmiti-
gated and unarrested, that I I song has ceased," and spinaldistortions are become the reigning topic of the day.1
BATTLE OF THE CLUBS.
MEDICAL MEN AND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES : THE MEDICALACTS AMENDMENT BILL.
AT the Oddfellows annual moveable committee, held inCheltenham last week, Bro. F. G. Green (South London)called attention to the introduction of the Medical Acts
- 1 Extract from Review of books on Spinal Distortions by John Shaw,r Surgeon and Lecturer on Anatomy; and R. W. Bampfield, Surgeon to
the Royal Metropolitan Infirmary for Diseases of Children. London.1824. Longmans and Co.
