Koch in South Africa, to confirm the results obtained by that investigator as to the possibility of dried rinderpest matter conveying infection to living animals. Experiments accordingly have been conducted in parts of the country, including the hills and plains, by Veterinary Majors Brodie, Mills and Raymond, of the Civil Veterinary Department, and Captain Rogers, officiating Imperial Bacteriologist, and the result of their investigations enables the InspectorGeneral to assure Government that there is no danger of rinderpest contagion being conveyed to other countries by means of bones and hides of animals exported to them. Captain Rogers we understand has succeeded in conveying surra from one horse to another by the will be awaited with agency of flies; details interest. -
(ttuippt ?Opi(K. BIRTHDAY HONOURS.
The members of the medical profession in the Indian section of the Birthday Honour List numerous. not are Surgeon-General A. A. Gore, late Principal Medical Officer, H. M.'s Forces in India, received the Companionship of the Bath. Lieut.-Colonel W. G. King, i.m.s., Sanitary Commissioner, Madras, well known in connection with the preservation of vaccine lymph, and his researches on the natural history of cow-pox, received the Companionship of the Order of the Indian Empire. Colonels Barnett and Town send, r.am.c., and Lieut.-Colonels W. K. Hatch and Bookey, i.m.s., are made Honorary Surgeons to the Viceroy; and the title of Khan Sahib is conferred on Senior Hospital Assistants Jan Mahamad, Nasiruddin Khan and Aziz Mahamad Khan, of the Subordinate Indian Medical Department. MOSQUITOS AND MALARIA.
Civil Surgeons, with entomological proclivities, are asked by Government " to make collections of mosquitos and other flies that bite men or animals, in accordance with the instructions contained in Professor Ray Lankester's pamphlet," with a view to determining the possible connection of malaria with mosquitos. We have reproduced these instructions in detail together with some other practical notes on the subject, but they are left over till next issue through want of space. THE CONTAGION OF
RINDERPEST.
In February 1898, the Inspector-General of the.Civil Veterinary Department was instructed to direct the conduct of experiments similar to those which had been undertaken by Professor
DECLINE OF PLAGUE.
plague deaths in all India for the week 18th June had fallen to 523, a figure the ending less than that of Bombay City alone three months ago. The Belgaum District now heads the list with 108 deaths, and were it not for this locality, Kohlapur, Poona and the Presidency city, the mortality returns would be in tens rather than in hundreds. The Madras Presidency and the Central Provinces show clean bills. The Hyderabad State has only eight deaths and the Punjab onty one. In Bengal the week's total was seventeen, and the disease remained confined to Calcuttaand the suburbs. The type of the disease, however, is as severe as at any period of the epidemic. Nearly every case admitted into the three municipal hospitals in Bombay died within three or four days after The
?
?
?
admission.
BANQUET TO SIR WILLIAM MAOCORMAC, BART.
On the evening of the 2-ith May, an interesting and successful dinner was given at the Cafe Royal, by the old House Surgeons of St. Thomas' Hospital between the years 1870?1894, to Sir William MacCormac, in honour of his third year of tenure ot the office of President of the Ro}7al College of Surgeons. Of the 128 gentlemen who have held office during Sir William's connection with the Hospital, no less than seventy-seven were present to do honour to their old teacher. Of the remainder, sixteen have died, twenty-two were unavoidare resident abroad, and thirteen ably absent from various causes. Mr. G. C. Franklin, the senior old House Surgeon of the period, was in the chair, and the seats at the table were arranged in order of seniority. There The Queen and Royal were only two toasts, " The latter toast Guest." Our and Family" was proposed by the Chairman supported by Mr. Makim, Dr. Ackland, and Dr. Nichol. it was received most enthusiastically and drunk "
July
SIR WILLIAM MACCORMAC? CALCUTTA HOSPITALS.
1899.]
Sir William, who was at the gratifying proof touched evidently deeply which had been afforded him of the regard
with musical honours.
and affection in which he is held by his old reply. As pupils, made a most happy speech, inSir William old his to dressers, known is well a book, in which he has recorded his opinkeeps ion of the merits, or otherwise, of his old House Surgeons. Some allusions were made to this and the book in the course of the
speeches,
desire for a peep into its contents was expressed, At the but Sir William was not to be drawn. album an conclusion of the Chairman's speech the and signature address containing a short of those present was given to Sir William. several of Sir William's old House Sur-
Amongst
Indian Medical geons who have entered the Service only one was able to be present. CALCUTTA HOSPITALS.
Colonel Hundley's Report on the Calcutta Medical Institutions for 1898, shows that 123,567 were men, 89,TOG women and 47,977 children treated as out-door and in-door patients during the year, as compared with 177,710 men, 48,981 women and 63,010 children treated in 1897, of 78,511, which is a total decrease
showing
attributed to the plague-scare having temporarily reduced the population for some months. The number of Europeans and Eurasians treated increased b}7 134 and 1,482 respectively, while that of Mohamedans and Hindus diminished by 2o,933 and 52,303. It appears from Colonel female Hendley's report that the attendance ofin India, as might be expected increases, patients the in secured in proportion to the privacy number of beds total The rooms. consulting the available for in-door patients is 1,721, while was 1,158. beds number of occupied average In Calcutta 259 per thousand of the population The medical relief were treated as out-patients. with in Calcutta compares favourably given though that given in the large towns in England, it is probable that, with better arrangements, The more women would attend the hospitals. the for the all excluding death-rate
hospitals,
percent, of the number 16'4 in the former against patients Marked variations, depending on the year. class of patients admitted, occurred at the several Eye Infirmary, ot
was
132
treated
Thus the death-rate for men was Police the Hospital, 21 at the (? impbell ?86 at 22 at the Howrali General Hospital. and Hospital adult women, the Similarly, in the case of shows a rate of "76 Victoria Hospital Dufferin There has 30. of and the Campbell Hospital in the death-rate decrease been a considerable due it is of the Ho wrali General Hospital, of the healthiness reported to the comparative admission of fewer the to and district in 1898, moribund persons. Small-pox was less prevalent number of patients during the year, and the
institutions.
261
admitted into hospitals suffering from the disease fell from 218 to 37. With the exception of one case at the Mayo Native Hospital, the rest were treated at the Campbell Hospital. There was only one European admitted to the Campbell Hospital, against 41 in the previous year. Among those attacked, 23 were unprotected, and 11 of them, or 47'82 per cent., died. Of 10 persons who had been vaccinated, one died, but the marks of vaccination were very faint. The total death-rate was 32 against 30 in the previous year. The number of admissions for cholera decreased from 1,200 to 227, and the death-rate from 55 per cent, to 54 per cent. The decrease in admissions is most marked in the Campbell Hospital, where only 89 cases were treated against 535 in the previous year. Among the patients there were 17 Europeans and Eurasians, of whom 10 died, a ratio of 59 It is satisfactory to note that no case per cent. of cholera originated in an}^ of the institutions during the year. The
surgical operations decreased from 25,745 21,610, owing to the falling off in the attendance of patients due to the plague-scare. Death followed in 154 cases, giving a percentage of *71 against *70 in the previous year. The largest number of operations was performed at the Medical College Hospital, where the death-rate was '96 against '78. The increase is attributed to a larger number of operations of a serious to
nature having been performed. Colonel Hendley proposes a change on the system of recording the surgical operations. In the Eden Hospital the number of women and children admitted as in-door patients decreased from 1,535 to 1,372. Of these, 200 were Europeans, 519 Eurasians, 582 Hindus and Mohamedans. The death-rate for Europeans and Eurasians is given as 5'14, and that for all others as 10"37, against 4'99 and 10 18 of the previous year. The death-rate for Native children fell from 33 64 to 25, although 8 children were admitted in a moribund condition. The number of confinement cases fell from 616 to 582, of which 18 were fatal as compared with 22 in the previous year. There were nine fatal cases of septicaemia, of which two orioinated within the hospitals. There were ations performed, against 1,146 in the previousyear. It is satisfactory to note that, of the 14 cases in which ovariotomy was performed, 11 proved successful. The Lieutenant-Governor, in reviewing the report, is glad to notice that numerous improvements have been carried out at the several
l,104?oper-
hospitals. Very large
sums
are
being spent
on
and improvement of the and Medical College Hos-" General Presidency pitals, which lie does not doubt will greatly add to their efficiency and usefulness, "but he is pleased to see that smaller matters do not escape' the notice of Colonel Hendley, and that almost the
reconstruction
THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
262
everywhere
little
changes
are
being introduced, yet which all help
which do not cost much, and to promote the comfort of the
patients.
TROPICAL DISEASE TEACHING IN LONDON.
This extract of a letter from an Indian Medical Officer on furlough will be read with inteiest :?"I joined Manson's class at St. George's His lectures are very good on tropical diseases. and well illustrated by microscopic preparations. The other day at the Branch Hospital, I saw crescent bodies, large plasmodia and flagellated bodies, the latter very lively and playing football with the red blood corpuscles. Seeing is believing with me, and I am a convert to Laveran's discover}' from henceforth. In consequence of the row at the Seamen's Hospital, a new staff is being elected. Among the candidates are two of our men, Andrew Duncan and Oswald Baker (late of Rangoon). At St. Peter's the other day, for a litholapaxy case, they had three evacuators in good condition going one after the other, and nurses to clean and fill them. No wonder the washing out did not take long!" .
.
THE TEETH OF RECRUITS.
Colonel Dalbiac's question addressed to the Under-Secretary for War as to the number of "
recruits rejected during the past year on account of bad teeth, who were in every other respect fully up to the required standard/' and the answer that the number under the heading "loss or decay of many teeth" was 1,767," require some analysis to bring out the true The statistical significance of the figures. report of the Inspector-General of Recruiting for 1898 shows, according to the British Medical Journal, that 60,501 recruits for the regular forces were medically inspected, so that 1 in 38 (nearly) were rejected on account of bad teeth. The total number rejected was 23,287, which gives about 75 per 1,000 on account of bad teeth. The total rejections, however, are divided in the report into two classes: (1) various ailments; (2) want of physical development, the former including all those rejected for purely medical reasons, the latter for those under military standard. Those under standard numbered 9,318, and those rejected for various ailments, 13,696; the first should be set aside, because, coming under the early part of the examination, they would be summarily rejected without reference to teeth; of the second, the proportion rejected on account of teeth works out But none of these at about 127 per 1,000. numbers with bad actual the show figures really teeth, which are no doubt very considerably more, because in the examination of recruits the first point is standard measurements, which, if "
|
[July
1899.
seriously defective, causes the summary rejection of the recruit without reference to teeth. As, however, the examination of teeth is usually about the last part of the medical inspection, those rejected for defective dentition, ma}7 be held The question of to be fairly fit in other respects. teeth in recruits is a difficult one, but is fairly met by a recent revised regulation giving examining medical officers a wide discretion. It is really astonishing how man}7 tine muscular men there are of the recruits' age with poor and defective teeth. On the other hand, numbers of weedy men have fair teeth. It is not so much a question of the total number of teeth lost or decayed, but whether (including the wisdom teeth probably in young recruits still unset) there are left sufficient opposing molars for effective mastication. Beyond that it is neither desirable nor practicable to lay down hard-and-fast rules. CARRIAGE OF PLAGUE CULTURES.
In June of last year two cases of plague 011 board the steamer Carthage on her to The Carthage took as pasvoyage Europe. senger a doctor who during the voyage intended to make experiments with what were supposed to be plague microbes. Acting on instructions from the medical authorities, the Government of India have issued orders that no plague microbes or cultures are to be taken 011 shipboard without a certificate from the Health Officer; it is also provided that packages are to be addressed to and intended for scientific purposes at some recognised constituted laboratory and must be secured in tins of adequate strength, hermetically sealed and labelled with such a distinguishing inscription as will suffice to make immediately manifest the nature of the contents.
occurred
MEDICAL PROGRESS IN SIAM.
most spondent in In
a
interesting a
recent
article
a
special
corre-
issue of the Times records
in the general condition The writer says that of the Siamese kingdom. in Bangkok some attempt has been made at sanitation in deference to the persistent advice of English health officers; roads have been cut and trees planted; latrines have been put up and refuse collected, and improved hospital accommodation provided. But there is no water-supply, and in this great city of more than 400,000 inhabitants the people have to drink the polluted and often brackish river water. Thousands of lives are every year sacrificed to the Menam There is a Belgian physician to the waters. but the health officers are British. of Siam, King Progress, it is believed, would be more rapid
gratifying improvement
July
GLAUCOMA?HEART DISEASE.
1899.]
of but for two chief causes (1) the multitude surrounded has the which King with advisers Asiatics who himself, and (2) the masses of to foreign protection. have been admitted The Professorship of Pathology at the Calthe cutta Medical College, hitherto held by in Resident Physician of the College Hospital, an is created indepenother his duties, addition to dent professorship, as its importance demanded. The professor will also be the Official Bacteriologist to the Government of Bengal. The fund raised to commemorate the untimely is death from plague of Major Evans, r.M.S.,
already,
we
to secure
understand, sufficient
a
small prize suitable tablet as well in pathology at the Medical College, Calcutta. as
to found
a
Lt.-Colonel C. Warden, i.m.s., lately Medical to Store-keeper, Calcutta, has been appointed of succeed the late Dr. Macnamara, as Inspector Stores at the India Office. The fungus for the extermination of locusts, referred to in our last number, is to be obtained from Captain Rogers, i.m.s., Imperial Bacteriologist, Muktesar, Kumaon Hills.
263
(ttuippt ?Opi(K. BIRTHDAY HONOURS.
The members of the medical profession in the Indian section of the Birthday Honour List numerous. not are Surgeon-General A. A. Gore, late Principal Medical Officer, H. M.'s Forces in India, received the Companionship of the Bath. Lieut.-Colonel W. G. King, i.m.s., Sanitary Commissioner, Madras, well known in connection with the preservation of vaccine lymph, and his researches on the natural history of cow-pox, received the Companionship of the Order of the Indian Empire. Colonels Barnett and Town send, r.am.c., and Lieut.-Colonels W. K. Hatch and Bookey, i.m.s., are made Honorary Surgeons to the Viceroy; and the title of Khan Sahib is conferred on Senior Hospital Assistants Jan Mahamad, Nasiruddin Khan and Aziz Mahamad Khan, of the Subordinate Indian Medical Department. MOSQUITOS AND MALARIA.
Civil Surgeons, with entomological proclivities, are asked by Government " to make collections of mosquitos and other flies that bite men or animals, in accordance with the instructions contained in Professor Ray Lankester's pamphlet," with a view to determining the possible connection of malaria with mosquitos. We have reproduced these instructions in detail together with some other practical notes on the subject, but they are left over till next issue through want of space. THE CONTAGION OF
RINDERPEST.
In February 1898, the Inspector-General of the.Civil Veterinary Department was instructed to direct the conduct of experiments similar to those which had been undertaken by Professor
DECLINE OF PLAGUE.
plague deaths in all India for the week 18th June had fallen to 523, a figure the ending less than that of Bombay City alone three months ago. The Belgaum District now heads the list with 108 deaths, and were it not for this locality, Kohlapur, Poona and the Presidency city, the mortality returns would be in tens rather than in hundreds. The Madras Presidency and the Central Provinces show clean bills. The Hyderabad State has only eight deaths and the Punjab onty one. In Bengal the week's total was seventeen, and the disease remained confined to Calcuttaand the suburbs. The type of the disease, however, is as severe as at any period of the epidemic. Nearly every case admitted into the three municipal hospitals in Bombay died within three or four days after The
?
?
?
admission.
BANQUET TO SIR WILLIAM MAOCORMAC, BART.
On the evening of the 2-ith May, an interesting and successful dinner was given at the Cafe Royal, by the old House Surgeons of St. Thomas' Hospital between the years 1870?1894, to Sir William MacCormac, in honour of his third year of tenure ot the office of President of the Ro}7al College of Surgeons. Of the 128 gentlemen who have held office during Sir William's connection with the Hospital, no less than seventy-seven were present to do honour to their old teacher. Of the remainder, sixteen have died, twenty-two were unavoidare resident abroad, and thirteen ably absent from various causes. Mr. G. C. Franklin, the senior old House Surgeon of the period, was in the chair, and the seats at the table were arranged in order of seniority. There The Queen and Royal were only two toasts, " The latter toast Guest." Our and Family" was proposed by the Chairman supported by Mr. Makim, Dr. Ackland, and Dr. Nichol. it was received most enthusiastically and drunk "
July
SIR WILLIAM MACCORMAC? CALCUTTA HOSPITALS.
1899.]
Sir William, who was at the gratifying proof touched evidently deeply which had been afforded him of the regard
with musical honours.
and affection in which he is held by his old reply. As pupils, made a most happy speech, inSir William old his to dressers, known is well a book, in which he has recorded his opinkeeps ion of the merits, or otherwise, of his old House Surgeons. Some allusions were made to this and the book in the course of the
speeches,
desire for a peep into its contents was expressed, At the but Sir William was not to be drawn. album an conclusion of the Chairman's speech the and signature address containing a short of those present was given to Sir William. several of Sir William's old House Sur-
Amongst
Indian Medical geons who have entered the Service only one was able to be present. CALCUTTA HOSPITALS.
Colonel Hundley's Report on the Calcutta Medical Institutions for 1898, shows that 123,567 were men, 89,TOG women and 47,977 children treated as out-door and in-door patients during the year, as compared with 177,710 men, 48,981 women and 63,010 children treated in 1897, of 78,511, which is a total decrease
showing
attributed to the plague-scare having temporarily reduced the population for some months. The number of Europeans and Eurasians treated increased b}7 134 and 1,482 respectively, while that of Mohamedans and Hindus diminished by 2o,933 and 52,303. It appears from Colonel female Hendley's report that the attendance ofin India, as might be expected increases, patients the in secured in proportion to the privacy number of beds total The rooms. consulting the available for in-door patients is 1,721, while was 1,158. beds number of occupied average In Calcutta 259 per thousand of the population The medical relief were treated as out-patients. with in Calcutta compares favourably given though that given in the large towns in England, it is probable that, with better arrangements, The more women would attend the hospitals. the for the all excluding death-rate
hospitals,
percent, of the number 16'4 in the former against patients Marked variations, depending on the year. class of patients admitted, occurred at the several Eye Infirmary, ot
was
132
treated
Thus the death-rate for men was Police the Hospital, 21 at the (? impbell ?86 at 22 at the Howrali General Hospital. and Hospital adult women, the Similarly, in the case of shows a rate of "76 Victoria Hospital Dufferin There has 30. of and the Campbell Hospital in the death-rate decrease been a considerable due it is of the Ho wrali General Hospital, of the healthiness reported to the comparative admission of fewer the to and district in 1898, moribund persons. Small-pox was less prevalent number of patients during the year, and the
institutions.
261
admitted into hospitals suffering from the disease fell from 218 to 37. With the exception of one case at the Mayo Native Hospital, the rest were treated at the Campbell Hospital. There was only one European admitted to the Campbell Hospital, against 41 in the previous year. Among those attacked, 23 were unprotected, and 11 of them, or 47'82 per cent., died. Of 10 persons who had been vaccinated, one died, but the marks of vaccination were very faint. The total death-rate was 32 against 30 in the previous year. The number of admissions for cholera decreased from 1,200 to 227, and the death-rate from 55 per cent, to 54 per cent. The decrease in admissions is most marked in the Campbell Hospital, where only 89 cases were treated against 535 in the previous year. Among the patients there were 17 Europeans and Eurasians, of whom 10 died, a ratio of 59 It is satisfactory to note that no case per cent. of cholera originated in an}^ of the institutions during the year. The
surgical operations decreased from 25,745 21,610, owing to the falling off in the attendance of patients due to the plague-scare. Death followed in 154 cases, giving a percentage of *71 against *70 in the previous year. The largest number of operations was performed at the Medical College Hospital, where the death-rate was '96 against '78. The increase is attributed to a larger number of operations of a serious to
nature having been performed. Colonel Hendley proposes a change on the system of recording the surgical operations. In the Eden Hospital the number of women and children admitted as in-door patients decreased from 1,535 to 1,372. Of these, 200 were Europeans, 519 Eurasians, 582 Hindus and Mohamedans. The death-rate for Europeans and Eurasians is given as 5'14, and that for all others as 10"37, against 4'99 and 10 18 of the previous year. The death-rate for Native children fell from 33 64 to 25, although 8 children were admitted in a moribund condition. The number of confinement cases fell from 616 to 582, of which 18 were fatal as compared with 22 in the previous year. There were nine fatal cases of septicaemia, of which two orioinated within the hospitals. There were ations performed, against 1,146 in the previousyear. It is satisfactory to note that, of the 14 cases in which ovariotomy was performed, 11 proved successful. The Lieutenant-Governor, in reviewing the report, is glad to notice that numerous improvements have been carried out at the several
l,104?oper-
hospitals. Very large
sums
are
being spent
on
and improvement of the and Medical College Hos-" General Presidency pitals, which lie does not doubt will greatly add to their efficiency and usefulness, "but he is pleased to see that smaller matters do not escape' the notice of Colonel Hendley, and that almost the
reconstruction
THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
262
everywhere
little
changes
are
being introduced, yet which all help
which do not cost much, and to promote the comfort of the
patients.
TROPICAL DISEASE TEACHING IN LONDON.
This extract of a letter from an Indian Medical Officer on furlough will be read with inteiest :?"I joined Manson's class at St. George's His lectures are very good on tropical diseases. and well illustrated by microscopic preparations. The other day at the Branch Hospital, I saw crescent bodies, large plasmodia and flagellated bodies, the latter very lively and playing football with the red blood corpuscles. Seeing is believing with me, and I am a convert to Laveran's discover}' from henceforth. In consequence of the row at the Seamen's Hospital, a new staff is being elected. Among the candidates are two of our men, Andrew Duncan and Oswald Baker (late of Rangoon). At St. Peter's the other day, for a litholapaxy case, they had three evacuators in good condition going one after the other, and nurses to clean and fill them. No wonder the washing out did not take long!" .
.
THE TEETH OF RECRUITS.
Colonel Dalbiac's question addressed to the Under-Secretary for War as to the number of "
recruits rejected during the past year on account of bad teeth, who were in every other respect fully up to the required standard/' and the answer that the number under the heading "loss or decay of many teeth" was 1,767," require some analysis to bring out the true The statistical significance of the figures. report of the Inspector-General of Recruiting for 1898 shows, according to the British Medical Journal, that 60,501 recruits for the regular forces were medically inspected, so that 1 in 38 (nearly) were rejected on account of bad teeth. The total number rejected was 23,287, which gives about 75 per 1,000 on account of bad teeth. The total rejections, however, are divided in the report into two classes: (1) various ailments; (2) want of physical development, the former including all those rejected for purely medical reasons, the latter for those under military standard. Those under standard numbered 9,318, and those rejected for various ailments, 13,696; the first should be set aside, because, coming under the early part of the examination, they would be summarily rejected without reference to teeth; of the second, the proportion rejected on account of teeth works out But none of these at about 127 per 1,000. numbers with bad actual the show figures really teeth, which are no doubt very considerably more, because in the examination of recruits the first point is standard measurements, which, if "
|
[July
1899.
seriously defective, causes the summary rejection of the recruit without reference to teeth. As, however, the examination of teeth is usually about the last part of the medical inspection, those rejected for defective dentition, ma}7 be held The question of to be fairly fit in other respects. teeth in recruits is a difficult one, but is fairly met by a recent revised regulation giving examining medical officers a wide discretion. It is really astonishing how man}7 tine muscular men there are of the recruits' age with poor and defective teeth. On the other hand, numbers of weedy men have fair teeth. It is not so much a question of the total number of teeth lost or decayed, but whether (including the wisdom teeth probably in young recruits still unset) there are left sufficient opposing molars for effective mastication. Beyond that it is neither desirable nor practicable to lay down hard-and-fast rules. CARRIAGE OF PLAGUE CULTURES.
In June of last year two cases of plague 011 board the steamer Carthage on her to The Carthage took as pasvoyage Europe. senger a doctor who during the voyage intended to make experiments with what were supposed to be plague microbes. Acting on instructions from the medical authorities, the Government of India have issued orders that no plague microbes or cultures are to be taken 011 shipboard without a certificate from the Health Officer; it is also provided that packages are to be addressed to and intended for scientific purposes at some recognised constituted laboratory and must be secured in tins of adequate strength, hermetically sealed and labelled with such a distinguishing inscription as will suffice to make immediately manifest the nature of the contents.
occurred
MEDICAL PROGRESS IN SIAM.
most spondent in In
a
interesting a
recent
article
a
special
corre-
issue of the Times records
in the general condition The writer says that of the Siamese kingdom. in Bangkok some attempt has been made at sanitation in deference to the persistent advice of English health officers; roads have been cut and trees planted; latrines have been put up and refuse collected, and improved hospital accommodation provided. But there is no water-supply, and in this great city of more than 400,000 inhabitants the people have to drink the polluted and often brackish river water. Thousands of lives are every year sacrificed to the Menam There is a Belgian physician to the waters. but the health officers are British. of Siam, King Progress, it is believed, would be more rapid
gratifying improvement
July
GLAUCOMA?HEART DISEASE.
1899.]
of but for two chief causes (1) the multitude surrounded has the which King with advisers Asiatics who himself, and (2) the masses of to foreign protection. have been admitted The Professorship of Pathology at the Calthe cutta Medical College, hitherto held by in Resident Physician of the College Hospital, an is created indepenother his duties, addition to dent professorship, as its importance demanded. The professor will also be the Official Bacteriologist to the Government of Bengal. The fund raised to commemorate the untimely is death from plague of Major Evans, r.M.S.,
already,
we
to secure
understand, sufficient
a
small prize suitable tablet as well in pathology at the Medical College, Calcutta. as
to found
a
Lt.-Colonel C. Warden, i.m.s., lately Medical to Store-keeper, Calcutta, has been appointed of succeed the late Dr. Macnamara, as Inspector Stores at the India Office. The fungus for the extermination of locusts, referred to in our last number, is to be obtained from Captain Rogers, i.m.s., Imperial Bacteriologist, Muktesar, Kumaon Hills.
263
