(X*>l Cholera IN Russia.?The epidemic in Russia ing and lias reached St. Petersburg. Cases have reported as far west as Poland.
is spreadalso been
Dr. Giles' 11 eport on Anchvlostomiasis.?Dr. Giles' so much havoc in Assam, is now under the consideration of the Government of India.
report on ltdla-azdr disease, which has caused
Riots at
Astrabad.?Owing
to the
priests
at Astrabad
having preached that the cholera in that province is due to the use ot" alcohol, the mob attacked the liquor shops and looted the Armenian merchants, who are Uussiau subjects. Entension op Service in Nizam's Government.?The Government of India have been pleased to comply with the request of His Highness the Nizam's Government to retain the services of Surgeon-Captain Patrick Hehir for a further ? period of five yeara, from August 1892.
INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
288
The Victobia Jubilee Water-Works, Rajkote.? Sir Charles Ollivant, c.s., k.c.i.e., the Political Agent in Kattywar, performed the opening ceremony of the Victoria Jubilee Water-Works, Rajkote, on the 8th of August, in presence of a large and distinguished assemblage. Some of the chiefs and officials had specially come down for the purpose. Foreign Opinion on Cholera.?According to the Vienna correspondent of the Standard, Professor Drasche, the well-known epidemiologist, has written a series of articles The upon the present state and spread of cholera. Professor
contends that
India is the hot-bed of cholera
epidemics, the disease generally finding its way from Bombay by means of the Mecca pilgrims to Western Asia and Europe. From 1880 till 1884 sixty-four thousand six hundred and twenty-eight pilgrims, he states, left Bombay, of whom only twenty-two thousand four hundred returned. The pilgrimages to Mecca, he contends, are an international danger, for which the English, who almost monopolise the transport of the pilgrims to Mecca, are largely if the English It would be better," he says, responsible. subordinated their petty love of gain to higher sanitary "
"
interests."
Water-Supply and Drainage in Bengal.?The folResolution by the Bengal Government is gazetted:? In considering the various schemes which have been brought forward from time to time for the purpose of providing the town of Howrah aud the small municipal towns on the west bank of the river between Howrah and Hooghly with a supply of filtered water, the Lieutenant-Governor was led to the opinion that the existing municipal law did not make adequate provision for inducing municipalities to undertake schemes of water-supply or drainage, or to combine their resources for the purpose of undertaking such schemes. Tentative proposals were therefore drawn up with this object, and were circulated to selected officers and non-official chairmen of municipalities. On receipt of their opinions, a number of gentlemen who were qualified by their experience to advise the LieutenantGovernor on these difficult questions were asked to meet His Honor at a Conference at Belvedere on the 18th July. The reports and papers bearing on the subject were circulated to them beforehand for consideration. The Conference agreed in adopting the following Resolutions, one member dissenting from the first three, but concurring in the fourth : I. That it is expedient, in the opinion of this Conference, that the Local Government should be empowered, if the existing law does not already empower it, to require municipalities to apply under section 221 for the extension of the provisions of Parts VI and VII of the Municipal Act {i.e., to provide for projects of drainage and water-supply). II. That it is expedient, in the opinion of this Conference, that the Local Government should be empowered to require municipalities to combine with one another, and with District or Local Boards and Cantonment authorities, for the purpose of improving the water-supply of the area subject to their jurisdiction. III. That it is expedient, in the opinion of this Conference, that the Local Government should be empowered to require municipalities to combine with one another, and with District or Local Boards and Cantonment authorities, for the purpose of improving the drainage of the area subject to their jurisdiction, IV. That when an application is made to Government on the part of the inhabitants of any tract where malarial fever prevails, or when it is notorious that there is a high rate of mortality due to the want of drainage, provision shall be made by law for ascertaining the wishes of the majority of the inhabitants or owners of property concerned as represented by the District Board, and if the majority support the scheme, the Government shall be empowered to carry out comprehensive schemes of drainage, and to raise from the area affected such funds as may be necessary for meeting the cost of such schemes. Steps will now be taken to add to the Municipal Bill pending before the Legislative Council provisions giving effect to the first three resolutions. Application will also be made to the Government of India for permission to introduce into Council a Bill embodying the principle affirmed in the fourth resolution.
lowing
[Sept.
1892.
Indian Chlorodyne.?Acting on the suggestion of Surgeon-General with the Government of Madras,
the the Madras Government addressed the Government of India in view to sanction being accorded to the storage of factorymade chlorodyne in the Medical Store Depot, Madras, in lieu of the chlorodyne obtained annually from Europe, as the former article has been found not only to be as efficacious as the latter, but also less expensive. The Government of India has now directed that the chlorodyne manufactured at the Medical Store Depot, Bombay, which is the same compound as the British Pharmacopasial tinctura chlorormi et morphinaj, be introduced in all the three presidencies as an article of store supply in lieu of chlorodyne from Europe. Medical Research in India.?On this subject an Indian Medical Officer publishes in the daily papers the following extract from a letter which he has received from a doctor of world-wide reputation as a specialist in tropical diseases:?"I quite appreciate the difficulties the Indian Medical Service has to contend against in the matter of scientific research. These endless statistics, which are of very little use as far as I can see, should be relegated to clerks, and the Government ought to demand evidence of honest endeavour on the part of Medical Officers to advance our knowledge of disease. As a consequence of the bad system in our public services, England is lagging far behind in the matter of tropical diseases where she should lead. The French beat us all to sticks, and the Germans will soon do the same. The men are not to blame for this, but the system is. Have you seen any of the recent French books on tropical disease, Kiener and Kelch, Corre, Roux, Laveran, Bertrand and Fontan, and a lot of others ? If you have not, you will weep on reading them and say with me ?' My country, oh ! my country.' Why don't some of you aud men hammer at the Government in this matter. relieve good men of a mass of statistical and clerical work which might very well be left to coolies." .
.
.
is spreadalso been
Dr. Giles' 11 eport on Anchvlostomiasis.?Dr. Giles' so much havoc in Assam, is now under the consideration of the Government of India.
report on ltdla-azdr disease, which has caused
Riots at
Astrabad.?Owing
to the
priests
at Astrabad
having preached that the cholera in that province is due to the use ot" alcohol, the mob attacked the liquor shops and looted the Armenian merchants, who are Uussiau subjects. Entension op Service in Nizam's Government.?The Government of India have been pleased to comply with the request of His Highness the Nizam's Government to retain the services of Surgeon-Captain Patrick Hehir for a further ? period of five yeara, from August 1892.
INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
288
The Victobia Jubilee Water-Works, Rajkote.? Sir Charles Ollivant, c.s., k.c.i.e., the Political Agent in Kattywar, performed the opening ceremony of the Victoria Jubilee Water-Works, Rajkote, on the 8th of August, in presence of a large and distinguished assemblage. Some of the chiefs and officials had specially come down for the purpose. Foreign Opinion on Cholera.?According to the Vienna correspondent of the Standard, Professor Drasche, the well-known epidemiologist, has written a series of articles The upon the present state and spread of cholera. Professor
contends that
India is the hot-bed of cholera
epidemics, the disease generally finding its way from Bombay by means of the Mecca pilgrims to Western Asia and Europe. From 1880 till 1884 sixty-four thousand six hundred and twenty-eight pilgrims, he states, left Bombay, of whom only twenty-two thousand four hundred returned. The pilgrimages to Mecca, he contends, are an international danger, for which the English, who almost monopolise the transport of the pilgrims to Mecca, are largely if the English It would be better," he says, responsible. subordinated their petty love of gain to higher sanitary "
"
interests."
Water-Supply and Drainage in Bengal.?The folResolution by the Bengal Government is gazetted:? In considering the various schemes which have been brought forward from time to time for the purpose of providing the town of Howrah aud the small municipal towns on the west bank of the river between Howrah and Hooghly with a supply of filtered water, the Lieutenant-Governor was led to the opinion that the existing municipal law did not make adequate provision for inducing municipalities to undertake schemes of water-supply or drainage, or to combine their resources for the purpose of undertaking such schemes. Tentative proposals were therefore drawn up with this object, and were circulated to selected officers and non-official chairmen of municipalities. On receipt of their opinions, a number of gentlemen who were qualified by their experience to advise the LieutenantGovernor on these difficult questions were asked to meet His Honor at a Conference at Belvedere on the 18th July. The reports and papers bearing on the subject were circulated to them beforehand for consideration. The Conference agreed in adopting the following Resolutions, one member dissenting from the first three, but concurring in the fourth : I. That it is expedient, in the opinion of this Conference, that the Local Government should be empowered, if the existing law does not already empower it, to require municipalities to apply under section 221 for the extension of the provisions of Parts VI and VII of the Municipal Act {i.e., to provide for projects of drainage and water-supply). II. That it is expedient, in the opinion of this Conference, that the Local Government should be empowered to require municipalities to combine with one another, and with District or Local Boards and Cantonment authorities, for the purpose of improving the water-supply of the area subject to their jurisdiction. III. That it is expedient, in the opinion of this Conference, that the Local Government should be empowered to require municipalities to combine with one another, and with District or Local Boards and Cantonment authorities, for the purpose of improving the drainage of the area subject to their jurisdiction, IV. That when an application is made to Government on the part of the inhabitants of any tract where malarial fever prevails, or when it is notorious that there is a high rate of mortality due to the want of drainage, provision shall be made by law for ascertaining the wishes of the majority of the inhabitants or owners of property concerned as represented by the District Board, and if the majority support the scheme, the Government shall be empowered to carry out comprehensive schemes of drainage, and to raise from the area affected such funds as may be necessary for meeting the cost of such schemes. Steps will now be taken to add to the Municipal Bill pending before the Legislative Council provisions giving effect to the first three resolutions. Application will also be made to the Government of India for permission to introduce into Council a Bill embodying the principle affirmed in the fourth resolution.
lowing
[Sept.
1892.
Indian Chlorodyne.?Acting on the suggestion of Surgeon-General with the Government of Madras,
the the Madras Government addressed the Government of India in view to sanction being accorded to the storage of factorymade chlorodyne in the Medical Store Depot, Madras, in lieu of the chlorodyne obtained annually from Europe, as the former article has been found not only to be as efficacious as the latter, but also less expensive. The Government of India has now directed that the chlorodyne manufactured at the Medical Store Depot, Bombay, which is the same compound as the British Pharmacopasial tinctura chlorormi et morphinaj, be introduced in all the three presidencies as an article of store supply in lieu of chlorodyne from Europe. Medical Research in India.?On this subject an Indian Medical Officer publishes in the daily papers the following extract from a letter which he has received from a doctor of world-wide reputation as a specialist in tropical diseases:?"I quite appreciate the difficulties the Indian Medical Service has to contend against in the matter of scientific research. These endless statistics, which are of very little use as far as I can see, should be relegated to clerks, and the Government ought to demand evidence of honest endeavour on the part of Medical Officers to advance our knowledge of disease. As a consequence of the bad system in our public services, England is lagging far behind in the matter of tropical diseases where she should lead. The French beat us all to sticks, and the Germans will soon do the same. The men are not to blame for this, but the system is. Have you seen any of the recent French books on tropical disease, Kiener and Kelch, Corre, Roux, Laveran, Bertrand and Fontan, and a lot of others ? If you have not, you will weep on reading them and say with me ?' My country, oh ! my country.' Why don't some of you aud men hammer at the Government in this matter. relieve good men of a mass of statistical and clerical work which might very well be left to coolies." .
.
.
