Judical |}ctti!i. Small-pox at Leh.?Small-pox lias broken out at Leh. Cases have also occurred at Tankse and Shia. Segregation of the capes is being attempted. Dictionary of Economic PRODUCTS.~The " Dictionary
of Economic Products," edited by Dr. Watts, will
soon be and published. Sanitation op Howrah Markets.?A complaint has been lodged with the Magistrate and Municipal Chairman of Howrah to the effect that the Howrah markets are in
completed
insanitary condition. The matter will be considered at the next general meeting of the Howrah Municipality.
an
INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
820 Revision
op
Lunatic Asylum Rules.?A committee
consisting of the Commissioner of Police, the Magistrate 24-Pergunnahs, the Surgeon Superintendent of the General Hospital and the Superintendent of the Asylums at the Presidency (Secretary), has been appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal to revise the Rules for the management of Lunatic Asylums. This has become necessary in consequence of the publication of the new Criminal Procedure Code, which renders the existing manual obsolete in many respects, and of the issue of a large of the
number of orders from time to time since it was drawn up those previously in force.
modifying
Sanitary Reforms
in Kashmir.?Native prejudice at spite of the terrible lesson received during the late cholera epidemic, seem3 to be actively at work to render null and void Dr. Harvey's recommendations for improved
Srinagar,
in
sanitation. One of these was that wide main streets should be made, and that all lanes and alleys should be wide enough to admit of the passage of conservancy carts, wheu the burnt out quarter came to be rebuilt. The Srinagar Muni-
cipality promptly negatived this proposal. The people of the town started an agitation opposing the project of making a broad straight central road in the burnt out area to replace the former tortuous one. They also opposed the project for all the new roads, and expressed their disapprobation by assembling in crowds before the Maharajah's palace. Cholera in Great Britain.?In spite of the elaborate precautious taken by the Local Government Board cholera has appeared in the country, and cases have been reported from Middlesboro, Dundee, South Sheilds, Macclesfield, Grimsby, Islington, and Gravesend. But the authorities may congratulate themselves that, owing to the prophylactic measures employed, in no place has the disease assumed Cremation of victims from cholera, an epidemic form. instead of burial, is being urged. The Local Government Board have issued orders prohibiting the importation into England of rags from France, and of rags, bedding, and disused filthy clothing from any European port north of Dunkirk, excepting the ports of Norway. Sweden and Denmark. The ports to which vessels from Hamburg come are having special attention paid to them by the Medical Officers of Health of the several ports. Cholera in Hamburg.?Dr. Koch and Dr. Rahts have
been deputed by the Imperial Board of Health to proceed to Hamburg and advise the authorities as to the measures to be taken to suppress the cholera epidemic there. Hamburg has experienced a sharp outbreak of cholera. The reasons assigned for the rapid spread of the epidemic are: (1) the constant influx of Russian emigrants who have brought cholera along with them ; (2) the impurity of the water-supply, and the fact that many workmen by the river and sailors are in the habit of drinking the water of the Elbe, which is notoriously impure ; (3) defective sanitation, and general unpreparedness to combat a cholera epidemic ; (4) the abnormal heat that prevailed. During the panic of the epidemic the Hamburg shops which sold disinfectants were besieged by eager crowds of would-be purchasers, and shares in the chemical companies rose about 7 per cent. How Cholera is spread.?In the
Half-yearly Report
of Sickness and Mortality among the servants of the East Indian Railway Company, for the first half of the current of infection by cholera stools year, an instructive instance is recorded. Dr. Bathe reports that there can be no doubt that milk diluted with impure water was the cause of the outbreak of cholera last April amongst the European employes and their families stationed at Asansol. The milk supply was not equal to the demand, and the only water available for its dilution was procured by digging holes in the bed of a small river at a spot where the excreta of several cholera patients had only a day or two previously been thrown. Almost all those who suffered from cholera had partaken of this milk. At Jamalpura native child,
suffering from cholera, was seen by Dr. Brooke lying on a bag full of rice, and the choleraic dejecta were soaking through the gunny bag into the rice. Had this rice been sent on to some distant place where no cholera existed, and had cholera^ supervened on this rice being distributed and eaten, we might have been treated to various theories as to the origin of the epidemic ; but it is very doubtful if the simple explanation of the choleraic dejecta of this child wo
uld have been hit
on.
("Oct. 1892.
Cholera among the Kashmir Troops.?The Kashmir frontier have been reported free from about 20 cases are said to have occurred.
troops on the cholera, though
from Kew.?The authorities at out a valuable collection of Botanical to the Herbarium of the Royal Botanical Gar?
Botanical Specimens Kew
are
sending
specimens dens at Shibpur.
Cholera in the United States.?Quite a panic has occurred in New York owing to certain Atlantic liners having arrived from Hamburg with cholera cases on board. Twenty days' quarantine, and longer if necessary, at all ports of the United States have been imposed on all vessels
carryin g immigrants.
O bituary : John Forbes Watson.?The death of Dr. John Forbes Watson, M.A., M.D., ll. D? is announced. He entered the Medical Service of the East India Company in 1850, and served in the Bombay Presidency. He was a graduate of the University of Aberdeen. In later life he became Reporter 011 the Products of India and Director of the India Museum.
Wine and Cholera Bacilli.?Dr. Alois Pick of Vienna has made a number of observations on the effect of wine on the growth of typhus and cholera bacilli. He found that when water was mixed with wine there was in a short time a distinct lessening of the number of living typhus bacilli present; and that after twenty-four hours no colonies of this organism could be cultivated, whereas in the same water unmixed with wine they showed themselves in large numbers. Similarly ten to fifteen minutes after mixing wine with infected water living cholera vibrios were He accordingly recommends no longer to be recognised. that in all typhus or cholera epidemics drinking water should be adulterated with an equal quantity of wine, and all that remains to be done is to determine how far one dare go in the dilution and how long the mixture ought to stand in order to make sure that the cholera or typhus He himself thinks that it ought to germs are destroyed stand for at least twenty-four hours before being used. This last precaution will be looked upon as a serious blow to those who might have regarded the first part of his investigations as a delightful incentive, and it would perhaps be wise for those who would prepare themselves by a course of prophylactic treatment on these lines to wait till his observations have been confirmed, and in the mean time to confine themselves to stale pegs twenty-four hours' old and not take too many of them.
of Economic Products," edited by Dr. Watts, will
soon be and published. Sanitation op Howrah Markets.?A complaint has been lodged with the Magistrate and Municipal Chairman of Howrah to the effect that the Howrah markets are in
completed
insanitary condition. The matter will be considered at the next general meeting of the Howrah Municipality.
an
INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
820 Revision
op
Lunatic Asylum Rules.?A committee
consisting of the Commissioner of Police, the Magistrate 24-Pergunnahs, the Surgeon Superintendent of the General Hospital and the Superintendent of the Asylums at the Presidency (Secretary), has been appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal to revise the Rules for the management of Lunatic Asylums. This has become necessary in consequence of the publication of the new Criminal Procedure Code, which renders the existing manual obsolete in many respects, and of the issue of a large of the
number of orders from time to time since it was drawn up those previously in force.
modifying
Sanitary Reforms
in Kashmir.?Native prejudice at spite of the terrible lesson received during the late cholera epidemic, seem3 to be actively at work to render null and void Dr. Harvey's recommendations for improved
Srinagar,
in
sanitation. One of these was that wide main streets should be made, and that all lanes and alleys should be wide enough to admit of the passage of conservancy carts, wheu the burnt out quarter came to be rebuilt. The Srinagar Muni-
cipality promptly negatived this proposal. The people of the town started an agitation opposing the project of making a broad straight central road in the burnt out area to replace the former tortuous one. They also opposed the project for all the new roads, and expressed their disapprobation by assembling in crowds before the Maharajah's palace. Cholera in Great Britain.?In spite of the elaborate precautious taken by the Local Government Board cholera has appeared in the country, and cases have been reported from Middlesboro, Dundee, South Sheilds, Macclesfield, Grimsby, Islington, and Gravesend. But the authorities may congratulate themselves that, owing to the prophylactic measures employed, in no place has the disease assumed Cremation of victims from cholera, an epidemic form. instead of burial, is being urged. The Local Government Board have issued orders prohibiting the importation into England of rags from France, and of rags, bedding, and disused filthy clothing from any European port north of Dunkirk, excepting the ports of Norway. Sweden and Denmark. The ports to which vessels from Hamburg come are having special attention paid to them by the Medical Officers of Health of the several ports. Cholera in Hamburg.?Dr. Koch and Dr. Rahts have
been deputed by the Imperial Board of Health to proceed to Hamburg and advise the authorities as to the measures to be taken to suppress the cholera epidemic there. Hamburg has experienced a sharp outbreak of cholera. The reasons assigned for the rapid spread of the epidemic are: (1) the constant influx of Russian emigrants who have brought cholera along with them ; (2) the impurity of the water-supply, and the fact that many workmen by the river and sailors are in the habit of drinking the water of the Elbe, which is notoriously impure ; (3) defective sanitation, and general unpreparedness to combat a cholera epidemic ; (4) the abnormal heat that prevailed. During the panic of the epidemic the Hamburg shops which sold disinfectants were besieged by eager crowds of would-be purchasers, and shares in the chemical companies rose about 7 per cent. How Cholera is spread.?In the
Half-yearly Report
of Sickness and Mortality among the servants of the East Indian Railway Company, for the first half of the current of infection by cholera stools year, an instructive instance is recorded. Dr. Bathe reports that there can be no doubt that milk diluted with impure water was the cause of the outbreak of cholera last April amongst the European employes and their families stationed at Asansol. The milk supply was not equal to the demand, and the only water available for its dilution was procured by digging holes in the bed of a small river at a spot where the excreta of several cholera patients had only a day or two previously been thrown. Almost all those who suffered from cholera had partaken of this milk. At Jamalpura native child,
suffering from cholera, was seen by Dr. Brooke lying on a bag full of rice, and the choleraic dejecta were soaking through the gunny bag into the rice. Had this rice been sent on to some distant place where no cholera existed, and had cholera^ supervened on this rice being distributed and eaten, we might have been treated to various theories as to the origin of the epidemic ; but it is very doubtful if the simple explanation of the choleraic dejecta of this child wo
uld have been hit
on.
("Oct. 1892.
Cholera among the Kashmir Troops.?The Kashmir frontier have been reported free from about 20 cases are said to have occurred.
troops on the cholera, though
from Kew.?The authorities at out a valuable collection of Botanical to the Herbarium of the Royal Botanical Gar?
Botanical Specimens Kew
are
sending
specimens dens at Shibpur.
Cholera in the United States.?Quite a panic has occurred in New York owing to certain Atlantic liners having arrived from Hamburg with cholera cases on board. Twenty days' quarantine, and longer if necessary, at all ports of the United States have been imposed on all vessels
carryin g immigrants.
O bituary : John Forbes Watson.?The death of Dr. John Forbes Watson, M.A., M.D., ll. D? is announced. He entered the Medical Service of the East India Company in 1850, and served in the Bombay Presidency. He was a graduate of the University of Aberdeen. In later life he became Reporter 011 the Products of India and Director of the India Museum.
Wine and Cholera Bacilli.?Dr. Alois Pick of Vienna has made a number of observations on the effect of wine on the growth of typhus and cholera bacilli. He found that when water was mixed with wine there was in a short time a distinct lessening of the number of living typhus bacilli present; and that after twenty-four hours no colonies of this organism could be cultivated, whereas in the same water unmixed with wine they showed themselves in large numbers. Similarly ten to fifteen minutes after mixing wine with infected water living cholera vibrios were He accordingly recommends no longer to be recognised. that in all typhus or cholera epidemics drinking water should be adulterated with an equal quantity of wine, and all that remains to be done is to determine how far one dare go in the dilution and how long the mixture ought to stand in order to make sure that the cholera or typhus He himself thinks that it ought to germs are destroyed stand for at least twenty-four hours before being used. This last precaution will be looked upon as a serious blow to those who might have regarded the first part of his investigations as a delightful incentive, and it would perhaps be wise for those who would prepare themselves by a course of prophylactic treatment on these lines to wait till his observations have been confirmed, and in the mean time to confine themselves to stale pegs twenty-four hours' old and not take too many of them.
