Deaths
registered during July N. "YV. PRO-
Population
1874.
VINCES
Punjab.
Oude,
30,769,056
17,487,125
11,185,357 April.
190
Cholera
Small.pox
&
&
Injuries
Other
Population
644,405
447,600 ?
Total
397,522
U
s ^
Cliolera
4
Measles Diarrhoea
74 205 1
45 65
Dysentery Injuries
15
causes
292
Total
804
125
*61
1-4 2-5 ?4 9'5
71 22 637
'95 1-32 ?41 11-86
82 90 20 702
24-9
1,166
21-71
1,174
Still-born
2-2 61 ?03 2-4 27 '59 21-1 35-4
66
Deaths in Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras in August 1874.
Cholera
34 3 311
Sfflall-pox
Fevers Measles Diarrhoea
9-5
39 213
11 6-4
2-2 40 ?6 10-1
"81 103 22 830
2-4 3-1
27-9
1,288
?1
45
*72
^jsentery Injuries
91 20
causes
309
Total
840
206
25 38-8
Still-born t For July 1874.
For June 1874.
Deaths
registered during
Cholera
Sinall-pox fevers ??Wel complaints injuries
causes
Total
Percentage Suicide
bounds Occident sM?,
...
(Males... Females (Males... X Females (Males...
""(.Females
and ( Males... feb,te. ud Animals Females n
275 347 335
398
308 487
27,633
10,387
12,354
1-85
1-58
0-93
1-10
{ Females {Females
46 113 69 33 459 359 107 114
12 13 17 8 150 122 53 23
26 37 13 5 96 112 34 24
26 41 17 8 180 149 30 36
Suicide
...
Wounds
...
Accident
...
{
\
Death, of Deputy Surgeon-General Donald MacM.D.?We regret much to announce the death of Dr. D. MacDonald. The event took place at Sliillong on the 19th ultimo, and the cause Teas, we understand, dysentery. Dr. MacDonald was a genial kindly man, and a very popular medical officer. He will be much regretted by a large circle of friends. The next officer for promotion is Surgeon-Major R. Cockburn, Civil Surgeon of Benares.
Donald,
?04 ?15 6'98
375
348
Q.
Ph
1-1 ?1
35
Small-pox
I" evers
'?her
7,500
57,149
\
s a .2 ? s 2
3,747 7,439
2,467 15,617 1,642
Percentage
Females Snake bite and (Males Females wild animals
p-l
Other
... ...
7
2,618 6,808
20,560 27,954 4,200 1,300 2,945
o "S o-=
Diseases.
Other
...
Madras.*
Bombay.
Calcutta.
...
... ...
causes
July 1874.
and Madras in
Bombay,
Deaths in Calcutta,
...
Fevers Bowel complaints
May.
4
The Burdwan Fever.?We learn from a report submitted to the Government of Bengal regarding the prevalence of fever in the Burdwan division during the half-year ending 30th April 1874 that the disease has everywhere abated j this is attributed partly to the influence of a generally healthy season and partly to the short rainfall of the preceding year. In anticipation of a probable aggravation or recurrence of the disease towards the close of the rains, the Lieutenant-Governor has resolved to maintain the present relief agencies.
Tractile method of reducing1 Strangulated Hernia.?Dr. Daniel Leasure of Pittsburg Pa details, in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, several cases in which he employed what he calls the tractile method, or inversion of the body with local manipulation, successfully in cases suitable reducing both inguinal and femoral hernia). The for the application of this practice are recent cases in which there i3 no suspicion of adhesion or gangrene, and care should be taken that the whole hernial mass is not reduced, en bloc, without relief of the strangulation.
June 1874.
237
10
1
14,033 25,299 3,973 1,086 2,956
2,058 12,527
3,008 5,801
6,042
252 698 364
48,304
22,467
10,124
1-57
1-35
0'90
39 105 100 38 603 369 255 297
11 14 4 210 142 76 49
1,315
515
31 41 20 5
232 161 88 120
Landing-net for removing a stone or stones from the Bladder.?During the operation of lithotomy I have
been often hurt to see
a stone crushed by removal by the forceps (and thereby a specimen lost), or have waited expectantly to see fragments removed by the scoop; so I venture to suggest that we may gain a wrinkle from fishermen, and use a net for extractive purposes. The net (of silk or canvas, according to the size of the stones) is made to slide on a curved wire, bent on the principle of midwifery forceps. After the cut has been made into the bladder the net is introduced through the wound to the side of the stone or fragments ; and, by gently tickling the stone and manipulating the net, the stone or fragments (coaxed in) are caught on withdrawal. These stones, plus silk, are the occupants of the perineal wound instead of stone plus forceps or scoop. From the dead bladder I have removed stones fifty times by the net ; yet, useful as this net is, it is not so important an ally as the law of gravitation.?Mr, Richard Davy in the British
Medical Journal.
THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
280 Calcutta
Physical
Date.
Hydrant
Total Ammonia of
organic
matter in parts per million
1S74.
July 20th ,, ? >> ? ? ? ?
? ,,
Aug.
13th
?
14th
? ? ?
?06 *05 ?05
ditto Ditto Almost colorless and transparent Faint whitish tinge ; very turbid. Ditto slightly turbid. Ditto Tery slightly turbid. ditto Ditto ditto Ditto Almost colorless and transparent. Faint whitish tingo ; very slightly turbid. Faint brownish tinge ; slightly
4-7 5'2 6-0 4-6 50 4'9 5 7 6 5 5 7
?05 ?04 ?05 ?05 ?06 ?05 ?05 ?06 ?06
6 0
?07
Faint whitish tinge ; very slightly turbid. ditto Diito Almost colorless and transparent ditto Ditto
5-8
?07
5-8
?07 ?07 ?07
5 81 5 19
?061 ?087
7 9
?07
7-1 58 7'4 5 3 5 0 8-1 5 5 5 0 9'8 61 7-3 5-7 6-6
?07
ditto Ditto ditto Ditto Very faint whitish tinge;
?
,,
5'4 50 5 4
30th 31st 1st
?
,,
06 06 05 05
ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto Ditto slightly turbid. Almost colorless and transparent. ditto Ditto ditto Ditto Very faint brownish tinge,
3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 10th 11th 12th
>> >>
61 71 7-6 6'6 5o 54 5-7 5-5 55
Blight whitish tinge ; turbid.
21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 27tb 28th 29th
slightly turbid.
ly turbid.
slight-
turbid.
15th 17th 18th
? ? ,,
Averages for the present year Averages for the last year
...
10 th
20th 21st
22nd
pt.
24 th 25th 26 :h 27th 28th 29th 31st 1st 2nd 4th 5 th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th
Faint whitish tinge. slightly turbid. Almost colorless and transparent ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto d:tto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto Colorless and transparent. Almost colorless and transparent. Ditto ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Dit?o ditto Ditto Ditto ditto Ditto Tery faintly opalescent
Averages for the present year Averages for the last year
..
The
come over.
55
?07 ?07 ?08 ?07 ?07 ?07 ?07 ?07 ?07 ?07 ?07
6-1 5 8 5-2 5*4 5 2 47 5-7 52 5-0 4 7 5'8
?07 ?06 05 ?06 ?06 ?06 .06 ?07 ?07 ?08
C-04 4'65
?069 ?079
?07
This is then nesslerised.
20th July 1874. W. J.
OJfg.
Palmeb, M.D.,
Chemical Examiner.
in Guinea-worm Rajpootana.?Facts show tlint like other maladies, becomes epidemic and then subsides, there being a seasonal maximum of the disease occurring in the months of June, July, and August. Neither geological nor meteorological peculiarities have any effect on its prevalence ; for the worm may be contracted alike on the saline plains of Marwnr, and on the black soil of Kotah and i atun; in the western tracts, where the rainfall scarcely averages five inches per annum; to the districts bordering on Lsntral India, where the monsoon is seven times more plentiful;
guinea-worm,
as
in
Mullanee,
for 1872-73." Notes
on
Practice
in
Hospital.
Total ammonia estimated by distilling 250 c. c. of water with 7 c. c. saturated solution of carbonate of soda, and 25 c. c. of Wankljn and Chapman s solution of potash and permanganate of potash, till 125 c. c. of distillate has
ground,
surface, and in Jhallawar, where it approaches within
Chlorine in parts per mil lion.
chabacteb.
1874.
where water is 300 feet from the a tenth of that distance. Neither do ordinary barometric or thermometric conditions eeem to exercise control, for the guinea-worm is endemic in Bombay, where the atmosphere is moist, and the temperature comparatively equable; and in Marwar, where the air is dry, and hot winds blow as from a blast furnace, and where ice at night is often succeeded by a powerful sun during the day ; in Bickaneer, where water is 400 feet from the surface, where people do not wash in the wells, where bheestees' mussuks are not used, where the surface is sand, and the substratum sandstone and gravel, guinea-worm, is very prevalent. If the description of Bickaneer be attentively considered, confidence in the connexion of guinea-worm with either drinking or bathing water will, perhaps, be shaken. I am not at present in a position to advance with confidence any of guinea-worm, but the new theory with regard to the origin subject will not be lost sight of. Two facts with regard to the malady have been already elucidated by the' Rajpootana dispensary reports: ls?, that the malady is not contracted at Mount Aboo, or on granite formation, 2,800 feet above the surrounding plain ; 2ndly, that washing in the slime or dirty water of wells is not the cause of introduction of the worm into the system, for the people of Bickaneer, who do not wash in wells or tanks (for the very good reason that there are no wells or tanks for such purpose), nevertheless suffer to a considerable extent from guinea-worm. It may also be added that if guinea-worms are really inhabitants of wells, lignt is not necessary for their existence, for at Bickaneer some of the wells are 300 f
registered during July N. "YV. PRO-
Population
1874.
VINCES
Punjab.
Oude,
30,769,056
17,487,125
11,185,357 April.
190
Cholera
Small.pox
&
&
Injuries
Other
Population
644,405
447,600 ?
Total
397,522
U
s ^
Cliolera
4
Measles Diarrhoea
74 205 1
45 65
Dysentery Injuries
15
causes
292
Total
804
125
*61
1-4 2-5 ?4 9'5
71 22 637
'95 1-32 ?41 11-86
82 90 20 702
24-9
1,166
21-71
1,174
Still-born
2-2 61 ?03 2-4 27 '59 21-1 35-4
66
Deaths in Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras in August 1874.
Cholera
34 3 311
Sfflall-pox
Fevers Measles Diarrhoea
9-5
39 213
11 6-4
2-2 40 ?6 10-1
"81 103 22 830
2-4 3-1
27-9
1,288
?1
45
*72
^jsentery Injuries
91 20
causes
309
Total
840
206
25 38-8
Still-born t For July 1874.
For June 1874.
Deaths
registered during
Cholera
Sinall-pox fevers ??Wel complaints injuries
causes
Total
Percentage Suicide
bounds Occident sM?,
...
(Males... Females (Males... X Females (Males...
""(.Females
and ( Males... feb,te. ud Animals Females n
275 347 335
398
308 487
27,633
10,387
12,354
1-85
1-58
0-93
1-10
{ Females {Females
46 113 69 33 459 359 107 114
12 13 17 8 150 122 53 23
26 37 13 5 96 112 34 24
26 41 17 8 180 149 30 36
Suicide
...
Wounds
...
Accident
...
{
\
Death, of Deputy Surgeon-General Donald MacM.D.?We regret much to announce the death of Dr. D. MacDonald. The event took place at Sliillong on the 19th ultimo, and the cause Teas, we understand, dysentery. Dr. MacDonald was a genial kindly man, and a very popular medical officer. He will be much regretted by a large circle of friends. The next officer for promotion is Surgeon-Major R. Cockburn, Civil Surgeon of Benares.
Donald,
?04 ?15 6'98
375
348
Q.
Ph
1-1 ?1
35
Small-pox
I" evers
'?her
7,500
57,149
\
s a .2 ? s 2
3,747 7,439
2,467 15,617 1,642
Percentage
Females Snake bite and (Males Females wild animals
p-l
Other
... ...
7
2,618 6,808
20,560 27,954 4,200 1,300 2,945
o "S o-=
Diseases.
Other
...
Madras.*
Bombay.
Calcutta.
...
... ...
causes
July 1874.
and Madras in
Bombay,
Deaths in Calcutta,
...
Fevers Bowel complaints
May.
4
The Burdwan Fever.?We learn from a report submitted to the Government of Bengal regarding the prevalence of fever in the Burdwan division during the half-year ending 30th April 1874 that the disease has everywhere abated j this is attributed partly to the influence of a generally healthy season and partly to the short rainfall of the preceding year. In anticipation of a probable aggravation or recurrence of the disease towards the close of the rains, the Lieutenant-Governor has resolved to maintain the present relief agencies.
Tractile method of reducing1 Strangulated Hernia.?Dr. Daniel Leasure of Pittsburg Pa details, in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, several cases in which he employed what he calls the tractile method, or inversion of the body with local manipulation, successfully in cases suitable reducing both inguinal and femoral hernia). The for the application of this practice are recent cases in which there i3 no suspicion of adhesion or gangrene, and care should be taken that the whole hernial mass is not reduced, en bloc, without relief of the strangulation.
June 1874.
237
10
1
14,033 25,299 3,973 1,086 2,956
2,058 12,527
3,008 5,801
6,042
252 698 364
48,304
22,467
10,124
1-57
1-35
0'90
39 105 100 38 603 369 255 297
11 14 4 210 142 76 49
1,315
515
31 41 20 5
232 161 88 120
Landing-net for removing a stone or stones from the Bladder.?During the operation of lithotomy I have
been often hurt to see
a stone crushed by removal by the forceps (and thereby a specimen lost), or have waited expectantly to see fragments removed by the scoop; so I venture to suggest that we may gain a wrinkle from fishermen, and use a net for extractive purposes. The net (of silk or canvas, according to the size of the stones) is made to slide on a curved wire, bent on the principle of midwifery forceps. After the cut has been made into the bladder the net is introduced through the wound to the side of the stone or fragments ; and, by gently tickling the stone and manipulating the net, the stone or fragments (coaxed in) are caught on withdrawal. These stones, plus silk, are the occupants of the perineal wound instead of stone plus forceps or scoop. From the dead bladder I have removed stones fifty times by the net ; yet, useful as this net is, it is not so important an ally as the law of gravitation.?Mr, Richard Davy in the British
Medical Journal.
THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
280 Calcutta
Physical
Date.
Hydrant
Total Ammonia of
organic
matter in parts per million
1S74.
July 20th ,, ? >> ? ? ? ?
? ,,
Aug.
13th
?
14th
? ? ?
?06 *05 ?05
ditto Ditto Almost colorless and transparent Faint whitish tinge ; very turbid. Ditto slightly turbid. Ditto Tery slightly turbid. ditto Ditto ditto Ditto Almost colorless and transparent. Faint whitish tingo ; very slightly turbid. Faint brownish tinge ; slightly
4-7 5'2 6-0 4-6 50 4'9 5 7 6 5 5 7
?05 ?04 ?05 ?05 ?06 ?05 ?05 ?06 ?06
6 0
?07
Faint whitish tinge ; very slightly turbid. ditto Diito Almost colorless and transparent ditto Ditto
5-8
?07
5-8
?07 ?07 ?07
5 81 5 19
?061 ?087
7 9
?07
7-1 58 7'4 5 3 5 0 8-1 5 5 5 0 9'8 61 7-3 5-7 6-6
?07
ditto Ditto ditto Ditto Very faint whitish tinge;
?
,,
5'4 50 5 4
30th 31st 1st
?
,,
06 06 05 05
ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto Ditto slightly turbid. Almost colorless and transparent. ditto Ditto ditto Ditto Very faint brownish tinge,
3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 10th 11th 12th
>> >>
61 71 7-6 6'6 5o 54 5-7 5-5 55
Blight whitish tinge ; turbid.
21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 27tb 28th 29th
slightly turbid.
ly turbid.
slight-
turbid.
15th 17th 18th
? ? ,,
Averages for the present year Averages for the last year
...
10 th
20th 21st
22nd
pt.
24 th 25th 26 :h 27th 28th 29th 31st 1st 2nd 4th 5 th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th
Faint whitish tinge. slightly turbid. Almost colorless and transparent ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto d:tto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto Colorless and transparent. Almost colorless and transparent. Ditto ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Dit?o ditto Ditto Ditto ditto Ditto Tery faintly opalescent
Averages for the present year Averages for the last year
..
The
come over.
55
?07 ?07 ?08 ?07 ?07 ?07 ?07 ?07 ?07 ?07 ?07
6-1 5 8 5-2 5*4 5 2 47 5-7 52 5-0 4 7 5'8
?07 ?06 05 ?06 ?06 ?06 .06 ?07 ?07 ?08
C-04 4'65
?069 ?079
?07
This is then nesslerised.
20th July 1874. W. J.
OJfg.
Palmeb, M.D.,
Chemical Examiner.
in Guinea-worm Rajpootana.?Facts show tlint like other maladies, becomes epidemic and then subsides, there being a seasonal maximum of the disease occurring in the months of June, July, and August. Neither geological nor meteorological peculiarities have any effect on its prevalence ; for the worm may be contracted alike on the saline plains of Marwnr, and on the black soil of Kotah and i atun; in the western tracts, where the rainfall scarcely averages five inches per annum; to the districts bordering on Lsntral India, where the monsoon is seven times more plentiful;
guinea-worm,
as
in
Mullanee,
for 1872-73." Notes
on
Practice
in
Hospital.
Total ammonia estimated by distilling 250 c. c. of water with 7 c. c. saturated solution of carbonate of soda, and 25 c. c. of Wankljn and Chapman s solution of potash and permanganate of potash, till 125 c. c. of distillate has
ground,
surface, and in Jhallawar, where it approaches within
Chlorine in parts per mil lion.
chabacteb.
1874.
where water is 300 feet from the a tenth of that distance. Neither do ordinary barometric or thermometric conditions eeem to exercise control, for the guinea-worm is endemic in Bombay, where the atmosphere is moist, and the temperature comparatively equable; and in Marwar, where the air is dry, and hot winds blow as from a blast furnace, and where ice at night is often succeeded by a powerful sun during the day ; in Bickaneer, where water is 400 feet from the surface, where people do not wash in the wells, where bheestees' mussuks are not used, where the surface is sand, and the substratum sandstone and gravel, guinea-worm, is very prevalent. If the description of Bickaneer be attentively considered, confidence in the connexion of guinea-worm with either drinking or bathing water will, perhaps, be shaken. I am not at present in a position to advance with confidence any of guinea-worm, but the new theory with regard to the origin subject will not be lost sight of. Two facts with regard to the malady have been already elucidated by the' Rajpootana dispensary reports: ls?, that the malady is not contracted at Mount Aboo, or on granite formation, 2,800 feet above the surrounding plain ; 2ndly, that washing in the slime or dirty water of wells is not the cause of introduction of the worm into the system, for the people of Bickaneer, who do not wash in wells or tanks (for the very good reason that there are no wells or tanks for such purpose), nevertheless suffer to a considerable extent from guinea-worm. It may also be added that if guinea-worms are really inhabitants of wells, lignt is not necessary for their existence, for at Bickaneer some of the wells are 300 f
