Pub Date : 1912-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449X1200900110
S. Melville
IN a society such as ours, I take it no excuse need be offered for a discussion on a subject of such vital importance to a nation as that chosen for to-night. Though I cannot pretend to any expert knowledge, nor can I claim now to be even professionally interested in the purely clinical side of the question, yet in my early professional life I held the post of medical superintendent at the Liverpool Lock Hospital, and saw a good deal of this branch of work. Under the management of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, this small institution did much quiet and good work; like the traditional ugly stepdaughter, however, it created no enthusiasm, was finally cast off by its mother, and perished of inanition. At this time, and later, when I had the opportunity of seeing the result of state regulation on the Continent, one fact was strongly impressed upon me, namely, that no system of state interference could be of any possible value which dealt only with women and not also with men. The points to which I think our attention may be directed are: the reasons for state intervention, and the special legislative measures adopted in this country; the medical aspect of the question; the failure of state intervention and the causes underlying such failure; and on what lines, if any, the State may still assume responsibility.
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Pub Date : 1912-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449X1200900108
D. H. Pettitt
IT will be within the recollection of most persons that the Workmen's Compensation Act of 1906 is an extension of a former statutory provision on the same subject. The first Workmen's Compensation Act was passed in the year 1897, and came into operation on the rst July 1898. That Act established a principle which was new to English jurisprudence, inasmuch as it imposed upon one person (the employer) an obligation to pay money to another person (the workman), apart from any contractual obligation, and apart from any tort or misfeasance on the part of the employer. That is to say, in cases where the relationship of employer and workman exists, the duty was and is cast upon the employer of compensating the workman, in part at least, for loss arising from misadventure or misfortune. The Act, in fact, made the employer an insurer of his workmen against accident, to the extent of half the workmen's wages, with a further provision for the dependents of the workman in case of death. This enactment was new both in itself and in its character. It constituted a departure from all previously accepted principles of. legislative reform; it initiated a new era in the relationship of employer and workmen. It actually compelled one class to part with its property in regulated proportions for the benefit of another
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Pub Date : 1912-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449X1200900109
E. Pritchard
THE long-drawn-out agitation which the medical profession has kept alive for many years in the interests of the public against unauthorised medical practice and the unrestricted 'sale of secret remedies has at length produced practical results in so far that Parliament has appointed a Select Committee to inquire into" the sale of patent and proprietary medicines and medical preparations and appliances and advertisements relating thereto." The next stage can hardly be other than legislative enactments to protect the legitimate rights of the helpless and ignorant public. With the exception of the publication by the Privy Council of a Blue-book dealing with unqualified practice, the various Government departments have shown themselves singularly remiss in asserting their powers to protect the public against the wiles of the quack and the mendacity of the manufacturers of secret remedies. Indeed, it would appear that the deliberate policy of the Home Office for many years past has been to leave the correction of the evils of quackery to the spread of education rather than to legislation or prosecution. Public opinion in this country on the subject of the values of foods and the efficacy of drugs is chiefly formulated by advertisement. I t would be sounder policy to begin the campaign against quackery by educating our politicians than by attempting to enlighten a public which seems rather to enjoy this kind of imposture. If the present inquiry elicits no additional evidence of importance,
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Pub Date : 1912-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449x1200900106
F. Smith
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Pub Date : 1912-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449X1200900102
Walter Asten
ALTHOUGH much has been said and written on traumatic neurasthenia, I judge that considerably more remains to be said before the last word can by any means be declared. It was quite natural to anticipate that this diagnosis would become much more prominent after the adoption of the Workmen's Compensation Act; and whilst it may be stated that only a small number of these cases are the subject of damages inside the courts, it will not, I think, be contested that outside they often give rise to trouble and annoyance to the parties concerned. For some years I was engaged in a busy practice in the heavy woollen district of the West Riding of Yorks, and, as medical officer to several manufactories, ironworkers, and miners, I had perhaps unusual facilities for witnessing the operation of the Workmen's Compensation Act from various points of view. It is in the light of that experience, and after a dozen years' working of the Acts, that it seems to me several questions might very profitably be discussed relating to this diagnosis. Permit me to indicate at once that the term traumatic neurasthenia has come to be used very loosely and irregularly-judges, doctors, and lawyers being all more or less guilty. I am well aware of the difficulty in attempting to enunciate any precise and limited definition for the various functional neuroses, as the symptoms presented are well known to run the one into the
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Pub Date : 1911-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449x1100800103
W. W. Westcott
SOME years ago I read to the Society my notes upon a Coroner's work, and I had not considered the time had yet come for any further reference to the subject of Coroners' practice; but as I am informed that a short note from me would be of interest, I am emboldened to speak on "The Coroner and his Medical Neighbours," with some criticisms which may be tolerated as coming from one who has acted as a coroner for five-and-twenty years, and has heard medical evidence given upon nineteen thousand deaths. It is generally known that coroners are almost all either lawyers or doctors; yet a few are neither, being only persons who own a freehold plot of land-a quaint qualification-a survival from very ancient times. I observe at the present time, in an advertisement issued by the London County Council, asking for candidates for a coronership, the same requirement, but no demand for medical or legal knowledge. I do not profess to know the exact attitude which a legal coroner assumes to' the doctors he calls before him; but I do know that the more courteous his attitude is towards them, the better he is served by their evidence. Even medical coroners, however, differ in the relations they establish with the medical men who have to make a livelihood in the coroners' districts
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Pub Date : 1911-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449X1100800107
F. W. Tunnicliffe
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Pub Date : 1911-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449x1100800113
C. P. Gallie
The eminent Carboniferous palynologist Bernard Owens passed away on the 31 of July 2019 at the age of 80. He became enthused by the natural sciences at school, studied geology and researched in palynology at the University of Sheffield, UK, and undertook a postdoctoral research fellowship in Canada. Bernard then joined the Institute of Geological Sciences (now the British Geological Survey), where he worked for the majority of his career. He was an expert on the biostratigraphy, morphology and taxonomy of Late Palaeozoic miospores. While being a discipline group manager and researcher for the geological survey, Bernard also worked tirelessly for several volunteer organisations, most notably the Commission Internationale de Microflore du Pal eozoïque. Bernard was also was a very enthusiastic conference organiser, editor and project manager. Many of A photograph of Bernard Owens relaxing during an undergraduate field trip to the Yorkshire Dales during the late 1950s; note his trademark pipe.
著名的石炭纪孢粉学家伯纳德·欧文斯于2019年7月31日去世，享年80岁。他在学校对自然科学产生了浓厚的兴趣，在英国谢菲尔德大学学习地质学和孢粉学，并在加拿大进行博士后研究。伯纳德随后加入了地质科学研究所(现为英国地质调查局)，在那里度过了他职业生涯的大部分时间。他是晚古生代微孢子生物地层学、形态和分类方面的专家。在担任地质调查学科组经理和研究员期间，伯纳德还不知疲倦地为几个志愿者组织工作，其中最著名的是国际Microflore du Pal委员会eozoïque。伯纳德也是一个非常热情的会议组织者、编辑和项目经理。20世纪50年代末，本科学生伯纳德·欧文斯在约克郡山谷实地考察时放松的照片;注意他标志性的烟斗。
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Pub Date : 1911-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449x1100800114
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