Date. sumption. Philadelphia reported 63 deaths from acute pulmonary diseases, not included in the above. From bronchitis 41 deaths were reported in New York, 10 in Brooklyn, nine in Chicago, eight in Baltimore, five in St. Louis, three in Pittsburgh, two in Cincinnati, District of Columbia, and New Haven, one in Milwaukee, Providence, and Charleston. From whoopingcough, 15 in New York, five in Cincinnati, two in Philadelphia, one in Brooklyn, St. Louis, Baltimore, and District of Columbia. From typhoid fever, six in Baltimore, four in New York, three in Chicago, two in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, and Charleston, one in St. Louis, District of Columbia, Providence, Lawrence, and Chelsea. From erysipelas, six in New York, four in St. Louis, three in Brooklyn and Boston, one in Baltimore and Louisville. From cerebro-spinal meningitis, two in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Cambridge, one in New York, Cincinnati, and Fitchburg. The one death from measles was in Pittsburgh. Baltimore reported two and Charleston three deaths from trismus nascentium. In Nashville, the weather was moist and cold, with much sickness; pneumonia was prevalent. In Washington the death-rate among the blacks was double that of the whites. The returns from seventeen of the nineteen cities in Massachusetts, with a population of 791,850, showed a decrease in the mortality from acute pulmonary diseases, an increase from the prevalent zymotics, slight from diphtheria. Acute pulmonary diseases were very prevalent in Louisville, New Orleans, and San Francisco; diphtheria in Buffalo and Salt Lake City. Sergeant Purssell's meteorological record for the week, in Boston, is as follows: 2 P. M. 9 P. M. 7 A. M. 2 P. M. 9 P. M. Wind. Barometer corrected for temperature, elevation, and instrumental error. Explanation of weather symbols: O, cloudy; C., clear; F., fair; G., fog; H., hazy; R., rain; S., snow; L. S., light snow; T., threatening. Station: Latitude 42° 21'; longitude 71° 4′; height of instrument above the sea, 77.5. The death-rate for the week ending January 25th for the twenty large English towns, with a population of 7,269,976, was 26.3, or still decreasing: for London 26.1, Bristol, 20.9, Birmingham 23.8, Liverpool 31.4, Manchester 33.6; in Glasgow it was 29, in Dublin 43. Pulmonary diseases, scarlet fever, and whooping cough were most prevalent; only 13 deaths were reported from diphtheria. Small-pox was still fatal in Dublin and London, with an increased fatality in the latter. Fevers are still prevalent in India, cholera less so. Small-pox is still prevalent in Paris, Vienna, and Budapesth, and especially so in St. Petersburg. Typhoid fever prevailed in Paris, and with typhus was very fatal in St. Petersburg; diphtheria in Paris, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, and Vienna. Surgeon-General Woodworth reports increased destitution and mortality in Brazil, a single case of yellow fever quarantined at Key West, and that the various European gov Rain. Rainfall. (Melted Snow.) Duration in Hours. Amount in Inches. ernments, including England, are taking precautions against "the plague," which he advises for this country. The great mortality in some small villages of Astrakhan is said to be due largely to destitution and bad sanitary arrangements; the evidence is not clear as to the extent of "the plague," nor as to the probability of its spreading widely. SUFFOLK DISTRICT MEDICAL SOCIETY. A regular meeting will be held at the hall, 19 Boylston Place, on Saturday evening, February 22d, at seven and a half o'clock. The following papers will be read: : Miss Louise S. Baker. A Subject connected with Medical Practice. Dr. F. H. Davenport. A Case of Thrombosis following Operation for Laceration of the Cervix. Dr. Calvin Ellis. Two Cases of Dilated Bronchi. Supper at nine o'clock. BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED. · The Germ Theories of Infectious Diseases. By John Drysdale, M. D. London: Baillière, Tindall, and Cox. Diphtheria: Its Causes, Prevention, and Treatment. By J. H. Kellogg, M. D. Published by the Good Health Publishing Company, Battle Creek, Michigan. Twelfth Annual Report of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. 1878-79. Malposition of the Ureters. By W. H. Baker, M. D. (Reprint.) New York. 1878. De l'Accouchement artificiel par les Voies naturelles substitué à l'Operation Césarienne post Mortem. Par le Docteur A. Thévenot. Paris. 1878. The First Annual Report of the Presbyterian Eye and Ear Charity Hospital, Baltimore, Md. 1879. Fourth Report of the Salem Hospital. 1879. Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the Pennsylvania School for Feeble Minded Children. West Chester, Pa. 1878. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Pharmaceutical Association at the Fifth Annual Meeting. With Reports on the Progress of Pharmacy and the Address of Professor W. P. Bolles, of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Roll of Members, and Pharmacy Law. Concord, N. H. 1879. Thirteenth Report of the Trustees of the Connecticut State Hospital for the Insane. 1879. Health and How to promote it. By Richard McSherry, M. D. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1879. Pp. 185. Index Medicus. A Monthly Classified Record of the Current Medical Literature of the World. Compiled under the Supervision of Dr. John S. Billings, Surgeon United States Army, and Dr. Robert Fletcher, M. R. C. S. Eng. Vol. I. No. 1. New York: F. Leypoldt. 1879. Aphasia or Aphasic Insanity, Which? A Medico-Legal Inquiry. By Dr. C. H. Hughes, St. Louis, Mo. Address of W. O'Daniel, M. D., President of the Medical Association of Georgia. Delivered at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting. On the Treatment of Pulmonary Consumption by Hygiene, Climate, and Medicine. With an Appendix on the Sanitaria of the United States, Switzerland, and the Balearic Islands. By James Henry Bennet, M. D., London. Third Edition. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston. 1879. (From A. Williams & Co.) Section-Cutting. By Dr. Sylvester March. With Illustrations. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston. 1879. (From A. Williams & Co.) Report on Aconitia in Trigeminal Neuralgia. By E. C. Seguin, M. D. (Reprint.) Clinical Lecture on Syphilitic Brain-Lesions. By E. C. Seguin, M. D. (Reprint.) A Contribution to the Medicinal Treatment of Chronic Trigeminal Neuralgia. By E. C. Seguin, M. D. (Reprint.) American Clinical Lectures. Edited by E. C. Seguin, M. D. Vol. III., No. 12. The Diagnosis of Progressive Locomotor Ataxia. By E. C. Seguin, M. D. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1878. |