The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-17 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR 07 THE EX TEM%

ACCOUCHEIJSES.

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Si R.—l have seen many letters recommending
that ladies should act in the above capacity, but not one
from a patient who has been attended by an accoucheuse.
Permit me, therefore? to say that having been under the
care of one of the ladies certificated by the Female Medical
Society, of 4, Fitzroy-square, I can assure Faiglish mothers,
from my personal experience, that it is not necessarily
unsafe to plane oneself in the bands of a lady practitioner.
On the coutnu7 many reasons (which may be drawn from
the various treatises upon midwifery) tend to show how
erroneous is the idea that such cases must be attended by
one of the opposite sex. Until very recently we—i.e. the
young matrons of England—had no option, but have been
compelled to call in male medical aid ; now there is no
such necesnity. I can most confidently speak of the capa-
bilities of ladies to attend in the, above-named capacity,
and it is to make this fact more generally known that
I beg the favour of the insertion of these few lines.—l
am, &c. J. B.
Peckham-rye, Oct. IG.

ADVERTISING FOR MIDDHIPMEN. —3lr. Raffles,
the Liverpool stipendiary magistrate, was yesterday
engaged in an important case, in which a person named
Henry Lloyd was the defendant. Mr. Tyndal, the local
solicitor to the Board of Trade, prosecuted, under the
147th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, part 1, im-
posing a penalty of 201. upon any person who, without a
license, supplies seamen to a British ship. Mr. Tyndal
stated that the defendant was a person who, by adver-
tising in the papers that he could procure appointments as
midshipmen, ac., induced parents and others to send down
boys to his charge. A Mrs. Clarke, residing in Derby, saw
his advertisement in the Sn, adard Mercarg.and, after a car•
respondence with the defendant about her son Arthur, came
down to Liverpool, and arranged with the defendant that
he should be appointed a midshipman on board the ship
Mangalore, which was about to sail for Bombay. The
defendant took her to the vessel, which was in dock,
showed her over it, and pointed out the saloon, the cabin,
the bath-room, Se,, giving her to understand that her son
would mess with the captain, have a state-room to him-
self, and that altogether he would have a most comforta-
ble and luxurious time of it. His terms, he said, for pro-
curing the appointment were 40 guineas, and M. was paid
down by Mrs. Clarke as " bond-money." She returned to
Derby, and a correrpontence ensued, during which the de-
fendant Asked her to send the balance of the money, but she
declined to do so until she had receive.' the indentures. De-
fendant did not send the indentures, but wrote to say that the
ship would sail on the 17th, and that Arthur must be at the
Sailors' Home on the 13th. She came down to Liverpool
with her son, and the defendant induced her to pay 251.
for the boy's outfit, stating that he would reduce his
charge from 40 to 30 guineas. Upon inquiry, Mrs. Clarke
found that the defendant had no authority whatever from
the owners of the Mangalore to engage midshipmen, that
he was an unlicensed agent, and that there was no accom-
modation on the Mangalore for "midshipmen." The boy
had signed articles, and Mr. Tyndal stated that since the
Local Marine Board bad been communicited with, the
defendant bad returned W. of the money paid to him.
Lloyd did not himself appear, and the magistrate granted
a warrant for his apprehension.
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