The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-17 00:00:00

WHO PAYS?

The Aedieal Times and Gazette says :—Extra
work tells on heart and lungs, on muscle and nerve-
fibre, more surely than upon dead material. No one
will be surprised to learn that hurried labour and
exposure t o weather have been fruitful causes of
disease amongst the operatives employed at the
Internationed Exhibition. Were the registers
of medical charities at the West-end of the
town, examined, they would, we may readily
believe, give abundant evidence of the fact. But,
apart from this, it is generally known that a large
number of accidents have occurred amongst the
"modal-tem. Dr. Aldis, one of the Medical Officers
of Health for St. George's, Hanover-square,
in a letter published in the Morning Post of May 9,
draws attention to the numerous. cases of injury
sustained at the Exhibition which have been taken
to St. Ge(
May 7, 18'‘62, sixty-seven cases
. of accident were
From March 9, 1861, to
admitted i nto the house .11 nee ofthe.patients wore
died. in the wards.
brought i n dead, and:
out-patient the day —have
Large numbers—as many aavet
department.
also been ti 'sated in the
If this ho vpital is to be taken l'aera
Medical eh' u*
borne by
very heavy tax must have been imn;or, ple, a
the .resources of the West-end
-which tax will, of coarse,
.have to be
their committees and subscribers. We learn thaty
St. Georg,e's Hospital has received a donation of a
hundred gvineas from the Exhibition contractors ;
but we believe that this sum will cover but a small
part of the cost of relief given. The expense of one
case of accident, at present in the hospital, which
wag admitted in August last, would alone be a
con siderable deduction. It is a matter of general
experience that public works lay heavy burthens
on hospitals and dispensaries—burthens which
should in all fairness be sustained by those who
are deriving direct pecuniary benefit from the
Works, and not, as is usually the case, by the sup-
porters of the noighbouring charities. We know of
an instance in which a labourer was injured by an
explosion which occurred during the construction
of a railway within London. The man was taken
to the nearest Hospital, where he remained about a
twelvemonth. The expense was estimated at not
less than £5O, for the patient took large quantities
of wine and brandy. The contractor in whose
service the man was working, generously presented
the Hospit'al_with ten guineas

The Great Eastern is advertised to leave New
York for Englan d on the 31st inst.
A suaiwiLL„ will be chu,eu in the ensuing week
from Panel No. 3, to try the Longford election petition.
Last year the own:ber of coolie emigrants sent
from India to Brii ash Guiana was 5,029 ; to Trinidad,
2,325; to Jamaica, 3,718; to St. Kitt's, 361; and to St.
Vincent, 258.

FORGERY.—In the case of Henry Brown, the
architect, who was yesterdo'Y charged with forgery at the
Old Bailey, the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and Mr.
Justice Willes sentenced him t o ten years' penal servitude.
The Franco- Italian Correspondence states that
General Garibaldi's health has not improved, and that
rheumatism confines him to his bed ; but adds that his
-Medical atteq,ant answers for his speedy recovery.