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not make such appeals, it was because they found that when
made by others they produced no result.
" The Inspector-General states that the deficiencies in -the
general store atßalaklava arose partly front a failure in the
depot at Smtari to comply with his requisitions, and the
tardiness with which the supplies thence were sometimes for-
warded, as well as from the omission, on some occasions, of
any notice of •their shipment, in consequence of which they
were not landed, Difficulty and delay were also sometimes
caused .by their being stowed under a great part of the cargo
which it was necessary to discharge before they could be got at.
" Though the correspondence at pages 164 to 172 of Appon-
dix no doubt shows that repeated applications were made by
the Inspector-General to the reserve depot at Scutari for me-
dicines and medical comforts to meet the wants of the hospi-
tals in the Crimea, we feel bound to express our opinion that,
at a time when the existence of a greatportion of the sick wad
imperilled by the abeence of-Allege-supplies, something more
than the mere transmission of the usual official demand ou the
purveyor or the apothecary at Scutari was necessary to relieve
the Inspector-General of his responsibility ; and when he
fund the inattention to these applications causing a delay of
nearly two months in the arrival of supplies for which the
demand was urgent, it appears to us that he ought to have
some more decided steps to insure attention to his requisi-
tions. A proper officer might have been sent to Scutari, With
instructions to bring back whatever was most urgently re-

.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL; GRAY'S-INN-
LANE.

The Twenty-eighth Annual General Meeting of the
Ito vernors and subscribers of this charity was held at the
Hospital on Tuesday week. The meeting was presided
over by Mr. Spottiswoode, one of the vice-presidents of
the institution.
Mr. FENN, the secretary, read the report of the com-
mittee of management for the past year. The-report
stated that, though in some respects the 'public events
of the day had tended to diminish the amount of sup-
port upon which this, in common with other charities of
the metropolis, had hitherto, been accustomed to rely,
the committee had, nevertheless, been enabledise to con-
duct the affairs of the institution, that at the close of
the year they had the satisfaction of congratulating the
friends and supperteis of the charity upon having
achieved an amount of benefit to the suffering poor, in-
ferior enly to the preceding year, and more than equal
to that which they had had the happiness to accomplish
in any former year. The number of patients relieved
during the past year had amounted to 39,891. It
would be in the recollection of the public that, after the
death of the late Duke of Sussex, a subscription was en-
tered into for the erection of a monument to his memory,
and after several meal-loge of the subscribere, it was de-
cided that the most suitable mode of carrying out the
object would be the erection of a wing to the Royal
Free Hospital, to be called the " Sussex Wing," with a
statue of his Royal Eighnees in front. That important
work had been commenced during the past year, and
was nearly completed. The committee bad by means
of legacies, received during the year, been enabled to pay
off a considerable portion of the debt, unavoidably in-
curred by the great pressure on the charity in the years
1853 and 1854. The practice adopted of supplying des-
titute patients on leaving the hospital, with clothes and
small sums of money continued to produce the most
gratifying results, more especially amongst unfortunate
females, many of whom had been restored t) their fami-
' lies and friends. The committee had pleasure in calling
the attention of the governors' to the services of
the 'honorary- Medical officeri We. -Brinton and
Hassell, physicians.; Messrs.. Marsden, M.D., Weedon
Cooke, De Merle, /to:, surgeons, who had devoted their
time and attention durir'e the past year to the patients
committed to their care. In consequence of the reduced
number of indoor patients (occasioned by the necessity
of proceeding with the new building), the committee
gladly acceded to the request of her Majesty's Govern-
ment, to strengthen the medical staff in the Crimea, and
readily granted the services of four of their me3ical
officers to that important object—one of whom, after an
absence of fifteen months, has just returned, and will
shortly resume his duties. The committee Congratulated
the governors on having obtained the services of the
Rev. J. B. Owen, a clergyman of the highest profes-
sional qualifications, as chaplain, and the report con-
cluded by the committee congratulating the governors
on the continued success of the charity, and humbly
hoping that it would, under God's blessing, continue to
prosper ; and that, as it proceeded, its usefulness might
be more felt and acknowledged by the public at large,
its efforts more effectually sustained by the benevolent,
and its benefits more widely diffused amongst the
afflicted.
From the financial statement it appeared that there
had been. during the year, received in annual subscrip-
tions 1.4541. 103. 6d., in donations 2,1311. 12s. 10J.,
and in legacies 2,6581. 14s. 7J., making a total of 6,2441.
17s. lid., while there had been expended in payment of
old debts 2,4861. 7s. 5d., and in payments for the year
1855, 3,7451. 23. 33.. tucking a total of expenditure dur-
ing the year of 6,2311. 9s. Bd.
The medical report of the number of patients relieved
by the charity, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1855, was next
read, from which it appeared that during that time there
had been admitted into the hospital—
Persons afflicted with malignant and contagious
diseases
Persons labouring under various disorders
Accidents relieved, and the parties sent home 1,430
Patients under the dentist

quired for the hospitals.
"In some casesahowever, the deficiency appears to have
arisen from imperfect arrangements in the Crimea. The
storekeeper in charge of the medical stores at Balaklava bad
instructions to intimate when any drugs were running short,.
and the sufficiency of the supply seems to have depended
chiefly upon his vigilance and foresight ; but as he was not
informed of changes in the prevailing diseases, lie could not
anticipate the demand to which that change would give rise,
and it was only from the extent if the requisitions for parti-
cular remedies, which, perhaps, exhausted the supply in
store, that ho became aware of the necessity of replenishing
his stock.
" It therefore happened that, from the 30th of March to
the 20th of April, when fever most prevailed; and quinine
was extensively used as a remedy,' and, in some corps,
still
more extensively as a prophylactic, there was nous of that
medicine in the gentiratstore at
..Balaklava, though a large
supply was lying at Soutari. was; indeed, a certain
ialnintity in 'moat of the- divisional stores, but ii 4 one therewas none, and several corpswhich had • been .using itarriednes_l
eiyely were thus suddenly deprived of the remedy onavhich
their medical officers had chiefly relied. This deficiency was
partial and temporary, bat its occurrence after so much of
public attention had been directed to the subject indicated
defect in the system, which was pointed out to Lord Raglan
in a letter of the 27th of April."
" HOSPITAL ORDERLIES AND ATTENDANTS.
" Numerous complaints wore made by the medical officers
of the difficulty of obtaining suitable persons to perform the
duties of hospital serjeants, hospital orderlies, and personal
attendants. Where the pressure of military duty was so great,
it was, perhaps, natural that there should be some reluctance
to part with efficient non-commissioned officers or men from
the ranks ; but it may be doubted whether persons well qua-
lified for situations in the hospital would not contribute more
to the relief of their effective comrades by promoting the re-
covery of the sick than by taking their tour of duty under
arms, and leaving the sick with less efficient attendance ;
whatever view may be taken of that question, there seems to
be uo doubt that the arrangements have proved insufficient,
and that adequate hospital attendance in camp has yet to be
provided. It is understood that this defect is in course of
being remedied ; but, as it was much animadverted upon at
the commencement of the campaign, we may briefly notice the
previous practic, in the army, and the course adopted to meet
the difficulties as they arose.
" The British army has hitherto, during peace, been kept
on so limited an establishment that it was necessary to resn.t
to every expodientin order to economise its numbers. This,
no doubt, originated the long-established practice of having
the hospital duties performed by men fromthe ranks, instead
of by persons especially enlisted for that duty. The former,
when no great pressure of sickness requires their presence in
hospital, can be made available for military duty, while the lat-
ter are a permanent source of expense without any such contin-
gent advantage. That system has worked moderately a-ell for
a long series of years, but when the army was required for ser-
vice in Turkey its numbers were so limited that it became ne-
cessary to add to the effective strength by every possible expo-
dient,and ono of the readiest which presented itself was to restore
to the ranks the men usually withdrawn for hospital service,
and to replace them from some other source.
" Nations whose armies are raised by conscription are never
likely to encounter any difficulty in providing attendants on
the sick. Out of the largo number of conscripts annually
placed at the disposal of the Government there will always be
many who, from their particular aptitude for that service, or
on account of their being leas fitted for more active military
duty, can be selected with advantage ; but an army which
has to depend entirely upon voluntary enlistment possesses
no such facilities; the strictness with which all military obli-
gatioss are interpreted in this country renders it necessary,
if he is to be employed exclusively as a hospital attendant,
that the recruit should be enlisted specially for that particu-
lar duty ; and, among men in the vigour of youth, who are
iticlined to enter the array, few are disposed to place them-
selves in the petition of nurses at a time when the operations
of active warfare are going on. Although recruiting for this
particular service has now been going on for nearly a year, I
with pay, pension, and other advantages, much exceeding
what is granted to the 'private soldier, the number required
is understood still to be incomplete, notwithstanding that re-
cruits have been taken at a much more advanced ago than
they would bo received into any other branch of the service.
" But when'the war broke out there was not time to ob-
tain the necessary attendants for the hospital by the slow pro-
cess of recruiting; the demand for their services was imme-
diate, and it was desirable, especially at the commencement
of a campaign, that they should have some military experi-
ence, lest they might prove au encumbrance ; recourse was
therefore had to a election from the military pensioners, till
some more suitable body of men could be obtained.
" The employment of this class, even for the more onerous
occupation of garrison duty at home and abroad, was not an
innovation ; it has always been the practice, on the com-
mencement of a war, to call back into the service the pen-
sioners who may have recovered from their disabilities,
or are still of an age to perform garrison duty, and
they hold their pensions expressly on condition of attend-
ing to such calls. During the Peninsular war upwards of
10,020 pensioners a-ere employed in veteran and garrison
battalions at home and abroad, and immediately on the
breaking out of the present war all those belonging to the
navy and marines were re-examined, and abbut 2,000 sent on
shipboard, or into the coast-guard, whore they have since
been constantly employed. No such call was made for the
services of the military pensioners, because it was conceived
that they would be equally useful ae anienrolled force in their
respective districts ; but, as - they are a younger body than
the Greenwich pensioners, their average age being only be-
tween forty and fifty, it was not an unreasonable supposi-
tions considering their previous military expe,ience and
habits, that they might be usefully employed iu the hospital
and ambulance duties, for which soldiers from the ranks
could no longer be spared.
" The measures taken to obtain these men, the conditions
of their engagemerta and the precautions adopted in regard
to their qualifications are detailed by Colonel Tulle& iu
memorandum which is annexed ; and, as the various objec-
tions which have been taken to their employment are there
inquired into, it appears unnecessary to enter upon them
here, beyond stating that, if- old and inefficient, as is under-
stood to have been alleged of thein; they appear by the state-
ment noted below* to have been singularly fortunate as com-
pared with the youngest and, most effective part of the force ;
the deaths between October and April having been only 53
out of a strength which averaged 270, or under 20 per cent. ;
while the mortality in the infantry during the same period
was nearly double that proportion. It is trne that these men
escaped much of the hard work in the trenches, but they
must have sustained a heavy loss by their attendance on the
sick, particularly during the prevalence of fever, which in so
many iustarces proved fatal to the orderlies.

39,089

In addition to the above, there have been 693
totally destitute persons admitted into the
wards, of whom 57 have died, and 636 have
been discharged cured or relieved
The number of accidents admitted for a brief
period into the wards was 109, of whom 18
died and•9l were cured or relieved

not present.

Making a total of 39,891
which, added to those admitted in former years, made a
total of persons admitted into the hospital since its com-
mencement of 521,493.
Mr. BRUCE then moved that the report be approved
of, printed, and circulate-1, together with the financial
statement and medical report ; and Mr. HALL having
seconded the motion, it was put from the chair and
unanimously agreed to. •
The thanks of the meeting having been then awarded
to the committee of management for the past year, to
the treasurer, Mr. Masterman, M.P., who was re-elected,
and to the auditors,
Mr. PRITCHARD, High Bailiff of Southwark, said lie
had to propose a vote of thanks to a gentleman which
he did act rise to do as a mere matt r of routine, for the
gentleman he bad referred t) bad rendered great and
efficient service to the institution, and it was, therefore,
right and proper that, at the close of another year of his
distinguished services, they should at least give expres-
sion to the appreciation in which they held those ser-
vices and the interest he took in the institution. The
gentleman he referred to was Dr. Marsden, the founder
of the charity; and he begged to propose that the cordial
thanks of the meeting be given to him for the interest
he continued to take in the institution, and the valuable
services lie was continually rendering to it.
Mr. HOOPER having seconded the resolution, it was
put from the chair, and cordially agreed to.
Dr. AIARSDEN, in acknowledging the compliment,
stated that he had now arrived at the t wenty-eightli
year of his service to the institution, and he rejoiced
to think that while his powers, mental as well as
physical, might be on the decrease, the powers
of the institution were increasing rapidly. Tnere was a
pleasing circumstance connected with the meeting, and
it had struck him only since be cattle into the room—it
was the pleasure he felt at seeing Mr. Spottiswoode in
the chair. He called upon that gentleman at the com-
mencement of the institution—before the doors of it
were opened—in order to request his support to
it. That support was readily given, Mr. Spottiswood
becoming an annual subscriber of ten guinea., an I
promising all the assistance he could give, and
it gave him much pleasure to see him now presid-
ing over them. Another circumstance in connection
with the institution he must allude to. Frequently when
he (and, be had no doubt, other friends of the institution
met with the same remark) is talking of the Free Hospital,
be is asked what makes it• entitled to the appellation
of free more than any other in London Was not
Bartholomew's and Guy's Hospitals as free to destitute
persons as it' Now, to some extent, this was so ; but,
in considering the point, they must go back to the state
of matters which prevailed at the time this hospital
was founded. At that time there was not such a thing
as free admission to the destitute sick in any
hospital in London ; but be was happy to say
that the example this institution bad set bad
compelled the old and richly-endowed institutions
to relax their rules and regulations, and to become to a
certain extent free. (Cheers.) Therefore, they had not
only been the means of relieving upwards of half a mil-
lion of sick and destitute individuals, but they had also
been the cause of throwing open all the hospitals in
London to the destitute.
A vote of thanks was next passed to the honorary
medical officers, Drs. Brinton, Hassan, Glover, and fl.
Bennet, and Messrs. T. Wakley, Weedon Cooke, De
Mari; A. Marsden, J. S. Garnet), T. Carr Jackson, to
which Mr. W. Cooke, and Mr. A. Marsden (who has
newly returned from the Crimea) responded.
Dr. MARSDEN said it would be seen from the report
that four of their medical officers had been absent in the
Crimea during the past year, and the place of one of these
(Dr. Glover) had been supplied by Dr. O'Connor, a gen-
tleman of professional character not surpassed in the
metropolis for ability. The able manner in which he had
performed his duties, he, as one of his colleagues, could
bear ready testimony to, and he had therefore much plea-
sure in proposing that the special thanks of the meeting
be given to Dr. O'Connor for having undertaken and
efficiently performed the duties of Dr. Glover during his
absence, and that he he requested to continue his ser-
vices until that gentleman's return.
Mr. PRITCHARD seconded the motion,
dially adopted. was happy that
Dr. O'Coesetort returned thanks. Re which was cer-
for e
of the duties hatever
himself that w
the institution. He could say he had
his services had given satisfactian to the governors of
time he had spent in the discharg
ensated by the be-
undertaken he was amPiY comp
nefit of the great experience he had received. Re
had visited the hospitals not only of London
but of the Pl-evinces and the United King-
dom, and he couldu g
theareathes aitating benefly
it had been conferred on
n say he knew ef no
been by by means of this hospital. That he
could state after carefully examining into all those other
institutions of a like character. It would, therefore, be
h had s
Sc
poor a where
e o
to him a source of pleasure on all occasions to promote
its interests, and to gain for it the support of his ac-
quaintances and friends. (Cheers.)
The committee for the current year was then appointed,
and the proceedings terminatedwith vote of thanks to
a
the chairman.

•••.•.•S,
THE NEW TOTETROPOLITAN POLICE BILL. - Sir G.
Grey's new bill provides that henceforth only one Com-
missioner of police shall be appointed, to be styled
" The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis," and
the person who, at the passing of ,this act, may le the
surviving or continuing commissioner appointed under
former act will be such commissioner. Two Assistant-
Commissioners may be appointed by her Majesty.
The Commissioner of Police will receive a salary of
1,5001., and each of the assistants 8001. per annum •
the powers of the present Commissioners of Police
ant are
to be vested in the sole commissioner. The Assist
Commissioners will act under the orders of the Com-
missioner of Police ; they will be disqualified from fa-
tiPg Farlimunt or iMerferiag M eloot4oo.

'WSPAPER
lr itW etr‘
ROYAL GENERAL THEATRICAL FuN
•
Yesterday the annual meeting of the Royal Ge'Ner.
Theatrical Fund was held in the saloon of the Lyce • c>i. 7
Theatre, for the purpose of receiving a statement of the, a s
affairs Of the association, and transacting the usual busi-7
ness. Mr. T. H. Lacy
.(in the absence of J. B. Buck-
stone, Esq.) was called to the chair.
Mr. CULLENFORC, the secretary, before submitting to
the meeting the financial statement for the year, alluded
t' the early period at which Ash Wednesday, this year,
occurred, and in consequence he was not able to bring
up the acconnts so as ,to include the fourth quarter of
the year, but he believed that it would be within Si. of
the amount stated. He next adverted to the grant of
10/. to Mrs. Macnamare, and although that lady was
not a member, the board of directors left it to the meet-
ing to entfirin or reject that grant as they might see fit
to do. Ho then gave the following abstracts for the
past year :—Members' subscriptions, 6311. ls. ld. ; act-
mission fees, 471. 108. ; interest on capital stock, 2101.
15s. ; interest on deposits in the Royal British Bank,
451. Gs. lid. ; arrears of donations, 101. Bs. ; profit on
annual dinner, 2511. 16s. 3d. ; making a total of 1,196/.
17s. 3d. The expenditure was—T. annuitants' fund,
5261. 18s. 7d. ; sundry other expenses, 1371. 14s. sd. ;
leaving a balance in hand of 5321. 4s. 3d. The funded
stock of the association amounted to 8,649/. 7s. Dur-
ing the year they had admitted 16 new members, and
they had lost four by death. The present number of
subscribing member] was 147, and 11 annuitants, mak-
ing a total of 158 ; and the total number of members
from the commencement was 248. The meeting had
heard the items read, bat he should be most happy
to answer any questions that might be put to him.
The CHAIRMAN congratulated the meeting on the sa-
tisfactory report that had been presented.
Mr. WORRALL proposed that the report should be re-
ceived and adopted, which was seconded by Mr. Comas,
and carried unanimously.
The following trustees were then unanimously re-
elected :—Benj. Bond Cabbell, Esq., Charles Dickens,
Esq., and W. C. Macready, Esq.
John Baldwin Buckstona, Esq., was unanimously
elected treasurer for the ensuing year.

Me•=srs. A. Youngs, Cowie, F:Frampton, H. Butler,
and Moreili, who went out by rotation, were re elected
directors, and Mr. Joseph Reynolds and Mr. Samuel
Cowell were also elected directors in the place °flit% J.
Howard and Mr. Addison, the latter gentleman being
now manager of the York circuit.
Mr J. T. JERWOOD, the solicitor to the fund, said
that Mr. T. P. Cooke was now present, and he (Mr.
Jerwood) had a bond which was required to be sealed
in their presence, being a grant by Mr. Thomas P.
Car,ke to the Royal General Theatrical Fund of the sum
of 1861. 3s. 9d., being the produce of 2051.. 3s. lid.. 3
per Cent Annuities. It was the remains of a fond eats-
blishedia—Mr. T. ke me ears acro
_cAlled the,
Coburg Fund, and that gentlensatilild nw—diiiifinted
that it should be transferred to this association. Mr.
Coolie had °insulted his solicitor, and if he had given it
to them under the Trustee Act it would have been at-
tended with great expense ; but he was advised that, if
this associstion entered into a bond, he could then hand
it overt; o them.

Mr. WOREALL moved, and Mr. CowELL seconded, r*,
motion, that this association do give Mr. T. P. Cooke a
bond of indemnity for the receipt of the Coburg Fund.
The bond was then produced, and the seal affixed in
the presence of the meeting.
Mr. S. COWELL moved the thanks of the association
to Mr. T. P. Cooke.

Mr. T. P. CooKE sincerely thanked them. He had
a' ways 1-,een anxious for the welfare of the fund. When
he joined the Coburg Fund they got together about
2001., but the person in whose hands it was placed de-
camped with it. He was then appointed trustee but he
had endeavoured to maintain the money, which was
placed in his hands, intact. The fund originally en-
trusted to him was 861., and yesterday it amounted to
1861., the effect of compound interest.
The thanks of the meeting were hiso voted to Mr.
Jerwood.
Mr. JERWOOD acknowledged the compliment.
Mr. FRAMPTON moved the thanks of the meeting to J.
B. Buckstone, Eq. (who had arrived), who, for 16
years, had given his valua'ilo assistance to the associa-
tion, and who was at all times willing to promote their
rote rests.

Mr. COWELL seconded the motion, which was carried
by acclatnation.
Mr. BUCKSTONE made a suitable reply, and the m eat-
ing was dissolved.

INQUEST ON JOHN MONAGHAN, AT

MANCHESTER.

The adjourned inquest on the body of John Mona-
ghan, whose body bad been exhumed, after interment
since August last, on suspicion of poison having been
administered in the f)rin of acetato of lead, took place
in the office of E. Tlerford, Esq., coroner for Mulches-

ter, yesterday afternoon. The prisoners is custody on
the charge, having been committed since their appro-

henaion on the charge of forging Monaghan's will, were

Mr. Edward Frankland, professor of chemistry st
Ovven's College, Marchester, said—l received five ves-
sels ; one of them contained the stomach and intestines

:of the deceased), the second vessel contained the liver,
the third the kidneys, the fourth the brain, and the fifth
the lungs..- They were sealed up with a private seal. I

•
examined, first,-portions of the stomach and intestines.

examint:d them for lead, arsenic, antimony, mercury,

and other mineral poisons. I found no mineral poison
in them except a trace of zinc. I then examined the
liver, and in that I found a trace of lead; also a trace of
copper, but no other poison. I then examined the kid-
neys, and found in them a trace of zinc only. The lungs
and brain contained no mineral poison. I did not exa-
mine for vegetable poisons, because the length of time
which has elapsed since the death of the deceased would
preclude the satisfactory detection of such poisons. There
was nothing in the appearance of the intestines to indi-
cate that poison heel been taken. I examined the sun.
mach and intestines to see if I could find any indication
of metallic poisoning, but could find none.
By IV r. Bradlaugh (for the prosecution )—I understand
you to say that from the state in which the intestines
were you could not say whether death had been caused
by poison or not ?—I could not say from the appearance
of the intestines whether death had been caused by
poison. The state of &composition was so advanced as
to prevent that to a great extent.—Have you any means
of estimating the quantity of lead found ?—The quantity
was too minute to ascertain it by weight almost, but I
should say the :lead in the liver would not exceed a
grain.—Which of the three did you find in the greatest
quantity, z'ric, lead, or copper ?—I think zinc.—l un-
derstand you to say you do not express any opinion as to
the cause of death ?—Oh, certainly : I draw the opinion
from the analysis, that death had not been caused by
poison.—For a quantity of lead taken into the system,
about what quantity would be retained in the liver ?
That is a question I could not answer ; where mineral .
poisons have been taken, there is usually a dinat,tity
passes into the liver, and would be retained there longer
than anywhere else.—Wiiat quantity of zinc do you
estimate to have been foutpl ?—Not possibly more than
three grains, and I think not more than two.—Then.
from your analysis, you are a opinion that death was
not caused by metallic poisoning ?—Yes.
In answer to further questions from the ooroner, from
Mr. Fernley (for the defence), and from Mr. Bradlangb,
the witness went on to say that the quantity of lead
found in the liver was far too small to be de resi 'num
of such a quantity as would be necessary for poisoning,
and was riot much morq than would be found in the
liver of many persons who had not died from poisons,
as, for instance, from drinking water which had passed
throrgh lead piping. Lead was one of the substances
absorbed into the softer part of the liver more than any
other poisons. Acetate of lead,.zinc, and copper were
commonly given in medicines -for cases of dysentery ;
but if ho had found as large a quantity of lead as eight
or ten grains he should suspect poisoning. Acetate of
lead would not act as a poison except in large quantities,
and if given in gin or whisky would be likely to pass
out of the system without injury. It would not operate
as a poison unless absorbed into the system. As mach
as an ounce had been given (unintentionally) and passed
off without acting as a poison. When carbonate of lead
was formed it would act as a poison, and even small
doses of the carbonate of lead would produce death. He
was satisfied that in this case death could not have been
produced by a mineral poison.
By Mr. Bradlaugh—Large doses of acetate of lead,
would have a h
e e ealye;
rgaivteedn
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would
been found in the system.
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gen-
tleman had not arrived when our report lett. Dr. Hatton
dlapsrtenila.l.
The Coroner nye
ill-
ness, and
rations of lead, zinc, and copper in the drafts he WO
Isupplied as medicine for deceased.
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ig had professavi