The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-11 00:00:00

THE .REGISTI?ATIO.N OF DISEASE.

A deputation waited upon Mr. Goschen, M.P., Presides',
of the Poor Law Board, on Wednesday, to lay before him
a comprehensive plan for the registration of disease
throughout England and Wales. The deputation was
a conjoint committee of the St. Andrew's Medical
Graduate Association, the Medical Society of London,
the Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of
Health, and the Poor Law Medical Officers' Association.
It was shown that the mortality returns afforded no
reliable indication of the relative frequency of disease, in
consequence of the varying mortality of different epidemics,
and of the very different mortality of different diseases,
and that a registration of disease as distinguished from
a registration of deaths could alone furnish, when
supplemented by the meteorological and geological records
at present in the possession of the authorities, a sufficient
basis for the adoption of measures for the prevention of
disease. Most diseases, it was urged, especially diseases
depending on preventable causes, struck hardest the
poorer classes of the community, and a record of the diseases
attacking them would be a very sufficient guage of the
proportionate frequency and of the actual character of the
diseases affecting the entire population. Such a record
now existed, but at present it was not utilised for this
great national purpose. The returns furnished to the
boards of guardians of the poor contained all the informa-
tion required, and a proposal for a modification of the
schedule at pi esent, in use, whoray the guardians could
retain such part as they needed for local purposes, and
could transmit the other part to a central office in Lon-
don for classification and periodical publication, was
described. The number of stations from which returns
would thus be obtained was between three and four
thousand, and would include annually not less than three
millions of cases of disease. It wa3 stated that the know-
ledge thus obtained would abundantly illustrate the course,
ceuses, and character of disease generally, and the most
effective means for diminishing its amount, to the great
and lasting good of the community.
Mr. GoseHEN said that, in spirit, he was heartily with
the deputation, and pointed out the necessity there was
that, in putting such a scheme into action, care should be
taken not to impose additional dutie n Poor-law officers,
and that the nomenclature of disease ,liculd be uniform.
He inspired of the deputation whether, in the event of
the plan being adopted, it would bo better that the classi-
fication and publication cf the returns should be under-
taken by the Poor-law Board, or by some office dealing
with like matters, such as the Registrar-General's Depart-
ment. The feeling of the deputation was in favour of the
latter plan, in order to leave open the ultimate extension
of registration of disease to other classes of the commu-
nity.—Mr. Goschcn was, on the whole, of the same opinion,
and without pledging himself strictly to details, approved
generally of the suggestion which had been brought before
him.

A VALIANT CJIAMPION.—A -woman's rights con-
vention has been held in Hartford, U.S., at which a Mr.
Burton was the principal spokesman. Ho declared his
intention of advocating their cause, and concluded as fol-
lows : "If, when my time comes to die, women do not yet
vote, I won't die."

A Hindoo lady has brought a suit in the Calcutta
courts for damages by having an idol stolen froni her.
She explains the troubles which the loss of the image
have brought upon her thus : "I have no children. I
want my bones back. lam starving, and by crying have
become thin."

DANGEROUS SONGS.—lrish correspondents com-
plain that ballads of a dangerous nature, recommending,
in fact, the murder of landlords, are being sung at the fairs
and rural gatherings. Here is a specimen :

" Those landlords all—
Both great and small—
We'll shoot them down by dozens;
We'll hould our lands,
And pay no rints,
And carve out those bloody ruffins."

It is alleged that singers of similar songs have been arrested
and brought before a magistrate at Clonmel, but imme-
diately discharged. The policeman who took them into
custody, it is further stated, were hooted until they took
refuge in their barracks.
ANNIHILATION or DISTANCE.—III this small
island, notwitstanding the celerity afforded by railways,
a hundred miles still seems a pretty respectable distance.
When we say, " I would not live within a hundred miles of
him," we mean to place a wide interval between ourselves
and the obnoxious person. But the Americans, accustomed
to the stretch of a giant continent, look at distances through
diminishing glasses. Ladies travel through from New York
to New Orleans as coolly as we go from London to Liverpool,
and the trip from the Eastern States to California is regarded
much as we view the journey from London to the north of
Scotland. Recently I asked an American gentleman if he
had ever visited the settlement of the Bible Communists at
Oneida Creek. "No," he answered, "though I have lived
only a hundred miles off, I have never cared to go there."
Evidently he considered a hundred miles as nearly next door.
In a late book of American travel I read of a lawyer who
arrived at Saint Louis from Cincinnati on a Saturday. He
would have to return on Monday evening, yet he spent the
intervening Sunday in going one hundred and fifty miles
out from Saint Louis and back again for the sake of hear-
ing a favourite preacher! No wonder the Americans deal
in exaggerative arithmetic. I met a New Englander lately
on the South-Eastern, who complained that in England
you were no sooner out of one city than you were in
another—a couple of houses are called a city in the States ;
and he added gravely, that the smallest New England'
State was bigger than the United Kingdom, and that a
train in America often went two or three thousand miles
without stopping !

Colonel Samuel Adams has arrived at Washing-
ton with the papers relating to his expedition from Breck-
enridge, Territory of Colorado down through the Green and
into the Colorado River, a journey of extraordinary danger,
as the descent in the first hundred miles was 5,000 feet. He
noted as he passed vast forests, and saw wild wheat, rye,
oats, and barley, growing to the height of six feet. He
also discovered ruins of cities, built of stone, fortifications,
canals, abandoned mines, several hundred years old, and
he gives it as his belief that the cities, the ruins of which
he described, were inhabited centuries before San Augus-
tine, Florida, which is believed to have been the first set-
tlement embraced in the territory of the United States.
The party likewise found oil wells, tar wells, and salt and
coal in abundance. He describes portions of 'Arizona and
New Mexico as the richest country he had ever seen, and
he discovered there mines of enormous mineral wealth.
The citizens of Washington, before whose eyes
the West keeps dancing the hateful banner with the un-
palatable device, " Change the National Capital," have
been reassured by an interview with General Sherman.
Several deeply interested in Washington waited on him,
and extracted the opinion that it would take a hundred
years to get such a bill through the Representatives ;
another century to pass it for the Senate, and a hundred
and one years would then be required to discuss the most
eligible spot in the Mississippi Valley. We believe the
Commander-in• Chief to be almost right, for if the ques-
tion really became serious, the West would split into
sections over the new site, and is would perhaps end in
building another "City of Magnificent Distances" in the
wilderness, which, instead of being an improvement,
would possess all the bad points of Washington, and a
few more.

quotation of gold at Paris is about at par. and
t'te short exchange on London is 2M. 15c. per £1 sterling
Oncomparing these rates with the English Mint price of
era. 104 d. per ounce tor stand:v.ol ”0,1. .t t t
gold at the above price is slightly dearer in Paris than in
London

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