The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1_69.

SHARP; LIST.

ORDINARY dliA;a:h AND STOCKS.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing Basinese
Share NAME. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 10.1 11.1
al Do B lO 31 41
50 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Auglo-Egyptian, lint all 2-21 21.1
20 Anglo-liungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1863, limited 10 5 4
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 101 11
20 Do issued at 2 pin....., 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lint.
23 Bank of South Australia all 30 32$
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia '25 37 39''
10 Bank of New Zealand all 14 17
50 British North American
•
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, nd China all 13 19
25 Chartered Mere. of India,
London, and China all 32 33 201
20 City
100 Colonial 25 38 40
10 Consolidated, lint.
50 Delhi and London, limn
50 East London, lint. 5 21 11
20 English and American, lint 10 ... ...
20 English Bank of Rio de, Ja-
neiro. lim
20 English, :cottisii, and Aus.
tralian Chartered
281 Hong Kong and Sha,ughui
Bank Corporation all 36 33 •
281 Do new 3l 21 21.
100 Imperial, lint 2O 15 16,
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 21 21 131 I
.:5 lonian all i 9 22
25 Do new 5 6 3
Lnd Mortgage of India, lint 4 Si 51
100 Do 51). c. De 1)8.1861, 30 all 76 76 80
100 London Bank; of Mexico
and South America, lint. 20 7 6
100 London and Brazilian, lint. 45 30 27
20 Do new 74 5 41
100 London &River Plate, lint. 40 6 8
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 London Chart.of Australia all 231 211
20 London and County 2O 4111 501
60 Do new, issat2op.m,l6pd ll ... • •
London Joint Stock 1 311 321 301 1
London and South African al 8; 9
100 London & S.-Western, lint, 20 11 11
50 London &Venezuela, lint l2l . ...
100 London and Westminster 2O 61 62 57! 3
100 Do Scrip, his at 10 pm
100 Merchant, lint 25 64 5
10 Metropolitan, lint all 71 71
00 Midland, lim. . 2O 11 i
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lim l5 8.1 alp
00 National I'rovinc.of Inild 42 ... ...
10 Do . 42 ••• •••
Ml National.:-- 3O ... ..
20 New South Wales all 4l Is
20 North-Western 7l
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 4 t 44
50 Provinc.Bank.Corpo., lim lO 61 51 31
30 Provincial of lroland 25 90 92
10 Do new. all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lint 23 1 t Es
100 Do issued at 6 put lO 8 6
24 Union of Australia all 11 44 451
100 Union of Ireland, line
50 Union of London

PO OR-LAW MEDICAL OFFICERS' A SSO-

CIATION.

The annual meeting of the above association was
held yesterday afternoon, at the Freemasons'
Tavern ; Dr. Rogers, the President; in the chair.
The first annu d report of the council, which was
real, stated that if the asso iation could not boast
of any great practical achievement, their 1 bours
had not been altogether in vain, while the mare
union of medical 'nee for the attainment of a com-
mon object had been openly recognised as an
impoitant event in the current history c f
the profession. The law requiring the council
to meet once a month at least, and on a spe-
cified day, had been faithfully carried out. They
had held, in all, 16 meetings during the year. The
association had likewise held four meetings, as di-
rected in the laws. The number of members at
the first general meeting, in July last, was less than
400, Lut the list at present comptised nearly double
that number. Thu council had unceasingly advo-
cated the necessity of an adequate and, as far as
practicable, a uniform payment in proportion to
work of the medical officers generally, and the vital
importance of permanence of appointment in all
cas2s. They had reason to believe that some boards
of guardians were reconsidering the salaries of their
officers, but no general improvement, however, could
be hoped, for in this respect till the House of Com-
LIOUS accorded to the medical officers thestatus of civil
servants of the Crown, and directed the Poor-law
Board to fix the salaries, which should be paid alto-
gether, instead of half only, out of the Consolidated
Fund. But this could not be done until the poor
rates were equalised, a policy to which the present
head of the Poor-law Board was fully committed.
The report further stated, " With regard to per-
manent appointments your council have the satisfac-
tion of knowing, from Mr. Goseben's own lips, that
he is opposed to the difference in the terms of ap-
pointment which now exist; and they do not doubt
he will use his best endeavours to place all medical
officers on . the same footing in this reepJet.-"lhis
gratifying statement of the President was made at
a recent interview when Dr. Lyon Playfair; M.P.,
Dr. Brady, M.P., Sir John Gray, M.P., Sir George
Jeukinson, M.P., and Dr. Lush, M.P., kindly joined
in presenting the memorial of 122 workhouse medi-
cal officers on the subject of the new duties impo_ed
upon them by the general order of the board, dated
April 4, 1868; and with respect to the " memorial"
itself your council have to congratulate the work-
house officers upon the complete success which
has followed its presentation. Mr. Gotehen hrs
given them all they wishe], and more th in they
hal ventured to ask, having rescinded Article
5 of the general order in question, and thus re-
lieved them from the discharge of duty , which
placed them in a false po ition, and was calculated
to involve them with the Poor-law Board on the
one hand, and with the guardians ou the other.
Poor-law questions arc, at the pretent time, excit-
ing considerable attention, more particularly as
they affect the metropolis. And well they may,
teeing that the pauperism of the metropolis—Mr
Goscheu himself being witness— has increased
nearly 50 per cent. iu three years. The measure
now befure Parliament to extend Mr. Ilardy's Me-
trapoli-au Poor Act, 1867, will, no doubt, become
law this session, and ere long your council hope to
see the dispensary system fairly on its trial. They
rej Ace to know that the President of the Poor-law
Beard is in favour of the system. After cordially
congratulating theirlrish colleagues upon the success
which has attended their exertions, the council go on
to express their great obligations to those provincial
members who had undertaken the duties of hon.
secretaries, and conclude e—" The ass.ociacion,
moreover, is a staeding 1 r itcst against the wrongs
of the service. Its lower is not inconsiderable
even now ; how gi eatly it we uld be increased
were its lumbers doubled—trebled ; or if it in-
cluded in its raid:B the entire serii.e of 3,300
bllieJts, none can tell. Such unanimity is beyond
hope ; but if every member would, at this tine,
do his utmost to obt..in recruits, 50a1.3 approzuti
to it might be s.ion attainel." The receipts during
the year ha 1 been £271, and, notwithstanding Lae
expenditure had .been exceptionally heavy, a bal-
ance of i:5B remained iu hand.

The report was unanimously adopted.
The Cifal:tNlAN afterwards addressed the meeting
at great length, in the course of which he said they
had given consi terabit: impetus by their unatiiini'y
and critical investigat:ou to the settlem.:lit of the
moot question of cubic and fluor space ; tit tt they
pressed E tr3.:esiruily upon the i'o )r-law Board
through the Lunacy Commissioners the issue of an
insti uctioual letter which laid down a more humane
and decent mode of dealing with pauper lunatics when
requiring certificates previous to removal to asylums,
and that after great trouble they had succeeded in
showing the Poor-law Board the advisability of
establishing a uniform dietry suited fur the diffe-
rent classes of workhouse inmates. Ile referred
in eulogistic terms to the important services of
the " veteran reformer, Richard Griffin," and
passed on to ask when would the medical bodies
in this country see the justice and advisability of
doing as the Irish corporations had done, remind-
ing them of the good they would du by extending
to them the right hand of sympathy. Ile argued
that wherever in a union or parish the ins:heal
service had been starved, there had alway+lieen
continuous rise in the amount of rates collected for
the relief of the poor, a faCt that could not bs won-
dered at when it was remembered that 72 per cent. of
pauperism originated from sickness of the working
classes, and that the efficient performance of medical
officers du ties had been possible only at the cost of their
time and resources; and if therefore guardians desired
to secure efficiency, and with it diminished sickness
and pauperism dependent on it, they must properly
remunerate those who had the medical charge of the
sick poor. During the last 17 years the amount
of annual outlay had been continuously on the in-
crease, and at the present time it exceeded the total
imperial expenditure of many continental states.
The expenditure for the poor for the year just
ended amounted in round numbers to £7,500,000,
being an advance of upwards of half a million over
that of 1867, whilst in Ireland (the same national
causes being in operation there which led to the
increase of pauperism here) the total expenditure
for the year 1868 amounted to no more than
£829,521, being an increase of £30,627 only over
that of 1867.

Dr. Colborne, of Chippenham, Dr. Dixon, and
others, also addressed the meeting, and a vote of
thanks to the retiring council and the president
closed the proceedings.