The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-14 00:00:00

IJl,dtr the care of regular medical practitioners as

private patients 585
As dupensary, infirmary, and hospital patients
Prescribed for by druggists 177
[lad no medical assistance whatever during the
last illnessgg

" ri.o. this it appears that this district, which contains
a stealle- proportion or the very poor than most others.
nearly one quarter (226 out of 100) are not attended
by autnorised practitioners even in their last illness, and
many (f the rest are so attended fur a very short time
only preceding death. There is no doubt that the
proportion of thu e who do not obtain regular medical
assistance in less severe forms of disease is very much
larger. The absence of proper medical attendance, in a
large proportion of cases, renders it exceedingly difficult
to procure correct information of the cause of death—
impossible, indeed, without great care and labour, and
the employment of medical knowledge."
A statement of this kind, while showing how service-
able to the interests of the profession may be a careful
and th-ughtful system of registration, and therefore
ii w much to be encouraged, offers a striking picture of
the net d that exists that the medical attendance which
superabounds is this country should be made more avail-
able than it is—through causes easily removed—to the
exigentAus of the public. The mortality of the spring
quarter has, after all, been less than the average. Small
pox hes, however, committed fearful ravages, from the
apathy of the poor to the advantages of vaccination. In
the only case of death recorded alter vaccination, the
operation had been performed by a midwife. One hun-
dred and tour women also died from childbirth in the
metropolis within three months. The weekly deaths in
the metropolis fell progressively in the quarter from
eight hundred :and eighty-four to seven hundred and
fifty-six as the t mperature ro,e.—Medical Times.

DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—Last night, about
half-past six o'clock two young men, brothers. were drowned
in in the Clyde at the Green, under circumstances of very dis-
tres,ing nature. The names of the deceased are George and
Robert Linn, the former a bleacher in the employment of
Messrs. 11. Monteith and Co., at Barrowfield, and the latter
a tailor, who has recently been working we believe, in
Paisley. It appears that in the course of yesterday (Sunday),
the two brothers, whe had not seen each other for a consi-
derable time, met in town—so far as is known, accidentally
—ar.d had some whisky together, by which they both became
somewhat intoxicated. They afterwards proceeded along
Glasgow-green, where they were seen quarrelling. George,
the elder brother, repeatedly pushed and knocked Robert
about, and once or twice threw him on the ground, at which
the latter appeared vexed and mortified, but so far as we have
heard, made no attempt at retaliation. Their conduct attracted
the notice of a number of blackguard boys in the green, who
followed and assailed them with expressions of jeering and
mockery, such as are frequently used towards persons found in
a state of intoxication. %,‘ hen they reached the well situated
immediatety beyond Dominie's Hole, a short way westward
of Allan's Pen, the elder brother threw the younger down upon
the ground, and soiled his clothes, which were wiped by a
little girl who chanced to be upon the spot. While she was
doing so, he complained to her that his brother had been
teasing and ifl-using him. He then went to the brink
of the river, and at the moment his brother George was
drinking at the well, exclaimed " Farewell Geordie," and
threw hi.nielf into the water, The elder brother at once
plunged in to his rescue, but fell upon him, and they both
went below. They came again to the surface, however, and
Robert, the youngest brother, contrived to get to the shore,
where he lay for a short time half in arid half out of the
water. He then saw his brother struggling for life, and
went back into the river, obviously to render him assist-ante:
but by this time the strength of both was gone, and they sunk
to the bottom. The bodies were recovered in the course of
the evening.— Glasgow Argus.
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Tux HARVEST.—Here and there patches of wheat
were cut in this county in the course of the past week, and no
doubt the sickle would have been in more general requisition,
as in some districts, we understand, much of the corn is riper
than it would appear from a cursory glance, had net the storms
and gloomy weather determined the farmers to wait. The
sunshine and drying wind of yesterday morning set rnany in
activity, and the cutting of wheat became rather general,
though the afternoon showers a little damped the full ar-
dour of harvest. A return of settled summer weather, now se
much needed for gathering in the fruits of the earth, would set
the sickle and the scythe in full operation.—Essex Herald.
SWALLOWING FOREIGN BODIES.—Dr. Brookes de-
scribes two cases, in one of which a black pin, and in the other
a halfpenny, was swallowed, and remained sticking in the ceso-
dliagus. In each instance the foreign body could readily be
distinguished in the tube. where its presence was productive
of great distress: the doctor's practice, however, was at first
restricted to the exhibition of an emetic, and he did not have
recourse to the probang until the emetic had vroved useless.
Immediate relief followed the dislodgement of the foreign bo-
dies, which were afterwards found in the stools. We trust the
experience thus gained by Dr. Brookes will induce him in
future net to trust to emetics, when the foreign body is within
reach of the probang.—Medical Times.
LIST OF lIER MAJESTY'S VESSELS WHOSE TERMS
OF THREE YEARS AND UPWARDS HAVE EXPIRED.-Agin-
court (6 ig), 72, Captain W. J. H. Johnstone, East Indies ;
Aigle, 24, Lord Clarence E. Piget, Mediterranean; Alba-
tross, 16, Reginald Yorke, Coast of Africa ; Ardent, steam-
sloop: John Russell (b), Coast of Africa; Basilisk, 6, Nenry
S. Hunt. Pacific ; Beacon, 6, Thomas Graves, Mediterra-
nean ; Cleopatra, 26, Christopher Wyvill, Cape of Good
Hope ; Daphne, 18, John J. Onalow, Pacific ; Devastation,
steam-sloop, W. H. Kitchen, Mediterranean ; Driver,
steam-sloop, Courtenay E. Hayes, East Indies ; Fly, 18,
Francis P. Blackwood, East Indies ; Formidable (flag), 14,
George F. Risk, Mediterranean ; Geyser. steam-sloop, E.
J. Carpenter, Mediterranean ; Growler, steam-sloop, C. H.
M. Buckle, Coast of Africa; Hazard, 18, David Robertson,
East Indies ; North Star, 26,
_Sir James E: Home, East

Indies ; Orestes, 18, E. S. L. Cannon, Mediterranean
Philomel, 6, Bartholomew J. Sulivan, South East Coast ot
America; Pique, 36, Hon. Montague Stopford, North
America ; Plover, surveying-vessel, Richard Collinson,
East Indies; Polyphemus, steam- sloop, Thomas Spark,
Mediterranean ; Ringdove, 16, Sir William Daniell, Coast
of Africa ; Salamander, steam-sloop, Andrew S. Hammond,
Pacific ; Sapphire, 22, John R. Fittock, East Indies ;
Scylla, I'l, Robert Sharpe, North America and West Indies;
Serpent, 16, William Nevill, East Indies; Snake, 16, Hon.
W. B. Devereux, Mediterranean; Spartan. 26, Hon. C. G.
J. B. Elliott, North America and West Indies ; Spider. 6,
Richard E. Ps m, south-east coast of America • 'falbot,
Sir Thomas R. T. Thompson, Pacific; Thalia, 42,
Charles Hope, Pacific ; Vixen, steam-sloop, George Gifford,
East Indies; Warspite, 50, P. W. P. Wallis, Mediterranean ;
Winchever (flag), 50, Charles Eden, Cape of Good Hope;
Wolf, 18, James A. Gordon, East Indies; Wolverine, 16,
W. J. C. Clifford, East Indies.
T .L., LATE SESSION.--From the official records
issued by order of both Houses of Parliament it appears that
no fewer than 666 different documents, either in the form
of reports and blue books (some extending to upw:rds of
1,000 folio pages each), or returns, statistical or otherwise,
have been directed to be printed by the House of Commons
alone. By far the greater number of these have been already
issued ; but a long list of documents, including many of the
utmost pubic importance and interest, still remain to be
printed add distributed ; and the like is the case with respect
to the papers of the other branch of the Legislature. No fewer
than 22 reports, returns, &c., were moved for or presented in
the House of Commons only on the last day of the session, all
of which will be some time before they are ready for publication.
Indeed, these proofs of the labours of a session generally con-
tinue being afforded during a large portion of the recess ; the
more especially will it be so now, after a session of such un -
exampled labour and extensive investigation. The House of
Lords sat during the late session 95 days; and the House of
Commons 125. The official records of the proceedings of the
forn:er occupy 1,048 pages ; those of the lower House of Par-
liament 2,078 pages, the last two of which contain 16 notices
of motions, which now stand in the order-book of that House
" for the next session." There were altogether 170 divisions
during the past session in the House of Commons.