The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

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l'tarebalsetir&erc

DR
1847,
Jan. 1. To balance due Treasurer, per last Report 1
„ Sundry Tradesmen's Accounts
„ Interest on Debt

NEW PREMISES' ACCOUN

CR.
1847,
Dec. 31. 1

sundry Donations

galanee due Treasurer

s. d.
273 16 6
82 7 0

12th .T (=nary; 1848. (Signed) HENRY CROSSFIELU.
The TREASURER then remarked that the report and the
accounts so fully set forth the present condition of the
institution that it was unnecessary for him to make nnv

..—.....-- , 'it; roamer, - and the restriction
......... ~....... ..........„,..,“ ..., i,ei, g tau to see discounts '''
adopted by the balr.:.:,k, there had been no
the accounts more favourable, yet, such was the efficiency in
I
of the institution, that he saw no ground for discourage- failures of moment. ;
merit, and trusted that with an amendment of the times it The cotton market was re—
,
would yet be adequately supported. a cent per lb
ver . ...y light,
Mr. NEILL, the principal medical officer of the institu-
the stocks being
tion, and a gentleman of much skill in the diseases the crop in the hope of forcing a
treated of and who has devoted his untiring exertions fo of the crop made up to the
the interests of. the establishment for some years, produced follows :
v
a tabular statement of the numerous cases treated durin _ I 9
4.,_ _ _

ince the arr

inn, and had improved half
of the steamer from here,
1-the planters 'holding tack

in columns, snowing the nature of U
ailments (of the eyes or ears) of the patients, and the re
sults. This exhibited a great increase of general eas
over thOse of former years—and especially in cataracts
of which there .had been no fewer than eighty-one ease
•i all of which operations had be

Exports to Great Eeitain. 13-4

The statistics
zych- December were as

The trade in N

77 vessels

Jer lb., -with

low, cotton
Yorlvto Liverpool,
['oz. flour-; and froin New
I:ferllour.
•to -

_
one case had been unsuccessful. There had been twenty-
:being quoted at' d. peril): from 7*-
.fining tendency. _ rreig,--
five cases of contraction of the pupil of the eye, excluding
the light, and in which artificial pupils were successfully and is. 3d. to ls: 6d. per barrel_
introduced. Amongst the cases were those of some cbil- Orleans, 7-16 d. for cotton, and 4
dren born blind who bad obtained the power of. sight. The market fir provisions'
There was a case of a boy who had labbured under oblite- from Europe, but had not: di
ration of the pupil of one of his eyes; and the other wns any chance of profit ,for 'expo
strongly affected from sympathy. •He nevi sAvv-iiis_ selling at -R6 25 cents per Ty,'
tinctly NO 0 - -4- had - - - - ' can. and Ohio at =B'6 16

cippre§Fect by the accoarkts
dined iaWeiently to afford
Ttera. .LQOll.c

..an tue eye.._ _... an %artificial pupil-iiitro.: . gut"' ""-
-
duced, and could 'likewise distinguish objects with the . Grain was very dull
.of
other, which was progressively improving.:: 'Operations. -Old wheat was selling at
had also been successfully performed. fol.' stju,int, and. the arrival of the packet I
by the use of sulnhurie ether. and in m-1,',... i:,i-,:.. ~....,;,. ' was 88 cents: canal °id-4

ee flour was

6 48_ eentsyer barrel

bli; N-€
FS cents,

littld offering

the price befor'

of chloroform, the operation, hitherto one of
was little, if at all felt. The riewspaliers..b
some of these cases, and this had no dpubt, the effect of
sending more persons to the institution.;" He next 'touched
upon the prevention of blindness .am.ongsr.wOrkmen in
foundries and other large works, whO received injuries of
the eye, by bruises or wounds from sparks, particles of
steel, and other substances. This year they have had no
fewer than 362 cases of

bu-ekwl

.{eat,. SI 75 (
, noticed - I the exports from the.lSt to.the

; river ditto, 44 to

The following wer

Wheat Flour
Corn

Itli,Pece:nber

Barley
Oats..
The steel

places

.t a distance

k. of weEterr

10,053 .barrels.
2.29,920 bushels.

of southern, 1

atcd, at 400,000 bar

s dull; S_aollars toll dollars
pork, and 9-dollars 50
is from the lit

19.854 kegs.
od- thero'Fill therefore be