Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-07-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

VALUE OF CERTIFICATION. It follows from all this that dtetk certification is not it mere formality but a very important duty which, faithfully per. formed, will detect crime, and so tend to safeguard the public, The giving or ins !fusing of a certificate in nut a matter of favour, but an obligation ; a stern duty, which should be like the juror's oath,withouti fear, favour, or affection. It is f11.,11) thee' probable that changes in the law will be: made giving medical practitioners less dim: crciun and more responsibility positive and negative. Whenever there is the slightest reasonable doubt is to the propriety of giving a certificate, it should be refused and the case referred to the coroner. In this matter the public should aid the doctor, and not deter him from doing his duty. Many • practitioner has lost a good patient by doing his duty in this respect, without any coin. I pensating advantage whatever. The average Englishman has the greatest possible dislike to the coroner and an inouest as involving him in suspicion of neglect or unfair play. But this its absurd,eince the coroner is bound to inquire into numerous cases where no blame attaches to anyone, but where an in. quest or an informal inquiry must be held. Them will in all probability be more frequent in future if death oertitication is to be made as exact and perfect as it ought to be. Of all forms of murder poisoning is the most insidious and frightful. The man who walks about knowing that there is a price set on his head is even. less object of pity than the man who in his own house and in the bosom of his family has reason to dread the food he eats and the cup from which he drinks. The only sure way to deter persons from committing such crimes is to show them that detection is swift and certain. This can only be effected by the gieetest vigilance on the part of the medical profession, coronets, the police, and the genets! public.  Ac the yearc rolled over his head, dame fortune, somewhat tickle AA a general rule in the dispensation of hot favours, continued to smile benignly on Fergus O'Dowd. He rapidly retie to a high poitition in her Majesty'. service, and at the time of his introduction to the reader occupied the pion ..of controller, whioh oarried with it a salary of S 501) P•r11.0011131. Some yeare previously to the date of oar story renew. had purchased the freehold of a neat little villa just outside Liverpoo!, now the happy hunting ground of she ruthless jerry•Cuilder• whose vandalising hand has everywhere become apparent. Oonstrected on strictly utilitarian prtnuiplee. Beechwood-cottage— the name of O'Dowd's resideeoe—poesessed few claims to arohilietwural distinction. but the district in whioh it was located might fairly be described am one of ts mast charmingly picturesque environs of LiverpooL Heechwood-oottage stood near the of the railway station of Sc. Michael's. es 4 agamaigied i oleos lad ea.  Jamas Robint3o, aged 17, woe drowns(' whileil hsthing in the Derwent at Darla, Abb.. newt Decoy, an Sunday. Tbe deceased wee unable to swim, sad la supposed to lave slipped into • mock. bale.  ,--ateerat 0. timplitag"   to Horsewomen," by Mn. Mini. Allbutt (London . Horace C, Witidsor-lionsea, HC.)—AO many of our resderej will rem ethic, Hints to Hornewomen " formed; the subject of • eerie. of artiules that appeared! some time since in the "Weekly Courier. TN' authoress haa •hown herself to be thoroughly well up in the subject upon whioh she treats, cud the face that the volume before us Its. been published as the " Field " 001.„ is • guarantee a• to the value of the " hints." The valuate con:nets of, sin chanty., "Lilies Hurges ' • Side Saddles I Ridin; ilsbite ; Riling His., Whits. Gloves: Snots ; Ruling; sod Bridle.' Whilst •very, chapter is lull of vsluable " Hints," those out sid. Saddle., Riding, and Bridles will be found especially so. Every lady rider in the count ought to nominee a eupy of this book, for all will nod s'anatlutur new in it. It in neatly got up, and IL ter.u.-r,r4 with apssi dawn.. to WWII latat• taw Hale