The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-08-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EXCESS OF SUICIDE IN LONDON.—No less than 16 more cases of suicide were registered in London last week, whereas the corrected weekly average is scarcely 6. Thus in the four weeks ending last Saturday 51 suicides were recorded in the metropolis, the corrected average of the corresponding period of the last ten years being but 22. The 16 cases recorded last week included 6 by hanging, 3 by drowning, 2 by gunshot, 2 by poisoning, 1 by cutting throat, and two by other means. The rank or occupation of the sdicides would throw some light upon the cause of the recent marked excess of this form of death in London ; this information, however, does not find a place in the Registrar-General's weekly return.—Lancet. MR TRACY TURNERELLI - CAN COMMAND £15,000 !—Mr Tracy Turnerelli writes as follows :—" Charing Cross Hotel, London, August 22nd.—Sir,—The press and public evidently mistake my position. Probably they would give me a little credit for better in • tentions were they to feel assured I could command, at an hour's notice,a few thousands of pounds—£ls,ooo I have invested in first ground rents in good, honest Lancashire. I am sorry to be obliged to make this avowal, long delayed—for I believe riches rather tend to degrade an honest man than to raise him —bat I think it may do good to prove that I am really not in want of 'rewards and places.' Were Ito tell you I would not accept even the post of ambassador, with fifteen thousand a year, were it offered me, you I would not believe me; but it is true neverthe less, and as to knighthood—Bah ! ! With an ample indepsndent fortune, I need not be ashamed of any humble public course I may pursue for the sake of truth and self -vindica; tion ; and, by hook or by crook, truth shall prevail—as it ought to do.—Yours truly, TRACY TURNERELLI, Chairman of the People's Tribute."  " Paxsztica or MlND."—Under this heading I the Scientific American quotes the following I short rules given Professor Wilder for action ' in case of accidents :—For dust in the eyes— avoid rubbing; dash water into them. Remove cinders, (tic., with the round point of a lead pencil. Remove insects from the ear with terpid water: never put a hard instrument into the ear. If any any artery is oat, compress above the wound. If a vein is out, compress below. If choked, get upon au. fours and cough. For light burns, dip the part in cold water: if the skin is detroyed, cover with varnish. Before passing through smoke. take a full breath and then stoop low; but if carbon is suspected walk erect. Suck a poisoned wound, unless your month is sore ; enlarge the wound, or better cut out the part without delay. Hold the wounded part as long as can be borne to a hot coal, or end of a cigar. In case of poisoning, excite vomiting by tickling the throat, or by water or mustard. In case of opium poison, gives strong coffee and keep moving. It in the water float on the back, with the nose and mouth projecting. For apoplexy, raise the head and body. For fainting lay the person flat. "Brevity is the soul of wit," so the Professor's maxims have, at least the merit of being short; and perhaps many will think that some of them are more easily preached than practiced—to wit, iloatir gon your back in water when you cannot swim, and cutting off your own fingers, or putting into the wound a live coal, when you have been bitten by a mad dog! Medical Press cud Circular.