Ross Gazette 16th July 1914 - Page 6
Ross Gazette 16th July 1914 - Page 6
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| Date | 16/07/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 16th July 1914 |
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SBY'S ONLY ! High - grade Drapery , at NOW PROCEEDING . ed , SECOND SHEET . A LIGHT ALE For the Warm Weather is 1 TENNENT'S LAGER BEER . RECOMMENDED . = Per dozen -pint 2/6 bottles Per dozen pint bottles 3/9 WHITBREAD'S LONDON STOUT Increases in popularity because of its regularly good condition . 2/6 ... per dozen pint bottles . THE ROSS GAZETTE - THURSDAY , JULY 16. 1914 . POULTON & NOEL'S Chivers ' Jellies , AND LAZENBY'S TONGUES IN GLASS MOULDS , 1/8 , 1/6 , 2/2 , 3 / - , 3/10 each . ALL KINDS OF POTTED MEAT AND FISH , In 3d . and 6d . Glasses 81d . each . All flavours . Bird's Jelly Crystals , All flavours , 31d each . Green's Jelly Crystals , All flavours , 21d . each . J. BARNWELL & SON , Agents for Grocers , ROSS . TO VISITORS- When in Ross drink the wine of the country , - LAZENBY'S FRUIT SALAD . A SPECIALITE Agents for W. & A. GILBEY'S WINES & SPIRITS . Price Lists on application . Whitbread's Ales and Stout , in Bottle . PERRIER CE , ROSS . WATER , 3/6 Telephone 38 4/6 CIDER . 5/6 . WE BELL IT . per dozen Per Large Tin 1/4 . bottles . Ask for a Price List . Also in bottles . & HALL INEERS ILDERS , S. ( LIMITED ) , Garage , hauled , including alterations ad Screens , Re - upholstering , to Customers ' requirements . FREE . KER , ther ied at Cash Second - hand Cars taken in exchange . dak ! ow to use it . Full Market Value allowed . o intending purchasers , who can see ethod , and Printing , & c . , any day in otographers is at your service . We stock every requisite for the Amateur Photographer . EBENHAM pposite G.P.O. ) , ROSS - ON - WYE Final : eat : Worcester beat Evesham . Hereford beat . Worcester by two lengths . Ladies ' , and Gentlemen's Double Sculling Race . - Final : A. E. Deverall's crew won by quarter length . Belmont Plate . Final : Army Service Corps . Won by a length . In a motor - cycle gymkhana the prize- vinners were : Mr. Lewis ( four firsts ) , Mr. Fryer ( two firsts ) , Mr. Newbigging , and Mr. Kilgore , jun . The judge was Mr. A. Lovesay . CRICKET FIXTURES . ROSS FIRST ELEVEN . July 18. - Ludlow and South Shropshire , away July 25. - Stroud , home " A " TEAM FIXTURES . July 25. - Bradley Court School , away LEAGUE FIXTURES . July 18. - Perrystone v . Goodrich and Bishopswood Ross v . Weston Ruardean v . Cinderford Anything can be mended with Sample free from Bold everywhere Im Patent pin - stoppered Tubes , 31. & 6d . SECCOTINE M'CAW , STEVENSON & ORR . Ltd. , Loop . Belfast . and 312 , Shoe Lane , London , E.C. Printed and Published for the Ross GAZETTE LIMITED , by GODFREY M. MORTON , at their Offices , High - street and Church- street . Ross , in the County of Hereford . THURSDAY , JULY 16 , 1914 . PRINTING STATIONERY BULMER'S HEREFORDSHIRE Before sending any order for PRINTING or STATIONERY to another Town , enquire the cost of same in Ross . We will gladly give estimates at any time , and only ask for the opportunity to obtain orders on our merits in open competition . " GAZETTE " PRINTING WORKS Immediate Cash Advances . Telephone - 59 , Ross . A selection of Choice Fruits . in Olear Syrup . Dainty . Refreshing . Ready . Hand - made Chocolates , 2 / per lb. Obtainable at our Confec- Honery Branch- No. 8 , HICH - STREET . These Chocolates are equal in quality to those sold in many London Stores at double the price . BARREL BREWERY , BRILLIANT ALES ROSS . These Ales and Stonta give great satisfaction to those who enjoy a brilliant Beer , with delicate palate , and full of life . This is accounted for by the fine quality of the materials employed , the delicious flavour and aroma of selected Hops being very noticeable . A.E. Light Ale The Ross Gazette . THURSDAY JULY 16th , 1914 . PERSONAL GOSSIP , Famous American Surgeons . NOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS.brated Drs . Mayo , two brothers from Rochester , Вт опи : Бонари Поплатоновит We do not hold oualves telponsible for all the oplatonis expressed by the able writer of those notes . Among the American delegates in London attending the Clinical Congress are the cèle Minnesota , whose clinic is the admiration of the medical world of America . These won- derful surgeons have a practice which is esti mated to bring in gross receipts of £ 100,000 a year . In their private hospital , St. Mary's , there are 300 beds , and here the brothers have performed some 35,000 operations in the last twenty years . Their System of Fees . The Kaiser's Health . Ross BOARD OF GUARDIANS . THE LATE MR , GIBSON FRY . COST OF INDOOR OFFICERS EXPLAINED . THE WHISKEY QUESTION . NURSING QUESTION REFERRED BACK . THE LATE MR . GIBSON FRY . The CLERK said he could give the figures He for each year if the Board desired it . Political feeling has run pretty high Tately in London , although the centre of interest has been in Ulster . The atmosphere of ex citement in the two Houses of Parliament The fortnightly meeting of the Guardians been reduced to a minimum , and consequent- was perceptible as soon as they assembled ; The Mayo system of fees is interesting and was held at Union Offices , Ross , on Thursday ly the expenditure on those accounts have but it is a pleasing fact that at the clubs and unusual , each patient being charged a tenth last , when there were present Mr. W. B. correspondingly increased . in the City the feeling is not nearly as em- of his annual income . Thus , the rich man Pilkington ( Chairman ) , Mr. F. Cooper ( Vice- The CHAIRMAN said they would deal bittered on either side as it was a few with £ 20,000 a year pays £ 2,000 , while , the Chairman ) . Mrs. Protheroe , Mr. S. H. months ago . Among Liberals and Unionists £ 150 year man is charged £ 15 for exactly Deakin , Mr. J. Murdoch , Mr. J. G. Pro - with that part of the report first , and leave similar treatment . The Mayo brothers know theroe , Mr. F. S. Collins , Mr. H. Hone , Mr. the question of the Nurses until after the with whom I have spoken there appears to be their London well , and are not behindhand A. G. Evans , Mr. J. Parr . Mr. H. T. Blake , discussion on the cast of the officers . general conviction that it should be posin expressing their admiration of what they Mr. J. Griffiths , Mr. A. Matthews . Mr. Every comprehensive report , and very able Mr. HERBERT said he thought it was a sible to arrive at a peaceful settlement . The declare is the healthiest city in the world . " Morgan . Mr. M. K. M. Power , Mr. D. A one so far as the figures were concerned anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne Meredith , Mr. T. Preece , Mr. W. Lloyd , Mr. tended , of course , to introduce a new element J. W Robinson . Mr. R. Pashley . Mr. J. T. ( hear , hear ) , of excitement in Ireland and among Orange- A diplomat who has arrived here from Stone , Mr. F. W. Herbert , Mr J. Day , Mr. only gone into details for the last ten men in this country , but Englishmen of both Berlin , and who , during the past two or T. A. Lock , Mr. E. W revost . Mr. C Hitchings . Mr. C. Freer , with Mr. J. Fred parties do not attach quite the same import three weeks , has seen much of his Imperial Arnold ( Clerk ) . Mr. E. W. Gent and Mr ars , for there was really no comparison ance to the memory of William of Orange , Majesty , tells me , writes a London corre- A. H. Webb ( Relieving Officers ) . with the cost of 30 years ago , He might and the desire for a - happy issue out of all our pondent , that though the fact has not been ax that in 1883 Mr. Morgan said there were afflictions appears to predominate . permitted to transpire in Germany , the 145 inmate one nurse costing £ 38 4s . , and Things appear to be a little brighter in bealth of the Emperor William has been , and is , very indifferent . The CHAIRMAN , before , allowing the or the cost of the officers was only £ 209 . He London as far as the relations between capital rence of the old ear trouble , and the drawn the had a very sad and painful duty to perone use costing £ 42 % . and the cost of There has been a recur dinary , business to be proceeded with , said had not the enres for that year , but he found in 1884 here were 130 inmates , with and labour are concerned , and the atmosphere appearance of the face is an indication that of strikes is not nearly as pronounced as it his Imperial Majesty has been suffering from shadow of the death of Mr. Fry , who was the offers was then £ 875 186. 2 . was a few weeks ago . The dispute between insomnia . with them , apparently in good health , last Mr. MORGAN said he should like to know Mr. Stoll and the musicians : was not a big Board day , but whom they all knew dled who were the officers who were getting this affair , but it had lasted a long time , and the A Brillant Soldier . " very suddenly on Saturday last . At a meet - money , £ 35 in 1884. He could tell them . The CHAIRMAN : What does this lead up pickets have been familiar figures outside the The memory of the nation is short . A few ing such as that he had only to voice what to . Mr. Morgan ? Coliseum and the various suburban variety days ago the central figure in one of the he knew was the feeling of that Board as a Mr. MORGAN said he wanted to prove his houses under Mr. Stoll's control . The settle- ment ; I understand , has been satisfactory allost brilliant episodes in the Boer War public body . Had he to express his personal fignres with regard to 1888 , and he also wish- passed away . A search in the London feelings from a private life standpoint . he round . There is to be no penalty enforced journals finds a passing reference to Colonel could not , he feared . put them adequately ed to point out that the expenses of working against the men who broke their agreement , and the men who are out will be reinstated H. Dalgety as having commanded Colonial into words . He could not express the shock this house in 1914 was 651 16s .. according The CHAIRMAN said he did not wish to as vacancies occur . As a with at Mr. Fry's sudden demise . In the building dispute , troops in the South African War . Even the that some of them had at present to contend to the figures in the little book . interrunt , but what was the good of them the process of sectional settlement is proceed - journal that published a history of the wat member of that Board , Mr. Fry was most discussing matters , which occurred thirty forgotten , says a correspondent , that ing rapidly , and this is regarded by most Colonel Dalgety defended Wepener with his valuable . He was always sound in his voor people as very desirable . universal favour among the men , many of e men , many of Colonial troops against à superior force of taking a real and active interest in his Roo rears sen , or to go hack into remote history . whom complain that it is an astute way of Boers , and Boers that were elated by recent Law work , and absolutely fair and unpre He could not see how that , could possibly breaking their solidarity . But after so many Reddersburg and Sanna's Post . successes against British Regular troops at judiced in his bearing , with a personality affect the position of to - day . The circum- months of enforced idleness there are not many who feel any great enthusiasm for con- tinning the fight . The L.C.C. has been discussing a motto for not Man Who Defended Wepener . minions regiment in this country . Fifty Years of Journalism . form . They met that morning under the about him that carried a charm , a regard , and stances had considerably changed , and a com- an influence with it . He ( the Chairman ) parison between what wes necessary 30 years wished therefore to propose that this ex- ago and what was now , would he practically pression of our feelings be recorded , and useless . That was why the Board considered that a copy of the resolution be sent to the it better for the Clerk to prepare this report The CLERK said his figures were taken relatives with an assurance of their deepest and limit it to the past ten years . sympathy with them in what he might term from the audited accounts a mutual loss . That . he felt sure , they would all endorse . Mr. MORGAN said that at the time he He was going to ask was speaking of there was a schoolmistress Ald . Preece , as Chairman of the Rural Dis- and a trainer , which they had not got in trict Council , to second the resolution . the house to - day . Then he should like to Mr. PREECE said he could not make any . more remarks m addition to those by their say a word about the whiskey . At the last Chairman . He endorsed every word he had meeting of the Board . a gentleman threw said , for he was quite sure the Board and out the remark about the amount of whisky services there by saying that he was an nurse . whatever . The defence of Wepener was one of the itself this week , to supplement the coat - of - incidents most creditable to British arms in arms recently acquired . There is little fault the South African struggle . Colonel Dalgety , to be found with the recommendation of the who commanded a mixed column of Colonial General Purposes Committee . It is based troops , was pinned on the Basuto border by on the passage in the Annals of Tacitus in the great Christian de Wet and his stalwart which he describes the decision of Suetonius commandos . From April 9th to the 24th , not to defend London against Boadicea , and 1900 , he warded off their insistent attacks the refusal of some of the inhabitants to until he was relieved by a force which Lord leave the City on account of weakness of Roberts had sent his Chief of Staff , Lord Kit sex , infirmity of age , or the charm of the chener , to organise . Since his retirement the district ad sustained a very serious that was drunk , and hinted that he drunk place . " In these days of militants , we may from the command of the Cape Mounted shook and loss by the sudden death of Mr. the whiskey ( Cries of No ! No ! Nobody said HERBERT B. MEW . Telegrams- " Barrel , Ross . rule out " weakness of sex " as rather out Rifles Colonel Dalgety has been a member of Fry . As a gentleman of the neighbourhood you drunk the whiskey ) . He did not drink of date . It is the reference to the charm of the committee that administrated King , they all recognised him as a most charming it . The whiskey was ordered by the doctor , the place that attracted the committee , and Edward's Horse , the King's oversea do- man , and one whom they all met with and he saw that the inmates had it . Mr. HITCHINGS pointed out that now the motto suggested was : " Loei dulcedo nos certain amount of pleasure . His genial attinet " the charm of the place detains us . It is a different sort of charm in these days , countenance ard focular manner endeared the children were all boarded out , and he him to every one who knew him . As a mem- could not see why they wanted an extra no doubt and not everybody is susceptible to it . De Quincey stigmatised the City as The completion by Sir Frederick Wilson of ber of the Board of Guardians and District The CHAIRMAN : We have not come to NOURISHING STOUT . found a very uncomplimentary comparison rather curiously just when Sir Edward Rus- excellent representative . " " A stony - hearted step - mother , " and Shelley fifty years association with journalism occurs Council he thought they might sum up his the question of nurses yet . He would like Mr. LLOYD contended that the expenses for it . But London still has its charm , if it sell is to be entertained at a complimentary to be allowed to suggest that this resolution connected with this house were going up by be only " the glory of going on . " dinner , remarks the Westminster Gazette , for he sent as coming from both the Board of leaps and bounds , and it was quite time it The present weather does tempt Sir Frederick was one of Sir Edward's assist- Guardians and the District Council , as it was put a stop to . It was all for , creating Londoners or visitors to spend their time in- ants many years ago on the Liverpool Post . would be rather unnecessary for them to officialism , with no respect for the ratepayers Mr. COOPER inquired how it was that Now in his seventy - first year , he was called This was agreed to , and the motion was per gall . 10d . Light Dinner Ale - Half - pints , per dos 1/8 doors , and the theatres are not particularly Sir Frederick has had an interesting career . pass two separate resolutions . " Pygmalion " continues to draw houses up as a Volunteer to defend Chester Castle passed in silence , and by all the members there were 821 gallons.consumed 30 years ago , and now only 2 gallons last year , A. Recommended for family use 1/6 which make it clear that the comparatively against the Fenians in 1866 , and twenty - nine standing . Mr. COLLINS said there was no doubt 1/6 early withdrawal is not due to any waning years later met one of the attacking party in that the expenditure on whiskey was a very popularity , and " Potash and Perlmutter the House of Commons as a colleague . The RELIEVING OFFICERS stated that wise one . For nine years he visited the has evidently caught the imagination of the founded the East Anglian Daily Times in they had relieved 242 poor persons during asylum , and he was struck with the fact of 1/9 metropolis . Mr. Zangwill's " Plaster Saints " 1874 , and was Member for Mid - Norfolk from the fortnight at a cost of £ 54 7s . 4 d . , and the number of old people that were sent to having completed its short run , the Comedy 1895 to 1906 . - Theatre is now closed for a time , but I am that with non - resident relief came to £ 56 the asylum when they might very well have 18. Ojd . been kept in the various workhouses in the told there may be a revival of " The Melting FINANCE REPORT . county . He made inquiries and found that Pot , " which is certainly the greatest drama Sir Harry Poland , K.C. London has seen for some time . Visitors to Sir Harry Bodkin Poland , K.C. , who was Mr. COOPER presented the finance report , these old people were given a little whiskey the Garrick Theatre , to which " The Duke of many years leading counsel for the which showed a balance at the bank last and water . He had no doubt that this ex- Mr. MORGAN then gave instances of var- Playhouse , had a disappointment last week Bailey and elsewhere , has just reached the ed cheques of £ 35 198 : 10d . , leaving £ 1,435 in the non - appearance of Miss Marie They required that morning ious cases where the doctor had ordered The 19s . 5d :, which , Tempest . Fortunately , the clever actress's ripe age of eighty - five . Although he retired 158. 2d . when paid , patients several ounces of whiskey . indisposition was not serious . Outdoor from practice at the Bar nearly twenty years , £ 1,066 credit balance of £ 368 whiskey was nothing to do with the Master ago , he is still active and alert , taking a lively ' would leave a at all . If the doctor ordered it . they had pleasures now prove the strongest attrac- interest in the questions of the day . Si 15s . 9d . The unpaid calls due were £ 1,016 , tions . There have been large crowds at Lord's , and the " Paris - and - back " air - race Harry was " called " in 1851 , and has been a which would make a total credit of £ 1,384 to see that the old people had it . At one attracted large numbers to the pleasant eleva- Bencher of the Inner Temple since 1879 , For 15s . 9d . He proposed the adoption of the time , there was a lot of beer consumed , but when he came the beer was stopped , and they twenty - seven years he Recorder of report . tion of Hendon . Mr. DEAKIN seconded , and it was carried . only had heer on Xmas Day . Dover , of which borough he is an honorary freeman , and he was at one period an Alder MASTER'S REPORT . man of the London County Council . The CLERK read the report of the Master which stated that there were 81 inmates in After further remarks about the whiskey , the house as against 89 last year , and that the report as presented by the Clerk on the Lieutenant - Colonel Bertram Ward , whose 91 casuals had been relieved during the cost of the officers , etc. , was adopted . 11- " Pinta 1.1 / 9 " 1/4 Nutritious Stout - Half - pinta 1/9 " 33 " 1/4 Oatmeal Stout , Pinte Half - pinte Pinte 9/6 G.A. Sparkling Bitter Ale P.A. Very High Class X.X.S. ( Double ) Nutritions Stout XXX.B. ( Treble ) Nutritious Stout ( Recommended for Invalide ) . Gasks of 4 , 9 , 18 , 86 , and 54 Gallons , Home - brewed GINGER BEER , GINGER STOUT , and LEMONADE , 1 / - per gallon , in 1 , 2 , and 8 - gallon jars or 6 - gallon casks . for Invalids Stone Ginger Beer , in Boraw - stoppered Bottles , 1 / - per dozen . full . for He RELIEF BUSINESS . Bass's and Worthington's Ale and Guinness's Stout Killiecrankie " has been removed from the Treasury in criminal prosecutions at the Old Board day of £ 1,471 15s . Od . , less unpresent - penditure on whiskey was a wise one . 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Health of body and the resulting elasticity of mind are of supreme importance to everyone living under the strenuous conditions of modern times . The person who is " out of sorts , " " off colour , " or " below par " is not in a condition to make the most of life . Now , the necessity of keeping the organs of digestion in a thoroughly clean and active state can never be too strongly emphasised , since they are the channels through which the body receives its nourish ment . It is therefore a wise , as well as a simple course , never TO BE WITHOUT Beecham's Pills . the tonic , corrective and curative properties of which , promote a healthy action of the liver , stomach , kidneys and bowels , thereby rendering the work of digestion and assimilation easy and satisfactory . It is a well - known fact that great and ever - increasing numbers of men and women in every walk of life owe their unvarying state of good health to the regular use of BEECHAM'S PILLS . 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Mrs. Horton had kindly enter- the 1st Battalion Middlesex fortnight as against 111 for the same period and this production appears to have done nothing to shake the convictions of those The CHAIRMAN again interrupted and said there was no cause for them to go back 30 years ago . THE NURSING QUESTION . of the modern stage is a debatable question , next , has been appointed to succeed Colonel tained the old people , and the best thanks Mr. PREECE said this question of the T. C. F. Somerville as Commandant of the of the Board were due to her for her great Nurses arose through a woman being em- The Matron's report was very ployed as a night nurse . It came to the who feel that it is not . Certainly a very in Royal School of Music at Kneller Hall , and kindness . satisfactory . teresting evening can be spent at the Savoy , has taken up his duties there . and Mr. Irving's declamation is impressive to & degree ; but there is a general agreement Lord Wemyss's Autoblography . that the play " reads better than it acts . " The late Lord Wemyss , as is well known , We are promised interesting matinées in For Natural looking ARTIFICIAL TEETH and PAINLESS EXTRACTIONS theatrical performances . IRIA D. GORE BOODLE & Co. , Ltd. , 43 , HIGH STREET , ROSS , EVERY THURSDAY from 10.30 am to 6.30 p.m. Extractions First Hour Free . A Lady always in attendance . BRANCHES EVERYWHERE . Abergavenny , 6 , High - street , Tuesdays , 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monmouth , 12 , Church - street , Fridays , 18 to 5. Hereford , 3 , St. Peter - street , Wednesdays , 11 a.m. to 6.30 . Chepstow , Tuesdays and Fridays . Gloucester , Every Day . BOODLE'S TEETH . For general use The " Allenburys " Diet is a complete and easily digested Food It is pleasant to take , readily , assimilated and speedily restora tive . Whilst helping the system to recover its tone and vigour , it forms an ideal food for general use . Prepared from rich milk and whole wheat in a partially predigested form Made in a minute just add boiling water . Large Sample sent for 3d . stamps . 10 Hanburys Ltd Street , London The Of Chemists , 1/6 & 3 / - per tin . Henburgs DIET A Typical John Bull . Mr. PREECE proposed the adoption of knowledge of the committee that this night nurse was being employed almost constantly , the report , which was seconded by Mr. PRO- and her wages came to something just over THEROE , and carried . COST OF INDOOR OFFICERS . £ 50 a year . He for one considered , and the committee agreed , that a capable woman The CLERK , as instructed at the last could be obtained from the town to do this meeting , reported that he had thoroughly night nursing at a very much less sum . He October , when the Poetic Drama Centre of was , until recently , a frequent letter - writer the Poetry Boelety will produce Professor to the Press , but the fact that a portion of Gilbert Murray's version of Euripides's his leisure was occupied in dictating or writ " Rhesus " at the Court Theatre . Mrs. Percy ing his autobiography will be fresh ne gone into the question of the cost of indoor believed it could be done for about £ 25 s per when she came in and breakfast before Dearmer is in charge of the production . gence to most people . Twenty years ago the officers and presented the following report : year with part rations , which included sup- To the House Committee . leaving in the mornings . If they advertised Meanwhile we have a reminder that actors late Peer was threatened with an affection of As directed by the Guardians at their last for such a nurse , they would no doubt obtain and actresses are concerned with common- his eyes that necessitated a shortening of the place realities when they are off the stage , time he had devoted to reading , and as a re - meeting I have gone carefully into certain one at £ 25 a year , and that would mean for they are meeting on Friday at the laxation he then began the writing of his statements which were then made with refer- considerable saving to the rates . If there was any alteration in the system , and the Chandos Hall , under the auspices of the Pay autobiography , but decided that the work ence to the cost of indoor officers in 1889 as compared with the present time . duties of nurses ; the possibility was that the for Play League , to demand several reforms , should only be published after his death . I must at once state that I have no com- Board would be face to face with a great including payment for rehearsals and mati nées , and extra payment for twice nightly plete records for the year quoted , viz . 1888 , difficulty to what they were heretofore . It and therefore I cannot verify the figures would be quite possible that they would have Sir Oswald Mosley , the action between given , viz . , 145 inmates , one nurse costing to get an entirely new staff if they made any There was a great deal of disappointment whom and his son in the Chancery Division 298 48. Od . , cost of officials £ 209 ; but for drastic alterations to the present system . among visitors to the City Temple when it has been amicably settled , is a typical coun- the following year , 1884 , I find that the But the committee thought the better course was announced that the Rev. R. J. Campbell y gentleman of the old school . An artist in cost of the same indoor officers was £ 857 to adopt was to advertise for a night nurse at was too unwell to preach . At this time of the search of a model for the traditional John 13s . 2d . , and that the average number of £ 25 per annum , instead of going on paying year there are always a large number of Bull could not do better , says the Globe , the inmates was about 130 ( which figures . in- this present woman £ 1 1s . per week and part Visitors to London who are anxious to hear take the genial Baronet as his prototype cluded 85 children ) costing £ 1,229 10s . 6d . rations . Of coure the nurse would have to The CHAIRMAN said the question was Mr. Campbell . Most of them experience was Sir Oswald who was the real creator of Now , as compared with 10 years ago , I find have the necessary qualifications , rather shock at their first sight of him . the " Standard Bread " boom of a couple of that for the year ended 31st March , 1905 , His photograph conveys the idea of quite years ago , and he set up an old - fashioned the salaries of indoor officers amounted to whether they should pay this woman emer- The CLERK read the report respecting young man , and the visitor is unprepared for mill , at which his neighbours and tenants £ 855 16s . 10d . , which with the cost of ra- Igency wages all the year round . the haggard , grey - haired , and frail preacher were allowed to have their flour ground free tions , £ 192 19s . 8id . , made a total of £ 548 who enters the pulpit . When , some time ago , of charge . Bir Oswald owns about 3,800 16s . 14d . , whereas for the year ended 31st the nurses as follows : - Referring to the increased cost of Nursing , Mr. Campbell withdrew from his work at the acres , is a practical farmer and gardener , March last the cost was : Salaries £ 821 10s . King's Weigh House and among the Pioneer and includes motoring , shorthorn breeding , 7d . , rations £ 220 16s . 44d . , making a total perhaps it would be well for me to draw the Preachers , and considerably cut down the area and the collection of British birds , of which of £ 542 6s . 111d . , a decrease of £ 8 9s . 2d . attention of the Committee to cetrain re of his activities in deference to medical he has a museum , among his recreations . Of these sums £ 75 38. Od . was for salaries of velant articles in the recent orders issued by advice , his health showed a gratifying im- nurses in 1904-5 , and £ 123 3s . 7d . in 1918- the Local Government Board , which very plainly set out the duties of the several offi- provement , but latterly he had again been un- A Veteran Astronomer . well , and a holiday was projected . This , I Indoor relief for 1904-5 cost £ 1,469 7s . 2d . cers and Guardians , and also to point out inmates in 1919-14 . After labouring at the famous Yerkes Ob- underland , has had to be postponed until the servatory since it began operations in 1898 , reverend gentleman is stronger . During his absence , the Rev. John MacNeill is occupying the City Temple pulpit . 14 . for 108 inmates , and £ 1,475 6s . 5d . for 92 that whereas to - day we have in force in our infirmary a schedule of compulsory rules Professor S. W. Burnham has this month re- As regards whiskey , etc. , I find that for governing the duties of the Nurses in 1904 tired on a pension in his seventy - seventh the year ended 31 March , 1904 , 32 gallons no such rules were in existence . The support and encouragement which are year . Beginning life as a shorthand reporter , of wines and spirits were purchased , whereas Article 59 ( 5 ) of the Institutions Order provides that the Medical Officer shall give being received from Church people of all de- Professor Burnham had turned thirty years for the year ended 31 March last , 2 gallon to the officers in charge of the sick all neces of age before he was attracted to the study only . nominations by the English committee of the of astronomy . From the commencement he As will be seen , although the number of sary directions in regard to the treatment first International Congress of Social Christi specialised on double stars , of which he has inmates has decreased in the 10 years , still and nursing of the inmates , and in any case anity , to be held at Basel in the autumn , discovered thousands , first with his homely the cost of indoor relief has slightly in- of urgency report in writing to the Master sugars well for the success of a very im 6in . glass , then with the 36in . refractor at creased . This is due to the fact that the any need to obtain a temporary nurse . portant movement , The Secretary of the the Lick Observatory , and later with the cost of provisions and necessaries has increas - Article 59 ( ) provides that the Master English Committee tells me that among the great 40in . refractor in the Yerkes Observa- ed very considerably of late years , the orders shall on receipt from the Medical Officer of a many letters received from distinguished tory , the biggest in the world . For thirty - six of the Local Government Board requiring a report under Article 59 ( 6 ) engage a tem- well - wishers is one from the Archbishop of years Professor Burnham laboriously commuch better dietary . Canterbury , who writes to say " how thankful piled lists his double - star finds , and seven Guardians . I am that such Congress is going to be held . years ago the Carnegie Institution published It is quite evident that Ross does not the Cicle 60 ( 6 ) provides that the Matron Discussions on these subjects treated in two splendid volumes the results of his to the Government Returns of the cost of shall take care that all necessary arrange from Christian standpoint have been fre - life - work . quent in many Christian countries , but the porary nurse to act until the next meeting of indoor relief in England and Wales we find ments are made for the care of , and attend- 20 % lovethat in 1904 it totalled £ 6,966,525 , whereas once upon the inmates both by day and by Basel Congress will have a character of its M. de Hartwig , Russian Minister in Servis , in 1913 it had risen to £ 8,925,467 , an in - night , and that no inmate is left unattended own in consequence of the wide field from sidste at the approach of death . It is perhaps only just that having shown Article 31 ( 3 ) provides that ha inmate which those who take part in it will be and the reputed author of the Balkan crease of £ 1,958,942.s drawn . I look , therefore , with the keenest Lengue , died suddenly , on Friday night at the interest to your discussions and their out Austrian Legation in Belgrade a slight increase in the cost of indoor relief shall unless approved for the particular em- come . There is every prospect of a very Mr. Daniels , the Secretary of the United the Board should take some credit for econo - ployment by the Medical Officer , and acting representative British delegation going to States Navy amounced in Whington on mies . For instance , there is a yearly saving under the immediate supervision of a paid Saturday : that the new battleships Arizona of at least £ 85 or £ 40 on the present system officer , be employed in any capacity in the Basel for the Congress . and Pennsylvania will be the biggest ever of dealing with the casuals compared with sick wards , lunatic wards , or nurseries , and bulls for the United States . has some few years ago . Then again , the profits shall not under any circumstances be employ PRAYER AND HTMN BOOKS , BIBLES , etc.- Sulhampstedd Mill , Berkshire one of the on the workhouse trading accounts have avered in nursing a sick inmate . We hold a large stock marked in plain largest in the county , ologether with wells aged nearly 80 peri annum during the past d Article 4 of the Institutional ( Nursing ) figures . Inspection invited . " Gazette " ing - house and other buildings , were gutted by 10 years , a sum far in excess of former years , Order provides , that if the staff of a Poor Office . - Adrb . and this in spite of the waste on foods having Law Institution does not include an officer Are on Saturday night . " |