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Honourable George St. Lawrence Náuflize Ponsonby, son of

His Excellancy the Governor-General of Canada and Lady Best- borough, and Master William Harridge, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Harridge, and nephew of Mr. R. B. Bennett, indulging in a fraternal handshake" before going on with the business of the meeting little heavy sand-digging, on the glorious Katy's Cova Beach of the Algonquin Hotel, St. Androwa-by-tba Sax, Canada.

FORCEPS IN BODY

LEFT NEARLY 13 YEARS AGO

BAD BLUNDER

Was

For over 12 years, it revealed at a Southwark inquest,

doubtedly due to the presence of the forceps In the body.

"A surgeon cannot supervise all the details of an operation, and he has to depend upon the people who assist him," said Dr. Hand- feld-Jones.

Dr. E. W. G. Masterman, who performed the operation 12 years

ago, said the instrument would not have been left there if the count-

a Brixton woman had carried ning of the instruments had been her body a pair of surgeon's forceps which. It is thought, must have been left in her stomach when she was operated upon.

The inquest was on Mrs. Ellen Tomalin (70), a widow, of Acker- man Road, Brixton, and the evi- dence. showed that she was ad mitted to St. Giles' Hospital, Camberwell, then known as the Camberwell Infirmary, on Septem- ber 16, 1921, with symptoms of appendicitis. Four days inter an operation was successfully per- formed, and she was eventually discharged.

She nocmed to have enjoyed good health for many years, but on July 16 this year she became Buddenly ill with severe pains in the stomach. She was re-admitted

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feld-Jones, only July 24, and a stcel Instrument known as a "Spencer- Wells” forcep about five inches In length-was found in her body. formed by the consultent surgeon at the hospital, Dr. R. M. Hands" to the same hospital, and an X-ray showed a foreign body in the in- testines. An operation was per-

She died six days after the. operation, and 12 years and ten- monthe after the original opera- tion.

*REMARKABLE CASE”.

Dr. Henry West, now, medical superintendant at St, Glies' Hon- pital, sald a post-mortem examina- tion revealed that death was 'duc to the forcops. being left in the woman's body, which had set up Intestinal obstruction.

No had only known one case of the kind In seven years,

that

accurately carried out. Some- times as many na 20 forceps wore ased in an operation. He had a recollection of the operation, and had refreshed his memory from notes made at the time.

"MUST USE 'DUE CARE."

The Coroner, Mr. W. Cowburn, u his summing-up, sald thero was no doubt that death wan due to the presence of the forceps,

The Coroner, continuing, said, "The law does not require that n surgeon shall cure every ease any more than a lawyer undertakes that his client shall win, but the Jas

says that the surgeon must possess and use due care and skill. lie is not liable for an error of judgment unless that error be so grows as to be inconsistent with reasonable skill and care.. There is no question that the first opera- tion for appendicitis was carried out skilfully.

"The remarkable thing is that this woman has been able to live and enjoy life during the whole of these 13 years with these for- ceps. In her body. There is no doubt a blunder has been cont- mitted, and I should be wanting In my plain daty to the relatives if I were to ignore that fact, The blunder has been made in the counting of the instruments.

"It is obvious that if Dr. Master- man had found one missing he would at once have made a search for it. As it was at Balaclava, "Someone has blundered." I have to emphasise the great importance of counting Instruments in order that these accidents shall not hap- pen, or, at any rate, as seldom as possible."

A verdict of "Death by mis-“ adventure" was returned without comment by the jury,

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Dr. Handfield-Jones said the forceps must have slipped during the original operation. This was a very remarkable caso, for the forceps must have been perfectly sterilised, otherwise all sorts of optie trouble would have appeared in order to fight commun- arleen and the patient would have, and other revolutionary Ideas died much sooner, The forceps. must have ulcerated their way. The picture shows asma membres of downwards slowly, and over a long the organisation in their peculiar period of time. Death was “un-

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"DEATH DOES NOT COUNT"

Make The Best Of Precious Years, Says

Dean Inge

PLEA FOR WISDOM AND TOLERANCE

Dean Inge, in his last evensong sermon before his retirement pro- | claimed that death does not count. "The two chapters at the end of Ecclesiastes," he said, "are an exhortation to the young to make the best of their lives while they muy, for the days of darkness will soon close in upon them. But the

preacher's conclusion is not eat. and drink, for to-morrow we die,' but Fear God and keep His Com- mandments.'

"We don't prize bodily beauty so much as the Greeks," added the Dean, "but many have wished not to survive their good looks, and many men have dreaded the humiliation of decrepitude, and wish to die in the virgin of life.

There is a common wish to live: only as long as they are efficient, and do not lng superfluous on life's atage when they have played their part; not to cumber the ground when they can no longer bear

fruit,

"And yet we have a feeling that a life cut short before old age is fucomplete. Length of days has always been a boon some men, have prayed for, though Solomon was sensible enough to pray for wis dom Instead.

"We ought, I am sure," Dean Inge continued, "neither to fear death nor to wish for it. We ought to feel that death simply does not count All that matters is that a fe should be well lived, up till the time of its close. If we are not the creatures of to-day, but immortal spirits, what can it matter if we spend a few years more or less in this state of our probation?

man

"Frequently

is called away In the middle of his work, which is given to someone else to finish. His friends and contem- poraries think it a great misfor- tune, and say they can very badly spare him, but within a few years all rights itself. This is perhaps world where everyone is wanted but no one is wanted very much.

"Our real roluctance to give up our task is more because We wish to have the credit of it than be- cause we fear the work will be un- done when we are gone. Fow mon are vain enough to think themselves indispensablo."

Let them not think, Dean Inge proceeded, that old age was more- ly the beginning of d'esolution.

Character might go on ripening to. the end.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER

1934.

SHOULD DRUNKARDS

WHAT

MARRY?

Drastic Proposal at Home Conference

STERILISATION IDEA.

The drastic proposal that ́all measures should be taken to hin- der the marriage of degenerate drunkarda was made at recent. session of the International Con gress on Alcohollem at London.

Professor II. Gachot. Strasbourg. made the proposal. He said the best result would be given by carly and, if possible voluntary sterilisation. This measure would avold the birth of many unhealthy and feeble-minded children, and of others' destined to become un- happy and miserable through the drunkenness of their fathers.

The Rev. Dr. G. H. Carpenter, Keeper of Manchester Museum, said that Professor Gachot had Impressed on them that in the families of alcoholic parents it was not alcoholism that was in-

herited but a constitutional weak

ness, which made it easy for the children to succumb to the harm- fut influence of their surround- Ings, so that they, like their par-

- drank to,excesa.

Investigators had sought to

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SHOULD BOY SING WHEN VOICE IS BREAKING

Mr. Herbert Wiseman's

Lecture

olucidate these questions by breed- ing experiments on fowls, The conclusion was drawn that the

Giving n lecture at tha alcoholic treatment killed the Scottish Summer School of Music weaker germ cella, leaving the and Music Teaching, Mr. Herbert stronger to survive and produce Wiseman, the director of the young.

School, mentioned that he usually Ve shall not, on the outcome of dealt with any new idea that had these

experiments, recommend an been brought out in the course of Increase in facilities for alcoholic the year. Indulgence with the hope of pro- moting selection in the human species of a resistant strain," added Dr. Carpenter,

He thought that what had been of mest significance had been the publication of the Cambridgeshire Report on the Teaching of Music. A large committee of experts from GERMAN METHOD.

all parts of the country had been Dr. Schroder, Oberhausen, said brought together; they had pooled that the German law for the their experiences in the teaching "prevention of the handing on of of music, and the result was this hereditary diseases"-which on report. It set forth the value of the basis of the methods and music to the community and the results of empiric prognosis dealt place it should occupy in education. with the fight against the most Dealing with some of the re

in the widespread mental diseases by commendations contained sterillaing patients had not no-report, Mr. Wiseman stressed the glected the question of alcoholism. importance of class teaching, and In the fundamental paragraph of pointed out the necessity of giving the law, after the enumeration of every child a chance, so that those the hereditary diseasca properly music might be encouraged to go rly who showed a special gift for so-called, it stated: "Sufferers from acute alcoholism may also be on with the study of it. rendered incapable of reproduc-

A MISTAKE. tion."

In the teaching of music the This legislation, together with segregation of the sexes was an other measures taken with regard advantage, as it was difficult dur to the drinker, would help to re-ing the changing parlod to get the duce the evil dono by alcohol, by boys to sing along with the girls, preventing the incurably alcoholle and when they did so the effect. from having offspring.

was not satisfactory. It used to

The law having only recently be thought that boys should not bo been introduced, it was not yet encouraged to sing during the possible to give information on the period when their voices wero a. mistake, number and nature of the cases of breaking. That was sterilisation on account of acute alcoholism in Germany, but it merited the attention of temper- ance reformera in all countries, with a view of its adoption clad- where.

Dr. Bond said that as a surgeon be falt fully justified in urging that they should do all in their power to prevent the procreation of children by alcoholic parents. The question of sterilisation should receive their very careful consideration. He felt that if it were put to the people concerned In a proper way they would accept voluntary sterilisation where it was appropriate, and with the pro- per safeguards, not as a punish- ment but as a privilege.

ROMAN CATHOLIC OPPOSITION.

The Rev. Father Hays, of Nottingham, of the International Catholic League against Alcohol-

Fox Bur's latest star is the charm.

Ism, said they regarded sterilisa- ing English actress, Pat Paterson, tion as an unsuitable and danger, who has had a great success in har ous measure in the fight against Glm debut which shows that she looks alcholism. Their view was, bas-

AS charmingly se "kho sings "and ed on practical and scientific in- vestigation and everyday exper lence. Sterillaation was in direct opposition to the law of nature as Instituted by Almighty God.

dances.

and it very often made a boy lose his intorest in music. By keeping The earlier specialists in the the boys in a class by themselves science of heredity admitted that the music best suited for their practically in no single case could voices could be chosen for study. a definite prognosis of horedity be Mr. C. M. Spurling, Gundla School, supplied with certainty. Sterili-had shown what could be achieved sation would rendor rescue work with a class of boys. The whole that school had given much more dimeult, since sterilisa- of the boys of that school tion robbed the individuad of the a remarkably fine performance of last vestiges of self-respect and such an exacting piece as Bach's B. Minor Masa. Successful · ex- responsibility.

They as Catholics stood for the perimental work had also boon Mollaliou in the liberty of the individual. They carried out by Mr.

Royal High School, Edinburgh, wore opposed to any unjustifiable with boys of about 15 years of age. Interference with this right.

Dr. Alfred Salter, M.P. urged it should be remembered that in the temperance movement to make the case of boys it was not a sud-

in time of gradual change,

"I like," he added, "the brave words of Sir Thomas Overbury, In the seventeenth century, that man feels the advance of age rather by the strengthening of his soul than by the weakness of his body. Wo look to the aged, not in vain, for a caim, genial wisdom, for a kind- liness, and tolerance which we less. often find in thong who are bear--

the bardon and heat of the day. ildhood is not merely a pre

example of what legislation couldA CORPORATE ACTIVITY.

Music teaching, Mr. Wiseman paration for manhood,

od, and old age do by the increase that had taken lanet merely a preparation for place in drunkenness since the went on, should be correlated with death, Every age has its own pro-reduction in the price of beer. per characteristice, which we cer tainly should not wish either to

icipate or prolong. We do not wish Dur

children to be precocious; aud when we are beginning to grow old shall we not accept our roal age.

fullest use of legislative den breaking of the voice, but t action. They had a striking

the other studies in the school, of temperance was a funds the case. The music lesson could Sir George Palah said that the and not isolated as was generally causo mental one, and essential to the be linked up with the lessons in world's prosperity. WAR con-history, religion, iterature, and vinced the time was coming when even geography. "The Flowers we should be compelled to drive the Forest" could be linked up with poverty out of this country and the a lesson in history; folk songs world, and that would nover suc with a lesson in geography, and so ceed unless they could Induce on. The music teacher was in nations to adopt the temperance elined to get into a hole by himself, ridiculous pretence that they bu-, | programmið Wore it possible to and: not keep in touch with hi

Induce the people of all nations to colleagues. That was bad for support the temporanea movement, school, Musie was a corporáto world recovery and renewed pro-netivity in the school and in the gress would not be in question „community 2

There 010 aurer way of losing

rule of the younger generation than for elderly, people to make a

long to it. We must make the most of those precious year, when the brain is still dort and the blood is still warm.

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