Canada Lancet Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...to terminate for reason of unsatisfactory working of the system. The salary of the the statistical officer shall consist of 25 per cent. of all the sums allotted to the city for which he is appointed. In case of epidemics or endemics, or in the case of contagious or infectious diseases threatening or breaking out, the Minister of Agriculture may cause special investigations to be made in any locality by any or several of the statistical officers, and regulate and defray out of the Parliamentary grant the cost of such investigations. The Minister of Agriculture may request the statistical officer to supplement the numerical returns by such statements and information as relate to the various medical and other questions relevant to the subject of accidents, crimes, diseases, and public health as causes of deaths reported by the mortuary statistics. Forms are also given, under which the information is to be collected, embracing under proper headings the class, order and name of the disease, age, sex, nativity, and religion of the deceased, also forms of death certificate to be filled up by physicians. PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES. At the recent sitting of the Civil Assizes in this city an action was brought by a man named Isaac Lumb, against a medical practitioner of this city for having, as he alleged, been criminally intimate with his wife. The doctor had attended Mrs. Lumb in a miscarriage which took place on the 26th of last June, and the plaintiff alleged that the act was committed on the i9th of Tuly following while the doctor was treating his wife in his professional capacity, and that she had confessed her guilt to him the same day of the occurrence. The plaintiff estimated the damages at $2000 for the loss of his wife's society and companionship throu...