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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 616, 20 September 1909, Page 9

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. INTERESTING ITEMS BY MAIL. • PREMATUBE BTJEIAL. The appointment of a professional verifiot of deaths in cvory coroner's district to.removo the Haunting fear of being buried alivo experienced by many nervous and aged people was ono o£ the interesting suggestions niadb.'oy. Dr. Walter Hadwon in his evidence ! beforo the Departmental Committee nppointod by tho Homo Secretary to 'inquire into tho law .relating to coroners' inquests. The establishment of waiting mortuaries whoro tho professional verifier would watch for positive proof of death was another of Dr. Hadwon'B propositions. Theso would be pleasing places, with ornaments and flowers, like those in Munich and. Berlin. The evidence ho had collected wont to show that there was no definite, undoniablo* proof of death apart from incipient putrefaction. 'Inere were instances, Dr. Hadwon told the committee, of poisons who had conio. to life after they had been placed in the waiting mortuaries. Curious cases of death counterfeits were narrated by Dr. Hadwon from his own experience. During tho Gloucester smallpox epidemic of. 1890, a child believed to be dead of confluent stnnll-pox was removed from hospital to tho mortuary. Noit day a gardener passing by the window of tho mortuary heard the cries of the child. Tho little ono was. earned . back to tho -ward and recovered. . ; -.'_■. V V CAMP TEAGEDT. ; •, - ; When'tho West Riding. Territorials marched out of camp n.t Gnisborough, Yorkshire, for brigade manoeuvres they wore in high spirits. An hour, later they, marched back in sad slence, carryingJtho body of. ono of -their chaplains, who had boon accidentally shot it ■ M ?s , a ??» ns curate of twenty-sii:, the ltcv. Nigel. Hotiffson., -Attached- Iα .Leeds pansh church, he;was acting as temporary chaplain to the Leeds Rifles. Hβ had ridden out with the men, and was • watching the operations on horsoback, when suddenly ho was seen to sway and fali from his horse. He was ? IC W 'ip at O i, Mi but ho was already dead. Abulia had passed through his body? ing his left arm aud entering a vital part. «M tho ,^ l cartTld SO Sot in among the "blank" which was served out to tho mon is •fmS? f More - l^ n ? no ™s evidently so &^!^-&?£s£s; •tnat itwas. a pure accident. »« : *W Mr. llodgson' was-a Harrow .w, and n graduate of Trinity, Cambridge - Hβ was in &&%&&£& laud . Kflimay. ■■ fivmnAthw »•«. tfamily W as oJpressed'at camp was very sorrowful. over tteT sad doath man?" ,P?P u^r«nd' promUg ;■, ■ .: BELATED '. HARVESTS.-. ■' , tl,' rh i e 7 J eatherthat nM <louo so'muchto mar .the holiday season has heavily clouded the far tJtuium ), Even winter-sown oats are not aore. uthor fields have the look of a.biUowv ew. tho poppies reddening tho troughs between ko yellow waves. Thero are odd dovolopmcnt" S ; «-«? k ' -wheats.are as : ripe,ns.rthe:oats,, nnd-tho-wheats-will-givo a ,fg«\ XfiDhtW. can-bo!.hervestod, though' «?jJ^-'-T R '' n y P'awshaa failed alto-' getber , 1 he, cprn. harvest will now beibesin.--ning,,but there arostill acres of grossunSed' and some is still uacul But Kngland is \w alone in misfortune. In Northern Franco the hay. crop has beoa ohtirely ruined-tho first cut is lying jn tho fields hidden by thosecond crop, which is kneo-hiffh; As a correspondent who lately wrote to "The Times'? put.it,'the iseasons this year havo so far been,''inverted." i 5 ,1.;-. ? F ; :.■■■. ■;■■■ Tho -delegates attending the- High .Movable :| Conference of. tho Independent'Ordor- oMlccha•bites were entertained at luncheon by.. , Mr.' H. liuca3,:.Past .Pteeident of. the Bjriningham.Tem.' perance. Society., In tho courso of an address, 'Mr.'Lucps appealed for'support, in tho'ruattor ,of funer&l-.reform., Men wcro showing a tondonoy to losson the display of black at funerals; but ladies .had not gonb quite so far along the 'i road. Money was ofton; absolntcly thrown away on funeral display; and the family waa at,atarviition'B door next dnj;■'•, The Qrdor, ho thought, might do ir|uch to onconrago absolute ooonotny in this matter. Brother D. Kirltwood, ! Belfast, I'iSst High Chiof Rulov, mentioned that I I during the last two years the increase in'tho : membership of the Order had been 37,000. Tho float bCQasioii on which the conference washold. .in. IBirmi iighamV 'Wehty-cight. years-; ago; , thoj jWholo inefnbbrshipiif'tho Ordor was;very,,littler<ii'pr6:':tjlanlrth'at., - Delogatos have cbmo.-tp,th>' -Auatralasia, and pthor ;outlying- parts-of the' Empivo.■- • •.; - ~' .-•.;.-..-. :-.-,: OF EXERCISE. : "Certaiply no'-cjnestion from tho point of view of publio hoalth is moro important at tho-rao-■nent'than the grqwing disinclination to take exercise," declares a physician. Ho agreod with the "Lancet's" warning that "demoralising l . facilities"—motor-cars, cheap trains, omnibuses, tramways, and tubes—were : in ofteet making people unconsciously lazy, "Tbe.other day, ■ he continued, "I worked out for a. prosporoua nian o£ fifty,,who came to v consult me a brief table of.the. types of exercise that should bo , I adopted or avoided. They may quite suitably bo set forth here 'under the- headings ' Good' .and' Bad.' -, -.' ■ -. .K- ". , . -■'.- '■■■'. - : ; Good.' , ' Bad.' \| Walking:,■■.: ' .Tennis.. '■'. . . Horse exercise. '•-. -Cricket. > ', ; ' ' . ■ Golf., s : ',-; Cycling.' ';',- -•■.'Bowls'. .'.•■■■'..■•■" - Rowing. ■' , ' ■-, Croquet. .., ; : - Mountain climbing. : "It is. the.iihan! approaching fifty—such a .well-to-do man as this—whor/j ; I particularly warn, He is just nt the age when he has begun to loso interest' in long walks., Ho has just reached the stage in life when he is prone to put on weight. It is a critical in'fact.' ,I'ounger men dp oraliould take exercise'onough almost unconscionsly." i'or older men what ono calls potfrting about—a''little":gardening, for .exiiinple, is. quite sufficient." ■•■■,-. ■..:,,

DEATH 01? : I<oßl> LILFOBD'S HEIB. .; '.The- Hon. - Thomas Atherton 1 . Powys,. aged thirteen, son. and heir .of Lord Lilford, died under an anaesthetic while .undergoing an operation. .The'ead story was told at. an in■quest hold at the ■Westminster Coroner's Court. Tho post-roortom examination, it-wns- stated, revealed tno status' lyrophatious, a condition which it is impossible to detect while the'afflicted porson is alive. Lord' Lilford, of Lilford Hall,'Oundle, Northamptonshire, said his son enjoyed good health. . The boy was with Lady Lilford at \ a nursing home in Mayfair. An 'operation was performed for. the removal of adenoids from his throat.; Dr. • Harold B. Gardiner, 128 Harley Street, W., said he was a special anaesthetist,. He examined the. boy thoroughly for' the purpbso of seeing -whetner ho' wa3 fit for. anaesthesia,: and be came to the conclusion that everything was normal as far as could be discovered, escept, of course, the enlsrsement , in his throat and at the back of his noso. •He ww not nervous, but confident and cheerful. The operation was ono. which was very frequently performed. It was a lrind of routine operation. The' operation had'gono on for barely two minutes, and tho witness-for continuing anacsthotieing to prevent him coming, round, by pumpbig chloroform through a small tube at the side of the mouth, when! his breathing . suddenly ceased, and the.colour of the upper part of his faco became dusk} , . Artificial respiration was resorted to tm i\ hours, but there was no response/ Oxygen was administered. In fact; every known method for restoring life was applied. , Dr. Robert S. Trevor, pathologist, who mado thn post-mortem examination, said that doath was due to failure of tho respiration while tho boy was suffering from a condition of lymphatism or the statue lytnphaticus the failure of tho respiration being brought about by the administration of tho anaosthetic The jury returned a verdict of accidental death