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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2002, 11 February 1907, Page 1

A DOCTOR’S DILEMMA. Tho question of a medical man’s professional secrets ns they affect the general good has again been raised in tho London Press, and a pretty problem in real life is presented by a professional correspondent of the British Medical Journal. An English doctor has been attending a railway signalman for asthma. The attacks come on suddenly and are so severe that the patient falls on tho floor struggling for breath, and is unfit for work for an hour or so. This man is on duty alone in his signal-box for many hours at a time, but. has never yet had an attack there. The man declines to inform tho railway company of his illness, and tho doctor is afraid to report' tho case to tho company, fearing that this course will result in an action for damages by tho patient. Tho correspondent advised his friend to send a confidential report to the company, but this the perplexed doctor was unwilling t,o do, so the British Medical Joudnal was applied to for advice. This is the paper’s comment: “In our opinion the circumstances, extreme though they bo, cannot) bo held to justify a breach of tho law ol medical secrecy. While the medical man should represent the criminal neglect of the patient if ho does not explain his position to his employers, tho former ought not to write direct to tho railway company without the patient’s consont, ho fully understanding the nature- of tho communication to be made.” There has been some interesting correspondence in the Daily Mail on tho subject. A layman presents the argument that if it is right for a doctor to report a ease of small-pox, as dangerous to the community, it is equally right for him to report the incapacity of a signalman. “For a doctor to knowingly permit an unfit and therefore a dangerous signalman to continue in his occupation would be on a par with his silently permitting a man to take charge of an infant school whom he knew to be an intermittent lunatic. When a question of right and wrong is at issue, mere questions of custom and etiquette should go to the wall.” A Birmingham doctor on the other hand thinks that talk of duty to the public in such a case is rubbish. The doctor has but one open to him, to mind his own business and do his best for his patient. The man has never had a fit in his box, runs the rather cold-blooded argument, so why make a fuss about it? If the doctor did break faith with his patient, twelve of the public whom he tried to protect would certainly give tho signalman heavy damages, and the rest of the public would not subscribe a penny to help the doctor to pay them. In tho meantime, for all wo know t'o the contrary, there is grave danger in some part of England of a serious accident.

WASHING MILK CANS . “I have recently examined milk cans at the farm where I could scrape; quantities of dried milk from the seams, and this, when the housewife supposed she was washing them carefully, or, at all events, she has in some instances declared that slio has done her full duty in the matter,” says IT. S. liaer in “Cheese and Dairy Journal.” If the good housewives will bear with me, I will give them my way of washing cans: “Wash them at once, as soon as they come back from the factory—do not allow the milk or whey to dry on, as it will then bo very difficult to remove it. Rinse the milk-can with luko-warm water —-never hot at first, as that will tend to. cook tho milk or whey to the tin. After rinsing, wash thoroughly with hot water —use salt, 'sal soda, or any of the first-class, reliable washing powders now on the markot, never using soap of any kind, certainly, not soft soap, as all soaps leave an odor difficult to get rid of, Dspeeial attention should be paid th the seams, as there is tho hiding-place of the little imp that spoils the cheese. Never use a diuh-.'lm’n or wash-rag on a factory milk can. A good root or bristle brush is the only correct article to uso for this purpose, finally, scald with a tea kettle of boil-ing-liot water, pouring the scalding wator down the walls of tho can and then quickly placo the cover tightly on the cau so as to confine the steam and heat within for about five mintues. Then empty tho can and turn in the sun and wind to dry. Do not pour the scalding water from ono call to another, but us& a fresh supply for each can to be cleansed.

INTERESTING RETURNS. The annual report of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce dealing with statistics concerning the trade of tho colony, states that in the year ended September 30tli last the exports of the colony made further substantial and most satisfactory advance .ill value, roacliing a total far in excess of any previous twelve months. This improvement is largely, but not entirely, tho result of better prices obtained for our produce. A table in the report' shows that exports for 1906 were valued at £17,734,798, or the remarkable increase of £2,060,662 on the previous year, of which £1,306,076 arises from wool and sheepskins. Frozen meat, dairy produce, tallow, and’hemp and kauri gum all show increased value. Further tables demonstrate that the greater value is partly attributable to increased quantity in the case of wool, cheese, tallow and kauri gum, and wholly so as regards frozen moat, while improved prices alone account for tho enhanced total of butter and hemp. Tho average valuations of our exports of wool show the following remarkable expansion in tho last five years:—l9ol-2 4.84 d per lb., 1902-3 6.01 d per lb., 1903-4 7.37 d per lb., 1904-5, 9.05 d per lb., 1905-6 10.45 d per lb. The year 1905-6 shows us an advance in this respect equal to about 116 per cent, upon 1901-2. The colony’s import's suffered a decrease of over half a million in the twelve months ending with September 30th, 1905, but the volume again expanded in the succeeding year, the value of which showed a total, apart from specie (which amounted to about £1,000,000) of., £13,575,121, an increase upon 1904-5 of £1,187,808. Tlie North Island accounts for an increase of about£soo,ooo, and the South Island of about £600,000. The values of exports from the principal centres for the past three years wore as follows:—Auckland £7,979,974, Wellington £9.177,560, Lyttelton £7,407,338, Dunedin £4589,024, Imports for the same period Auckland £9.658,118, Wellington £11,041.981, Lyttelton £6,645,632, Dunedin £6,190,366. Customs revenue, also for the same period. Auckland £2,023,821, Wellington £2,089.443, Lyttelton £1.223,468, Dunedin, £1,280,644,

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