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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 877, 26 November 1870, Page 3

The British Medical Journal Bays that picked oakum, such as that which MLv. H. Pownall has submitted to the committee of the Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded, is of multiform and very great use in hospitals. Especially is it of the greatest utility in camp, field, and military hospitals. Nothing does more to prevent the spread of hospital gangrene and erysipelous affections, so fatal to wounded men, than the use of such a material as this, in lieu of sponges, &o. It is immediately destroyed after use in each case; while sponges,, no matter how carefully cleansed, are apt to carry contagion. Some uncertainty exists in the public mind as to possible effect of the European war in interruptsg or altering the routes of the homeward mails by Marseilles and Brindisi. On inquiry the Melbourne Argus learns that Ihepostal authorities of Victoria do pot. j urpose to take any special steps to secure the passage of the mails fur the United kingdom, &c , via Marseilles or Brindisi. The mails will be of course accompanied by an Admiralty agent, npon whom the responsibility of making all necessary arrangements will devolve.