NOVEL DISEASES.
The medical officer to the General Post Office (England), in his report on the candidates for miner appointments in ihat department during the last year, giv|s * few samples of replies of candidates in making their written statements as to their medical histories':—-" It is to be hoped that in future years the effects of compulsory education may be shown by rendering such replies among the things of the past:—l, Father had a sunstroke, and I caught it of him. 2. My little brother died of some funny name. 3. A great white cat drawed my sister's breath, and she died of: it. 4. Apperplexity. 5. Parasles. 6. I caught Tiber fever in the Hackney road., 7. I hed goamders. 8. JBurralgef in the hed. 9. Rummitanic panes. 10. Shortness of breadth. 11. Carracatic fever..-. 12, Indigestion of the lungs. 13. Sister died of compulsion. 14. Pistoles on th© back.
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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1808, 19 October 1874, Page 2
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151NOVEL DISEASES. Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1808, 19 October 1874, Page 2
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