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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 3, 18 July 1861, Page 3

Diphtijeuia.— The following is an extract from the Medical Times and Gazette. “At a recent meeting of the Medical Society of London, a very interesting paper on diphtheria was read by Dr. AV. It. Rogers, who gave a consise history of the nature and pathology of the disease, illustrated by several cases which had fallen under his own no"tice. The work of Bretoneau was the foundation of our modern view on diphtheria ; and the descriptions of that accurate observer were found to be verified by the cases which had lately occurred in this country. Dr. Rogers thought diphtheria was a totally distinct disease from scarlatina, with which, indeed, it had but few features in common : although the fact that the throat was affected in both often led to errors in diagnosis. The best treatment of diphtheria consisted in the application f local remedies, such as hydrochloric acid, with cn equal quantity of glycerine, and the administration of nutritious food and stimulating beverages,—the quantity of beer and wine which patients could bear being often quite astonishingDiphthcria should be regarded as a blood-disease of a peculiar nature, attended invariably by the production of a pseudo-membrane on some region of the body, and the early treatment consisted in cauterising the part where it first developed itself, and at the same time supporting the strength of the patient.' 5 The following is Dr. (fin's opinion of diphtheria: —“ This disease which has recently been so prevalent in England consists of a deep red inflamation of the mouth, tongue, fauces (gullet) attended by a false membrane covering the part affected, the inflamation extending to the air passage. The disease is characterised by deep depression. The disease may occur at all ages, though most common in childhood. To support and to remove the false membrane is the direct treatment. To fulfil the one take nourishing diet and stimulants, and the other by the application of borax, or a weak solution of mineral acids. The Henry Fernie, a new two-decked ship, the property of Messrs Fernie Brothers of Liverpool, sailed from Queenstown for Auckland on the 25th April, having drafts for the different regiments serving in New Zealand to the aggregate number of 800 men. She proceeded, in the first instance, from Liverpool to Portsmouth, in tow of the Great Conquest, steam tug, and after an elaborate survey which terminated in pronouncing her to be one of the finest troop ships that ever entered Portsmouth harbor, and after receiving her provisions and stores, embarked on the 18th the following troops —Lieut. Crawhall, 1 sergeant, 1 drummer, 2 corporals, 145 privates, Ist battalion 12th regt.: — Capt. Ruthcrfurd, Lieut. Cay, Ensigns Bally, Grcatwond. n .. jj itn • n o i no • > _ '"' u PP a o u unu. v? luuOcn'iit*, v privates, 6 women, and 4 children 70ih regt.. Surgeon Eews in medical charge. Took her departure in tow of the steam tug same day for Queenstown where she arrived on the 22nd, and there embarked 2 subalterns, 2 sergeants, lii3 rank and file, 12 women and 13 children 2nd battalion 14th regt.; there is also, we believe, a draft of tbo 57th regt., but wo have not learnt the details.

Notice is hereby given, that by » Proclamation under the band of John Chilton Lambton Garter, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, dated the 4th day of July, 18G1, His Honor has appointed that the operation of the "SLAUGHTER HOUSE ORDINANCE, Scss. 8, No. 5,” intituled “An Ordinance for regulating the Slaughtering of Cattle in certain places,” shall extend to that portion of the Province of Hawke’s Bay called the Napier DisEor further information the following clauses have been extracted from the said Ordinance:— 3. Within any such District, and after a day to be prescribed in any such Proclamation, no person shall keep a slaughter house, or place for slaughtering cattle intended for sale, barter, shipping, or exportation, except such house or place be duly licensed for that purpose, in manner hereinafter provided. 3. If any person shall slaughter, or cause to be slaughtered any cattle as aforesaid, in any house or place within such District, which shall not be duly licensed for that purpose as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of Five Pounds for every head of cattle so slaughtered. 6. Every person desirous of obtaining a license for a slaughter house, or place for slaughtering cattle, shall, ten days before any annual, quarterly, or special meeting of the Bench of Magistrates, nearest to such intended slaughter house or place, give to the Clerk of the Bench a notice in vmting of his intention to apply for such license, and shall describe in the said notice the house or place intended to be licensed, and the Bench of Magistrates, (two or more being present), shall consider such application; and if they shall consider that the applicant is a person of unexceptionable character, and that the place proposed to be licensed as a slaughter house is in a convenient and desirable situation, they shall grant such person a license, under the hands of any two of them, in the manner and form hereinafter set forth, (and marked A). 7. Every such license shall be in force for one year from the date thereof: and the person to whom the same shall be granted shall pay to the Clerk of the Bench the sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence for every such license. 8. For the purpose of preserving cleanliness in Towns and the health of persons residing therein, it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace, and for any Constable authorised by writing under his baud, from time to time as any such Justice shall see occasion, to visit and inspect any slaughter house or place which may be situated within the boundaries of any Town, and to give such directions concerning the cleansing of any such slaughter house or place, both within and without, as to him shall seem needful. 9. If any butcher, or the owner or occupier of any such slaughter house or place, shall obstruct or molest such Justice or Constable in the inspection thereof, or shall refuse or neglect to comply with such directions within a reasonable time, every such person shall, on conviction upon the information of any such Justice, or Constable, forfeit and pay for every such offence or neglect, any sum not exceeding Ten Pounds, nor less than Five Pounds. 10. It shall also be lawful for any Justice of the Peace, or Inspector of Police, Inspector of Slaughter Houses, or Constable duly authorised in that behalf, to enter, at any time of the day or night, any slaughter house, or place so licensed, as aforesaid, wherever the same may be situated, and where there shall be good cause to suspect that stolen cattle have been slaughtered, and to make such search and inquiry therein as shall seem necessary for the discovery of the offence *and of the offender. 11. Every person who shall by any obstruction or liindrance, prevent any such Justice or Inspector of Police, Inspector of Slaughter Houses, or Constable, from entering any such licensed premises, for the purpose of such search and inquiry, shall bo deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be dealt with accordingly, as in cases of misdemeanor at Common Law. 12. It shall be lawful for his Excellency the Governor to appoint, within such Towns or Districts as he shall from time to time direct, by a notice to be published in the Government Gazette , fit persons to be called Inspectors of Slaughter Houses, and of cattle intended for slaughter, and every person who shall be so appointed shall, and is hereby required and directed, to repair, without delay to the place or places within this District in which he shall have information of any horned or neat cattle having been slaughtered, or of any such cattle intended to be slaughtered: and also in all cases in which notice shall have been given to him, or left at his place of residence, of the intention to slaughter any cattle, and every such Inspector shall examine the said cattle slaughtered, or so intended to be slaughtered, in his District, and shall take a particular description thereof, with the color, mark or marks, brand or brands, sex, and apparent age, together with the time and place of slaughter, wliich particulars he shall carefully enter, or cause to be entered, in a book to bo kept by him for that purpose, aud wliich book such Inspector shall produce for examination before any annual, quarterly, or special meeting of the Bench of Magistrates, within, or nearest to the District for which he shall be appointed, and for the information of any Justice or Justices whenever he shall be so required, and such Inspector shall also make a weekly return to the bench of Justices, within or nearest to the District, of the number of cattle so shmghtered, as aforesaid. 13. That every person intending to slaughter any such horned or neat cattle within any Town or District in which an Inspector shall be appointed as aforesaid, shall first give six hours notice, in writing, to such Inspector, of the cattle intended to be slaughtered, specifying the time and place, trader a penalty of Five Pounds for each aud every head of such cattle which shall bo so slaughtered without such notice having been given thereof, as last mentioned, unless it shall bo made to appear to the Justice before whom such fine shall be sought to be recovered, that such notice could not have been given and that owing to some unforeseen accident, it was necessary that sueh cattle should have been immediately slaughtered, and in ail cases in which any such cattle shall have been B>tiuguw;fod within any such Town or District, without having been previously inspected as afore-

said, notice thereof shall bo immediately given to the said Inspector, and the skins of such cattle shall be kept or preserved for three days, aud be produced on demand, at the place of slaughter, to the Inspector for tho Town or District wherein such cattle should have been slaughtered, under the pealty of Five Pounds for every skin so neglected to be preserved and produced. 14. That every keeper of a licensed house, or place for slaughtering cattle, excepting in any Town or District for wliich an Inspector shall be appointed as aforesaid, shall keep a book, in which he shall enter a particular account and description oi ah suen norneu or neat cuttle aloughtei-uu in such house or place, specifying the color, mark or marks, sex and apparent age of such cattle, aud if purchased, the name of the person for whom tho same shall have been slaughtered, aud the time of slaughter, and shall transmit monthly to the Bench of Justices in or nearest to the District wherein such slaughter house, or place for slaughtering cattle shall be situated, a report in writing, under tho hand of such keeper, containing the particulars above stated, and shall produce such book for the information of any Justice, whenever he shall be so required. And if any such keeper of a licensed slaughter house or place for slaughtering cattle shall neglect to keep such book or record, or shah wilfully make a false entry therein, or shall fail, or refuse to make such monthly report as aforesaid, or shall refuse to produce such book or record to any Justice, he shall for every such offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding Five Pounds. 15. That nothing hereinbefore contained shall extend to any person or persons slaughtering at his, her, or their own residence, or farms, cattle for his, her, or their own use. 16. That it shall and may be lawful for any Justice of the Peace to demand the skin of any horned or neat cattle whatsoever, that may have been slaughtered within one month previous to the date of such demand, or a full and satisfactory account to whom such skin has been sold, or in what manner disposed of, and any person who upon such demand shall refuse or neglect to produce the skins of any such cattle that have been slaughtered, or in case the same cannot be produced, to give a full and satisfactory account of how, and in what manner the same have been disposed of, shall on conviction forfeit and pay for every such offence, a sum not exceeding Ten Pounds. 17. And if any person shall cut out, burn, or otherwise destroy or deface any brand which shall have been on any skin, or shall be in possession of or shall purchase any such skin from which the brand shall have been cut, or burnt, or otherwise destroyed, or defaced, without being able to give a satisfactory account thereof, every sueh person shah, upon conviction of every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding Ten Pounds. 21. All fines and penalties imposed under the authority of this Ordinance shall be recoverable in a summary way. 22. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the word “ cattle,” unless otherwise expressly stated, shall be taken to include homed or neat cattle, sheep, goats, and swine, and the word “ Governor” shall be taken to include the Lieutenant-Governor, or the Officer administering the Government of the Colony for tho time being. WILLIAM LANGFORD, Inspector of Slaughter Houses. Government Buildings, Dated the 11th day of July, 1861. SCHEDULE A. FORM OF LICENSE. LICENSE FOB SLAUGHTERING CATTLE. We, , of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, do certfy that, by virtue of the authority vested in us in this behalf Mr. , of , is hereby authorised to keep a Licensed Slaughter House in his , situated and being in . And this License to remain in force from the date hereof until the day of Given under our hands, at , this day of