CRICKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 747, 24 March 1866, Page 16

CRICKET.

SOUTH DUNEDIN V. HIGII SCHOOL.

This match, between the first eleven of the South Dunedin and seventeen (including Messrs A. Creagh and Hendley) of High School Cricket Clubs, was played on Saturday last, on the South Dunedin Cricket Ground. It vias previously arranged that in case the match should not be concluded the result should be determined by the first innings. As the match was not played out, the High School, being considerably in advance of their opponents, were proclaimed victors. The fielding on both sides was creditable ; the bowling of A. Cairns and Hendley on one side, and that of Richardson on the other, deserves particular notice- The Dunedin bowling was, however, all underhand, until the second innings, when Fulton (substitute for Russell) bowled round-arm slows. la their batting, the Dunedin were very unfortunate, their best players going out for a very few runs ; whilst the High School were, with a few exceptions, remarkably lucky, the excellent and steady play of A. Cairns making no small addition to the score. Appended arc the scores of the two teams, including the second innings of the High School : — HIGH SCnOOL.— MIST INNINGS, Mann, b Richardson .. ... 0 Allan, b Richardson ... ... 2 Grant, b ßichardson... .. 0 Lambert, b Richardson . . 0 Cairns, A., run out ... . « 34 Creagh, A., c and b Richardson 12 E>tt!e, c Hope, b Richardson ... 7 Morrison, b Richardson ... 6 Hendley, c and b Richardson . . 2 Brown, James, c M. Creagh, b Richardson ... ... S Brown, li., c Grutt, b ßichardson 0 Strode, run out ... ... 0 Batligate, b Downs ... ... 3 Mackenzie, c Richardson, b Downs ... ... ... 0 Treweek, c Grutt, b Downs ... 4 Bell, runout .. ... 3 Webb, c Grutt, b Downs ... 0 Henderson, c Downs, b Richardson ... ... ... 0 Wilkie, not oat .. ... 0 Leg bye ... ..1 Wides ... ... 2 Total 79 €OUTtt" DUKEDIN. — FIBST INNINGS. Hope, c A. Creagh, b Hendley . . 2 Murison, b Hendley ... ... 0 Downs, b Hendley ... ... 0 Richardson, b Cairns . . 3 Turton, c Bell, b Hendley ... 1 Cramp, b Hen-Jley ... ... 0 Creagh, M., c Grant, b Cairns.. 17 Flanagan, c Henderson, b Cairns 3 Borton, b Morrison ... .. 5 Russell, not out ... ... 6 Grutt, b Cairns ... ... 2 Byes ... ... 3 Wides ... ..3 No balls 3 Total .. ... 48 HIGH SCHOOL. — SECOND INKING 9. Mann, st Hope, b Murison ... 10 Allan, b Murison ... ... 8 Grant, b Murison .. ... 9 Webb, c Crump, b ßichardson... 1 Cairns, c Chapman, b Fulton ... 15 Glasgow, J., c Murison, b Richardson ... ... ••> 2 Creagh, A., c Hope, b Murison 4 Trtweek, b Crump ... ... 1 Morrison, c Murison, b Fulton... 6 Strode, not out ... ..7 Hendley, c and b Fulton ... 15 Kettle, c Morrison, b Fulton ... 9 Bell, st Hope, b Crump ... 2 Brown, Jas.,c Glasgow, b Fulton 2 Henderson, st Hope, b Crump. . 2 Brown, R., b Crump.. ... 6 TVilkie, c Glasgow, b Fulton ... 1 Batbgate, c Fulton, b Crump . . 9 Mack'.nz : p,b Crump... ... 0 Bye 1 JOgbye ... ... 1 Wide 1 Total ... .. 112 HOSPITALS. (Prom " Provincial Medical Charit'ei," in the Cornhill Magazine ) The medical staff of a provincial differs from that of a London hospital in many respects, and in none more conspicuously than in numerical weakness and in the titular equality of its members. In London, the ordinary arrangement is to have three physicians and three surgeons, three assistant-physicians, and three assistantsurgeons. Each of these gentlemen attend twice a week ; so that a physician and a Burgeon, an assistant 'physician and an assistant-surgeon, are to be met with daily. The physicians and surgeons attend to the in-patients, the assistants to the outpatients. Besides this general staff, there are special departments, each with its complement of officers. The ob3tetric,pby sicians, the ophthalmic, aural, and dental surgeons, with their assistants, are to be found in most well managed institutions. And some of the most able men in the medical profession have filled for years, and fill at present,

the assistant offices, "waiting for time to bring them promotion, and discharging their arduous duties with unfai'ing energy, punctuality and perseverance. A staff thus constituted is theoretically almost perfect, and works with admirable efficiency in practice. Among so large a nunrber of officers, no individual can attain undue or undeserved pre-eminence. The younger men tread upon the heels of their seniors, and compel them to examine and to master the improvements of the day. The elder men restrain their juniors from hasty innovation, and temper the possible rashness of youth by the wifdorn of experience, A common pride in their connection with a great institution forms a bond of union between them all. The students are well taught, the patients are well treated, opportunities for observation and research are well used ; and with due allowance for human frailty, beneficence and skill go hand in hand for the accomplishment of some of their greatest works. In provincial hospital?, with only one or two exceptions, assistant medical officers are unknown; and the treatment of the out-patients devolves, nominally, upon the same gentlemen who have charge of the wards. For a large provincial hospital a staff of two physicians and three surgeons may be taken as about the average. The county hospitals are usually of some antiquity, and date from a time when physicians and well-educated surgeons were comparatively few in number ; when apothecaries were unequal to even the smaller duties of surgery ; and when various impediments to locomotion hindered the arrival of out-patients from neighboring towns and viilages. In those days the duties of the hospital were light, and the men competent to discharge them were not numerous. Out of London, only a small staff could be obtained, and generally speaking, only a small staff was required. The progress of events has totally altered these conditions. Men abound who are fit to hold office as physicians or surgeons to a hospital ; and patients come in shoals from all parts of every county. Bat the provincial hospital makes no adequate increase to its staff ; and for this two principal reasons may be assigned. In the first place, the office of physician or surgeon to a county hospital is usually a very valuable appointment, improving the social status and professional position of any man who may obtain it, and, indirectly, largely increasing his income. To this rule there are notable exceptions ; but still the rule obtains. A limited number of persons, who divide certain advantages, have a very natural aversion to the addition of fresh members to their body. People easily convince themselves of the truth of what they wish to believe, and no one has a right to wonder when the existing staff of a hospital exclaims, with one voice, that more physicians and surgeons are " perfectly unnecessary," Second 'y, in country towns, there is an amount of personal rivalry among professional men which could not exist in London. In a comparatively small area of practice it is not uncommon for medical feuds to spring out of the illness of individual patients, or out of the ill-judged gos«ip of their friends. In any town large enough to support a hospital, there will almost always be two or more distinct medical parties. Brown, Jones, and Robinson, let us say, are suri geons possessing a fair equality of skill and knowledge. Each of them possesses a special and enthusiastic clientele, composed of persons who regard with contemptuous pity the infatuation that can trust health and life to either of the others. Brown has many advantages : he is sixty years old ; a studious youth and a thoughtful manhood have thinned and whitened hi 3 hair ; the wholesome labors and simple pleasures of his temperate and well spent life have left I his powers unimpaired ; and time, that has ripened and matured his judgment, has not yet dimmed the keenness of his eye, blunted the sensitiveness of his touch, or shaken the steadiness of his hand. The death of some professional Nestor, who was practically superannuated by his private patients 20 years before, opens a vacancy at the countyhospital. Brown, Jones andßot'inson are the candidates. The great claims of the first carry the day. His opponents, both rising men in the place, both just entering upon middle age, both sufficiently skilful and experienced to do justice to an hospital appointment, and to use its great opportunities to the advantage of the patients and of the public, are defeated. Brown »s a hale man, likely to hold his new office for years, but far too busy with his practice to devote to it the time it requires. In London either Jones or Robinson would cheerfully act as his assistantsurgeon, would see his out-patients, and perform operations of emergency in his absence. In a country town this cannot be. They are his rivals in practice, profiting by hia occasional absence from the place where he is wanted — sometimes seeking to profit, perhaps, by his occasional errors of judgment. By certain persons they are even now consulted in preference to him, and they think it would be a tacit confession of inferiority to hold an office ostensibly subordinate to that of a

man whom they hope one day to supersede. The practical result is, that the work of county hospitals is very indifferently done. The physicians and surgeons are frequently co much occupied with their private duties, that they are very irregular in their hospital attendance, and often pay only short and hurried visits. There being usually but few students, the irregularity is of little consequence a? far as the wards are concerned ; but the poor creatures huddled together in the out-patients' waiting-room — ordered to attend at eleven in the morning, and not admitted to the doctor until half-past three in the a'ternoon, suffering from hunger, fatigue, overcrowding, and imperfect ventilation — had need to be much improved by treatment in order to compensate then for the injury certain to accrue from these unfavorable conditions. The shortness of time leads to a very hasty inspection of the patients Those whose cases present, upon the surface, any features of marked professional interest, are reserved for further

examination, or for the ward?. The remainder are treated at haphazard, from some book of formulas, in accordance with the first symptom they mention, and at the rate of three patients a minute. la the dispensary, the compound mixture of gentian, and the compound mixture of soda, the tonic mixture, and the acid mixture, are kept ready prepared. In the examining room they are prescribed in rotation. It often happens that the members of the medical staff do not even find time for this apparent or perfunctory discharge of their duties, and that the treatment of the out-patients devolves almost entirely upon the house surgeon, whose position and qualifications have the next claim upon our attention. The house-surgeon to a county hospital is usually a student, who has just passed his examinations, and who seeks experience before engaging iv practice on his own account. He is almost invariably of good habits and character, and usually representing the very best class of young practitioners. There are a few examples of men holding such an office for a long period, growing grey in the service of one institution, and gathering great stores of professional learning. But hospitals do not provide accommodation for families, and usually pay only a small stipend. A house-surgeon who desires to marry, or who has any pecuniary ambition, is forced to resign his post ; and, under the influence ol these and other motives, the tendency to change is so maiked that it is usual for a committee to make a contract with the house-surgeon for three years.

Vapour Baths as a Cuke fob Hydrophobia. — Dr. Buisson, of Paris, has treated more than eighty persons who have been bitten by animals in a state of madness, and all have been saved by this method. When a person has been bitten by a mad dog, he should be made to take seven of the so-called Russian vapour baths, from 57 deg. to 63 deg. Centigrade hot, one every day, by way of preventive. In case of the malady having 1 distinctly shesvn itself, the vapour bath should be heated rapidly to 37 deg. Centigrade, then slowly to G3 deg. The patient should strictly confine himself to his room until he is quite well. Dr. Bouisson mentions some other curious fact 3. A man in America was bitten by a rattlesnake, about sixteen miles from home. Wishing to die in the bosom of his family, he ran home, went to bed, perspired plentifully, and the wound healed like any simple sore. The bite of the tarantula is cured by dancing — the virus being dissipated by perspiiation. If an infant who has been vaccinated is made to take a vapour bath, the vaccination is of no effect.

Sic Joseph Paxton. — I don't think that any one imagined that Sir Joseph Paxton would " cut up " so well. During the latter part of his life there was an impression abroad that he v« as not very well off — that somehow or other he had lost a good deal of money. But LISO,OOO of a personal estate has astonished everybody. E"o man of more exquisite taste in gardening has lived in our time ; but, singular to say, his own garden at Sydenham was kept in a very slovenly manner. Can any one who has seen Chatsworth or the Crystal Palace grounds understand this ? How is it to be accounted for ? Was it that Sir Joseph had become satiated by his own exquisite horticulture for others, and had nought relief in unassisted and unadorned nature ? Sir Joseph made a good thing of the Crystal Palace, and the expenditure on the grounds in the carrying out oi his plans was something enormous ; but no one can say that there is not something to 6how for the money. Sir Henry Willoughby's personality is of exactly equal amount with that of Sir Joseph Paxton. Poor Sir Henry was a great financier, and was a tremendous stickler for accuracy of expression in documents dealing with moneys ; but he has left one of the moat informal and imperfect wills that has passed through the Doctors' Commons for many yeara. — London Correspondent of. the Liverpool Albion.