Ina recent report issued by a benevolent Society having, if we remember rightly, its hendquatters in Dublin, we were amused to read that "notwithstanding the large amount paid by the Society for medical attendance and medicine, very few deaths occurred during the your." A. possible unkind construction (which, of course, we would never dream of putting upon this sentence) es us read with interest of all that is being done for the saving and bettering of life, as_is recorded in the journal "before us. Ench department of magazine might have for its motto the line from Tennyson's In Memoriam—"Ring out old shapes of foul disease."
In the first of the original communications Dr. J. G. Kerr gives an account of his Refuge for the Insane" in Canton, In his opening paragraph he reminds us
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