HEAD, FRANCIS B, 



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his funeral had taken place with the usual 

 solemnities and under the eyes of a large num- 

 her of officers and persons in the employ of the 

 court. The publication of these documents 

 had the desired effect. The impression pro- 

 duced hy the publications of Kolb, Daumer, 

 and others, was more than neutralized, and 

 public opinion was evidently inclined to regard 

 the charges against the house of Baden as 

 definitely refuted. Kolb again tried to defend 

 his theory in the Frankfurter Zeitung, and to 

 represent the documents published by the 

 grand-ducal house of Baden as irrelevant, but 

 an elaborate reply to his article, by Dr. Mittel- 

 stadt, Attorney-General of Hamburg, in the 

 Augsburger Zeitung (August and September, 

 1875), did even more than the publication of 

 the grand-ducal documents to decide public 

 opinion. The articles of Dr. Mittelstadt (" Kas- 

 par Hauser und der Streit um seine badische 

 Abstammung ") are an exhaustive review of 

 the whole story of Hauser's descent from the 

 grand-dukes of Baden, showing how it origi- 

 nated, was developed, circulated, defended, and 

 finally exploded. 



HEAD, Sir FRANCIS BOND, an English diplo- 

 matist, born at Rochester, January 1, 1793; 

 died July 20, 1875. He served at Waterloo 

 and at Fleurys, and in 1825 he took charge of 

 an expedition which left England to work the 

 gold and silver mines on the Bio de la Plata. 

 He described his journey across the South 

 American continent in "Rough Notes of a 

 Journey across the Pampas" (1826). In 1838 

 he was appointed Governor of Upper Canada, 

 and was created a baronet in recognition of his 

 services in quelling a rebellion, and repelling 

 incursions made from the United States. In 

 1867 he was created a privy councilor. Among 

 his works are "Bubbles from the Brunnen of 

 Nassau" (1833), "Life of Bruce" (1844), "The 

 Emigrant" (1847), "Stokers and Pokers" 

 (1850), " The Defenseless State of Great Brit- 

 ain" (1850), "A Fortnight in Ireland" (1852), 

 and "The Horse and his Rider" (1860). 



HEALTH, PUTBLIO. The cause of sanitary 

 reform has been urged upon the attention of 

 the people with increasing emphasis of late 

 years by those whose minds have been en- 

 gaged with this momentous subject. 



An important part in the dissemination of 

 timely views upon this matter has been taken 

 by the National Health Association, a society 

 composed of members of the medical profes- 

 sion from all parts of the country. This Asso- 

 ciation has been in the habit of convening 

 yearly to compare the results of the individual 

 investigations of its members upon all matters 

 affecting the sanitary condition of the people, 

 and to deliberate upon the measures which can 

 be most effectively taken for the prevention of 

 epidemic arid removable forms of disease. The 

 last annual assembly, the fifth of this body, 

 took place at Baltimore, November 9th. The 

 names of the officers and attendant members 

 were as follows : 



J. M. Toner, M. D., President of the Association, 

 Washington, D. 0. ; Henry Hartshorne, M. D., 

 Vice-President, Pennsylvania; John Ranch, M. D., 

 Treasurer, Illinois ; Elisha Harris, M. D., Secretary, 

 New York; C. B. White, M. D., New Orleans ; A. 

 N. Bell, M. D., Brooklyn; Ezra M. Hunt, M. D., 

 New Jersey ; E. S. Dugdale, M. D.. New York ; 

 J. W. Pinkham, M. D., New Jersey ; l)r. Ilusted, 

 New York; Y. G. Wheelock, M. D., New York; 

 Heber Smith, M. D., Surgeon Marine Hospital Ser- 

 vice, New York ; Frederick Brown, M. D., Boston; 

 J. J. Woodward, M. D., United States Army ; John 

 M. Woodworth, M. D., Supervising Surgeon-Gen- 

 eral United States Marine Hospital Service ; John 

 S. Billings, M. D., Washington, D. C. ; Prof. Ste- 

 phen Smith, New York ; J. A. Steuart, M. D., Bal- 

 timore; Moreau Morris, M. D., formerly Health 

 Officer of New York; W. Snively, M.D., Pittsburg, 

 Pa. ; W. J. Asdale, M. D., Pittsburg, Pa. ; Crosby 

 Gray, M. D., Pittsburg, Pa. ; Thomas L. Neal, M. D., 

 Dayton, Ohio; L. H. Skinner, M. D., Frederick, 

 Md. ; E. S. Stewart, M. D., President Maryland 

 Hospital; Geo. M. Sternberg, M. D., United States 

 Army ; H. E. Noel, M. D., L. C. Winternitz, M. D., 

 J. S. Conrad, M. D., D. I. McKew, M. D., Balti- 

 more ; Dr. Gleatsman, North Carolina ; E. Lloyd 

 Howard, M. D., Baltimore ; C. W. Chancellor, M. D., 

 Baltimore ; Eichard Dunglison, M. D., Philadel- 



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M. D., Washington, D. C. ; James E. Eeeves, M. D., 

 Wheeling, W. Va. ; F. Donaldson, M. D., Balti- 



more ; C. B. White, M. D., President Board of 

 Health, New Orleans ; C. H. Nichols, M. D. 



Some of the State governments have opened 

 their eyes to the duty of governmental action 

 upon matters concerning public hygiene, and 

 have established central boards of health of a 

 more or less initial character, but which have 

 already furnished contributions to the further- 

 ance of this object ; and their reports for the 

 past year have been more full and valuable 

 than in any preceding year. The papers pub- 

 lished by the Massachusetts State Board of 

 Health, the most active of the official socie- 

 ties, for the past six years, are valuable contri- 

 butions to science. The boards in California 

 (founded in 1870), Michigan, and Minnesota, 

 have followed the example of the older board 

 in efficient work. A Board of Health has 

 been constituted in Alabama in February of 

 the present year by act of the Legislature. 

 The last report of the board of California pre- 

 sents information upon the subject of sew- 

 age, drainage, local diseases, climatology, and 

 Ehthisis; upon forest-culture in its prophy- 

 ictic sanitary relation ; the condition and 

 wants of the insane and inebriate classes ; the 

 vital statistics of the chief cities ; and the san- 

 itary development of hospitals, asylums, and 

 other State institutions. An elaborate report 

 on malarial diseases and phthisis pulmonalis, 

 by the secretary, presents an illustrated and 

 carefully studied history of the Eucalyptus glo- 

 bulus, the alleged prophylactic advance against 

 malaria. The board of the District of Colum- 

 bia, organized in 1871, has been active in the 

 abatement of deleterious influences. A State 

 board of Georgia was created in July of this 

 year. The board of -Michigan possesses the 

 advantage, that its secretary is the Registrar 



