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Mr. Arthur E. Lamprill, jun., a Tasmanian scholar for 1885, left Launceston 
on 1st April by the steamer Flinders , en route for England, to enter upon his 
study of medicine at Oxford. 
Dr. L. G-. Thompson, Superintendent of the Launceston Hospital, is now 
engaged collecting snake poison for transmission to Professor Fraser, of the 
Edinburgh University, for experimental purposes. The poison is obtained from 
the snakes by means of a finger of a glove being placed over the bowl of a 
spoon with which the snake is irritated until he bites the spoon and ejects the 
contents of his fangs into the concavity. The poison is then carefully collected 
and dried. 
4 £ Anglo- Australian,” in the European Mail of 29th January, says: — “I am 
glad to see that Mr. Robert Kidd, of Tasmania, has been admitted a member 
of the Eoyal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.” This should be Mr. Russell 
Kidd, a son of Mr. W. H. Kidd, of Launceston, and who has been studying 
for the medical profession at the Edinburgh University. 
At a meeting of the Central Board of Health at Hobart, on 13th March, 
the secretary stated that he had received a communication from the authori- 
ties at New Norfolk announciug the recent typhoid cases there were progress- 
ing satisfactorily. It was resolved to write to the Hobart Local Board requesting 
them to frame by-laws without delay. The president, Dr. Perkins, alluded to 
the fact that some police districts in the colony were not municipalities, and 
had no local Boards of Health. It was decided to draw the attention of the 
Chief Secretary to the necessity of appointing a local Board of Health in all 
such districts. 
A public exhibition of Laythorpe Underwood's snake-bite antidote was 
recently given in Launceston, but, much to the agent's (Mr. Kemp’s) surprise 
and chagrin, the three cats selected as subjects did not seem to benefit much 
from its virtues, as in each case they speedily succumbed to the venom of the 
reptiles introduced to their acquaintance. Mr. Kemp states that the same snakes 
have repeatedly bitten cats which are now living, and accounts for the failure 
from the fact that the snakes had been shaken about by a journey of 27 miles, 
and were unusually savage and full of venom. 
In another experiment two grains of snake poison mixed with 13 minims 
of antidotes was injected along the spine of a strong kitten. The animal died in 
less than half-an-hour. 
Annie Appleby, aged 24, employed as a domestic servant at the All Nations' 
Hotel, Hobart, was taken to the hospital on the 1st inst. suffering from the 
effects of having swallowed sixpennyworth of carbolic acid. She was duly 
treated, and at latest was reported to be in a fair way towards recovery. 
At a late meeting of the Launceston Council attention was drawn to the 
great number of typhoid cases reported, it being stated that more cases had 
occurred during the first quarter of the present year than during the previous 
twelve months. The matter was said to be about to be brought under the notice 
of the Health Committee. 
There were, according to Dr. Dujardin-Beaumetz, 19 deaths from hydrophobia in 
Paris last year a number higher than in previous years — and yet the number of 
stray dogs destroyed was also higher, viz., 5060. Of these 19 persons, 15 were males 
and 4 females. The youngest was a little girl of five and a half years ; the oldest, a 
man of 63. The time of incubation varied from 19 months (in the case of a young 
man of 26) to 29 days (a child of 11). 
