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THE AU STEAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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The Premier, accompanied by Mr. G-. T. Collins (chairman of the Hospital Board), 
recently paid a visit of inspection to the Launceston G-eneral Hospital, and expressed 
himself thoroughly pleased with the improvements which have lately been 
carried out. 
Famous as is Tasmania as a health resort, it must not be imagined that the 
tight little island is entirely free from its share of the ills that flesh is heir to. 
In autumn typhoid fever and erysipelas make their attack, measles and scarlet 
fever take their turn in winter, and in summer sicknesses of various sorts put in 
an appearance. A case of G-erman measles admitted into the Launceston General 
Hospital the other day heralds the approach of the winter contingent this year. 
It is to be hoped that the physician and the chemist in combination will prove 
too strong for these guerilla combatants. 
Some time ago circulars were sent by a Hobart committee to the old 
scholars of the High School, asking their co-operation in presenting a testimonial 
to their old master, Hector Harris. It is pleasant to learn that responses have 
been received, not only from all parts of Tasmania, but from old High School 
scholars now resident in the other colonies— and many of them, no doubt, 
numbered among the readers of the Pharmacy Journal — the result being that 
between £200 and £800 has been promised the treasurer of the fund, a 
satisfactory proof of the respect and affection in which the Dominie was held 
by his boys. 
A letter was recently received in Launceston from a well-known resident of 
the Straits Islands, drawing attention to the wanton cruelty practiced by white 
residents of the islands in burning the rookeries of the mutton-birds at Chappell 
Island. As these curious birds build in the earth, under tufts of grass, &c., 
they are in this manner actually burnt alive. Ornithologists, and, for that 
matter, every person possessed of any humane feelings, will be glad to learn that, 
a special constable having now been appointed at the islands, there is reason to 
hope that steps will be taken to stop this barbarous practice. 
At the Launceston Police Court the other day, a woman named Susannah 
Yates was charged with failing to pay £5 12s. 6d. due by her for hospital fees 
on account of her father, who had been under treatment in the hospital for 
25 days. The poor woman pleaded that she was not in a position to pay, 
and that she had four brothers in good positions, who should be forced to 
contribute their snare of the expense. As she had guaranteed the charges in 
the first instance, the Bench held her to be responsible, and made an order 
against her for the amount. For the sake of Tasmanian manhood it is to be 
hoped the “ four brothers in good positions” felt a blush of shame mantling their 
brows as they read the case in the morning papers. 
Mr. W. P. Green, late of Sydney, has been appointed dispenser of the 
Launceston Friendly Societies’ Dispensary, vice Mr. J. D. Johnstone, resgined. 
Mr. Green is a native of Launceston, and for the last four years has been manager 
for Messrs. A. J. Watt, Son and Co., of George- street, Sydney. 
Pharmaceutical matters are very quiet after the recent bustle re “unqualified 
dispensers,” which seems to have died a natural death, because it is really too 
much trouble for the Court of Medical Examiners to take the necessary steps to 
carry out the Act. 
Quite a little excitement was created in Hobart among the profession when 
it became known that Superintendent Pedder, with Detectives Delaney and Franklin, 
had on 4th April made a seizure of a still, with fittings complete, together 
with twenty gallons of 60 o.p. spirit and thirty- seven gallons under proof, the 
