190 THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
The erection of a very limited number of buildings will be necessarv, tents being 
chiefly relied on. 
As a result of the recent inquiry into the management of the Polynesian 
Hospital, at Maryborough, Dr. Joseph, the medical superintendent, has been dis- 
missed, and Dr. O’Connor has accepted the temporary management. A local 
correspondent states that a good deal of interest is taken in the district as to 
the course which the Government will pursue in respect to future manage- 
ment. “The planters, he states, “have proposed that a competent head wards- 
man, with certain stated visits from a town doctor, would be ample, but I may 
sav the general public hardly agrees with the scheme, believing that 1500 or 
more islanders demand the whole attention of a medical man.” 
It is not too often that gratitude for kindly services rendered during illness 
survives convalescence so that well-to-do relatives offer any recognition of these 
services beyond the conventional tender of “thanks.” It is pleasant, therefore, to 
read that, at a recent meeting of the Toowoomba Hospital committee, it was 
announced that a letter had been received from Mrs. Busby, widow of the late 
Hon. Gr. H. Busby, of Sydney, thanking Dr. Flood for the kindness and attention 
shown to her brother while a patient in the hospital, and asking his acceptance 
of a draft for ten guineas. It is to be hoped that the example thus shown 
will find many imitators, and that the recipients of such “ windfalls” will do 
as Dr. Flood did — present the draft to the institution. 
At Mount Walker, Ipswich, recently, a boy and girl, the children of a man 
named Baills, ate a number of castor oil beans, and were soon afterwards 
attacked with violent purging and vomiting. A neighbour who was called in 
by the father promptly administered emetics and injections, which procured 
relief. The children were not, however, altogether free from the effects for 
some days afterwards. 
At a meeting of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, on 
3rd March, donations -were received from the Royal College of Surgeons of 
Ireland of their calendar for 1886; and from the Pharmacy Board of Victoria 
of their Pharmaceutical Register for 1885, and of a copy of a “ Bill to Amend 
the Pharmacy Act 1876.” Thanks were voted to the donors. 
At a meeting of the Manchester] Pharmacy Students’ Association, on 25th 
February, the chairman, while congratulating the Association upon the honour 
conferred upon it by the selection of its President, Mr. Alfred H. Jackson, to 
the post of Director and Lecturer of the Melbourne College of Pharmacy, said 
that although the loss to the Association was very great and would be keenly 
felt, he was, however, perfectly sure of one thing, viz., that during the time 
Mr. Jackson had conducted the meetings of the Association in such a very 
able manner, he had won most entirely the confidence, esteem, and respect of 
every member of the Association, and would carry with him their sincerest 
congratulations and good wishes for his future welfare. 
According to the Registrar’s report, submitted to a meeting of the British 
Pharmaceutical Society on 3rd February, it appears that during 1885 there were 
added to the Register the names of 379 persons, 351 of whom had passed the 
Minor examination; on the other hand the erasures were 212 — 207 on account 
of death, and 5 at the request of those struck off. The result is that the 
Register contains a total of 13,567 names, 167 more than in 1885. Of this 
total 2219 are pharmaceutical chemists, and 11,348 chemists and druggists. At 
