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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. Feb. 1st, 1886. 
THE VICTORIAN FACTORIES’ AND >SHOPS' ACT. 
The following rules, which relate somewhat to the trade, 
are to be observed as far as possible : — 
Class A. 
Buildings for ham and bacon curing, fish curing, meat 
preserving, jam making, fruit preserving, and such 
other trades. 
The ceilings or roofs to be not less than twelve feet in 
neight ; walls to be painted, plastered with smooth cement, or 
covered with other impervious material at least six feet in 
height above floor level, so as to be easily washed and cleaned. 
The ground floors to be imperviously paved, and all floors laid 
so as to drain into paved channels, to be intercepted by 
deodorising tanks. All yards tn be gravelled or paved and well 
drained. 
Class B. 
Buildings for fellmongery, leather dressing, tanning, 
parchment making, and similar trades. 
The roofs or ceilings to be not less than twelve feet in 
height from the floor. The ground floors to be imperviouslj' 
paved, and laid to drain into leaved channels intercepted by 
deodorising tanks. All yards to be gravelled or paved and well 
drained. 
Class C. 
Buildings for soap and candle works, glue making, bone 
and carcase boiling down, bone crushing, manufac- 
ture of artificial manures, and such like trades and 
works. 
The roofs or ceilings to be not less than fifteen feet in 
height. The walls to be constructed (whether of stone, brick, 
or \\ood) so that lime- washing may be effectively applied 
when necessary.^ The floors to be imperviously paved, and 
laid so as to drain into paved channels intercepted by deodo- 
rising tanks. Close boilers or covered vats only are to be 
used, from which pipes are to be fixed to convev the vapours 
and fumes through an effective disinfecting and deodorising 
apparatus. 
Class D. 
Buildings for antimony works, smelting works of any 
kind, works for treatment of pyrites, ammonia, and 
other works. 
Buildings for works of this class to be provided with 
suitable condensing apparatus, so as to render the fumes in- 
nocuous. 
All ground floors should be imperviously paved, and laid so 
as to drain to channels intercepted by deodorising tanks. All 
yards to be gravelled or paved and well drained. 
As regards all the preceding classes, iron roofs, where in 
the opinion of the local board it is practicable, are to be lined 
with felt or wood or '\^’illesden’s patent material. 
C^Va>'ettc. 
Colonial >Secretary's Office, 
Brisbane, 5th Januarv. 18S0. 
The following returns of the Benevolent Asvlum at Dunwich 
are published in pursuance of the regulations for the manage- 
ment of that institution. 
Ee-a(hnissi 07 is : 
P. 0^’Neill, 39, labourer; from Brisbane. 
J. W. Golland, 46, chemist; from Liverpool Asvlum, New 
South Wales. 
Alex. Moore, 67, quarryman ; from Brisbane. 
TRADE MARKS APPLIED FOR. 
Queexslaxd (Trade Marks Act, 1884.) 
DesiCtX fob Bread made or baked by patent machinery. 
Clement an de elde, civil engineer, Rovles Chambers, 
Bond-street, Sydney, N.S.W., 7th January, 1886. Picture of 
^ a bird's nest, with four birds resting on a branch of a tree. 
Job Coxdexsed Milk and milk food. Jules Monnerat, Emile 
Louis Roussy, and Auguste Mayor, trading as Henri Nestle, 
9 Snow Hill, London, England, and Vevey, Switzerland, 
December 17th, 1885. 
SiGXATUiiE, Tuttle axd Co., in respect to photographs. Wil- 
liam Nutting Tuttle and Alexander Marshall, trading under 
the name of Tuttle and Co., photographers, at Brisbane, 
Queensland, October 29th, 1885. 
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENTS. 
Queensland. 
IMPBOVE 3 IENTS foT pi'ocess foT extracting tannin and apparatus 
for effecting same. Isaac Jacobs, Queen-street, Melbourne, 
Victoria, January 17th, 1886. 
Invention described as the “ Direct converter process for the 
reduction of lead ores. ’ Otto Meyer, Brisbane, Queensland, 
December 17th, 1885. 
Improve.uents in explosive compounds. Thomas Wilkins, 
Lyndhurst-road, Peckham, London, England, January 7th, 
1886. 
Process of scouring wool. Edward Waters, Bourke-street 
west, Melbourne, Victoria, January 7th, 1886. 
“ IviPiiovED means for filtering beer and other liquids.” 
Frederick Abbott Catherwood, Joseph Wilhelm Welby, and 
John James Rendle, Little Collins-street east, Melbourne, 
Victoria, January 7 th, 1886. 
Mr. Thomas Swallow, of Cairns, Queensland, sugar planter, 
has applied for a patent for ‘-A new powder for refining or 
clarifying saccharine juices, syrups, or solutions.” 
j CONSUMPTION OF STIMULANTS AT HOSPITALS. 
! The consumption of stimulants at the Alfred and Mel- 
. bourne Hospitals is published monthly, with the names of 
j the physician ordering, the number of patients treated, and 
1 the kind of stimulant used. 
j In November 543 patients at the Melbourne hospital con- 
I Slimed 1940OZ. brandy; 3887oz. wine; 266ozs. gin; 94ozs. 
I whisky ; 26 bottles champagne ; 520 bottles of ale and porter, 
I and 1420 bottles of lemonade and soda water. Brandy to the 
amount of 81 3-5 pints was issued for iiharmaceutical pur- 
poses. 
S. W. GRIFFITH. 
Return for the V eek enjunct 26th iiay of DECEiruErv, 1885. 
Number of Inmates remaining in Asylum at 
date of previous Report 
Number since admitted . . 
Number returned from leave . . 
Number discharged 
Absconded 
Number dud 
Number absent on leave 
Number remaining at date hereof 
40'd 
4 
0 
413 
2 
1 
1 
7 
11 
402 
Admission durnirj the ireclc : 
Hy. Edwards, 65, draughtsman ; from Gvmpie, at Liverpool 
Benevolent Asylum, New South Wales. 
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sumed 1369oz. brandy ; 274ozs. gin; Slozs. wine; 228 pints of 
ale, and 726 bottles of soda water. 
It may be interesting to compare this with the cost in some 
hospitals at home, given in a letter to The British Medical 
Journal, of November 14, by George Sturges: — “It would 
appear, from an examination of more than forty recent hospital 
reports that there is a great diversity in the expenditure of 
the different hospitals on alcoholic li(iuors. Thus : 
Per Patient, 
s. d. 
At the Brompton Hospital intoxicating drink costs 10 7 
,, Royal Free Hospital ,, ,, .53 
,, 8 t. George’s Hospital ,, ,, 5 1 
,, German Hospital ,, ,, 4 5 
,, 8 t. Mary’s Hospital ,, ,, 44 
,, Middlesex Hospital ,, ,, 43 
,, London Hospital ,, 31 
This diversity in the practice of the different hospitals may be 
taken as a loud call to the medical profession to make inquiry, 
and ascertain what is conducive to the welfare of their patients 
and the public good; the more especially as at certain pro- 
