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St. John's Hospital.
ST . JOHN'S HOSPITAL .
ON Monday morning the sixteenth annual meeting of tho friends and supporters of Sfc . John ' s Hospital , Leicester-square , an institution specially devoted to tho treatment of cutaneous diseases , was held at tho Westminster Palace Hotel , Victoria-street , tho Right Hon . TV . N . Massey , M . P ., in the chair . The Report of tho Committee of Management stated that energetic efforts wero being strenuously persevered in to add to tho efliceney of
tho hospital , but inasmuch as tho building was an old ono constantly needing repair , it was a source of unceasing anxiety and expense to the Committee , and on tho pressure for additional accommodation tho board-room had been converted into a ward and fitted up with six beds . Tho sanitary condition of tho institution had been greatly improved , and it now possessed the following accommodation , namely ,
threo waiting rooms for out-patients , medical officers consulting room , in which each patient is seen separately , a dispensary , bath-room , aud battery-room , and 17 beds . Tho bathing system has boon rendered as efficient as possible , for in addition to the vapour bath , constructed of slabs of enamelled slate , a now reclining bath has been provided , which is supplied with both hot and cold water . The Board hope soon , if
provided with the necessary funds , to largely increase this accommodation . During tho last threo years tho number of beds bad increased from 1 to 17 , tho number of now in-patients from 5 to GO , tho number of now out-patients from 1 , 412 , to 2 , 955 , tho number of out-p : itionts applying from 11 , 115 to 22 , 709 , and tho receipts from £ 369 to , 61 , 483 . Until last year the institution had not beeu recognised by tho managers
of tho Hospital Sunday Fund ; but a deputation of fcho governors having waited upon the Distribution Committee , they got awarded to the hospital the sum of £ 2 G Os 10 d , au award which had this year been increased to £ 51 lis 3 d , being an increase of £ 25 10 s ad . Tho Committee had from tho commencement co-operated in the collection of the Saturday fnud . Tho number of in-patients admitted to tho
wards last year was GO , as against 34 in tlio previous year . All the cases wero of a most serious nature , necessitating unremitting and watchful care , and had been of particular interest to tho medical world , from the malignity or rarity of tho diseases . Three bad terminated fatally . A coachmaker ' s labourer , affected with a fungoid cancer of tho skin ; a slaughterman attacked with glanders , contracted in the
exorcise of his avocation ; and tho wife of a soldier suffering from leprosy iu its most hideous form , making the second patient suffering from veritable leprosy that had died in the present year . Amongst the other serious cases might bo mentioned ono admitted by tho command of Hor Royal Highness tho Princess of Wales , tho Patron , aud another continued in tho wards at the instance of Henry Cecil Raikes ,
Esq ., M . P ., au earnest friend of tho hospital , and who for several years did such good work as treasurer of tlie charity . This patient had occupied a bed in the hospital for over six mouths . In tho out-patients' department 22 , ' J 69 attendances of patients had beeu registered in tho past ! year . With reference to theso statistics the Board noticed thafc whilst the total number of attendances at five other
special hospitals taken together amounted to but 23 , 020 , or about the same number as were treated at St . John ' s , the aggregate receipts of the live hospitals wero £ 5 , 755 in excess of tho hospital of St . John ' s , viz ., at tho live hospitals £ 7 , 238 , St . John ' s £ l , 4 S 3 . These hospitals had been taken afc random from the hist , return of the Hospital Saturday Fund . Tho institution of tho hospital had proved a boon to all
classes ot tho community , but especially so to tho class of domestic servants , who when afflicted with infectious skin diseases wero , as a rule , summarily dismissed from their situations , aud might , but for this hospital , become veritable outcasts . Tho efforts of tho Board tc increase tho utility of tho hospital had not been confined to providing in the institution relief for tho afflicted , but in thoir desire to help in
prosecuting both directly and indirectly tho alleviation of tbe sufferings of humanity attacked with skin diseases which wore in many instances of a most frightful character , they had thrown tho practice of tho hospital open for tho inspection and investigation of medical men of all nations who had a desire to study dermatology , aud many members of the profession had availed themselves of tho opportunity .
Iu furtherance of this object clinical lectures were delivered during the medical sessions by tho members of tho medical staff of the hospital on diseases of tho skin , to which medical men and medical students were admitted gratuitously . Tho Committee appealed to the subscribers of convalescent homes to place at their disposal for the use of patients cured at the hospital as many letters of recommendation
as they could spare , under tho assurance that all recommendations entrusted to them would be used with circumspection . The statement of liabilities showed a debt afc tho present time of £ 531 . This , however , would not occasion surprise when it was remembered how much the Board had had to do iu bringing the hospital up to its present state of efficiency . Tho Board , though disliking debt , saw
no necessity for alarm . Painstaking economy had been and wonld be practised ; and , as tho institution must continue to grow iu public favour , an endowment fund of goodwill and sympathy would be established , and no doubt tlie money to meet any pressing emergency would be subscribed . One of the sources of gratification during the past few nionths bad bnev tho intimation that the late Rev . Samuel Ashby
bequeathed the si . '" of about £ 21 , 000 to bo divided in equal proportions , on the death of his widow , amongst the principal charitable institutions of the metropolis ancl of Norfolk . St . John ' s Hospital was included in the list , and tho amount which it would receive was estimated to be about £ 900 . Ifc was earnestl y hoped that other philanthropists would generously remember the claims of St . John ' s Hospital when making their bequests . In the meantime thoy bad to express
their gratitndo to fcho members of the Nelson Dramatic Club for a donation of £ 50 13 s , the proceeds of a performance for the benefit of the hospital . Mr . F . Gould , in proposing the adoption of the Report , dwelt upon tbe importance of special hospitals in general , and of this in particular , calling particular attention to tho medical classes , whereby the experience gained by the hospital found its way into private practice .
St. John's Hospital.
Tho merits of tho institution wore also advocated by Mr . A . Gilbert , Mr . Edmond Beales , Dr . J . Mills aud several others aud the proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to tho chairman .
Freemasonry In The East.
FREEMASONRY IN THE EAST .
THE Times lias been favoured with the following extract from a letter written by : m Englishman of high position in Egypt : — "CAIRO , Sept . 8 . " You will remember , of course " , tho namo of Sheikh Jamfil ed Din , whoso violent articles against England wero translated by Dr . Badger . This man has been lato v delivering most revolutionar y lectures , and
has gotten together a number of disciples , in whom he haa instilled principles of atheism and communism . About a fortnight ago fcho Sheikh was arrested and sent off to Suez , whoro ho was placed on board a steamer bound for Jeddah . All his papers wero seized by tho police , aud a day or two afterwards a paragraph , communicated by tho Prefecture of Police , was published in . the native journals . This
paragraph alluded to tho exile of tho Shoikh , to tho revolutionary principles ho had taught , and to tho secret society ho had founded , ancl warned the Egyptians of tho peril incurred by following such a leader , & o . Jamal ed Din had been W . M . of our Lodge , and , in consequence of his mmiasonio conduct , wo bad applied fco tho Grand Lodge for his expulsion . But the native Masons wero filled with fear
and trembling on reading tho " communique , " and applied fco mo to make matters smooth for them . Nobody would take any stop . Thoy were all afraid of coming forward , aud desirous thafc their connection with Masonry should bo ignored aud even denied . I did not know tho exact light in which tho new Khedive would regard Masonry among tho natives , bufc hoping to bo able to convince his Highness ,
aud relying on his own good senso , I entered the arena as the champion of Oriental Masonry . " I obtained a private audience with the Khedive , congratulated him upon the wise stop ho had taken iu expelling Jamal od Din , bufc hoped ho would nob attribute to Masonry tho principles held by ono member of tho fraternity . Ho replied , ' No , on tho contrary , mon Boy , I know
all about it . Masonry is a society for doing good , and does not outer into religion or politics ; and as Jamal ed Din . would lecture ou t'ics ;' forbidden topics you expelled him from the Lodge , and for the samo reason I havo expelled him from Egypt . Ho was ouly hero ou snlfcraiico , having been already sentenced in Constantinople to expulsion from tho Ottoman dominions . You need not fear that I shall
confound his principles with thoso of Freemasonry . " I thanked his Highness , but added that , although wo European Masons know that wo could always justify our meetings , the natives had nofc tho same means of making thoir feelings known , aud it was ou their behalf I came to speak to him . His Highness replied that I might assure thom of his proteetiau so loiw ; as fcliav a . ' . tud as Masoua ;
but that any Egyptian , whether Mason or not , who sought to cause intrigues aud conspiracies would be punished . I then asked hia Highness for tho papers belonging to tho Lodge , which ho promised shonld lie restored to mo . "I subsequently drove to the Lodge nnd fonnd the "Concordia' holding ¦ i meeting , iu which u painful discussion was going on with regard to
this business , bub when I was announced I was admitted a-i a visitor with immense honours , and , communicating to them fcho substance of my conversation with the Khedive , I . " received the heart }* thanks and applause of the meeting . And I havo since received all the paper . ' belonging to tho Lodge . I had only attended one meeting , at which the Sheikh presided , after which there was a banquet , at which tho
health ol' tho Priuee of Wales was proposed . But the W . M . ( Shoikh Jamal ) refused to drink ifc , saying that all Princes , Kings , and Khedives wore tyrants . Whereupon I rose from the table , quitted the room , and wrote to the Lodge , and afterwards to tbo Graud Lodge , for his expulsion . " I havo succeeded him by unanimous acclamation . "
Roumanian Freemasons.
ROUMANIAN FREEMASONS .
A FREEMASON , writing from Bucharest , complains in the Berlin Monlagsblatt that tho newly-founded " Gross-Orient of llouniania " is nothing else than a political association . Until a short timo ago tho working lodges iu this laud wore subject to the jurisdiction of foreign superiors . But as soon as Roumania obtained her political independence the Roumanian Masons decided that they ought no longer to bo dependent noon foreigners . Hence thev founded their
owu Grand Orient of Roumauia , at whoso formation , ho observes , many serious faults wero committed , while he believes tho now incorporation has never yet received external acknowledgment . His real complaint , however , is against the spirit which mica iu tnese Masons—which is one of passionate hatred towards Germans and Jews . He says that many of the most violent articles in " profano journals "
against the Jews and the Germans aro the work of Roumanian Freemasons , and he particularly specifies the attack on tho great jurist , Dr . Uluntsch'i , and on tho "Alliance Israelite" iu the lloit „ iuuhi Libera . After citing other instances of anti-Jewish and anti-Gorman , diatribes from the pens of Roumanian Freemasons , which have appeared in " profane journals , " he concludes that '•tho Grand Orient of Roumania is nothing else bufc a secret political club , which , under
the cloak of Freemasonry , expends all its zeal in working up tho national feeling of the Roumanians to fever Leal , iu order to maintain tho agitation against tho emancipation of the Jews , although that is demanded by Article 44 of the Berlin Treaty . " The writer , who is evidently a Gormjiu , declares thafc tho opposition of the Roumanians to " the Jewish article" of the Treaty is not so much of a religious as of an economical nature , - and further , that they have a suspicion tiac whevever tho Jew enters the Gorman ia certain to follow . Globe .
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St. John's Hospital.
ST . JOHN'S HOSPITAL .
ON Monday morning the sixteenth annual meeting of tho friends and supporters of Sfc . John ' s Hospital , Leicester-square , an institution specially devoted to tho treatment of cutaneous diseases , was held at tho Westminster Palace Hotel , Victoria-street , tho Right Hon . TV . N . Massey , M . P ., in the chair . The Report of tho Committee of Management stated that energetic efforts wero being strenuously persevered in to add to tho efliceney of
tho hospital , but inasmuch as tho building was an old ono constantly needing repair , it was a source of unceasing anxiety and expense to the Committee , and on tho pressure for additional accommodation tho board-room had been converted into a ward and fitted up with six beds . Tho sanitary condition of tho institution had been greatly improved , and it now possessed the following accommodation , namely ,
threo waiting rooms for out-patients , medical officers consulting room , in which each patient is seen separately , a dispensary , bath-room , aud battery-room , and 17 beds . Tho bathing system has boon rendered as efficient as possible , for in addition to the vapour bath , constructed of slabs of enamelled slate , a now reclining bath has been provided , which is supplied with both hot and cold water . The Board hope soon , if
provided with the necessary funds , to largely increase this accommodation . During tho last threo years tho number of beds bad increased from 1 to 17 , tho number of now in-patients from 5 to GO , tho number of now out-patients from 1 , 412 , to 2 , 955 , tho number of out-p : itionts applying from 11 , 115 to 22 , 709 , and tho receipts from £ 369 to , 61 , 483 . Until last year the institution had not beeu recognised by tho managers
of tho Hospital Sunday Fund ; but a deputation of fcho governors having waited upon the Distribution Committee , they got awarded to the hospital the sum of £ 2 G Os 10 d , au award which had this year been increased to £ 51 lis 3 d , being an increase of £ 25 10 s ad . Tho Committee had from tho commencement co-operated in the collection of the Saturday fnud . Tho number of in-patients admitted to tho
wards last year was GO , as against 34 in tlio previous year . All the cases wero of a most serious nature , necessitating unremitting and watchful care , and had been of particular interest to tho medical world , from the malignity or rarity of tho diseases . Three bad terminated fatally . A coachmaker ' s labourer , affected with a fungoid cancer of tho skin ; a slaughterman attacked with glanders , contracted in the
exorcise of his avocation ; and tho wife of a soldier suffering from leprosy iu its most hideous form , making the second patient suffering from veritable leprosy that had died in the present year . Amongst the other serious cases might bo mentioned ono admitted by tho command of Hor Royal Highness tho Princess of Wales , tho Patron , aud another continued in tho wards at the instance of Henry Cecil Raikes ,
Esq ., M . P ., au earnest friend of tho hospital , and who for several years did such good work as treasurer of tlie charity . This patient had occupied a bed in the hospital for over six mouths . In tho out-patients' department 22 , ' J 69 attendances of patients had beeu registered in tho past ! year . With reference to theso statistics the Board noticed thafc whilst the total number of attendances at five other
special hospitals taken together amounted to but 23 , 020 , or about the same number as were treated at St . John ' s , the aggregate receipts of the live hospitals wero £ 5 , 755 in excess of tho hospital of St . John ' s , viz ., at tho live hospitals £ 7 , 238 , St . John ' s £ l , 4 S 3 . These hospitals had been taken afc random from the hist , return of the Hospital Saturday Fund . Tho institution of tho hospital had proved a boon to all
classes ot tho community , but especially so to tho class of domestic servants , who when afflicted with infectious skin diseases wero , as a rule , summarily dismissed from their situations , aud might , but for this hospital , become veritable outcasts . Tho efforts of tho Board tc increase tho utility of tho hospital had not been confined to providing in the institution relief for tho afflicted , but in thoir desire to help in
prosecuting both directly and indirectly tho alleviation of tbe sufferings of humanity attacked with skin diseases which wore in many instances of a most frightful character , they had thrown tho practice of tho hospital open for tho inspection and investigation of medical men of all nations who had a desire to study dermatology , aud many members of the profession had availed themselves of tho opportunity .
Iu furtherance of this object clinical lectures were delivered during the medical sessions by tho members of tho medical staff of the hospital on diseases of tho skin , to which medical men and medical students were admitted gratuitously . Tho Committee appealed to the subscribers of convalescent homes to place at their disposal for the use of patients cured at the hospital as many letters of recommendation
as they could spare , under tho assurance that all recommendations entrusted to them would be used with circumspection . The statement of liabilities showed a debt afc tho present time of £ 531 . This , however , would not occasion surprise when it was remembered how much the Board had had to do iu bringing the hospital up to its present state of efficiency . Tho Board , though disliking debt , saw
no necessity for alarm . Painstaking economy had been and wonld be practised ; and , as tho institution must continue to grow iu public favour , an endowment fund of goodwill and sympathy would be established , and no doubt tlie money to meet any pressing emergency would be subscribed . One of the sources of gratification during the past few nionths bad bnev tho intimation that the late Rev . Samuel Ashby
bequeathed the si . '" of about £ 21 , 000 to bo divided in equal proportions , on the death of his widow , amongst the principal charitable institutions of the metropolis ancl of Norfolk . St . John ' s Hospital was included in the list , and tho amount which it would receive was estimated to be about £ 900 . Ifc was earnestl y hoped that other philanthropists would generously remember the claims of St . John ' s Hospital when making their bequests . In the meantime thoy bad to express
their gratitndo to fcho members of the Nelson Dramatic Club for a donation of £ 50 13 s , the proceeds of a performance for the benefit of the hospital . Mr . F . Gould , in proposing the adoption of the Report , dwelt upon tbe importance of special hospitals in general , and of this in particular , calling particular attention to tho medical classes , whereby the experience gained by the hospital found its way into private practice .
St. John's Hospital.
Tho merits of tho institution wore also advocated by Mr . A . Gilbert , Mr . Edmond Beales , Dr . J . Mills aud several others aud the proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to tho chairman .
Freemasonry In The East.
FREEMASONRY IN THE EAST .
THE Times lias been favoured with the following extract from a letter written by : m Englishman of high position in Egypt : — "CAIRO , Sept . 8 . " You will remember , of course " , tho namo of Sheikh Jamfil ed Din , whoso violent articles against England wero translated by Dr . Badger . This man has been lato v delivering most revolutionar y lectures , and
has gotten together a number of disciples , in whom he haa instilled principles of atheism and communism . About a fortnight ago fcho Sheikh was arrested and sent off to Suez , whoro ho was placed on board a steamer bound for Jeddah . All his papers wero seized by tho police , aud a day or two afterwards a paragraph , communicated by tho Prefecture of Police , was published in . the native journals . This
paragraph alluded to tho exile of tho Shoikh , to tho revolutionary principles ho had taught , and to tho secret society ho had founded , ancl warned the Egyptians of tho peril incurred by following such a leader , & o . Jamal ed Din had been W . M . of our Lodge , and , in consequence of his mmiasonio conduct , wo bad applied fco tho Grand Lodge for his expulsion . But the native Masons wero filled with fear
and trembling on reading tho " communique , " and applied fco mo to make matters smooth for them . Nobody would take any stop . Thoy were all afraid of coming forward , aud desirous thafc their connection with Masonry should bo ignored aud even denied . I did not know tho exact light in which tho new Khedive would regard Masonry among tho natives , bufc hoping to bo able to convince his Highness ,
aud relying on his own good senso , I entered the arena as the champion of Oriental Masonry . " I obtained a private audience with the Khedive , congratulated him upon the wise stop ho had taken iu expelling Jamal od Din , bufc hoped ho would nob attribute to Masonry tho principles held by ono member of tho fraternity . Ho replied , ' No , on tho contrary , mon Boy , I know
all about it . Masonry is a society for doing good , and does not outer into religion or politics ; and as Jamal ed Din . would lecture ou t'ics ;' forbidden topics you expelled him from the Lodge , and for the samo reason I havo expelled him from Egypt . Ho was ouly hero ou snlfcraiico , having been already sentenced in Constantinople to expulsion from tho Ottoman dominions . You need not fear that I shall
confound his principles with thoso of Freemasonry . " I thanked his Highness , but added that , although wo European Masons know that wo could always justify our meetings , the natives had nofc tho same means of making thoir feelings known , aud it was ou their behalf I came to speak to him . His Highness replied that I might assure thom of his proteetiau so loiw ; as fcliav a . ' . tud as Masoua ;
but that any Egyptian , whether Mason or not , who sought to cause intrigues aud conspiracies would be punished . I then asked hia Highness for tho papers belonging to tho Lodge , which ho promised shonld lie restored to mo . "I subsequently drove to the Lodge nnd fonnd the "Concordia' holding ¦ i meeting , iu which u painful discussion was going on with regard to
this business , bub when I was announced I was admitted a-i a visitor with immense honours , and , communicating to them fcho substance of my conversation with the Khedive , I . " received the heart }* thanks and applause of the meeting . And I havo since received all the paper . ' belonging to tho Lodge . I had only attended one meeting , at which the Sheikh presided , after which there was a banquet , at which tho
health ol' tho Priuee of Wales was proposed . But the W . M . ( Shoikh Jamal ) refused to drink ifc , saying that all Princes , Kings , and Khedives wore tyrants . Whereupon I rose from the table , quitted the room , and wrote to the Lodge , and afterwards to tbo Graud Lodge , for his expulsion . " I havo succeeded him by unanimous acclamation . "
Roumanian Freemasons.
ROUMANIAN FREEMASONS .
A FREEMASON , writing from Bucharest , complains in the Berlin Monlagsblatt that tho newly-founded " Gross-Orient of llouniania " is nothing else than a political association . Until a short timo ago tho working lodges iu this laud wore subject to the jurisdiction of foreign superiors . But as soon as Roumania obtained her political independence the Roumanian Masons decided that they ought no longer to bo dependent noon foreigners . Hence thev founded their
owu Grand Orient of Roumauia , at whoso formation , ho observes , many serious faults wero committed , while he believes tho now incorporation has never yet received external acknowledgment . His real complaint , however , is against the spirit which mica iu tnese Masons—which is one of passionate hatred towards Germans and Jews . He says that many of the most violent articles in " profano journals "
against the Jews and the Germans aro the work of Roumanian Freemasons , and he particularly specifies the attack on tho great jurist , Dr . Uluntsch'i , and on tho "Alliance Israelite" iu the lloit „ iuuhi Libera . After citing other instances of anti-Jewish and anti-Gorman , diatribes from the pens of Roumanian Freemasons , which have appeared in " profane journals , " he concludes that '•tho Grand Orient of Roumania is nothing else bufc a secret political club , which , under
the cloak of Freemasonry , expends all its zeal in working up tho national feeling of the Roumanians to fever Leal , iu order to maintain tho agitation against tho emancipation of the Jews , although that is demanded by Article 44 of the Berlin Treaty . " The writer , who is evidently a Gormjiu , declares thafc tho opposition of the Roumanians to " the Jewish article" of the Treaty is not so much of a religious as of an economical nature , - and further , that they have a suspicion tiac whevever tho Jew enters the Gorman ia certain to follow . Globe .