1.—Alphabetical List of Agricultural Chemistry, 558 XIII. The Monkey Tribe, i. 5 XV. XVI. XVII. XX. XXI. XXII. The Monkey Tribe, The Monkey Tribe, iv. 171 The Monkey Tribe, v. 223 Answers to Questions in 'The Annual Conference of Elementary Make Hay while the Sun Teachers at Sheffield, 147 V. The Squirrel, 237 Annual Drill Competition of Board VI. Archbishop of York on Industrial Schools and Reformatories, 35 Birmingham District Union, 36 Congo Exploration, 405 Correspondence, 554 Crystal Palace School of Art, 348 Lightly Go, 283, VII. Going a Blackberrying, Prevention of River Pollution, 404 Prussic Acid in the Animal King. Publications Received, 40, 98, 143, Query Column, 41, 99, 157, 197, 253, Revival of Skating Rinks, 404 School Board for London and the Medical Association. School Hygiene, 1 On Wounds, 66 On Wounds, cont., 113 Engagements, 33, 98 Extinction of Fire, 458 I. Fertility of Oats, 404 II. Fish Disease in the River Vistula, III. 403 Fröbel Centenary, 153 IV. General Association of Church School V. Managers and Teachers, 261 VI. Gossip, 36, 203, 251, 306, 412. 269 Hackney District Association of VII. 'Health at School' Essay Competi- tion Award, 299. By Richard Balchin, 13, 72, 121, 540 How I teach Swimming. By Thos. Chilblains and Chaps, Diseases of the Skin, 270 Baker, Ella, 513 Bisson, Capt. D. de C., 510 Bowen, H. Courthope, M.A., 263 Bray, Mrs. C., 513 Browne, W. J., M.A., 31 Casey, J., LL.D., F.R.S., 456 Cowley, Rev. H. F. W., B.A, 212 Fenn, Geo. Manville, 511 Mac Michael, Rev. J. F., B.A., 263 Mason, Charlotte M., 154 Morell, J. D., LL.D., 310 Morris, Rev. R., M.A., LL.D., 516 Paterson, M., B.A., 156, 560 Pearce, C., 511 Phillips, E. C., 564 Powell, F. York, M.A., 361 Prantl, Dr. K., 30 Prince, J. J., 106 Read, Mrs. C. A., 511 Richardson, -., 514 Ryland, F., M.A, 359 Scott, Sir Walter, 564 Sheppard, Rev. J. G., D.C.L., 262, Horace's Epodes, etc., 564 Latin Course, 362 Leonard's Latin Grammar, 263 Matriculation Classics; Questions and Answers, 360 Ovid, Selections from, 515 Virgil's Eneid, I., 515 Virgil's Æneid, XI., 457 Virgil's Eneid, I. and II., 263 Virgil's Georgics, I. and II., 262 Virgil's Poems, Translated by Conington, 195 LITERATURE. Chaucer's Squiere's Tale, 457 German Literature, Student's Manual of, 560 Lord Clive, Macaulay's Essay on, 457 Shakespeare's King Henry V., 457 Art Instruction in England, 361 Epoch of Reform, Justin McCarthy's, 513 Baby's Museum, 564 Ball of Fortune, The, 511 Cat and Dog Stories, as told to one another, 560 Children's World, 456 Dolly Dear, 564 Facing Death, 511 Fairy Tales for Children, 563 Four Little Mischiefs, 561 Heroes of Maritime Discovery, 562 In the Temperate Regions, 514 Landseer Series of Picture-Books, 563 Lamb's Tales from Shakspere, 262 510 Our Dolly, 511 Plutarch's Lives for Everyday Stories of Old Renown, 561 shall's, 402 First Historical Reader (Isbister), Stories for Children from English History, 402 Stories from English History, (Nelson), 196 RELIGIOUS Knowledge. Anecdotal Illustrations of the Gospel according to St. Mark, 263 Child's Daily Help for the Christian Year, 458 Elements of Morality, 512 First Readings; Christian Doctrine, 514 Gospel of St. John (Murby), 195 Junior and Senior Tablet Book, 563 Odom's Gospel Types and Shadows of the Old Testament, 196 Parallel New Testament, 515 Second Epistle to the Corinthians, Linton's, 310 SCIENCE. Animal Physiology, Willis's, 455 Besant's Light, Heat, and Sound, 32 D'Anvers's Science Ladders: Forms of Land and Water, 107 General Biology, Aveling's, 455 Health Lectures for the People, 512 History of a Lump of Coal, 454 Mensuration for Beginners, 359 School Course of Heat, Larden's, 403 Science in a Nutshell, 311 Spanton's Preparations for Science Teaching, 156 Talks about Science, Dunman's, 362 The Food we Eat: Why we Eat it, and Whence it Conies, 401 Wormell's Magnetism and Electricity, 105, 193 WRITING. 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'Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, School Surgery. MARCH, 1882. BY ALFRED CARPENTER, M.D. (Lond.), C.S.S. (CAMB.), Vice-President of the British Medical Association. IT I. T is proposed to consider this part of our subject under three heads, all of which are connected with a departure from a proper condition of health, and may be common to all schools, and which require immediate attention on the part of those in authority. These departures may be general or particular, may apply to considerable numbers of children at one and the same time, or be personal only to one or more as being caused by one's own or another person's act. The measures to be taken by the teachers have reference to the prevention of disease or accident, as well as to the removal of their incidence when they do arise. They separate themselves into School Hygiene, or measures connected with the subject of infectious disease; School Surgery; and a less important division, which includes simple instruction upon Medicine, and is connected more directly with disturbances of health, especially those which are trivial and do not require medical attendance. School Hygiene includes a consideration of the measures requisite to prevent the admission of infectious diseases, to prevent their extension when they are unfortunately admitted, and to remove them from the precincts of the school as soon as possible after admission, so as to avoid the necessity for closing the establishment altogether. Under the head of School Surgery we shall consider the accidents which more properly belong to school life; and also the emergencies which are of frequent occurrence, and which render a knowledge of the principles which ought to be followed absolutely necessary on the part of those in authority, so that no mischief may be done before the surgeon, who may have been summoned, can possibly appear upon the scene; and lastly, we have the simple principles of household medicine, which should be known to all men and women who are heads of establishments, and especially to those who have a number of young people under their care. Nimia cura medici, which some people are supposed to require, and which uneducated people too often indulge in, does more harm than good. A knowledge VOL. II. PRICE 6D. without prudence, a zeal without discretion, and a theory without practice, are all bad; but they are especially so in the arena which belongs to the properly educated medical man. It follows, therefore, that nothing is put forward here which is intended to supersede the necessity for medical advice when it can be obtained, but only to provide for emergencies when no doctor is at hand, and when attention is wanted immediately, or in which it is important that the school authority should know how to act when such emergency does arise, and when action must be immediate. These rules are based upon those which every properly educated medical practitioner will be sure to follow upon his arrival on the scene, and there will be so much time gained, either in preventing mischief from accident, in arresting the progress of infectious disorder by taking time by the forelock, and preventing altogether the necessity for further medical aid, "Prevention being better than cure" on all hands, and no body of men recognise this more fully than the honest-hearted medical practitioner. School Hygiene.-The conduct of masters regarding infectious diseases requires more consideration than it gets at present. The difficulties which are daily arising in all parts of the country from a neglect of proper rule is such as justifies early attention to this part of our subject. No child should be allowed to come to school who is personally suffering from any of the ordinary infectious diseases. They are Measles, Scarlet fever (or scarlatina, as it is often called), Diphtheria, Whooping-cough, Mumps, Small-pox, Chicken-pox (or glass-pox), Scald head (or ringworm), Purulent Ophthalmia, and Scabies (or itch). If the school be a boarding-school, any child suffering from any of these diseases must be at once removed from the school, and all those who have been in contact with that particular child for the preceding twenty-four hours should be put in quarantine-that is, to be kept separated from the rest of the school. No person should be allowed to return to school after recovery from any of the above diseases until after they have been thoroughly disinfected, and after the lapse of a certain period, which should date from the termination of the fever stage. This disinfection must include a proper bathing of the whole body in some disinfecting fluid, such as a weak solution of Condy, or A |