Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1879 — The Cancer Hospital, at Aurora, Ill. [ARTICLE]

The Cancer Hospital, at Aurora, Ill.

Dr. F. L. Pond’s hospital In this city, the largest institution in the United States, especially devoted to the treatment of this particular disease, is full ot patients from all over the Union. These patients, both male and female, are of all ages and'conditions, and afflicted with every imaginary form of this frightful disease in “all its stages—but a visit to the hospital, the other day, convinced us that all of these sufferershave implicitfaith In the skill of Dr. Pond, and those whose cases are most critical only regret that they had not availed themselves of his services before suffering years of worse than useless treatment In other hands. The most perfect system, good order and neatness Is apparent everywhere; the Doctor makes it a point to personally look after the care and comfort of each patient, and the smile of gratitude with which he is welcomed in every room is evidence that his efforts in their behalf are duly appreciated. Each succeeding visit to the Aurpra Uanccr Hospital more fully Impresses us In the belief that it is the most admirablyconducted institution of the kind in the country, and that its energetic and skillful proprietor is doing a wonderfully-successful work in the relief and cure of persons afflicted In this direction. The hospital is full of- patients—arrivals and departures being of almost dally occurrence. At the hospital, his powerful electrogalvanic battery is in excellent working order, and frequently proves of inestimable value in the removal of monster tumors without drawing blood, and the performance of other difficult and dangerous operations. Scrofula and skin diseases of all kinds are treated with success by the Dr. Send for information. — Beacon. In Saxony, where the cold water system is carried out in large dairies, an apparently effectual plan has been hit upon for preventing the milk “ turning” suddenly in tempestuous weather. A thin, iron-wire chain is passed through the milk-pans, the ends of which are kept constantly in the cold water. Dr. Fleischman, of Baden, testifies to the practicability of this method, for, he observes, authorities on the subject maintain that milk is less sensitive to the electricity of the air than to the temperature that surrounds it more immediately. The fact that milk kept in enameled or tinned vessels is less liable to sour in hot weather is thought to speak well for this new theory.

A weekly return of London pauperism shows that on the last day of the third week in January the total number of paupers was 87,391, of which 44,440 wete in Workhouses and 42,951 received outdoor relief. Compared with the corresponding weeks of 1878 and 1877, these figures show an increase of 3,787 and 2,482; but as compared with 1876, a decrease of 1,596. The number of indoor 'paupers was, however, 7,140 greater than in the corresponding week in 1876. The number of vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 592, of whom 455 were men, 119 women and eighteen children under sixteen. A barber’s apprentice is an under strapper.