Mr. Cadge, surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, has
made a statement before the British Medical Society, which meets this year in Norwich, that will scarcely add to his local•popu- larity. He affirms that the liability to' renal calculus in that county is enormously great, the proportion of sufferers from different forms of stone being 1 in 42,744 in Norfolk to 1 in 425,525 in Cheshire. In other words, this painful disease is ten times as frequent in one place as in the other. That fact, stated blankly, would diminish the value of every estate for sale in the county, were it not that Mr. Cadge points out that the propor- tion is not all due to the extreme_" hardness" of the water, but may be due also to the accumulated effect of hereditary predis- position. Even with that explanation, the fact, if it be one, does not sad to the attractiveness of a county hitherto considered among the pleasantest place's of residence in the island. Kent men are hardly more proud of their county than the Norfolk folk, and we should think Mr. Cadge would have to stand rather a heavy fire of pamphlets.
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