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patients have been dismissed from the hospital after recovery alcoholism was the chief factor, 27 in whom it was one of while one death has occurred, leaving 18 patients still in the the factors, and five in whom there was a family history of hospital. insanity. The report adds that in reality the connexion University of Aberdeen : preliminary Examinations in between insanity and alcoholism is even closer than these Medicine. figures indicate. Plaglle in The preliminary examinations in medicine commenced .at Algeria. Marischal last week. The candidates number The Governor-General of Algeria has telegraphed to the College 29, President of the Council of Ministers that the existence of with 33 last year. It is understood that the results compared in the Port of Oran has been The will be announced on Oct. 14th. plague officially declared. disease made its appearance in the lower part of the town Forres Leanchoil Case: Hospital Sheriff Principal’s Decision. and bacteriological examination leaves no doubt as to the Sheriff Wilson has now issued his interlocutor in the action diagnosis. Up to the present time there have been only two which was appealed to him at the instance of Wm. Kessack, deaths, the victims being a porter and the wile of the wharf coachman, Market-street, Forres, against Dr. J. Adam, Forres. superintendent. According to some accounts there have been The pursuer alleged that his wife, while a patient in the four patients and according to others there have been 11. The Leanchoil Hospital, was not properly treated and that after chief of the sanitary service of the Government has arrived her death at his house the coffin was opened and her body and has conferred with the municipality as to the measures examined without his consent. Sheriff Gray assoilzied the which should be taken. The tenants of the building defender and found him entitled to his expenses and Sheriff (immeitble) in which the cases occurred have been medically Wilson has confirmed his decision, with additional expenses. examined and all the houses of the district have been dis- The sheriff, in a note, says he is of opinion that the pursuer’s infected. Injections of serum have been given to some dock case has completely failed and that the defender, Dr. Adam, labourers who had been handling suspicious freight. ought to be assoilzied. He concurred not only in the result Measures for the destruction of rats have also been arrived at by the sheriff substitute, but also in the grounds commenced by the naval authorities and the chamber of of the decision, as these are stated and explained in his commerce. and and he it to add Oct. let. interlocutor note, thought unnecessary ______anything in supplement. Oct. 1st. ______VIENNA. IRELAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The Successor of Professor Politzer. Professor Victor Urbantschitsch, who is now in his Proposed New City Abattoir in Belfast. sixtieth year, has been appointed the successor of Professor WHILE your Special Sanitary Commissioner is pointing Politzer in the chair of otology in the University of Vienna out (THE LANCET, Sept. 21st and 28th) the weakness and will take over the work of the clinic on Oct. lst. The of Dublin as regards an abattoir, it is interesting to new professor has hitherto been director of the otological note that in Belfast an effort is being made to build one section of the Vienna Polyclinic, and his lectures, which on modern lines, the only difficulty being the cost. On were delivered in English as well as in German, were Jan. 17th, 1903, the market committee recommended the well attended by medical men from all countries. acceptance of a tender for a new structure at .22,700, but The studies of the new professor have been princi- as the fittings would cost E7000 the total expenditure pally directed towards the treatment of chronic catarrhal would have been equal to the amount raised by a loan. The disease of the ear and his books and monographs on committee refuses to recommend any scheme of extension of his specialty are very numerous. Professor Urbantschitsch the premises which would be costly to work and to maintain, has founded a special school in Vienna where many otologists and which it does not think would give satisfaction, and at have been trained and the increased opportunities afforded a meeting of the city council in committee on Sept. 27th it by the extensive material of the clinic in the general was decided to authorise the market committee to submit hospital will be advantageous to both teacher and students. alternative plans of modern accommodation at the present A farewell meeting was held in honour of Professor Politzer site, the total cost not to exceed £30,000. on his taking leave of the place where he had worked for over 30 All his former assistants, some of whom are now Belfast Health Commission. years. professors and privat-docenten, were present on this occasion. The Commissioners met in London this week to draw up The New their report, which it is expected will be ready this month. Winter Term. Oct. lst. The new winter term of the University of Vienna com- ______mences on Oct. lst. There is not much difference, as regards the number of lectures and the names of the lecturers, PARIS. between the present programme and that of last term. courses will be delivered in several OUR OWN Special English by pro- (FROM CORRESPONDENT.) fessors and lecturers. Among these there may be mentioned courses on internal diseases by Professor Kovacs, on ophthal- Explosion at the Hopital Tenon. mology by the assistants of the two ophthalmological, and assis- AN apparatus for warming dinner plates exploded recently clinics, on dermatology by the professor his tants, on and at the in Dr. Souligoux’s wards in the Dolbeau pavilion of the laryngology otology respective = and on and obstetrics at the clinics Tenon. The accident occurred at about 12 noon and clinics, gynaecology Hopital Schauta and Chrobak. The fee for most of these classes is created consternation among the patients. A piece of cast from .62 2s. to £4 4s., to the and duration iron weighing about a hundredweight, which formed the according subject of the course. As a rule, a course lasts from four to six upper part of the warmer, was thrown into the air, and plate weeks and the classes meet for one or two hours six times a in falling it demolished a wall. A female dresser partition week. As the number of medical men admitted to these was thrown a window the force of the against by explosion classes is limited to ten is The and she was severely scalded by an escape of steam. A early application necessary. classes are from three to four times the winter was also scalded on the neck. An inquiry into the repeated during porter term which lasts till Easter. In all these classes is- cause of the disaster is being made. English the language used- In addition to them the professors of Insanity and Alcoholism. the respective subjects and their assistants will deliver Some interesting particulars relative to the influence of lectures on neurology, pharmacology, pathology, surgery, alcohol in producing insanity are contained in a report fur- ophthalmology, diseases of children, bacteriology, and ana- nished to the prefect of the Marne by Dr. Sizaret, principal tomy, both normal and pathological. These lectures are open medical officer of the asylum at Reims. Among 504 male to any medical man on payment of the fee, which is usually inmates there were 58 in whose insanity alcoholism was the between 10s. 6d. and £1, and they are mostly delivered in chief factor, 57 in whom it was one of the factors, and five German. It is, however, possible to arrange for a special in whom there was a family history of alcoholism. Among course distinguished as " privatissimum," in which only one 725 female inmates there were 26 in whose insanity individual receives instruction ; the subject is generally a.