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MARGATE, ROYAL SEA BATHING HOSPITAL FOR SURGICAL TUBER- CULOSIS.-Junior Resident Surgeon. Salary £80 per annum, with board and residence.. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT MENTAL HOSPITALS (LUNATIC ASYLUMS). and -Senior Assistant Medical Officer. Salary £300. Also Three Junior Notes, Short Comments, Answers Assistant Medical Officers, all unmarried. Salary £250, with board, lodging, and washing in each case. to NORWICH, NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL. - Assistant House Correspondents. Surgeon for six months. Salary .820, with board, lodging, and washing. GARDEN SUBURBS. NOTTINGHAM CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon (female) for six THERE was a time, not so long ago, when in regard to the mental months. at rate of £100 with Salary per annum, apartments, board, and moral make of man heredity was accorded nearly the and washing. up NOTTINGHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon. Salary whole of the responsibility, and the powerful forces of environment £100, with board. lodging, and washing. Also Locum Tenens. were almost entirely neglected. The pendulum has recently Salary at rate of E3 3s. per week, with board. lodging, and washing. been swinging in the opposite direction, and environment has NOTTINGHAM WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY.-Assistant Resident Medical come into its own, if not to more than its own, as a prime Officer, unmarried. Salary .8130 per annum, with apartments, board. washing, and attendance. factor. But if mental and moral environment are such potent PEMBROKESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL.-County Medical Officer of Health. influences, as undoubtedly they are, it is important also to pay close Salary E400 per annum. attention to the material environment. Some little time ago this fact PORTSMOUTH, ROYAL PORTSMOUTH HOSPITAL.-House for six Physician was recognised so far as the labouring classes are concerned, and months. Salary E75 per annum, with board. &c. laudable efforts have been and are still to PRINCE OF WALES’S GENERAL HOSPITAL, Tottenham, N.-Honorary many made, making, Physician or Surgeon to X Ray and Electrical Department. Also house them under conditions less nearly resembling those of Junior House Physician for six months. Salary £50 per annum, cattle. There is, however, a large and important class of the and with residence, board, laundry. for whom until but little has been done CHARLOTTE’S LYING-IN HOSPITAL, Marylebone-road, N.W.- population recently QUEEN -the the less Resident Medical Officer for four months. Salary at rate of E60 per clerk, financially prosperous business man, and annum, with board, residence, and washing. the members of those professions whose work, being of a QUEEN’S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Hackney-road, Bethnal Green, E.- more or less academic character, fails, save in very excep- House for six months. at rate of £80 annum, Surgeon Salary per tional instances, of a reward-viz., the with board, residence, and washing. proportionately adequate ROYAL EAR HOSPITAL. Dean-street, Soho, W.-House Surgeon. Salary school teacher, the journalist, the literary man, &. But there are E40 per annum. Also Assistant Surgeon. signs of an awakening in this respect. The "garden city" or ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. Gray’s Inn-road, W.C.-Assistant Surgeon. "garden suburb" idea aims to supersede the monotonous and ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL EYE (MOORFIELDS HOSPITAL), environment of rows of dull " void City-road, E.C.-Senior House Surgeon, Second House Surgeon, depressing long deadly villas," of and Third House Surgeon for eight months. Salary, Senior House any shred of beauty or individuality, by settlements of individualised Surgeon at rate of £100 per annum, Second House Surgeon at houses separated from one another by garden spaces, and lining of and Third at rate of £50 rate B75 per annum, House Surgeon per winding walks and leafy ways rather than on tiring streets running annum, all with board and residence. Also Two Refraction Assist- straight and The Hampstead Garden Suburb is a ants. Salary at rate of B25 per annum, with lunch. foursquare. ST. MARY’S W.-Resident Assistant Anaesthetist for notable example; a more recent one still in earliest infancy is the . HOSPITAL. London, six months. Salary at rate of £100 per annum, with board and Romford Garden Suburb in Essex. Barely 12 miles from the heart of residence. London, with an excellent train service and a new and expressly ST. THOMAS’S of HOSPITAL.-Physician-in-Charge Out-patients. constructed station of its own, we find a estate on the site SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.-Junior House Surgeon large for six months. Salary R80 per annum, with board, residence, and of Gidea Park, which has been a real park for several hundred allowance for laundress. years, and whose historic house, Gidea Hall, still stands ROYAL AND SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTH HANTS SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL.- in its midst, to be utilised by and by for some public Junior House for six months. £60 annum, Surgeon Salary per service to the new the centre of the with rooms, board, and washing. community. Through STROUD GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary E100 per annum, estate extend the Romford golf links. Open and yet fully wooded, with board, lodging. and washing. with charming landscapes in every direction, no more beautiful site SWANSEA GENERAL AND EYE HOSPITAL.-House Physician for six could have been chosen. And the National Housing and Town months. Salary B75 per annum, with board, washing, and attendance. Planning Council is proceeding along wise lines. Through the TAUNTON, SOMERSET AND BATH ASYLUM, Cotford.-Assistant Medical generosity of Sir Herbert Raphael, Bart., M.P., who has pro- Officer, unmarried. Salary £140 per annum, with apartments, vided valuable prizes for a competition among architects and &e. board, washing, attendance, landscape gardeners as to the best types of house and the best TAUNTON, TAUNTON AND SOMERSET HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary utilisation of the first talent for the construction of such a E120 per annum, with board, lodging, and laundry. the site, WAKEFIELD GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Junior House Surgeon, unmarried. suburb and of such residences of various classes therein as shall Salary 2100 per annum, with board. lodging, and washing. combine beauty with utility is rendered available for choice. A WEST AFRICAN MEDICAL to this Service at STAFF.-Appointments hundred and forty houses and cottages of varying types are now being salary of E400 per annum. WEST HAM UNION INFIRMARY, Whipps Cross-road, Leytonstone. N.E. constructed from plans submitted by some 300 architects in the - Fourth Assistant Resident Medical Officer. Salary R120 per section adjoining Raphael Park, a recent gift of Sir Herbert Raphael annum. to Romford, and in June an exhibition of these will be WOLVERHAMPTON AND STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House held and an award of 1000 guineas in prizes will be declared. Surgeon for six months. Salary £80 per annum, with board, rooms, and laundry. Viewed as a whole, the enterprise is in every way praise- WOOLWICH TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY.-Medical Officer. Salary R250 worthy, but there is evidence on the part of some of the archi- per annum. tects of a tendency to subordinate utility and convenience to YORK DISPENSARY.-Two Resident Medical Officers, unmarried. Salary decorative effect in place of decorating to the best advantage .8140 per annum, with board, lodging, and attendance. that which is the essential feature on the score of utility. THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, London, S.W., gives A tasteful planning of the living rooms below can hardly com- notice of vacancies as Certifying Surgeons under the Factory and pensate for an extremely sloping roof, for instance, that makes Act at in the of at Workshop Fillongley, county Warwick; Fareham, the upstairs passages too low for an ordinary person to traverse in the county of Hants ; and at Caton, in the county of Lanes. THE Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whitehall, S.W., without bending the head. Moreover, we do not quite agree in the gives notice of a vacancy for a Medical Referee (Ophthalmic Cases) wisdom of placing all the shops at the extreme edge of the estate near under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1906, for County Court the station, so that those on the farther edge would have to cross the Circuits Nos. and the whole of South Wales. 24, 30, 31, covering entire estate to get to them. Surely a central square, which might be utilised also for open-air cafes after the continental style, with a central garden would be a more convenient disposition on the whole. It is not intended in this estate to insist on purchase of a house in and order to become a resident on the estate. Houses will be to let also Marriages, Deaths. -a more for of those for whose Births, satisfactory provision many especial benefit such a suburb is created. It is greatly to be regretted that BIRTHS. architects generally will not realise the necessity for cupboards DENYER.-On May 9th. at Albion-street. Hull, Yorkshire, the wife in every bedroom. Some of the houses so far erected at Gidea of Stanley E. Denyer, C.M.G., M.D., M.A. Cantab., F.R.C.S. Park are well supplied in this way ; others are deficient. of a son. Eng., The also for an abundance of as well air in rooms WATERFIELD.-On May 10th. at the residence of her father, Blyburgate necessity light as House, Beccles, Suffolk, the wife of Noel E. Waterfield, F.R.C.S., is sometimes overlooked. The Gidea Park estate marks, however, a of the Sudan Medical Service, of a son. great advance; and inasmuch as what has been so far done is merely experimental, there is yet time to avoid many pitfalls. DEATHS. A MEDICAL MUSICIAN. LIGERTWOOD.-On May 10th, at Tedworth-gardens, S.W., Thomas MEDICAL men who have leisure for the cultivation of the Muses are C.B., K.L.H.. M.D., R.A M.C., late and Ligertwood, Physician but few in number, though the names of certain poets, artists, and Surgeon to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, aged 81 years. MARTINEAU.-On May llth, Arthur Martineau, musicians who are on the medical roll will at once occur to most of M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., i Assistant Medical Officer at Bodmin County Asylum, aged 36 years: our readers. In Australia a medical man in active practice finds 1399

- time for musical composition. Mr. Oliver Penfold, the practitioner a consumptive person is very dangerous: it contains the germs in question, is the President of the Bendigo District Medical Society, of tuberculosis." "Don’t spit in public places tuberculosis and we have received from him a setting of his own composition of is spread by careless spitting." "Hold your hand up to your Herrick’s immortal song, " Gather ye Rosebuds while ye may." mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze, to prevent infectious Mr. Penfold treats the words as a dance song, or what an Elizabethan spittle from escaping in the air others breathe." Such posters as would have called a Balet, and we cannot help thinking that he had these are, of course, no new idea, for in the United States they have in his mind the metre of the old dance song " Here we go round the been scattered broadcast for some time past, and there are probably Mulberry Bush" when he repeated the " while ye may " of the first few American youths, even in remote country districts, who are nut line. But the music reflects both the gaiety and the undercurrent of familiar with even larger and more lurid specimens of antituberculosis sadness of the words, the latter being skilfully indicated by a literature. But this method of popular education has much to com- modulation into the relative minor of the dominant. mend it, and there is reason to believe that, even if it has been a little overdone in certain States, good fruit has already been born of THE FOUNDER OF "THE LANCET." it in America. The Trinidad posters seem better suited to catch and To the Editor of THE LANCET. hold the attention of ignorant persons than the laconic warning " Do not which decorates the vehicles of this With SIR,-The consensus of opinion at the time when the great Hounslow spit" public country. a few obvious alterations in we think well be flogging case was being publicly discussed was not wholly in favour of phrasing they might our health authorities in crowded as a small the action of Wakley. the famous coroner. In Thackeray’s "Book of adopted by city quarters but useful of the crusade tuberculosis. Snobs," Chapter XXII., on Radical Snobs, this passage will be found :- part against "Perhaps after all there is no better friend to Conservatism than your A WARNING. Radical snob...... For instance, I hate outrageous although military To the Editor of THE LANCET. flogging as the most brutal and odious relic we have left of the wicked the medium of I ask the medical torturing of old times, and have a private opinion that officers of crack SIR,-Through your paper may men of to refrain from either of the dragoon regiments are not of necessity the very wisest of human Kingston accepting following until the members of the and District Medical creatures, yet when I see Quackley the coroner giving himself sham appointments Kingston and the local division of the British Medical Association have airs of patriotism and attacking the men for the crime of the system (of Society their of them: Medical examiner of candidates which you and I are as much guilty as Colonel Whyte unless we do our expressed opinions (1) for the Hearts of Oak for this medical officer to a utmost to get it repealed), I feel myself led over to the brow-beaten Society district ; (2) Hearts of Oak medical club formed here. side, and inclined to take arms against Quackley ! " Thackeray was an recently I have held the of local medical examiner for 18 enormous and original man, but here his words probably are the simple appointment years, and am also medical officer of the local Hearts of Oak men’s club, which echo of the view held in military circles-viz., that, though an abuse has existed since 1874. But now a has arisen with the existed, its removal ought not to be loudly insisted upon by a Democrat; disagreement Hearts of Oak because with the aid of the Medical Defence rather it should await a slow death in accordance with official procedure. Society, in has Union I their . Such views still obtain. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, haveopposed agent, who, though living Richmond, May 15th, 1911. W. R. canvassed for members to form a new medical club in Kingston. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, A SWALLOWED DENTURE. Kingston-hill, May 15th, 1911. W. E. ST. L. FINNY. IT is difficult to believe that anyone could swallow three artificial teeth on a gold plate without knowing it and without being THE VALUE OF CARICATURE. aware of any resulting inconvenience. Mr. John Troutbeck, the SCENE : A cow in a French law court. The Judge, holding under the coroner for the South-Western District, confessed to surprise at muzzle of the cow a jug labelled "milk," says, "What is it now such an occurrence to a Battersea jury on Monday, May 15th. really?" addressing the animal. "I don’t know at all," replied the The teeth had been worn by the wife of a labourer who died poor puzzled cow. This amusing caricature is headed " Crushing unexpectedly on the night of Thursday, May llth, after suffering, Testimony," and is reproduced in Æsculape in the April issue from in the opinion of her friends and herself, from dropsy and the daring pages of L’Assiette au Beurre, the original being drawn a weak heart, complicated by a cough which the deceased had by Caran d’Ache. We understand that L’Assiette a1b Beurre, never attributed to chronic bronchitis. It was known that she wore three surely without a large body of readers, with its issue on "Les artificial teeth on a gold plate, but it was not suspected that she Laitiers" secured an "enorme retentissement." The article in had swallowed them. The two witnesses who were called-the Æsculape is entitled " Le Lait Meurtrier," and reproduces nine widower and a female neighbour-seemed surprised that any ques- amusing caricatures all taken from the same source. tions should be asked concerning the teeth by the coroner. Both IN the annotation on "Medical in these witnesses were in the position-now rare-of being unable to Letter Writing" THE LANCET of read, and had to repeat after the coroner’s officer the formula which May 6th the belief was expressed that Professor Oppenheim’s " Letters on had been translated into transforms a common statement into legal evidence. It may be that Psychotherapeutics" English. Messrs. Otto Schulze and of now inform us this to them there was something of the mysterious in artificial teeth. Co., Edinburgh, that is and that a The husband said that he did not know the teeth were not still in his the case, they have published translation by Dr. Alex. editor of the Review in a wife’s mouth. She had never said she had missed them, nor had she Bruce, of Neurology and Psychiatry, second at Is. net. made any complaint respecting them. Dr. R. S. Trevor, pathologist edition, at St. George’s Hospital, who made the necropsy, stated that he found the teeth in the gullet, at the upper end of which the edges of Senex inquires the name of a small inexpensive non-technical book on the gold plate had formed two ulcers. A marked abscess had been "the management of health at the middle period of life" which produced at the top of the gullet. The teeth did not fit the mouth could be read with advantage by a lady patient. because the natural tooth to which had been hooked on the left they T. L.-From the data supplied by our correspondent it is not possible had broken off and the tooth on the other side had The decayed. for us to say whether his patient’s condition was due to the boiler or in her or four woman probably swallowed the plate sleep three days to some other cause. before her death, if not The coroner said that it was difficult longer. A Subscriber.-This will be the case in the treatment of insured to understand how she could have swallowed it and not have been only people. anxious about it. Dr. Trevor, assenting, gave the cause of death as COMMUNICATIONS not noticed in our issue will receive attention suffocation from acute dropsy of the larynx, as the result of the present tn our next. tooth-plate having become embedded in the gullet. The coroner ___ said there was to that it was other than an nothing suggest A DIARY OF CONGRESSES. accident, and a verdict was returned accordingly. WE shall publish this diary from time to time that our readers may have under their hands the dates of the scientific Con- ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS POSTERS IN TRINIDAD. approaching gresses. It is unnecessary to issue the lists of all these functions WE have received from the Trinidad Association for the Prevention week by week, and we propose to make only such gatherings as will and Treatment of Tuberculosis a bundle of posters conspicuously occur in the immediate future the subject of regular announcement. printed in red ink, which are intended to be stuck up in public The following Congresses, Conferences, and Exhibitions areannouneed places throughout the island, for the instruction of the in- for April and May, 1911 :- habitants in the elementary principles of tuberculosis prevention. April-October.-Rome Exhibition (United Italy’s Jubilee). Each is about 2 ft. 6 in. and 2 ft. and poster long nearly broad, 29th-Oct. 26th (Turin).-International Exhibition. on it are printed in bold letters one or two simple maxims which even May 3rd-Oct. 31st (Glasgow).-Scottish Exhibition. a child or an unlettered to native could scarcely fail grasp. The " 6th-Oct. 31st (Dresden).-International Hygiene Exhibition. on the seven us legends posters sent to read as follows, and each is " 12th-Oct. 31st (London, Crystal Palace).-Festival of Empire headed by the words "Prevention of Tuberculosis": "Keep your Imperial Exhibition. (Profits to King Edward VII. Hospital Fund.) windows open: fresh air and kill the germs of tuberculosis." sunlight 13th-27th Exhibition. "Ventilate your house it is best to with the window " (London, Agricultural Hall).-Chemical freely: sleep 18th-June 3rd Tourna- "Tuberculosis " (London).-Royal Naval and Military open." (or conbumption) is infectious: the poison ment. is in the spit." " Don’t put pins in your mouth: they can easily " 18th-October 31st (London, Shepherd’s Bush).-Coronation carry infection from the sick to the healthy." " The spit of Exhibition. 1400

May 19th-Oct. 31st (London).-Earl’s Court Exhibition. POST-GRADUATE COLLEGE, West London Hospital, Hammersmith. " 23rd-25th (Atlantic City).-American Gynaecological Society. road, W. " 25th-27th (Boston).-American Dermatological Association. MONDAY.-10 A.M., Surgical Registrar: Demonstration of Cases in Wards. Dr. Simson: Diseases of Women. 12 noon: ,, 29th-31st (Philadelphia).-American Laryngological Associa- tion. Pathological Demonstration:-Dr. Bernstein. 2 r.x., Medical and Clinics. X Rays. 2.30 P.M., Mr. Dunn : 30th (The on Opium. Surgical Operations. Hague).-International Congress Diseases of the Lecture:—Mr. Bidwell: Treatment 30th-June lst Medical Asso- Eye. 6 P.M., " (Niagara Falls, Ont.)—Ontario after Abdominal ciation. Operations. TUESDAY.-10 A.M., Dr. Robinson: Gynæcological Operations. on 30th-June 2nd (London).-National Conference the Pre- 11.30 A.M.: Mr. Demonstration of Minor vention of Etherington-Smith: Destitution. Operations. 2 P.M., Medical and Surgical Clinics. X Rays. (Washington).-Conference on the Protection of Industrial Dr. Davis: Diseases of the Throat, Nose, and Bar. Property. (Question of False Marking of Goods.) 2.30Operations. P.M., Dr. Abraham: Diseases of the Skin. 5 P.M., Lecture:- June 5th-8th (Kolberg. Prussia).-Fifth International Congress of Dr. Low: Filariasis. ’Bhalasaotherapy. WEDNESDAY.-10 A.M., Dr. Saunders: Diseases of Children. Dr, Davis: of the and Ear. Dr. Simson: 7th-9th Medical Association. Operations Throat, Nose, (Montreal).-Canadian Demonstration. 2 Medical and 7th-10th of Gynaecological P.M., Surgical " (Munich).-Fourteenth Congress the German Clinics. X Rays. Operations. Mr. B. Harman: Diseases of the Gynecological Society. Eye. 2.30 P.M., Dr. Simson: Diseases of Women. 5 P.M., 12th and 13th " (Dresden).-Eighth Tuberculosis Physicians’ Lecture :-Dr. Beddard: Practical Medicine. (Lecture II.) Meeting. THURSDAY.-10 A.M., Surgical Registrar: Demonstration of Cases " 13th (Cork).-Annual Meeting of the Irish Medical Association. in Wards. 12.15 P.M., Lecture: Dr. G. Stewart: Practical Medi- cine. 2 P.M., Medical and Clinics. X " 19th-22nd (Denver, Col.)-Sixty-seventh Annual Meeting of Surgical Rays. Operations. the American Medico-Psychological Association. 2.30 P.M., Mr. Dunn: Diseases of the Eye. 3 P.M., Lecture :- Dr. R. H. Cole : General Paralysis (at Hanwell Asylum). " 26th and 27th (Los Angeles, Cal.).-Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the American Proctologic FRIDAY.-10 A.M., Dr. Robinson: Gynæcological Operations. 2 P.M., Society. Medical and Surgical Clinics. X Rays. Dr. Davis: " 27th-30th (Los Angeles, Cal.).-American Medical Association. Diseases of the Throat. Nose, and Ear. 2.30Operations. P.M., Dr. Abraham: " (Montreal).-American Climatological Society Meeting. Diseases of the Skin. 5 P.M., Lecture :-Dr. Davis : Some Points June, July, and August (Squirrels Heath, Romford).-Town Planning in Treatment of Middle Ear Disease. and Modern Rouse and Cottage Exhibition. SATURDAY.-10 A.M., Dr. Saunders : Diseases of Children. Medical Registrar: Demonstration of Cases in Wards. Dr. Davis : Operations of the Throat, Nose, and Ear. Mr. B. Harman; Diseases of the Eye. 2 P.M., Medical and Surgical Clinics. X Rays. Operations. Week. NORTH-EAST LONDON POST-GRADUATE COLLEGE, Prince of Medical Diary for the ensuing Wales’s General Hospital, Tottenham, N. SOCIETIES. MONDAY.-Clinics :-10 A.M., Surgical Out-patient (Mr. E. Gillespie), 2.30 P.M., Medical Out-patient (Dr. T. R. Whipham); Nose, ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 15, Cavendish-square, W. Throat, and Ear (Mr. H. W. Carson). (temporary address during building of new house). TUESDAY.-Clinic :-10 A.M., Medical Out-patient (Dr. A. G. Auld). 2.30 MONDAY. P.M., Operations. Clinics:-Surgical (Mr. Howell Evans); Gynecological (Dr. A. E. Giles). 3.30 P.M., Medical In-patient ODONTOLOGICAL SECTION (Hon. Secretaries-E. B. Dowsett, A. J. W. W. James) : at 8 P.M. (Dr. Whiting). WEDNESDAY.-Clinics :-2.30 P.M., Medical Out-patient (Dr. T. B. Annual Meeting.-Election of Officers and Council for Session Whipham); Skin (Dr. G. N. Meachen); Eye (Mr. R. P. Brooks). 1911-1912. 3 P.M., X Rays (Dr. A. H. Pirie). 4.30 P.M., Special Demonstra- Paper: tion :-Mr. R. P. Brooks: Selected Eye Cases. Dr. Sim Wallace : Some Observations and Experiments on THURSDAY.-2.30 P.M., Gynæcological Operations (Dr. A. E. Giles). Bread, with Special Reference to the Causation and Preven- Clinics:-Medical Out-patient (Dr. A. J. Whiting); Surgical tion of Dental Caries. (Mr. Carson). 3 P.M., Medical In-patient (Dr. G. P. Chappel). TUESDAY. 4.30 P.M., Lecture :-Mr. J. H. Evans: Renal and Ureteric Pain. MEDICAL SECTION (Hon. Secretaries-A. F. Voelcker, Sir John FRIDAY.-2.30 P.M., Operations. Clinics:-Medical Out-patient F. H. Broadbent, Bt.) : at 5.30 P.M. (Dr. A. G. Auld); Surgical (Mr. E. Gillespie); Eye (Mr. R. P. Brooks). 3 P.M., Medical (Dr. R. M. Leslie). Annual Meeting.-Election of Officers and Council for Session In-patient 1911-1912. LONDON SCHOOL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, Dreadnought Address by the President (Dr. Mitchell Bruce). Hospital, Greenwich. FRIDAY. MONDAY.-2 P.M., Operations. 2.15 P.M., Mr. Turner: Surgery. SECTION FOR THE STUDY OF DISEASE IN CHILDREN (Hon. 3.15 P.M., Sir Dyce Duckworth: Medicine. 4.30 P.M., Mr. R. Secretaries-J. P. Lockhart Mummery, T. R. Whipham, G. S. Lake: Ear and Throat. Out-patient Demonstrations :-10 A.M., Haynes) at 11, Chandos-street, W. : at 4.30 P.M. Surgical and Medical. 12 noon, Ear and Throat. Annual Meeting.-Election of Officers and Council for Session TUESDAY.—2 P.M., Operations. 2.15 P.M., Dr. R. Wells : Medicine. 1911-1912. 3.15 P.M., Mr. R. Carling: Surgery. 4.15 P.M., Sir M. Morris: Discussion Diseases of the Skin. Uut-patient Demonstrations.--10 A.M., Adjourned and 12 On Dr. Milne’s its and Surgical Medical. noon, Skin. 3.15 P.M., Special paper-Measles, Treatment Prevention Lecture :-Mr. Conditions of Bones. The Discussion will be opened by Dr. J. D. Rolleston, Carling: Inflammatory followed Dr. W. Dr. F. Dr. WEDNESDAY.-2 P.M., Operations. 2.15 P.M., Dr. F., Taylor: by Bezly Thorne, Foord-Caiger, Medicine. 3.30 Mr. John Biernacki, and Dr. W. J. Turner. P.M., Cargill: Ophthalmology. Out-patient Demonstrations :-10 A.M., and Medical. 11 A.M., Eye. will also shown Surgical Cases be Special Lecture: 5 P.M., Mr. I. Back: Malignant Disease of EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SECTION (Hon. Secretaries-W. H. Hamer, Breast. G. S. Buchanan) : at 8.30 P.M. THuRSDAY.-2 P.M., Operations. 2.15 P.M., Dr. G. Rankin: Medi- cine. 3.16 P.M., Sir W. Bennett: Surgery. 4.30 P.M., Radio- Annual Meeting.-Election of Officers and Council for Session , and 1911-1912. graphy. Out-patient Demonstrations:—10 A.M., Surgical Medical. 12 noon, Ear and Throat. Papers: FRIDAY.-2 P.M., Operations. 2.15 P.M., Dr. R. Bradford: Dr. A. Ransome, F.R.S.: The Scientific Uses of the Notification Medicine. 3.15 P.M., Mr. McGavin: Surgery. Out-patient of Disease. Demonstrations:—10 A.M., Surgical and Medical. 12 noon, Skin. Dr. F. E. Batten: The Epidemiology of Poliomyelitis. 3.15 P.M., Special Lecture :-Dr. R. Bradford: Gastric Ulcer. SATURDAY. SATURDAY.-2 P.M., Operations. Out-patient Demonstrations:- SECTION OF BALNEOLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY (Hon. Secretaries- 10 A.M., Surgical and Medical. 11 A.M., Eye. Alexander Manuel. F. A. de T. Mouillot). FOR oir Annual Provincial at Folkestone. HOSPITAL SICK CHILDREN (UNIVERSITY LONDON), Great Meeting Ormond-street, W.C. TuESDAY.-5.15 P.M., Demonatration:-Mr. 0. L. Addison: Diseases MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN of Joints-Tuberculosis Hip, Continued Course, Treatment AND IRELAND, 11, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W. (Special Post-Graduate Course.) TUESDAY.-3 P.M., Dr. N. Raw: The Treatment of Puerperal FRIDAY.-5.15 P.M., Demonstration :—Mr. O. L. Addison : Diseases Insanity with Antistreptococcic Serum.-Dr. M. E. Paul: of Joints-Tuberculous Knee, Elbow, Shoulder, &c. (Special Pathological and Prolonged Sleep. Cinematograph Demonstra- Post-Graduate Course.) tion of Some Scientific Films of General Medical Interest. NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYSED AND EPILEPTIC, LECTURES, ADDRESSES, DEMONSTRATIONS, &c. Queen-square, Bloomsbury, W.C. TUESDAY.-3.30 P.M., Clinical Lecture :-Dr. F. Batten: Epidemic MEDICAL GRADUATES’ COLLEGE AND POLYCLINIC, 22, Paralysis. Chenies-street. W.C. FRIDAY.-3.30 P.M., Clinical Lecture :—Dr. F. Buzzard. MoNDAY.-4 P.M., Dr. G. Little: Clinique (Skin). 6.15 P.M. I Lecture:—Mr. H. B. 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