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health, however, soon broke down and after practising spectacles, a fact which was often the cause of injury to for some years in Ireland he settled to private practice their eyesight. He therefore gave out that he would supply in . He married in 1865 Agnes Letitia, youngest any applicant whom he considered deserving with a pair of daughter of the late William Robinson, LL.D., of Totten- spectacles, and in addition he personally saw the applicants ham, Middlesex, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law, J.P., and tested their sight. He was a firm supporter of the local and deputy-lieutenant of the county. He became a Fellow cottage hospital and dispensary, the former of which institu- of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society and served as tions was mainly founded by members of his family. a member of its council in 1894-95 ; he was also a member of the Clinical Society of London. Dr. Fitz-Patrick was, DEATHS OF EMIB’E1T FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN.-The however, far more than a talented physician. He was a deaths of the eminent men are ,,aLant in its highest sense and a linguist of high order, following foreign medical conversing in Italian, German, and French almost as announced :-Dr. Heinrich Laudahn, Director of the at the of 70 flnently as in his own language, while his attainments as Lindenburg Asylum, Cologne, age years.-Dr. the of a classical scholar were far above the average. More- Leopold Grossmann, doyen Hungarian ophthalmo- at the over, he could read modern Greek with as much ease and logists, age of 79 years.-Dr. Korsakoff, Professor of Mental Diseases in the of at the as English. He possessed to a remarkable extent University Moscow, age pleasure of F. the faculty, so essential to members of the profession, of 48 years.-Dr. Benjamin Leonhard, Professor of Gyna3- winning the confidence and attachment of his patients as cology and Children’s Diseases in the Baltimore Medical well as the love and esteem of countless private friends. College. Unselfish almost to a fault, his thoughtfulness for every- one and his generosity and kindness to all who required help were proverbial, and it may truly be said of him that his right hand never knew what his left hand did. His two MedicalNews. books, "An Autumn Cruise in the 2Egean. or Notes of a Voyage in a Sailing Yacht," and "A Transatlantic Holiday," proved him the owner of a facile and graceful pen. He was ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.- a brilliant conversationalist and a ’l’aconte1t’l’ with an abso- The following gentlemen have passed the First Professional lutelyiwonderful memory for reciting either prose or poetry. Examination for the Diploma of Fellow :- short he was a In man of varied attainments, a steadfast Joseph Ebenezer Adams, St. Thomas’s Hospital ; Robert Young and true friend, and a devoted husband. Aitkin, M.D. Glasg., Glasgow University; Kenneth Anderson, Guy’s Hospital ; Charles Todd Andrew, Aberdeen University; Austin Lewis Badcoëk and Eric Bayley, Charing-cross Hospital ; JULIUS M.D. M.R.C.P. LOND. Edward Augustine Bell, King’s College Hospital; Percy Stanley ALTHAUS, , Blaker, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., Calcutta Medical College THE death is announced of Dr. Julius Althaus in his and University College, London ; Harold Burrows, M.B. Lond., sixty- M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; John eighth year. He was born at Detmold, in , in 1833, Beuzeville Byles, M.B., B.C. Cantab., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond., Westminster John L.R.C.P. where his father was a Lutheran minister. At the of Hospital; Cameron, M.R.C.S. Eng., age Lond., M.B., Ch.B. Edin., Edinburgh University ; James 17 years young Althaus entered the University of Bonn, in- Alane Coupland, Yorkshire College, Leeds; Maurice A. M. to but before he devoted himself Fitzmaurice- Kelly, St. Mary’s Hospital; William Robert tending study classics, long Gibson, M.R.C.S. Eng., L R.C.P. Lond., and John Dawson to the subjects of medicine and natural philosophy. In the Hartley, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., St. Bartholomew’s and 1851 he commenced to medicine at the King’s College Hospitals ; Douglas Gray, Charing-cross Hospital ; year study University Edward Erskine Henderson, M.B., B.C. Cantab., Cambridge of Gottingen, and thence went to and Berlin, University, Guy’s, and King’s College Hospitals; Joseph Tre- at which last place he was selected by the great physiologist mayne Hicks, Guy’s Hospital; Somerville Hastings, Gerald Muller to accompany him on a voyage of research to Sicily. Stephen Hughes, and William Warwick James, L.D.S.Eng., taken the of M.D. at Berlin he went to Middlesex Hospital; Robert Jacques, University College, Liver- Having degree Paris, pool, and King’s College, London ; John Charles Grant Ledingham, Vienna, Prague, and London to perfect his studies. He finally B.Se. Aberd., Aberdeen University; William Archibald Logan, settled in London, becoming a Member of the Royal College M.B., Ch.B. New Zeal., M R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., New of in 1860. devoted himself to Zealand University, Dunedin, and King’s College, London ; Physicians Having mainly Harold Ashton Lyth, University College, London; James McClure, the study of the nervous system and to electrical treatment, M.B., C.M. Glasg., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., Glasgow he was for some time assistant to the late Dr. R. B. University; Arthur Ronald McLachlan, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Todd in In 1866 he founded the Lond., Guy’s Hospital ; Thomas Holmes Middleboro’, M.D. King’s College Hospital. M.R.C.S L.R.C.P. Toronto for and in Toronto, Eng., Lond., University, Hospital Epilepsy Paralysis Regent’s Park, Canada, and Middlesex Hospital; Harry Overy, Edinburgh and where he acted as physician for 28 years and to St. Andrews Universities ; John George Pardoe, M.B., C.M. Aberd., which in 1894 he was elected M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R. C. P. Lond., Aberdeen University and King’s unanimously consulting phy- John Herbert M.B. M.R.C.S. sician. He a voluminous of books College London; Parsons, Lond., was writer, chiefly upon Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., University College and Royal Infirmary, electrical treatment and diseases of the nervous system, Bristol, and University College, London; Carrick Hey Robertson, and his book upon ’’ Failure of Brain Power " reached a fifth and Robert Pugh Rowlands, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., Guy’s the circulation Hospital; Percy Wm. George Sargent, M.B., B. C. Cantab., edition, being largely among laymen. Apart M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond.. Cambridge University, and St. from purely professional knowledge he was a man of varied Thomas’s Hospital; Arthur Reginald Schofield and Hugh Barnard attainments and a good musician. He was a firm believer in Willoughby Smith, London Hospital ; William Edward James the value of and for a and last year while T uboy, Guy’s Hospital ; Herbert George Tymms, M.B., B.S. Melb., necessity holiday, L.R.C.P.Lond., Melbourne University, St. Bar- one in met with an to his knee M.R.C.S. Eng., enjoying Switzerland injury tholomew’s Hospital, and King’s College, London ; Sidney James which was the beginning of his fatal illness. Gout super- Wareham, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond., L.S.A.Lond., Charing- vened, followed and from which last cross Hospital; Noel Everard Waterfield and Herbert Victor by phlebitis peritonitis, St. Bartholomew’s John he succumbed. His death is mourned a Wenham, Hospital; Harry Watson, complication by M.R.C.S. Eng., and L.R.C.P. Lond., University College and Royal large circle of patients and friends. Infirmary, Liverpool, and King’s College, London; Moses Thomas Williams, London Hospital; Bertram Shera Wills, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., St. Thomas’s Hospital. W. T. RADFORD, M.D. T.C.D. Of the 113 gentlemen who presented themselves for this examination, 14 passed and 69 were referred. Ox May 19th there died at Sidmouth Dr. W. T. Radford at The following gentlemen having passed the r ecassary the patriarchal of 89 He was the son of age years. PeterI sxaminations and conformed to the by-laws and regulations, Radford, a well-known physician in the West of England atlave been admitted Fellows of the College in the order the beginning of the present century. Dr. Radford wasI )f their seniority as Members :- educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took the Thomas Richard Mulroney (Major I.M.S., Bengal), M.D. Malta, L.R.C.P. 3. S. and London, of M.D., and blessed with means he Edin., Bombay King’s College, degree being private date of Membership, Jan. 19th, 1880 ; Frederic Victor Milward, never practised his profession as a means of livelihood, M.B., B.C. Cantab., L.R.C.P. Lond., Cambridge University but devoted himself to science and art. He was one and St. Thomas’s Hospital, Member Feb. 7th, 1895; Hugh Mallin- of the earliest members of the Athenasum Club and son Rigby, M.B., B.S. Lond., L.R.C.P.Lond., London Hospital, Member Feb. John Shields M.B , B.Ch. Oxon., travelled a 7th, 1895 ; Fairbairn, great deal upon the continent, studying eccle- L.R.C.P. Lond., Oxford University and St. Thomas’s Hos- siastical architecture. He settled with his brother’s family pital, Member Nov. 14th, 1895; Louis Bathe Rawling, M.B., at Sidmount, near Sidmouth. Some 30 years ago it came to B C. Cantab., L.R.C.P. Lond., St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Member his that the and 4th, 1896; Stephen Frederick Lynch, L.R.C.P. Lond., knowledge poor, especially lace-workers, AugustCollege Hospital, Member Feb. llth, 1897; Malcolm Good- were constantly imposed upon by itinerant vendors of worth Dyson, L R.C.P. Lond., St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1764

Member May 13th, 1897; Donald John Armour, M.B. Toront(’’ NEWPORT WATERWORKS.-The total ex- M.R.O.P. M.C.P. & S. Unt., University of Toronto, Canada (MON.), Lond., the on the Wentwood and University College, London, Member July 8tb, 1897 L penditure by Newport Corporation William Douglas Harmer, M.B., B.C. Cantab, L.R.C.P. Lond,,; Waterworks up to the present has been 207,808. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Member August 2nd, 1898 Walter John Henry Hislop, M.B., C.M. Edin., L.R.C.P. Lond. , THE NEW INFIRMARY, WARRINGTON. - This St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Member August 2nd, 1898 ,j infirmary has been formally opened by Sir J. T. Hibbert, Herbert Sherwell Clogg, M.B.Lond., L.R.C.P.Lond., Charing Chairman of the Lancashire Council. It has cross Hospital, Member Nov. 10th, 1898 ; Lawrie Hugh McGavin:- County been L.R.C.P. Lond., Guy’s Hospital, Member Nov. 10th, 1898 ; Arthur erected by the Warrington Board of Guardians at an outlay Webb Jones, L.R.C.P.Lond., St. Thomas’s Hospital, Member of 30,000 and will 184 beds. Feb. 9th, 1899; Thomas Holmes Middlebro’, M.B. Toronto provide L.R.C.P. Lond., University of Toronto, Canada, and King’s College:: THE BECKENHAM AND PENGE MEDICAL SOCIETY. London, Member Nov. 2nd, 1899; and John Percy Lockhart -The fifth annual dinner of the Beckenham and Mummery, L.R.O.P. Lond., St. George’s Hospital, Membe Penge Nov. 2nd, 1899. r Medical Society took place on Thursday evening, May 31st, Of the 32 gentlemen who presented themselves for this examinatioiat Beckenham and was well attended by members and 15 passed and 17 were referred. guests. Among the latter were Dr. J. G. Glover (Direct on the Medical UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.-The r Representative General Council), Dr. following’ Handfield-Jones, and Mr. Arbuthnot Lane. Mr. Victor degrees were conferred at the Congregation on June 7tn :- Horsley sent a message regretting his inability to be Doctor of Medicine.-L. Falkener, M.A., King’s; A. H. Thompson, Dr. R. M. H. Vice-President of the M.A., W. J. M.A., Christ’s. present. Randell, Trinity ; Harris, the chair. Mr. Frank in Bachelor of Medicine.-N. J. McOaskie, B.A., and E. A. Wilson, B.A., Society, occupied Sturges, of Caius ; J. E. Linnell, B.A., of Selwyn. proposing the toast of "The General Medical Council," Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor o/ Surgery.-J. G. Taylor, B.A.,, of the work of the Council in terms P. E. spoke generally King’s; W. S. Branson, B.A., Trinity; C. Marriott, B.A.,’ of and claimed for his and for kindred Clare; E. Cox, B.A., and W. M. Willoughby, B.A., Caius ; H. G. praise, society Cooper, B.A., Emmanuel. associations the credit of having by their work impressed Bachelor of Surgery.-L. Falkener, M. A., King’s ; T. S. Taylor, B.A., upon the Council a clearer idea of what was expected W. L. King’s; Ascherson, non-collegiate. from them as the governing body and the mouthpiece of The Raymond Horton-Smith Prize for the best M.D. thesis the profession. That the Council were now alive to their of the year has been awarded to Mr. Alan Baldrey responsibility was shown by their energy and public spirit Green, M.A., M.B., B.C., of Downing College. His subject which in the last few years had become so increasingly was "Amyloid Disease."-Dr. G. H. F. Nuttall has been apparent. Alluding to the Midwives Bill Mr. Sturges said appointed University Lecturer in Bacteriology and Preventive that the Beckenham and Penge Medical Society were now of Medicine.-The election to the Knightbridge Professorship opinion that some legislation was necessary and even of Moral Philosophy, vacant by the resignation of Dr. Sidg- desirable, but they trusted to the Council to continue to wick, will be held on June 30th.-Mr. G. F. C. Searle of use all their influence against any Bill which went further Peterhouse has been appointed University Lecturer in than simply to replace the present midwife, a danger to Physics.-The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, M.P., will deliver life and society, by a class of well-trained women of good the inaugural lecture of the University extension summer character properly instructed as to where their duties began courses on August 2nd. and ended. Referring to the ’proposed conciliation board Mr. the that in such a the - THE MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL. - Miss Palmer Sturges expressed opinion way club could be overcome. He was of the Lovell has forwarded the sum of .6315 to the treasurers of difficulty proud action of his society on this question. had this hospital to endow a bed for the remainder of her life. Charity nothing to do with it. The more important friendly societies were PRESENTATION TO A MEDICAL MAN. - On wealthy and powerful organisations, and that they should June 3rd, in the waiting-room of the Great Western Railway- pay properly for medical attendance under proper regula- station, Frome (Somerset), the members of the railway tions was simply a matter of business into which senti- employes’ ambulance class were presented by Mrs. Chill ment had no right to enter. In coupling the toast with with badges and certificates of the St. John Ambulance the name of Dr. Glover Mr. Sturges said how completely Association. Mr. Edwin Albert Chill, M.D., C.M. Edin., they disapproved of the way in which the remnant of was presented with a framed photographic group of the class the Cannon-street meeting had treated their Direct Repre. as a mark of appreciation of his services as honorary sentative. They (the Beckenham and Penge Medical instructor. Society) had actively assisted in the promotion of that VACCINATION LAW.—At the last of the meeting because they disliked much in the present meeting Midwives Bill and believed that the should Board of Guardians it was that profession Lampeter (Wales) reported but the methods of the were the two- children of a medical in speak out, promoters youngest practitioner distasteful to them and in future should act them- were the father certifi- they by Lampeter unvaccinated, having given selves. He trusted that the vote of and con. cates under his own of the unfitness of his children sympathy signature fidence carried at a of the to be vaccinated on the that one was from unanimously large meeting ground suffering was some to Dr. Glover. In his "anasmia" " and the other from "neurasthenia." The society slight consolation ques- Dr. Glover thanked the on behalf of the tion arose whether certificates a medical man in reply society given by Council. He as to the for the of his own children would be sufficient if the quite agreed necessity respect certifier restriction of the functions of the midwife as were summoned for with the vaccination law distinguished non-compliance from the medical He insisted that and the had the medical to practitioner. especially guardians requested practitioner of the sort in the interest of the allow an medical man to examine the any legislation must, poor independent children, the of unlicensed but this had not been The lying-in woman, stop practice midwives, permitted. guardians eventually otherwise it would be valueless and should be resisted. decided to consult the Local Government Board the quite upon He was to know that the of a conciliation matter. glad proposal board had the approval of the society. The success or FREEMASONRY.—T/6 Rahere Lodge, No. 2546.- failure of the scheme rested very much with the British The installation meeting of the Rahere Lodge, No. 2546, was Medical Association. In conclusion, Dr. Glover thanked the held in the Great Hall of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital on society for their words of personal kindness and support. Tuesday, June 12th. Bro. J. H. Drysdale, M.D., was The Rev. Henry Arnott, F.R.C.S., rector of Beckenham, in elected a joining member. Bro. the Rev. Sir Borradaile proposing the toast of "The Beckenham and Penge Medical Savory, Bart., and Bro. Cross were re-elected members of Society" spoke of the value of such societies in increasing the standing committee, and Bro. A. W. Izard was elected a professional knowledge and promoting fellow-feeling and a member of this committee. Bro. Reece, the W.M., installed kindly spirit one to another, but he urged the society to his successor, Bro. Walter Gripper, P.P.G.D. Surrey, follow the lines of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical as W.M. for the ensuing year. A past-master’s jewel was Society and the Pathological Society of London, and to awarded to Bro. Reece, and Bro. Gripper, in the name of the leave medico-political questions to be dealt with by the Lodge, presented Bro. D’Arcy Power with the jewel of a General Medical Council and the British Medical Associa- P.G.D. in recognition of his services to the Lodge in the tion. Dr. Randell, in his reply for the society, maintained capacity of secretary and as a token of their appreciation on that it was part of their duty to take an active interest in his appointment to the office of a Junior Grand Deacon. all public questions vital to the profession, that knowledge The report of the Audit Committee was received and adopted. was gained and opinion formed by debate, and that those in The brethren and their guests to the number of 90 after- authority could act with far greater force if they knew that wards dined together at the Restaurant Frascati. the voice of the profession was with them. 1765

THE NEW WORKHOUSES AT LADY WELL, while it lowered vital function, even of the yeast which pro- favoured and accelerated The LEWISHAM. - These new buildings, erected by the duced it, decomposition. St. Olave’s Board of Guardians to provide accommodation cumulative effect of small "moderate" doses was proved by the of life assurance offices and for the aged and infirm poor of Lewisham, will be opened experience friendly societies, the difference in favour of the abstainers much more by the Prince and Princess of Wales on July 12th. being marked after the age of 60 years, when the degenerations A GIFT TO BOURNEMOUTH.—Mr. Robert B. caused by alcohol had had time to take place. Diagrams pre- Scarlett, proprietor of the Shelley estates, on June 5th pre- pared by Dr. Legrain were shown indicating how the in- sented to the Mayor, in the presence of a large assembly of creasing consumption of alcohol in France and Belgium was the inhabitants, as a gift to the borough in perpetuity, the accompanied by the increase of crime, &c., and the pro- new pleasure grounds on the cliff front. portion of conscripts rejected, these diminishing in Sweden and where the amount of alcohol consumed was COST OF VACCINATION.-At the last of Norway, meeting lessening. There was a large attendance at this demonstra- the Barnstaple (Devon) Board of Guardians it was reported tion. that there had been 769 cases of successful vaccination during 1899, against 559 in 1898, the cost for 1899 being NATIONAL SANATORIUM FOR CONSUMPTION, £434, and that for the previous year amounting to .6122.— BOURNEMOUTH.-The annual general meeting of governors At the last meeting of the Merthyr Tydvil Board of Guardians of this institution was held at the Westminster Palace one of the members said that comparing the year 1898 with Hotel on June 13th. In the unavoidable absence of 1899 the fees of the public vaccinators in the union had the Earl of Eldon (the President), Mr. Arthur F. advanced from .E285 to 905, and the fees of the vaccination Jeffreys, M.P., occupied the chair. It was resolved officers from 101 to 180. It was decided to petition the that the report and statement of accounts for the Local Government Board to amend the Vaccination Order year 1899, as submitted, should be adopted and printed. with a view to the reduction of the fees.-At the last meet- Sir Edward H. Hulse, Bart., the Hon. T. A. Brassey, ing of the Neath (South Wales) Board of Guardians a and Mr. D. H. W. Robson-Burrows were appointed trustees. letter was read from the Local Government Board in The report showed that there was a debt of .f:655 for the reference to the suggestion of the guardians for a building of a new sanitary wing at a cost of .f: 1000, and that reduction of the fees of the public vaccinators. The Local the ordinary annual expenses had been increased to the Government Board stated that it was intended at present not extent of about .E200, due mainly to the expenditure requisite to reduce these fees, as under the new system the duties of for efficiently carrying out the open-air treatment, and that public vaccinators had become so arduous. this further sum would be required to meet the expenses of the present year. With the concurrence of the President, THE LONDON AND COUNTIES MEDICAL PROTEC- and of the Earl of Mount Edgcombe and Lord Wimborne, the T10X LIMITED.—The of this SOCIETY, monthly meeting vice-patrons, it was resolved that a special appeal should,be society was held on May 29th, at 12, New-court, issued to the general public for donations and subscriptions. Lincoln’s Inn. The report of the Charity Commis- sioners in reference to the Leek Cottage Memorial Hospital, concerning which complaint had been made by the society on behalf of one of its members, was laid before the council, several alleged irregularities being dealt with therein. The council authorised the formation of phmis. a new division of the society for the province of and the list of Dr. Alexander SMCC6M/M! applicants for Vacancie8, Secretaries oj Public Institutions, Ulster, approved officials, and other8 possessing information suitable for thi8 column, are Dempsey of Belfast being the first president and Dr. S. W. invited to forward it to THE LANCET Office, directed to the Sub- Allworthy the secretary. Steps were reported to have been Editor, not later than 9 o’clock on the Thursday morning of each next taken for the formation of a Yorkshire division. The secre- week, for publication in the number. tary reported that the General Medical Council had decided to erase from the Dental Register the name of a dentist who ALLEN, V. F., L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.Edin., L.F.P.S. Glasg., has been the with this appointed Medical Officer for the Pentney Sanitary District of the had been charged by society advertising, being Freebridge Lynn Union. the first instance in which the General Medical Council ANDERSON, W.. M.B., C.M. Edin., has been appointed a Public had so exercised its powers. 166 new members had Vaccinator for the District of Wairau, New Zealand. the since the annual BELL, H. T. S., F.R.C.S. Eng., has been appointed Health Officer at joined society general meeting Wallungarra, Queensland. in April. A satisfactory financial report was submitted. BINNEY, E. H., M.B., Ch. 31. Syd., has been appointed Honorary Surgeon to the Children’s Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, vice W. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL Chisholm, resigned. TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION.-The annual of this BOWKER, C. S., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., has been appointed Govern- meeting ment Medical Officer and Vaccinator at Dungog, New South Wales. association was held on June 12th at the Examina- BUCHANAN, P., M.B., C.M. Glasg., has been re-appointed Medical Officer tion Hall, Victoria Embankment, London, after a recep- by the West Dean Rural District Council. tion by the President (Professor Sims Woodhead) and CARR, MICHAEL, L.K.Q.C.P., L.R.C.S. Irel., has been appointed Officer of medical and scientific to the World’s of Health for the Shire of Wooravl, Victoria, Australia. council delegates CODD, A. F. G., M.B. Durh., F.R.C.S. Eng., has been appointed Temperance Congress which was being held in the same Certifying Surgeon under the Factory Acts for the Bromley The annual report was read the honorary District, comprising Bromley Urban District and the Civil Parishes building. by of Dr. J. J. and showed an increase Keston, Cudham, Downe, Farnborough, Chelsfield, Knockholt, secretary, Ridge, Hayes, and West Wickham in Bromley Rursl District. both of members and student associates to 487 and COURTENAY, K. J., L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., L F.P.S. Glasg., has been 515 respectively. The report expressed the hope that appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Wareham and Purbtck Rural as it had been demonstrated that men could District, vice D. Lys, resigned. conclusively CROSSFIELD ARTHUR KYFFIN, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Edin., has been do harder and more continuous work without than appointed Public Vaecinator for Dartmouth, Devon. with alcohol, the rum ration should be abolished and the EADON, S. B., M.D., Ch.M.Aberd., has been appointed Officer of canteen purged from intoxicating drinks. It was announced Health for the Shire of Karkarooe, Victoria, Australia. F. M.R.C.S.. has been Officer of Health to the that a Manchester branch had been formed of which Dr. ELLIOT, J., appointed Donnybrook Lo’al Board of Health, West Australia. A. T. Wilkinson had been elected president and Dr. Gray FLINT, J. B., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., has been appointed Certifying Clegg honorary secretary. Dr. Legrain and Dr. Boisser of Surgeon uuder the Factory Acts for the Buxton District, which Urban Districts of Buxton and Paris were elected members of the association. comprises the Fairfield, and the honorary Townships of Hartington Upper Quarter, Wormhill, Kingsterndale, Votes of thanks were accorded to the President and officers. and Peak Forest in Chapel-en-le-Frith Rural District. Previously to the meeting a demonstration, with the aid of the FREEMAN, JOHN, L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., Civil Surgeon, has been electric lantern, had been given by Dr. Ridge in the lecture appointed Officer in Medical Charge of Troops at Plymouth, vice theatre of Scientific Reasons for Total Abstinence. He R. Turner, Lieut.-Colonel, placed on the sick list. HAYWARD, W. T., L.K.Q.C.P.Irel., M.R.C.S., has been appointed a showed that healthy cell-life, both vegetable and animal, Member of the Board of Management of the Adelaide Hospital, was impossible in the presence of minute quantities of South Australia. alcohol, while its interference with oxidation and the HEPWORTH, A. F., L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Edin.. L.F.P.S. Glasg., has been by appointed Officer of Health for the Shire of Tungamah, Victoria, removal of waste products it injured the proper per- Australia. formance of every function. A novel experiment shown HIGGINSON, C. G.. L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S.. has been appointed was the influence of even 1 per cent. of alcohol on the Assistant Medical Officer of the Infirmary for the Parish of function of the of water- Birmingham, vice J. 0. Dowd, resigned. oxygen-producing chlorophyll KFLLY, C.. M.D. Lond., F.R.C.P., has been re-appointed Medical Officer plants, which it greatly diminished. The presence of alcohol, of Health, West Sussex Combined Sanitary District.