945 delivered on Dec. at 4 P.M., is " On Museums in Refer- Prosser, A. B., L.R.C.P.Lond., Brearley-street, Birmingham 6th, T. A. Australia. ence to Medical Education and the Advancement of Know- Quirk, F., L.R.C.P.Lond., Melbourne, " Reed, J. S., L.R.C.P.Lond., Edgware-road, Hytle-park. ledge." Reynolds, E. J., L.R.C.P.Lond., Milton, Sittingbourne. On the motion by Mr. Macnamara, it was agreed that Rilot, C. F., L.R.C.P.Lond., Grange-park, Ealing. it be referred to a committee to consider and to the Ring, J., L.R.C.P.Lond., Cambridge-gardens. report Roberts, R. L., L.R.C.P.Lond., Rochester-square. Council whether it be desirable, and, if so, practicable, that Robertson, J., L.R.C.P.Lond., St. Anne’s, Thurlow-park-road. candidates for the membership of the College be examined Robinson, G. A., M.B. Durh., Inverness-terrace. in on the dead Rolston, T. R., L.RC.P.Lond., Clarendon Villa, Stoke. operative surgery body. Scott, T. W., L.R.C.P.Lond., Heathfield, Bromley, Kent. Shaw, J. C., L.R.O.P.Lond., Walton House, Wakefield. Sheldon, R. G., L.S.A., Boundary-street, Liverpool. Smith, 1L A., L.R.C.P.Lond., Winchcombe, Turnham-green. Spencer, T. E., L.R.C.P.Lond., Wimpole-street. Stephens, R. J., L.S.A., King’s College Hospital. Medical News. Stevens, W. E., L.R.C.P.Lond., Old Market-street, Bristol. Thompson, G. H., L.R.C.P.Lond., Holly-place, Hampstead-heath. Thorp, C. G., L.R.C.P.Lond., Wickham-terrace. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.- Tunnicliffe, F. W., L.R.C.P.Lond., Riverlea, Woodside-park. The the Turner, E. 0., L.R.C.P.Lond., Alexandra-road, South Hampstead. following gentlemen having passed necessary A. Stoke-on-Trent. at a of the Council on the Walker, H., L.R.C.P.Lond., Penkhull, examinations were, meeting Ward, W. F., L.R.C.P.Lond., Queen’s-road, Peckham. Sth inst., admitted Members of the College :— Watkins, W., L.R.C.P.Lond., Tavistock-place. Adamson, H. G., L.R.C.P.Lond., Grange-road, Faling. Wells, F. B., L.R.C.P.Lond., Nassington-road, Hampstead. Andrew, B. H., L.S.A., Tyrwhitt-road, St. John’s. Williams, R. E., L.R.C.P.Lond., Trinity-square. Andrew, F. C., L.R.C.P.Lond., Bread-street, Manchester. Winnett, F., M.D.Toronto, Simcoe-street, Toronto. Barker, F., L.R.C.P.Lond., Morton-place, Belgrave-road. Wright, T. N., L.R.C.P.Lond., Foulksrath, Blaekheath. Blaxall, F. R., L.R.C.P.Lond., Stanhope-street. Young, J., L.R.C.P.Lond., Oakwood, Worsley, Lancs. A. Boycott, N., L.R.C.P.Lond., Richmond-terrace, Clapham-rd. The the ex- Bray, H. A., L.R.C.P.Lond., Great Russell-street. following gentlemen having passed necessary Briscoe, J. E., L.R.C.P.Lond., Wellclose-terrace, Leeds. aminations, at a meeting of the Board of Examiners on the Broadway, S. A. W. E., L.R.C.P.Lond., Arlingford-rd., Tulse-hill. 7th instant, were at the same meeting admitted Licentiates Burland, H., L.R.C.P.Lond., Poolstock House, Wigan, Lanes. in Dental Burns, R. J., L.R.C.P.Lond., Beauclerc-terrace, Sunderland. Surgery :- Campbell, J., M.D.Q.U.I., Wellington-park-terrace, Belfast. Boyton, Ivan John Howard, Watlington, Oxford. Cant, F., L.R.C.P.Lond., Rumford-street, Manchester. Dolamore, William Henry, The Grove, Ealing. Caswell, G. W., L.S.A., Queen-street, Cheapside. Grimsdale, Frank Gannon, High-street, Uxbridge. Cheatle, A. H., L.R.C.P.Lond., King’s College Hospital. Harsant, Frank Arnold, Parliament Hill-road. Cheetham, C. F., L.R.C.P.Lond., York-place, Manchester. Hayman, Albert Stephen, Belle Vue, Clevedon, Somerset. Cholmeley, William Fk., L.R.C.P.Lond., Charleton-road Rectory, Hope, Hubert Lindsay Curling, Rockholme, Hastings. Howard, Frederic Richd., Carlton House, Villa-rd., Handsworth. Attleborough. Wm. Clapham, J. T., L.R.C.P.Lond., Lingfield-road, Wimbledon. , Madin, Thompson, Shustoke, Coleshill, Birmingham. Clark, P. J., L.S.A., Margaret-street. Manton, Edwd. Alfred, Frithville-gardens, Shepherd’s-bush. Clarke, W., L.S.A., St. Paul’s-sq., Burton-on-Trent. Marten, Alfred Ernest, Tyson-road, Forest-hill. Collington, F. A., L.R.C.P.Lond., College-villa, St. Helier’s, Jersey. Mountford, James, Richmond-terrace, Clapham-road. Cooke, T. A. B., L.R.C.P.Lond., St. John’s Vicarage, Brixton. Pritchard, Athol Cravnant, Delamere-terrace, Bayswater. Copeland, W. H. L., L.R.C.P.Lond., Phillbeach-gardens. Smith, Leonard Charles, Grove House, Durham. Corner, Harry, L.R.C.P.Lond., Manor House, Poplar. Webster, Percy Lawrence, Redesdale-terrace, West Hampstead. Cressy, C. J., L.R.C.P.Lond., Hayesden, Wallington, Surrey. Winterbottom, Charles, M.R.C.S., Sloane-street. Cross, E. J., L.R.C.P Lond., St. Neots, Hunts. j Eleven candidates were referred. The next examination Date, W. H., L.S.A., Elmhyrst, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. ’, will be held in 1889. Douty, E. H., L.R.C.P.Lond., King’s College, Cambridge. ’, May, Dowling, E. A. G., L RC.P.Lond., Belvedere-rd., Up. Norwood. ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND.-The Dugon, F., L.R.C.P.Lond., Brockley-road, Brockley. following Eaton, 0., L.R.C.P.Lond., Arley Hall, Blackrod, Chorley, Lanes. degrees were conferred last week by the Vice-Chancellor of Farmer, F. R., L.R.C.P.Lond., Courtfield, Bycullah-park. the University :- Firth, J. L., L.R.C.P.Lond., Burton-crescent. Bachelor of Medicine.-George W. Jenney, Denis J. Coffey (with Foster, M. G., L.R.C.P.Lond., 9, Wells, Gt. Shelford, Cambs. second class honours), William T. Brand, James Buchanan, Patrick Franklin, L., L.R.C.P.Lond., Clarence House, Thaxted. J. Cleary, Edward Cuffey, Thomas Gorman, William Kerr, William Fullard, John, L.S.A., Dudley Port, Tipton. R. Morris, Marcus H. Quarry, Joseph V. Ryan, J. Blackburne Smith, Gomez, A. C., L.R.C.P.Lond., Stanhope-street. Wm. J. Taylor, Robert Thomson, Robert Wilson. Gornall, J. P. J., L.R.C.P.Lond., Newton-heath, Manchester. Doctor of JtMtcMte.—Thos. B. Costello, George F. Ewens, George R. Gott, H., L.R.C.P.Lond., Hanover-square, Leeds. Gordon, Pierce Jennings, William Kirk, Joseph McKnight, William Graves, C., L.R.C.P.Lond., Maryland-road, Paddington. Weatherup. Grosvenor, W. W., L.R.C.P.Lond., Greville-place, Maida-vale. Master in Surgery.-James Buchanan, Edwd. Cuffey, Edward B. Halley, W., L.R.C.P.Lond., Elgin-crescent. Hazelton, George W. Jenney, William Kerr, William Kirk, Joseph Hanson, A. S., L.R.C.P.Lond., Warwick-gardens. McKnight, James McMaster, James Taylor, Wm. Weatherup. Hawthorne, H. J., L.R.C.P.Lond., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. Bachelor in S1trgery,-Samuel Alexander, William T. Brand, James Hayes, H. F., M.B.Melb., Marlow, Bus-hill-park, Enfield. Buchanan, Patrick Cleary, Denis Coffey, Thomas Costello, George Hayward, C. W., L.R.C.P.Lond., Grove-street, Liverpool. Gordon, Thomas Gorman, Charles J. Humphries, Pierce Jennings, Heasman, W. G., L.R.C.P.Lond., Court Wick, Littlehampton. William Morris, Marcus Quarry, Joseph Ryan, J. Martin Savage, Hewer, A. E., L.R.C.P.Lond., Highbury-new-road. Blackburne Smith, Wm. J. Taylor, Robert Thomson, William A. Hewlett, C. W., L.R.C.P.Lond., Royal Naval Colleges, Penge. Wadsworth, Robert Wilson. Hill, G. Leonard, L.R.C.P.Lond., The Grove, St. George’s, near Bachelor in Obstetrics.-Samuel Alexander, J. St. John Annesley, Wellington. Arthur Atcock, William T. Brand, James Buchanan, Patrick Cleary, Hudson, F. H., L.R.C.P.Lond., Royal York-crescent, Clifton. Denis Coffey, Charles J. Cooke, Thomas Costello, George Foott, Humphreys, G. H., L.R.C.P.Lond., St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Richard Foott, John Gordon, Thomas Gordon, Walter Hamilton, Hutt, C. E., L.R.C.P.Lond., Chetwynd-road, Highgate. Charles J. Humphries, Pierce Jennings, Thomas D. Kirk, William Johns, J. F., L.R.C P.Lond., High-street, Southampton. Morris, Michael O’Brien, Marcus Quarry, Joseph Ryan, J. Martin Joslen, H., L.R.C.P.Lond., Heathcroft, Buckland-hill, Maidstone. Savage, John Shaw, Blackburne Smith, Stratford Smith, William Kemp, G. L., L.R.C.P.Lond., Gipsy-hill. Taylor, Robert Thomson, William Usher, Robert Wilson. King, R. H., L.R.C.P.Lond., Granville-square. Master in Obstetrics.-John J. Brownlee, Edward Cuffey, George W. Le Feuvre, W. P., L.R.C.P.Lond., Northbrook-road, Lee. Jenney, Robert W. S. Lyons. Lewer, E. S., L.K.Q.C.P.I., Upper Leeson-street, Dublin. Lewis, B. M., L.R.C.P.Lond., Glanbaiden, Abergavenny. CONJOINT SCHEME OF THE COLLEGES OF PHY- Liston, W. L., L.R.C.P.Lond., Aberdeen-place. Locke, C. A., L.R.C.P.Lond., Keppel-street. SICIANS AND SURGEONS IN IRELAND.-The undernamed Luson, T., M.B.Ed., East-street, Taunton. have passed their Final Examination:- Mackay, P. B., L.RC.P.Lond., Langton Vicarage, Wragby. T. M. Bentley, J. H. Bogan, W. W. Gourlay, J. E. Halpin, A. G. T. Macleod, D. T., M.D.Glasg., Kelvin Drive, Glasgow. Hanks, F. W. Henderson, R. Hudson, F. Jubb, L. E. Keegan, E. J. McQueen, C. A. S., M.D.Phil., Harrington-square. Lee, J. Lundie, J. A. Magee, T. A. Sheahan, E. W. Stoker, W. J. Mead, T. W., L.S.A., Kingston-road, Portsmouth. Thompson. Metcalfe, G., L.RC.P.Lond., Harrison-place, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Miers, A., L.R.C.P.Lond., Seacroft, Leeds. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE: MICHAELMAS Morland, C. H. D., L.R.C.P.Lond., Portsea-place, Connaught-sq. TERM, XichoUs, A. R., L.RC.P.Lond., Phillip-roa,d, Peckham. 1888.-The days of examinations for medical and surgical luttall, A. E., L.R.C.P.Lond., North Staffordshire Infirmary, degrees are as follow;’ :-First Examination : Dec. 4th, 5th, Stoke-on-Trent. 7th, 10th, llth, and 12th. Second Examination : Dec. 4th, Ogle, C., L.R.C.P.Lond., Cavendish-square, W. 12th. Third Examination : Ormerod, C. E., L.R.C.P.Iond., Fell-road, Croydon. 5th, 6th, 7th, 10th, llth, Owen, J. L., L.R.C.P.Lond., St. Patrick-square, Edinburgh. Part 1— Dec. llth, 14th, 15th, 17th ; Part 2 - Dec. 12th, Padbury, G. J., L.R.C.P.Lond., City-road. 13th, l7th, 18th, 19th. For the M.Ch.: Dec. 14th, 15th Parsons, G. G., L.S.A., Barr’s Hill-terrace, Coventry. l7th. Pearse, A., L.R.C.P.Lond., South Hill-park, Hampstead. Pedley, S. E., L.R.C.P.Lond., The Terrace, Camberwell. ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN.-Dr. Phipps, H. H., L,R.C.P.Lond., Eastcote, near Towcester, North Hants. Amand Routh has been elected a member of the Institution. 946

THE new Eye Infirmary at Wolverhampton was ON the 3rd inst. a woman at Sunderland gave birth formally opened on the 23rd ult. by the Earl of Dartmouth, to four children, three boys and a girl, all born alive. Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Stafford. ANATOMICAL SOC1ETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND CARBOLIC ACID AS A POISON.—A resolution has IRELAND.—The following is the list of officers and Council been adopted by the Liverpool Chemists’ Association elected for the year 1888 :-President: Dr. G. M. Humphry, just Sir William Dr. Daniel in favour of placing carbolic acid on the schedule of poisons. F. R. S. Vice-Presidents: Turner; John Cunningham; Mr. J. 1). Thane. Treasurer: Mr. Chas. ALDERMAN ENTWISTLE (Mayor of Accrington) opened Stewart. Secretaries: Mr. C. B. Lockwood (England); Dr. on Monday the sewage precipitation works which have David Hepburn (Scotland) ; Dr. H. St. John Brooks (Ireland). been constructed by the Accrington and Church Joint Out- Council : Drs. Wm. Mitchell Banks, John Curnow, John fall Sewerage Board at Church, at a cost of :B26,OOO. Struthers, John Cleland, A. M. Paterson, Johnson PRESENTATION.-The staff of the Lambeth Symington, J. J. Redfern, and Messrs. J. N. C. Davies- nursing Frank G. B. John John have, as a mark of their esteem, to Colley, Beddard, Howes, Langton, Infirmary presented Thomas R. W. Dr. George Lewis Rugg a handsome spirit stand, on his Wood, F.R.S., Pickering Pick, Reid, resignation of the office of senior assistant medical officer. llickman J. Uodlee, F. Treves, A. Macalister, F.R.S., Bertram Windle, Alfred H. Young, and Arthur Thomson. THE annual of the of the meeting governors CREMATION. - A was held in Doncaster Infirmary and Dispensary was held on the public meeting Leicester on under the of the 29th ult., when satisfactory reports were presented and Tuesday evening, auspices adopted. Leicester Branch of the Cremation Society of England. The Mayor (Mr. Alderman Wright) presided, and was supported UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.—The University Court by Sir Spencer Wells, Sir Henry Halford, and many in- has sanctioned the appointment of Mr. William MacLennan, fluential residents of the town. Sir Spencer moved, "That M.B., C.M., as assistant to the Professor of Materia this meeting, being of opinion that the present custom of Medica. ’ burial, especially in the neighbourhood of large towns, is GIFT OF A PUBLIC PARK TO BURNLEY.-Sir John dangerous to the living, desires to encourage as an alteriia- tive the reverent and innocuous mode of of Bart., of Ormerod late disposing the Hardy Thursby, House, High dead known as cremation." He went into Sheriff of the has, the of considerable county, through Mayor Burnley, detail on the to the condition offered land acres on the question, referring insanitary comprising twenty-eight Ridge of too many of our burial and the raised estate for a public park. grounds, objections from a medico-legal point of view; and exhibited a drawing THE DENTAL HOSPITAL.—The annual dinner of of the chapel in course of erection at Woking, in connexion the staff and past and present students of the Dental with the Crematory there, for the purpose of performing a Hospital of London will be held on Saturday, Dec. lst, at religious service over the ashes of the bodies. The motion the Holborn Restaurant, when the chair will be taken by was adopted. Sir Henry Halford moved, " That steps be James Smith Turner, Esq. Communications in reference forthwith taken to raise funds to erect a Midland Crematory to this festival should be made to the Dean at the Hospital. at Leicester," which was carried. BEQUESTS AND DONATIONS TO HOSPITALS.—The ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL Secretary of the Windsor and Eton Royal Infirmary has SCHOOL. -At a special meeting of the School Committee on recently received bequests and donations amounting to the last Saturday in October, the following medals and prizes X258 8s. 5d.-The Chairman of the Birmingham Ilusical were presented by the senior physician, Dr. Andrew, on behalf Festival handed, last week, a cheque for £ 2500 to the of the school :—Preliminary Scientific Exhibition, Mr. R. E. Treasurer of the Birmingham General Hospital, being the Scholefield; Bentley Surgical Prize, Mr. E. A. Edelsten, proceeds of the last festival. B.A. Oxon.; Hichens Prize, Mr. F. Mangan; Foster Prize, Mr. M. L. Treasurer’s Mr. N. 0. PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL SUNDAY AND SATURDAY Hepburn ; Prize, Wilson; Harvey Prize, Mr. J. F. Niall; Skynner Prize, Mr. Bedford COLLECTIONS. —The Hospital Saturday collections this year Pierce and Mr. W. G. Willoughby. The Open Scholarships in Lincoln, Gainsborough, and Sleaford amounted to in Science: Senior, Mr. W. N. Soden ; Junior, Mr. J. W. X543 lls. The Whitstable Hospital Sunday and Saturday Pickering. Shuter Scholarship : Mr. J. A. Edwards, collections recently made produced jE62 3s. 8d. The Liver- M.A. Cantab. Junior Scholarships (in Anatomy, &c.): pool Hospital Sunday and Saturday funds for the current Messrs. A. S. Blackwell, H. W. Armstead, and A. A. Weir. year are, respectively, £ 6456 14s. lld., against £ 6029 16s. 8d. Senior Scholarship (in Anatomy, &c.): Mr. H. J. Waring. last year, and 92888 Os. 9d., against £ 2851 18s. 7d. for 1887. The Brackenbury Scholarships: Medical, Mr. Bedford POST-GRADUATE LECTURES. - The first appoint- Pierce; Surgical, Mr. J. G. E. Colby. Kirkes Medal and ment under the Richard Middlemore trust in connexion Scholarship, Mr. C. H. Roberts: and the Lawrence Medal The with the Birmingham Eye Hospital was made on Nov. 1st, and Scholarship, Mr. G. Heaton, B.A. Oxon. total when the committee of selection appointed Mr. Lloyd value of the prizes and scholarships, &c., amounted to Owen, the senior honorary surgeon to the hospital, as between f:700 and 9800. lecturer for the year 1889. These lectures have been estab- TESTIMONIAL TO DR. G. H. SAVAGE.-The past lished by Mr. Richard Middlemore, the senior consulting and present principal officers and resident students of surgeon to the hospital, with a view of extending the use- Bethlem Royal Hospital connected with that institution fulness of the as a hospital teaching centre. during Dr. Savage’s term of office as resident physician, THE MANCHESTER SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.-The entertained him at a dinner at the Cafe Royal on Friday, annual meeting of the subscribers to this institution, and Nov. 2nd. The dinner was arranged to allow the presenta- tion of an illuminated address and some of on of the Maternity Hospital in connexion therewith, was held pieces plate the occasion of his and was attended the in the Town Hall on the 31st ult., Archdeacon Anson in retirement, by the chair. The report stated that the ordinary expenditure subscribers and a few guests, including Major Copeland, £ 125 3s. 3d. forward from the the treasurer of the hospital, Dr. Hack Tuke, Dr. F. Taylor, (including brought previous and Professor Stewart. Dr. the resident year) showed a deficit of £ 499 2s. 6d. There were now Percy Smith, present thirty-five beds in Clifford-street and eight in the Maternity occupied the chair. The address, which is signed Department, in Upper Brook-street. byphysician, the whole number of principal officers, and, with few exceptions, by the resident students, referred to the ex. MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. - At the ceptional ability and energy with which Dr. Savage had next quarterly meeting of the Association, to be held at performed his duties, to the maintenance of steady progress Bethlem Hospital, on the 16th inst., at 4 P.M., after the in the rational and humane treatment of the patients, and exhibition of pathological specimens and the reading of a to his efforts for the diffusion of knowledge of psychological paper on a case of Pachymeningitis by J. W. Plaxton, medicine. The gift consisted of a massive silver bowl and M.R.C.S., a short account will, if time permit, be given by candelabra, manufactured by Messrs. Lambert of Dr. Hack Tuke of a recent visit to Kennoway. In the pairCoventry-street. of The toast of the evening, proposed by the evening members will dine together at 7 o’clock at the chairman and seconded by Dr. Mickley, was most enthn- Holborn Restaurant.—The winter examination for the siastically received, as also was that of ″Bethlem Royal -certificate of efficiency in Psychological Medicine will be Hospital," proposed by Dr. Fletcher Beach, and responded held at Bethlem Hospital on Dec. 20th and 21st. to by the treasurer - 947

SHEA, J. GOODWIN, L.R.C.S. Irel., L.K.Q.C.P. Irel., has been appointed MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT. Medical Officer to the parishes of Brampton and Walton, also to the Industrial Schools in the Chesterfleld Union, in succession to Richd. Jeffreys, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., who has resigned. Vaccunation Grants. SHELDON, R. GARXETT, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., has been appointed House to the vice E. J. T. IN the House of Commons, in Committee of on the Civil Surgeon Liverpool Royal Infirmary, Steele, Supply M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., resigned. Service Estimates, on the 6th inst., on the vote of £ 448,968 for the Local ’, SMITH, P. CALDWELL, M.A. Glas., M.D., M.B. and C.M., has been that the of Government Board, Dr. Clark hoped President the Local appointed Lecturer on Practical Hygiene in the Western Medical Government Board would now prove that Scotland obtained more School, Glasgow. grants in aid per head of the population than England did. He found SYERS, H. W., M.D., M.R.C.P., has been appointed to the vacant office Great that, so far as the medical vote in England was concerned, the medical of Physician to Out-patients, Northern Central Hospital, caused the to the vaccination vote was £ 21,724, against £ 400 for Scotland. In regard to I Holloway-road, N., by promotion In-patient Department of E. Clifford Beale, M.B., M.R.C.P. the whole medical vote, he complained that they were giving in England JOHN ANSTRUTHER as to as in THOMSON, MULVILLE, L.K.Q.C.P.I., L.R.C.S.I., twice much in proportion population they gave Scotland, has been appointed Certifying Factory Surgeon, Bradford-on-Avon. and that they made the Scotch taxpayer pay a portion of the English and District, vice Lovel, retired. charge.-Mr. Bradlaugh begged to move the reduction of the vote by £ 1564, the item for the national vaccine establishment.-Mr. Picton asked the President of the Local Government Board seriously to con- sider the issue which had now been reached and the propriety of instituting some new inquiry into the new position which this question had assumed medically, so as to relieve parents whose feelings stood Vacancies between their conscientious duty to their children on the one hand and their sense of loyalty to the law on the other.—Mr. Caldwell said that In complianceicith the desire of numerous subscribers, it has been decided the value of vaccination was admitted in Scotland, and in cases in to resume the publication under this head of brief particulars of the which it was neglected it was performed by the parochial boards at the various Vacancies which are announced in our advertising columns. cost of the ratepayers. Why, then, should the ratepayers in England For further information i-egardiitg each vacancy reference should be be relieved to a certain extent out of the public revenue?-Mr. Ritchie made to the advertisement. said that if Scotland had a grievance, it would end with the present BRADFORD INFIRMARY AND as in future the whole would devolve the local rate- DISPENSARY.-House Physician. Salary vote, duty upon .6100 with board. payers ; but still, as matters now stood, he did not think that Scotland per annum, would be found to suffer when all the in aid CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Victoria- any injustice grants E.-Assistant given to Scotland were compared with those given to England.- park, Physician. Mr. Channing said that the vaccination returns moved for by himself and DOVER HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.-House Surgeon. Salary £ 100 granted by the Government amply supported the contention which a year, with furnished apartments, board, coals, lights, and interested in this had forward and attendance. persons question put again again- FRIENDLY AND that there had been a serious increase in the of GRANTHAM TRADES’ SOCIETIES MEDICAL INSTITUTION.- viz., very proportion Resident Medical Officer. deaths of children under one of causes and diseases Salary £ 150 per annum, and midwifery year age through with and rates free. which were alleged by certain scientitic men to be associated with fees, residence, coals, gas, vaccination.-Sir W. G. Hunter said his in India led him to HOME AND INFIRMARY FOR SICK CHILDREN, Sydenham. - Honorary experience Assistant Medical Officer to attend the conclusion that compulsory vaccination was absolutely necessary for out-patients. the protection of the inhabitants from small-pox. Experience also LANCASHIRE COUNTY ASYLUM, Rainhill, near Liverpool. - Resident showed the necessity for revaccination, in order to protect individuals Medical Superintendent. Salary L1000 per annum, with certain from attacks of the disease. As to the supposed introduction of sub- allowances. stances other than vaccine into the system, Dr. Buchanan, in his report, LONDON TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL, Hampstead-road, N.W.-Junior House- showed that the number of cases in which of that nature Surgeon. allegations LUNATIC were made be reduced to nil on careful examination.-Dr. Mac- NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE BOROUGH ASYLUM.-Superintendent. might £ 450 with furnished donald remarked that from a very different point of view he must give Salary per annum, quarters, coals, gas, washing, his vote in favour of the proposal of the member for Northampton, and vegetables. because he considered this system of vaccination to be PADDINGTON -GREEN CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL.-Honorary Physician. public altogether OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.—Examiners in The trouble in reference to vaccination had come from ROYAL COLLEGE Anatomy wrong. mainly and for the the office of vaccinator. There believecl, a deal of Physiology Fellowship. public was, he great ROYAL SOUTH HANTS Also Assistant heartburning among members of the medical profession because one INFIRMARY.—Surgeon. Surgeon. man in a district got all the vaccination grants year after year, while the claims of other practitioners were wholly overlooked.-Dr. Tanner said that all the objections which had been raised had been refuted again and again. It did not at all follow that vaccination was to blame for the outbreaks of erysipelas which had been described as occurring in and waves. He sincerely hoped that the Government would take some steps Births, Marriages, Deaths. to obtain an inquiry into the subject, to satisfy all reasonable doubts and objections thrown out by hon. members, and set the matter at rest once and for ever. It would be a very terrible thing if the anti-vaceina- BIRTHS. tion doctrines were to spread.—Colonel Nolan, Mr. Whitbread, and COTrON.-On the 2nd at the wife of Dr. Mr. Ritchie said that he could not hold inst., Spencer-square, Ramsgate, Fitzgerald having spoken, Charles Cotton, M.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., of a son. out any hope that the Government would take any step to put an end to GROSS.—On the 3rd inst., at East Dulwich-grove, S.E., the wife of the law as it now because their was that existed, opinion very strong Charles Gross, M.D. Lond., F.R.C.S. Eng. &c., of a son. anything in that way might result in consequences of the most disastrous WALLACE.-On the 81st at Howard the wife of character to the of this The committee and the ult., Lodge, Cardiff, people country. divided, Thos. Wallace, M.D., of a daughter. numbers were : For the reduction of the vote 45 ; against, 154 ; majority 109. I MARRIAGES. the 4th ult., at St. George’s Cathedral, Sierra COLE—SAWYERR.—OnLeone, by the Venerable Archdeacon Robbin, Sylvester John Cole, , M.B., C.M., Assistant Colonial Surgeon, Gold Coast Colony, to Appointments. Adeline Nancy, only daughter of the Honorable T. J. Sawyerr, Secretaries Public and Merchant, and Member of the Legislative Council, Sierra Leone, Successful applicants for Vacancies, of Institutions, West Africa. others suitable this column are invited to possessing information for SAWYER—McLEOD.—On the 13th at St. Andrew’s it to THE LANCET d’irected to the Sub-Editor, not later ult., Church, forward Office, the Rev. A. M. Edmund son of than 9 o’clock on the each week in Darjeeling, by Rolfe, Stratton, Thursday morning of for publication of to the next number. - George Capellen Sawyer, Esq., 40, Brompton-square, London, Jane Alexandra (Jean), second daughter of Bngade-Surgeon K. BUGGY, Louis, L.K.Q.C.P. Irel., L.M., has been appointed Resident McLeod, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., of H.M. Indian Medical Service. Physician to the Mater Misericordiæ Hospital, Dublin. WEBB—NlCHOLSON.—On the 3rd inst., at All Saints’, Kensington-park, BYRXE, JOHN, L.K.Q.C.P., L.R.C.S. Irel., has been appointed Junior Hugh Webb, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of Wentworth House, Parsons- Resident Surgeon to the Mater Misericordiæ Hospital, Dublin. green, to Clarissa Constance, second daughter of John Nicholson, CALDERWOOD, GEORGE, M.D., M.B. & C.M. Glas., has been reappointed Esq., of the G.P.O., and Leamington-road-villas, Westbourne- Medical Officer of park, W. Health, Egremont. - COTES, C. E. H., M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S., has been appointed Surgeon to Out-patients, Great Northern Central Hospital Holloway-road, N., DEATHS. caused by the promotion to the In-patient" Department of C. B. Lockwood, F.R.C.S. BRUCE.-On Sept. 16th, at Murrumburrah, N.S.W., Dr. Jas. Bruce, McWEENEY, EDMOND, M.B., M.Ch. R.U.I., has been appointed Patho- M.R.C.S. (St. Bartholomew’s), late of Kidsgrove, aged 47. logist to the Mater Miserieordias Hospital, Dublin. LAVIES.—On the 3rd inst., at Pimlico, Joseph Samuel Lavies, M.D. Ed., MOMSON. RUTHERFORD, M.D., F.R.C.S. Ed., has been appointed F.R.C.S. Ed., M.R.C.S., senior medical officer of Millbank Prison, Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Newcastle-on-Tyne. aged 65. 1IoRRIS, Mr. WILLIAM R., has been appointed Senior Resident Surgeon PECK.-On the 31st ult., at Addison-road, Kensington, Robert Holman to the Mater Misericordiæ Dublin. Peck, M.A., M.B. Oxon., M.R.C.S., F.L.S., 33. ’ Hospital, aged XAPIER, A. D. LEITH, M.D. Aber., F.R.S. Ed., M.R.C.P. Lond., has STOKOE.—On the 30th ult., at the residence of his son-in-law, Col. Baby, been appointed Physician Accoucheur to the St. Pancras and Richard Stokoe, M.D., late of Peckham-rye, in his 84th year. Northern Dispensary, vice R. Boxall, M.D., M.R.C.P. Lond., resigned. WALTER.—On the 5th inst., at Tarrazona, Bournemouth, William Walter, XtEMEX, FREDK. WM., M.A. Ca,mb., M.R.C.S., L.S.A., has been M.D., formerly of Stephen’s Green, Dublin, aged 76. appointed Assistant Medical Officer to the Royal Albert Asylum for WINTERBOTTOM.—On the 22nd ult., on board the steamship Circassian, Idiots and Imbeciles of the Northern Counties, Lancaster, vice Edwin John Winterbottom, M.R.C.S.,L.D.S., of St. George’s Ranche, Theo. B. Hyslop, M.B., C.M., appointed Assistant Medical Officer Calgary, Canada, and late of Sloane-street, London, S.W., aged 53. to the Bethlem Buried at sea. Royal Hospital. - OWEX, LLOYD, D.C., F.R.C.S.I., has been appointed First Richard Middlemore Post-graduate Lecturer in connexion with the Birming. N.B —A fee of 5s. is charged for the Insertion of Notices of Birt4 ham and Midland Eye Hospital. Marriages, and Deatk.