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McLellan. William Parker, and C. A. Ricketts, Owens; E. E. md wrought such delightful achievements for the relief of and Owens. Roberts, University ; George Taylor, he suffering and sorrows of the world. SECOND EXAMINATION. A. Anatomy and Physiology.-Fred Bailey and F. P. H. Birtwhistle, INEFFICIENT VACCINATION.-In the course of an Yorkshire; William Calverley, Catherine Chisholm. and Reginald held at Bristol on March 25th into an Collier, Owens; W. E. Cooke, University; Catherine L. Corbett, nquiry application G. D. Dawson, R. L. Ferguson, and Joseph Fletcher, Owens ; E. R. )f the city council to the Local Government Board for sanc- Flint, Yorkshire; E. S. H. Gill, University; F. W. M. Greaves, tion to borrow £44,266 for isolation hospital purposes the Yorkshire ; W. L. Hawksley and Pantland Hick, University ; (Mr. Arnold C. B., M. R. C. S. on F. C. Hudson, E. E. and Ernest Hulme, Lancelot nspector Royle, Eng.), being Hughes, Owens; nformed the medical officer of health that there was a Hutchinson and T. L. Kenion, University ; C. E. Lea, T. W. P. by Leighton, J. T. R. MacGill, Hector Mackenzie, and H. E. Moore, reat deal of one-mark vaccination in Bristol, observed that Owens ; G. C. Scott. University ; James Smalley, J. F. Smith, >uch vaccination was inefficient and only an imperfect pro- Philip Talbot.* and Henry Thorp, Owens; Herbert Tomlin. York- ,ective shire ; A. M. Walker, Owens ; T. E. Walker and H. W. L. Waller, against small-pox. University ; F. J. Walton, W. D. Wilkins, and J. S. Young, Owens. BROMSGROVE, REDDITCH, AND DROITWICH ISOLA- B. Ilateria Jledica and Pharmacy.-A. W. Byrne, University; noN HOSPITAL.-The new isolation for the com- Archibald Camhell and P. C. Garrett, Owens ; E. F. Hoare, hospital oined districts of and Droitwich was University; S. E. McClatchey, Owens ; S’. W. McLellan and H. G. Bromsgrove, Redditch, Thompson, University; S. H. West, W. A. Wheeldon, and H. V. opened at Hill Top, Bromsgrove, on March 25th, by Mrs. White, Owens. Amphlett, wife of Mr. R. H. Amphlett, K.C., the chair- * Was awarded University scholarship. man of the Joint Hospital Committee. The new building ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY.-At examinations for is the latest of several isolation hospitals which have been the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery provided in recent years in different parts of Worcestershire the following candidates were successful in the subjects on the initiative of the Worcestershire County Council, and it indicated :- supplies a long-felt want in this part of the country. For Medicine, Clinical -4ledicine. Surgery, Clinical Surgery, and Mid- many years the district medical officers of health of the three wifery.-Louis Coetzee, Lewis D. Cruickshank, Jas. B. Elder, towns concerned have been the necessity for Harry W. Elwell, "’’Robert D. Keith. Geo. B. Kiloh, Jeannie C. urging hospital Macleod, Archibald Mahomed, James B. Rae, *Alex. C. Reid, Alex. accommodation for the isolation of infectious disease, but Rohertson, R. B. Robson, John S. Rose, Thos. S. Slessor, Jas. Soutter, the heavy expenditure needed for building and maintaining and Alex. Watt. a suitable has stood in the way of action and Medical W. S. hospital always by Pathology Jurisprudence.-Frank Begg, *Hugh an individual Some at com- Brander, Richard G. Brown, fAlex. Callam, A. Dyce Davidson, sanitary authority. attempts William Elwood, James Farquhar, Maurice B. Johnson, *Alex. F. bination had been made, but it was not until the county Macbean, Gordon W. Maconachie, *G. G. Macdonald, William council intervened in 1896 that practical steps became Macgillivrav, John A. McKenzie, jlIugh Maclean, Malcolm In that the Macleod, tWiIliam A. Mearns. Kenneth S. Melvin, Jas. E. Mennie, possible. year county council, acting upon Andrew B. Morris, *W. F. Munro, *Stephen Niven, ’F. G. T. the powers given to them by the Isolation Hospitals Act of Peterkin, Frank L. Pelly, James B. Rae, J. H. Shepherd, *F. K. 1893, formed the three towns of Bromsgrove, Redditch, and Smith, William A. Smith, †William C. Souter, William Stewart, Droitwich, with the rural six *George Stoddart, Cornelius A. Suvoong, *Arthur J. Watt, and together intervening districts, William Alfred Watson. sanitary authorities in all, into a combined area for the Pathology.-William R. Pirie and George B. Sleigh. provision of a joint isolation .hospital. An admirable site Anatomy, Physiology, and Materia Medica.-Francis Anderson, on was secured at Hill in William "William *William R. -Alex. high ground Top, Bromsgrove, Anderson, Beedie, Catto, and in a of wood- Flett, James S. Gray, George Hall, John Hunter, Alex. Hutchison, 1897, June, 1898, temporary hospital Henry W. Jeans, *Francis H. Johnson, *Frederick L. Keith, Geo. lined iron buildings and double-walled tents was opened E. Macallan, Malcolm Macleod, and John M. Taylor. for the reception of patients suffering from scarlet fever. and E. John Anatomy Physiology.-Catherine Anderson, Anderson, This is still in use and has done excellent James Clark, Francis W. Davidson, Alex. Duguid, Walter A. temporary hospital Elwood, Thos. C. Innes, Neil Kennedy, Helen McGlashan, Donald work, some 340 cases of scarlet fever having been treated with McKay, Charles G. McMahon, Archibald D. Pringle, Michael B. H. a mortality of 13 only. Plans for the permanent hospital were Ritchie. Alex. N. Ross, Bertie R. G. Russel, Herbert W. B. Ruxton, then Mr. Hare of London and the M. and William Wood. prepared by building Cyril Smith, was commenced in It consists of an First Professional Examination (Botany, Zoology, Physics, and 1900. administrative Chemistry).-Alex. Brown, Robert R. Duncan, Francis W. Falconer. block containing the principal offices with ample accommo- Alex. D. Fraser, Alistair S. Garden, Chas. B. Gerrard, Stewart C. dation for nurses, servants, and porter ; four separate ward Howard. Cecil V. Alex. W. James M. Impey, Laing, ’L4ac(lonald, blocks and a sixth block a *James Macintosh, Kenneth Mackinnon. *George Milne. *Benjamin containing fully equipped laundry Mitchell, H. R. Neilson, Gavin E. A. Petrie. Arthur W. R. Pirie, with drying cupboards, ambulance house, mortuary, and a John Proctor, Alex. Robertson, Paul B. Roth, Robert F. Russel, seven-feet Thresh disinfector. Each ward block is divided Jas. A. Jas. Robert N. and Isaac Soharengu’val, Silver, Thomson, into male and female wards, with nurse’s room between, the T. B. DeVilliers. The following have passed one half of the first professional :-Geo. Cooper, Alex. McR. Donaldson, Herbert W. largest for scarlet fever patients, the others for enteric fever, Glashan, Alfred P. Hall, Neil P. Macphail, Jas. Raffan, David McD. diphtheria, and doubtful cases respectively. The number Roger, Geo. E. Shand, Henry Smit, and Alex. F. Wallace. of beds is the scarlet fever block * nominally 40, containing Passed with distinction. t Passed with much distinction. 18, the enteric fever block 14, and the remaining blocks The Diploma of Public Health (D.P. H.) has been conferred four beds each, but the cubic air space allowed for each bed upon the following :- is so great that an addition to this number, especially of E. The W. Nash, M.B., Ch.B., Holt, Hertfordshire; Bisset, M.B., children’s cots, can be made. The cubic space Ch.B.. Aberdeen; and F. Keyt, M.B., C.M., Ceylon. easily pro- vided is over 2500 cubic feet per bed in each block and in MR. JOHN LLOYD DAVIES, L.R.C.P. Lond, the smaller wards it is over 3000 cubic feet per bed. The M.R C.S. Eng., was returned on March 25th as a member of population of the combined districts served by the hospital the Newport Town Council. is 56,777. The temporary hospital, having been used for over three years for cases of scarlet fever, is now to be MEDICAL MAGISTRATE. -Mr. Francis Richardson transferred to another part of the district where it is to be Cross, M.B. Lond., F.R C.S. Eng., has been placed on the erected and kept in readiness for the isolation of small-pox Commission of the Peace for the city and county of Bristol. cases should the necessity arise. ANDERSOS’S COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL.-The winter session of Anderson’s College Medical School was formally closed on April lst when the prizes were dis- tributed by Lord Provost Chisholm. There was a large Appointments. attendance of students and of the public. Mr. A. Malloch Bayne, president of the school, occupied the chair. The Successful applicants for Vacancies, Secretaries of Public Institutions, Lord Provost addressed the and commented and others possessing information suitable for this column, are briefly meeting invited to forward it to TEK LANCET Office, directed to the Sub- on the and the beneficence of that field of effort and nobility Editor, not later than 9 o’clock on the Thursday morning of each enterprise which the students had chosen as their future lot. week, for Publication in the next number. They had already shown their high appreciation of it by the fact that they had made it the object of their choice ; but BARFORD, A. M., M.D., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., has been appointed they would allow him to say, as one drop in the great cloud Assistant Anxsthetist to the Royal Dental Hospital, Leicester- of witnesses which were surrounded, that who square. by they they BoYES. JANE, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Edin., L.F.P.S. Glasg., has been merely stood outside looked on with affection and admira- appointed Medical Officer for the Island of Coll, Argyllshire. tion-affection for the men and admiration for the efforts and BOYLE. N. C., L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.Erlin., has been appointed Medical of the triumphs of those who were engaged in the fields of Officer Health by Penge Urban District Council. their BRISCOE, WILLIAM THOMAS, M.D.. M.Ch.Dubl., has been re-appointed medical and surgical science and who had by efforts Medical Officer of Health of the Pewsham District by the and labours produced results so marvellous in themselves and Chippenham Board of Guardians. 999

CORLETTE. C. E., M.D. Syd., has been appointed Acting Honorary HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, Soho-square.-Clinical Assistants. Assistant Surgeon to the Women’s Hospital, Sydney, during the JEWISH MUTUAL BIRMINGHAM BENEFIT SOCIETY, Bow-road, E.- absence of Sir James Graham in Europe. Medical Officer. DAVY.T.G., M.R.C.S., L.S.A. Lond., has been appointed Honorary KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL.-Surgeon. Medical Officer to the Fremantle Hospital, West Australia. LEICESTER INFIRMARY.-Assistant House Surgeon. Salary £80 per ERSON, E. G. LEGER, L. & L. Mid. R.C.F. Edin., has been appointed annum, with board, apartments, and washing. -4 Officer of Health, Peak Hill, West Australia. LIVERPOOL COUNTY ASYLUM, Rainhill.-Assistant Medical Officer,Un- EVANS, ARTHUR, M.S. Lond., F.R.C.S. Eng., has been appointed married. Salary .e15o. per annum, with prospect of increase, with Assistant Surgeon to Westminster Hospital. apartments, board, attendance, and washing. GREENWOOD, A., M.D.Vict., has been appointed Medical Officer of LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY FOR CHILDREN.-Assistant House Surgeon for Health of Blackburn, vice Dr. James Wheatley. six months. Salary E25, with board and lodging. HALL, JAMES A. T., L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Edin., L.F.P.S. Glasg., has LIVERPOOL STANLEY HOSPITAL.-Third House Surgeon. Salary £70 been appointed Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator of the per annum, with board, residence, and washing. . Stoke Golding District of the Hinckley Union, vice Dr. E. J. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE DISPENSARY.-Visiting Medical Assistant. :Salary Pritchard, resigned. £160, rising to .e1So.. HUNTER, MITCHELL, M.D. Miami Med. Col., L.S.A.Lond., has been NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon, unmarried. appointed Certifying Surgeon under the Factory Act for the Salary £80 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing. Magherafelt District of the county of Londonderry. NORTHAMPTON, ST. ANDREW’S HOSPITAL FOR MENTAL DISEASES.- HUNTER, W. M., M.B., B.S. R.U.I., has been appointed Certifying Additional Assistant Medical Officer for six or seven months. Surgeon under the Factory Act for the Crumlin District of Salary 3 guineas a week, with board, lodging, and washing. Antrim. NOTTINGHAM GENERAL DISPENSARY.-Assistant Resident Surgeon,un- LisTEB, HAROLD, M.B. Melb., has been appointed Acting Medical married. Salary £160 per annum, increasing by .e1O every year, Superintendent of the Ararat Lunatic Asylum, Victoria, during with apartments, attendance, light, and fuel. the absence on leave of W. H. Barker, M.R.C.S. Eng. OLDHAM INFIRMARY.-Senior House Surgeon. Salary B100 per annum, LLOYD, F. S., M.B. Lond., has been appointed Certifying Surgeon with board, residence, and washing. under the Factory Act for the Luton District of Bedfordshire. PORTSMOUTH BOROUGH ASYLUM.-Assistant Medical Officer, un- MACVIE, A., M.D. Edin., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of married. Salary £120 to .e156 per annum. with board, lodging, &e. Health by the Baildon Urban District Council, Yorks. ROYAL BERKSHIRE HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon for six MITCHELL, JAMES THOMAS, M.D., Ch.M.Aberd., M.R.C.S., has been months. Salary ;E60 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing. appointed Resident Medical Officer to the Ballarat Benevolent ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn-road, W.C.-House Physician, also Asylum and Lying-in Home, Victoria. House Surgeon for six months. No salary is given, but board, &c., McLEAN, J. C., M.B., C.M. Edin., has been appointed Medical Officer are provided. Also Clinical Pathologist, salary .e75 per annum; of Health by the Doncaster Rural District Council. Assistant Pathologist, .e25 per annum ; and Resident House Mossop, A. G.. M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.. L.R.C.S. Irel., has been re- Physician and Resident House Surgeon. (All females). No salary appointed Medical Officer of Health by the Newhaven Port is given to the Resident Officers, but board, &c., are provided. Sanitary Authority. ROYAL SOUTH HANTS AND SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL.-Assistant NETTLE, WILLIAM, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., J.P., has been re-appointed Physician. Medical Officer of Health by the Liskeard Rural District Council. SHEFFIELD ROYAL HOSPITAL.-Five Honorary Assistant Dental NICHOLLS, JOHN MICHAEL, L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., J.P., has been Officers. re-appointed Medical Officer of Health of St. Ives, Cornwall. SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.-Demonstrator in Bacteriological PALLETT, T. E., L.S.A.Lond., has been appointed Certifying Surgeon Laboratory. Salary jE150, rising to .B200 per annum. under the Factory Act for the Earl’s Colne District of Essex. STOCKPORT INFIRMARY.-Junior Assistant House Surgeon for six PEARSE, JAMES, M.D., C.M. Edin., has been appointed Medical Officer months. Salary at rate of ;E40 per annum, with board, washing, of Health of Trowbridge, Wilts. and residence. REIACH, JAMES, M.B., M.S. Edin., has been appointed Government STOKE-ON-TRENT INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL, Bucknall.-Resident Officer and Vaccinator at Molong, New South Wales. Assistant Medical Officer. Salary ;E80 per annum, with board, SAUNDERS, LEONARD DOUGLAS, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond., has residence, and washing. been appointed House Surgeon to the Hastings, St. Leonards, and TEIGNMOUTH HOSPITAL. S. Devon.-House Surgeon. Salary £70 a East Sussex Hospital. Hastings. year, with board, lodging, and washing. SHAw, A. H. P., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.Lond., has been re-appointed VICTORIA HOSPITAL, Folkestone.-House Surgeon. Salary £100 per Medical Officer of Health of Frittenden. annum, with board, residence, and laundry. TAYLER, GEORGE CHRISTOPHER, M.D., L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S., WEST DERBY UNION INFIRMARY, Mill-road, Everton, Liverpool.- has been re-appointed Medical Officer for the No. 3 District by the Resident Assistant Medical Officer, unmarried. Salary £120 per Westbury, Wilts, Board of Guardians. annum, with rations. THOMAS, J. TELFER. L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., has been re-appointed WEST END HOSPITAL FOR NERvous DISEASES, Welbeck-street, Medical Officer of Health for Camborne, Cornwall. Cavendish-square, W.-Honorary Dental Surgeon. WATTS, W. F., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A., has been re-appointed Medical WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith-road, W.-Honorary Officer in Officer of Health by the Dewsbury Borough Corporation. charge of the X Ray Department. WHEATLEY, J., M.D. Lond., has been appointed Medical Officer of the county of Shropshire. The Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, London, S.W.. gives WILLIAMSON, OLIVER K., M.A., M.B., B.C. Cantab.. M.R.C.P. Lond., notice of vacancies as Certifying Surgeon, under the Factory M.R.C.S. Eng., has been elected Medical Registrar to the Middlesex Acts, at Portaferry, in the county of Down ; at Cushendall, in the Hospital. county of Antrim ; at Blisworth, in the county of Northampton; WOHLMANN, ARTHUR S., M.D., B.S. Lond., has been appointed Official at Hutton Thornes, in the county of Yorkshire; at Caton, in the Balneologist to the Government of New Zealand. county of Lancashire; at Epping, in the county of Essex; at Dromore, in the county of Down; at Scotstown, in the county of Monaghan; at Clay Cross, in the county of Derby; at Alfreton, in the county of Derby; at Saddleworth, in the West Riding of the county of York ; and at Chipping Sodbury, in the county of Vacancies. Gloucester. For jurther injormation regarding each vacancy reference should be made to the advertisement (see Index). BETHNAL GREEN INFIRMARY.-Third Assistant Medical Officer. Marriages, and and Births, Deaths. Salary .ElOO per annum, with apartments, board, washing. BooTLE BOROUGH HOSPITAL, Liverpool.-Junior House Surgeon. Salary £80 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry. BIRTHS. BRADFORD ROYAL INFIRMARY.-Dispensary Surgeon, unmarried. MEAKlN.-On March 25th. at Cambridge, the wife of Captain Harold Salary E100 per annum, with board and residence. Meakin, M.D. Lond., Indian Medical Service, of a son. BRIDGWATER INFIRMARY.-HOUSE Surgeon. Salary .E80 a year, with POWELL.-On March 25th, at The Cottage, Bagshot, the wife of Major board and residence. Simpson Powell, M.D. Durh., Royal Army Medical Corps, of a CENTRAL LONDON SICK ASYLUM DISTRICT.-Assistant Medical Officer. daughter. - Salary .E120 per annum, with board and residence. Crrr OF LONDON UNION INFIRMARY.-Assistant Medical Superin- MARRIAGES. tendent, single, or widower without children. Salary £150 per anuum, with apartments, rations, and washing. ADDISON-GRAY.-On Tuesday, March 25th, at Trinity Presbyterian Church. by the Rev. Hugh Falconer, M.A., , CORNWALL COUNTY ASYLUM, Bodmin.-Junior Assistant Medical Kensington-park-road, Officer, unmarried. Salary .E120, rising to £150, with board, B.D.. Christopher Addison, M.D., F.R.C.S., youngest son of the &c. late Robert Addison, senior, of Stallingboro, Lincolnshire, to Isobel, apartments,COSFORD UNION, Suffolk, Bildeston District.-Medical Officer and youngest daughter of the late Archibald Gray, of 37. Holland- and of Mrs. St. Tower. Birnam, Perthshire. Public Vaccinator. Salary £72 per annum (exclusive of fees park. W., Gray, Mary’s BARNBY-DAVISON.-On at the to £76 per annum). April 2nd, parish church, Stokesley, approximatingCosFOaD UNION WORKHOUSE, Suffolk.-Medical Officer. Salary C50 Yorkshire, by the Rev. J. Groves, vicar of Redcar, Wm. Henry, & son of the late John Great per annum, with fees. L.R.C.P. S., youngest Eager Barnby, to of late Robert CUMBERLAND INFIRMARY, Carlisle.—Resident Medical Officer as Yarmouth. Hilda, second daughter the Davison, House Physician for first six months and House Surgeon for Southfield Villas, Middlesbro’. ensuing six months. Salary at rate of E80 and R100 per annum respectively, with board, lodging, and washing. DEATHS. SOUTH of Health. D L7RBAN, NATAL. AFRICA.-Medical Officer Salary BROwN.-On March 28th, at Robert at rate of E750 annum. Newlan ds, Crawley Down, Sussex, per Brown, in his 82nd EAST LONDOX HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN AND DISPENSARY FOR F.R.C.S., year. BRYANT.-On March at San in his 43rd Shadwell, E.-Medical Officer for the Electrical 22nd, Remo, year, Sidney WOMEN, Depart- William Bryant. M.D. Edin., M.R.C.S. Fox.-On March at Edward ment.EAST SUSSEX COUNTY Heath.-Second Assistant 28th, Clifton-park, Bristol, Long Fox, ASYLUM, Havward’s M.D. 70 Medical unmarried. .e200 with Oxon., F.R.C.P. Lond.. aged years. Officer, Salary per annum, board, PRESTON.-On March 16th. at William John lodging, washing. and attendance. 4, Abercorn-place, N.W., HEREFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon. Preston, Esq., M.D., aged 82 years. Salary £35, with board and residence. HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton. N.B.-.A. tee of 5s. is charged Jor the insertion oJ Notices of Births. -Resident House Physicians for six months. Honorarium jE2&. Marriages. and lJeath8.