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ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.—— At the meeting of the Council of this College on March 12the diplomas of M.R.C.S. were conferred upon the following two gentlemen who have passed the final examination of the Examining Board in England in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery and have complied with the by-laws :- Bertram Arthur Lloyd, Birmingham University ; and David Ranken. M.B., B.S. Lond., M.B., B.S. Durh., Durham University. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.-The following. degrees were conferred on March 7th :- M.D.—H. Beckton, Clare; and R. D. Smedley, Pembroke. M.B., B.C.-P. J. Verrall. Trinity. M.B.-S. P. Charr, Gonville and Caius ; The following were conferred on March 12the :- M.D.-H. Robinson and J. E. Spicer, Trinity; and A. E. Taylor,. Downing. 31.B., B.C.-P. H. Bahr, Trinity. M.B.-D. W. A. Bull, Gonville and Caius. B.C.-G. B. Fleming, King’s; G. Graham and C. W. Hutt, Trinity; T. C. Lucas, Clare; and H. H. Taylor, Pembroke. Mr. R. H. Biffen, M.A., of Emmanuel College, has been elected Professor of Agricultural Botany. Mr. C. L. Boulenger, B.A., King’s College, has been appointed assistant to the Superintendent of the Museum of Zoology. TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.-At the Final Examination in Medicine in Hilary term the following candi- dates were successful :- PART II. (Surgery).-William S. Thacker, John L. Phibbs, Thomas P. Dowley, and Alfred H. Smith. FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.- Amsterdam : Dr. M. Van Londen has been recognised as privat-docent of Neurology.-Baltimore (University of Mary- land): Dr. Francis Chisolm has been appointed Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology.-Berlin : Dr. Arthur Hefter has been appointed Professor of Pharmacology in succes- sion to Professor Oscar Liebreich ; Dr. Ernst Weber has been recognised as privat-docent of Physiology ; and Dr. Wilhelm Lange as privat-docent of Otology.-Bologna : Dr. Egisto Magni has been recognised as privat-docent of Surgery.-Bresla2c : Dr. Walter Bruck, Lecturer on Odon- tology, and Dr. Martin Thiemich, privat-docent of Children’s Diseases, have been granted the title of Professor.—Cracow : Dr. Alexander Baurowicz, privat-docewt of Laryi3gology, and Dr. Kasimir Majewski, privat-docent of Ophthalmo- logy, have been promoted to Extraordinary Professorships. - Erlangen :Dr. Philipp Yung of Greifswald has beed appointed Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology and Director of the University Gynaecological Clinic.- Giessen e Dr. Soetbeer, privat-docent of Children’s Diseases, has been promoted to an Extraordinary Professorship; Dr. Franz; Niirnberg has been recognised as privat-docent of Laryn- gology and Otology.-Heidelberg : Dr. Maximilian Neu has. been recognised asprivat-docent of Gynæcology.-Helsing,-. fors : Dr. Axel Cedercreutz has been recognised as privat- docent of Dermatology.-Königsberg : Dr. Friedberger, privat-. docent of Hygiene, has been granted the title of Professor.-. Leipsic: Dr. Ehrhard Riecke, privat docent of Dermatology, has been promoted to an Extraordinary Professorship.-- Marseilles :: Dr. Berg has been appointed Professor of Hydrology and Mineralogy in succession to Dr. Gerber.- Mnntpellier : Dr. Estor has been appointed Clinical Professor of the Surgery of Children.—Moscow : Dr. N. BerestnofF has been appointed Director of the University Bacteriological Institute in succession to the late Dr. Gabrichevski.- Munich : Dr. Hans von Baeyer has been recognised as private- docent of Orthopædic Surgery.-New York (College of Physi. cians and Surgeons): Dr. George J. Jackson has been appointed Professor of Dermatology in succession to Dr. George H. Fox, who has resigned.—Paris : Dr. Ribemont- Dessaignes has been appointed Professor of Midwifery.- Philadelphia (Jefferson Medical College): Dr. Edward R. Stitt has been appointed Lecturer on Tropical Medicine.- Würzburg : Dr. Wessely has been recognised as privat-docent of Ophthalmology.-Yale: Dr. Max Mailhouse has been appointed Professor of Neurology. 904

Mr. !John Poland, late senior surgeon to the City Orthopardic Hospital, has resigned the post of surgeon to the Royal National Orthopædic Hospital to which he was Parliamentary Intelligence. recently elected. NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS. A SCHOOL FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE IN AUSTRALIA. The Poisons and Bill. -The of North Dr. is Pharmacy Bishop Queensland, Frodsham, making THE House of Commons has to the of the House of with the Schools of Medicine at agreed proposal arrangements Tropical Lords to refer the Poisons and Pharmacy Bill to a joint committee of London and to send out to Australia a trained man Liverpool both Houses of Parliament. to initiate the work of an institute which it is proposed to Investigation of Sleeping Sickness. with a laboratory at Townsville, the principal city establish In the Civil Service Estimates which have been issued a of in Northern Queensland. If the institution can be started just grant the general management will be undertaken by the three £300 is included as a contribution towards the expenses of a central Australian Universities medical bureau proposed to be established in London for concerting measures having schools, Sydney, between the Powers interested in the sickness in and The Federal Government of combating sleeping Melbourne, Adelaide. Africa. Australia has agreed to subsidise the work at the rate of Parochial Jledical Officers (Scotland) Bill. £450 per annum and the Government of Queensland will Mr. CATHCART WASON has introduced into the House of Commons give 250; thus the institute will start with an assured his Bill to amend the law relating to the tenure of office of parochial annual income of 700, a sum which it is hoped will be medical officers in Scotland. It has been read a first time. increased by private subscriptions. HOUSE OF COMMONS. IRISH MEDICAL SCHOOLS’ AND GRADUATES’ MARCH 12TH. ASSOCIATION.-The thirty-first annual meeting of this TH1!RSD.A.Y, The association was held at the Hotel Great Central on Eyesight of Army Officers. March 17th Patrick’s Sir John W. Moore’s Mr. RAPHAEL asked the Secretary of State for War whether he would (St. Day). consider the advisability, considering the dearth of officers, of relaxing year of office having expired the chair was taken by the the rules and regulations with regard to the refusal to grant com- new President, Sir Charles Cuffe, K.C.B. Dr. F. A. de missions in the army to candidates who were short-sighted or who Thierry Mouillot of was elected President-elect, suffered from astigmatism; and whether this was the only country Harrogate which deprived itself of the service of eligible candidates by reason of Dr. was and the M. J. Bulger re-elected honorary treasurer, their wearing glasses.-Mr. HALDANE replied : The use of glasses is not vacancies in the council were filled up. Dr. J. J. Macan, prohibited. Candidates who have only one-fourth normal vision in each chairman of the council ; Dr. Kenneth Frazer, vice-chair- eye are accepted if the visual defect can be corrected by glasses up to a and Mr. T. Hobbs Dr. W. and standard of "fairly good" vision (i.e., normal in one eye and half man ; Crampton, Douglas, normal in the other), and if vision of one eye is normal one-sixth of Mr. G. W. Dawson, honorary secretaries, continue in office. normal vision in the other eye may be accepted, subject to correction At the dinner following the meeting nearly 200 members and by glasses up to one-half of normal. The question of reducing the standard still further has been under consideration and it was were The special of the association recently guests present. guests decided that it was not expedient to do so. were the Right Hon. Sir Edward Carson, P.C., K.C., and Professor B. C. A. President of Qaeen’s Medical Inspection in the Transvaal Mines. Windle, F.R.S., Mr. FELL asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies College, Cork. whether the English medical inspector employed to look after the health of the natives in the Transvaal mines had been dis- FOR OF recently SCHOLARSHIPS STUDENTS MIDWIFERY.- charged ; if so, what reason was alleged for this; and was another The London County Council, through the Education Depart- medical man to be appointed in his place.-Mr. CHURCHILL answered : ment, will proceed in July next to award six scholarships to Mr. C. L. Sansom, the officer in question, is to be retrenched, but I know of the reason or of the which may be are should nothing arrangements students in midwifery, and those who concerned contemplated by the Transvaal Government. take note that the last for forms to be sent day application Vaccination Post in is 18th. Candidates must furnish of Office Employees. Saturday, April Mr. T. F. RICHARDS asked the Postmaster-General whether there was less satisfactory evidence as to character, must be not than now any need for requesting the employees in his department as a 25 years of age and more than 40 on July 31st, 1908, and condition of service to be vaccinated; and seeing that much money was in this and entailed whether he would must be certified the Council’s medical officer as being in spent operation suffering by take the necessary steps to allow eafh employee to choose for himself good health. They must be resident, at the time of applica- equally with others not engaged by the Government.-Mr. BUXTON tion and award, within the area of the administrative county said in reply : I am not prepared to make any alteration of the rule in of London. They must also be prepared to satisfy the the direction suggested by the honourable Member. Council as to their need for pecuniary assistance for the Tuberculous Cows in Scot!and. purpose of training as midwives, and to enter into a bond with Mr. WATT asked the Secretary for Scotland to state how many cows were examined in under Article 3 of the Amended Order of sureties that intend to as midwives for two Scotland they practise 1899 in each of the years 1906 and 1907; how many of these were years among the poor within the area of the administrative certified to be affected with tuberculosis of the udder; and what was county of London. They will be required to pass a qualifying done with those cows so affected.-Mr. SINCLAIR forwarded the examination in from dictation and following written answer : Figures for 1907 are not yet available. From writing elementary arith- in of the the standard to that set returns possession Board, approximately 34,253 "inspections" metic, being substantially equivalent were carried out under Article 3 in the year 1906. It is impossible to out in the Board of Education Code of Regulations for Public give the number of cows examined. In approximately 2b7 cases the Elementary Schools, 1907 (Part IIL, Schedule VI.), with the udder was certified to be tuberculous. The Local Government Board has exception of mensuration of triangles. (Copies of the code no information as to what was done with such cases. can be obtained from Messrs. Wyman and Sons, Fetter-lane, MONDAY, MARCH 16TH. London. E.C., price 3d , exclusive of postage.) The questions Medical Inspection in Transvaal Mines. in arithmetic will be of a simple and practical character. Mr. FELL asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies The London Council states that be whether, having regard to the responsibilities of the Government County preference may under the Transvaal constitution in of the natives in to candidates who evidence of respect employed given produce satisfactory the mines, he would take care that Mr. Sansom, the medical officer training in general nursing or of practical experience of sick appointed by the Government to look after the health of the natives nursing among the poor. The value of the scholarships will and who had recently been retrenched by the Transvaal Government, was by some other efficient medical officer.-Mr. be this sum to the institution selected replaced equally ;S25, being payable by CHURCHILL replied : It is not in the power of the Secretary of State the applicant in part discharge of the fee for board, lodging, for the Colonies to make appointments to the Transvaal Civil and tuition ; while fees over and above £25 will be payable Service. MARCH 17TH. the student. The course of TUESDAY, by training, including practical the born. work at the will extend over a of six Ophthalmia of Newly institution, period Lord months. The must be held at the institutions ROBERT CECIL asked the President of the Local Government scholarships Board whether his attention had been called to the large number of recognised by the Central Midwives Board and approved by cases of blindness caused by ophthalmia of the newly born; whether he the Council, and the institutions at present in this category was aware that in the great majority of cases timeous treatment of this disease would this result from and whether he are Charlotte’s prevent ensuing; Queen Lying-in Hospital, Marylebone-road, would take steps, by circular or otherwise, to induce the local N.W. ; the East End Mothers Lying-in Home, Commercial- authorities, under Section 7 of the Infectious Diseases (Notification) road, E. ; the Clapham Maternity Hospital, Jeffreys-road, Act, 1889 to order that that Act should apply to this disease. S W. ; and the General York-road, Lam- - Mr. BURNS replied : I am aware that timely treatment Lying-in Hospital, will prevent blindness following on ophthalmia of the newly beth. Forms of application for the scholarships may be ob- born. This is fully recognised in the rules of the Central tained on application from the executive officer, Mr R. Blair, Midwives Board, which direct a midwife in attendance at a Education Offices, Victoria Embankment, London, W.C , and confinement, in any case of inflammation of the eyes of the child, however slight, to explain to the husband or nearest relative must be returned to the same address. The examination will or friend present that the case is one in which the attendance of a take place on Friday, May 15th next. registered medical practitioner is required and to give him a form for