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the total number now available was 48. The daily average society of medical men being formed, to be known as the at the Thirlmere Home was 30 and the number now available "Australian Medical Association." was 31. Of 55 patients discharged, 46 were improved, five Strychnine in Mistake for Quinine. were unimproved, and four died. The average residence of A woman at Wallsend, New South Wales, has died sud- discharged cases was 222 days. At King’s Tableland 101 after a to be cases had been admitted to the Home and 100 had been dis- denly taking powder supposed quinine. The labelled Most of the had followed indoor trades Government analyst deposed that the packet charged. patients consisted of and occupations. The treatment adopted in all cases was quinine wholly strychnine hydrochlorate and the stomach of the deceased woman contained the open-air or sanatorium system on the principles laid strychnine. down and Walther. A son of the deceased deposed to purchasing the quinine by Bodington, Brehmer, Dettweiler, and the write the label. He it method of calculating the resistance to the seeing druggist carried Wright’s specific to his who then took some of the - bacillus means of the index had received straight mother, powder. by opsonic recently The who the admitted that the- attention and observations on this method were now druggist dispensed powder being came his that the label was carried out at the home. Increase of occurred in packet from shop and in his weight He maintained that when it left the the 91 per cent. of the cases treated, the amount added varying writing. shop from 1 to 36 pounds and 14 pounds each. The packet contained quinine only. He could not possibly have averaging as he never had it in the increase in 55 arrested cases was 16 dispensed strychnine hydrochlorate average pounds.- in solution for The The Premier of New South Wales has decided to comply shop, except dispensing purposes. lasted six In the result the coroner said that with the request of a from the Alexandra Hos- inquest days. deputation the must be held and com- pital for Sick Children, Sydney, for a grant of E2000 to meet druggist responsible accordingly mitted him on a of current expenses and for a sum of .&5000 towards erecting charge manslaughter. nurses’ quarters being placed on the next estimates. He is Poisoning by Carbon Monoxide. also the on prepared to increase amount the estimates which An inquest was held in Sydney into the death of a woman may be earned annually as £ per .8 subsidy from f:2000 to who was found dead in her bed. It was shown that an £4000, provided the hospital continues the supervision of escape of gas had occurred. The Government analyst State children taken to the hospital for survey and will stated that the gas supplied by the Australian Gas Light admit them who for treatment any among require it.-A Company contained over 11 per cent. of carbon monoxide in vacancy has occurred the position of honorary indoor on account of the addition of water gas, while the percentage surgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, owing in English coal gas was about 6 per cent. The carbon of to the completion the term of service of Mr. C. P. B. monoxide being odourless was very dangerous to life when are invited the Clubbe. Applications for post.-Mr. S. A. an escape occurred. Dr. A. A. Palmer said that the cause of Ewing has been appointed specialist for diseases of the ear death was poisoning by carbon monoxide and the excessive and throat at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, in succession percentage of it in the illuminating gas accelerated the. to the late Dr. J. Cox. death. Care of Inebriates. Action for Malpraxis. The Victorian Government has completed arrangements for Dr. W. Trethowan of Perth, Western Australia, was recently establishing an inebriate home at Lara, a small agricultural defendant in an action in the Supreme Court of Western village some 36 miles from Melbourne, which was opened Australia and won the case. The plaintiff alleged that he on July lst. The New South Wales Government, on the sent for Dr. Trethowan to attend his son. Dr. Dawson, Dr. other hand, has abandoned the project of establishing Trethowan’s assistant, came and said that the boy had inebriate homes in the islands in the Hawkesbury River and influenza. Subsequently Dr. Trethowan attended and has not yet made provision for imprisoning confirmed advised his removal to hospital, where he died from typhoid drunkards in the Darlinghurst Gaol, as it proposed in lieu fever. The patient was differently treated in the hospital. thereof. Mr. G. Cuthbert was called for the plaintiff and said that Friendly Societies and the Medical Profession. he had been subpoenaed against his will. He had been told the counsel for the that a cer- The annual of the Societies’ by plaintiff eighteenth meeting Friendly tain medical man had made certain statements and Association of New South Wales was held in Sydney he was asked to bear them out.. He that when the annual stated that the of replied report membership he could not do so with truth. The judge expressed the 18 affiliated societies was 101,463. The total funds stood surprise at a medical man being into the witness- at The amount of sick was and dragged 960,668. pay paid .683,375 box in such a manner. Dr. Stewart and Dr. Tafe were the amount for funeral benefits was iE24,049. Other paid called but failed to respond and the case for the plaintiff figures were : amount paid for medical benefits, £87,465; closed. For the defence Dr. Dawson said that when he first total total receipts, £390,465; expenditure, £314,491; saw the boy he thought that the illness was influenza, but increase of income over and interest expenditure, £75,974; subsequently found that it was typhoid fever. He then were described to be earnings, 34,324. The figures advised removal to hospital but the boy’s mother objected. "indicative of a not to healthy condition, though yet equal Dr. Trethowan said that when he saw the he the the of Victoria and New Zealand." The further boy regarded figures report case as one of fever and removal to stated that the relations between the medical typhoid urged hospital. existing The judge said that there was not a particle of evidence to and the societies were fraternity friendly assuming proportions show that Dr. Trethowan was either negligent or unskilful, inimical to the best interests of the societies and that the and the jury completely exonerated both Dr. Trethowan and publication of the form of agreement with the friendly Dr. Dawson. as the council of the British societies, finally adopted by July 15th. Medical Association, " put a kind of cap upon everything." ______At the request of this Association a conference was arranged and after two sittings its business had been determined. The proposed agreement comprised some ten sections and several subclauses. The final paragraph in the agreement where the Medical News. wage limit came in was the rock upon which it was supposed the conference would differ. The medical officers materially UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-At examinations were resolute for a wage limit to be fixed at the rate of held the candidates satisfied the exa- E200 annum. The societies’ recently following per friendly representatives miners:- were to limit. a com- equally opposed any wage Finally PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION. was arrived at, to be referred to the various societies, promise PART I. as follows : the of the of the .6200 first, adoption principle and limit at to the Inorganic Chemistry, Experimental Physics, Biology.- William wage joining ; secondly, subsequently joining Daniel Arthur, Cardiff Intermediate School; Joe Edward Ashby, wage limit to be increased to .6300; and thirdly, members Epsom College; Vicente Atienza, Guy’s Hospital; Cuthbert H. earning above f.300 to be debarred from medical attendance ; Attenborough, King’s College; William Rawson Barlow, Middlesex London Thomas Izod this limit not to be The was Hospital; Grantley Barratt, Hospital; wage retrospective. report adopted. Bennett, Guy’s Hospital; William Butterfield, South-Western The honorary secretary urged the societies to see that they Polytechnic ; Thomas Philips Cole and David Arwyn Davies, Guy’s were not taken by surprise by the medical men. He was Hospital; Isaac Milton Davies and John Prosser Davies, University strongly opposed to the wage-limit, especially in country College, Cardiff ; Richard Denis Davy, London Hospital; Minnie He also said that in the Constance Dence, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine districts. metropolis opposition to for Women; Macormack Charles F. Easmon, Epsom College; the British Medical Association was being organised, a new William Henry Edmunds, University College, Cardiff; George 486

Ernest Elkington, University of Birmingham ; Abraham Solomon Middlesex Hospital; William Leslie, University Tutorial College ; Erulkar, Guy’s Hospital; Maud Frances Forrester-Brown, London William Guy Lidderdale, University of Durham; Reginald Walter (Koyal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women; John Torbet Little, University College, Cardiff; t1Ernest Mannering Morris, Smith Gibson, St. Mary’s Hospital ; Marjory Winifred Godden, Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon; George Vandeleur Ormsby, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women; and Stylianos George Papadopoulos, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Thomas Chivers Graves, Royal Veterinary College; Olive Gertrude Guy William Parry, Universitv College, Cardiff; †‡H. T. Ratallaek- Mary Gray, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Moloney, London Hospital; Eric Graham Sounders, St. Thomas’s Women; Geoffrey Hadfield, Plymouth Technical Schoola; Thomas Hospital; tjMaitland Scott, Guy’s Hospital; Julian Taylor, Uni- Edwin Hammond, Cheltenham College and private tuition; Cecil versity College; and fEdgar William Whiting, St. Bartholomew’s Rhodes Harrison, St. Mary’s Hospital ; Philip Henry Henson, Hospital. Epsom College; Bernard Whitchurch Howell, St. Bartholomew’s * Already passed in Biology. Hospital ; Frederic James Humphrys, St. Thomas’s Hospital ; John t Already passed in Inorganic Chemistry. Cecil Jefferson, Victoria University of Manchester; Cecil Meredyth 4. Already passed in Experimental Physics. Cardiff Jones, Municipal Secondary School and private study; PART II. William Henry Kauntze, Victoria University of Manchester; Skene Keith, Guy’s Hospital; Andrew Carey McAllister. King’s College; Organic Chemistry.-George Stanley Applegate, University College, John Finlayson Mackenzie, Guy’s Hospital; Melville Douglas bristol; Edward Alfred Barker, Guy’s Hospital and University Mackenzie, Epsom College; Thomas Hartley Martin, University of College, Bristol; Thomas Beaton, University College, Cardiff ; Liverpool; William Matthews, Guy’s Hospital; Philip Henry Cyril Carlyle Beatty, London Hospital; Alured C. L. O’S. Bilder- Mitchiner, St. Thomas’s Hospital; John Forbes O’Connell, beck, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Sydney Guy Billington, Uni- Epsom College ; Charles Cyril Okell, private tuition; William versity of Birmingham; Gilbert Alan Blake, Guy’s Hospital; David Owen, University College, Cardiff; Donovan Blaise George Francis Bradley, London Hospital ; Gertrude Brooks, Pascall, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital ; Richard Douglas Passey, I London (Royal Free Hospital) school of Medicine for Women; Guy Hospital; Cecil Joseph Herbert Pearson, London Hospital; Arthur Barrett Cardew, Middlesex Hospital; Albert James Clarke, William Agard Pocock, Cheltenham College; Arthur Leslie II. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Irene Nancy Clough, London (Royal Rackham, Epsom College; Sidney Bertram Radley, Victoria Uni- Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women; John Warren versity of Manchester; Noel Ravenchil Rawson, London Hospital; Clouston, London Hospital; John Henry Cobb, University of James Ewen Robertson-Ross, Epsom College; Samuel Pryce Sheffield; Ardeshir Koyaji Contractor, University College and Rowlands, University College, Cardiff, and Tutorial School, Grant Medical College, bombay; Frank Cook, Guy’s Hospital; Penarth ; George William Shore and Sidney Smith, King’s College; Herbert William Cooke, University College, Bristol ; Arnold Douglas Benham Spence, Epsom College; William Steuart, St. Charles S. Courts, University College; Herbert Davies, University Bartholomew’s Hospital; Robert Swyer, London Hospital; Albert College; James Anthony Delmege, Guy’s Hospital; Gertrude Joseph Tonkinson, West Bromwich Municipal Secondary School; Margaret Dobrashian, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Thomas Burges Welch, St. Mary’s Hospital; Eva Muriel White, Medicine for Women; Thomas Peters Edwards, St. Bartholomew’s Bedford College; Cecil Leonard Williams, Plymouth Technical Hospital; Basil Franklin Eminson and Ralph Franklin Eminson, Schools ; Thomas Davies Williams, London Hospital; and Edward Charing Cross Hospital; David Benjamin Evans, University Alfred Wilson. Middlesex Hospital. College, Cardiff ; Eric Alfred Charles Fazan, Middlesex Hospital; Inorganic Chemistry and Experimental Physics.-Oscar Newrick James Maurice Foord University of Leeds; James Rocheid Forrest, William Brown, King’s College and Westminster, Hospital; George private study; William Charles Fowler, University College; Rowland Dobrashian, Bootham School; *George Edward Genge- Vincent Glendining, Guy’s Hospital; Wilfrid Montague Glenister, Andrews, Guy’s Hospital; *Douglas Medlicott Gibson, St. Thomas’s St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Abdul Hamid Gool, Guy’s Hespital; Hospital; "Melville Hocken, London Hospital; Richard Orthin Alexander Keith Hamilton, University of Liverpool; Frederick Hilton Jones, Guy’s Hospital; *James Duncan Lyle and *Harrold Wood Hamilton, Middlesex Hospital; Reginald Gordon Hill, St. Winnock Parrott, London Hospital; *Cresswell Lee Pattison, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Robert Hamer Hodges, King’s College; Mary’s Hospital; George Harold Pearson, London Hospital; George Ashby Hooton, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Herbert Le.lie Frederick Harold Rees, Cardiff Intermediate School ; Arthur Hopkins, Guy’s Hospital; Charlotte Leighton Houlton, London Leonard Shearwood, Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon ; William (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine ior Women; Christopher Simpson, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Winifred Christian Squires, Martin Ingoldby, London Hospital; James Moncrieff Joly, Chelten- London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women; ham College and Guy’s Hospital; Duncan Ince Jones, University Harold Eustace Thorn, St. Paul’s School; and Frederick Edward College; Charles Dones Killpack, Guy’s Hospital; Leon Levene Saxby Willis, Dulwich College. and William Howard Lister, University College; Martin W. Little- Inorganic Chemistry and Biology.-Arthur Ernest Bullock, St. wood, St. Thomas’s Hospital; Joseph Howell Lloyd, private study; Paul’s School; ’4’Charlotte Grace Judge, London (Royal Free Hos- Gerald Roche Lynch, St. Mary’s Hospital; Roy Kyffin Mallam, pital) School of Medicine for Women; Edward Athol Clarence London Hospital; Geoffrey Marshall, Guy’s Hospital; Henry Langton, Epsom College; Claude John Burgoyne Pasley, Kingss Linnington Martyn, King’s College; Pestanji Manekji Másiná, College and Westminster Hospital; and Walter Salisbury, Uni- University College; Charles Edward Hamilton Milner, King’s versity College, Bristol. College; Patrick John Monaghan, Guy’s Hospital; Harold Arundel Experimental Physics and Biology.-Edward Smith Abraham, Uni- Moody, King’s College; John Grimson Moseley, London Hospital; versity College, Bristol; Edward Bach, University of Birmingham; Clement Treves Neve, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Alfred Arthur Henry Washington Batchelor, Berkhampsted School ; Raymond Edmund Newth, Kings College; Joan Fraser Parker, London Brewitt-Taylor. St. Barcholomew’s Hospital; John Lloyd Davies, (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women; Bernard University College, Cardiff; John Yerbury Dent, King’s College; Rayne Parmiter, Guy’s Hospital ; Hubert Charles George Joseph De Silva, St. Mary’s Hospital; Pattie Ruth Elliott, Uni- Pedler, University College ; Sara Louisa Penny, London versity College, Nottingham ; Abel Evans, University College, (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women; James Cardiff; William Stanley George, Guy’s Hospital; Mary Isabel Potter, London Hospital; Camilo Antonio Prada, St. Bar- Hemingway, Ladies’ College, Cheltenham ; John Higgins. London tholomew’s Hospital ; William James Aitkin Quine, private Hospital; Charles Eric Sweeting Jackson, St. Mary’s Hospital ; study ; Edward Gordon Reeve, Guy’s Hospital; (ieorge George Battersby Jameson, Victoria University of Manchester; FitzPatrick Rigden, King’s College and Westminster Hos- Gwilym Rhys Pennant and Thomas Harold Phillips, University pital ; Stanley Ritson, King’s College; Ffrangcon Roberts, Epsom College, Cardiff ; Reginald Norman Porritt, Epsom College ; College; Russell Rodgers, Guy’s Hospital; Frederic Sanders, t William Barwise Sanders, University Tutorial College; Aubrey London Hospital; William Henry Price Saunders, Epsom College; John Colby Tingey, University of Liverpool; and James Vaughan- Edward Gustave Schlesinger, Guy’s Hospital; Charles Frank James, University College, Cardiff. Schuler, St. Thomas’s Hospital; Emmanuel Prinski Scott and Inorganic Chemistry only.- ‡Francis Dighton Annesley, Guy’s William Geoffrey Shaw, London Hospital; Francis Robert Bradley Hospital; Lancelot Gerard Bourdillon, Tonbridge School; lIsrael Skrimshire, St. Thomas’s Hospital; Geoffrey Troughton Smith, Feldman, City of London School; *tLeonard S. Kempthorne, Guy’s Hospital; Reginald Gershom Sparkes, St. Mary’s Hospital; University College; Horace Mather, Cheltenham College and Guy’s Ernest Gerald Stanley, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; James Lennox Hospital; *Francis Henry Balfour Percival, St. Bartholomew’s Stewart, Guy’s Hospital; Ludwig Siebert Benjamin Tasker, Uni- Hospital; and Arthur Richard Sharrod and Joseph Alexander versity College; Horatio Thomas, University College, Cardiff ; Tsoi-A-Sue, London Hospital. Francis Richard Todd and John Tremble, St. Bartholomew’s Hos- Experimental Physics only.-*Mabel Kate Bishopp, London (Royal pital ; Arthur Bayford G. Underwood, University College ; William Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women; t George James Henry Vincent, St. Mary’s Hospital; Richard Trevor Vivian, St. Bowen aud Frederick William Theodore Clemens, University Bartholomew’s Hospital; Michel Demètre T. Viasto, University Collegp, Bristol; *t Ardeshir Koyaji Contractor, University College College; Harry Bertram Walker, London Hospital; Joseph Stephen and Grant Medical College, Bombay; *†Cyril Ernest A. Goddard, Wallace, University College; George Edgar Septimus Ward, University College; *†Philip Withers Green, St. Mary’s Hospital; Middlesex Hospital; Haroid Percy Warner, Guy’s Hospital; Allen Coulter Hancock, Plymouth College and Technical Schools ; Harvey H. Vincent Welch, St. Thomas’s Hospital; and Horace *tStuart Leighton Heard, London Hospital; *†Thomas Herbert Richard Wilson, Dalston Technical College and Paddington County Holroyd, University of Birmingham ; *†George William Blomfield Council Technical Laboratory. James, Derby Municipal Technical College ; Leslie Morddount N.B.-This list, published for the convenience of candidates, is issued Ladell, London Hospital; Ronald Guy Lyster, Berkhamsted subject to its approval by the Senate. School; *tMargaret Josephine McEnerv. Birkbeck College and A new course on school hygiene, lectures, demon- University Tutorial College; Henry Ray Parsloe, Plymouth including Technical Schools ; Alexander Frederic l’otter. St. Thomas’s Hos- strations, ana practical work, has been ananged to begin on pital ; Frederick John Rayner Simpson, King’s College; Charles Ojt. 16th at University College. The couise will be given by Marshall Stailard, Victoria University of Manchester; Tltuoert Professor Henry R. Kenwood and Dr. H. Meredith Richards. Edward S. Waddington, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; *†Godfrey It is to meet the of school Alan Walker, Birkbeck and Epsom Colleges; *Honoria Josephine designed requirements teachers, Wallace, University Tutorial College; and Francis Clark Watson, school lecturers, and those qualifying for school inspectorships University of Leeds. and for school medical officers. A certificate of profioiency Biology only.-Edward Nettleton Balme, St. George’s Hospital; will be granted to those who qualify themselves. Kenneth Dobing Bean, University ot Leeds; †‡Andrew Johu Chillingworth and Percival Uourtney Cole, St. Bartholomew’s Hos pital; Holt’ Creasy, Guy’s Hospital; Gertrude Dearnley, London FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.-Berlin: (Royal Free Hospital) School o: Medicine for Women ; †‡ Davic Dr. Victor Schmieden has been recognised as privat docent of Marcus Hanson. Umversitv College; Adolph Gottlob Hieber, Dr. Kollarits has University Edward Sancton Walls Hirsch Surgery.-Budapest: Eugen been recognised College, Bristol; as docent of Dr. Oskar St. Mary’s Hospital; t4’.G. Barrowclough Horrocks, Victoria Uni privat Neuropathology.- Erlangen: versiuy of Manchester and private study; †‡ Francis Harry Kely Schulz, privat-docent of Physiology, has been granted the 487 title of Extraordinary Professor.- Giessen : Dr. Dannemann, in a house which was acquired for the purposes of hospital privat-docent of Psychiatry, has been promoted to an Extra- extension. When it is razed, as must very soon be the case, ordinary Professorship.-Geneva: Dr. R. de Seigneux, privat- accommodation will have to be found elsewhere. It is to’be docent of Midwifery and Gynaecology, has been promoted to hoped that such devoted sick attendants will not be left an Extraordinary Professorship.-Heidelberg:.’ Dr. Georg homeless. Herschel has been recognised as privat.docent of Surgery.- Marburg: Dr. R. van der Velden has been recognised as MEDICAL MAGISTRATE. - The name of Mr. privat-docent of Anatomy. Graham William White, L.D.S.R.C.S.Irel., has been added to the commission of the peace for the borough of Newport PRESENTATION TO A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER.- (Mon.). Mr. Ivor Henry Davies, L.R.C.P. & S. Edin., L.F.P.S. Glasg., was entertained at dinner at the Porth Hotel, Porth, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, BRISTOL.- A Treasury Glamorganshire, on July 31st, and was afterwards presented grant of R4000 has been awarded to University College, with an address, three silver fruit stands, and a bon-bon Bristol. as a mark of and esteem on the occasion of his dish, respect DEATHS OF EMINENT FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN.- leaving Porth. The deaths of the following eminent foreign medical men are CLEANLINESS OF THE MILK-SUPPLY IN CARDIFF. announced :- Dr. Mikhael Radkevich, privat-docent of - It is gratifying to find that the public generally are therapeutics in the University of Moscow.-Dr. Frederick R. beginning to realise that where milk is produced there must Weber, professor of medicine in the Milwaukee Medical be cleanly surroundings. The model regulations under the College.- Dr. Schlagdenhauffen, formerly professor of Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Order require that, at the toxicology and of physics in Nancy.-Dr. Willoughby D. time of milking, the udder and teats of a cow shall be Miller, professor of odontology in the Ann Arbor University, thoroughly clean and for neglecting to carry out this Michigan. He was a medical graduate of Berlin and was regulation a woman was recently fined 40s. by the stipendiary well known both in Germany and in America on account of magistrate at Cardiff. his bacteriological researches in connexion with the mouth THE and teeth. He also published a work on Conservative WEST AFRICAN MEDICAL STAFF.-The Dentistry. promotions of the following officers take effect from the dates given: Mr. W. H. Langley, C.M.G., principal medical officer in the Gold Coast from August 3rd; Mr. J. P. Fagan, deputy principal medical officer in Northern Nigeria from August 3rd ; and Dr. St. G. Gray, senior medical officer in Southern Nigeria from April 19th. Dr. M. Cameron Blair, Parliamentary Intelligence. medical officer in Northern Nigeria, is promoted to be senior medical officer in Southern Nigeria from August 3rd. Dr. NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS. J. B. Tombleson, medical officer in Southern Nigeria, resigns The Physical Condition of Glasgow Children. his appointment on the ground of ill-health from August 7th. The following gentlemen have been appointed to the staff : AN important report made by Dr. W. LESLIE MACKENZIE (medical Mr. P. F. Foran, Southern Nigeria, June 8th ; Mr. W. A. member of the Local Government Board for Scotland) and Captain A, Trumper, Northern Nigeria, June 29th; Mr. W. F. Todd, FOSTER (inspector of physical training) on a collection of statistics as to the physical condition of children attending the public schools of Sierra Leone, August 3rd; Mr. F. C. Hepburn, Southern I Dr. H. S. Southern the School Board for Glasgow has been printed as a Parliamentary Nigeria, August 10th; Coghill, Nigeria, and on is and Mr. T. R. Southern blue-book. The tables diagrams which the report based have August 17th ; Beale-Browne, Nigeria, been with the of the teachers in 73 17th. compiled cooperation primary August and higher-grade schools in Glasgow grouped in four divisions accord- THE JAMSETJEE JEEJEEBHOY HOSPITAL NURSING ing to the character of the districts in which they were situated. Returns were made for 72,857 children, of whom 36,883 were boys ASSOCIATION.—We learn from an article in the Times of India were Dr. MACKENZIE and FOSTER of 6th that the committee of the and 35,974 girls. Captain state that July Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy this is the most extensive ever undertaken in Britain as has its investigation Hospital Nursing Association, Bombay, just published to the and weights of school children in primary and for 1906 and the information in heights higher- report judging by supplied grade schools. The tables and diagrams may legitimately be held to our the document is an contemporary evidently unassuming be a provisional standard for future investigations. record of good work performed under exceptional difficulties. In October last 18 members of the nursing staff, or about The Public Health Bill. 20 of the were laid per cent. total number, simultaneously up A committee of the House of Lords, including the Duke of with had to typhoid fever. Instead of nursing they be NORTHUMBERLANND, the Earl of ONSLOW, the Earl of DONOUGHMORE, nursed, but, thanks to the devotion manifested by the remainder Lord FITZMAURICE, and Lord ALLENDALE has been appointed to of the staff, the ordinary work of the establishment did not examine the clauses of the Public Health Bill. suffer to any great extent. In spite of this mischance the committee is able to announce an important extension in the nursing of the hospital. Several wards which formerly were looked after by native ward-boys and ayahs HOUSE OF LURDS. have now been placed under the supervision of trained nurses. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8TH. This completes the nursing of the main hospital as well as of The Vaccination Bill. the extra Parsi ward. The committee also to be soon hopes THE House went into committee on the Vaccination Bill. able to deal with the eye and out-patients’ departments and Lord BALFOUR of BURLEIGH moved an amendment to the effect that is drawing up proposals to this end for submission to Govern- the obligation of making the statutory declaration required by the Bill ment. One of the it has in view is in order to obtain exemption should in the first instance rest upon the things kept steadily father of the child. He out that the amendment would restore the of native Indian pointed training nurses, Parsi and Hindu, who the Bill to the form it was in when it was originally introduced. An when fully trained are so much in demand by the general amendment extending the right of making a statutory declaration of public that they command salaries which their teachers objection to each parent was subsequently introduced in the Standing Committee of the House of Commons, but on that occasion it was cannot afford to Hitherto one of the chief equal. troubles strongly opposed by Mr. Burns and Dr. Macnamara, the representa- the committee has had to contend with has been the tives of the Local Government Be ard. housing of the probationers, but the " Wadia Home for The Earl of CREwE resisted Lord Balfour’s amendment. The fact that either make the declaration would con- Nurses" is now and will be parent might statutory approaching completion duce to the convenience of parties availing themselves of the Bill. ready for occupation next May. This home has been On a division the amendment was carried by 30 votes to 25. well designed and is substantially built, but before it The Bill was reported to the House. can be used furniture must be at a cost of procured B1Llte1’ and Margarine Bill. Rs. 15,000. To meet this the Government has granted the has The House also considered the Butter and Margarine Bill in Com- Rs. 7500 ; for balance the committee to depend mittee. on "the philanthropic public of Bombay." No doubt Earl CARRINGTON moved a new clause to give the Local Government the money will be forthcoming, as well as any additional Board power alter inquiry to make regulations to prohibit the use of which undesirable or to limit their use in sums that be The Wadia home will not be preservatives they thought may required. the preparation and sale of butter, margarine, or milk-blended butter. able to accommodate the whole of the nursing staff of the The new clause was agreed to. Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital. At present 28 nurses are living The Bill was ultimate)y reported to the House.