1824 THE ANNUS MEDICUS 1912. a Medical Register for the Dominion of Canada, which should knighthoods. -Sir ALEXANDER OGSTON became a Knight fit that country for the application of Part II. of the Medical Commander of the Royal Victorian Order ; Mr. G. Act of 1886. LENTHAL CHEATLE, C.B., and Dr. PERCIVAL HORTON- At the summer meeting of the Council an interesting SMITH HARTLEY, M.V.0., were made Companions of the debate took place upon the report of the Education Com- Order ; and Mr. W. NETTERVILLE BARRON was appointed mittee dealing with the character of preliminary examina- a Member of the Fourth Class. Dr. ANDREW BALFOUR, tions to be undergone by candidates for entrance to the director of the Government Research Laboratories at the medical profession. The result of the discussion, as summed Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum, received a Com- up by the President, was that it was generally agreed that panionship of the Order of St. Michael and St. George ; the provision of secondary education in England was chaotic and Dr. T. M. NAIR, a commissioner of the municipal at the present moment. It was felt by the Council that corporation of Madras, the Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal. secondary education should terminate in some common and Royal Victorian Order. coordinated manner with a leaving certificate, so that all Lieutenant-Colonel Sir RICHARD HAVELOCK CHARLES, candidates for the professions should have received an K.C.V.O., serjeant-surgeon to the King, was promoted to adequate training before turning to their special subjects. a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. The lack of preliminary education in the students entering Dr. WILLIAM JOSEPH EssERY was also appointed a the medical profession at some of the portals was held to Commander of the Order. Lieutenant-Colonel ROBERT be a serious drawback to their after success. BIRD, C.I.E., professor of surgery in the Medical College Among the penal cases two were of particular interest. at Calcutta, and Dr. WILLIAM TURNER, surgeon to the The first was the case of a qualified medical man who had Colonial Hospital at Gibraltar, were appointed Members. associated himself in a professional capacity with the Mr. VINCENT SUTHERLAND HODSON, M.B. Oxon., was Sandow Curative Institute and whose name was therefore appointed a Member of the Fourth Class of the Order, and erased from the Medical Register. The decision was in the Mr. H. E. W. HOFFMElSTER, surgeon-in-ordinary to Princess circumstances inevitable, and received the endorsement of Henry of Battenberg, received a similar honour. the medical profession, but the result, as judged by the Foreign Orders. comments on cases in a similar category, has proved that the The decoration of the Third Class of the Imperial Ottoman public does not understand the principles involved, and has Order of the Medjidieh was given to Major HOWARD ENSOR, little chance of receiving clear guidance upon them. The D.S.O., R.A.M.C., and to Dr. CHARLES TODD, of the Public second case worthy of particular note, which was heard at Health Department at Cairo. the winter of the was a case of meeting Council, personation. His Majesty the EMPEROR of CHINA by an Imperial Edict It was found that there continued to appear on the Medical conferred the Order of the Double Dragon : the Insignia of Register the name of a qualified medical man who had been the First Class of the Third Grade to Mr. DuGALD CHRISTIE, dead for some years, giving an opportunity to an unqualified C.M.G., medical officer for the prevention of plague, Mukden person, not subject to the jurisdiction of the General Medical’ Station; the Insignia of the Second Class of the Third Council, to practise medicine by usurping a registered name Grade to Mr. ALEXANDER RUSSELL YOUNG and Mr. and qualification. The situation appears never to have DAVID DICKSON MUIR, medical officers for the prevention of arisen before, and the occurrence is certain now to be an plague, Mukden Station ; and the Insignia of the Third extremely rare one, as the official roll of the profession is Class of the Third Grade to Dr. ROBERT JOHN GORDON, of maintained at a high level of accuracy with the greatest the Irish Presbyterian Mission. care and diligence. Not long ago many openings for such Dr. EGBERT SUMNER VERDON received the Insignia of as was out at different times personation existed; pointed Commander of the Hafidian Order conferred upon him by in the columns of THE LANCET, where the blame was in the the Sultan MULAI-ABD-EL-HAFID of Morocco. main allotted to the medical whose at profession, members, Other Honours. that time, appeared to be positively reluctant to help. Now On the occasion of the opening of the University of Hong- the medical profession are responding to the regular invita- Kong in the spring the Hon. Sir Ho KAI, C.M.G., who has tion of the registrar with good results. taken a prominent part in the movement for the establish- ment of the University, received the honour of knighthood, HONOURS TO MEDICAL MEN. and during the year Sir W. M. A. ANDERSON, AT.V.O.; who The list of honours issued at the commencement the of as honorary surgeon to the Princess Royal was summoned to year was much shorter than the corresponding lists of pre- Egypt to attend to the late Duke of FIFE, also became a vious but this was in accordance with years, only general knight; Major JAMES DAVIDSON, I.M.S., was appointed a expectations, the Durbar Honours List having been issued Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in recogni- only a few weeks previously. tion of the services in connexion with the recent operations flonoicrs. lberv Year against the Abors on the North-Eastern Frontier of India ; Six medical knights were created and one Companion of and His MAJESTY approved of the special promotion of the Bath added to the roll. The knights were Sir JOHN Colonel Sir DAVID BRUCE, C.B., F.R.S., to the rank of HAWTREY BENSON (President of the Royal College of Surgeon-General, in consideration of his eminent services in Physicians of Ireland), Sir ROBERT JOHN COLLIE, Sir JAMES the cause of science. __ MACKENZIE DAVIUSOX, Sir GEORGE HENRY SAVAGE, Sir BERTRAM COGHILL ALAN WINDLE, and the Hon. Sir THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT. ARTHUR NEWS- CHARLES KINNAIRD MACKELLAR. Dr. The attention of our readers has been so closely fixed HOUiE the (medical officer to Local Government Board) upon the National Insurance Act throughout the year that was made a Companion of the Bath. it would be entirely unnecessary here to make any attempt Birthday Honours. at a lengthy Résumé af the various chapters in a story the On the occasion of His Majesty’s birthday, in addition end of which still remains to be told. We shall content to the honours mentioned in the section dealing with the ourselves, therefore, with a mere outline of events. , Services, Sir RiCEMAN J. GODLEE received a baronetcy, and At the beginning of the year we were confronted with the Sir BERKELEY G. A. MOYNIHAN, Sir J. BLAXD-SUTTON, position that the National Insurance Bill, to the dismay of Sir A. GARROD THOMAS, and Sir STCLAIR THOMSOX many thoughtful people, had passed into law within eight