1397 THE NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL. Appointments. Successjul applicants for Vacancies, Secretaries of Public Institutions, MR. LLOYD GEORGE’S INTENTIONS. and others possessing information suitable for this column, are i,n.-vited to to THE LANCET directed to the Sub- As we are to press we have received forward Office, going personal Editor, not later than 9 o’clock on the Thursday morning of each assurances from the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to week, such information for gratuitous publication. his intention with to the to regard capitation payment COUTTS, D. K., F.R.C.S. Eng., M.B., B.S. Lond., has been appointed medical men under the insurance scheme. Mr. Lloyd Honorary Assistant Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. CURRIE, J. R., M.D. Glasg., D.P.H., has been appointed Medical Officer George has provided a sum of £4,200,000 for the provision of Health of Fife. of medical attendance including drugs, dressings, and GIBSON, ALEXANDER G., M.D. Oxon., M.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointed Honorary Assistant Pathologist to the Radcliffe In- appliances used in domiciliary treatment. The calcula- firmary, Oxford. tion is that this will the of HALLAM, PHILIP, M.B., Ch.B. Edin., has been appointed District permit average payment Medical Officer by the Williton (Somerset) Board of Guardians. a capitation fee estimated at 6s. per head for each MALLESON, H. C., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., L.D.S.Eng., has been appointed Dental Surgeon to Christ’s Hospital (Bluecoat School), person insured for medical attendance and the drugs, Horsham. dressings, and appliances used in domiciliary treatment. MITCHELL. ALEXANDER JOHN, M.D., Ch.B. Glasg., has been appointed District Medical Officer by the Gloucester Board of Guardians. The amount will be increased on the advice of the Central MOULD. G. T., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointed Insurance Office in districts where the Insurance Com- Assistant in the Refraction Department for School Children, Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. missioners are advised that sickness is excessive. In addi- PONTON. JOHN ALFRED WILLIAM, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. Dub., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Ottery St. Mary tion he has made arrangements to provide a sum of f.l,OOO,OpO (Devon) Urban District Council. annually for the maintenance of sanatoriums, and in that SHEPHERD, THOMAS WILLIAM, L.R.C.S. Edin., L.S.A. Lond., has been appointed District Medical Officer by the Launceston way removes from the scope of domiciliary treatment a (Cornwall) Board of Guardians. considerable proportion of phthisical patients who would otherwise make serious calls upon the sum available for domiciliary medical attendance and provision of drugs. He Vacancies. has also provided an annual sum of £1,500,000 for maternity benefit, and out of this it is estimated that one- For further informalion regarding each vacancy reference should be roughly made to the advertisement (see Index). third will be paid to members of the medical profession. The Chancellor of the the desira- BANBURY, HORTON INFIRMARY.-HouseSurgeon. Salary P,80 per annum, Exchequer recognises with board and residence. bility of allowing some system of choice of medical men in BARNSLEY, BECKETT HOSPITAL.-Second House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary £100 per annum and all found. the case of new participants in the scheme, and looks BENENDEN, KENT, NATIONAL SANATORIUM.-Assistant Medical Officer.. favourably upon the institution of a wide panel of local unmarried. Salary £100 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing. medical men willing to serve. BIRKENHEAD BOROUGH HOSPITAL.-Junior Resident House Surgeon. Salary B80 per annum, with board and washing. The Central Insurance Office, in giving its approval to BooTLE BOROUGH HOSPITAL.-Honorary Physician. arrangements proposed to be made by any approved society or BRIGHTON, ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL.-Assistant Pathologist. Salary JB100 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry. health committee with medical men, and in other matters, will BURY INFIRMARY.-Senior House Surgeon and Junior House Surgeon. .B110 and annum act on the advice of the Committee to be set under Salary E80 per respectively, with board, residence, Advisory up and washing. the Bill; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer recognises CANTERBURY, KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL.-House Physician, unmarried. ;E70 annum, with and on the Committee the of the Salary per board, lodging, that Advisory representation washing. medical profession must be adequate ; or, as an alternative, CAPE TowN, SOUTH AFRICAN COLLEGE.-Professor of Physiology. Salary oE500 per annum. that a special Medical Advisory Committee should be CHELTENHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House Physician, unmarried. constituted. Salary jB80 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing. CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Victoria Park, E.—Laryngologist. COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE HOSPITAL.-Junior House Surgeon. Salary £80 per annum, with rooms, board, washing, and attendance. BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. DEVONPORT, ROYAL ALBERT HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon for six months, unmarried. Salary at rate of £50 per annum, with board, apartments, and laundry. ’ KING EDWARD MEMORIAL Manchester. EALING, HOSPITAL.-Physician, Surgeon, ComnsH, J. E., LIMITED, 16, St. Ann’s-square, Gynoecologist, and Laryngologiat. Talks with Sanatorium Patients. By Gilbert Heatheote, Medical FINCHLEY, URBAN DISTRICT OF.-Medical Officer of Health and School Officer, Crossley Sanatorium. Price ls. 6d. net. Medical Officer. Salary B3SO per annum. HACKNEY UNION INFIRMARY, Homerton.-Second Assistant Medical Jena. FISOHER, GUSTAV, Officer, unmarried. Salary R120 per annum, with rations, apart- Lehrbuch der Kinderheilkunde. Herausgegeben von Professor Dr. ments, washing, and attendance. E. Feer, Direktor der Univ. Kinderklinik in Heidelberg. Price, HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL.-Assistant County Medical Officer of paper, M.11.50 ; bound, M.12.50. Health. Salary JB250 pet annum. Die Hodgkinsche Krankheit. Von Dr. Kurt Ziegler, Privatdozent’ HASTINGS, EAST SUSSEX HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon. Salary in Breslau. Price M.9. at rate of £50 per annum, with rooms, board, and washing. Vergiftungen durch Tiere und animalische Stoffe. Ein Grundriss HELLINGLY, EAST SUSSEX COUNTY ASYLUM.-Locum Tenens Assistant der zoologischen Toxikologie fiir praktische Aerzte un Natur- Medical Officer for about four and a half months. Salary 4 guineas wissenschaftler. Von Friedrich Kanngiesser, Dr. med. et phil.,, a week, with board, lodging, washing. &c. Docent an der Universitat Neuchatel. Price M.l. INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE, India Office, London.-Twelve Commissions in His Majesty’s Indian Medical Service. HIRSCHWALD, AUGUST, Berlin. LANCASHIRE EDUCATION COMMITTEE.-School Medical Inspector. Veroffentlichungen aus dem Gebiete des Militar-Sanitatswesens. Salary .E250 per annum. Herausgegeben von der Medizinal-Abteilung des Königlicht LEEDS HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.-House Surgeon for Preussischen Kriegsministeriums. six months. Salary at rate of .E50 per annum, with board. ’ Heft 48. Beiträge zur Lehre von der sog. " Weilschen Krankheit." LEICESTER INFIRMARY.-Assistant House Physician for six months. Klinische und atiologische Studien an der Hand einer Epidemiei Salary at rate of JE60 per annum, with board, apartments, and in dem Standorte Hildesheim wahrend des Sommers, 1910.. washing. Von Generalarzt Dr. Hecker und Stabsarzt Professor Dr. Otto.. LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY FOR CHILDREN CLINICAL SCHOOL.-Resident Price M.8. House Physician. Salary at rate of C60 per annum, with board and Heft 47. Das Königliche Hauptsanitätsdepot in Berlin. Price M.2. lodging. Heft 48. Ueber ein Eiweisareagena zur Harnprufuug fiir dasi LONDON HOSPITAL, Whitechapel, E.-Medical Registiarship. Salary £100 Untersuchungsbesteck der Sanitiitsoffiziere. Vortrage undt per annum. Also Surgical Registrarship. Salary oElOO per annum. Berichte aus der Sitzung des Wissenschaftlichen Senats beideir LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-Three Medical Men for Missionary Kaiser Wilhe lms-Akademie fiir das militärärztliche Bildungswesent Service. am 6 Mai. 1909. Zusammengestellt in der Medizinal-Abteilung; MACCLESFIELD GENERAL INFIRMARY.-Senior House Surgeon. Salary des Königlich Preussischen Kriegsministeriums. Price M1.60. ,E1OO per annum, with board and residence. MANCHESTER, ST. MARY’S HOSPITALS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.- AND Co. New and1’ LOMMANS, GREEN, London, York, Bombay, Two House Surgeons. Salary at rate of £50 per annum, with Calcutta. board and residence. Treatment of Neurasthenia by Teaching of Brain Control. By Dr.. MANCHESTER, HULME DISPENSARY. Dale-street, Stretford-road.-House Roger Vittoz. Translated by H. B. Brooke. Price 3s. 6d. net. Surgeon, unmarried. Saiary £150 per annum, with rooms. 1398

MARGATE, ROYAL SEA BATHING HOSPITAL FOR SURGICAL TUBER- CULOSIS.-Junior Resident Surgeon. Salary £80 per annum, with board and residence.. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT MENTAL HOSPITALS (LUNATIC ASYLUMS). and -Senior Assistant Medical Officer. Salary £300. Also Three Junior Notes, Short Comments, Answers Assistant Medical Officers, all unmarried. Salary £250, with board, lodging, and washing in each case. to NORWICH, NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL. - Assistant House Correspondents. Surgeon for six months. Salary .820, with board, lodging, and washing. GARDEN SUBURBS. NOTTINGHAM CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon (female) for six THERE was a time, not so long ago, when in regard to the mental months. at rate of £100 with Salary per annum, apartments, board, and moral make of man heredity was accorded nearly the and washing. up NOTTINGHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon. Salary whole of the responsibility, and the powerful forces of environment £100, with board. lodging, and washing. Also Locum Tenens. were almost entirely neglected. The pendulum has recently Salary at rate of E3 3s. per week, with board. lodging, and washing. been swinging in the opposite direction, and environment has NOTTINGHAM WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY.-Assistant Resident Medical come into its own, if not to more than its own, as a prime Officer, unmarried. Salary .8130 per annum, with apartments, board. washing, and attendance. factor. But if mental and moral environment are such potent PEMBROKESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL.-County Medical Officer of Health. influences, as undoubtedly they are, it is important also to pay close Salary E400 per annum. attention to the material environment. Some little time ago this fact PORTSMOUTH, ROYAL PORTSMOUTH HOSPITAL.-House for six Physician was recognised so far as the labouring classes are concerned, and months. Salary E75 per annum, with board. &c. laudable efforts have been and are still to PRINCE OF WALES’S GENERAL HOSPITAL, Tottenham, N.-Honorary many made, making, Physician or Surgeon to X Ray and Electrical Department. Also house them under conditions less nearly resembling those of Junior House Physician for six months. Salary £50 per annum, cattle. There is, however, a large and important class of the and with residence, board, laundry. for whom until but little has been done CHARLOTTE’S LYING-IN HOSPITAL, Marylebone-road, N.W.- population recently QUEEN -the the less Resident Medical Officer for four months. Salary at rate of E60 per clerk, financially prosperous business man, and annum, with board, residence, and washing. the members of those professions whose work, being of a QUEEN’S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Hackney-road, Bethnal Green, E.- more or less academic character, fails, save in very excep- House for six months. at rate of £80 annum, Surgeon Salary per tional instances, of a reward-viz., the with board, residence, and washing. proportionately adequate ROYAL EAR HOSPITAL. Dean-street, Soho, W.-House Surgeon. Salary school teacher, the journalist, the literary man, &. But there are E40 per annum. Also Assistant Surgeon. signs of an awakening in this respect. The "garden city" or ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. Gray’s Inn-road, W.C.-Assistant Surgeon. "garden suburb" idea aims to supersede the monotonous and ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL EYE (MOORFIELDS HOSPITAL), environment of rows of dull " void City-road, E.C.-Senior House Surgeon, Second House Surgeon, depressing long deadly villas," of and Third House Surgeon for eight months. Salary, Senior House any shred of beauty or individuality, by settlements of individualised Surgeon at rate of £100 per annum, Second House Surgeon at houses separated from one another by garden spaces, and lining of and Third at rate of £50 rate B75 per annum, House Surgeon per winding walks and leafy ways rather than on tiring streets running annum, all with board and residence. Also Two Refraction Assist- straight and The Hampstead Garden Suburb is a ants. Salary at rate of B25 per annum, with lunch. foursquare. ST. MARY’S W.-Resident Assistant Anaesthetist for notable example; a more recent one still in earliest infancy is the . HOSPITAL. London, six months. Salary at rate of £100 per annum, with board and Romford Garden Suburb in Essex. Barely 12 miles from the heart of residence. London, with an excellent train service and a new and expressly ST. THOMAS’S of HOSPITAL.-Physician-in-Charge Out-patients. constructed station of its own, we find a estate on the site SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.-Junior House Surgeon large for six months. Salary R80 per annum, with board, residence, and of Gidea Park, which has been a real park for several hundred allowance for laundress. years, and whose historic house, Gidea Hall, still stands ROYAL AND SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTH HANTS SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL.- in its midst, to be utilised by and by for some public Junior House for six months. £60 annum, Surgeon Salary per service to the new the centre of the with rooms, board, and washing. community. Through STROUD GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary E100 per annum, estate extend the Romford golf links. Open and yet fully wooded, with board, lodging. and washing. with charming landscapes in every direction, no more beautiful site SWANSEA GENERAL AND EYE HOSPITAL.-House Physician for six could have been chosen. And the National Housing and Town months. Salary B75 per annum, with board, washing, and attendance. Planning Council is proceeding along wise lines. Through the TAUNTON, SOMERSET AND BATH ASYLUM, Cotford.-Assistant Medical generosity of Sir Herbert Raphael, Bart., M.P., who has pro- Officer, unmarried. Salary £140 per annum, with apartments, vided valuable prizes for a competition among architects and &e. board, washing, attendance, landscape gardeners as to the best types of house and the best TAUNTON, TAUNTON AND SOMERSET HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary utilisation of the first talent for the construction of such a E120 per annum, with board, lodging, and laundry. the site, WAKEFIELD GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Junior House Surgeon, unmarried. suburb and of such residences of various classes therein as shall Salary 2100 per annum, with board. lodging, and washing. combine beauty with utility is rendered available for choice. A WEST AFRICAN MEDICAL to this Service at STAFF.-Appointments hundred and forty houses and cottages of varying types are now being salary of E400 per annum. WEST HAM UNION INFIRMARY, Whipps Cross-road, Leytonstone. N.E. constructed from plans submitted by some 300 architects in the - Fourth Assistant Resident Medical Officer. Salary R120 per section adjoining Raphael Park, a recent gift of Sir Herbert Raphael annum. to Romford, and in June an exhibition of these will be WOLVERHAMPTON AND STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House held and an award of 1000 guineas in prizes will be declared. Surgeon for six months. Salary £80 per annum, with board, rooms, and laundry. Viewed as a whole, the enterprise is in every way praise- WOOLWICH TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY.-Medical Officer. Salary R250 worthy, but there is evidence on the part of some of the archi- per annum. tects of a tendency to subordinate utility and convenience to YORK DISPENSARY.-Two Resident Medical Officers, unmarried. Salary decorative effect in place of decorating to the best advantage .8140 per annum, with board, lodging, and attendance. that which is the essential feature on the score of utility. THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, London, S.W., gives A tasteful planning of the living rooms below can hardly com- notice of vacancies as Certifying Surgeons under the Factory and pensate for an extremely sloping roof, for instance, that makes Act at in the of at Workshop Fillongley, county Warwick; Fareham, the upstairs passages too low for an ordinary person to traverse in the county of Hants ; and at Caton, in the county of Lanes. THE Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whitehall, S.W., without bending the head. Moreover, we do not quite agree in the gives notice of a vacancy for a Medical Referee (Ophthalmic Cases) wisdom of placing all the shops at the extreme edge of the estate near under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1906, for County Court the station, so that those on the farther edge would have to cross the Circuits Nos. and the whole of South Wales. 24, 30, 31, covering entire estate to get to them. Surely a central square, which might be utilised also for open-air cafes after the continental style, with a central garden would be a more convenient disposition on the whole. It is not intended in this estate to insist on purchase of a house in and order to become a resident on the estate. Houses will be to let also Marriages, Deaths. -a more for of those for whose Births, satisfactory provision many especial benefit such a suburb is created. It is greatly to be regretted that BIRTHS. architects generally will not realise the necessity for cupboards DENYER.-On May 9th. at Albion-street. Hull, Yorkshire, the wife in every bedroom. Some of the houses so far erected at Gidea of Stanley E. Denyer, C.M.G., M.D., M.A. Cantab., F.R.C.S. Park are well supplied in this way ; others are deficient. of a son. Eng., The also for an abundance of as well air in rooms WATERFIELD.-On May 10th. at the residence of her father, Blyburgate necessity light as House, Beccles, Suffolk, the wife of Noel E. Waterfield, F.R.C.S., is sometimes overlooked. The Gidea Park estate marks, however, a of the Sudan Medical Service, of a son. great advance; and inasmuch as what has been so far done is merely experimental, there is yet time to avoid many pitfalls. DEATHS. A MEDICAL MUSICIAN. LIGERTWOOD.-On May 10th, at Tedworth-gardens, S.W., Thomas MEDICAL men who have leisure for the cultivation of the Muses are C.B., K.L.H.. M.D., R.A M.C., late and Ligertwood, Physician but few in number, though the names of certain poets, artists, and Surgeon to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, aged 81 years. MARTINEAU.-On May llth, Arthur Martineau, musicians who are on the medical roll will at once occur to most of M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., i Assistant Medical Officer at Bodmin County Asylum, aged 36 years: our readers. In Australia a medical man in active practice finds