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Annotations. to Be Surgeons-Apothecary to His Majesty’S Household at Windsor: Mr 1026 to His Majesty : Dr. Frederick William Hewitt. To be Chemist and Druggist to His Majesty: Mr. Peter Wyatt Squire. Annotations. To be Surgeons-Apothecary to His Majesty’s Household at Windsor: Mr. William Fairbank and Dr. William A. Ellison, "Ne quid nimis." juintly. To be Surgeon-Apothecary to His Majesty’s House- hold at Sandringham: Dr. Alan Reeve Manby, M.V.O. STATE LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN INDIA. To be Honorary Physicians in Ordinary o His Majesty in Scotland: Sir William Tennant Gairdner,’ K.C.B., and Dr. THE Secretary of State for India has sanctioned a scheme George William Ba.lfour. To be Honorary Surgeons to His for five large central asylums for the insane in India. Majesty in Scotland: Dr. Patrick Heron Watson and Dr. Hitherto in India there have been only a number of small Alexander Ogston. To be Honorary Surgeon-Oculist to His asylums under the care of the civil surgeons of the stations Majesty in Scotland : Dr. Douglas Argyll Robertson. To where were situated, who make, of course, no claim to they be in to His in Ireland: familiarity with psychological medicine, and whose Physicians Ordinary Majesty special Sir John Thomas Banks, K.C.B., and Dr. William time is fully occupied by the ordinary claims of their position. Moore. To be Surgeons to His Majesty in Ireland : We trust that men of in Honorary proved knowledge psychological Sir and Sir William Thomson. medicine will b9 to the of these Philip Crampton Smyly appointed superintendence To be to His and that it is the intention of the Government Honorary Surgeon-Oculist Majesty asylums ; in Ireland : Dr. Charles Edward It will to attract suitable candidates is shown the fact that Fitzgerald. by be remembered that in our issue of March 2nd we rates of are to be given. The salaries will special pay published the following list :-To be Sergeant-Surgeon in from 600 to 1400 month, so that the range rupees per Ordinary to His Majesty: Lord Lister. To be Honorary pay will be about 50 per cent. higher than full Sergeant-Surgeons to His Majesty : Sir William Mac Cormac, regimental pay in the Indian Medical Service, with Bart., K.C.V.O., and Sir Thomas Smith, Bart. To be Honorary a house thrown in and leave to conduct a private Dr. D. McEwan, Inspector-Ganeral (retired); consulting practice. The will -be Physicians: appointments open to, Sir James J. L. Donnet, K.C.B , Inspector-General of Hos- not restricted to, officers of the Indian Medical though and Fleets; Sir John Watt Reid, K.C.B., Director- but inasmuch as a of native and pitals Service, knowledge language General of the Medical of the -customs will be of immense value to the of the Department Navy (retired) ; superintendents Dr. A. B. Messer, Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets .new it is that the will fall asylums probable appointments (retired) ; Dr. H. C. Woods, M.V.O., Inspector General of to members of the Indian Medical Service who can their prove and Fleets. To be Honorary Sir James fitness for the berths. The existence of scientific Hospitals Surgeons : highly-paid Jenkins, K.C.B., Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets; like these should induce men with appointments young Mr. Timotheus J. Haran, Inspector-General of Hospitals a taste for medicine to enter the service and psychological and Fleets ; Sir James N. Dick, K.C.B., Director-General of those who have had the of a of practical experience sojourn Medical Department of the Navy (retired); Dr. William a or two in a first-class at home should have a year asylum H. Lloyd, Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets; and claim for an As time on the strong appointment. goes Dr. Alfred G. Delmege, M.V.O., Deputy Inspector-General number of these asylums will increase and they probably of Hospitals and Fleets. This, we believe, completes become valuable clinical for in India at the may centres, the list. Many of these gentlemen have previously held moment thera is not a or present single private asylum any similar appointments either to the King (when Prince of for learning medicine. The five new facility psychological Wales) or to her late Majesty Queen Victoria, while some of will be situated at Bishanpur for Bengal, at Agra asylums the appointments are new. The position of Honorary Atjss- for the North-West at Lahore for the at Provinces, Punjab, thetist to His Majesty, which has been given to Dr. Hewitt, Poonah for and at Madras. The asylum at Lahore Bombay, is, we believe, an entirely new office created by His Majesty. has been completed, that at Agra is under construction, while the existing buildings at Madras, which are very good, ’will be utilised. THE SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION OF MILK ON A ___ LARGE SCALE. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPOINTMENTS TO I WE have already alluded to the satisfactory steps which THE KING. are being taken in this country by large dairy companies to A FURTHER list of medical and surgical appointments to supply not only pure and sterile milk but milk also ^the King appears in the London Gazette of March 29th :-To standardised for special purposes. Milk as a source cf be Physicians in Ordinary to His Majesty: Sir William Henry disease is well known and its chief danger is its extreme Broadbent, Bart., K.C.V.O.; Sir James Reid, Bart., G.C.V.O., liability to become infected with the tubercle bacillus. K.C.B.; and Sir Francis Laking, K.C.V.O. To be Physicians The conditions under which the production of milk is Extraordinary to His Majesty : Surgeon-General Sir Joseph carried on are gradually passing from the old rule-of- Fayrer, Bart., K.C.S.I. ; Sir Richard Douglas Powell, Bart., thumb method to the scientific methods of the present day. K.C.V.O. ; Sir Edward H. Sieveking, Sir Felix Semon, and This change, it may be remarked, does not only secure the Dr. John Lowe. To be Physician to His Majesty’s production of milk of a non-infective character but it has Household : Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart., K.C.V.O. To also brought greater economy into the methods and results. be Honorary Serjeant-Surgeon to His Majesty : Mr. One of the largest examples of an enormous milk-supplying Frederick Treves, M.V.O. To be Honorary Surgeons station in which the production of milk is dealt with in Ordinary to His Majesty: Mr. Thomas Bryant, Mr. S Jientifically on the score both of hygiene and economy is Alfred Downing Fripp, M.V.O., and Mr. Rickman John the establishment of Herr C. Bolle in Berlin. From par- ’Godlee. To be Surgeon to His Majesty’s Household: Mr. ticulars recently furnished to us by Sir Otto Jaffe, who has Herbert William Allingham. To be Surgeon-Apothecary to studied the question of milk-supply in a number of towns at His Majesty and Apothecary to His Majesty’s Household: home and abroad, we learn that Herr Bolle started his .Sir Francis Laking, K.C.V.O. To be Honorary Sargeon- business in the year 1871 when he distributed 500,000 gallons Ocuiist to His Majesty : Mr. George Anderson Critchett. of milk, whereas at the present day he supplies milk at the To be Honorary Surgeon-Dentist to His Majesty: Mr. Henry rate of 7,000,000 gallons to about 50,000 families. The Bell Longhurst. To be Dentist to His Majesty’s Household: milk is all sent out from one central station. The firm Mr. Edwin Thomas Truman. To be Honorary Anxsthetist supply milk, cream, milk from a special farm for infants, 1027 sterilised milk, kefyr, machine-skimmed milk, butter-milk, children-who, as Mr. Crombie reminded us, constitute the butter, and cream cheese. In this great central station there hope of the country in its international struggle for are a bacteriological laboratory, a chemical analytical existence-should be contaminated by a ruinous habit at laboratory, and a chemical technical laboratory. In 1899 the very outset of life. Amendments in committee may be over 30,000 tests were made in the chemical analytical looked for, but we trust that they will not be allowed to laboratory alone, and over 1500 guinea-pigs were used impair the vitality of this wholesome and useful measure. in the bacteriological laboratory, mostly for tests of tuberculosis. In the chemical technical laboratory experi- A MEDICAL MAN’S GENEROUS LEGACY. ments are made upon the by-products of milk which are THE Corporation of Portsmouth has ast received under utilised. Special officers are retained for supervising the the will of the late Mr. Scale, a sum of .620,000 to 130 farms with their H,000 cows which supply the central George annuities for the blind. must be over establishment, and the duty of controlling and observing the provide Applicants 30 of and necessitous. The amount of each health of the cows is in the hands of four veterinary years age annuity is fixed at 30, so that at least 20 blind persons will benefit surgeons. Till a few months ago the firm passed the greater Mr. Scale’s Mr. Scale was for as part of the milk which they collected from the various farms by bequest. many years, was a in PortE- through filters of sterilised gravel which freed the milk of his father before him, medical practitioner mouth where he in the Commercial-road. The many of its impurities, destroyed many micro-organisms, and practised .father some and the who died tended to keep the milk sweet. Within the last few months, died 20 years ago son, recently, retired from in 1872 to blindness.
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