485 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.