690 Derbyshire Royal Infirmary/, De2,by.-H.S. 9200. Also Asst. II.S. and Cas. 0. Each at rate of .6150. Durham County Council.-Dist. Tub. M.O..6600. Comments, and Exminster, Devon Mental Hospital.-Jun. M.O. 300. Notes, Abstracts. Finchley Urban District, Ante-Natal Clinic.-Med. Practitioner required. 2 guineas per session. PUBLIC HEALTH IN PERSIA. Hackney Hospital, 230, High-street, Homerton.-Jun. Asst. M.O. 350. 1914-24. Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton, S.W.-H.P. for six months. <&bgr;50. BY A. R. Hospital for 2?MfCtses of the, Throat, Golden-square, W.-Aled. Reg. NELIGAN, M.D. LOND., M.R.C.S., Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis, Maida Vale, W.-Res. M.O. D.T.M. & H. CAMB., At rate of 150 and <ei00 and H.P. respectively. PHYSIOIAN TO H.M. LEGATION, TEHRAN ; BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond-street, W.C.-H.S., ON THE PERSIAN SANITARY COUNCIL. H.P., and Asst. Cas. 0. 50 in each case. Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth, 40, Grove End-road, N.W. Res. H.P. and H.S. At rate of .8100 and P75 respectively. PART II.’ Inverness, Northern Infirmary.-Jun. 3/led. Res. 9100. Lambeth Hospital, Brook-street. S.E.-Patholoeist. <&bgr;500. Epidemic and Endemic Diseases. London Temperance Hospital, /:fa;m)s<ea-foa;, N.W.—Surg. Reg. PERSIA’S three long land frontiers run with those of countries 40 guineas. liable to outbreaks of and cholera. In for Manchester, Ancoats Hospital.—H.S. At rate of .&bgr;100. Also plague Iraq, is on Asst. M.O. in Ven. Clinic. £1 Is. per clinic. instance, the former disease endemic. The ports her Manchester Children’s Hospital and Northern Hospital for Women seaboard in the Persian Gulf are in regular communication and Children.-Pathologist. £400. with Bombay and Karachi, where both diseases are endemic, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Roby-street.-Res. M.O. Also Asst. and on the opposite shore of the Gulf, along the Arab coast, and £100 M.O. At rate of R200 respectively. and in the interior, there are endemic centres. Miller General South-East Greenwich-road, perhaps plague Hospital for London, Russia and Trans-Caucasia are liable to cholera and S.E.—H.P., 125. Also Asst. in Out-patients’ Dept. 150. typhus Oxford, Radcliffe Infirmary and County Hospital.—Hon. S., fever ; Trans-Caspia, Turkestan, and the Astrakhan. district Hon. Asst. P., and Hon. Asst. S. to plague. Any account of Persia’s epidemiological situation Paddington Green Children’s Hospital, W.-H.P. and IT.S. would, therefore, in view of the possibility of the country Each 150. serving as a channel for the spread of disease to the west, New End Parish of St. John, Hampstead, Hospital.—Sen. Res. lose in interest were outbreaks on her frontiers not mentioned. Asst. M.O. £250. In the resume of the of Prince of Wales’s General Hospital, Tottenham, N.-Two H.S.’s. following appearances plague and and one H.P. At rate of 120. Also Jun. H.S. and Jun. cholera during the years 1914 to 1924, names of places in H.P. At rate of £90. Persia itself are printed in italics, of places in the neighbouring Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital, Marylebone-road, N.W.- countries in ordinary type. Asst. Res. M.O. At rate of £80. In this resume it will be noted that all ship-borne cases Redhill, Surrey, Royal Earlswood -rnstitution.-Jun. Asst. M.O. removed to have been included. that £250. quarantine Further, of on Royal Chest Hospital, City-road, E.C.-Res. M.O. and H.P. At in spite the regular appearance of plague her frontiers, rate of £150 and £100 respectively. the name of only one place in Persia recurs with any frequency Royal National Orthopœdic Hospital, 234, Great Partland-street, (Mohammerah), and that in the case of all other places where W.—H.S. At rate of ,15150 Also Hon. Ophth. S. and undoubted plague has appeared during the last 11 years Hon. Dental S. the disease was imported, and, with a single exception to be St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, E.C.-Rose Research Fellowship in noted did not As it £600. below, spread. regards Mohammerah, Lymphadenoma. used to be said that was from Basra St. Leonards-ore-Sea, Buchanan Hospital.—H.S. £150. plague always imported St. Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children, Plaistow, E.-Asst. only 25 miles higher up the River Shatl Arab, with com- Res. M.O. At rate of 130. munications by land as well as by water. It has been St. Stephen’s Hospital, 369, Fulham-road, S.W.-Third Asst. M.O. suggested that plague is by now endemic in Mohammerah £300. town, but the facts are, on the whole, against this supposition. Southport Imfirmary.—Hon. Asst. S. Abadan on the island of that name six miles down Sunderland Mental Med. town, Borough Hospital, Ryhope.-Asst. Supt. stream from come to cause £500. Mohammerah, has, however, Swansea Hospital.-H.S. £150. anxiety. The name appears in the years 1923 and 1924 only, University of London, King’s College for Women.-Head of Dept. and yet some 700 cases have occurred there. The explanation of Hygiene and Bacteriologv, &c. £400. is that between 1909 and 1912 the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Wallasey, Victoria Central Hospital.-Jun. H.S. £100. set up a refinery on the island, and that, instead of a few huts, West Ham Countll Borough.—Asst. M.O. R600. there is now a considerable town and several with a West London W.-Hon. Med. villages, Hospital. Hammersmith-road, total of some souls. In the Radiologist. population 50,000 early days Winchester, Royal Hampshire County Hospital.-H.P. £150. of the rush of native labour and shopkeepers to the island, Wrexham and East Denbighshire War Memorial Hospital.-Sen. huts and bazaars sprang up on no definite plan on land and Jun. H.S’s. At rate of £120 and JJSO respectively. outside the Company’s control, and on which it was not allowed to interfere. When, therefore, plague was imported into Mohammerah in 1923 and thence spread to Abadan there was a sharp epidemic. The Company has taken mos Births, and Deaths. energetic measures since then. Side by side with its elaborate Marriages, medical service it has organised a very complete sanitary section with port medical officer and assistants, isolation BIRTHS. hospital, quarantine station, and disinfecting plant. In ABRAHAMS.—On March 21st, the wife of Dr. Adolphe Abrahams, 1924 the number of cases was reduced by more than half. of Brook-street, W., of a daughter. Between April and July more than 12,000 rats were destroyed CURRIE.—On March 19th, at Morningside, Torquay, the wife by catchers brought from India.1 The Company has for of Dr. of a son. Currie, a now been steel and brick huts for its RITCHIE.—On March 14th. at Douglas-crescent, Edinburgh, nearly year building of whom there are more than on a site the wife of Dr. W. T. Ritchie, of a daughter. labourers, 10,000, well away from the native town. Drainage is a difficult problem where the subsoil water is found at 2 feet, but it DEATHS. is being solved by means of pumps. Further, a piped ADAMS.-On March 20th, at Bussage, Brimscombe, Stroud, water-supply was completed in December, 1924. The River G. E. D’Arcy Adams, M.D., aged 79. Bameshir has been tapped four miles away by a 16-inch pipe, ARMSTRONG.—On March 17th, at Inglemere, Enfield, Arthur and a 2,000,000 gallon reservoir has been made, which will James Mackenzie Armstrong, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (late of deliver filtered and chlorinated water to stand-pipes in the Southgate). workers’ The has also a site for a BARRY.-On March at village. Company planned 18th, Plymouth-road, Penarth, Glam., new and are William Joseph Murphy Barry, M.D., F.R.C.P., aged town, the inhabitants of the old being encouraged 60 years. to remove to it. A piped water-supply has been led to this site FINLAYSON.—On March 19th, very suddenly, at his residence, also. Everything possible is, therefore, being done to keep Elson-road, Formby, Lancs, Harold Turner Finlayson, out cholera as well as plague. The problem is not an easy M.B., Ch.B., aged 36. one on account of the communications by land and by small GOSLING.—On March 16th, suddenly, at his residence, Fivelands, craft on the river. Moseley, Birmingham, Charles Edward Gosling, M.D., in in the Interior. his 74th year. Playue HOPRINS.—On March 16th, at St. Matthew’s-gardens, St. The question naturally arises whether plague is ever likely Leonards-on-Sea, Charles Leighton Hopkins, B.A., M.B. to gain a footing on the Persian plateau. From the resume B.Ch. Camb., late Medical Superintendent, York City it is clear that, during the 11 years under review, it did not Mental Hospital. from any of the attacked in the low land along TAYLOR.—On March 15th, after a brief illness, Inglis Taylor, spread points M.B., F.R.C.S. Edin., of 22A, Cavendish-square, London, the shore of, and around the head of, the Gulf-the most W.1. * Part T. annearpd in THE LANCET. Marf1h 20th.