415BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

LIVEltPOUL INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL.-Assistant ResidentMedical Officer, unmarried. Salary £120 per annum, with board,washing, and lodging.

LONDONDERRY AND NORTH-WEST OF IRELAND EYE, EAR, AND THROATHOSPITAL.-Honorary Surgeon.

MACCLESFIELD GENERAL INFIRMARY.-Junior House Surgeon. Salary£60 per annum, with board and residence.

MANCHESTER, ST. MARY’S HOSPITALS, Whitworth-street Weut, andClifford-street.-House Surgeon. Salary ,c70 per annum.

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL, W.-Second Assistant, to the Director of theBacteriological and Clinical Laboratories. Salary ,cIOO perannum.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE DISPENSARY. - Visiting Medical Assistant.Salary ,cIGO per annum.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN.-AssistantHonorary Surgeon.

NEWPORT AND MONMOUTHSHIRE HOSPITAL.-Junior Resident MedicalOfficer. Salary B70 per annum, with board, residence, andwashing.

NORTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House Physician, unmarried.Salary £90 a year, increasing to £100, with apartments, board,washing, and attendance.

OXFORD, RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY AND COUNTY HOSPITAL.-HousePhysician, House Surgeon, and Junior House Surgeon. Each forsix months, and unmarried. Salary of two former at rate of ,c80and of latter at rate of 240 per annum, with board, &c.

PRESTON ROYAL INFIRMARY -Resident Medical and Surgical Officer,unmarried. Salary B130, with board, residence, attendance, andwashing.

ST. HELENS COUNTY BOROUGH.-Assistant Medical Officer (female).Salary 2160 per annum, rising to ,c200.

ST. PETER’S HOSPITAL FOR STONE, &c., Henrietta-street, CoventGarden, W C.-Junior House Surgeon for six months. Salary atrate of ,c50 a year, with board, lodging, and washing.

SHEFFIELD RoviL HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon, unmarried.Salary ,c50 per annum, with board and lodging.

SOUTHAMPTON, ROYAL SOUTH HANTS AND SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL.-Junior House Surgeon. Salary L60 per annum, with rooms, board,and washing.

STOCKPORT INFIRMARY.-Junior Assistant House Surgeon for sixmonths. Salary at rate of 240 per annum, with board, washing,and residence.

STROUD GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary £100 perannum, with board, lodging, and washing.

WEST BROMWICH DISTRICT HOSPITAL.-Resident Assistant HouseSurgeon, unmarried. Salary £50 per annum, with board, resi-dence, and washing.

WORCESTER COUNTY AND CITY ASYLUM.-Third Assistant MedicalOfficer, unmarried. Salary £130 per annum, with board, lodging,and washing.

YORK DISPENSARY.-Resident Medical Officer, unmarried. Salaryfl20 a year, with board, lodging, and attendance.

THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, S.W., gives notice ofa vacancy as Certifying Surgeon under the Factory and WorkshopAct at Stanford-le-Hope, in the county of Essex.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

HAYWARD.-On August 2nd, at The Grange, Wimbledon, the wife ofJohn A. Hayward, M.D., F.R.C.S., of a daughter.

MooN.-On August 5th, at High Beach, Victoria-parade, Broadstairs,the wife of E. G. Moon, M.R C S., L.R.C P., of a daughter.

OsBoRN.-On August 7th, at Ennismore House, Dover, the wife ofFrancis Arthur Osborn, of a son.

PASSMORE.-On Julv 31st, at Felbrig, Carshalton, Surrey, the wife ofWilliam Henry Passmore, M.R.C S , L R.C P., of a daughter.

ROBERTS -On July 23rd, at Sion Hill, Garstang, the wife of HenryRoberts, M.D. Brux., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., of a

daughter. -

MARRIAGES.BAKER-MACKIE.-On July 26rh, at Esher parish church, Captain

W. Lincoln Baket, R.A.M.C., Aldershot, to Mary Yeats, elderdaughter of the late T Mackie, of Great Western Estate, Ceylon,and Mrs. Mackie, Lisleworth, Esher, Surrey.

ST. JoEx -NORBURY.- On August 1st, at the parish church, Eltham,by the Rev. Elphinstone Rivers, Vicar of Eltham, and the Rev.A. E. Rubie, D D., Headmaster of Eltham College, assisted by theRev. A. G. Hodgson, M.A., Alexander Story St. John, L R.C.P.,M.R.C.S., of Eltham House, Eltham, younge.! son of the lateColonel F. C. St. John, Indian Staff Corps, to Mabel Eleanor,third daughter of Inspector-General Sir Henry F. Norbury, K.C B ,M.D.. F.R.C.S., R.N.. Hon. Surgeon to the King, and of LadyNorbury, of St. Margaret’s, Eltham.

DEATHS.HUDSON.-On August 6th, at Cork-street, London, John Hudson, M.D.,

in his 88t,h Sear.NORCOTT.-On August 4th, at Grosvenor hill, Wimbledon, William

Boyle Norcott, M. R.C.S. Eng., aged 86 years.RICHMOND. On August, 7th. at 11, Vicarage-road, Handsworth, James

Richmond, M.D., D.P.H. -

N.B.-A fee of 68. is charged for the insertion of Notices of Births,Marriages, and Deaths.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

CONCERNING BODIE.

"Dr." Bodie, who, like his fellow quack, "Professor" Richard, claimsto cure the lame and the halt by electricity, has recently come withinthe clutch of the law. At the Bradford City police court on

July 19th he was fined 2s. 6d. with 10s. costs, or seven days’imprisonment in three cases respectively, for having committedbreaches of the Employment of Children Act, 1903. The prosecutionwas undertaken by the health committee of the Bradford corpora-tion at the instigation of Dr. W. Arnold Evans, the medical officer ofhealth. Of the three children, two said that they had gone on thestage to thank Bodie for having cured them. The third, JohnMoriarty, said that he had received Is. on a Thursday nightand 3d. on the following night. Inspector Smith said thatthis last boy apparently had electricity passed into his leg,after having the joint of his ankle broken down. He thenwalked off the stage. What Bodie’s apparent "cures" mean waswell shown in the course of the trial of a man named Ernest

Miller, a cripple, who was sentenced at the Clerkenwell sessions onMuy 22nd to 18 months’ hard labour for stealing. It came out inevidence that Miller used to pose as one of Bodie’s cures, but after

being "cured" one night he appeared as much worse the next night’ and was " cured again.’ As pertinent to the above case we see that Bodie brought an action’, against Mrs. Hudson of Leeds for slander in that she asserted at the’, annual meeting of the Leeds Invalid Children’s Aid Society that Bodie’, had paid money to the parents of the children who had been taken to

i the Tivoli Music Hall for treatment. The jury returned a verdict for

I Bodie with one farthing damages. In the course of the trial Bodie’s

’I manager denied that money had ever been given to either parents orchildren for their attendance on the stage. We direct the manager’sattention to the evidence of John Moriarty at the Bradford citypolice court given above.Mr. Justice Grantham, in the course of the action for slander at

Leeds, is reported as saying " that the question was whether anyonehad the right to accuse him (Bodie) of being a rank impostor andabsolute lying." We presume that Mr. Justice Grantham was notaware of the evidence given by the police at Clerkenwell sessionsin May.

THE SEXUAL PROBLEM.

To the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,-The interesting contribution in THE LANCET of July 28th,p. 259, on "Professor August Forel on the Sexual Problem" remindsme that Professor Forel, who is professor of psychiatry at ZuriclaUniversity, has issued his views in book form, " Die Sexuelle Frage,"published by E. Reinhardt, Munich, 1905. This book is a forciblecontribution to the physiology of the relation of the sexes and of theevolution of an improved race which, although wholly opposed to thetrend of English opinion, might be acceptable to those of your readerswho read German and have had their curiosity whetted by the extractsgiven by you. I am, Sirs, yours faithfully,Leyton, Essex, July 31st, 1S06. N. CAMPBELL, M.B., D.P.H.

’.NOBLESSE OBLIGE."IN our last issue under this heading we quoted an appeal by theHonourable E. Pomeroy in which he remarked that " No Doctor hasyet refused to Vaccinate with the stuff guaranteed pure by theLocal Government Board." With fine impartiality the Honour-able E. Pomeroy now in the Morning Leader of August 3rd andAugust 4th issues the appeal which we give below :-

To DOCTORS.-No. II.Vaccination has never been defined (see "Jenner and Vaccina-

tion," by Charles Creighton, M.D.).The stuff issued by the Local Government Board, and called Calf

Lymph, Pure Calf Lymph, Glycerinated Calf Lymph, &c., is notguaranteed pure by the Local Government Boarrl.Some scores of London children are annually either impaired for

life or put to death by vaccination with the stuff not guaranteed bythe Local Government Board.Will any London doctor refuse to operate with the stuff not

guaranteed pure by the Local Government Board ? It is difficultto see in what way the white liquid secreted by grown-up calvesfor the nourishment of their young fails to answer the desideratumof pure calf lymph. Will any London doctor make use of somesuch pure calf lymph as is suggested and provide the usual certifi-cates ? If so. will he kindly communicate with the Hon. E.

Pomeroy, 6, Campden House Chambers, Kensington, W. ? ?

The advertisement which follows in the Morning Leader of

August 4th upon the Honourable E. Pomeroy’s advertisement

begms: "DEAREST.- What must you think -not knowing circum-stances?" And, indeed, it is wonderful to watch the workings of thelayman’s mind, when he is on the war-path against the medicalprofession.