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Medical Service, a choice which may have beeninfluenced by an hereditary call to India. His fatherand both grandfathers had served there ; his fatherin the Royal Engineers, and his grandfathers, WilliamColdstream and Sir John Foster Stevens, in the CivilService. He spent some years of work in militaryhospitals with six happy months in the Chitral moun-tains as doctor with a survey party. In 1930 he tookstudy leave home and obtained his F.R.C.S. Edin. On

returning to India, he was posted to the politicaldepartment and joined the Southern WaziristanScouts at Jandola, where he found the frontier lifeand duties very congenial. In recognition of his hardand, sometimes, dangerous work in Waziristan, hewas selected in December for the appointment of civilsurgeon of Peshawar, the heaviest medical post in theFrontier Province. It was at Peshawar that he savedthe life of an Indian patient by giving an unusuallylarge transfusion of his own blood. He met his deathwhen on duty in hospital, on his way from office tooperating room.

" The tragedy was not the first of its sort in Capt.Coldstream’s family. In 1897 his mother’s brother,Lieut. J. Stevens, of the 20th Punjab Infantry, waskilled, also at Peshawar, by a Pathan fanatic."

THE SERVICESTHE LEISHMAN PRIZE

Major D. T. Richardson, M.C., R.A.M.C., has been awardedthe Leishman prize (officers) for 1931, consisting of a silvermedal and a sum of ;E30, for his work in the interests ofmilitary hygiene. The prize is awarded annually for thebest piece of work in any branch of medicine, surgery, orallied science, or in connexion with the general duties ofthe Royal Army Medical Corps, by an officer of the RoyalArmy Medical Corps, or Army Dental Corps, or by an officerremoved from either of these corps, but still on theactive list.

NORTH PERSIAN FORCES MEMORIAL MEDALDr. Neil McLean, Colonial Medical Service, has been

awarded the North Persian Forces memorial medal for theyear 1931 for his paper on a Sleeping Sickness Investigationin the Infected Areas of Kavirondo (1930-1931), publishedin the Kenya and East African Medical Journal (1931,viii., 180). The medal is awarded annually for the bestpaper on tropical medicine or hygiene published in anyjournal during the preceding 12 months by a medical officer,of under 12 years’ service, of the Royal Navy, Royal ArmyMedical Corps, Royal Air Force, Indian Medical Service, orof the Colonial Medical Service.

ROYAL NAVAL MEDICAL SERVICE

Surg. Lts. W. Greaves and A. M. Lawrence-Smith aretransferred to the Permanent List.

S. J. Wheeler to be Surg. Lt.The following appointments are notified: Surg. Lt.-Comdr.

J. J. Cusack to Victor and Surg. Lts. E. J. Mockler toResolution and J. G. Currie to Tamar for Singapore Base.

ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE

Proby. Surg. Sub-Lt. P. M. Coats to be Surg. Sub-Lt.Surg. Sub-Lt. H. E. Halling to be Surg. Lt.

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPSMaj. J. Hare, Reg. Army Res. of Off., is re-empld. under

the provisions of Art. 520 (b), Royal Warrant for Pay andPromotion.

Capt. R. J. Rosie from the seed. list, is restd. to theEstabt.

ARMY RESERVE OF OFFICERS

Lt. F. R. Curtis to be Capt.TERRITORIAL ARMY

Maj. T. S. Goodwin retires and retains his rank, withpermission to wear the prescribed uniform.

R. E. M. Fawcett (late Offr. Cadet, Univ. of Lond. Contgt.,Sen. Div., O.T.C.) to be Lt.Supernumerary for Service with O.T.C.-Lt. G. L.

Montgomery to be Capt. supern. for serv. with Med. Unit,Glasgow Univ. Contgt., Sen. Div., O.T.C.

INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICECol. T. G. F. Paterson to be Maj.-Gen.Lt.-Cols. W. D. Ritchie and A. K. Lauddie retire.

MEDICAL NEWS

University of OxfordOn July 30th the following degrees were conferred :—

B.M.-Frank Hawking, H. G. H. Waters, G. B. Malone-Lee,J. L. Ryce, W. H. Greany, A. J. E. Edelsten, R. H. Bolton,R. L. H. Townsend, and (Mrs.) C. E. Nicholson.At recent examinations the following candidates were

successful :-DIPLOMA IN OPHTHALMOLOGY

R. A. Condon, H. D. Dastoor, Innis M. Macdonald, V. B.Purvis, and Kalidas Saha.

The Astley Cooper StudentshipThe holder of the Astley Cooper studentship, tenable

at Guy’s Hospital Medical School, acts as assistant to thecurator of the Gordon Museum. The appointment is for ayear, after which there may be re-election for a furtherthree years. Particulars will be found in our advertisementcolumns.Irish HospitalsThe formal opening took place last week of Dunmanway

Cottage Hospital, County Cork. The hospital, which has24 beds, with a maternity ward, provides for an area witha population of 10,000. It has been built entirely of Irishmaterials at a cost of j63000.—On the same day were alsoopened extensions and improvements to Hopefield CottageHospital, Portrush, County Antrim. The additions, whichhave cost B4000, to which both the Government of NorthernIreland and the county council contributed, include a

pathological laboratory, a new X ray room, and a sunparlour. The county council has decided to send many ofits cases of surgical tuberculosis to the hospital, whichcommands a fine view of the northern seaboard.

Sussex Provident Scheme

Nearly B10,000 was paid to hospitals for services renderedto subscribers to this scheme during the first six months ofthis year. This sum was 21219 more than for the corre-

sponding period of last year. The money was distributed asfollows : Royal Sussex County Hospital, JE3506 ; the NewSussex Hospital for Women and Children, ;S980 ; the RoyalAlexandra Hospital for Sick Children, .6968; Brightoncorporation, z562; Hove Hospital, z6526 ; Haywards HeathHospital, 2493; Sussex Maternity and Women’s Hospital,.8319 ; Sussex Eye Hospital, z299 ; Worthing Hospital,£298; Uckfield Cottage Hospital, £244; and Brightonand Hove Provident Dental Hospital, 2217.

Royal Medical Benevolent FundAt the last meeting of the committee 57 grants were voted,

amounting to j61116. It was reported that subscriptions anddonations received during July, 1932, were considerably lessthan those received in July, 1931. The following areparticulars of a few cases helped :-

M.B., aged 68. Only able to do very light work owing to illhealth. His relations give what help they can, but his totalincome is only k68 per annum. One supporter of the case wrote" the circumstances are deplorable." Fund voted oB40 in fourinstalments for twelve months.

L.F.P.S., aged 79. This applicant has been an invalid for fouryears with very severe cardiac trouble and has not been able towork. He is entirely dependent on his niece, aged 42, who istrying to make a living by taking in paying guests. Fund votedoB40 in four instalments for twelve months.

Daughter, aged 62, of M.R.C.S., is suffering from mitraldisease which renders her unfit for her work of nursing. Theapplicant has for some years been helped by an allowance ofk6 a month from her married sister, but owing to business failurethis help has now ceased. Fund voted oB26 in four instalmentsfor twelve months.Widow, aged 50, of M.R.C.S. who died June, 1932, at the age

of 46, leaving widow with four boys, ages 19, 16, 14, and 9. Itis expected that the estate will yield a capital of .61300. Fundvoted P26 in four instalments and a special gift of £12.

Cheques should be forwarded to the honorary treasurerof the fund, 11, Chandos-street, London, W.1.

Medical DiaryInformation to be included in this column should reach us

tM proper form on Tuesday, and cannot appear if it reachesus later than the first post on Wednesday morning.

LECTURES, ADDRESSES. DEMONSTRATIONS. &c.FELLOWSHIP OF MEDICINE AND POST-GRADUATEMEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 1, Wimpole-street, London, W.MONDAY, August 22nd, to SATURDAY, August 27th.-ALL

SAINTS HOSPITAL, Austral-street, West-square, S.E.Third week of post-graduate course in Urology. After-noons, Clinical and Cystoscopic demonstrations.Individual clinics available daily, by special arrange-ment with the Fellowship of Medicine. (Open only toMembers of the Fellowship of Medicine.)