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HOSPITAL SUNDAY FUND.-The annual publicmeeting at the Mansion House in support of the HospitalSunday Fund has been convened by the Lord Mayor forFriday, June l7th, at 3 o’clock. His Lordship will be inthe chair. A. Egmont Hake, Esq., will deliver the address,and be supported by several important speakers, whosenames we hope to be able to announce in our next issue.A HOPMANN INSTITUTE.-The committee of the

German Cnemical Society, of which the late Professor VonHofmann was president, has resolved to honour his memoryby founding a " Hofmann Institute

" in Berlin, to serve as,a centre for efforts of all kinds in the province of scientificand practical chemistry.EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES AT LEAMINGTON.-Sixty cases s

of measles had occurred up to the 30 h ult. among the child-ren of the Clapham-terrace Infants’ School, Leamington,.and the disease had also attacked the children of the infants’school, Leicester.atreet. Both schools have been closed inoonsEqaence.

IN MEMORIAM.-The Board of Management of theSalford Royal Hospital has resolved, in order to perpetuatethe memory of the late Mr. Oliver Heywood’s connexionwith the institution, that a ward be named the " OliverHeywood Ward," and also to erect in the entrance-hall amarble memorial tablet by private subscription.CREMATION.-The annual report just issued (for

1891) of the Cremation Society shows that the number of.cremations at Woking during the year was 99, against 54in the previous year.-It was resolved at a meeting of theLiverpool Buriat BJard, held on the 26th ult., that theapplication of the Liverpool Crematorium Company to

. purchase half an acre of ground be entertained, subject to- certain conditions. It was also resolved to apply to thegeneral vestry of Liverpool for power to sell a portion of theunappropriated land for the purposes of a crematorium.HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION, BROMPTON.-The

annual report for 1891 (the 51st) showed that 1774 in-patients had been admitted during the year, 13,392 newcases had received treatment as out-patients, and the,attendances were 70,618 The total year’s income, from- all sources, was £ 37,395, and the expenses £27,829. Con-tracts had been accepted for the necessary enlargement ojthe chapel, undertaken as a suitable memorial of theJubilee year of the hospital. Subscriptions amounting tc £1380 towards this special object had been received, but aconsiderable deficit remained to be made up.SMALL-POX.-Mr. J. W. Walker, medical office]

of the Wakefield rural sanitary district, reported on the25th ult. that since the last monthly meeting of thesanitary authority there had been thirteen cases of smallpox reported up to that time, from Lingwell Gate, RothwelHaigh, Robin Hood, Loftbouse, Middlestown, and Crigglestone, but by the promp measures ad opted the further spreadof the disease at each of the centres had been checked. Iwas also reported that there were cases of small-pox in thhamlet of Middlestown which had not come under thnotice of the medical officer, owing to the infected personnot being attended by a medical practitioner.

PRESENTATIONS.-Dr. A. Dingwall, of Fraserburglhas been presented with a purse of sovereigns by thmembers of the Fraserburgh Ambulance Association iappreciation of his valuable services to the class.-OThursday, May 26th, Mr. 0. Pemberton was entertained fdinner and presented with a large silver bowl at the GranHotel, Birmingham. Mr. Whitcombe occupied the chaiand there was a large gathering of medical men of the ci1and neighbourhood. One of the last acts of the late SWilliam Bowman, whose medical education commenced the Birmingham General Hospital, was to join in payhtribute to the esteem in which Mr. Pemberton is held. Aaddress was presented with 130 signatories attached.pointed out the forty years’ service of Mr. Pemberton to t]Birmingham General Hospital, and congratulated him his election as coroner of Birmingham. It concludes withe words-"We are both proud and gratified that ti.responsibilities of such a position should have been entrustto so eminent a member of our own profession. Wewishyievery happiness, and trust that you may long be sparedfill the honourable post to which you have been called, a:to adorn our profession.

CENTENARIAN.-Mrs. Markham, a widow, residingat Royley, near Winterton, Lincolnshire, attained her107th year on the 29th ult. Excepbing failing sight, sheretains the use of all her faculties-

BINGLEY COTTAGE HOSPITAL.- This institution hasrecently obtained an endowment of ;f3000 from Sunderland’scharity, which was founded in 1671, by Samuel Sunderlandof Bingley. The hospital was one of the memorials of theQueen’s Jubilee. This endowment will augment the fundsby about) £80 per annum. The income for the past yearwas f37G. ____________

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Birmingham Corporation Water Bill. -

THIS Bill gave rise to several long discussions on Thursday in theHouse of Commons. They had reference mainly to common and fishingrights in the proposed area of supply. Mr. Chamberlain undertookthat when the Bill reaches the. House of Lords provisions shall beintroduced to give a local inquiry with regard to certain of these rightswhen requited by the County Councils concerned. Anew clause wasadded to the Bill on the motion of Mr. Morton, providing that theCorporation of Birmingham shall not use any barbed wire in connexionwith the proposed works.

The Gibraltar Sanitary Board.Lord Carrington has given notice that on Thursday, June 16th, he

will call attention to the recent changes in the constitution of the, Sanitary Board of Gibraltar, and ask the Secretary for the Colonies

(Lord Knutsford) whether he will lay the correspondence on the subjectbefore the House.: Sale of Food and Drugs Act (1875) Amendment Bill.! A petition against this Bill from Glasgow was presented to the House

of Commons on Monday.) Casval Wards in London.1) The President of the Local Government Board (Mr. Ritchie) has pre-pared a Bill "for the provision of central stations in connexion with

casual wards in London and for other purposes relating to such casualwards." It sets forth that the managers of the Metropolitan Asylum

District shall provide a central station and other stations for thereception of information as to the state of accommodation in the casualwards, and speedy means of communication either by telephone, tele-graph, or otherwise between the stations and the wards. They shall

.. also, where necessary, provide for the conveyance of any person in needof accommodation in a casual ward to the ward where that accommoda-tion can be most conveniently obtained. Where the Local Government

Board by order declare that the board of guardians of any poor lawunion in London have failed to provide within their union such casual

wards with such fittings and furniture as the Board consider necessary,’* they may require the Metropolitan Asylum managers to make such pro-e vision, the managers being vested with the same financial powers for0 this purpose as the board of guardians. The Bill also gives the boardsof guardians power to transfer casual wards belonging to them to the

Metropolitan Asylum managers.

Hospital Doctors and Nurses.In the House of Lords on Monday last Lord Sandhurst rose to call

attention to a document issued by the Metropolitan Asylums Board,Ie

dated May 14th, 1892, as to the engagement ot doctors and nurses forsmall-pox hospitals, and to ask whether the document was issued with

- the knowledge and sanction of the Local Government Board. He saidthat a circular had been received by the managers of a large generalhospital with which he was connected from the Metropolitan Asylums

d Board, asking whether they were willing to receive clinical assistantsid and additional nurses, the remuneration to be limited to residenceIt and rations. He did not think it was a good principle for a greatIe institution like the Metropolitan Asylums Board to advertise for

medical men and nurses on such conditions as this circularset forth, and he wished to know whether, if the circular wasissued without the knowledge or sanction of the Local Govern-ment Board, they would communicate with the Asylums Board

, on the matter.-Lord Henniker said the Local Government Boardh, were not aware of the issue of the circular letter referred to by thehe noble lord. They had made inquiry on the subject, and they found

. that the letter was addressed to several of the general hospitals in

In London. This, however, was not altogether a new question. As)n regarded the question of clinical assistants, the matter was broughtat under the attention of the Board so long ago as 1886. It was then pro-

d posed bv the managers of the metropolitan asylum district that theyshould be empowered to arrange for registered medical practitioners

, to reside in the hospital, on ’condition of their making a payment at thety rate of 12s. per week for board and lodging, and the payment of a feeSir to the medical superintendent. It appeared to the Board that

at this was not a desirable arrangement, and they suggested to theat managers that if the services of clinical assistants were re-

ng quired it would be better that such assistants should beAn appointed by the managers as officers of the hospital, and

It that they should receive remuneration for their services, althoughthe

such remuneration might, if the managers deemed it expedient, bethe limited to board and residence in the hospital. The managers wouldon have in connexion with the hospital their regular medical staff for the treatment of cases, and the clinical assistants would no doubt renderthe help; but the primary object in proposing the arrangement, and in the’ Local Government Board agreeing to it, was not that the staff ofted officers of the hospital should be supplemented by assistants of thisVOU character, but that means should be afforded to medical practitionersI to of obtaining experience in the treatment of small-pox cases. With

regard to the question of nurses who were employed as probationersand the Board had had no communication from he managers on thesubject. But as to the nurses, also, it might be assumed that th

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managers had in view the affording of opportunities for them to obtainexpenence with regard to cases of this disease. Of course, themanagers had their own staff of nurses, quite independently of theassistance rendered by such probationary nurses. The matter, so faras regarded the nurses, was one which the Local Government Boardleft entirely in the discretion of the managers, and the Board wouldhesitate to intervene unless for very substantial reasons. The Boardwere not aware whether it was probable that the offer that had beenmade by the managers would be accepted by suitable persons, but,assuming that it was, and that the arrangement was satisfactory bothto the managers and the persons who were willing to give their ser-vices on the terms referred to, the Local Government Board were notaware of any reason why it should not be carried out.-Lord Thring’sremarks on this subject were inaudible to the reporters.

The Royal Commission on Vaccination.In the House of Commons on Tuesday last Dr. Clark asked the Home

Secretary whether, in view of the opinion expressed by the Royal Com-mission on Vaccination in their recent report, he could see his way torecommend local authorities to refrain from prosecuting until Parlia-ment had had an opportunity of considering the before-mentionedreport.-Mr. Matthews : It would be an unprecedented and an arbitrarycourse of conduct on my part to recommend local authorities to dis-regaru an unrepealed law in the manner suggested by the hon. member,and I cannot see my way to adopting his suggestion.

Sale of Intoxicating Liquors to Children.On the motion of Mr. Conybeare, leave was given to bring in a Bill to

prohibit the holding out of inducements to children to visit public-houses, and the Bill was afterwards brought in and read a first time.

Draina,ge and Improvement of Land (Ireland) (No.2) Bill.This Bill was read a second time.

The Alkali Works Bill.Sir Henry Roscoe has given notice that on the second reading of this

Government Bill he will move, " That no extension of legislation for the control of the escape of noxious vapours will be satisfactory which Idoes not bring processes evolving certain specified noxious gases underinspection and regulation."

The Health of Arabi Pasha.In the House of Commons on Thursday Mr. J. W. Lowther was ques-

tioned as to the state of Arabi Pagha’s health. In the course of hisreply he stated that a Medical Commission had investigated the com-plaints made by Arabi, and they reported that no change had takenplace in the health of the exile. He suffered from dimness of vision inthe right eye. The question of the continued exile of Arabi was amatter for the Egyptian Government. The Foreign Office had no in-formation as to report by Dr. Vandhort certifying that Arabi was ina state of chronic invalidism.

The Police and Glove-fights.In the House of Commons, on Thursday, a large number of questions

were addressed to the Home Secretary with reference to the glove con-test, at the National Sporting Club in London, between Jackson andSlavin. Mr. Matthews said that before the contest the manager of theclub was cautioned by the police that he would be held responsible ifany breach of the law occurred He had requested the Public Pr se-cutor to consider whether there was any cause for proceedings beingtaken. It was not so much a question about gloves being used. heremight be a prize-fight with gloves; the question was whether it wasreally an athletic sport, an exhibition of skill, bringing in manlystrength for self-defeme, or whether it was a vicious contest, withintent to do harm. The police did their utmost to put down prize-fighting, but they could not take the law into their own hands.

BOOKS ETC. RECEIVED.

BLACK, ADAM & CHAS., London and Edinburgh.Life in Motion; or, Muscle and Nerve. By John G. McKendrick,M.D., LL.D. 1892. pp. 202.

CHURCHILL, J. & A., New Burlington-street, London.On Contractions of the Fingers and on

" Hammer-Toe." By Wm.Adams, F.R.C.S. Illustrated. Second Edition. 1892. pp. 154.

The Pathological Histology of Bronchial Affections, Pneumonia,and Fibroid Pneumonia. By G. A. Auld, M.D. Illustrated.1891. pp. 207.

CROSBY LOCKWOOD & SON, Ludgate-hill, London.Our Temperaments; tneir titudy and their Teaching. By Alex.Stewart, F.R.C.S. Edin. Second Edition. 1892. pp. 412.

FOWLER, L. N., Ludgate-circus, London.The Hygienic Treatment of Consumptiea. By M. L. Holbrook,M.D., New York. pp. 219. Price 8s.

GRIFFIN, CHAS., & Co., Exeter-street, Strand, London.The Wife and Mother : a Medical Guide. By A. Westland, M.D.

1892. pp. 282.HIGGINBOTHAM & CO., Madras.

Outlines of Medical Jurisprudence for India. By J. D. B. Gribbleand P.Hehir, M.D.,F.R.C.S.E. Third Edition. 1892. pp.512.

LEWIS, H. K., Gower-street, London.The Science and Art of Midwifery. By W. T. Lusk, M.D. Fourth

Edition. Illustrated. 1892. pp. 761.Medical Electricity. A Practical Handbook for Students and

Practitioners. By W. E. oteavenson, M.D., and H. L. Jones,M. D. Illustrated. 1892. pp. 446.

LONGMANS & Co., Paternoster-row, London.Inflnenza. By Julius Althaus, M.D., M.R.C.P.Lond. Second

Edition. 1892. pp. 407. Price fis.Darwin, and after Darwin ; an Kxposition of the Darwinian Theoryand a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions. By Geo. J.Romanes, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. I. The Darwinian Theory. 1892.pp. 460. Price 10s. 6d.

THE SCIENTIFIC PRESS, Strand, London.Outlines of Insanity. Designed for the use of Metiical Practitioners,Justices of the Peace, and Asylum Managers. By F. H. Walmsley,M.D. 1892. pp.154. Price 3s. 6d.

Suffering London; or, the Hygienic, Moral, Social, and Politicalltelations of our Voluntary Hospitals to Society. By A. E. Hake.With an Introduction by Walter Besant. 1892. pp. 179. Price3s. 6d.

VOGEL, F. C. W., Leipzig.Diagnostik der inneren Krankheiten auf Grund der heutigenUhtersuehungs-Hethoden. Von Dr. Oswald Vierordt. Drittesverbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. Mit 170 Abbildungen imText. 1892. pp. 622. -

Fifteenth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the State of NewJersey, and Report of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1891 (J. L. Murphy,Trenton, N.J.).-Eleventh Annual Report of the State Board ofHealth of Illinois for the year 1888, with an Appendix of the OfficialRegister of Physicians and Midwives, 1892 (H. W. Rokker, Springfield,III., 1892.)-Bypnotism and Humbug: a reply; by M. Bramwell,M.B. (Goodall and Suddick, Leeds).-Intestinal Anastomosis andSuturing ; by Robert Abbe, M.D. (Trow Directory Printing Compa,ny,New York, 1892).-Cages of Galt-bladder Surgery; by RobertAbbe, M.D. (reprint, 1892).-The Social Centres of London; com.

piled by the Polytechnic Reception Bureau, 309, Regent-street,London, 1892 ; price 6d.-Les Anomalies Musculaires, considérées auPoint de Vue de la Ligature des Arteres: par Professeur L. Testut(0. Doin, Paris, and Baillière, Tindall, and Cox, London, 1892.)-Andrew Thomson’s Yachting Guide and Tide Tables, 1892 (ThamesYacht Agency, PaH-maU, London); price 1s.-Tables for the Diagnosisand Treatment of Syphilis ; by J. K. Barton, M.D., F.R.C.S. Irel."third edition, 1888 (Fannin & Co., Dublin).-Second Progress Reporton Koch’s Treatment of Tubercular Disease ; by J. W. Springthorpe,M.D. Melb., M.R.C.P.Lond. (Stillwell & Co., Melbourne, 1892).-Archives de Neurologie; par J.-M. Charcot; Vol. XXIIt., 1892(Bureaux du Progres Medical, Paris).-Index Medicus : Authorsand Subjects ; Vol. XIV., No. 4, April, 1892 (Trubner and Co., andK. K. Lewis, London).-Proceedings of the New Yoik PathologioaYSociety for the year 1891 (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York).-Magazines for June : Sunday at Home, Leisure Hour, Boy’s OwnPaper, Boy’s Out-door Games and Recreations, Girl’s Own Paper,Girl’s Own Out-door Book (Religious Tract Society).

Appointments.Sucussful applicants for Vacancies, aecretardes of Public Institutions. and

others possessing information suitable for this column, are invited to,forward it to THE LANCET Office, directed to the Sub-Editor, not laterthan 9 o’clock on the Thursday morning of each week for publication inthe next number.

ADAMS, C. E., M.R.C.S., L.S.A., hag been appointed Medical Officer forthe Norwood District of the Parish of Lambeth, vice G. L. Rugg,resigned.

ANDREW, J. GRANT, M.B , C.M. Glasg., has been appointed Surgeon to<the Victoria Intirmary, Glasgow.

BANKS, A., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., has been appointed Assistant HouseSurgeon t St Thomas’s Hospital.

BASU, BAMAN DAS, L.S.A., ha.s been appointed Civil Surgeon ofJacobabad.

BOARD, E. C., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., has been appointed HonoraryConsulting Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Bristol.

BOWRING, W. A., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., has been appointed ResidentHouse Physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

Box, C. R, B.Sc.Lond., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., has been reappointedHouse Surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

COOPER, A. TANNER, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., has been appointed HousePhysician to the Hospital for Women, Soho-square.

COOPER, H. J., M. A., M.B., B.C. Cantab., L.R.C.P., M.R C.S., has been

anpointed Clinical Assistant for Diseases of the Ear to St. Thomas’s.Hospital.COUNSELLOR, CHARLES EYRE, M.D., L.S.A. Lond., has been appointed

Physi ian to the Carson and Colorado Railroad Company, State ofNevada, U.S.A.

CoupER, DAVID, M.D., C.M. Glasg., has been appointed Surgeonfor Diseases of the Skin to the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow.

DALZELL, A., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., has been reappointed ClinicalAssistant for Diseases of the Throat to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

DORMAN, M. R. P., M.A., M.B., B.C. Cantab., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., hasbeen appointed Clinical Assistant for Diseases of the Throat to St.Thomas’s Hospital.

DUTT, U. K., B.Sc. Lond., M.R.C.S., D.P.H. Camb., has been appointedMedical Officer for the Fourth Sanitary District of the CambridgeUnion.

FISHER, J., B A., M.B., B.C. Cantab., hag been appointed OphthalmicHouse Surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

FISHER, J. H , L.R.C.P.. M.R.C.S., has been appointed Assistant.House Surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

FLETCHER, JAS. L., M.B., C.M. Edin., has been appointed ResidentMedical Officer to the Manchester Hospital for Consumption andDiseases of the Throat.

Focus, W. P., B.A., M.B., B.C. Cantab., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., has beenappointed Non-resident House Physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

FORDE, T. A. M., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., has been reappointed HouseSurgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

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GANN, THOMAS W. F., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.S.A.Lond., has beenappointed Medical Officer and Magistrate (combined) to OrangeWalk, British Honduras.

GOODALL, E. W., M.D. Lond., has bpen appointed Medical Super-intendent for the Eastern Hospital of the Metropolitan AsylumsDistrict.

GRFGSON. T. W., M.B., C.M. Glasg., has been appointed Medical Officerfor the No. 1 Blackburn Sanitary District of the Blackburn Union.