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primary fellowship examination, received a like i

honour.As the possession of a senior surgical qualification is

one of the requirements for the fellowship the Collegehas been able to obtain uniformity in the regulationsgoverning admission to senior surgical degrees ofthe Australian universities. A period of surgicalapprenticeship is also an essential part of the trainingfor the fellowship, and the College has therefore askedmany of the large hospitals of Australia to createnon-resident positions as assistantsto indoor surgeonswhich are intended for men who have already beenhouse surgeons and who wish to continue their surgicaltraining with a view to becoming fellows. An agree-ment has been made with the Prince Henry’s Hospital,Melbourne, whereby this hospital will function as apost-graduate school of surgery in collaboration withthe College.

Application for admission to the fellowship of theCollege is made to the censor-in-chief who presidesover two boards of censors, one in Australia and onein New Zealand. The censor-in-chief considers thequalifications of each applicant-a senior surgicalqualification and a period of surgical apprenticeshipare essential-and if he thinks fit asks the candidateto present himself to the appropriate board of censorsfor an oral examination. Fellowships with

ophthalmology and laryngo-otology have beeninstituted and are governed by similar regulations.The original system of admission to the fellowshipwas somewhat different, and the revised system wasintroduced in 1934.

Soon after its formation the College founded a

journal which has been published quarterly since 1928,at first under the title of the Journal of the College ofSurgeons of Australasia, and since 1931 under thename of the Australian and New Zealand Journal ofSurgery. The journal is edited by a committee underthe chairmanship of Mr. H. B. Devine.

THE SERVICES

ROYAL NAVAL MEDICAL SERVICE

Surg. Comdrs. A. G. Bee to Drake for R.N.B., andA. Craig to Pembroke for R.N.B.

Surg. Lt.-Comdrs. H. J. McCann to Victory for R.N.B.,J. A. Cusack to Dorsetshire, and A. R. Ewart to Leander.

Surg. Lt.-Comdr. (D.) J. M. Park to Excellent.

ARMY MEDICAL SERVICES

Col. M. F. Grant, late R.A.M.C., having attained theage for retirement, is placed on ret. pay.

Lt.-Col. D. F. Mackenzie, D.S.O., from R.A.M.C., tobe Col. (Col. Donald F. Mackenzie, D.S.O., on medicalduty in the Aldershot Command, is 54, and has been in theR.A.M.C. since January, 1907.

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS

Maj. A. Jackson to be Lt.-Col.Capt. (local Maj.) J. C. Gilroy relinquishes the local

rank of Maj. on ceasing to be empld. with the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force.

REGULAR ARMY RESERVE OF OFFICERS

Lt.-Col. F. B. Dalgliesh, having attained the age limitof liability to recall, ceases to belong to the Res. of Off.

TERRITORIAL ARMY

H. Dickie (late Offr. Cadet, Glasgow Univ. Contgt.(Inf. Unit), Sen. Div., O.T.C.) to be Lt.

D. R. Hood to be Lt.Supernumerary for service with O.T.C.-Lt. F. L. Ker,

supern. for serv. with Med. Unit, Edinburgh Univ. Contgt.,Sen. Div., O.T.C., to be Capt. (Substituted for the notifica-

tion in the Gazette of March 12th, 1935. Vide THE LANCET,March 23rd, p. 704.)

ROYAL AIR FORCE

The undermentioned Flight Lieutenants are promotedto the rank of Squadron Leader : A. F. Cook and E.Thompson.

Flight Lts. P. D. Barling to R.A.F. General Hospital,Hinaidi, Iraq ; P. J. McNally to R.A.F. Institute of

Pathology and Tropical Medicine, Halton.

INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE

Lt.-Col. A. F. Hamilton, C.I.E., retires.Major T. J. L. Thompscn, M.C., R.A.M.C., has been

appointed as officiating D.A.D.M.S., Eastern Command.

DEATHS IN THE SERVICES

The death occurred on March 25th, suddenly, at sea of £Surg. Capt. Sidney Roach, R.N., retired, formerly medicalofficer of the Royal Naval College and Royal HospitalSchool at Greenwich. He qualified M.R.C.S. in 1897,having studied at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and tookthe D.T.1B1. & H. in 1921. He entered the Navy as a surgeonon May 25th, 1897. He served in the sloop Alert on theNorth American station, and at Bermuda naval hospital,and was promoted to staff surgeon in 1905, in which yearhe joined H.M.S. Cambridge at Devonport. Later he wasmedical officer of the R.M. garrison at Ascension; ofthe cruiser Indefatigable in the West Indies; and ofChatham Barracks. During the war he was medicalofficer of the cruisers Devonshire and Roxburgh and thesubmarine depotship Bonal’enture. Then he served inthe Deftance, torpedo schoolship at Devonport. In 1923he entered the service of the Harrison Line, and it was onboard one of their vessels that he died. He made hishome at Brading, Isle of Wight.

Lt.-Col. Francis George Adye-Curran died at hisresidence, Esker House, Rathmines, Dublin, on March 15th,at the age of nearly 90. Born in Dublin in December,1845, and educated at Trinity College, he obtained hisM.D. Dub. in 1867, became L.R.C.S.I. in the same year,and F.R.C.S.I. in 1887. Early in life he joined the ArmyMedical Service and retired in 1893 with the rank ofLieutenant-Colonel. He then engaged in private practicein Rathmines, Co. Dublin, and remained in practice upto his final illness, being probably the oldest medical

practitioner in Ireland. During the war he returned tothe Army although past 70 years of age at the time, andserved for a time in India. Col. Adye-Curran had been

l for many years a director of the Apothecaries’ Hall ofIreland, of which he was for a time governor ; he also

represented the Apothecaries’ Hall on the General Council’ of Medical Education and Registration from 1905 to 1914.

CITY OF LONDON MATERNITY HOSPITAL.-Duringthe last year 1683 mothers were admitted into this

hospital and 210 were delivered in their homes. Withthe exception of emergency cases sent in by medicalofficers antenatal supervision and treatment were givenwhere necessary, and postnatal clinic was arranged forthe care of the mothers when they left the hospital.The improvements which have been carried out during theyear include the erection of a new operating theatrewith adjoining sterilising room, but the hospital requiresanother £ 1000 a year if it is not to fall into debt.

KETTERING GENERAL HosPITAL.-The increase inthe year’s work at this hospital is the largest in thelast seven years, for the total number of cases, 25,588,exceeds those of 1933 by almost 7000, and is aboutdouble the number recorded for 1928. There was anexcess of income over expenditure amounting to 383.The total amount received from the hospital guild weeklycontribution scheme was f7331, which was a record.The 10,000 appeal towards the cost of alterations andextensions is progressing satisfactorily. The daily averagenumber of occupied beds was 76-25 as compared with65-78 last year, and the average cost per patient (excludingout-patients) was f9 10s. 7., a decrease of Is. 3td.ontheprevious year. ,