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MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS.ADAMS, J. E., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Assistant-Surgeon to the

London Hospital.Bucx, J. R., L.R.C.P.Ed., has been appointed Medical Officer for the Ink-

berrow District of the Alcester Union, Warwickshire, vice J. W. Lea-croft, M.B., whose appointment will expire on the 29th inst.

BURDETT, Mr. H. C., has been appointed Resident Secretary and GeneralSuperintendeat of the Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, vice Mr. W. A.Edwards, resigned.

BYRNE, J. P., L.K.Q.C.P.I., has been appointed Medical Officer to the Augh-rim and Aughavanagh Constabulary, Co. Wicklow, vice J. Kearney,M.R.C.S.E., deceased.

FENWICK, S., M.D., has been appointed an Assistant-Physician to theLondon Hospital.

GiMs, S., M.D., B.A., has been appointed Medical Examiner to the CrownLife Assurance Company.

GOLDING, J. P., M.D., has been appointed Medical Officer for No. 4 CorkDispensary District of the Cork Union, vice O’Flynn, appointed to No. 8.

Hixox, W. N., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Resident Medical Officer tothe Westminster General Dispensary, Gerrard-street, Soho, vice F. Amy,M.D., resigned.

HOLMES, Dr., has been appointed Medical Officer for No. 7 Cork DispensaryDistrict of the Cork Union, vice Jones, appointed to No. 3.

JONES, H. M’N., M.D., has been appointed Medical Officer for No. 3 CorkDispensary District of the Cork Union, vice Golding, appointed toNo. 4.

KEARNEY, J. P., L.R.C.S.I., has been appointed Surgeon to the Cronebane,Tegrony, and Carysfort Mines, Co. Wicklow, vice J. Kearney, M.R.C.S.E.,deceased.

MACAULAY, F. E., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer for theOvenden District of the Halifax Union, Yorkshire, vice James Holt,L.R.C.P.Ed.

1IANISTY, Mr. F. S., has been appointed Medical Officer for the Gresford Dis-trict of the Wrexham Union, Denbighshire, vice T. R. Mitchell, M.D.,resigned.

MOORE, J. D., M.D., F.L.S., has been appointed Deputy Coroner for theCounty Palatine of Lancaster.

O’FLYNN, J. D., M.D., has been appointed Medical Officer for No. 8 CorkDispensary District of the Cork Union, vice R. T. Fowler, M.D., de-ceased.

PAXENHAM, Mr. W. J. (Dublin), has been appointed Apothecary and Regis-trar to the Monaghan County Infirmary, vice G. M’B. Davis, M.D.,resigned.

PAYNE, C. J., M.D., has been appointed Medical Officer to the Workhouseand Fever Hospital, and Medical Officer, Public Vaccinator, and Regis-trar of Births &c., for the Clifden Dispensary District of the ClifdenUnion, Co. Galway, vice W. H. Suffield, M.D., resigned.

PEIRCE, G., M.D., has been appointed Medical Officer to the Workhouse andFever Hospital of the Newcastle Union, Co. Limerick, vice J. Peirce,M.D., resigned.

PRITCHARD, H. J., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Junior Assistant MedicalOfficer to the County Lunatic Asylum, Gloucester, vice Charles Lewis,M.R.C.S.E., resigned.

SHAW, Mr. H. S., has been appointed Senior Resident Medical Officer andSecretary to the Leeds Public Dispensary, vice E. Casey, M.B., appointedSenior Assistant Medical Officer to the Gloucester County Lunatic Asy-lum, Wotton.

TODD, Dr. J., has been appointed Medical Officer, Public Vaccinator, andRegistrar of Births &c., for the Drumquin Dispensary District of theCastlederg Union, Co. Tyrone, vice W. Sproule, M.R.C.S.E., deceased.

WATSON, W. R., L.R.C.S.Ed., has been appointed Medical Officer and PublicVaccinator for the Parish of Kirkmabreck, Kircudbrightshire, vice J.Coutts, L.F.P. & S. Glas., resigned.

WILSON, W. S., L.R.C.P.L., has been appointed Medical Officer for the Burn.ham District of the Eton Union, vice G. J. Gillam, M.R.C.S.E., resigned,

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

JEPSON.-On the 27th ult., at Stone, near Dartford, Kent, the wife of OctaviusJepson, M.D., of a daughter.

KIRK.-On the 19th of July, at Zanzibar, the wife of J. Kirk, M.D., BritishVice-Consul, of a daughter.

RICHMOND.-On the 22nd ult., at Northallerton, Yorkshire, the wife of S.Richmond, M.D., of a son.

SHONE.-On the 25th ult., at Great Marlow, Bucks, the wife of W. J. Shone,M.R.C.S.E., of a son. ____

MARRIAGES.BOGGS-D’IVOLEY.-On the 27th’ult., at Paris, Alexander Boggs, M.D., late

of the Madras Medical Service, to Marguerite Berthe, daughter of theBaron and Baroness D’Ivoley.

GRIMBLY-CHEYNE.-On the 1st inst., at Woodstock, Richard Grimbly,M.R.C.S., of Banbury, to Frances, second daughter of the late JohnCheye, Esq., Solicitor, of Liverpool.-No Cards.

DEATHS.BROADBENT.-On the 28th ult., Richard Broadbent, F.R.C.S.B., of Altrincham,

Cheshire, aged 73.HYDE.-On the 27th ult., G. C. Hyde, M.R.C.S.E., of Upper Belmont-place,

Wandsworth- road, aged 51.LACY.-On the 29th ult., at Panton, in Lincolnshire (the residence of his

brother), James Prior Lacy, Esq, of Newark-on-Trent, aged 72. Uni-versally beloved and respected.

MARSTON.-On the 29th ult., at Ivy Cottage, Brigg, Janet, relict of the lateHenry Marston, M.R.C.S.E, &c., aged 54.

MILNER.-On the 17th ult., Wm. Ralph Milner, M.R.C.S.E., of Wakefield,aged 58.

MINAS.-On the 24th ult., Robert Minas, Surgeon-Dentist, of Truro.

MERRYWEATHER.-On the 14th ult., at Colville-road, Bayswater, EdithCollins, youngest daughter of P. C. Merryweather, M.R.C.S.E., aged4 years and 9 months.

MONCKTON.-On the 29th ult., at Rugeley, Ernest William Parr, son of Wm.Monckton, Surgeon, of Brenchley, aged 4 months.

ROBERTS.-On the 21st ult., at the Royal Hospital for Incnrables, H. Roberts,M.D.

ROWLAND.-On the 20th ult., at the Carnarvonshire and Anglesey Infirmaryand Dispensary, Bangor, John Rowland, M.R.C.S.E., House-Surgeon forupwards of twenty years, aged 50.

SMITH.-On the 18th ult., F. P. Smith, M.R.C.S.E., of Aylsham, Norfolk,aged 69.

TROTTER.-On the 29th ult., at the residence of his uncle, T. Batten, F.R.C.S.,Charles Hardy Trotter, M.D., M.R.C.S., of Park-end, near Lydney,Gloucestershire.

WHIFFIN.-On the 4th of June, Elzeard Henry Whiffin, M.D., aged 68.WILSON.-On the 25th ult., J. W. Wilson, M.D., of Regency-square, Brighton,

formerly of the H.E.I.Co.’s Service.

To Correspondents.THE STUDENTS’ NUMBER OF THE LANCET

will be published on Saturday next, September 12th. Those

gentlemen holding official situations connected with MedicalInstitutions in the United Kingdom, who have not yet for-warded the necessary information to our Office for publica-tion in that Number, are earnestly requested to send itwithout the delay of a single post.

Plato.-The Vaccination Act of 1867 does not require a medical practitionerwho is not a public vaccinator to transmit to the registrar of births dupli-cate certificates of successful vaccination ; but the Act does require the

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medical practitioner to fill up and sign the certificate of vaccination, whichmust be presented to him by the parent or custodian of the child on the !

day of inspection. Section 23 of the Act says: "Where the vaccinationshall be successfully performed by a medical practitioner not being a publicvaccinator, the parent or other person as aforesaid causing the child to bevaccinated shall submit a certificate according to the said form, marked D,to such medical practitioner to be filled up and signed by him, and shallwithin twenty-one days after the performance of the operation transmit thesame so signed, by post or otherwise, to the registrar of the district."Section 30 imposes a penalty on any medical practitioner who shall refuseto fill up and sign the certificate when it is submitted to him as the Actdirects.

Mr. Riley should consult a qualified practitioner in the neighbourhood.

ST. PANOEAS WORKHOUSE.

To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SiR,-I was astounded when I read in your journal the paragraph in theReport on the State of St. Pancras Workhouse relating to the children’snursery, which states that " on the whole we are bound to say that, while thenumbers are limited to twenty or twenty-five, the space is sufficient." Thevery lowest amount of cubic space allowed by the Poor-law Board for anadult is 500 cubic feet. Deducting 1500 feet, the amount needed for the.three adult assistants, from 7865 feet, 6365 cubic feet only remain, whichsum, divided by 25, gives a quotient of 254 feet for each child, or, allowing fortwo adults, only 274 feet.At a late inquest I was asked by Dr. Lankester " was the atmosphere of

that room fit for children in such a delicate state of health as the deeeased?’My answer was "No." I maintain that that answer was right.

Yours faithfully,F. W. Gzasox, M.D. Lond.,

St. Pancras Infirmary, Aug. 30th, 1868. Resident Medical Officer.

P.S.-The Poor-law Board in a recent order fixed the amount for each childat the Plaistow Schools at 500 cubic feet. If this amount is needed for child-ren in the country, how can 274 cubic feet be sufficient for those living in a.crowded workhouse ?

*** The amount of cubic space which should be given to the children in theshort nursery of the St. Pancras Workhouse is a question on which con-siderable difference of opinion may be reasonably permitted. Dr. Gibsonhas not stated the case quite fairly. There are, indeed, two or three adultattendants; but only one sleeps and takes her meals in the apartment.Moreover, the children, under ordinary circumstances, do not remain morethan a few days, and the extra number is due to the existence of ophthalmiaat the Plaistow Schools. The apartment, with the exception of the water-closet, is clean, wholesome, well ventilated, and quite suitable. There isau excellent play-yard, and no washing is done in the room. The actualaverage, under the present unfavourable circumstances, has been 370 cubicfeet for each child, and the general appearance of the children is, as wasadmitted by the jurors, extremely healthy. We have no desire, however, tocurtail the space allowed for children, and perhaps it would be better toplace the extreme limit at the lower number mentioned in our Report. Ifthe atmosphere was unfit for a child in such a delicate state of health, wethink it should have been ordered either into the infirmary or the sickwards at Plaistow, and we can scarcely understand that the gangreneshould be attributed to overcrowding in the nursery, seeing that the childwas removed to the infirmary the day after the accident.-THE LANCMCOMMISSIONER.