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25th by a large number of nurses. Invitations were issued tosome 650 nurses, and the members of the City Council, thechairman and secretaries of the various hospitals, and a fewprivate friends were asked to meet them. The staffs of 13hospitals, six district nursing societies, and a number of

nursing institutions and training homes were recipients ofinvitations. Music, visiting the Art Gallery, and otherentertainments with appropriate refreshments, constituted amost pleasant evening, during which the Lady Mayoressemphasised the interest which she has always so prominentlytaken in the welfare of nurses and nursing in all its branches.

The Royal Society.The friends of Professor B. C. A. Windle, the dean of the

Medical Faculty at Mason University College, are verypleased to see his name among the list of nominations forthe Fellowship of the Royal Society.May 9th.

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MANCHESTER.(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Care of Pauper Children.THE Oldham guardians decided on May 3rd to take

control of the pauper children who had been reared in fheworkhouse. This course has been taken owing to the factthat it is a common thing for parents who have deserted theirchildren to claim them when they reach the age of 16 or 18years. The guardians will no doubt be better able to guidethem to a decent course in life than such parents. Mr. Jenner-Fust, the local Government Board inspector, remarked thatthe proposal was a very sensible one.

Met7q;lated Spirit as Whisky.It is seldom, one would think, that methylated spirit is

sold for whisky, but the other week a man described as ahawker was fined at Bolton .651 and costs or six months’hard labour for so doing. He must have found it profitableas he had been fined on former occasions £51 and £24, andon three occasions £25 and costs, and had served variouslong terms of imprisonment. It bespeaks an uncultivatedtaste if he succeeded in palming such stuff on his customersfor fine Scotch," or an insatiable craving for alcohol ofany sort or description. One would like to know if there areconfirmed methylated spirit drinkers at Bolton or if theeffects of taking it have come under the notice of any ofthe medical men.

Poisoning by Ammonia at Stockport.An inquest was held on April 28th at Stockport on the

body of a lady, feeble from chronic bronchitis, who got someammonia to remove stains from a carpet and accidentallyinhaled it. Her husband, one of the oldest members of thecorporation, said that he was certain that she drank none. Theverdict was Death from bronchitis accelerated by accidentalinhalation of ammonia." It is stated that there have been anumber of deaths recently in Stockport from taking ammonia.It is difficult to imagine anything more horrible thanthe swallowing of ammonia or carbolic acid, and yetthe latter, in addition to the accidental deaths caused

by it, is among the lower classes one of the favouriteinstruments of suicide. A death from ammonia poison-ing took place about a month ago at Guide Bridge.A man sent to a shop for a pennyworth of sweet nitre,but ammonia was given by mistake. The shopkeepersaid that "she kept a general shop and sold sweet nitre,ammonia, and many other articles of a similar nature"and that she understood the boy to say ammonia. At therequest of the jury she was censured severely and told thatthey did not believe her evidence. It is difficult to ensurecare and accuracy in the seller and more difficult to save thebuyer of such things from a " general shop " against his ownstupidity and carelessness.May 9th.

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LIVERPOOL.(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

University College, Liverpool : Court of Governors; a NewFellowship in the Medical Faculty.

AT a meeting of the court of governors held in the senateroom of the College on May 6th Principal Glazebrook

made a statement dealing with the work done since the lastmeeting of the court. Referring to the number of medicalstudents he said that in spite of a slight decreasein the total number there had been a very considerableincrease in the number of new students-namely, 88 against71 in the previous term. As to the work of the students itwas difficult to say very much because only a few ofthe final examinations had been held. Those whoknew the work were thoroughly satisfied with the suc-

cess of the final examinations for the degree of M.D.in March last and there was every prospect of a

high standard being attained in the other examinations.In regard to the changes in the professorial staff Dr. Briggshad been appointed professor of midwifery and gynaecologyin the room of the late Dr. John Wallace, while Dr. Grims-dale had been appointed clinical lecturer on gynaecology.Speaking of the position of the various building fundsPrincipal Glazebrook said that plans had been prepared forthe extension of the medical school, which would probablycost about .620,000, so that between Z5000 and £7000 wouldstill be required before the work could be completed. Inregard to the new laboratory in the physics departmentMr. Alfred Booth had promised E2500 on condition thatZ7500 additional should be raised. Considerable amountshad already been received towards that object and theyhoped before long to be able to announce the receipt ofthe f:25,000 required for the work. At a meeting ofthe Medical Faculty held on May 5th it was announcedthat Dr. William Alexander, surgeon to the Royal SouthernHospital, had generously offered a fellowship or studentshipin pathological science of the value of E100 a year for fiveyears at least. Mr. Edward Phillips, the dental surgeon tothe Liverpool Royal Infirmary, had also offered a prize ofthe value of 10 guineas for students in dental science for aterm of five years at least.

Pathological Diagnosis Society.The second annual report of the society states that the

number of subscribers is slightly less than last year-viz.,140 as against 163. The work done, on the contrary, hasincreased, nearly 600 reports having been sent out. In the

Thompson-Yates Laboratories a special room had beendevoted to the work with a laboratory assistant, so thatin all urgent cases, as in the bacteriological diagnosis ofdiphtheria and typhoid fever, a reply can be given within24 hours. Two hospitals-viz., the Liverpool Infirmary forChildren and the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan-have joined the society during the past year.

The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and the VaccinationAct (1898).

At the monthly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce,held on April 26th, the secretary reported that a letter hadbeen received from the Town Clerk asking, on behalf of theHealth Committee of the City Council, for the cooperation ofthe Chamber in an effort which they were making to securefor Liverpool exception as regards domiciliary visits underthe Vaccination Act, 1898. The new procedure was, in theopinion of the Health Committee, not suited to the circum-stances of Liverpool. They therefore wished the Govern-ment to consider the case of Liverpool exceptionally and torestore the vaccination stations. It was unanimously agreedby the Chamber that the support asked for by the CityCouncil should be granted.May 9th..

SCOTLAND.(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

University of Edinburgh.ON May 2nd the classes for the summer session were

opened in the University of Edinburgh. The introductorylecture of the newly-instituted course in tropical medicinewas delivered by Dr. Andrew Davidson who has beenrecently appointed by the University Court as lecturer onthat subject. Those present were for the most part graduatesand senior students who intended to enter the services. Thelecturer spoke of the importance of this subject, the objectsof the course, and the part played by predisposition in

determining infection and its influence on the type andseverity of the disease. The University of Edinburgh sentas large a proportion of its graduates to the tropics as anyother medical school in the kingdom, and it had now realised