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examinationIt and practical demonstrations, embracingstretcher-carrying, application of splints and bandages, ,arrest of hæmorrhage, and other departments of ambulancework. The results were-City Police, 334 marks ; GreatWestern Railway, 31.0 ; and Midland Railway, 301. It wasa very interesting exhibition, being thoroughly appreciated.

AdulterationThe alleged sale of cassia as cinnamon was lately the

cause of a prosecution at Hanley ; the article was boughtin Birmingham. The case was adjourned at first fortwo weeks to allow of an independent analysis. It wasnow stated that this was so expensive an undertaking’that it could not be carried out efficiently. The defendantwas fined 20s. and costs, ;E7 1.’’. in all. The moral is that an

objection to the prosecution to be effective must be completein all its details if it is to carry success or refutation.

Vegetarians in Co2?fe7,ence.At a recent conference held in this city a speaker said

that in dealing with cancer vegetarianism was an importantfactor in treatment and cure. Another said that cancer wasunknown among the natives in the presidency of Bombay.No doubt too much meat is eaten by the majority of ourpopulation, but two blacks do not make a white, nor does theuse of meat carry its condemnation by being abused byindiscreet people ignorant of the elementary details ofnature’s laws.

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LIVERPOOL.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Lord -Derby and the Royal Southern Hospital.LORD DERBY, in his capacity of Lord Mayor, followed the

’example of his predecessors in the civic chair during manyyears past and attended divine service at St. Michael’sChurch on Sunday last, when a sermon was preached and-collection made on behalf of the Royal Southern Hospital.The collection amounted to f.137, a marked improve-ment on the last few years. After the service LordDerby, accompanied by members of the committee and othergentlemen, walked to the hospital and, with the Countess ofDerby, made an inspection of the building, the house sur-geons, Mr. J. A. Craig and Mr. G. R. Thompson, with MissMary Gordon, being among the guides. The wards weremade bright by beautiful flowers which were presented byMr. W. Gilbert Moss, a member of the committee. Afterthe tour of the wards had been completed the followingentry, made by his lordship and signed by him and theLady Mayoress, was placed in the visitors’ book :-"I I havehad great pleasure in visiting this hospital to-day. It givesevery evidence of attention, skill, and good management.Notwithstanding the large number of patients everythingseems to be done in an orderly and quiet manner, and it isinteresting to see what kindly feeling seems to exist betweenthe patients and nurses and other members of the staff ofthe hospital."

The Assiues : -Drink, and Murder.

Many years ago the late Mr. Baron Martin, who had oftenpresided in the Crown Court at previous assizes, described acase of murder following a drinking bout as a "regularLiverpool case." Though tully twenty-five years have elapsedsince that remark was made it is sad to find Mr.Justice Collins lamenting in his charge to the grand jury themany cases in the calendar which were plainly due to intem-perance. Two cases of murder were tried on the 25th inst.each ending with a of verdict guilty and the dread sentenceof death. In the first case the prisoner was a militia-man who had just been discharged from his annualtraining at Warrington. The deceased was a domesticservant to whom lie had been paying attentions and whomhe had treated with the greatest kindness up to the.day which ended so fatally for her and so disastrously forhim. On that day (July 29th) the prisoner, the deceased,and others were drinking together. One of the company,a married woman, let fall out of her pocket a razor whichshe had kept to prevent her husband doing harm to himselfour anyone else. The prisoner picked it up and put it in hispocket, saying that he would take care of it for fear of- danger. Later the prisoner, who had pawned his coat topay for more drink, became annoyed because the deceased

refused to come downstairs when hc called her, and goingup, he forced the door, dragged her downstairs, and with therazor cut her throat. The medical evidence showed that thewound must have been inflicted with considerable violence;there were two cnts penetrating to the spine, severing all thelarge vessels, and causing almost instantaneous death. Mr.Beamish, the medical oflicer of H. M. Prison, Walton,wheretheprisoner had been since his committal, stated that there werethree depressions on the right side of his head and that suchpersons were more susceptible to drink than ordinary people.After he had received his death sentence the prisoner said:" Can I speak, may I have my body and head examined at theinfirmary?" " As the learned judge took no notice of this,the prisoner continued : "When I am hanged and finishedwith, will you let my body and head be examined at theinfirmary, and put it in the paper what is to do with myhead ? " The other case was the sad ending to a court rowin the city on Aug. 18th. The deceased and the prisonerwere both working men and were drinking together whenthey quarrelled, the quarrel extending to their neighbours,and the row becoming general. The police stopped this, butnext morning it was renewed, and ultimately the prisonerthrew bricks from the top of his house at the deceased, whowas leaning out of a window. One of the bricks struck thedeceased on the head, and he fell out of the window on tothe court below, a distance of thirty feet. On being takento the East Dispensary, which was not far away, Mr. Leitch,the house surgeon, found him to be living, but he died aminute after his arrival. Blood was flowing from threewounds on his head. One of these divided the right ear

entirely, the substance of the ear being jammed into theskull, which was fractured. There was a second wound onthe back and near the top’ of the head, and beneath this adepressed fracture two inches in length. From this depressionthere was another fracture extending to the right out of theforehead. In charging the grand jury the judge observedthat if the brick were thrown with the intent to do grievousbodily harm this was murder, and there was nothing to showsuch provocation on the part of the deceased as to reduce itto manslaughter.

The Murder of a Deteetive at Wigan.Mr. Justice Collins tried to-day William Kearsly and

Elijah Winstanley for the murder of Robert Kidd, a railwaydetective, on Sept. 29th last. The medical evidence wasgiven by Mr. C. R. Graham of Wigan, who was called to therailway station on the night of the murder. He found theclothes of the deceased spattered with blood, his hands,face, and head were covered with blood, and there werenine incised or punctured wounds on the head, face, andright side of the neck, three being mortal wounds. One wasbelow and in front of the right ear, and the other two wereimmediately lower down on the jaw and neck. The woundswere inflicted by a sharp instrument, such as the knife pro-duced. The outside of the tip of the left index-finger wascut off also by a sharp instrument. Mr. Roocroft, policesurgeon at Wigan, who made the post-mortem examinationin conjunction with Mr. Graham, was of opinion that thedeceased must have been on his left side when the fatalwounds were inflicted. Death resulted from haemorrhage.The prisoner Winstanley’s right thumb was swollen andbruised when examined three days after. The prisonerKearsly had cuts across the back of the left little finger andthe right middle finger, and scratches on other fingers. Hewas also bruised on the left arm, and there were other markswhich, in his opinion, arose from direct violence two or threedays previously. Both prisoners were convicted andsentenced to death.Nov. 26th.

NORTHERN COUNTIES NOTES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

The Royal Infirmary, Newcastle-on-Tyne.FOR the important post of pathologist there are two candi-

dates-Dr. T. Beattie and Dr. G. R. Murray. Dr. Beattie isone of the ablest medical graduates the University of Durham

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has produced. He has been educated entirely at Newcastle,, and has recently left the Infirmary, where he filled in.

succession the offices of house surgeon and junior and seniorhouse physician, in all of which he has given entire satis-faction. Dr. Murray studi(d in Cambridge, London, Berlin,

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and Paris. He is a distinguished graduate in arts andin medicine of Cambridge. He has been in practice as aphysician at Newcastle for five years. He is the HeathProfessor of Bacteriology and Comparative Pathologyand an Examiner for degrees in Hygiene in the Univer-

sity of Durham, and for some years has been the Pa,tho-logist to the Hospital for Sick Children in Newcastle.It is a source of great regret that the services of thesetwo eminently well qualified men cannot be secured by theInfirmary on the present occasion. The election of one ofthem to the post of pathologist is watched with keen interestby the profession here. The great importance of the presentappointment consists in the well-founded belief that whoeveris fortunate enough to be elected will in all probabilitysucceed to the next vacancy as full physician at the RoyalInfirmary, and as, under present circumstances, a secondvacancy cannot be expected for some ten years, one ofthese gentlemen must be excluded for a long term fromoffice. Newcastle is fortunate in having two such candi-dates, and most unfortunate in not being able to secure theservices of both.

Sub-warden of the University of Durham.Archdeacon Watkins has been appointed to this important

office in place of Professor Pearce, who succeeds the lateCanon Whitley as rector of Bedlington. The Universityhas now two very active church dignitaries at its helm.Dean Kitchin is the warden, and Archdeacon Watkins thesub-warden. One of these days, should it be legally possible,it is to be hoped the sub-warden may be a layman.

Tyne Port Sanitary Medical Officer.Dr. Harper has received this appointment. He is a pupil

of Dr. H. E. Armstrong and has quite recently vacated theoffice of house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, in whichcapacity he gave great satisfaction and made numerousfriends. It remains to be seen whether Dr. H. E. Armstrongwill be offered the appointment of consulting medical officerto the Tyne Sanitary Authority and if so whether he will

accept the post. It is certainly very extensively hoped thathis connexion with the Authority may be continued. He hasdone most valuable work and deserves well of that body.

SCOTLAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

Me Laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians,Edinburgh.

THE Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh has pur-chased property for the purposes of a laboratory. The

premises at present occupied belong to the Royal Infirmary,and will shortly be required for infirmary extension. The

property acquired is at the corner of Bristo-street andForrest-road, and cost considerably over .67000.

Edinburgh Royal Physical Society.At the opening of this society, last Friday, Dr. William

Russell, the retiring vice-president, delivered an address onthe Light Thrown on some Biological Processes by theInvestigation of Disease. Professor Struthers occupied thechair.

Glasgow University.The new anatomical and physiological laboratories for

Queen Margaret College were formally opened by PrincipalCaird on the 18th inst.

J1IuUcal County Councillors.Amongst the successful candidates in the recent election

for the Lanarkshire County Council are Dr. Stewart, Carluke;Dr. John Cowan Wilson, Stone field ; and Dr. Jno. Colville,illotherwell.

Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society.At a meeting of this society, on the 22nd inst., the prin-

cipal business was a paper on Aprosexia, Convulsions, andAdenitis, dependent on Pathological Changes in the Faucial,Lingual, and Pharyngeal Tonsils, read by Dr. WalkerDownie. A case of Gumma of the Iris was shown by Dr.Rowan; and Dr. C. 0. Hawthorne showed three patients,members of a family, in which there is a history of Here-ditary Syphilis, the patients manifesting varied evidences ofthe inherited taint. A number of photographs representingthe teeth in inherited syphilis were also shown.

Philosophical Society of Glasgow.Dr. Ebenezer Duncan, physician to the Victorian Infirmary,

has been elected President of the Society. At a meeting ofthe Society held on the 20th inst. Professor Joseph Coatsread a paper on Immunity to Infectious Diseases ; a’

Pathological Study in View of Recent Researches.West of Scotland Consumptive Hospital.

Some time ago a proposal to establish a hospital for the-treatment of phthisis was made by a gentleman well knownin philanthropic circles and prominently associated withhomes for orphan and destitute children. At the recent annual’meeting in connexion with these homes it was stated that a.sum of over £12,000 had already been subscribed, but littleor no information appears to have been given as to how this.money is to be applied, or how the proposed hospital is to be-managed. Dr. Ebenezer Duncan, in seconding the adoption ofthe report, stated that the deaths in Glasgow from pulmonarytuberculosis in 1894 numbered 1550, showing an increaseover previous years. He calculated that there were in thecity something like 15,000 sufferers from the disease, andexpressed an opinion that it was the duty of the munici--pality to deal with so vast a public evil just as they dealt,with the existence of other infectious diseases.

Glasgow Hospital Sunday.At a meeting of the executive committee on the 20th inst.-

it was intimated that the sum received last year, which was,the first year of a local Hospital Sunday, was £3640.Dec. lst has been fixed as the day on which collections are’to be made for the present year.

The Health of Greenock.In the report of Dr. J. Wallace, the medical officer of

health, for the five weeks ending Nov. 2nd it is stated that

during that period the ascertained cases of infectious diseases-numbered 399, of which no less than 366 were cases ofmeasles. It is conjectured that at least one-third of thesewere without medical attendance. Since the outbreak ofmeasles commenced in April 1345 cases have been reported ;the fatal cases number 45.

Glasgow Cooperation for Trained Norses.This organisation, which was established with a view to.

secure for nurses the full financial return for their services,has now completed its second year and presents a very satis-factory report. The balance in favour of the cooperation is£72 lls. 6d. There are forty-six nurses on the staff, and itwas stated at the recent annual meeting that one of these-during the past year had earned £84, five had made fromf.70 to f.80 each, four from f.60 to £70, and the lowest sum

. earned by any nurse was f.49. The management is in the-, hands of an executive committee composed partly of medicalmen and partly of nurses; there is a central home where

, the nurses reside when they are not employed.Dundee Royal Infirmary.

At a meeting of the directors on the 21st inst. a letter wasread from Mr. W. Ogilvey Dalgleish, of Errol Park, the chief’partner of Messrs. Baxter Bros., Dundee, offering £3500towards the erection of a nurses’ home in connexion with

. the infirmary. The offer was gratefully accepted.Nov. 2Rth.

IRELAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

The New Hospitals for Infectious Disease for Dublin County.I STATED some weeks ago my opinion as to the probable

fate of the proposed scheme for the establishment of one ormore large hospitals in the neighbourhood of Dublin for thetreatment of infectious disease, and for closing all theexistent city hospitals to typhoid and other fevers. Thematter was fully discussed at a recent conjoint meetingof the Section of Medicine and State Medicine of the RoyalAcademy of Medicine in Ireland, after which Sir CharlesCameron, the originator of the scheme, promised to adviseits abandonment in favour of the measures suggested at themeeting : viz-that a hospital for the treatment of epidemicsmall-pox or cholera outside the city be proceeded with, andthat isolated convalescent homes be also established.

City of Dublin Hospital.There have been many candidates for the surgeoncy to-