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in recognition of 17 years’ service as honorary secretary to the medical committee."-On July 29th Dr. 0. A. Hayman £was presented with a silver cigar case in recognition of hiswork in connexion with the Bristol Corps of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. Mrs. Hayman was also presented witha silver jewel-box. ;

KINGSBRIDGE COTTAGE HOSPITAL.-The annual ’ meeting of the subscribers of the Kingsbridge (Devon)Cottage Hospital was held on July 22nd. During the pastyear the new wing of the building, which has been erected’by Mrs. Berks, was opened. It contains a male ward andfemale ward, each for three beds, and an operation-room.During the past 12 months 39 in-patients were admitted.There was a favourable balance of E13 remaining, whichmay not seem a great sum, but it is always pleasant tochronicle a surplus, however modest.

MuLLER’s ORPHAN HousES. - The report ofMuller’s Orphanage at Bristol has just been issued and showsthat the institution has now entered on its seventieth year ofexistence. During 1902 the sum of .637,013 was received forthe orphans and S4778 for other work in connexion with theinstitution. Five years ha.ve now passed since George Miillerdied and there has been no sort of organised or direct appealto the public or any individual for subscriptions, and yetevery agency has been efficiently maintained. The reportalluded to the resignation of Dr. Eubulus Williams, who hasbeen physician to the orphanage for the past 34 years, andadds that Dr. C. 0. Bodman has been appointed to the post.thus rendered vacant.

UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM COLLEGE OF MEDICINE,NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.-During the last 12 months therehas been a slight decrease in the number of specimensexamined in the Bacteriological Diagnosis Department of theUniversity of Durham College of Medicine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Some of these examinations have been made formedical practitioners, others by special arrangements forthe county councils of Northumberland and Durham,the Guisborough combined district councils of the NorthRiding of Yorkshire, the town councils of Sunderlandand West Hartlepool, the Newcastle Royal Infirmary,.and other public institutions. The total number of

specimens examined in the laboratory during the yearending May 31st, 1903, amounts to 938. as compared with1009 during the preceding 12 months. The different kindsof examinations carried out were as follows : 513 samples ofsputum from suspected cases of phthisis were examined fortubercle bacilli, which were found in 218 cases; 101 speci-mens of blood were examined from suspected cases of enteric-fever by Widal’s method, a positive result being obtained in44 cases ; 205 swabs from suspected cases of diphtheria wereexamined for the bacilli, which were found in 66 specimens ;ten specimens of pus were examined, the pneumococcus beingfound in two, streptococcus pyogenes in three, staphylo-coccus pyogenes aureus in four, and the gonococcus in one ;tubercle bacilli were found in one specimen of urine and inone of fseces ; eight specimens of anthrax were examined,positive results being obtained in four ; and 50 samples of-water were examined quantitatively for bacteria.

Parliamentary Intelligence.HOUSE OF COMMONS.

TaURSDAY, JULY 30TH.Cholera at Quetta.

MR. SCHWANN asked the Secretary of State for India whether anyreport had been received from the chief medical officer at Quetta orthrough the political department at Simla regarding the outbreak oftyphus fever amongst the workmen on the Nushki-Seistan railway routeand of cases of cholera at Quetta, and whether a report could be presentedshowing what progress had been made with the earthwork on thatdesert route, and describing the sanitary conditions and the question asto water-supply that were likely to affect the construction of the.lineand the future facilities for traffic such as the Nushki-Seistan railwaywas intended to offer.-Lord GEORGF HAMILTON : A railway is beingconstructed from Quetta to Nushki but no proposal for its extensionfrom Nushki towards Seistan has been made or sanctioned. I have noinformation as to the prevalence of epidemics among the workers onthe Quetta-Nushki Railway but I have heard that there is an epidemicof typhus fever at Quetta and in other parts of Baluchistan. Cholerais also reported near Quetta and at Nushki.

Amb16lances in Hyde Park.Mr. CLAUDE HAY asked the hon. Member for West Derbyshire,

as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether the

! St. John ambulances in Hyde Park have been decided upon as beingas satisfactory as the Metropolitan Police ambulances in Hyde Park,and whether he would state the result of the promised inquiry as to thenumber and positions .of ambulances which were placed in HydePark, having regard to recent accidents to horsemen and others.-Mr.VICTOR CAVENDISH : The St. John ambulances in Hyde Park have beeninspected by Sir William Bennett who reports that they are not quiteso satisfactory as the Metropolitan Police ambulances, but owing totheir lightness and simplicity they are best suited for the purposes ofwork in Hyde Park. There are now ambulances at Alexandra Gate,

t Hyde Park Corner, the Marble Arch, and at the police station.’ Medical Officers in Ireland.l Mr. PATRICK O’BRIEN asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord

Lieutenant of Ireland whether he was aware that the Ballinasloe boardof guardians had failed to procure a medical officer for the Killan dis-pensary district at the salary of ,c120 per annum; whether he couldsay if any medical men had stated to that board in writing at what

L salary they would be willing to accept office, and, if so, at what

) amount; and whether he could say how many vacancies existed atpresent in the Irish dispensary service and for what period eachdistrict had been vacant, what fees were being paid per week to the

temporary medical officers in charge of these districts, how much perweek was paid in advertising the vacancies in each union, andS how much of the total cost of locum-tenents’ fees and advertise-

ments was refunded by the Treasury to the guardians in each case.-

r Mr. WYNDHAM : The vacancy in Ballinasloe union was created on

** June 20th. The guardians advertised for a medical officer at a salary of,c120 a year. Two gentlemen offered their services at £200 a year.

r The guardians, however, decided to re-advertise at the former salary.i There are eight other vacancies ; two occurred in November last and the

remaining six are of very recent creation. Temporary medical officersE are usually paid E4 4s. a week. The cost of advertisements is nott officially known. Recoupment is made in respect only of approved

salary.,

salary. Haffkine’s Plague Prophylactic.*

Mr. WEIR asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he" would state on what date the system of inoculation with Haffkine’splague prophylactic was brought into operation in Hong-Kong, thenumber of persons inoculated, and how many have since succumbed to

x plague.-Mr. CHAMBERLAIN : I have no information on the point butwill ask the Governor for a report.

MONDAY, AUGUST 3RD.Medical Reports.

_ Mr. D. A. THOMAS asked the President of the Local Government

r Board when the sixty-fourth annual report (births, deaths, andmarriages (England) ) of the Registrar-General for 1901, presented on

r August 4th, 1902, and when the supplement to the thirty-first annual!, report of the Local Government Board, 1901-02, containing the report of

the medical officer for 1901-02, presented Nov. 3rd, 1902, would bedelivered ; whether he could say what had been the cause of the delayin the publication of these reports; and whether he would take

, steps to alter the practice of presenting command papersin dummy in one session when not ready and not deliver-

r ing them until the next in view of the inconvenience involved.-*’ Mr. LONG replied: As regards the annual report of the Registrar-1 General, I am informed that it will be issued with very littleg further delay. The Registrar-General states that the report has

e been delayed exceptionally this year on account of the heavypressure in his office due to the preparation of the Census

r returns and also to an important change which it has been found- necessary to make in the tabulation of deaths. The report of the

medical officer of the Local Government Board, to which the honour-able Member refers, has gone to press and will, I understand, probably

n be issued within a month. The issue of the report this year has beene delayed through the amount of special work which has been thrown on

the medical branch in connexion with the recent small-pox epidemic._ I am desirous that reports which are presented in dummy should be

issued as soon as possible afterwards; but, as the honourable Memberwill see, the delay in the present cases was due to exceptional circum-stances.; stances.

The Army Medical Service.On the vote of .E520.000 to defray the charges for the Army Medical

f Service Mr. BURDETT-COUTTS initiated an interesting debate. He gaveMr. Brodrick credit for much energy in reform and several importantresults, but he contended with emphasis that " the only way toescape from the fatal cycle of medical disaster and attemptedreform which had marked the last 60 years was a thoroughlyorganised system of civilian aid. "-Mr. BRODRICK said thathe fully recognised the services which Mr. Burdett-Coutts originallyrendered in bringing forward the question of army medicalreform. In the changes that had been made everything had beendone to see that the arrangements did not become stereotyped, andin order to avoid that he had enlisted the leading members of themedical profession who were in closest touch with the medicaldevelopments of the day. He had been peculiarly fortunatein this respect. He invited the assistance of some of themost eminent members of the profession and he could notexpress too highly his gratitude to those gentlemen who had given up

)r high fees and personal practice to sit with him on a committee and hadof also offered themselves as willing to act on the Advisory Board at abe merely nominal honorarium. In order that the Army MedicalId Department might be adequately reorganised, besides the army

members, the Advisory Board consisted of eminent civilian physiciansis and surgeons who attended three or four committee meetings weekly.Ie The War Office had endeavoured to meet their views in regard to

pay, the increase of numbers, and the increase of leave for studyig in the military college, for which a site had been secured.m Previously to the appointment of the Advisory Board the number ofLO candidates was not equal to half the vacancies, but since then the

numbers had increased and at the last examination there were 72ic candidates for 30 vacancies, some of the candidates having

occupied positions in the best hospitals. The Advisory Com-mittee had reviewed the whole of the military hospitals in the

country and he hoped that they were on the eve of very great changesin not treating so many trifling cases, having a much better equipment,

e, more scientific structures, and a general modernising of the institu-te tions. He had asked Parliament to vote ,cl50,OOO which he proposed to

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intrust to a small committee, of which Sir E. C. Perry would be chair-man, and that committee would apportion the money among thevarious military hospitals with a view to secure their modernisation.Another point was the organisation of an adequate civilian reserveand the definition of its status as compared with the Army MedicalCorps itself. He hoped next session to be able to state that thesewere accomplished facts.

Appointments.Successful applicanta for Vacancies, Secretaries of Public Institutions,

and other8 possessing information suitable for this column, areinvited to forward to THE LANCET Office, directed to the Sub.Editor, not later than 9 o’clock on the Thursday morning of eachweek, such information for gratuitous publication.

BARBER, G. W., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointed, protem., Acting Resident Physician to the Kalgoorlie Hospital, WestAustralia, and also Acting District Medical Officer, pro tem., ofKalgoorlie.

BELGRAVE, T. B., M.R.C.S., M.D. Syd., has been appointed VisitingJustice to the Gaols in East Kimberley, West Australia.

BIRKBECK, LAWRENCE HENRY CARR, M.B., B.S.Oxon., has beenappointed Medical Referee under the Workmen’s CompensationActs. 1897 and 1900, for Bridgwater, Chard, Langport, Wellington,and Williton.

BLACK, VICTOR, M.B., Ch.M. Edin., has been appointed Officer of Health,pro tem., of Perth, West Australia.

BOYCOTT, A. E., M.A., M.B., B.Sc. Oxon., Fellow of BrasenoseCollege, has been appointed Gordon Lecturer in ExperimentalPathology at Guy’s Hospital Medical School.

BRUCE, R. T., M.B., M.S. Edin., has been appointed Certifying Surgeonunder the Factory Act for the Thames District of the County ofOxford.

CAMPBELL, PETER, M.B. Edin., has been appointed Certifying Surgeonunder the Factory Act for the Newport District of the County ofFife.

CUFF, ARCHIBALD, B.A., M.B., B.C. Cantab., F.R.C.S.Eng., has beenappointed Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Sheffield.

DAWES, R. St. M., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., has been appointedHealth Officer of Gawler South, South Australia.

ELLIOTT, CHARLES BOLTON, L. & L Mid. R.C.P. Edin., M.R.C.S.. hasbeen appointed Medical Officer of Health of Geraldton, WestAustralia.

HARRATT, T. T., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointedCertifying Surgeon under the Factory Act for the Rye District ofthe County of Sussex.

HOPE, J. W., F.R.C.P. Edin., L.S.A. Lond., has been appointed MedicalOfficer of Health of Fremantle, West Australia.

HOWARD, T., M.B., B.S. R.U.I., has been appointed CertifyingSurgeon under the Factory Act for the Portland District of theCounty of Dorset.

KELLY, T. GORDON, B.A., M.D., D.P.H., has been re-appointed MedicalOfficer of Health of the Market Bosworth Rural District.

LEMARCHAND, ARTHUR WHARTON, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., has beenappointed Medical Referee under the Workmen’s CompensationActs, 1897 and 1900, for Barnstaple, Bideford, South Molton, andTorrington.

PARDOE, JOHN, M.B. Aberd., F.R.C.S. Eng., has been appointedAssistant Surgeon to St. Peter’s Hospital, Henrietta-street. W.C.

POYNTON. F. J., M.D., F.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointed AssistantPhysician to University College Hospital, London.

RAMSAY, JAMES EDWARD, M.B. Lond., has been appointed HonoraryPathologist and Bacteriologist to the Perth Public Hospital, WestAustralia.

ROBERTS, R. L., has been appointed Certifying Surgeon under theFactory Act for the Ituabon District of the County of Denbigh.

SIMPSON, LILIAN G., M.D. Brux.. L.R.C.P. & S. Edin., has been

appointed Assistant Medical Officer to the Camberwell Infirmary,Camberwell, S.E.

STIRLING, EDWARD CHARLES, C.M.G., F.R.S., M.D. Cantab., has beenappointed Honorary Consulting Surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital,South Australia.

WALKER. J. W. THOMSON, M.B., C.M. Edin., F.R.C.S. Eng., has beenappointed Assistant Surgeon to St. Peter’s Hospital, Henrietta-street, W.C.

Vacancies.For Jurther information regarding each vacancy reference should be

made to the advertisement (see Index).

CANCER HOSPITAL (FREE) Fulham-road, S.W.-House Surgeon for sixmonths, renewable. Salary £70 per annum, with board andresidence.

HULL CITY AND COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM.-Second Assistant MedicalOfficer, unmarried. Salary C150 per annum, with board, apart-ments, washing, and attendance.

HUNTINGDON COUNTY HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary £80 per

annum, with allowances, and board and lodging.JENNER INSTITUTE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, Chelsea.-Studentship(value .B150) in the Bacteriological Department.

KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL.-House Physician, unmarried.Salary .B9O a year, with board and lodging.

LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMA.RY.-Resident Ophthalmic Officer. SalaryoB50 a year, with board and lodging.

LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.--Assistant Surgeon, unmarried. Salary.BlOO per annum, with board and apartments.

LIVERPOOL RoYAL SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.-Junior House Surgeon.Salary 60 guineas per annum.

MACCLESFIELD GENERAL INFIRMARY.--Junior House Surgeon. Salary£70 per annum, with board and residence.NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN.-Male Resident

’ Medical Officer. Salary £100, with board, lodgings, and laundry.NORTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Honorary Dental Surgeon.PRESTON, LANCASHIRE COUNTY ASYLU--vl, Whittingham.-Assistant

Medical Officer, unmarried. Initial salary El75, with apartments,board, washing, and attendance.

POPLAR UNION.-Dentist. Salary R60 per annum.QUEEN’S HOSPITAL, Birmingham.-Two House Surgeons. Salary

at rate of E50 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.ST. PETER’S HOSPITAL FOR STONE, &c., Henrietta-street, Covent-

garden, W.C.-House Surgeon for six months. Salary at rate of£100 a year, with board, lodging, and washing.

SALFORD UNION INFIRMARY, Hope, near Eccles.-Male AssistantResident Medical Officer. Salary E130 per annum, with apart-ments and attendance.

SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, Marylebone-road, N.W.-Pathologist.

SHREWSBURY, SALOP INFIRMARY.-HOUSE Surgeon. Salary £100 perannum, with board, washing, and residence.

STOCKPORT INFIRMARY.-Junior Assistant House Surgeon for sixmonths. Salary at rate of E40 per annum, with board, washing,and residence.

STOKE-UPON-TRENT, NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE INFIRMARY AND EYEHOSPITAL, Hartshill.-Assistant House Surgeon for six months.Honorarium E25, with board, apartments, and washing.

SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL.-Second House Surgeon and Anaesthetist,unmarried. Salary E70 per annum, with board, washing, andresidence.

WALLASEY DISPENSARY AND VICTORIA CENTRAL HOSPITAL, Liscard.-House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary £100, with apartments, board,and service.

WARRINGTON, LANCASHIRE COUNTY ASYLUM, Winwick.-AssistantMedical Officer, unmarried. Salary E150 per annum, with apart-ments, board, attendance, and washing.

WEST AFRICAN MEDICAL STAFF. Colonial Office, S.W.-Seven MedicalOfficers. Salary E400 to £500 a year, with quarters, &c.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.3t BIRTHS.

d BEVE.—On August 2nd, at Balham-hill, S.W., the wife of Octavius

d Beven, M.D. Durh., of a son.COLE.-On July 30th, at Clarendon-square, Leamington, the wife of

41 T. E. Cecil Cole, M.B. Oxon., of a son (stillborn).

HARTLEY.-On August lst, at Porchester-terrace, Hyde-park, W., thewife of Reginald Hartley, M.D. Durh., F.R.C.S. Edin., of a

daughter.PILCHER.-On July 30th, at Boston, Lincolnshire, the wife of Cecil

,1 Westland Pilcher, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., of a son.

* TURNER.-On July 30th, at Grafton House, Buxton, to Mr. and Mrs.Turner, a daughter. -

MARRIAGES.BAKER-HINDLEY.-On July 30th, at the Church of St. ary, Plaistow,

Kent, Arthur Ernest Baker, M.R.C.S., of 44. Brook-street, London,W., to Agnes Flora, youngest daughter of the late Charles H.Hindley.

DUPREY-THIBOU.-On July 15th, at the Wesleyan Chapel, St. John’s,b Antigua, West Indies, by the Rev. J. R. F. Tull, Albert Joseph

Boniface Duprey, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R C.P. London, to Esther9 Sophia, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Thibou, of New

Bridge House, St. John’s, Antigua.t GILMOUR-RUTHERFORD.-On the 6th inst., at the Crichton Memorial

Church, Dumfries, by the Rev. Thomas Rutherford, M.A., Ministerof Dunkeld (uncle of the bride), assisted by the Rev. John Paton,

L D.D., Minister of St. Michael’s, Dumfries, John Rutherford, Gilmour, M.B., F.R.C.P. Edih., Medical Superintendent of Scaleber

Park Asylum, Burley-in-Wharfedale, near Leeds, to Dorothy,, youngest daughter of James Rutherford, M.D., F.R.C.P. Edin.,

J.P, Crichton House, Dumfries.MORRISON--MATTHEWS.--On August lst, at St. George’s, Hanover-

square, bV the Rev. David Anderson, James Morrison, M.D., of11, Brook-street, Hanover-square, to Henrietta Frances, youngestdaughter of the late Mr. H. G. Matthews, J.P., of Southsea.

DEATHS.DAVIES.-On Sunday, June 28th, Hope Templer Davies, age six, the

dear little daughter of Arthur Templer Davies, M.D., F.R.C.P.HENDERSON.-On July 28th, at Florence, William A. Henderson,

L.R.C.P. and L.R.C.S. Edin., late Surgeon to the Imperial MaritimeCustoms, Chefoo. China, aged 57 years.

MELLER.-On August lst, at Tor Villa, Matlock Bath, Charles MatthiasMeller, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.S.A., of Shire House, Yorkshire, lateMedical Officer of Health for Carisbrooke, aged 83 years.

SWAYNE.-On August lst, at Pembroke-road, Clifton, Bristol, suddenly,Joseph Griffiths Swayne, M.D. Lond., M.R.C.S., L.S.A., in his 84thyear.

WALKER.--On the 17th inst., suddenly, Hunter Urquhart Walker,L.M., L.R.C.P., L R.C.S. Edin., of 1, Pembury-road, Clapton, sonof the late Rev. Alexander Walker, for many years Senior Chaplainof the Scottish Church, Madras Presidency, and lately Minister ofRescobie, Forfarshire.

WEAVER.-On the 1st inst., at Westbrook, Southport, James Weaver,M.D., aged 71 years. -

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