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" Silver Paper " Valueless.In view of the deterioration of tin-foil used for wrapping

purposes and the consequent fall in value Aberdeen RoyalInfirmary has discontinued its collection.

Workmen’s Contributions to Mexborough Hospital.At the annual meeting of this hospital it was stated that

more than 75 per cent. of the income (£13,348) was con-tributed last year by work-people.British Charities Association.The amount contributed to hospitals by this association

last year amounted to ;/327,634. Since its inception in 1923distributions have been made to over 900 hospitals, £101,228going to those in the London area and £100,486 to thoseoutside.

Croydon Hospital Saturday Fund.The sum of £4650 has been raised as the result of the

efforts of the Croydon Hospital Saturday Fund. This is arecord result.

York Hospital Sunday Fund.The total balance of receipts of this fund for last year

were ;E456 as against £502 in the previous year. There is adecrease of £45 in the church collections.

Glasgow Hospital for Sick Children.This institution last year treated 5247 in-patients, and

there were 23,468 out-patient attendances. It is proposed tocreate a completely equipped orthopaedic organisationconsisting of local clinics at suitable points in and aroundGlasgow and in the centre and west of Scotland ; thehospital itself would be in direct association with the localclinics.

Hospital Costs.Last year the in-patients (4450) of Bradford Royal

Infirmary cost an average of 28 2s. 11d., a decrease of 14s.The average cost of each occupied bed was £137 2s. 4d.,more than 26 less than in 1929. The average weekly costof an in-patient was .82 17s. 7d.—At King Edward MemorialHospital, Ealing. the weekly cost per in-patient was jE3 1s. 10d., a fractional increase.-In the adjoining borough ofActon the in-patients (1304) cost 23 3s. 6d. per week, as againstJ63 16s. 6d. in the preceding year : the average stay was 15-1days, against 13-88.-At the West Norfolk and King’sLynn Hospital there were 2042 in-patients whose dailyaverage cost was 9s. 3d; their average stay was 11.4 days.

Maternity Hospitals.Last year the Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women’s

Hospital treated about 10.000 cases, a large increase uponthe previous 12 months.—Lady Camden recently opened thenew Tunbridge Wells and District Maternity Home inCulverley Park Gardens, which has cost ;/36000. It willaccommodate 25 mothers ; last year there were 168 patients.-Councillor Miss M. E. Royle. chairman of the Willesdendistrict council, recently opened a maternity hospital of26 beds at Kingsbury standing in ten acres of grounds.The building, which has been entirely transformed, wasformerly a small-pox hospital.

THE SERVICES

ROYAL NAVAL MEDICAL SERVICE.

Surg. Capt. C. T. Baxter is placed on the retd. list.Surg. Lts. E. B. Pollard and J. C. Souter to be Surg.

Lt.-Comdrs.ROYAL NAVAL. VOLUNTEER RESERVE.

Proby. Surg. Sub-Lt. W. H. C. W’atson to be Surg. Sub-Lt.

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS.W. A. Robinson to be Lt. (on prob.) and is seed. under

the provisions of Art. 205, Royal Warrant for Pay andPromotion, 1926.

ARMY RESERVE OF OFFICERS.

Lt.-Col. W. Byam to be Lt.-Col.Capt. H. B. Walker, from Supp. Res. of Off., to be Capt.

TERRITORIAL ARMY.

Maj. J. Walker to be Lt.-Col.R. G. Karn (late Essex R.) and J. J. Myles to be Lts.

ROYAL AIR FORCE.Dental Branch : Flying Officer M. J. Pigott is granted a

non-permanent commission in this rank.

INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE.Capt. E. Benjamin relinquishes his temp. commn.

Medical Diary

Information to be included in this column should reach usin proper form on Tuesday, and cannot appear if it reachesus later than the first post on Wednesday morning.

SOCIETIES.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole-street, W.MONDAY, March 9th.—5 P.M., UNITED SERVICES. Discussion

Minor Hea([ Injuries. Opener : Squadron-Leader:H. L. Burton. Other speakers will take part.

TUESDAY.—8.30 1’.::-1., PSYCHIATRY. Joint Meeting withthe Society for the Study of Inebriety. Discussion :The Prevention and Treatment of Drug Addiction.Openers : Dr. E. Mapother and Dr. F. C. LaughtonScott (Psychiatry) ; Dr. William Brown and Dr.Macdonald Critchley (Society for the Study ofInebriety).

WEDNESDAY.—5 P.M., SUR&EBY : SUB-SECTION OF PROC-TOLOGY. Discussion : Ulcerative Colitis ExcludingTropical Diseases. Openers : Dr. Francis R. Fraser(Medicine), Dr. Cuthbert E. Dukes (Pathology),Mr. J. P. Lockhart-Mummery (Surgery). Otherspeakers : Dr. F..1. Poynton, Dr. Arthur F. Hurst,Dr. H. Letheby Tidy, Dr. Kerr Russell (Medicine),Dr. L. P. Garrod (Pathology), Dr. H. Graham Hodgson(Radiology), Sir Charles Gordon-Watson (Surgery).Members of the Sections of Medicine, Pathology, andSurgery are specially invited to take part in thediscussion.

THURSDAY.—8.30 P.M., NEUROLOGY. CinematographicDemonstrations : Dr. Stanley Barnes : A Case ofUnusual Dissociation of Voluntary Eye Movement.Dr. Henry Cohen : Technique and Results of Encepha-lography and Ventriculography. Short Communications:Mr. 0. Gayer Morgan and Dr. C. P. Symonds : UnilateralOphthalmoplegia with Absent Tendon Jerks. Dr.Russell Brain: Grasp Reflex in the Foot.

FRIDAY.—5.30 P.M., CLINICAL. (Cases at 4.30 P.M.) Casesand Specimens : Mr. Cecil P. G. Wakeley : GeneralisedNeuro-fibromatosis. Dr. Bernard Myers : EssentialThrombocytopenic Purpura Hæmorrhagica. Dr.E. Stolkind : Polycythæmia Vera with CerebralThrombosis. Polycythæmia Vera with Nervous andOcular Disorders. Dr. M. A. Cassidy : Post-mortemSpecimens of Case (shown on Oct. 10th) of AbdominalCarcinomatosis with Probable Adrenal Involvement.Dr. Geoffrey Konstam : Vascular Spasm in a Femaleaged 15. Dr. F. Parkes Weber and Dr. M. Scholtz :

, Splenic Enlargement in Simple Achlorhydric Ansemia’ (L. J. Witts). Other cases and specimens will be shown.

5 P.M., OPHTHALMOLOGY. Clinical Meeting at theMiddlesex Hospital, W. Tea at 4.30 P.M. Cases will beshown.

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 11, Chandos-street,Cavendish-square, W.MONDAY, March 9th.-8.30 P.M., Lord Dawson: Treat-

ment of Pneumonia. Discussion.

SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF INEBRIETY.TUESDAY, March 10th (see under Royal Society of

Medicine). ).

WEST KENT MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY, MillerGeneral Hospital, Greenwich, S.E.FRIDAY, March 13th.—8.45 P.M., Dr. J. Forest Smiths

Treatment of Goitre in General Practice.-

PADDINGTON MEDICAL SOCIETY.TUESDAY, March 10th.-9 P.M. (at the Great Western Royal

Hotel, Paddington), Sir John Collie : Medico-legalPitfalls.

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY,11, Chanclos-street, Cavendish-square, W.THURSDAY. March 12th.—8.30 P.M., Dr. Robinson: Organ

Jargon.

BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY.FRIDAY, March 13th.—3 P.M. (at University College, Gower-

street, W’.C.) Annual General Meeting. Communica-tions.

LECTURES, ADDRESSES. DEMONSTRATIONS, &C.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’sInn-fields, W.C.MONDAY, March 9th.-5 P.M., Mr. E. C. Shattock: Speci-

mens Illustrating Diseases of the Colon and Rectum.FRIDAY.—5 P.M., Sir Arthur Keith : Specimens Illustrating

the Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of the(Esophagus.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, Pall Mall East, S.W.TUESDAY, March 10th.—5 P.M., Dr. Macdonald Critchley,

The Neurology of Old Age. (First GoulstonianLecture.)

THURSDAY.—5 P.M. (Second Goulstonian Lecture.)