1659APPOINTMENTS.—VACANCIES.—BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

analysis of samples of milk submitted to the Government analysts atSomerset House, and asked what steps were being taken to protectdairy farmers from the injury done to them by the low standard ofquality officially laid down.-Mr. Campbell-Bannerman replied that thematter was one in regard to which he did not posgess statutory powers,but he had now and again brought under the notice of the properauthorities the representations made to him on the subject.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27TH.Army Medical Service.

Mr. Bartley asked the Secretary of State for War whether any changeshad this year’been made in the emoluments, foreign service arrangements,titles, or other conditions of the above service.-Mr. Campbell-Banner-man replied that the only change effected du’ing the present year was’that such retired officers of the Medical Staff as were liable to be re-called to duty in case of emergency had had the new titles conferreduoon them which were bestowed on full-pay officers by the Warrant-of 1891.

Diptheria.In reply to a question proposed by Mr. Macdona, Sir Walter Foster

<said that the Local Government Board had received reports from the- Tuedical officer of health as to the outbreak of diphtheria in the villageof Great Tey or thereabouts, and a repoit had just been received statingthat the number of deaths which had occurred since the beginning of’the outbreak in September last was fifteen. Although the Board didci )t admit the accuracy of several of the statements regarding theoutbreak, it was deemed advisable to send a medical inspector toinquire into the facts connected with the epidemic.

Glanders.On this subject Mr. Gardner made a statement in reply to a question

put by Mr. T. H. Bolton, and observed that still further improvementiliad been shown in the number of horses attacked with glanders.During the past nine weeks the number of outbreaks reported and ofanimals attacked had been 154 and 214 respectively as compared with194 and 394 during the corresponding period of 1892. Under thosecircumstances the President of the Board of Agriculture did not think.it necessary to make further representations to the London CountyCouncil on the matter.

Appointments.successful applicants for Vacancies, Secretaries of Public Institutions, and

others possessing information suitable for this column, are invited toforward it to THE LANCET Office, directed to the Sub- Nditor, not laterthan 9 o’clock on the Thursday morning of each week for publication inthe next number. &mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;-

ARMSTRONG, W., L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Edin., L.S.A. Lond., has beenappointed Medical Officer of Health for the South Shields RuralSanitary District, vice J. Grant, M.D. (resigned).

ATTERBURY, WALTER, M.D. Irel.. M.R.C.S., has been appointed aPublic Vaccinator for the district of Akaroa, New Zealand.

SaR,mnt, T. H., M.B., Ch.M. Edin., has been appointed a GovernmentMedical Officer and Vaccinator for the district of Wellington, NewSouth Wales.

BURY, R. F., M.R.C.S., L.R C.P., has been appointed ResidentObstetric to St. George’s Hospital.

CAMPBELL. R., B.A., M.t3., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.Lond., &c., has beenappointed Visiting Surgeon to the Chester General Infirmary, viceR. Hamilton.

CARGILL, L. V., F.R.C.S., has been appointed Surgical Registrar toKing’s College Hospital.

CHAPLAIN, E. M., has been appointed Public Analyst for the city ofWakefield, the Wakefield Union, vice Allen.

CLARKSON, C. H., L.RC.P., L.R.C.S. Edin., has been appointed aPublic Vaccinator in Snuth Australia.

COLGAN, F. P., L.K.Q.C.P Irel., L.R C.S., L.M., has been appointedMedical Officer for the Fever Hospital of the Carlow Union.

DUNCAN, R. B., M.D., B.S., has been appointed Resident MedicalOfficer to the Newcastle-on-Tyne Workhouse, vice R. F. Craggs,M.D. (resigned)

FARR, E. A., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., has been appointed MedicalOfficer of Health for the Andover Urban Sanitary District of theAndover Union, vice E. B. Farr, resigned.

GARDNER, H., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.Lond.,has been appointed ResidentMedical Officer to the Chelsea Hospital for Women, Fultum-road.

GASSAGE, W. H., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S. late House Surgeon, hasbeen appointed House Physician to the Westminster Hospital.

GRIFFITH, .T. DE BURGH, M.B., Ch.M. Dubl., has been appointed aPublic YaccinJ.tor 10r South Carlton, Victoria, Australia, vice Ray,resigned. *

HAMILTON, R., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., has been appointedHouse Surgeon to the Chester Infirmary, vice R. B. Wright,L.R.C.P., L..R.C.S. Irel., resigned.

HAWKINS, EDGAR, M.B., M.S. Edin., has been appointed ResidentMedical Officer of the Dudley Dispensary.

HARRISON, J. A., L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.Edin., has been appointed a PublicVaccinator at Aumarkab, Victoria, Australia, vice J. W. ilarbison,resigned.

HODGSON, THOS., M.B., Ch.B. Melb., has been appointed a PublicVaccinator for Ferntree Guily, Victoria, Australia.

HUDSON. C. L., FR.C.S.,has been appointed Aural Surgeon to theMiddlesex Hospital.

KENWOOD, H. R., M.B., M.S. Edin., L.R.C.P. Lond., D.P.H., has beenappointed Medical Officer of Health for the Finehley UrbanSanitary District of the Barnet Union, vice Thurle, resigned.

KINGSBURY, EDWARD, M.D., B.S. Dubl., has been appointed MedicalOfficer for the Stapleford Sanitary District of the Shabrdlow Union.

LEE, HERBERT, E., M.B, M.S. Edin., has been appointed a Govern-ment Medical Officer and Vaccinator for the District of Gunnedah,and also Surgeon to the Gunnedah Hospital, New South Wales.

MATHESON, R. M., M.B., C.M. Edin., has been appointed HouseSurgeon to Noble’s Hospital, Douglas, Isle of Man.

MAY, C. G., M.D., M.B.C.P., has been appointed Assistant Physicianto the Grosvenor Hospital for Women and Children, S.W.

MOXHAM, M. C., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., has been appointedMedical Officer for the Stickney Sanitary District of the SpilsbyUnion.

MURRAY, J.. M.B., F.R.C.S., has been appointed Surgical Registrarto the Middlesex Hospital.

RAWSON, E. A., M.B., M.S. Dubl., L.R.C.S.Irel., D.S.S.Vict., hasbeen reappointed Medical Officer for the Workhouse of the CarlowUnion.

ROBERTS, C. H., F.R.C.S., M.B. Lond., M.R.C P.. has been appointed: Casualty Physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.SOUTHEY, A. J., M.R.C.S., has been !reappointed Medical Officer for,

the Colnbrook Sanitary District of the Eton Union.SPILSBURY, F. J., L.R.C.P. Irel., L.R.C.S. Edin., has been appointed

Medical Officer for the Stopthorpe Sanitary District of the SpilsbyUnion.

STEVENS, W. E., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointedHonorary Surgeon to the North Otago Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

TILDESLEY, J. P., L.R C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., has been appointedMedical Officer for the Willenhall Sanitary District of the Wolver-hampton Union, vice Fox.

TURNER, GEORGE, L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R C.S., has been reappointedMedical Officer of Health for Bishop Stortford.

WILMOT, C. E. W., M.B., B S. Dubl., has been appointed MedicalOfficer for the Alrewas Sanitary District of the Lichfield Union.

WEST, W. S.:M.A., M.B., B.C. Cantab., has been appointed HouseSurgeon to the North-eastern Hospital for Children, Hackney-road.

Vacancies.For further information regarding each vacancy reference should be made

to the advertisement (see Index).

CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn-road, W.C.-House Surgeon. Rooms, coats, and lights provided.

CHARING-cROSS HOSPITAL, W.C.-Aural Surgeon and OrthopsedicSurgeon.

EASTBOURNE UNION.-Medical Officer of the Workhouse. Salary &pound; 120per annum, with the usual extra fees. Medicines excepted.Applications to the Clerk, Trinity-chambers, Eastbourne.

HORTON INFIRMARY, Banbury.-House Surgeon and Dispenser. Salary.S60 per annum, with board and lodging.

HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN (THE LONDON SCHOOL OF GYN&AElig;COLOGY), Soho-square, W.-Clinical Assistants.

ISLE Or WIGHT UNION.-Medical Officer for the Ryde District. Salary&pound; 100 yearly, with the usual fees for vaccination. Applications toto the Clerk to the Guardians, Newport, 1. of W.

KING’S COLLEGE, London.-Curatorship of the Museum.NORTH-EASTERN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Hackney-road, N.E.-

Physician.ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, Moorflelds, E.C.-Senior

Honse Surgeon. 8-ilary &pound; 50 per annum, with board and residence.SURREY DISPENSARY, Great Dover-street, S.E.&mdash;Surgeon. Honorarium

&pound; 52 10s. per annum. Applications to the Secretary, 179, Ber-mondsey-street, S.E.

TOWNSHIP OF ToxTETH PARK.-Junior Assistant Resident MedicalOfficer of the Workhouse Infirmary. Salary &pound; 70 per annum, wir.hboard, washing, and apartments. Applications to the Clerk to theGuardians, 15, High Park-street, Liverpool.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SOUTH WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE.-Lecturer on Materia Medica and Pharmacy. Stipend &pound; 50 a year.

WORCESTER GENERAL INFIRMARY.&mdash;Physician.

Births, Marriages and Deaths.BIRTHS.

MATTHEY.-On Dec. 18th. at Georgetown, Demerara, the wife ofArthur Matthey, M.R.C.S., nf a daughter.

MORGAN.- OnDec. 20th, at Hurdis House, Seaford, Sussex, the wife ofW. Pringle Morgan, M.B., of a son.

RICE.-On Dec. 19th, at 90, Woodstock-road, Oxford, the wife ofEdward Rice, M.D.Lond., of a son.

SPOKES -On Dec. 23rd, at Ealing, W., the wife of Sidney Spokes,M.R.C.S., of a son.

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MARRIAGE.BETTS&mdash;BURNETT.&mdash;On Dec. 21st, "t All Souls’, Langham-place,

Witlntn Andrew, M.D, C.M., F.R.C.S. Edin., ,second son of thelate Rev. H. J. Betts, vicar of St. Anne’s, Birkenhead, to Adelaide.Maria, youngest daughter of the late Jonathan Burnett, of New-castle-on-Tyne and Philiimore-gardens.

D E A T H S.

BENTLEY.-On Dec. 24th, at Warwick-road, Earl’s.court, RobertBentley, formerly Professor of Botany and Dean of the MedicalFaculty, King’s College, London, and Professor of Materia Medicaland Botany, Pharmaceutical Society, aged 72.

WILKlNSON.&mdash;On Dec. 24th, at 33, Avenue-road, Grantham, ThomasMarshall Wilkinson, Surgeon, F.R.C.S., late of Lincoln, in his51st year.

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1660 NOTES. COMMENTS AND ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

METEOROLOGICAL R E A D I N G S.ftaken daily at 8.80 a.m. by S’tetaard’8 Instrumenta.)

THE LANCET Office, December 28th, 1898.

Medical Diary for the ensuing Week.Monday, January 1.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1.30 P.M.; and on TuesdayWednesday, Friday, and Saturday at the same hour.

ST. MARK’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.; Tuesday, 2.30 P.M.ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.-Ophthalmic Operations,2.30 P.M. ; Friday ,2 P.MROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, MOORFIELDS.-Operations

daily at 10 A.M.ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1.80 P.M.:

and each day at the same hour.CHELSEA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN.-Operations, 2 P.M. ; Thursday, 2 P.MHOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, SOHO-SQUARE.-Operations, 2 P.M.; and 01

Thursday at the same hour.METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.ROYAL ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M., and

each day in the week at the same hour.UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. Ear and Throat Department, 9 A.M , ;

Thursday, 9 A.M Eye Department, 2 P.M.ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL, SOUTHWARK.-Hour of attendance, 2 P.M., and

other days at the same hour. Operations daily.

Tuesday, January 2.

GUY’s HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1.30 P.M., and on Friday at the same hour.Ophthalmic Operations on Monday at 1.30 and Thursday at 2 P.M.

CANCER HOSPITAL, BROMPTON.-Operations, 2 P.M.; Saturday, 2 p.MWESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.MWEST LONDON HOSPITAL.&mdash;Operations, 2.30P.M.UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. - Operations, 2 P.M. Skin Depart

ment, 1.45 ; Saturday, M.1&.ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL. -Operations, 1.30 P.M. Consultations, Monday

2.30 P.M. Skin Department, Monday and Thursday, 9.30 A.MThroat Department, Tuesdays and Fridays, 1.80 P.M. glectrotherapeutics, same day, 2 P.M

PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.-Dr. Lee Dickinson : MJ oma ofUterus becoming Sarcomatous.-Dr. Jackson Clarke: Note on someso-called Cells of Endogenous Origin -Mr. F. C. Wallis: RupturedSacculus of Bladder following Stricture &mdash;Mr. Davies-Colley: Syphi-litic Disease of Knee-joint.-Mr. D’Arcy Power: A case of "TarCancer."-Mr. Hurry tenwick: Cholesterine Cyst of the Kidney.-Mr. F. J. Smith : Inflamed Vermiform A ppendix. Car d Specimens:&mdash;Mr. Davies- Colley: Mbrcma of Plantar Fascia.-Mr. Hurry Fenwick ;Two-ounce Stcne formed around a Hair-pin.-Dr. Lee Dickinson:Calculous Obstruction of Ureter.

Wednesday, January 3.

KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M. ; Thursday. and Fridaysat the same hour.

NATIONAL ORTHOP&AElig;DIC HOSPITAL.-Operations, 10 A.M.MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1.30 P.M. ; Saturdays, 2 P.M. 01 -

stetrical Operations, Thursdays, 2 P.M.CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL.-Operations, 8 P.M., and on Thursday and

Friday at the same hour.ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1.30 P.M. ; Saturday, same hourLONDON HOSPITAL.&mdash;Operations, 2 P.M. ; Thursday and Saturday, sam.

hour.ST. PETER’S HOSPITAL, COVENT-GARDEN.-Operations, 2 P.M.SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.-Operations

2.30 P.M.GREAT NORTHERN CENTRAL HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2P.M.UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1.30 P.M. Dental Depart ’

ment, 9.30 A.M. Eye Department, 2 P.M.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M., and on Saturday.CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, GREAT ORM ND-STREET.-Operations, 9.80 .A..II.

Surgical Visits on Wednesday and Saturday at 9.15 A.M.

Thursday, January 4.

ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL.&mdash;Operations, 1 P.M. Surgical Consultations,Wednesday, 1.30 P.M. Ophthalmic Operations, Friday, 1.30 P.M.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M. Ear and ThroatDepartment, 9 A.M. Eye Department, 2 P.M.

Friday, January 5.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Eye Department, 2 P.M.

Saturday, January 6.

I1NIVImSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Skin Department, 9.16 A.M.

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A RUSSIAN medical man, having published a pamphlet declaridg thatit is possible to recognise by the smell of a person’s secretion’ hi&

nationality, sex, habits, and diseases, some rather severe animadver-sions were published on the subject in the Vrach, charging the writerwith being either a mere quack or with having taken leave of hisintellectual faculties. Thereupon he instituted an action for libet’against Professor Manassein, the editor of the Vrach, whom the court,considered fully justified in his strictures.

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Inquirer.-The patient i-hould be isolated in an infectious fevar

hospital.F. W. L -The title of Physician would be the proper one.

"ENGLISH MEDICAL MEN AND THEIR TITLES IN THE.RIVIERA."

To the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,&mdash;Under jhe above heading (THE LANCET, De. 23rd) you state-in an annotation that the medical men holding a London, Edin-

burgh, or Dublin decree are not allowed to use their distinet’ve-title. This is not so. For instance, Mr. Jones, who is an

M.D. Oxford, now writes on his door-plate CT. Jones, M.D. d’Oxfod,.and so on for others similarly situated. The French authorities

tave, as you truly say, invited both American aLd Englishpractitioners to erase from their door-plates the distinctive titleof doctor, but this only affects those who, not being doctors,style themselves as such. Ihese have had to efface the -’Dr." beforetheir name, and being self nude doctors they are unable to place" M.D.," with the name of the university which granted the degree, ontheir door-plates. There is consequently, Mrs, nothing arbitrary in this ,and if such a course were adopted in England it would put a stop to the-illegal assumption of the title of doctor It is also well to b,ar in mindthat most Engl sh medicil men who practise on the continent assumeout here the title of doctor when not entitled to it in their owi

country, thus mis!eading their compatriots-in fact, they claim fees imaccordance with their presumed qualifications, aLd the fees cut hereare the same for the F.R.C.P. and the L.R C.P.

I remain, Sirs, yours faithfully,The Riviera, Dec. 24th, 1893. MEDICUS.