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and was much liked and valued by his patients. He waskind and liberal to the poor and ever ready to give them hisprofessional help. As a man he was straightforward, genial,loveable, and cultured and the profession in Edinburgh is thepoorer by his death.

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THOMAS EDWARD WILLIAMS, F.R.C.S. EDIN.,M.R.C.S. ENG., L.S.A., J.P.

Mr. T. E. Williams died at his residence, Aberenig,Talgarth, Breconshire, on March 7th. The deceased receivedhis medical education at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, takingthe qualifications of M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.S.A. in 1863. He

was’admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons ofEdinburgh in 1889. Mr. Williams had been in practice formany years in Talgarth, where he was highly respected. Hevisited patients on March 6th and died on the following dayfrom syncope. His sudden death will be a great shock to avery large circle, by whom he will be sadly missed, not onlyas an exceptionally able medical man with a high sense ofhis professional responsibilities but as a sincere and warm-hearted friend. Large as his practice was, he yet foundtime for public duties unconnected with his profession.he was a good all-round sportsman, a lover and an

excellent judge of horses, and in every sense a countrygentleman. Although he had been in ill-health forsome years before his death, yet his high sense of dutyand his devotion to professional and public work ledhim to continue to do his utmost with unabated zeal and inhis desire to benefit others he minimised his own troublesand sacrificed his own health. He leaves a widow, a

daughter, and four sons, two of whom are members of themedical profession.

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JOHN DAVIES JAMES, M.R.C.S. ENG., L.S.A., J.P., D.L.

Mr. J.-D. James died at his residence, the Grove, Black-wood, Monmouthshire, on March 4th, in his seventy-thirdyear. He obtained his professional training at St. Bartholo-mew’s Hospital and became qualified as M.R.C.S. Eng. andL.S.A. in 1857. In the same year he commenced practiceat Blackwood and after achieving a reputation as a skilfulpractitioner retired from active work in 1890. Mr. Jamestook a great interest in all matters connected with thecounty of Monmouth. He wa, placed on the commission ofthe peace’in 1869. In 1871 he was elected a member of thefirst Bedwellty school board and for 18 years served in thisposition. He was elected an alderman in 1903. In 1897 hebecame chairman of the Bedwellty division of county magis-trates. He was also deputy lieutenant for the county ofMonmouth. Mr. James was highly popular and was wellknown for his benevolence. He was a keen sportsman andwas formerly one of the boldest riders with the hounds inMonmouthshire.

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JOHN HUNTER, M.B., CH.B. ABERD.Dr. John Hunter, assistant to Dr. L. B. Beddie, Fraser-

burgh, died on the forenoon of March 6th at the residence ofthe latter in Saltoun-place, Fraserburgh, death being due toacute pneumonia, resulting from a severe chill contractedabout a week previously. The deceased, who was only 24years of age, was a son of Mr. Stephen Hunter, manager ofthe Northern Agricultural Company, Aberdeen. He graduatedat the University of Aberdeen two years ago, and after servingfor a period in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary he went to assisiDr. Beddie in November last. Dr. Hunter, though a youngman, soon gained the confidence of the patients, while in Gsocial capacity he was also well known in the district.

HEALTH OF TORQUAY.-Dr. T. Dunlop, thEmedical officer of health of Torquay, in his annual reponfor 1905, states that the birth-rate was 15-4 per 1000against 15-7 in 1904. The death-rate was 13’ 9 per 1000exactly the same as the previous year. The infantil<

mortality was 95 per 1000, compared with 120 per 1000 ii1904. Dr. Dunlop states that Torquay enjoys an excess o:sunshine during the winter months over most health resort:and the other special features of the climate are equabilitof temperature and dryness of the air.

Medical News.I

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-At the intermediateexamination in medicine held in January the following candi-dates were successful :- &deg;

Eileen Elizabeth Allen, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medi-cine for Women; Malcolm Edward Ball, Guy’s Hospital; FrederickMichael Bishop, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Herbert Orpe Brook-house,*t Guy’s Hospital; John Philip Buckley, University ofCambridge and Victoria University; Arthur Laurence Candler,t tSt. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Bernard Arthur Cheadle, St. Thomas’sHospital; Joseph Harry Clarke, St. Mary’s Hospital; ErnestNeville Cook, University College ; Ethel Constance Cousins, iLondon (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women;Lawrence Croft, Guy’s Hospital; Aston Ridley Dale, King’s Collegeand Westminster Hospital ; Arthur Davies, Westminster Hospital ;Trevor Berwyn Davies, University College, Cardiff ; NewtonCharles Davis, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital ; Canut Deuntzer,Middlesex Hospital; Ethel Adelaide Douglas, London (Royal FreeHospital) School of Medicine for Women; Evan Parry Evans,University College, Cardiff, and London Hospital; Thomas Evans,Guy’s Hospital; William Vincent Field, London Hospital;Josephine E. L. Griffiths and Ethel Margaret Eades Hall,London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women;George Blenkhorn Harland, University ot Durham ; WilliamRoberts Harris, St. George’s Hospital ; Frederick WhewellHogarth, Guy’s liospital ; Sidney Ernest Holder, UniversityCollege ; Kenneth Hill Hole and Habibmia I. Janmahomed,Guy’s Hospital; David Judah, University College ; Arthur NormanLeeming, Alfred Everard Lees, and Herbert Oubitt Lucey, Guy’sHospital; Edmund Garvin Mack, University College ; ClaudeHerbert Marshall, Guy’s Hospital ; Edward Kenneth Martin.University College ; John Birch Martin and Howard Edward HallMitchell, Guy’s Hospital ; Max H. Edward R. Montesole, St.Thomas’s Hospital; Mark Alleyne Nicholson, London Hospital;Owen Brynog Parry, St. Mary’s Hospital; Mary Elizabeth Parsons,London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women;Eustace M. Parsons-Smith, St. Thomas’s Hospital; Philip SeymourPrice, Guy’s Hospital; Thomas Edwin Pryce, University College ;Douglas Reynolds, Guy’s Hospital ; Rowland Waters Rix, St.Thomas’s Hospital; Mabel Russell, London ,Royal Free Hospital)School of Medicine for Women; Arthur Frederick Sanderson, St.Thomas’s Hospital ; Harold Willis Scawin, St. Bartholomew’sHospital; John Edward Scudamore and Frank Standish, LondonHospital ; Tom Stansfield, Guy’s Hospital ; Horace Elliot R.Stephens, t1 Victoria University; Kenneth Henry Stokes, Uni-versity College; Hugh Stott, Guy’s Hospital; Gravenor RobertStrong, Westminster Hospital; Geoffrey Viner, St. Bartholomew’sHospital; Dora Muriel Watney and Lilian Enid Watney, London(Royal Free Hospital) School ot Medicine for Women; and RichardTudor Williams, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

* Distinguished in anatomy. t Distinguished in physiology. 4t Dis-tinguished in pharmacology.

This list, published for the convenience of candidates, is issued subjectto its approval by the Senate.

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.-The late Dr.Perowne has bequeathed to the University his collection ofamber from the Norfolk coast.-The Council of the Senatehas proposed that the income of the fund bequeathed tothe University by the late F. J. Quick shall be applied tothe foundation of a Quick professorship of biology with astipend of about .61000 ; to the provision of assistance andequipment for the professor’s laboratory ; and to the further-ance of research in animal and vegetable biology. The pro-fessor is, in the first instance, to devote himself to the studyof the protozoa, especially of such as cause disease.-TheCouncil has propounded a scheme for the mutual recognitionby Cambridge of the matriculation examination of the Univer-sities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, and Sheffield, andby these Universities of the previous, senior local, andhigher Oxford and Cambridge examinations.-In view of thechanges in the school year favoured by the Board of Educa-tion the Local Examinations Syndicate proposes to hold itsexaminations in July as well as in December.-The Studiesand Examinations Syndicate has issued a second report.Recognising that the Senate is not prepared to exempt allcandidates from taking the two classical languages in theprevious examination, it now proposes that students inscience should be distinguished from " students in letters,"and that the former should not be required to take more thanone classical language in the previous or subsequent examina-tions for a degree. The report, which thus provides that’’ compulsory Greek" shall not be exacted from studentsproposing to graduate in such subjects as mathematics,natural science, mechanical science, and economics, is setdown for discussion on April 27th and 28th.-The examina-tion in sanitary science for the Diploma in Public Healthwill begin (Part 1.) on April 4th and (Part II.) on April 9bh.

. - Mr. L. A. Borradaile, M.A., is appointed an examiner inelementary biology in the place of Mr. Shipley.-At the

. Congregation on March 10th the following degrees were, conferred :-, M.B. and B. C.-vV. H. Hastings, Trinity; and C. Akerman, Gonville

and Caius.M.B. only.-C. E. A. Armitage, Emmanuel.

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FOREIGN UNtVERSITY INTELLIGENCE Dr.Lominsky, prirat-docent of Hi,tology and Embryology, hasbeen appointed Extraordinary Professor.-K&ouml;r&acirc;gsberg: Dr.Heine of Berlin has been offered an Extraordinary Pro-

fessorship of Otology with charge of the Ear Polyclinic.-Le?7tbery : Dr. Ka,simir Pdnek has been recognised as private-docent of Hygiene and Dr. Georg Leopold Modrakowskias pri1’at-docent of Pharmacognosis.-Lyons : : The chairof External Pathology has been abolished and a

chair of Clinical Gynasoology has been established towhich Dr. Pollosson has been appointed.&mdash;Munich: Dr.Meinhard Pfaundler of Gratz has been appointed Extra-

ordinary Professor of Children’s Diseases in place ofDr. von Rinke, resigned.&mdash;Nancy: The chair of Patho-

logical Anatomy has been abolished and a chair ofPsediatry established, to which Dr. Haushalter has been

appointed.&mdash;Naples: Dr. Guido Guerrini has been reco-

gnised as pri.nat docent of General Pa,thology.-Ozlessa:Dr. Martin Sihle has been recognised as privat-doeentof Medicine and Therapeutics &mdash;Padua: Dr. ErnestoBelmondo, Extraordinary Professor of Psychiatry, has beenpromoted to the Ordinary Professorship.-Pavia: Dr. GiulioLuigi Sacconaghi has been recognised as privat-docent ofInternal Pathology.-Pisa: Dr. Antonio Cesariit-Demel hasbeen promoted to the Ordinary Professorship of PathologicalAnatomy.&mdash;Rome: Dr. Cesare Micheli and Dr. FrancefcoMirto have bepn recognised as p rivat-docenten of Midwiferyand Gyn&aelig;cology.&mdash;W&uuml;rzburg: Dr. Straub of Marburg hasbeen appointed to the chair of Pharmacology in place of thelate Dr. Kunkel.&mdash;Z&uuml;rich : Dr. Silbeschmidt, privat-docentof Bacteriology, has been promoted to an ExtraordinaryProfessorship.

LEICESTER AND MILK DEP&Ocirc;TS.&mdash;A conferencewas held in the town hall, Leicester, on March lst,between the sanitary committee of the corporation and themedical men of the town to discuss the advisability of- establishing a milk depot for children in the town. AldermanWindley, chairman of the sanitary committee, presided andthere was a good attendance. The chairman said that

fortunately Leicester was not in a worse condition as regardsthe death-rate among infants than the majority of the largetowns of the country. It had been as high as 210 per 1000births, but in 1904 it was 161 and last year 146 - 5 per 1000.Councillor J. T. Biggs said that he had accompanied thechairman on a deputation which visited several townswhich had established milk depots and he felt con-

vinced that a considerable amount of good was effectedby the system. Dr. C. K. Millard (medical officer ofhealth of the borough) said that it was a fact thatan increasing proportion of mothers in large towns wereunable to secrete milk sufficient to suckle their infantsand they were driven, therefore, to consider in what waythe feeding of infants could be improved. The results frommilk dep6ts had been eminently satisfactory and the idea.as to the risk of scurvy was, he thought, pretty much of abogey. A number of those present took part in the dis-

cussion, all being in favour of the suggestion. No formalproposition was, however, put to the meeting.

THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AMERICANNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY AND PREVENTIONOF TUBERCULOSIS -The Jourraal of the Outdoor Life, whichis published at the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium, SaranacLake, New York, and which has just entered upon its thirdyear, has been made the official organ of the NationalAssociation for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosisin America. The Journad of the Outdoor Life deals withthe outdoor treatment of tuberculosis in an intelligent andscientific manner. It does not advocate self-treatment bythe laity or attempt to supplant personal medical advice.It aims to point out the more common pitfalls that besetthe unwary health-seeker and to awaken in its readers ahealthful interest in an outdoor life. It advocates competentmedical supervision, fresh air, nourishing food, and carefullyregulated exercise.UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.-The hebdomadal

council has appointed William Osler, D M., Hon. D.Sc.,F.R.S , student of Christ Church, Regius Professor ofMedicine, representative of the University on the council ofthe Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in the place ofthe late Sir John Burdon Sanderson, Bart., D.M., F.R.S.,Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College. Professor Osler hasalso been appointed by the hebdomadal council a member of

the committee for appointment of honorary medical officersof the Radcliffe Infirmary, in the place of the late SirJohn Burdon Sanderson.

WESr LONDON HOSPITAL.-The board of thehospital has appointed Mr. Leonard A. Bidwell, F.R.C.S., inrecognition of his 15 years’ work in the out-patient depart-ment, full surgeon without waiting for a vacancy.ENTERIC FEVER ON THE

" CORNWALL."&mdash;Themedical officer of the Port of London has reported a smallepidemic of enteric fever on board the training-shipCornwall, moored off Purfieet, and used for the receptionof boys from reformatory schools.

FREEMASONRY.&mdash;The Rahere Lodge.-We are

asked to state that it is proposed to form an R.A. Chapterin connexion with the Rahere Lodge, to be open to all St.Bartholomew’s Hospital men who are Freemasons, whetherthey be members of the Rahere Lodge or not. Further

particulars can be obtained on application to W. M.,15, Wimpole-street, London, W. The first founders’ meetingis fixed for Tuesday, March 27th, at 5.30 P.M., at the aboveaddress but the names of those wishing to become founderscould be received for two or three weeks later.

Parliamentary Intelligence.NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS.

The Government and Poisons and Pharmacy.IN the course of the last few years statements have been repeatedly

made to the effect that a Government Bill dealing with poisons andpharmacy was about to be introduced and some 12 months ago itwas definitely announced by Mr. BALFOUR that the Bill had been

actually drafted. The exigencies of politics must have made it

necessary to give precedence to other matters, but apparently thedraft has now been discovered in a pigeon-hole by the new Presidentof the Council, the Earl of CREWE, for this week he has presented theBill in the House of Lords. It is described simply as the Poisons andPharmacy Bill. The second reading has been put down for Tuesday,March 20th- From the text of the Bill, which has now been printed, andan official memorandum, it appears that Clause 1 carries into effect therecommendations of the Departmental Committee on the sale of

poisonous substances as to what substances should be treated as

poisons. It does little’more than substitute for the schedule of poisonscontained in the Act of 1868 that schedule as amended by Orders inCouncil made under Section 2 of that Act. The object of Clause 2is to authorise persons (who are not chemists), if licensed for the

purpose by the local authority, to sell sheep dips, weed-killers, andother poisonous substances for use in connexion with agriculture andhorticulture. The Departmental Committee made a recommendationto this effect. Clause 3 requires that .where a chemist’s business iscarried on in two or three shops the business shall be conducted bya duly qualified manager in every shop where the chemist does nothimse]A superintend the business. Clause 4 reverses the decision ofthe court in "The Pharmaceutical Society v. The Loudon and Pro-vincial Supply Association" (5 App. Cas. 857). In that case it

was decided that the provisions contained in the Act of 1868,prohibiting persons not being qualified chemists from selling poisons,were not applicable to companies. Clause 5 somewhat extends the

by-law-maki g power of the Pharmaceutical Society and Clause 6places restrictions on the sale of sulphuric acid. nitric acid, hydro-chloric acid, soluble salts of oxalic acid, and similar poisons without,however, limiting the class of persons by whom such poisons may besold.

The Disposal of Sewage.The Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal has reported to Parlia-

ment that the systematic investigation of a number of artificial

processes of purifying sewage for the purpose of ascertaining theirrelative value in different circumstances is still in progress. It is

hoped to issue a report on this subject within the next six months.The Commission has not been appointed for any definite time and it is

impossible to state when it will be in a position to make a final report.Tuberculosis.

The work of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis is to be continuedfor another year and a slightly decreased vote&mdash;&pound;9400 instead of &pound;9540&mdash;is about to be asked from the House of Commons. The reference tothe Commission is "to inquire with respect to tuberculosis whetherthe disease in animals and man is the same, whether animals and mancan be reciprocally infected with it, and under what conditions, if atat all, the transmission of the disease from animals to man takes

place."The Care and Control ofthe Feeble-minded.

The following is an extract from a letter from the secretary of theRoyal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded