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1061 MEDICAL NEWS. Medical News. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD : Fellowship in Physiology at New College.—The College proposes to elect, not later than October next, to a Fellowship in Physiology. The ’person elected will be required to undertake, as from Michaelmas term next, the teaching of members of the College reading for the Honour School of Physiology and the medical examinations. Details of the appointment and forms of application can be obtained from the Warden. These forms, duly completed, should be returned to the warden not later than June 15th. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.—An examination for Part II. of the Cambridge Diploma in Psychological Medi- cine will be held in London on June 10th, llth, and 12th. Applications should be made at once to the Registrar, Cambridge University. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-At the election of members to the Senate of the University, which took place on Tuesday, May 12th, Dr. Graham Little, M.P., polled 827 votes, against 281 for Mr. T. B. Layton, in the Faculty of Medicine. LONDON HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE (UNIVER- SITY OF LONDON).—On Tuesday, June 2nd, the distribution of prizes to successful students will be made by Dr. Charles Mayo, of Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.A., in the library of the College at Turner-street, Mile End, E., at 3 P.M. The distribution will be followed by a garden party. KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, LONDON.-Upon the recommendation of the medical board, the committee of management have created a new post of psycho-therapist on the honorary staff, and Dr. William Brown, Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy in the University of Oxford, has been appointed to fill the position. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH, AND ROYAL FACULTY OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF GLASGOW.- The following candidates having passed the requisite examinations have been admitted Diplomates in Public Health :- David G. Anderson, Malcolm J. Bett, Angus H. Campbell, Agnes F. Dickson, William Fraser, Clara F. Gertzen, Jean M. Gilchrist, Mary M. Jack, James C. Lindsay, Peter L. McKinlay, Elizabeth P. Y. Paterson, George H. Percival, William C. Sharp, Annie V. Taylor, John Walker, Elizabeth Wheatley, Alexander B. Williamson, and Anne C. Wilson. The following candidates passed Part I. : Ruth M. Allinson, Mary V. F. Beattie, ’Elizabeth S. Cook, Elsie B. Dickinson, Jane T. Gilmour, Hilda R. Hay, Reuben Levinson, William R. Logan, Elizabeth M. Mackay, Richard Norton, Margaret M. Paterson, Joseph Sachs, Donald A. M. Shearer, Malcolm Somerville, Jeanie M. Strathie, and Hector W. Sutherland The following candidate passed Part II. : George A. Pollock’ REBUILDING OF MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—In an illustrated article dealing with the present state of Middlesex Hospital we referred last week to a meeting of the Court of Governors which it was proposed to hold on May llth to discuss the whole question of rebuilding. The meeting was held under the presidency of Prince Arthur of Connaught, and the decision of the hospital board was endorsed to rebuild the hospital and launch an immediate appeal for £500,000. It is satisfactory to note that already a preliminary list of donations totalling nearly £40,000 have been subscribed. The sum of £10,000 has been promised from the King Edward Hospital Fund, £10,000 from the trustees of the Ludlow Estate, £5000 from Mr. Vaughan-Morgan, £2500 from Mr. Ernest Debenham, £1000 from Mr. Collins, and a sub- scription of £2000 from Lord Rothermere and the Daily Mail. Messrs. W. and A. Gilbey have also given 1000 guineas. Some £30 had been sent in from former patients in shillings and half-crowns, while the nurses have promised £500. During the rebuilding of the institution the old infirmary buildings in Cleveland-street will be utilised and, given adequate public support, the work of the hospital will be carried on without curtailment. Among those who addressed the meeting were the Duke of Northumberland, Lord Cheylesmore, Lord Bearsted, Sir Arthur Stanley, Mr. T. P. O’Connor, M.P., Mr. Coniyns Berkeley, Major Astor, M.P., and Sir John Bland-Sutton, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, who said that though in the new building it might not be possible to incorporate much of the old hospital, it would be possible to incorporate the wonderful spirit of the old founders and emulate the sympathy for the sick and suffering, which was the dominant feature of the men and women whose humanity led them to build the hospital. The President of the appeal committee is Lord Mildmay of Flete. ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY CLUB, LONDON. - The bi-annual dinner of this club will be held at Gatti’sRestaurant, Strand, London, on Thursday, May 21st, at 7.30 P.M., Sir Arthur Greer in the chair. Dr. W. A. Milligan, 11, Upper Brook-street, W. 1, the hon. secretary, will be pleased to hear from either men or women graduates wishing to join the club or attend the dinner. ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY.-A meeting of this society will be held on May 19th, at 5.15 P.M., in the hall of the Royal Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi, London, W.C., when Sir Napier Shaw will read a paper on the Week or Month as an Intermediate Time-unit for Statistical Purposes. LONDON HOSPITAL : NEW CLINICAL THEATRE.-Lord Bearsted recently laid the foundation-stone of a new clinical theatre with which he is presenting the hospital. He is providing £10,000, and whatever is left of that sum after the building is paid for is to be used in endowing a lecture- ship in connexion with it. A CHURCH FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.-St. Saviour’s Church and Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in Oxford- street, London, has had to be pulled down owing to the expansion of the shopping area. Its place has been taken by a new church and institute at Acton, which was last week opened by Princess Mary. LONDON JEWISH HOSPITAL.—Mr. Bernhard Baron has given :&10,000 for the completion of the front block of this hospital on the understanding that the balance of the £25,000 required will be raised. Lord Rothschild, the President, announces that the work will therefore proceed immediately. ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.-A meeting of this Society will be held in the lecture hall, 20, Hanover- square, London, W., on Wednesday, May 20th. At 8 P.M. the following papers will be read and discussed : Prof. Robert Chambers (Cornell University Medical College) : The Technique of Micro-dissection and Injection of Cells. Mr. F. I. G. Rawlins : A Note on the Use of the Neon Lamp in Microscopy (with demonstration by Mr. J. E. Barnard, F.R.S.). Dr. R. J. Ludford, Ph.D. (Institute of Anatomy, University College) : The Cytology of Cancer. ROYAL EAST SUSSEX HOSPITAL.-Although the income exceeded the expenditure by £2199 at this Hastings institution, it was explained at the eighty-fifth annual meeting, held on May 7th, that this was due to the wonderful and generous response from the public-something like £7000 being raised by way of extraordinary support-and not, as was hoped, an increase in the number of annual subscribers. Special appeals could not continually be made ; annual subscribers were the backbone of the financial support of every hospital. The year’s work of the institu- tion showed an increase in all departments. AMERICAN HOSPITAL COSTS.—The sixtieth annual report of the Boston City Hospital shows that the daily cost of each in-patient is 13s. 4d. ; at the convalescent home it is about 10s. 6d. Out-patients cost 2s. per visit. The gynaecological and obstetrical work is increasing with such rapidity that it is difficult to cope with it-" serious results seem almost certain to occur " unless greater facilities are provided. Most of the great American hospitals are, indeed, faced with similar difficulties in consequence of the growing popularity of antenatal clinics and the resulting increase in the number of maternity patients. FELLOWSHIP OF MEDICINE AND POST-GRADUATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.—Dr. T. W. Eden will deliver a lecture on the Prevention of Puerperal Sepsis in the West Lecture Hall at 1, Wimpole-street, on Monday, May 18th, at 5.30 P.M. On the same date will begin the two weeks’ course arranged for the convenience of general practitioners at the London Temperance Hospital from 4.30 P.M. A special course in Diseases of Infants will be held at the Infants Hospital from May 18th to 30th. A two weeks’ afternoon course in Dermatology has been arranged from May 18th to the end of the month by the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin (Blackfriars), affording an opportunity for study in the out-patient department and venereal clinics. A special demonstration of cases will take place on May 19th. During June there will be the following courses : Diseases of the Chest, at the Victoria Park Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Lungs ; Gynxcology, at the Chelsea Hospital for Women; Tropical Medicine, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ; Urology, at St. Peter’s Hospital; Venereal Diseases, at the London Lock Hospital ; and an intensive course in general medicine, surgery, and the specialties at the London Temperance Hospital. Copies of each syllabus may be obtained on application to the Secretary to the Fellowship, 1, Wimpole-street, London, W. 1, from whom also a copy of the programme of work may be had.
