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Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGES OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON AND

SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.--At a meeting of the Comitia ofthe Royal College of Physicians of London held on Jan. 30th,and of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons ofEngland held on Feb. 13th, diplomas of L.R.C.P. andM.R.C.S. were respectively conferred upon 98 candidates(including two ladies-Miss Merlin Kingsley, Calcutta andManchester Universities, and Miss Minerva Ellen Reid,M.B. Toronto, Toronto University), who have passed theFinal Examination in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery ofthe Conjoint Examining Board, and have complied with thenecessary by-laws. The following are the names and schoolsof the successful candidates :—

Kenneth Blackie Aikman, B.A. Cantab., Cambridge University andUniversity College Hospital; Charles Harry Powell Allen, MadrasUniversity and University College Hospital ; George StanleyApplegate, Bristol University; Christian Victor Aserappa, D.P.H.Oxon., D.T.M. & H. Cantab., L.M.S. Ceylon, Ceylon Medical Collegeand London Hospital; Stephen Grange Askey, B.A. Cantab.. Cam-bridge University and St. Thomas’s Hospital; Mark Avent. B.A.Cantab., Cambridge University and University College Hospital;Gilbert Bailey. Manchester University ; John Henry Bennett, King’sCollege and St. George’s Hospitals ; Paul Theodore Gustave Ber-gouignan, M.D.Paris, Paris University; Alured Charles LowtherO’Shee Bilderbeck, B.A. Cantab., Cambridge University and St.Bartholomew’s Hospital; Walter Folliot Blandford, B.A. Cantab..Cambridge University and St. George’s Hospital; MauriceFrederick Bliss, London Hospital; Ellis Campbell Bowden, LondonHospital; Edward John Yelverton Brash, B.A. Cantab., CambridgeUniversity and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Robert Traill Brotchie,London Hospital; Herbert Horan Brown, B.A. Cantab., Cambridgeand Leeds Universities ; Stacey Archer Burn. St. Bartholomew’sHospital; Anthony Clifford Clifford, B.A. Cantab., CambridgeUniversity and Guy’s Hospital; Albert George William Compton,Cambridge University and St. Mary’s Hospital; William JamesCran, M.B., Ch.B. New Zealand, Otago University and St. Bartho-lomew’s Hospital; William Henry Dakin-Smith, University CollegeHospital; Alfred Beuthin Danby, Guy’s Hospital; Francis EldonDaunt, St. Thomas’s Hospital ; Kenneth Bruce Dickson, B.A.Cantab., Cambridge University and St. George’s Hospital; PhilipGeoffrey Doyne, B.A. Oxon., Oxford University and St. Thomas’sHospital; George Dunluce Eccles, Guy’s Hospital; Eric AlfredCharles Fazan,.Middlesex Hospital; Edwin James Foster, M.B.Toronto, Toronto University and London Hospital; Ivor StanleyGabe, Durham University and London Hospital; Norman Garrard,B.A. Cantab., Cambridge University and Guy’s Hospital; GeraldWilliam Blackman Garrett, B.A. Cantab., Cambridge Universityand Guy’s Hospital; Harold Cane Godding, Guy’s Hospital; EdgarMervyn Grace. B.A. Cantab., Cambridge University and St.Bartholomew’s Hospital; Bernard Grellier, L.D.S. Eng., CharingCross Hospital; Cyril James Anthony Griffin, University CollegeHospital; Frank Arnold Gunesekera, L.M. & S. Ceylon, CeylonMedical College and London Hospital; Alfred Ernest Hallinan,Charing Cross Hospital; William Edward Hallinan, Charing CrossHospital; Sydney Hartley Hay, M.B., Ch.B., New Zealand, OtagoUniversity and Middlesex Hospital; Arthur Martin Henry, L.D.S.Eng., Guy’s Hospital; Frederick Malcolm Sterling Hulke, Middle-sex Hospital; Frank Cornwell Hunot, Guy’s Hospital; TheodorJulius Juta Jeppe, Cambridge University and St. Thomas’s Hos-pital ; David William John, B.A. Cantab., Cambridge Universityand Guy’s Hospital; Robert Edmund Johnston, B.A., M.B.Toronto, Toronto University and Middlesex Hospital; ManishankerKhushaldas Joshi, L.M. & S. Bombay, Bombay University andLondon Hospital; William Henry Kauntze, B.A., M.B., Ch.B.Manchester, M.B., B.S. London, Manchester University; KennethJohn Taylor Keer, Guy’s Hospital; Francis Harry Kelly, MiddlesexHospital; Merlin Kingsley, Calcutta and Manchester Universitiesand Royal Free Hospital; Herbert Arnold Lake, M.R.C.V.S., Uni-versity College Hospital; Harold William Latham, London Hos-pital ; Hubert Vere Leigh. Guy’s Hospital; Frank Graham Lescher,B.A. Cantab., Cambridge University and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital;Alfred Robinson MacMullen, B.A. Cantab., Cambridge Universityand London Hospital ; Kamberranda Cariapa Mandana, MadrasUniversity and Middlesex Hospital; Henry Hugh Mathias, B.A.Cantab., Cambridge University and London Hospital ; Arthur

Wellington Matthew, London Hospital ; Louis Marie JacquesMenage, Guy’s Hospital; Cyril Cassan Messiter. L.M.S.S.A., M.A.Cantab., Cambridge University and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital;Alexander George Hains Moore, Guy’s Hospital; Oswald GayerMorgan, B.A. Cantab., Guy’s Hospital ; Donald Ewart Morley,London Hospital ; Lionel Page, Bristol University ; John Lans-downe Perceval, Guy’s Hospital; Oswald Pitt, Manchester Uni-versity ; Courtenay Henry Gerard Pochin, Guy’s Hospital; LaoHtin Poh, Calcutta University and Middlesex Hospital; HerbertMontagu Pope, Oxford University and St. George’s Hospital;Sidney Bertram Radley, M.B., B.S. Lond., M.B., Ch.B. Manchester,Manchester University ; Stanley Owen Rashbrook, London Hos-pital ; Leslie Norman Reece. St. Thomas’s Hospital; Minerva EllenReid, M.B. Toronto, Toronto University and Royal Free Hospital;Pierre Roux, London Hospital ; John Alfred Ryle, Guy’s Hospital;William Henry Price Saunders, Middlesex Hospital ; BernardEdward Patrick Sayers, Middlesex Hospital; William Simpson, St.Bartholomew’s Hospital; Reginald Westmore Spence, WestminsterHospital; Charles Marshall Stallard, Manchester University; RexStansfeld, B.A. Cantab., Cambridge University and St. Bartholo-mew’s Hospital ; Humphrey Meigh Stephenson, Cambridge University and London Hospital; William John Francis Symons,B.A. Cantab., Cambridge University and St. Thomas’s Hospital;James Robert Karran Thomson, London Hospital ; Maurice

Lawrence Treston, London Hospital; Henry de Paiva BuchananVeale, J.P., L.S.A., Leeds University; Aubrey William Venables,St. Mary’s Hospital; Alfred Stewart Wakely, King’s College Hos-pital ; Horace Frederick William Warden, B.A. Cantab., CambridgeUniversity and St. George’s Hospital; Herbert Arnold Watermeyer,B.A. Cantab.. Cambridge University and St. Mary’s Hospital;Philip James Watkin, Guy’s Hospital ; Charles Alexander Weller,B.A. Cantab.. Cambridge University and St. Bartholomew’s Hos-pital ; Edgar William Whiting, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; StanleyWickenden. Guy’s Hospital; Arthur Wai-tak Woo, London Hos-pital ; Bernard Woodhouse, University College Hospital; WilliamWilson Woods, London Hospital; and Leslie Douglas Wright, Guy’s sHospital.

Diplomas in Public Health were also conjointly conferredupon the following 12 candidates-viz :-Frederick John Ayre, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., L.S.A.. St. Mary’s Hos

pital and University College, Cardiff; Harold Balme, F.R.C.S.,L.R.C.P.. M.R.C.S., King’s College; Jamasp Cursetji Bharucha(Lieutenant, I.M.S.), L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., L.M. & S. Bombay,Bombay University and King’s College ; Elsie Mary Chubb, M.D.,B.S. Lond., Royal Free Hospital and University College; WilliamEdmund Cooke, M.B., Ch.B. Liverp., Liverpool University ;Archibald Ferguson, M.B., B.S. Lond., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., St.Bartholomew’s Hospital; Clifford Allchin Gill (Captain, I.M.S.),L.R.C.P., M.It.C.S.. University College; Harvey Hilliard, L.R.C.P.,M.R.C.S.. St. George’s Hospital and University College; John,Edward Hodgson (Major, R.A.M.C.), L.R.C.P.,’ M.R.C.S., Man-chester University and Royal Army Medical College; HerbertMichael Henry Melhuish (Captaln, I.M.S.), L,R.C.P., M.R.C.S.,St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and University College; AlexanderLoftns Otway (Captain, R.A.M.C.), M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O.Dub.,Dublin University and Royal Army Medical College; and PercyRose, L.R.C.P., Guy’s Hospital and University College.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-The nndermentioned diplomas were also conferred by the-Council on the following :-F.R.C.S.-Bernard Constable Maybury, M.B., B.S. Lond., L.R.C.P.,M.R.C.S., St. Thomas’s Hospital.

L..D.S.-Lawrance Richards Haydon, Charing Cross and ItoyalDentatHospitals ; William Douglas McDonalrl, Middlesex and Royal DentatHospitals ; Oscar Henry Titmas, Charing Cross and Royal DentalHospitals ; Robert Douglas Breen Turner, Liverpool University.

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.-Berla-n : Dr. K. Bötticher, extraordinary professor of surgery,has been appointed Director of the surgical side of the

Lichtenberg Hospital ; Dr. Friedrich Gudzent has beenrecognised as prizoat-docent of Medicine; Dr. Ludwig F.Meyer and Dr. Joh. Eckert as privat-docenten of Children’sDiseases ; and Dr. A. Grotjahn as privat-docent of Social

Hygiene.-Breslau: Dr. Josef Forschbach, privat-docentof medicine, has been granted the title of Professor.-Brzt,ns7vick: Dr. Adolf Bingel, senior physician of the DucalHospital, has been granted the title of Professor.-Halle:Dr. E. Abderhalden, professor of physiology, has beenawarded the Helmholtz Prize of the Berlin Academyof Sciences. The value is 1800 marks (£90).-Leipsic:Dr. Franz Hofmann, who has held the chair of

Hygiene for 35 years, intends to retire at the age of 70,which he will reach in the summer.-Naples:Dr. U.Masucci has been recognised as privat-docent of Medical

Semeiology.-Pavia: Dr. Giovanni Perez, extraordinaryprofessor of surgical pathology, has been promoted toOrdinary Professor.-Pisa: Dr. Alfonso Sertoli has been

recognised as privat-docent of External Pathology.-Rome: : Dr. Vincenzo Caraffa has been recognised as

prizwt-docent of Medical Pathology.-Saratoff : Dr. I. N.

Bystrenin, of Kazan, has been appointed Professor ofPædiatry.-Sienna: Dr. Onofrio Fragnito, extraordinaryprofessor of neurology and psychiatry, has been promoted toOrdinary Professor.-Strasburg: Dr. A. Hamm has been

recognised as privat-docent of Midwifery and Gynæcology.-Turin: : Dr. Francesco Lasagna has been recognised asprivat-docent of Otology and Laryngology.-Vienna: Dr.Richard Buer has been recognised as privat-docent ofMedicine.- Wburg: Dr. Ernst Schmidt has been recog-nised as privat-docent of Surgery.MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL. - Arrangements are

being made for the production during the season of a newmusical play, entitled Claude Abroad, by Charles and MurielScott Gatty, with music by Sir Alfred Scott Gatty andCharles Scott Gatty, for the benefit of the Middlesex Hos-pital. Lady Churston (Miss Denise Orme) will return to thestage for these performances, and will be supported by manywell-known amateurs.

THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL "FIRST AID "CONGRESS.-This congress is to be held at Vienna inSeptember next. Of the British sectional committee theEarl of Londesborough has accepted the presidency, and

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the vice-presidency has been accepted by Lord Claud J.

Hamilton, M.P., while a very influential and thoroughlyrepresentative committee have accepted office. Any applica-tion or inquiry concerning the same may be addressed toMr. Samuel Osborn, Constitutional Club, Northumberland-

avenue, W. C. )

Sir Richard Douglas Powell will deliver twoEmeritus lectures on Fridays, March 7th and 14th, at

3 P.M., in the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, on theClimatic Treatment of Pulmonary Diseases.

MEMORIAL TO SIR WILLIAM ALLCHIN.-Inmemory of the late Sir William Allchin, consulting physicianto Westminster Hospital and physician extraordinary to

H.M. George V., who died on Feb. 8th, 1912, a brass tablethas been placed in the hospital chapel, and a replica of hisportrait, painted by Sir Luke Fildes, R.A., and presented byLady Allchin, has been hung in the board-room, where it isthought many of his friends and former pupils would be gladof the opportunity of viewing it.

MEMORIAL TO A MIDLOTHIAN PRACTITIONER.-On Feb. 8th, in Lasswade Churchyard, in the presence ofrepresentatives of the various public bodies of the districtand of the public, a memorial to the late Dr. C. J. Allan, ofLasswade, was unveiled by Provost Gilchrist. It is in theform of a handsome Celtic cross in granite, the cost of whichhas been subscribed by the inhabitants of the district. TheRev. R. M. Hardie, parish minister of Cockpen, who presidedover the ceremony, made reference to Dr. Allan’s valuedwork for nearly half a century, both in his profession and asa member of the various boards and institutions.

Parliamentary Intelligence.NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS.

The Administration of the Insurance Act.THE administration of the Insurance Act has occupied much of the

attention of the House of Commons since the beginning of the year.This has been mainly evident at question time, when scarcely a day haspassed without the appearance on the notice paper of a large number ofquestions dealing with various matters, sometimes of principle,sometimes of detail, which have arisen from time to time. Amongstmembers who have particularly taken an interest in questions arisingout of medical benefit are Sir PHILIP MAGNUS, Sir HENRY CsAlx. Mr.WORTHINGTON EVANS, Mr. GODFREY LOCKER-LAMPSON, and Mr.CASSEL. The former two have in a peculiar sense had a responsi-bility in the matter, as they represent university constituenciesin which medical men are a very considerable element in the electorate.Mr. WORTHINGTON EVANS and Mr. CASSEL have shown marked skill in

mastering the administrative details of the Act and the Regulations.The tas of replying on behalf of the Government and the InsuranceCommissioners has mainly fallen on the shoulders of Mr. MASTERMAN,the Secretary to the Treasury, whose Parliamentary ability in handlingdifficult questions has been recognised in all quarters of the House.

Limited Panel Service.

Many of the aspects of medical benefit were dealt with in the debateon the supplementary medical grant in aid on Friday, Feb. 7th. Onthat occasion the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a defence of theGovernment’s policy. However, the discussions on the AppropriationBlll permitted the House of Commons to review it again. The point ofinterest in these discussions was the declaration of the Government in

regard to the free choice of medical men and limited panel service.On Wednesday, Feb. 12th, Mr. MASTERMAN, in the course of a speech

in which he again stated that professional medical secrecy was safe-guarded under the system of records which panel practitioners wererequired to keep, went on to say that the Government always hadintended, and still intended, that the Insurance Committees, if theywished to do so, when they had assured adequate medical attendancefor all insured persons within their areas, should permit under certainconditions arrangements in connexion with doctors who might notbe on the panel. For example, he believed that the London Insur-ance Committee had granted or was granting a general exemptionunder Section 15 (3) allowing nurses at hospitals to make their ownarrangements with doctors at the hospitals who were not, and who didnot want to be, on the panel and who did not want to attend insuredpersons outside the hospitals. Similarly conditions might be laid downwith regard to allowing doctors to go on the panel to attend only alimited number of persons. This practice in the working of any Insur-ance Committee must be qualified by one dominant consideration-theduty of the Insurance Committee in conjunction with the doctors onthe panel to see that every insured person within their area receivedadequate medical attendance. A medical man who did not want to have

1000 or 2000 insured patients, might be quite willing to go on attendingat the ordinary insurance rate-say the servants in the houses where hehad been attending. He had been in consultation with the Chairmanof the London Insurance Committee on the subject, and he said, as theCommissioners said in conjunction with the Insurance Committee,that there was no kind of objection to these cases being met byInsurance Committees permitting doctors to go on the panel in order toattend a limited number of cases, so long as that was done in conjunc-tion with an agreement with the doctors on the panel, and so long asthe system could be interwoven with a system whereby adequatemedical attendance could be given to every insured person withinthe area. He had not the slightest doubt that this could bedone. The right honourable gentleman went on to refer to

"a definite, deliberate and avowed attempt to break the Act to

pieces in London." He maintained that the Insurance Committeeswhen confronted with this avowed and organised conspiracy wereperfectly justified in saying, " Until we have assured medical attend-ance for all the insured persons in our areas, if possible by the panelsystem, if not by some other system, we will not have the Act brokenup by ’own arrangements."’ The great bulk of requests for "ownarrangements " which had come in to the Insurance Committees withwhich he had been in contact had not been bond fide applications atall. They had come in on forms all in the same handwriting, evidentlythe result of a canvass in which probably complete misapprehensionhad been created in the minds of insured persons as to the real mean-

ing of the Act. On the other hand, peace being restored, as hebelieved it was, the doctors, he anticipated, if only they were leftalone. would be found working the Act with ever-increasing enthusiasm.With friendly conjunction between the Insurance Committees and thepanel doctors, arrangements being made to meet the needs of all theinsured persons in the area, he saw no reason at all why in certainspecial cases the use of Section 15 (3) should not be allowed wherespecial circumstances were made out for it. What would be better stillwould be that doctors should, with friendly arrangements with theircolleagues, come on the panel for a limited number of insured personsonly.

Two Important Reservations.Mr. MASTERMAN elaborated in some respects his statement on the

use of Section 15 (3) in the debate on the third reading of the Appro-priation Bill on Friday, Feb. 14th. He said that in regard to excep-tional cases in which for some special reason doctors did not wish toenter their names on the panel for general work, and insured personswished to choose those doctors, no obstacle would be placed in the wayof Insurance Committees exercising their discretion in any mannerwhich they desired in order to allow exceptional cases to be

dealt with under the exceptional clauses of the Act so longas the Insurance Committees were fulfilling the primary purposefor which they were created-namelv, to give medical benefitto every insured person within the Act. The Government agreedwith the suggestion of the chairman of the London InsuranceCommittee that doctors who wished to take only a limited number ofpatients should be permitted to come on the panel for such limitednumber. But that was subject to two important reservations. Thefirst was that it would be unfair that they should be allowed to pickout special lives with less than the average rate of sickness and yetreceive the remuneration which the Government believed to be aliberal one for average lives. Doctors who took selected livesshould be willing to receive less remuneration for those selected

lives, in order that more remuneration might be given to thosedoctors who did not limit themselves to selected lives. The second con-dition must be that the Insurance Committees could only give consentto doctors taking a limited number of lives in conjunction with the free"pproval of medical men who took the general risk. The right honour-able gentleman then went on to explain that there was no intentionwhatever of bringing in inspectors to examine the methods of treat-ment and diagnosis adopted by medical practitioners on the panel. Onthe question of mileage in difficult districts in the Lowlands of Scotlandthe Government were providing a special grant. The Commissionerswould draw up a scheme of distribution, and it would be retrospective,so that the allowances would be paid from the commencement ofthe Act.

Tuberecctosis Prevention (Ireland) Bill.When the Tuberculosis .Prevention (Ireland) Bill reached the House

of Lords from the House of Commons on Thursday, Feb. 13th, two ofthe clauses which originally stood in it had been struck out. The firsttwo clauses were deemed important, but the Chief Secretary to theLord Lieutenant for Ireland, Mr. BIRRELL, found that they were likelyto produce opposition in the House of Commons. In order to allow the

Bill to proceed as an uncontroversial measure he agreed to drop them.The first clause which was struck out in Committee of the House of

Commons extended the provisions of Part I of the Tuberculosis Pre-

vention (Ireland) Act to the whole of Ireland.Clause 2, which also disappeared, provided that certificates with

regard to a person suffering from tuberculosis which had now to besent to the medical officer of health should be sent to the medical

superintendent of the nearest dispensary. The latter was to report tothe sanitary authority.The Bill has been read a third time by the House of Lords.