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General of hospitals; lst Class Staff-Surgeon Mr. Alexander, tothe lst brigade; Assistant-Surgeon Mr. Smith, of the 1stFoot, to the 1st brigade; Assistant-Surgeon Mr. A. Grier, ofthe 92nd Highlanders, to the 1st brigade; lst Class Staff-Surgeon Tice, M.D., to the 2nd brigade; Assistant-SurgeonMr. Coates, of the 26th regiment, to the 2nd brigade; Assis-tant-Surgeon Mr. Boutown, of the 73rd regiment, to the 2ndbrigade.In addition to the foregoing, the under-mentioned medical

officers are attached to the several corps as under, being inservice with their several regiments :-2nd Class Staff-SurgeonMr. Matthews, with the 41st Foot at Gallipoli; Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Mr. King, with the 41st Foot at Gallipoli; 2nd ClassStaff-Surgeon Mr. Marlow, with the 44th Regiment at Gallipoli;Assistant-Surgeon Mr. H. F. Smith, with the 19th Regiment,in transitu; Assistant-Surgeon Mr. A. Rudge to the Ordnancedepartment.

Uitctttached List.-The following medical officers are nn-attached to regiments or departments, but are on the fieldavailable as their services may be required during the opera-tions of the army in general:—Staff-Surgeon Mr. J. Reid, atScutari; lst Class Staff-Surgeon Mr. Jamieson, at Scutari;Assistant-Surgeon Mr. Stewart Moore, of the 6th DragoonGuards, at Scutari; Assistant-Surgeon Mr. P. M’Dermot, ofthe 48th Regiment, at Scutari; Assistant-Surgeon Mr. R.W. Brown, of the 94th Regiment, at Gallipoli; Assistant-Surgeon Mr. B. Tidd, of the 48th Regiment, at Scutari;Assistant-Surgeon Mr. W. Anderson, of the 51st Regiment, atGallipoli; Assistant-Surgeon Mr. W. K. Park, of the 65thRegiment, at Scutari; Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Mr. J. B.Cockburn, at Gallipoli; Assistant-Surgeon Mr. M. M. Mani-fold, of the 67th Regiment, at Scutari; Staff-Assistant-SurgeonMr. H. S. Sylvester, at Gallipoli; Assistant-Surgeon Mr. F.W. Shiel, of the 68th Regiment, at Scutari; Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Mr. F. Smith, at Gallipoli; Assistant-surgeon Mr. J.Knox Leet, of the 85th Regiment, at Scutari; Assistant-Sur-geon Mr. W. Dowding, of the 31st Regiment, at Scutari;Assistant-Surgeon Mr. A. M’Kennon, of the 42nd High-landers, at Scutari.The surgeon of every regiment of infantry will be allowed

one animal at the public expense for the conveyance of theregimental medicine-chest.

APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. J. W. Trotter has been appointedassistant-surgeon to the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards;Mr. R. B. Meadows to be assistant surgeon to the 9th Foot;J. M’Cloud Cameron, M.B., and Leonard Kidd, M.B., to beassistant-surgeons to the 27th Foot; Mr. R. J. Worthingtonto be assistant-surgeon to the 34th Foot; Mr. R. W. Jacksonto be assistant-surgeon to the 90th Foot; Mr. Reid, late of the90th Foot, to be assistant-surgeon to the Grenadier FootGuards; Mr. R. Watson to be assist.-surgeon to the 91st Foot.

Hospital and Medical Staff.—The following gentlemen havebeen promoted, as under, to the hospital and medical staff ofthe army:-Mr. Anderson, from the 9th Foot, Mr. Powell,from the 34th Foot, and Mr. Maclise, from the 90th Foot, tothe medical staff; Assistant-Surgeons A. Reid, R. Hungerford,A. R. Hudson, J. Johnson, W. M. Calder, W. H. Price, W.J. Rendall, T. Shelley, M.D., G. Youell, H. Titterton, A. H.Taylor, A. R. Reid, M.D., and D. C. Taylor, M.D., to theHospital Staff. Assistant-Surgeon D. O’Rei1!y Clayton, of the3rd Foot, having absented himself without leave since the 13thof March, 1854, has been removed from the service. Assistant-Surgeon David Ramsey, M.D., to the 11-or2iet screw steam-

ship, at Woolwich; Assistant-Surgeon John Barclay, M.D.(1846), borne as additional assistant-surgeon on the books ofthe Victory flag-sbip at Portsmouth for service in Haslar hos-

pital, has been appointed to the Fisgard flag-ship at Wool-wich, for dockyard service, vice Jenkins, promoted.OUR OVERLOADED SOLDIERS.-A rather smart parade

of the light division took place at Scutari about a week since;the day was very hot, the men were, as usual, in heavy march-ing order, and the drill was continued for a couple of hours.All the men seemed much exhausted, and two of them, a

private of the 47th, and one of the 49th, (I believe,) neverrecovered it, but sank and died within twenty-four hoursafterwards. If such awful examples as these will not convincethe authorities that the men are too heavily equipped, nothingwill.—Letter from Constantinople.

THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-At a meeting of thisSociety to be held on Monday next, a paper will be readentitled, "Remarks on Plague and Yellow Fever in their Rela-tion to Quarantine," by Sir William Pym, SuperintendentGeneral of Quarantine.

Medical News.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentle-men, having undergone the necessary examinations for thediploma, were admitted Members of the College at a meetingof the Court of Examiners on the 26th inst. :-

DAWES, WILLIAM JOSEPH, Longton, Staffordshire.FIFIELD, WILLIAM CRANCH BOND, Boston, United States.GLISSAN, JAMES, Leonard-square, Finsbury.HOPWOOD, EDWIN JAMES, Chepstow-villas West, Bays.

water.

TYSER, HENRY, Portman-square.VVILBE, RICHARD HAYDOCK, Hessle, near Hull.

APOTHECARIES’ HALL.-Names of gentlemen who passedtheir examination in the science and practice of Medicine, andreceived certificates to practise, on-

Thursday, May 25th, 1854.CHRISTIE, THOMAS BEATH, Pembroke-house, Hackney.ELSOM, JOSEPH FREDERICK, Limehouse, London.FoTHERGiLL, MICHAEL, Bedale, Yorkshire.HEATHCOTE, RALPH, Manchester.HEATHCOTE, ROBERT HECKLING, Manchester.LoMAX, JOHN, Bury, Lancashire.LoFTHOUSE, RICHARD CHAPMAN, Bradford, Yorkshire.LANGSTON, JOHN, Grantham.

MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE.—The Bishop of Ox-ford preached in the parish church of Hampstead, on Sundaylast, in aid of the funds of this institution, on which occasionhis lordship’s eloquent appeal produced the sum of £136. Thisis the second time that this distinguished prelate has advocatedthe cause; and we are informed that his lordship has verynobly promised to preach again on a future occasion.PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO DR. DAVIES, OF HERTFORD.

—We announced some time since the retirement of Dr. J.Davies, from the post of physician to the General Infirmary,at Hertford, to which he had rendered his valuable servicesfor a period of more than 20 years; and we then publisheda suggestion that a subscription should be set on foot to pre-sent him with some testimonial which should serve to expressthe gratitude of his friends and neighbours for services whichthey could not adequately reward. A subscription was set onfoot, and a sum of about X90 having been raised, a handsomeépergne was selected for presentation. The value of the 6.pe)-gneis, we believe, 100 guineas, but Mr. Marks generously suppliedit at cost price. The plate, which is richly worked and of aflorid design, may be used either as a vase for flowers, a trifledish, or a three-light candelabrum. On the base of the pedestalis the following inscription:

" PRESENTED TO JOHN DAVIES, ESQ., M.D.," By the Subscribers and Friends of the General Infirmary atHertford, as a testimonial of their gratitude and of their appre-ciation of the value of his gratuitous services for more than 20years as Surgeon and Physician to that Institution. May 1854."The testimonial was presented by Mr. C. S. Chauncy, and

acknowledged by Dr. Davies in a very appropriate speech.BRITISH ANTI-ToBACCO ASSOCIATION.-On a Friday

evening in last month the friends of the above association cele-brated their first anniversary by a public meeting at the Free-masons’ Hall; James Copland, M.D., presided on the occasion.The spacious hall was prepared for the accommodation of severalhundred persons, but about half an hour after the time forcommencing proceedings (half-past seven), there was a most

melancholy and dispiriting account of empty benches, consider-ing the social importance of the question, and its pecuniarybearing in relation to the community at large. The few whowere present, plainly indicated to the impartial observer thattheir pipe was completely "put out," as soon as they hadsmoked the intelligence that some of the great Anti-Virginianswho had been invited were not forthcoming to back the efforts ofthe committee. After various speeches, attributing a woefullist of the evils of humanity-mental and dental-physical andfiscal-moral and mortal-to the effect of tobacco, some resolu-tions were put and carried to the effect that the " weed" beinginjurious, and an unmitigated nuisance, the meeting agreed to"forward the objects of the society." What those objectswere did not clearly transpire through the haze, until one ofthe speakers in enthusiastic vehemence declared, that as to theancient Hebrews it was commanded ‘‘ Thou shalt not steal,"he hoped in Britain it would be ordered " Thou shalt notsmoke." An individual in the front row of seats here inter-

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posed "Pooh-pooh!" which served as a slogan or war cry toexcite the malcontents present to combine their scatteredforces, and threw a wet blanket upon the eloquence of theorator, whose sentences now came to a period. A gentlemanin the body of the hall wished to address the assembly in someextenuation of the "poor despised weed," but it was withgreat difficulty that a hearing was secured for him, and notwithout much clamour on the part of the malcontents aforesaid.The chairman rebuked him as out of order upon what appearedvery insufficient grounds, and at length in an irate manner leftthe chair without hearing both sides of the question. Thegentleman on the platform was now nearly mobbed by the pre-ceding speakers, and by the well-known Boatswain Smith, whoindulged himself in much irrelevant talk, an infliction and aposition which he (the gentleman aforesaid) bore with praise-worthy fortitude and magnanimity. At length at the requestof the respected Dr. Hodgkin, who was on the platform, somedegree of order was restored. In the midst of the hubbub amoney collecting-box was exhibited, and a plaintive appealto the meeting was made to help pay the expenses of the room,but the application was singularly ill-timed; the contents andnon-contents mingled and gradually disappeared, and the

anniversary of the Anti-Tobacco Association was resolved—liketobacco itself-into smoke, without even leaving its ashes as amemento mori behind.INDUSTRIAL PATHOLOGY.—Many of our readers are

aware that the Society of Arts recently appointed a committeeconsisting of the Marquis of Blandford, Dr. King Chambers,Mr. J. Simon, and Mr. S. Twining, jun., to inquire into theaccidents, injuries, and diseases which attach to various bodilyemployments, and to devise means for prevention or relief.The first report of that committee, showing etaactly whatinformation was required, and which included a synopsis ofsome of the physical evils which attach to various kinds oflabour, and a special memorandum addressed to persons con-versant with cases of injury of the eyes, occasioned by industrialoccupations, has been very extensively circulated. And witha view of drawing public attention more pointedly to this im-portant social question, Dr. King Chambers has undertaken toread a paper at the Society of Arts, on the 7th of June, beingthe last ordinary meeting for the session, on " Industrial Pa-thology ; or the Accidents and Diseases incident to differentIndustrial Occupations."MEDICAL RELIEF IN MARYLEBONE.—At the weekly

meeting of the directors and guardians of the poor, held in theboard-room of St. Marylebone Workhouse, New-road, on the26th ult., J. J. Coham, Esq., in the chair,Mr. Poland brought forward his motion to the effect that

the medical relief of the parish, as at present administered,was defective in practice, wrong in principle, and thereforeought to be altered; and that general practitioners duly quali-fied, be appointed to administer medicine and advice to thepoor. Mr. Poland entered into statistics to show that thepresent system of compelling all the poor to come to the work-house for medicines, was a stepping-stone to pauperism, andthat it was far better to adopt the system pursued in St.Pancras, of appointing medical practitioners in the respectivedistricts, resident therein, to attend to the poor. In St.Pancras, .S100 per year was allowed to each of these districtmedical officers; but although that sum was mentioned in hisoriginal proposition, he wished to leave that point a questionopen for further consideration.The resolution having been seconded, an amendment was

moved to the effect that the matter should be referred to acommittee.

THE NECROPOLIS AND MAUSOLEUM COMPANY.—A verynumerous and influential deputation from the inhabitants ofLambeth waited upon Viscount Palmerston, for the purpose ofsoliciting his lordship’s interference with regard to the arrange-ments of the promoters of the London Necropolis and NationalMausoleum Company, who had obtained possession of nine ofthe arches of the London and South-Western Railway, betweenthe Waterloo and Westminster-roads, for the purpose of

depositing the corpses, prior to their removal by the companyby railway to their cemetery at Woking-common, those archesbeing situated in the most thickly-populated part of Lambeth,and consequently the measure having a tendency to endangeithe public health. Viscount Palmerston expressed his inabilityto exercise control where he had not authority to do so, as wasthe case with regard to the matter brought before him by thedeputation. He would, however, confer with the authoritiesof the South-Western Railway Company, and see what coulcbe done in the matter, after hearing what the railway corn1),,iL,y had to urge in explanation.

MORE MURDERS FP.031 RECKLESS SALE OF POISONS.—At Broad-street, Sheffield, the wife of a respectable man namedHoole, aged 24, committed suicide and destroyed her infant,aged ten months, with opium. Distress of mind consequent onfamily dissensions led to this dreadful catastrophe, but howshe obtained the deadly poison has not been divulged. Itreally is time for the legislature to past a stringent enact-ment against the indiscriminate and reckless sale of poisons,as not a week passes without the record of the loss of severallives, through. the want of such a protection.HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK ENDING

SATURDAY, MAY 27.-The weekly tables give 1143 deaths asthe result of registration in the week that ended last Saturday.This number exhibits but a small decrease on the mortality ofthe preceding week, which was shown to be higher than usual.In the ten weeks corresponding to last week of the years1844-53 the average number was 924, which if raised in pro-portion to increase of population becomes 1016. The presentReturn is therefore in excess of the estimated amount by 127.Fatal cases arising from zymotic diseases numbered, last week,282, whilst the corrected average is 222. They are distributedunder particular heads as follows :-Small-pox 10, measles27, scarlatina 62, (the average being 36,) hooping-cough 67,(the average being 47,) croup 7, thrush 2, diarrhoea 31,dysentery 3, influenza 2, purpura 1, ague 1, infantile fever 1,typhus 43, (the average being 43,) puerperal fever, 3, rheu-matic fever 2, erysipelas 11, and syphilis 9. Deaths causedby diseases of the organs of respiration amount to 177 ; in tencorresponding weeks the average was 140. Five persons werethe victims of intemperance.

Last week the births of 860 boys and 787 girls. In all, 1647children, were registered in London. In the nine correspondingweeks of the years 1245-53 the average number was 1372.At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of

the barometer in the week was 29 ’555 in. The highest readingwas 29 91 in. at the beginning of the week. The mean tempe-rature of the week was 51’5°, which is 3’3° below the averageof the same week in 38 years.

Obituary.

ON Monday evening, May 29, a storm of a fearful charactervisited Derbyshire, and in many places caused the greatestalarm on account of the proximity of the electric fire tothe earth. In one instance, at least, its effects were fataland most distressing. MR. OLDHAM, the well-known surgeonof Alfreton, was driving in his gig to the neighbouring villageof Morton, and when near the latter place he was struck bythe electric fluid, and killed instantaneously. His horse wasso much injured that it became necessary to put it to death;but a little boy who was riding with him, and was covered bythe same umbrella, escaped entirely unhurt. Mr. Oldhamleaves a widow and eleven young children to lament theirirreparable loss.

In London, JOSEPH KENNY, M.D., of the County Down,north of Ireland, in the prime of life.

MEETINGS OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETIES INLONDON DURING THE ENSUING WEEK.

NOTE.—When the day of the month is not specified, no meetings take place.

Societies.

Medical Society of London, 32A, George-street, Hanov er-square

Epidemiological, 53, Berners-streetChemical, 5, Cavendish-square ......Medico-Chirurgical, 53, Berners-st.Pathological, 33, George-street, }Hanover-square .................. }

Pharmaceutical, 17, Bloomsbury-sq.North London, 2, Cambridge-ter- }

race, Camden-town................Hunterian, 4, Bloomfiel(I-street, i

Finsbury ..........................Harveian, 64, Edgvare-road .........Royal Institution, Albemarle-streetWestern Medical and Surgical, )

i 44, Sloane-street ................. í

Days and Hoursof Meetings. III.

Sat. 8 P.M.

Mon. 8 P. M.Mon. 8 P.M.Tues. 8 P.3i.

Tues. 8 P.M.Wed. 8t P.M.Wed. 7½ P.M.

Wed. 8 P.M.

Thurs. 8 P.:!’!1.

Fri. 8½ P.M.

; Fri 8 P.M.

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