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The series, col. 5, was obtained by dividing 38, the rate ofmortality in the lowest terrace, successively by 2, 3, 5, and17, in conformity with the law laid down in the Registrar-General’s Report on Cholera (p. Ixiii.)

’ NOVEMBER 16.

DUNDEE.-Nov. 13, 9 deaths ; Nov. 14, 6 deaths. Since the3rd of November, when the visitation system commenced, therehave been discovered, of diarrhoea, 1348 cases; approachingcholera, 8; cholera, 5; corpses, 3; total deaths since com-mencement of disease, 100.DARLINGTON.-Nov. 14, 1 death.BARNSLEY.-Nov. 14, 1 death.METROPOLIS.-The returns from the K, M, P, and R divi-

sions of the metropolitan police give seven new cases and fivedeaths.

Medical News.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. - The followingMembers of the College, having undergone the necessary exa-minations, were admitted Licentiates in Midwifery :-JamesLovell, Canterbury, diploma of membership dated June 17,1853; Charles Dunn, Scarborough, July 4, 1853; John WestWalker, Spilsby, Oct. 11, 1850; Samuel Argent, Hinchley,July 1, 1853 ; John Rains, Bonsall, Derbyshire, May 20, 1853;Thomas Duncan, Chelsea, October 28, 1853; John Hudson,Newport, Yorkshire, April 15, 1853; Henry Thomas Cornelius,Northampton, July 9, 1850; Thomas Joseph Cookson Powell,Bristol, Oct. 28, 1853; Frank Powell, Chichester, Oct. 14,1853.

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

Thursday, November 1Oth, 1853.MOSS, WILLIAM BOYD.SHORT, AUGUSTUS CHARLES.SMITH, WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, Bedford.STILLMAN, WILLIAM, Camp Hill, Birmingham.THOMAS, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.

The following gentleman passed their examination inclassics and mathematics, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the15th and 16th November :--Edward E. Meenes, Whitechapel;William W. Harkness, Hampstead; William Henry Smith,Holland-place, Clapham-road; Peter Downs, Stockport;Stuart M’D. Cumming, King William College, Isle of Man;Henry Palk, Manchester-street; William A. Brown; Kineton,Warwick; Josh. Thos. Fowler, Winterton, Lincolnshire;Thos. Miles Hill, Bristol; Francis E. Carey, Nottingham-place ; George S. Rutherford, Portland-place; Robert C.Garner, Stoke-upon-Trent; John Watts, Haverfordwest; JohnC. Quennell, Brentford; Lima Abraham La Mert, London;Henry N. Hett, Brigg, Lincolnshire; Robert J. Rogers,Brighton; Thomas Pickop, Brydges-street, Strand; Win. Jas.Jones, Portugal-street, Lincoln’s-inn-fields; Robt. R,. Symon,Canonbury; Henry Lewis, Lowndes-square; Edwd. Joseph, Great Marylebone-street; Alfred Meadows, Newmans-row,Lincoln’s-inn; Antony Whitford, New North-street; CharlesE. Lucllow, Kennington; Stephen H. Pearce, Lewes; JohnPowell, Wandsworth; Fred. M. Chalk, Kennington ; ThomasW. Haslehurst, Claverley; Thos. M. Edwards, Llansaintffraid,N. Wales.

THE COLLEGE STUDENTSHIP. — It will be perceivedfrom an advertisement in this journal that the Council of theRoyal College of Surgeons of England have invited the youngmembers of their College to compete for one of their student-ships in human and comparative anatomy. This honourableappointment is held for three years at a salary of one hundredpounds per annum. At the expiration of the above period,another appointment in the Hon. East India Company’sService, the Army, or the Navy, is bestowed upon the retiringstudent; these presentations having been conferred on theCollege by the various heads of the departments of the publicservice.

APPOINTMENT.—Dr. Winn, of Finsbury-square, wason the 15th inst. unanimously elected physician to the Metro-politan Dispensary.OPIUM.-From a return just published it is shown that

the importation of opium has increased. In the month endingth 10th ult. the quantity was 36,759 lb.

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THE CLASSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL SCHOLARSHIP ATST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.-(From a Correspondent).-We un-derstand that this annual prize for first year’s students hasjust been awarded to a gentleman who has taken his degreein the University of Oxford. His age and position must there-fore exceed those of first year’s men generally. Although wecannot help expressing surprise that a man of his standingshould like to contend with competitors so much younger thanhimself, yet we cannot say that, in our opinion, the candidatesfor this scholarship ought to be limited to a certain age, as isusual in our older schools and colleges, such as twenty ortwenty-one years, and we beg leave to direct the future at-tention of the proper medical authorities of the hospital to thispoint. No scholarship is open either at Oxford or Cambridgeto any man who has taken a degree. This rule has been longobserved at these Universities; indeed we do not know that itwas ever otherwise. The object of it is manifest; and in thepresent case we consider that the scholarship, so well andlaudably instituted, is clearly intended for competition amongstthose young gentlemen who, at the well-known age, have justentered upon their hospital studies, and not for such as mayhave later in life relinquished some other contemplated pro-fession for that of medicine.

COTJRT OF QUEEN’S BENCH, Nov. 15.-KERNOT v.

CATTLIN.-This case came before the court upon demurrer,the question being whether a surgeon who had become insolventwas bound to deliver up his diploma to his assignees. Mr.Willes appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Miiward for theplaintiff.-Lord Campbell said he was of opinion that the

plaintiff’s diploma did not pass to the assignees. The docu-ment was necessary to prove the plaintiff’s identity and histitle to practise. When he began life again it would benecessary for him personally to have his diploma, in order toshow that he was what he pretended to be.-The other judgesconcurred. -Judgment for the plaintiff.PAUPER LUNATICS.-The Poor-law Board have addressed

letters to the medical officers and guardians and overseers ofthe poor, of every union and parish in England and Wales, inwhich they call attention to the provisions of the new LunacyAct, by which it is required, under heavy penalties, that allpauper lunatics not in an asylum shall be visited every quarterof a year by the medical officer of the union or parish, and areport made as to the care taken of them, and whether theymay properly remain out of an asylum.THE PUFF DIRECT : CURE FOR CANCER.-The Augusburg

Zeitung states that Dr. Landolfi, physician to the King of

Naples, professor at the University, and director of the prin-cipal hospital of that city, has discovered a method for thecure of cancer, when not in its worst and last stage. Dr.Landolfi had been summoned to Munich about three monthsago to attend a lady of rank, whose cure he has effected, aswell as that of many others, during his visit to that city. Itis expected that he will speedily publish a work on the subjectof his discovery, which will be an inestimable boon to sufferinghumarity in one of the severest shapes of disease. Several ofthe most distinguished physicians of Munich were present atDr. Landolfi’s interviews with his patients, and witnessed hishappy treatment of them. Dr. Landolfi has left Munich toattend a princess in the north of Germany, who is aftiictedwith cancer, and will return to Naples by way of Vienna.

ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.-The following motion wascarried by a majority of 32 to 16 :-" That in consideration ofthe long services of Mr. Solly and Mr. Le Gros Clark, both inthe school and the hospital, the rule of Court reducing thefuture allowance of the surgeons be suspended as r.egards thosegentlemen, and that they receive the same remuneration fortheir services, upon becoming senior surgeons, as Mr. Southand Mr. Mackmurdo at present enjoy."THE ROYAL SEA-BATHING INFIRMARY, MARGATE.

- This institution, calculated to be of great national utility, byrescuing numbers of the industrious poor from the ravagingand vitiating tendency of scrofulous disorders, thereby lessen-ing the sum of disease, of imbecility, and deformity, particu-larly of hereditary maladies and their miserable consequences,and thus improving the race of the labouring part of the com-munity, and preserving to the State many valuable lives,-closed on Saturday last for the winter season. It appears thatat the late anniversary meeting of the governors, held at theInfirmary, Sir Brook W. Bridges, Bart., in the chair, thefollowing resolution was moved by Mr. Waddington, consult-ing-surgeon to the institution, and carried unanimously :-That in the opinioR of this court it would be highly advan-

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tageous, and very conducive to the promotion of the charitableobjects for which the institution was formed, if a part of thehospital were kept open for patients during the whole of theyear, and not in the summer months only; and that such theopinion of this Court of Governors be referred to the Court ofDirectors for their consideration." " It appears also that theCourt of Directors, after much discussion, and taking intoconsideration the balance in hand, together with the highprice of bread, meat, potatoes, and coals, did not think itadvisable to keep open any part of the hospital during theensuing winter months. The number of patients admittedduring 1853 was-in-patients, 383; out-patients, 259; totalthis season, 642. Total number admitted since the opening ofthe institution, 24,099. We do not despair of seeing thisuseful institution open all the year round. During the recesswe hope to see exertions made by all parties, however humble,in the good cause to bring about so desirable an object.A MEDICAL MAYOR.-The Hull Packet, in noticing

the election of Dr. Cooper to the post of chief magistrate ofthat town, says :-‘ The election of Dr. Cooper, by an almostunanimous vote, to the office of Mayor of this borough for theensuing year, cannot fail to be highly gratifying to him, and isfor the town a circumstance of congratulation. Self-possessed,intelligent, and well-informed, eminent in his profession, anearnest sanitary reformer, and not unfamiliar with the conductof public business, Dr. Ccoper bids fair, in our estimation, tobe one of the best mayors Hull has had since the passing of theMunicipal Reform Bill. He will be an acquisition to thebench of magistrates, for his mind is eminently of a judicialcast, and if we could believe it possible that he could animatethe Council over which he is called especially to preside withhis views respecting local requirements, imbue it with hisdesire for local improvement, and direct its efforts with hisjudgment, we should expect his year of office to yield us morepractical benefits than any that has preceded it. The cha-racter of recent municipal elections, however, forbids the

indulgence of any such hope; and our only consolation is, thatamid the contentions and difficulties which we fear are im-pending, we shall have a pilot capable of weathering the storm,and of landing us, if any can, safe in the harbour of sanitaryprogress. "

ASSISTANT-SURGEONS OF THE ROYAL NAVY.-The navalassistant-surgeons have now ample opportunity for convertingtheir hour of discontent into an hour of retribution, unless theirjust and long-promised rights are conceded. In the last numberof the United Service Gazette appears the following paragraph:"NAVAL MEDICAL CIRCULAR.-A circular has just been

issued by the Director General of the Medical Department ofthe Navy, calling upon all surgeons and assistant-surgeons onhalf pay to signify, without loss of time, whether they areready for active service. Sir William Burnett alleges as thecause of this circular a probable immediate and urgent requisi-tion for the services of medical officers. We suggest to ourmedical friends the propriety of returning an answer in theaffirmative wherever possible, as the contrary will be equivalentto accepting a place on the Retired List.

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Before returning an answer in the affirmative, the assist-ant-surgeons should hold a meeting, and there adopt measures for ascertaining whether the Admiralty intends fulfilling its

promise, to place them on board in a position suited to theirrank and merits. The following letter, addressed to the UnitedService Gazette by an officer signing himself "Medicus, R.N.,"fully expresses how assistant-surgeons are treated, and howAdmiralty orders are disregarded by captains and commanders :

" To the Editor of the United Se2,,vice Gazette." ’SIR,-I beg to send you the following illustration of the

manner in which the Admiralty Order about cabin accommoda-tion for assistant-surgeons is carried out in her Majesty’s shipRetribution. Nearly a year ago, Admiral Dundas, when in-specting that ship, asked to be shown the assistant-surgeon’scabin, and on being told none existed, he ordered one to bebuilt for that officer.. " Since that period the Admiral’s order has been disregarded,and the assistant-surgeon luxuriates in a hammock.

’’ Your insertion of this will, I hope, attract the Admiral’snotice, and induce him to see that obedience from the captainsof his fleet is a necessary element of naval comfort, if not ofnaval diseipline." "

Vice-Admiral Dundas, while in the Admiralty, held thevery identical opinions that he expressed in the above orderas Commander-in-Chief. But Captain Drummond, acting uponhis quarter-deck martinetism, disregarded that order, andthereby exposed himself to all the pains and penalties of a

court-martial, which he should have endured as an example toothers. Sir William Burnett is a kind man, who highly valuesthe services of the profession, and is quite superior to narrow,low-minded prejudices; therefore the assistant-surgeons mayconfidently appeal to him, and ask him to secure to them whatthe House of Commons, the Admiralty, and the public, de-clared to be their rights, and without which they cannot pro-perly and satisfactorily discharge their duties towards thosegallant fellows whose health and whose lives are confided totheir care and their skill. If their claims are endorsed by suchmen as Admiral Dundas and Sir William Burnett, they can beno longer withheld, especially at a crisis when their servicesare likely to be called into requisition. It is very pardonable,if not wholly justifiable, for a man to avail himself of a diSi-culty when his rights are in jeopardy.COVRT OF BANKRUPTCY. - IN RE CHIVERS. - A

DOCTOR’S BILL.-There was a dividend meeting in the case ofThomas Chivers, of the Globe Tavern, Finsbury-pavement. -Mr. Murrough tendered a proof for .S194, on behalf of Mr.

William Parkes, surgeon, of Great Marlborough-street.Mr. Reed, for the assignees, opposed the proof, on the

ground that Mr. Parkes had not only charged for his medicines,but also for visits. He submitted that the gentleman couldnot charge for both, but must make his election whether 10charge for medicines or attendance.Mr. Murrough said nothing could be clearer than that a

gentleman who was both a licentiate of the Apothecaries’Company and a member of the College of Surgeons was entitled

to charge for both medicines and attendance. In support ofthis view he cited a case in 4 Carrington and Payne, 110; and"Smith v. Chambers," 2 Phillip’s Chancery Rep., 221. Thiswas now an established point both at law and equity; and thesurgeons at the west-end were uniformly in the habit ofcharging both for medicines and attendance.Mr. Reed contended that, at any rate, if the medicines were

charged for it should only be according to apothecaries’charges.

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His Honour thought it was very much a matter of contract.If the party had gone on paying the surgeon’s bills made outon this principle, he must be taken to have consented to it.

Mr. Parkes, being examined, deposed that he had receivedno payment from the bankrupt since 1846; there had beenrunning accounts between them. The medicines were for Mr.and Mrs. Chivers and the two children. Mrs. Chivers hadbeen ill for years, and was so now.

Mr. Reed said it was remarkable that the bill containedcharges for daily attendances down to the very day of thebankruptcy. A creditor now in court said that he had beenat the house nearly every day, and never saw the doctorthere.

His Honour said the demand was a stale one, and ought tohave been brought forward earlier. If creditors alloweddoubtful claims of this kind to lie over, they must take theconsequences.Mr. Murrough denied that it was a doubtful claim. His

client was ready to swear to it. It had been preferred at aformer meeting, but stood over.

, His Honour ultimately admitted the proof, subject to theset-off, which reduced it to about .680.

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"’ Such a question ought not to have arisen. It has longsince been decided in the superior courts that a qualified practi-

’ tioner may make reasonable charges for attendance, in addi-tion to medicine.