1278 OBITUARY.-MEDICAL NEWS.

Obituary.PROFESSOR CESARE FEDERICI.

TUSCANY has lost her leading consultant in Dr. CesareFederici, who died in the Villa Sardé at Maiano on Sundaylast, the 29bh ulb. His end had been manifestly approach-ing for some time back; he himself anticipating it evenwhilsb his intimate friends, who, loth to lose him, continuedto hope against hope for his recovery. He retained hischeerfulness and serenity to the last, leaving behind himthe clearest and fullest directions for the perpetuation ofthe clinical and balneological work in which he had alreadyproved himself a master. He was born at Serravalle delChierenti, in the province of Macerata, on Feb. 9the, 1838.The son of Dr. Francesco Federici, a local practitioner ofhigh cultivation and professional skill, from his youth he waspassionately fond of study, and both at school and universityhe laid solid foundations of humanistic and scientificaccomplishments which afterwards stood him in excellentstead when he advanced to medical qualification. Aftergraduation he entered on an academic career in 1870, whenhe filled the chair of medicine in the free University ofCamerino. In the December of that year he was promotedto the professorship of clinical instruction in the Universityof Palermo, where, two years later, he rose to be professorextraordinary, and in October, 1873, to be professor inordinary, of the practice of physic. By this time hisfame as a consultant and teacher had spread throughoutthe peninsula and even beyond its frontiers, diffused as itwas by numerous papers read before the various medico.chirurgical societies of Italy and by successive contingentsof enthusiastic pupils who found posts in the chief pro-fessional schools. On Nov. 4th, 1883, he was nominatedProfessor of Clinical Medicine in the Istibuto di Studi

, Superiori e di Perfezionamento at Florence, and more thanjustified the favourable anticipations with which he enteredon the duties of the chair. He soon became the mostpopular consultant in the city and province, winning notonly the respect but the devotion of his colleagues andhis clientle by his high proficiency in the hospital and thehousehold, by the remarkable success of his treatment,and by the singular suavity of his disposition and address.Another post which he filled with yearly enhanced accept-ance was that of Director-in-Chief of the Government bathsof Montecatini, the signal efficacy of which in hepatic dis-orders and in passive congestions he placed before the worldwith clearness and cogency both by pen and speech. Thegrowing favour with which these mineral waters are

regarded, not in Italy only but throughout Europe, is duein great measure to his advocacy of them for drinking aswell as bathing, his lucid and skilful directions as to thespecial cases in which they are indicated having been ablysupplemented and reinforced by his colleagues, Drs. P. Fedeliand Casciani. The elevation of balneology, indeed, to theposition it now holds in the therapeutic armoury owes nota little to him, especially in Italy, where justice is onlybeginning to be rendered to resources in mineral watershardly inferior, if at all, to the best of France, Germany,and Ausbro-Hungary.Dr. Federici filled many other posts besides those of

clinical medicine in the Florentine School and of the officialdirectorate of the Government baths of Montecatini. Hesat on the board of the "Consiglio Superiore d’lstruzionePabblica," of the " Consiglio Amministrativo del RegioArcispedale di S. Maria Nuova," and of the 11 ConsiglioSanitario Provinciale" of Florence. He was also a memberof the Florentine 11 Consiglio Comunale," a position wherehe did admirable service to city and province in all mattersof education, of hygiene, and of the general advance-ment-moral, intellecbual, and material-of Tuscanyand its capital. As a consultant, not only in privatepractice, but also at the baths of Montecatini, hecame frequently into contact with English - speakingpractitioners, American as well as British, and never

failed to earn their respect and gratitude by the more thanprofessional interest he took in the cases brought beforehim, and by the kindly spirit of cooperation with which hereceived, or modified, or finally adopted suggestions incircumstances of delicacy and difficulty. His loss will befelt by brother-consultauts of many another nationalitybesides that of Italy, and when the great International Con-gress of Medicine and Surgery meets in Rome in theSeptember of 1893 there will be few whose presence will be

more regretfully missed than that of the able and pleasant.mannered Tuscan physician who has all too prematurelypassed away.The funeral, which took place on Monday, the 30th ult.,

was a public one and in its progress from the church ofSant’ Ambrogio to the cemetery was attended by all thechief dignitaries-official, municipal, and professional-ofthe city and province. One special characteristic dwelbupon by the orators who, more Italiano, pronouncedeulogies over his grave was his love of country, attested byhis active interest in the several struggles for its unity andindependence, to which he enthusiastically dedicated the.best years of his youth and early manhood.

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. -

In addition to the list published in THE LANCET of May 7bh,the following gentlemen have passed the necessary examine.tions, and, havmg conformed to the by-laws and regulations,were admitted Members of the College :-

Bobardt, Albert Otto, M.B. Melb., Putney.Bracewell, Walter Hansford, M.B. Melb., West Norwood.Fisher, Walter Mulrea, L.S.A., Accrington.Harman, Albert Brice, L.S.A., Ruishton, Taunton.Lunt, David Charles Morgan, L.K.Q.C.P.I., Edinburgh.Porritt, William, L.K.Q.C.P.I., Huddersfield.

The above candidates have not presented themselves under theregulations of the Examining Board in England.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-The following is the list.of successful candidates at the recent examination for thedegree of M. B. :-

First Division.-Arthur Norman Boycott, St. Thomas’s Hospital;,Herbert Caiger and Harry Finley, University College; MalcolmLangton Hepburn and Wilfrid Kent Hughes, St. Bartholomew’sHospital; Thomas Holmes, Percy Lord, and Alfred William Sheen,Guy’s Hospital; Harry Lambert Lack, King’s College ; J. Herbert.Parsons, B.Sc., Bristol Medical School and University College ;-.Caroline Sturge, London School of Medicine for Women ; WilliamHoward Sturge, London Hospital ; Arthur Longley Whitehead,Yorkshire College.

Second Divioion.-Albert James Adkins, St. Thomas’s Hospital; Annie .Mary Slate Anderson and Amy Sheppard, London School ofMedicine and Royal Free Hospital; Wiiliam John Cameron, Queen’s.College, Belfast; Charles John Girling and John William FrankJewell, Guy’s Hospital; Sasi Bhusan Mitra, B.Sc., and WilliamBritain Morton, University College ; William Robert Smith, King’sCollege ; William Kay Walls, Owens College and Manchester RoyalInfirmary.

THE DUFFERIN FUND, BURMA BRANCH.-The fifthannual reporb of this branch states that during the year1891 the objects of the Dafferin Maternity Hospital andthe Training Home for Barmese Nurses and Midwives inRangoon had been maintained. The patients and pupilsshowed a steady increase, and the institution had grown infavour with the Burmese and other inhabitants of the city 131 in patients had paid sums varying from R.1 to R.50 fortreatment, the receipts from this source amounting toR.2236.13. The ba.la.nce.sheet showed that R.3330’7.had been transferred to the Building Fand, which nowamounts to about R.18,000, and the balance on the currentaccount was R.1668-12.

QUEEN’S COLLEGE, BELFAST.-The prizes of themedical classes of this College for the session 1892 havebeen awarded as follows :-Anatomy and Physiology.- :Second Year-William Hanna, A. G. Caldwell, RobertWatt, J. A. Corbitt, M. J. Ryan, T. D. Luke. First Year-Joseph Matson, JN’. T. Heron. F. E. Shawe. PracticalAnatomy : Third Year-J. J. Wallace, R. J. Mac Keown,J. A. Coibitt, A. Y. Caldwell and M. J. Ryan (equal).Dissections-R, H. Steen, Wm Hanna. Second Year--William Hunter, J. C. Adams, F. T. Heron, Robert Watt.Dissections-T. D. Luke. First Year-R. R. M’Lean,James Huston, B.A. Dissections--Alexander Burns, A. L.M’Cully, Medicine: W. J. J. Arnold, B A., and T. S.Kirk, B.A (equal). Surgery: Second Year-W.D. Donnanand Samuel Gaun (equal). First Year-James Colville,B.A.,T. S. Kirk, B.A., J. C. Rowan. Materia Nledica: Alex.Burns, R H. Steen, B.A , and J. F. Stewart (equal), W. J.M’Keown, Robert Watson. Midwifery: W. J. J. Arnold,3.A., Robert Watt, Adam Fulton, B.A., J. B. Johnson.Practical Chemistry : : Laboratory - R. W. Bingham.?ractical Class (senior division)-Alexander Burns.?ractical Claqs (junior division)—W. A. M’Williams, F. T.leron, and H. J. Ritchie (equal).

1279MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT.

HOSPITAL SUNDAY FUND.-The annual publicmeeting at the Mansion House in support of the HospitalSunday Fund has been convened by the Lord Mayor forFriday, June l7th, at 3 o’clock. His Lordship will be inthe chair. A. Egmont Hake, Esq., will deliver the address,and be supported by several important speakers, whosenames we hope to be able to announce in our next issue.A HOPMANN INSTITUTE.-The committee of the

German Cnemical Society, of which the late Professor VonHofmann was president, has resolved to honour his memoryby founding a " Hofmann Institute

" in Berlin, to serve as,a centre for efforts of all kinds in the province of scientificand practical chemistry.EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES AT LEAMINGTON.-Sixty cases s

of measles had occurred up to the 30 h ult. among the child-ren of the Clapham-terrace Infants’ School, Leamington,.and the disease had also attacked the children of the infants’school, Leicester.atreet. Both schools have been closed inoonsEqaence.

IN MEMORIAM.-The Board of Management of theSalford Royal Hospital has resolved, in order to perpetuatethe memory of the late Mr. Oliver Heywood’s connexionwith the institution, that a ward be named the " OliverHeywood Ward," and also to erect in the entrance-hall amarble memorial tablet by private subscription.CREMATION.-The annual report just issued (for

1891) of the Cremation Society shows that the number of.cremations at Woking during the year was 99, against 54in the previous year.-It was resolved at a meeting of theLiverpool Buriat BJard, held on the 26th ult., that theapplication of the Liverpool Crematorium Company to

. purchase half an acre of ground be entertained, subject to- certain conditions. It was also resolved to apply to thegeneral vestry of Liverpool for power to sell a portion of theunappropriated land for the purposes of a crematorium.HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION, BROMPTON.-The

annual report for 1891 (the 51st) showed that 1774 in-patients had been admitted during the year, 13,392 newcases had received treatment as out-patients, and the,attendances were 70,618 The total year’s income, from- all sources, was £ 37,395, and the expenses £27,829. Con-tracts had been accepted for the necessary enlargement ojthe chapel, undertaken as a suitable memorial of theJubilee year of the hospital. Subscriptions amounting tc £1380 towards this special object had been received, but aconsiderable deficit remained to be made up.SMALL-POX.-Mr. J. W. Walker, medical office]

of the Wakefield rural sanitary district, reported on the25th ult. that since the last monthly meeting of thesanitary authority there had been thirteen cases of smallpox reported up to that time, from Lingwell Gate, RothwelHaigh, Robin Hood, Loftbouse, Middlestown, and Crigglestone, but by the promp measures ad opted the further spreadof the disease at each of the centres had been checked. Iwas also reported that there were cases of small-pox in thhamlet of Middlestown which had not come under thnotice of the medical officer, owing to the infected personnot being attended by a medical practitioner.

PRESENTATIONS.-Dr. A. Dingwall, of Fraserburglhas been presented with a purse of sovereigns by thmembers of the Fraserburgh Ambulance Association iappreciation of his valuable services to the class.-OThursday, May 26th, Mr. 0. Pemberton was entertained fdinner and presented with a large silver bowl at the GranHotel, Birmingham. Mr. Whitcombe occupied the chaiand there was a large gathering of medical men of the ci1and neighbourhood. One of the last acts of the late SWilliam Bowman, whose medical education commenced the Birmingham General Hospital, was to join in payhtribute to the esteem in which Mr. Pemberton is held. Aaddress was presented with 130 signatories attached.pointed out the forty years’ service of Mr. Pemberton to t]Birmingham General Hospital, and congratulated him his election as coroner of Birmingham. It concludes withe words-"We are both proud and gratified that ti.responsibilities of such a position should have been entrustto so eminent a member of our own profession. Wewishyievery happiness, and trust that you may long be sparedfill the honourable post to which you have been called, a:to adorn our profession.

CENTENARIAN.-Mrs. Markham, a widow, residingat Royley, near Winterton, Lincolnshire, attained her107th year on the 29th ult. Excepbing failing sight, sheretains the use of all her faculties-

BINGLEY COTTAGE HOSPITAL.- This institution hasrecently obtained an endowment of ;f3000 from Sunderland’scharity, which was founded in 1671, by Samuel Sunderlandof Bingley. The hospital was one of the memorials of theQueen’s Jubilee. This endowment will augment the fundsby about) £80 per annum. The income for the past yearwas f37G. ____________

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Birmingham Corporation Water Bill. -

THIS Bill gave rise to several long discussions on Thursday in theHouse of Commons. They had reference mainly to common and fishingrights in the proposed area of supply. Mr. Chamberlain undertookthat when the Bill reaches the. House of Lords provisions shall beintroduced to give a local inquiry with regard to certain of these rightswhen requited by the County Councils concerned. Anew clause wasadded to the Bill on the motion of Mr. Morton, providing that theCorporation of Birmingham shall not use any barbed wire in connexionwith the proposed works.

The Gibraltar Sanitary Board.Lord Carrington has given notice that on Thursday, June 16th, he

will call attention to the recent changes in the constitution of the, Sanitary Board of Gibraltar, and ask the Secretary for the Colonies

(Lord Knutsford) whether he will lay the correspondence on the subjectbefore the House.: Sale of Food and Drugs Act (1875) Amendment Bill.! A petition against this Bill from Glasgow was presented to the House

of Commons on Monday.) Casval Wards in London.1) The President of the Local Government Board (Mr. Ritchie) has pre-pared a Bill "for the provision of central stations in connexion with

casual wards in London and for other purposes relating to such casualwards." It sets forth that the managers of the Metropolitan Asylum

District shall provide a central station and other stations for thereception of information as to the state of accommodation in the casualwards, and speedy means of communication either by telephone, tele-graph, or otherwise between the stations and the wards. They shall

.. also, where necessary, provide for the conveyance of any person in needof accommodation in a casual ward to the ward where that accommoda-tion can be most conveniently obtained. Where the Local Government

Board by order declare that the board of guardians of any poor lawunion in London have failed to provide within their union such casual

wards with such fittings and furniture as the Board consider necessary,’* they may require the Metropolitan Asylum managers to make such pro-e vision, the managers being vested with the same financial powers for0 this purpose as the board of guardians. The Bill also gives the boardsof guardians power to transfer casual wards belonging to them to the

Metropolitan Asylum managers.

Hospital Doctors and Nurses.In the House of Lords on Monday last Lord Sandhurst rose to call

attention to a document issued by the Metropolitan Asylums Board,Ie

dated May 14th, 1892, as to the engagement ot doctors and nurses forsmall-pox hospitals, and to ask whether the document was issued with

- the knowledge and sanction of the Local Government Board. He saidthat a circular had been received by the managers of a large generalhospital with which he was connected from the Metropolitan Asylums

d Board, asking whether they were willing to receive clinical assistantsid and additional nurses, the remuneration to be limited to residenceIt and rations. He did not think it was a good principle for a greatIe institution like the Metropolitan Asylums Board to advertise for

medical men and nurses on such conditions as this circularset forth, and he wished to know whether, if the circular wasissued without the knowledge or sanction of the Local Govern-ment Board, they would communicate with the Asylums Board

, on the matter.-Lord Henniker said the Local Government Boardh, were not aware of the issue of the circular letter referred to by thehe noble lord. They had made inquiry on the subject, and they found

. that the letter was addressed to several of the general hospitals in

In London. This, however, was not altogether a new question. As)n regarded the question of clinical assistants, the matter was broughtat under the attention of the Board so long ago as 1886. It was then pro-

d posed bv the managers of the metropolitan asylum district that theyshould be empowered to arrange for registered medical practitioners

, to reside in the hospital, on ’condition of their making a payment at thety rate of 12s. per week for board and lodging, and the payment of a feeSir to the medical superintendent. It appeared to the Board that

at this was not a desirable arrangement, and they suggested to theat managers that if the services of clinical assistants were re-

ng quired it would be better that such assistants should beAn appointed by the managers as officers of the hospital, and

It that they should receive remuneration for their services, althoughthe

such remuneration might, if the managers deemed it expedient, bethe limited to board and residence in the hospital. The managers wouldon have in connexion with the hospital their regular medical staff for the treatment of cases, and the clinical assistants would no doubt renderthe help; but the primary object in proposing the arrangement, and in the’ Local Government Board agreeing to it, was not that the staff ofted officers of the hospital should be supplemented by assistants of thisVOU character, but that means should be afforded to medical practitionersI to of obtaining experience in the treatment of small-pox cases. With

regard to the question of nurses who were employed as probationersand the Board had had no communication from he managers on thesubject. But as to the nurses, also, it might be assumed that th