594 MEDICAL NEWS.

Medical News.UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—The following candi-

dates passed the Intermediate Examination in Medicine,January, 1896:-

ENTIRE EXAMINATION.SECOND DIVISION.

Alexander, Kenneth Bush, Guy’s Hospital.Anderson, William Maurice, London Hospital.Balderston, Robert, Guy’s Hospital.Barron, Henry Thompson, Westminster Hospital.Belfrage, Sydney Henning, University College.Briscoe, John Charlton, King’s College.Cammidge, Percy John, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Clifford, Harold, University College.Collens, Edward Howard, Mason College.Eason, Herbert Lightfoot, Guy’s Hospital.Fairbank, Harold Arthur Thomas, Charing-cross Hospital.Forster, Lucinda C. Emily, London School of Medicine for Women.Glover, John Abel, Guy’s Hospital.Kelly, Charles Ernest M., Owens College and St. Bartholomew’s

Hospital.Knight, Charles Voughton, St. Bartholomew’s HospitaLLander, Charles Llewellyn, B.Sc., London Hospital.Lewis, Frank Charles, St. Mary’s Hospital.Meakin, Ethilda Budgett M., London School of Medicine forWomen.

Norman, Ralph, London Hospital.Perdrau, Joseph Arthur, University College.Utley, Charles Joseph, Owens College.Watson, James Vincent, Owens College.

EXCLUDING PHYSIOLOGY.FIRST DIVISION.

Gates, Edward Alfred, St. Thomas’s Hospital.SECOND DIVISION.

Barlow, Herbert Cecil, Westminster Hospital.Bingham, Sydney Oliphant, St. Thomas’s Hospital.Cheesman, Herbert Hilton, Westminster Hospital.Everington, Herbert Devas, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Fox, Herewald Evelyn Croker, Guy’s Hospital.Fox, Thomas Heber, Yorkshire College.Gibbins, Herbert Bowly, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Hanson, Helen Beatrice, London School of Medicine for Women.Hatfield, Ronald, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Ibotson, Edward Cecil Brearey, Guy’s Hospital.Liddel, William Henry Singer, St. Mary’s Hospital.Longley, John Augustus Noel, Mason College.Owsley, George Chetwode, Guy’s Hospital.Parrett, Edward Erratt, B.A., Guy’s Hospital.Parsons, Allan Chilcott, St. Thomas’s Hospital.Rhodes, James Herbert, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital,Richards, George Maurice Oswald, Owens College.Robinson, John Elliott, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Rowland, Penry William, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Taunton, John Godfrey Creswell, Mason College.Tayler, George Padgett, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Taylor, Isaac, Yorkshire College.Miller, George Valentine, University College.

PHYSIOLOGY ONLY.FIRST DIVISION.

Aveline, Henry Talbot Sydney, Bristol Medical School.Wallis, James Garfit, London Hospital. ,

SECOND DIVISION.Belt, Francis Victor Owen, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Crisp, George Bedford, St. Mary’s Hospital.Gunther, Hermann Arthur, University College.Handson, Lionel Edwin Charles, Guv’s Hospital.Jones, John Llewellyn, University College.Northcote, Percy, St. Thomas’s Hospital.Rowe, William Trethowan, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Scott, Henry Harold, St. Thomas’s Hospital.Stock, William Stuart Vernon, University College, Bristol.Stuart. Walter Lea, Guy’s Hospital.Thwaites, Gilbert Bahn, St. Thomas’s Hospital.Woodbridge, Elliot Wilson, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES OF LONDON.-Thefollowing candidates passed the examinations in February,1896:-

Surgery.-W. P. Bean, Leeds ; R. D. Dobie, King’s College Hospital ;H. W. Graham, Guy’s Hospital; E. M. Henwood, Royal FreeHospital; M. K. S. Holst, Royal Free Hospital; R. B. Jones, Liver-pool ; W. R. Kemp, Cambridge and St. Mary’s Hospital; W. A. Kidd,Liverpool; and A. C. Thornton, St. Thomas’s Hospital.

Medicine, Forensic Medicine, and Midwifery.-J. H. Busteed, Guy’sHospital; H. C. F. Dalton, Charing-cross Hospital; A. G. Everard,Charing-cross Hospital; F. J. Gaine, Cambridge and St. Mary’sHospital; L. Hogg, McGill University; H. R. Hurry, Melbourne;W. A. Kidd, Liverpool; E. A. McAnally, St. George’s Hospital;J. R. McKinlav, Westminster Hospital; R. H. Ormsby, WestminsterHospital; F. E. Rimer, McGill University; and G. A. Simpson,London Hospital.

Forensic Medicine and Midwifery.-J. Ponsonby, Guy’s Hospital ;G. R. Smith, Manchester; and C. H. Thomas, London Hospital.

lledicine and Forensic hledicine.-C. H. Dearden, Leeds; and C. H.Nicholson, Middlesex Hospital.

Medicine.-A P. Eldred, St. Mary’s Hospital.Forensic Medicine.-F. R. Baker, London Hospital; and A. J. Pedley,Birmingham.

Midwifery.-F. E. Bromley, Lordon Hospital; P. H. Collingwood,St. Thomas’s Hospital; E. C. Hort, Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital,and F. E. Saunders, Cambridge and St. Thomas’s Hospital.

To Messrs. Baker, Bromley, Busteed, Dalton, Eldred, Gaine, Jones,Kidd, Rimer, Simpson, and Thornton was granted the diploma of theSociety entitling them to practise Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAXD: FELLOWSHIP EXAMINATION.—The following gentlemen havepassed the primary part of the examination:—MervynWinfred Falkner and Percy Hope Falkner.-The followinggentlemen having passed the necessary examination havebeen admitted Fellows of the College :-Bernard RobertChatterton, Patrick Joseph Fagan, Edward Henry Taylor,and Alfred Ernest William Ramsbottom.

MACCLESFIELD GENERAL INFIRMARY. - Theannual report of the Macclesfield General Infirmary for theyear 1895 shows that 691 in-patients were admitted, of whom111 were accident cases. There were in addition 730 home-patients treated and 1867 out-patients. Among the in-patientsthere were 41 deaths and among the other classes 29 deaths,On Dec. 31st, 1895, there were 51 in-patients under treatment.The income for 1895 was £2955 and the expenditure £2826,leaving a balance of f.129 in hand.

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.-Heidelberg:Dr. Passow, Assistant to Professor Trautmann in the EarDepartment of the Berlin Charite, has been appointed Extra-ordinary Professor of Otology in succession to Dr. Moos.-Lausanne : Dr. Louis Secretan has been appointed Extra-ordinary Professor of Otology and Laryngology.-Lille: Dr.Combemale has been appointed Professor of Clinical Medi-cine ; Dr. Curtis, Professor of Pathology and PathologicalAnatomy; and Dr. Laguesse, Professor of Histology.-Turieff (-Dorpat) : Dr. W. Kurchinski of Kieff has been

appointed Extraordinary Professor of Physiology.THE PORTSMOUTH WATER-SUPPLY.—The pro-

posal to take over the undertaking of the Portsmouth Water-works Company by the Corporation has been little heard ofduring the last few months, but meanwhile a rather un-

expected development has occurred in another direction.The company is promoting a Bill in Parliament for powers todivert a stream and to supply four villages closely adjacentto the present mains. This has evoked much oppositionfrom local bodies, but at a meeting of the shareholders onThursday, Feb. 20th, a minority successfully opposed thelatter part of the scheme. It was argued that the 35,000houses now being supplied in Portsmouth were increasing atthe rate of some 4000 per annum. If the directors had

money to spare, said one, let them payoff the arrears o2dividends. If they had more water than they knew how todispose of. let them reduce the prices to the presentcustomers. Ultimately, on the directors undertaking todrop the clauses objected to-viz., as to the extension of thedistrict-in committee of the House of Commons it was

unanimously agreed to promote the Bill.

ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.-On Friday, Feb. ’21st,the Duke of Connaught, accompanied by the Ducbess,visited St. Thomas’s Hospital, of which His Royal High-ness is the president, to perform the ceremony of

reopening two wards-the Beatrice and Florence wards.Mr. J. G. Wainwright, the Treasurer of the Hospital,delivered an address. He recalled former Royal visits to thehospital, notably those of Her Majesty in 1868 and 1871, theoccasions respectively of laying the foundation stone of thenew hospital and of declaring the same open. He referredto the enormous increase in population, to the financial crisisthrough which the hospital had passed, and to the modifiedsuccess which had attended the appeal for .E100.000. Theactual sum received was £27,000. They had to devotef.6000 per annum to pay off debts incurred by rebuilding.The E27,000, however, had enabled them to pay ofhalf the arrears of debt and to open two wards-theFlorence and" Beatrice "-out of the five closed.

, His Royal Highness then declared the wards open andreferred to the difference between North and South London

: in the matter of hospital accommodation. The former, with, a population of two and a half millions, has 7000 beds; the

latter, with a population of one and a half million, has but’ 926 beds. His Royal Highness concluded with an earnest. appeal for subscriptions. The Archbishop of Canterbury

offered a prayer and gave a blessing, after which theirRoyal Highnesses were conducted through the reopenedwards.

595MEDICAL NEWS.-PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.

As we go to press we sincerely regret to learnthe death of Mr. Thomas William Thompson, Medical

Inspector, Local Government Board.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.-We understand thatProfessor Stewart’s new " Manual of Physiology" has proveda success, and that the publishers, Messrs. Bailliere, Tindall,and Cox, are reprinting the same edition, the time being tooshort for the author to prepare a new edition or to make evenalterations. This exemplifies the opinion we expressed onthe exceptional merits of the book when reviewing it on itsfirst appearance a few weeks since.

PRESENTATIONS TO MEDICAL MEN.-Mr. WilliamSalisbury-Sharpe, L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., has been pre-sented by the members of the St. John Ambulance Corps atPaddington Station with a case of surgical instruments, as arecognition of his appreciated instruction in ambulanceaid.—Mr. David T. Key, M.R.C.S.Eng., has been the

recipient of a silver cigarette case from the Reading corpsof the St. John Ambulance Brigade as a token of theirregard and esteem.

THE DIFFUSION OF SMALL-POX.- Last week, forthe sixth successive week, there was no death from small-pox registered in London, nor was any death from that

malady registered in any of the other thirty-two greattowns. In London the admissions to the hospital ships ofthe Metropolitan Asylums Board of small-pox cases last weeknumbered only 5, as compared with 12, 6, and 12 in the threeweeks preceding. The patients remaining under treatment onSaturday last were 58 in number, as against 82 and 73 respec-tively on the corresponding Saturdays of the previous twomonths. News from Oxford states that no fresh cases haveoccurred as a result of the infection disseminated from the

tramp who, as we have stated, brought the disease into thecity a short time back. In Gloucester strenuous efforts arebeing made by the medical officer of health to nullify theopposition of the anti-vaccinators to the due observance ofthe Vaccination Laws. The removal of the assizes to

Cheltenham, the unanimous resolutions at the recent meet-ing of medical men in favour of vaccination, and the dataeven thus far available from the present small-pox epidemicin the city, ought to have weight in determining the guardiansto do all in their power to secure that persons exposed to small-pox infection shall be either vaccinated or revaccinated as theymay require. Dr. Bond is leaving no stone unturned in hispraiseworthy attempts to save the town from the results ofprevious ineptitude. In Soath Wales a further case of small-

pox has been recorded at Aberavon, the sufferer being atravelling sweep from Pontypridd, whose illness was

diagnosed by a police inspector at the station to whichthe man had gone on not feeling well. He was at onceremoved to the infectious hospital, and the lodging-housewhere he slept on the preceding night was thoroughlydisinfected. Another case, making the ninth, has occurredat Swansea, the patient having come to Port Tennantfrom Gloucester. At Pontypridd a tramp has been ad-mitted to the hospital within the workhouse wallshe having developed small-pox whilst in the work-house on the preceding night. It is believed that he camefrom Tredegar, and he admits having slept in a lodging-house in Pontypridd on the night before going to the work-house. The advisability of isolating the man within thewalls of the building seems very questionable, but theauthorities may possibly have had no choice in the matter.A man who left a lodging-house in Llanelly last week hasbeen notified to the medical officer of health as having fallenill of small-pox soon after leaving the town, consequentlythe house that he lately sojourned in has been fumigated as aprecautionary measure. Last week there were 2 fresh casesof small-pox notified in the workhouse at Cardiff, making20 in all that have been removed from the institution, all ofthem males. Of the 200 inmates, only some 70 have sub-mitted themselves to revaccination, and not one of the re-vaccinated has taken the disease. A fresh case also occurredin the town, the father of the patient being a mason who hadbeen working at the infected workhouse. At Brynmawr thetenant of the lodging house from which a family had beenremoved to be placed in quarantine on account of small-poxin one of their number, has now contracted the disease.He has been isolated with the members of the other family,but further cases are, in these circumstances, not unlikely tooccur. It has been agreed to erect temporary means oftreatment near the isolated quarantine building. A case

has been reported to the Bedwellty guardians as havingarisen at Blackwood in the person of a tramp from Ponty-pridd, who was housed in a common lodging in the place.At Dowlais another case has been recorded. Of the 11patients removed from the vessel NortA Canibria and isolatedin Limerick Workhouse most are natives of Wales and twohave been discharged as fully convalescent. At the end ofthe second week of February only 3 small-pox patientsremained under treatment in hospital in Dublin.MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF GREAT

BRITAIN AND IRELAND.—A supplementary circular to thatwhich we published in THE LANCET of Feb. 15th,referring to the next general meeting of this association,states that the papers will be read at 4 P.M. in the Patho--logical Laboratory of the New Museums, Cambridge, andnot at the hotel. The council meeting will be held at.the University Arms at 2 P.M., as previously announced,and arrangements will be made to conduct over the collegesnext morning those members who are staying at Cambridge-for the night.THE JOURNEYINGS OF A SCARLET FEVER CASE.-

The Leatherhead Urban Council is unable to get any furtherin a case which certainly merited all the investigation it has-received. There had been an outbreak of scarlet fever at the-St. John’s Foundation School, but when the school re

opened after the Christmas holidays this had entirely sub"sided. On Dec. 30th, 1895, a lad travelled to Leatherhead fromStoke- upon-Trent, and on going before the resident medicalofficer on admission was found to be suffering from the disease,.which had actually reached the peeling stage. Promptmeasures were taken ; the authorities removed the patient to-the Cheam Infectious Hospital without his having actuallyentered the school, and the London and South-WesternRailway Company put the whole train in which he journeyedout of use and under disinfection. The boy had been laidup with what had been called influenza in the holidays,and actually brought with him, it was reported, acertificate of immunity from infectious trouble signedby two medical men. The railway company has been

considering the issue of proceedings, and offered theirassistance to the sanitary authority in a like step, butwere advised that the by-law (16) dealing with the matter-applied only to a person who had charge of a traveller

suffering from infectious disease while on the premises of thecompany. They suggested, therefore, that the Leatherheadauthorities should first, and subsequently the Stoke Council.take up the matter with a view to the litigation mentionedunder the Public Health Act, 1895, Section 126. The clerkto the Leatherhead Council pointed out that this section wasdirected against " any person who, while suffering from anyinfectious disorder, wilfully exposes himself without properprecaution against the spread of such disorder, or in publicconveyances," &c., and advised that the attempt to obtain a.judgment under such a section would prove futile. The-council gave no instruction in the matter.

Parliamentary Intelligence.NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS.

Food Products Adulteration.

THE Select Committee on this subject has been reappointed, the-

terms of the reference being "to inquire into the working of the-Margarine Act, 1887, and the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875, and anyActs amending the same, and report whether any, and if so, what

amendments of the law relating to adulteration are in their opiniondesirable."

Diseases of Animals Act.The Bill introduced by the Government amending this Act makes-

permanent the existing regulations of the Board of Agriculture as tothe importation of diseased cattle from abroad-that is to say, it requiresall imported cattle to be slaughtered at the port of entry. In intro-

ducing the Bill, the President of the Board of Agriculture quotetttfigures to show that while the regulations have not had the effect ofincreasing the price of meat, they have been of enormous value irn

protecting from disease the flocks and herds of this country.law of Public Health in Scotland.

The Government, fulfilling the promise made in the Queen’s Speechat the beginning of the Session, has introduced a Bill amending andextending the Law of Public Health in Scotland, and in order that*