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unfortunate deafness interfered with his great personalTanfluence. Naturally he was a kind and considerate man,but he spared neither friend nor foe in his endeavours toexpose and denounce what lie thought was wrong.

J. HOWELL THOMAS, L.R.C.P. LOND., &c.

THAT gladness and sorrow go hand in hand has receiveda striking local illustration during the last week. Whilst

’.the Congregationalists of Wellingborough were celebratingthe reopening of their beautiful sanctuary on the 29th ult.Mr. J. Howell Thomas, L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., a

much-esteemed member of the Church, and the son of abeloved minister of old Salem Chapel, succumbed to the dis-- ease (consumption) against which he had long bravely striven.Mr. Thomas matriculated at the London University, butdid not pursue his studies for the M. D. of London. He tookhis qualifications at the earliest possible age-viz., on histwenty-first birthday,-and immediately afterwards wasappointed house surgeon to the London Hospital, at whichschool he studied, afterwards fulfilling the offices of residentaccoucheur and assistant medical oircer successively. FromLondon he went to Bristol; and was appointed physicians’assistant to the Bristol General Hospital, holding that.post for eighteen months. He started in practice inWellingborough in 1876, and in 1881 was appointedmedical officer of health to the Wellingborough RuralSanitary Authority, a post which he filled with honour tohimself and great satisfaction to the Board. His death wasdoubly sad, as Mr. Thomas was only in his thirty-ninthyear. His death will occasion sorrow, not only among hisimmediate associates and friends, but in a far wider circle.Skill in his profession was combined in a remarkable degreewith conscientiousness and a deep and practical sympathywith the poor. He was in the best sense a friend of thepeople, and in many a cottage home his death will be’regarded as a personal loss. Wellingborough was his

birthplace, and his native town is the poorer by his death,but though he has gone over to the majority his devotionto duty and the practical goodness of his life will longsurvive him, endearing his memory to those amongst whomhe moved. He leaves two sisters and a brother to mourn- itheir loss.

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Medical News.UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. - The following can-

didates have passed the Examination for M.B.:- IFirst Division.—Edward Robert Chas. Earle and Harold Muir Evans, ’,University College; James McDonald Gill, Guy’s Hospital; HerbertHenry Horden, University College; Sydney Harold Jones, St.Thomas’s Hospital; Robert Ellis Lord, B.Sc., Owens College andManchester Royal Infirmary ; Edwin Stephen Pasmore, University ICollege; Ernest Noel Reichardt, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

Second Division.—Marmaduke Bannister, Owens College and Man-chester Royal Infirmary; Henry John Blackler, Guy’s Hospital; iiLewis Thomas Fraser Bryett, King’s College; Solomon Bueno de i

Mesquita, Guy’s Hospital; Arthur Holdsworth Davis and AlfredCromwell Frames, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Leonard Erskine ’IHill and Thomas Walter Hinds, University College; Kenneth i

McLaren, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Ernest A. Sadler, Queen’s ’’

College, Birmingham ; George Shaw, Westminster Hospital.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS AND APOTHECARIES’

HALL IN IRELAND (CONJOINT SCHEME).—The following Igentlemen have obtained the licences of both corporations :-

William Frank Bruce, James Arthur Campbell, Charles Casey, JohnRobt. Hill, Edwd. Gourley Lumsden, Mathew Joseph McDonough,Thomas Brice Morris, Hubert Satchwell, Thomas Shanahan, HenryJoseph Twamley, Claude Ambrose Truman, and Vincent Leonard IWatts. I

ASSOCIATION OF THE FELLOWS OF THE ROYALCOLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-In announcing lastweek the approaching general meeting of this Association, i

we appended a list of officers, which has since been sub-jected to some modification. We therefore give the list inits amended form:&mdash; President: Mr. G. D. Pollock (London).Vice-Presidents: Mr. Timothy Holmes and Mr. WalterRivington (London). Treasurer: Mr. John Tweedy (London).Honorary Secretary : Mr. Herbert Wm.Allingham(London).Committee: Mr. Wm Adams (London), Mr. W. Allingham(London), Dr. Robert Barnes (London), Mr. W. K. Barnes<London), Mr. E. R. Bickersteth (Liverpool), Mr. W. BruceClarke (London), Dr. W. J. Collins (London), Dr. Ward

Cousins (Portsmouth), Mr. J. Couper (London), Mr. W. T.Crosse (Norwich), Mr. Richard Davy (London), Mr. AlbanDoran (London), Mr. Victor Horsley (London), Mr. JordanLloyd (Birmingham), Mr. J. H. Morgan (London), Mr. A.T. Norton (London), Mr. Mayo Robson (Leeds), Mr. ManleySims (London), Mr. C. Steele (Bristol), Mr. W. J. Square(Plymouth), and Mr. Lawson Tait (Birmingham).FACULTY OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF

GLASGOW.&mdash;At the meeting of the Faculty held on the2nd inst., Mr. Joseph Peake, L.F.P.S.G., having passed thenecessary examination, was admitted a Fellow.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-Inthe list published on the 24th ult., of gentlemen who passedthe first professional examination for the Fellowship, forWilliam Ernest Milles " read William Ernest Miles.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND.-

The following office-bearers have been elected for the ensuingyear:-President: Henry Gray Croly. Vice-President :William Carte. Secretary: William Colles. Council: Wm.Colles, Sir Geo. Porter, Bart., G. Kidd, Rawdon Macnamara,Edward Hamilton, J. K. Barton, Philip Crampton Smyly,Edward H. Bennett, Anthony Corley, H. RosboroughSwanzy, W. J. Wheeler, William Thomson, Sir CharlesCameron, R. Theodore Stack, Kendal Franks, Charles B.Ball, J. B. Story, Henry Fitzgibbon, Richard F. Tobin.ESSEX AND COLCHESTER HOSPITAL.&mdash;Mr. Horace

G. Egerton Green, the chairman of the committee, hasgenerously, at his own expense, had the iron house (whichwas presented by him in 1879 for the reception of patientsduring the alterations and additions then made to the hos-pital) put into thorough repair. This house is at presentutilised for patients during the necessary annual cleaningof the wards, but it is stated that it may be available as aconvalescent ward to the hospital, detached as it is in thegarden, with an abundance of fresh air.THE CYPRUS SOCIETY.-A drawing-room meeting

in aid of this Society was held on Monday at Lord Brassey’sresidence in Park-lane, the Princess Christian presiding.The Society has been founded for hospital and educationalwork, as well as to promote the physical and moral welfareof the people in Cyprus. Funds have been established, towhich subscriptions are solicited-namely, general, hospital,and educational. The objects at present in view are theerection of a Gordon Memorial Cottage Hospital at Kyrenia,the appointment of two lady nurses to go out to Nicosia, andof two English clergymen for the same place for educationalwork. A resolution was adopted for the promotion of theseproposed schemes.KENSAL G-REEN.-On Monday, May 26th, the

new recreation grounds, which adjoin the railway station,and comprise upwards of thirty acres of land, were formallyopened. It is proposed to charge a membership fee of oneguinea per annum, and it is anticipated that a large numberof persons engaged in the City will avail themselves of theadvantages which grounds of this character afford for allforms of physical recreation. The grounds, which are theproperty of Silas College, Oxford, are rented by a company,of which Dr. Sidney Lees is the chairman, at an annualrental of E700; and we understand that any surplus re-ceived for fees, after defraying expenses, will be given awayin prizes, for which members only will be allowed to compete,and which will, no doubt, prove an additional inducementto those who may avail themselves of the many advantagesoffered to members.TOWN GARDENING. -An experiment in street

gardening is being made by the Manchester FieldNaturalists’ Society. Having obtained the permission ofthe corporation and infirmary authorities, the Society haveplaced a series of large boxes upon the esplanade in frontof the infirmary, which has hitherto been a dreary wasteof stone flags. Some years ago a large pond or basinof water extended along here, but the difficulty in keepingit clean and free from litter and d&eacute;bris led to its abolition.Taking example from Paris, an attempt is to be made toenliven various parts of the town with hardy shrubs andplants, which can be removed in the winter or taken awayfor a change of air when the inevitable effects of our smoke-laden atmosphere shall have been produced. The plantsnow selected are a hardy species of holly, and they format present a considerable ornament to the large open spacein Piccadilly.

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WE understand that the Transactions of the ParisCongress of Dermatology will be published on June 10thby M. Masson, Boulevard St. Germain, Paris.

OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.-The libraryof this Society, 20, Hanover-square, W., will be again opento the Fellows on Monday next, the 9th inst.DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS.-Lord Ardilaun has

given &pound;50 to the City of Dublin Hospital. Miss JaneO’Brien has bequeathed E40 to the same institution; andMiss Helena Daunt &pound;50 to the Protestant Hospital forIncurables, Cork.

INFLUENZA IN AUSTRALIA.&mdash;According to thelatest advices, a serious outbreak of influenza is prevailingin Australia, necessitating the closing of schools, severalhundred children being attacked with the disease. Govern-ment officials and crews of ships have also been smitten withit. The crews also of several of Her Majesty’s ships in theAustralian squadron had been affected by the malady, butwhich, by the latest reports, was rapidly subsiding.

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION, BROMPTON.&mdash;Theannual report for 1889 records the continued uninter-rupted extension of the benefits bestowed by the institution.A larger number of sufferers were relieved than in anyprevious year ; 437 patients had been sent to the SamaritanSociety’s Convalescent Homes at Sandgate and Bourne-mouth, the entire expenses being defrayed by the hospital.Liberal support is solicited.

PRESENTATIONS.&mdash;The members of the ColchesterMedical Society and other friends have presented Mr. W. I.Mason, J.P., M.R.C.S., &c., with a handsome testimonialin the form of a model of a Greek temple, with imposingfa&ccedil;ade, in the centre of which is a clock. A flight of stepsleads to the columned portico, and in front on a gold plate isthe following inscription :-" Presented to William InglisMason, M.R.C.S.E., of Sudbury, Suffolk, by severalmembers of the Colchester Medical Society, and other sub-scribers, as a memorial of his esprit de corps in publiclyvindicating his professional honour, and the rights of hisprofession, in a suit at law, tried at Queen’s Bench, London,in December, 1889."-On the 22nd ult. Dr. Charles Temple-man, M.B., C.M.Edin., Police Surgeon, Dundee, was pre-sented by the members of the ambulance classes in con-nexion with the police force with a voltaic battery, in

recognition of the painstaking manner in which he had con-ducted these classes for five years.DENTAL HOSPITAL OF LONDON. - The annual

dinner of the athletic club of this hospital was held onJune lst at the Holborn Restaurant, Mr. Smith-Turneroccupying the chair. In proposing the principal toast ofthe evening the chairman opined that no class of profes-sional men were more in need of out-door sports than thosewho followed dentistry. They were confined in the sameatmosphere all day, their mental and moral attributes wereoften sorely tried, and not only had they to work with theirheads and hands, but also with their feet. He congratu-lated the hospital upon possessing a glee club as well as anathletic club. Messrs. C. S. Tomes, R. H. Woodhouse, DavidHepburn, Morton Smale, Preedy, and Forsyth all madeappropriate speeches. Not the least enjoyable part of theevening was the music, in which Messrs. David Hepburn,Wheatley, and Bulle bore conspicuous parts, and Mr. FrankBaine contributed some excellent recitations.

BRITISH MEDICAL TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION.-The fourteenth annual meeting of this Association was heldon Friday, May 30th, Dr. B. W. Richardson, the president,being in the chair. The report showed that twenty-ninenew members and twenty-five new associates (the latterbeing abstaining medical students) had joined during theyear, the total enrolled being 411 members and 130 asso-ciates. The report referred to the important investigationson the use of alcohol in workhouses and in hospitals, theformer showing that in the all but unanimous opinion ofthe medical officers it is unnecessary for healthy paupers atany age, and the latter that there is, as a rule, much lessused now in hospitals than in 1863. The publication ofthe endorsement of the medical declarations against alcoholby upwards of 600 medical men was also referred to, andthe prize written competition on Alcohol by medicalstudents in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Belfast. Theincome for the year was jE65 9s. 6d., and the expenditure&pound;69 11s.

SANATORIA.&mdash;The Alexandra, Hospital (so calledby permission of the Princess of Wales), at Woodhall Spa,was formally opened on the 29th ult. by the Countess ofBrownlow. The ceremony was attended by a large anddistinguished company from all parts of the county.There is accommodation for from twenty to thirty poorpatients. It has been erected by public subscription, hascost altogether about &pound;3000. of which &pound;2000 has beenobtained. The building will be ready for occupation inJuly.&mdash;The inauguration of the new Marine Baths atWeston took place last week. Three years ago the ladysuperintendent, Miss Wilson, proposed as a scheme for cele.-brating the (ueen’s Jubilee the construction of a completeset of plunge and private marine baths for the use of bothsexes. Contracts were taken to the amount of f3H2. Tomeet this outlay E2387 had been obtained up to Dec. 31stlast. There are two tepid swimming baths, in addition tofour private baths for patients suffering from rheumatismrequiring hot sea water.

ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC SANITARY INSPECTORS.-On Saturday the fifth annual provincial meeting of theAssociation was held at Leamington. Mr. John Fell (theMayor) welcomed the members (who represented all partsof the country) at the Town Hall, where the first businessof the day took place. Mr. Hugh Alexander presided, inthe absence from illness of Sir Edwin Chadwick, presidentof the Association. He stated that the membership wasnow close upon 500, and referred to the great work accom-plished in the past six years. Sir Douglas Galton readan address by Sir Edwin Chadwick, in which referencewas made to the fact that a Minister of Agriculture hadbeen appointed, which should only render them all the moredetermined to add to the Cabinet a Minister of Health.Other papers of interest were read, and the proceedingsterminated. The members then visited the Waterworks,and, after lunching with the Mayor at the Town Hall,drove to the sewerage works, to Warwick Castle, and otherplaces of interest.

MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT.

The Lepers in Jamaica.IN the House of Commons, on Tuesday, June 3rd, Mr. Gourley asked

the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he was awarethat in the island of Jamaica, there was a considerable population oflepers, the number of which was daily increasing in consequence ofthere being no law compelling them to remain in the hospital untilcured; and whether he could see his way to recommend the governorto introduce a law compelling the isolation of people who might besuffering from leprosy.&mdash;Baron H. De Worms replied that the Secretaryof State was not aware whether the number was increasing. Thequestion of the compulsory isolation of lepers was under the considera-tion of the governors of Jamaica and other West Indian colonies.

Public Health -Acts Amendment Bill.The House went into Committee on this Bill and agreed to Clause 1.

On Clause 2, Alr. Sexton moved that the Bill should be extended to.Ireland. The Attorney-General for Ireland said he had no objection to-the substance of the Bill, but as it was framed on the English PublicHealth Acts it would require a carefully prepared clause to extend itsoperation to Ireland. He would look into the matter, and, if it werepossible, frame a series of amendments extending the Bill to Ireland.

METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD.

Return oj Patients remaining in the several Fever Hospitalsof the Board at midnight on June 3rd, 1890.

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