570 making a scientific investigation of the extent of leprosy in America. They have sent circular letters to physicians, health officers, hospital superintendents, and others, in 600 localities covering the entire country, asking for reports and information regarding leprosy patients. Eight thousand of these circulars have been sent out, but only 2000 were answered. From these 277 lepers have been located, and their names and addresses obtained; 100 of these are known to live in New Orleans, and many of them are well to do and of good family. In Minne- sota about 20 cases are reported, mostly Scandinavians living in the rural districts ; seven cases were reported from New York, three from Chicago, and 15 from San Francisco, 12 of these being confined in the pest-house. In North Dakota there were 15 and but two in South Dakota : in New Mexico there were at least a dozen, and Baltimore reported three ; the remainder were scattered throughout the country. As the circulars have brought but few replies comparatively and suspicious districts make no returns the commissioners believe that only about one-fourth of the cases have been reported. It is evident from this investigation that notwithstand- ing the widespread distribution of leprous patients through- out this country, and their increase in the last decade, there is no cause for alarm, for the disease is not so fatal, or so contagious, or so easily transmitted as tuberculosis. It has also been shown that cures have often been accom- plished after two years’ treatment. The commission will ’probably recommend to Congress that national lazarettes should be established in various parts of the country, one perhaps in New Orleans, one in New Mexico, and another in Minnesota or Montana. A generous appropriation will be .asked for, sufficient to cover the erection of fine isolated buildings with every appointment for the comfort and pleasure of the sufferers. Bureau of Food Inspection in the Department of Agriculture. Mr. B. F. Van Valkenburgh of Brooklyn, for 12 years assistant dairy commissioner and assistant commissioner of agricul- ture of New York, has just been appointed inspector of dairy - exports for this port; the appointment was made under Mr. H. E. Alvord, chief of the dairy division of the Bureau ,of Animal Industry. An appropriation of$1,500,000 was made by the last Congress for the use of the Secretary of Agriculture as a fund for the establishment of a bureau in ,connexion with the Department of Agriculture. The duties of the inspector are to make reports to Mr. Alvord of all facts possible to obtain in connexion with the export of dairy products, as to the quality and quantity exported, and to what points, with the view of putting in force the law passed by Congress relating to the purity of dairy exports. The extent of dairy products exported from New York may be gathered from the following facts ; for the year ending May lst, 1901, there were exported 187,285 packages of butter .and 559,554 packages of cheese. The agricultural laws were amended during the last winter with a view to supervise the purity of such exports by the dairy division .of the Department of Agriculture. Protection against Malaria. There has been considerable public excitement aroused lately by the alleged existence of malaria in Central Park, New York City. This large public park, to which great numbers of children resort in the summer, comprises 15 acres of land diversified by elevations and depressions, collections of trees, and small lakes and ponds. Though medical opinion is divided as to the existence of malaria in the park, the Board of Health has taken cognisance of these statements and Dr. Herman M. Biggs, bacteriologist to the department, has prepared a circular of information and advice in regard to precautions to be taken against malarial poisoning. The following is an extract from this circular : "It has been shown by recent investigations that malarial fevers belong to that class of diseases which are transmitted by a certain kind of mosquito, namely, anopheles ; this genus is not the common one of this region, but is nevertheless found in some localities. Certain simple precautions will protect a person from infec- tion, living in a malarial district. All mosquitoes having been destroyed, a house should be screened to prevent their return, and the bed also should be protected by a net at night, this being the time that this insect does its work for the most part. A person already infected with malaria should be confined and protected from further contact with the mosquito lest he receive added infection. Quinine should be administered in full doses to destroy the malarial organisms in the blood and this remedy should be continued for a few weeks after apparent recovery. The breeding places of mosquitoes should be removed by drainage, filling up of holes and surface pools and the emptying of tubs and pails which contain stagnant water. This particular kind of mosquito breeds in surface rainpools or surface stagnant water unless there are fish ; equally in pails, tubs, barrels, and tanks of standing water, though they seem to prefer natural accumulations. In pools which cannot be drained it is possible to destroy the mosquito larvaa by the use of petroleum thrown upon the surface, the introduction of minnows and other small fish which eat the larvae, or by both these methods combined." The Board of Health seek to ascertain the location of cases of malarial fever in order to instruct people as to the danger and the best method of averting it. A case of this disease, whether actively ill or not, if produced by this kind of mosquito, is a constant menace to those in the neighbourhood unless proper precau- tions are taken to check its spread. Protest against the Abolition of the Army Canteen. The last Congress, influenced by the petitions of tem. perance agitators, abolished the army canteen. The result is reported by military authorities to be a large in. crease of intemperance, vice, and insubordination. At a recent meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States the following action was taken : The abolition of the army post exchange, or canteen, has resulted, and must inevitably result, in an increase of insubordination, intem- perance, discontent, desertion, and disease in the army. Therefore the association resolved : That this body deplores the action of Congress in abolishing the post exchange or canteen, and in the interests of discipline, morality, and sanitation recommends its re-establishment at the earliest possible date. At a subsequent meeting of the American Medical Associa- tion this resolution was unanimously endorsed. To Increase the Usefulness of Ambulances. Dr. Frederick Griffith, surgeon to Bellevue Dispensary, New York, proposes so to construct and to equip ambulances attached to civil hospitals that the treatment of patients may begin at the moment that they are received into the ) ambulance by the ambulance surgeon. He suggests that the modern ambulance should be lined with asbestos or some non-conductor of heat in order that it may be warmer in winter and cooler in summer. Thus, patients suffering from shock could be kept warm in winter by the addition of a simple heating apparatus and patients affected with heat-stroke could be kept cool by the aid of ice-bags. If the tem- perature of the ambulance could thus be preserved at a proper degree both summer and winter, there would, in the opinion of this experienced surgeon, be a great saving of life amongst those patients who are suffering from shock in the cooler months and from heat in the hot months of the year and are conveyed to hospitals. August 15th. Medical News. EXAMINING BOARD IN ENGLAND BY THE ROYAL COLLEGES OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.-The following gentlemen passed the Second Examination of the Board in Anatomy and Physiology at the July quarterly meeting of the examiners :- Ernest Francis Rimington Alford and James Armstrong. University College, London; Berkeley Noel Ash, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Cecil Knight Attlee, B.A. Camb., St. Thomas’s Hospital; James Landells Blackie and Frederick John Borrie, Otago University and Middlesex Hospital ; John Harold Burridge, King’s College, London ; Arthur Herbert Bond and Harold Clapham, St. Mary’s Hospital ; William Bryant and Harold George Shackleford Court- ney, St. George’s Hospital Thomas Charles Albert Cleverton, London Hospital; Robert Hugh Cotton, St. Thomas’s Hospital; Walter Crampton, University College, Liverpool ; Arthur Marcellus De Silva, London Hospital and Ceylon Medical College; William Leonard Dickson, Middlesex Hospital; Kenneth Alan Crawford Doig, Westminster Hospital; William Square Edmond, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Evan Robert Evans, University College, Liverpool; Harry Loft Evans and Charles Roland Babington Eyre, St. Thomas’s Hospital; Harrv Arthur Fenton, St. Mary’s Hospital; George Ernest Oswald Fenwick, Otago University and University College, London; Harold Nestor Fink, B.A. Camb., and David Hammond Fraser, B.A. Camb., Cambridge University; Walter Taylor Finlayson, St.
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making a scientific investigation of the extent of leprosy inAmerica. They have sent circular letters to physicians,health officers, hospital superintendents, and others, in 600localities covering the entire country, asking for reports andinformation regarding leprosy patients. Eight thousand ofthese circulars have been sent out, but only 2000 were
answered. From these 277 lepers have been located,and their names and addresses obtained; 100 ofthese are known to live in New Orleans, and manyof them are well to do and of good family. In Minne-sota about 20 cases are reported, mostly Scandinavians
living in the rural districts ; seven cases were reported fromNew York, three from Chicago, and 15 from San Francisco, 12of these being confined in the pest-house. In North Dakotathere were 15 and but two in South Dakota : in New Mexicothere were at least a dozen, and Baltimore reported three ; theremainder were scattered throughout the country. As thecirculars have brought but few replies comparatively andsuspicious districts make no returns the commissioners believethat only about one-fourth of the cases have been reported.It is evident from this investigation that notwithstand-
ing the widespread distribution of leprous patients through-out this country, and their increase in the last decade,there is no cause for alarm, for the disease is not so fatal,or so contagious, or so easily transmitted as tuberculosis.It has also been shown that cures have often been accom-plished after two years’ treatment. The commission will
’probably recommend to Congress that national lazarettesshould be established in various parts of the country, oneperhaps in New Orleans, one in New Mexico, and another inMinnesota or Montana. A generous appropriation will be.asked for, sufficient to cover the erection of fine isolated
buildings with every appointment for the comfort and
pleasure of the sufferers.Bureau of Food Inspection in the Department of
Agriculture.Mr. B. F. Van Valkenburgh of Brooklyn, for 12 years assistant
dairy commissioner and assistant commissioner of agricul-ture of New York, has just been appointed inspector of dairy- exports for this port; the appointment was made underMr. H. E. Alvord, chief of the dairy division of the Bureau,of Animal Industry. An appropriation of$1,500,000 wasmade by the last Congress for the use of the Secretary ofAgriculture as a fund for the establishment of a bureau in,connexion with the Department of Agriculture. The dutiesof the inspector are to make reports to Mr. Alvord of allfacts possible to obtain in connexion with the export ofdairy products, as to the quality and quantity exported, andto what points, with the view of putting in force the lawpassed by Congress relating to the purity of dairy exports.The extent of dairy products exported from New York maybe gathered from the following facts ; for the year endingMay lst, 1901, there were exported 187,285 packages of
butter .and 559,554 packages of cheese. The agriculturallaws were amended during the last winter with a view tosupervise the purity of such exports by the dairy division.of the Department of Agriculture.
Protection against Malaria.There has been considerable public excitement aroused
lately by the alleged existence of malaria in Central Park,New York City. This large public park, to which greatnumbers of children resort in the summer, comprises 15acres of land diversified by elevations and depressions,collections of trees, and small lakes and ponds. Thoughmedical opinion is divided as to the existence ofmalaria in the park, the Board of Health hastaken cognisance of these statements and Dr. HermanM. Biggs, bacteriologist to the department, has prepared acircular of information and advice in regard to precautions tobe taken against malarial poisoning. The following is anextract from this circular : "It has been shown by recentinvestigations that malarial fevers belong to that class ofdiseases which are transmitted by a certain kind of mosquito,namely, anopheles ; this genus is not the common one ofthis region, but is nevertheless found in some localities.Certain simple precautions will protect a person from infec-tion, living in a malarial district. All mosquitoes having beendestroyed, a house should be screened to prevent theirreturn, and the bed also should be protected by a netat night, this being the time that this insect does its workfor the most part. A person already infected with malariashould be confined and protected from further contact withthe mosquito lest he receive added infection. Quinine
should be administered in full doses to destroy the malarialorganisms in the blood and this remedy should be continuedfor a few weeks after apparent recovery. The breedingplaces of mosquitoes should be removed by drainage, fillingup of holes and surface pools and the emptying of tubs andpails which contain stagnant water. This particular kindof mosquito breeds in surface rainpools or surface stagnantwater unless there are fish ; equally in pails, tubs, barrels,and tanks of standing water, though they seem to prefernatural accumulations. In pools which cannot be drainedit is possible to destroy the mosquito larvaa by the use ofpetroleum thrown upon the surface, the introduction ofminnows and other small fish which eat the larvae, or byboth these methods combined." The Board of Health seekto ascertain the location of cases of malarial fever in orderto instruct people as to the danger and the best method ofaverting it. A case of this disease, whether actively ill ornot, if produced by this kind of mosquito, is a constantmenace to those in the neighbourhood unless proper precau-tions are taken to check its spread.
Protest against the Abolition of the Army Canteen.The last Congress, influenced by the petitions of tem.
perance agitators, abolished the army canteen. The resultis reported by military authorities to be a large in.crease of intemperance, vice, and insubordination. At arecent meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons ofthe United States the following action was taken :The abolition of the army post exchange, or canteen, has resulted,
and must inevitably result, in an increase of insubordination, intem-perance, discontent, desertion, and disease in the army.Therefore the association resolved :That this body deplores the action of Congress in abolishing the post
exchange or canteen, and in the interests of discipline, morality, andsanitation recommends its re-establishment at the earliest possibledate.
At a subsequent meeting of the American Medical Associa-tion this resolution was unanimously endorsed.
To Increase the Usefulness of Ambulances.Dr. Frederick Griffith, surgeon to Bellevue Dispensary,
New York, proposes so to construct and to equip ambulancesattached to civil hospitals that the treatment of patientsmay begin at the moment that they are received into the )ambulance by the ambulance surgeon. He suggests thatthe modern ambulance should be lined with asbestos or some
non-conductor of heat in order that it may be warmer in winterand cooler in summer. Thus, patients suffering from shockcould be kept warm in winter by the addition of a simpleheating apparatus and patients affected with heat-strokecould be kept cool by the aid of ice-bags. If the tem-
perature of the ambulance could thus be preserved at a
proper degree both summer and winter, there would, in theopinion of this experienced surgeon, be a great saving of lifeamongst those patients who are suffering from shock in thecooler months and from heat in the hot months of the yearand are conveyed to hospitals.August 15th.
Medical News.EXAMINING BOARD IN ENGLAND BY THE ROYAL
COLLEGES OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.-The followinggentlemen passed the Second Examination of the Board inAnatomy and Physiology at the July quarterly meeting ofthe examiners :-
Ernest Francis Rimington Alford and James Armstrong. UniversityCollege, London; Berkeley Noel Ash, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital;Cecil Knight Attlee, B.A. Camb., St. Thomas’s Hospital; JamesLandells Blackie and Frederick John Borrie, Otago University andMiddlesex Hospital ; John Harold Burridge, King’s College,London ; Arthur Herbert Bond and Harold Clapham, St. Mary’sHospital ; William Bryant and Harold George Shackleford Court-ney, St. George’s Hospital Thomas Charles Albert Cleverton,London Hospital; Robert Hugh Cotton, St. Thomas’s Hospital;Walter Crampton, University College, Liverpool ; ArthurMarcellus De Silva, London Hospital and Ceylon MedicalCollege; William Leonard Dickson, Middlesex Hospital;Kenneth Alan Crawford Doig, Westminster Hospital; WilliamSquare Edmond, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Evan RobertEvans, University College, Liverpool; Harry Loft Evans andCharles Roland Babington Eyre, St. Thomas’s Hospital; HarrvArthur Fenton, St. Mary’s Hospital; George Ernest OswaldFenwick, Otago University and University College, London;Harold Nestor Fink, B.A. Camb., and David Hammond Fraser, B.A.Camb., Cambridge University; Walter Taylor Finlayson, St.
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Mary’s Hospital; William Henry France, Westminster Hospital;Edgar Herbert Good, London Hospital; George ChristopherGrundy, Yorkshire College, Leeds; Percy Gully, Charing CrossHospital; Arthur Lewis Heiser, Daniel Morgan Humby, L.D.S.Eng., Middlesex Hospital; George Wykeham Heron, WestminsterHospital; Thomas Martin Hughes. Owens College, Manchester;Cecil Dacre More Holbrook, Hugh Morley Huggins, and AlgernonMeyrick Alban James, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital ; ArthurHillderband Jacob, London Hospital; Henry Hollis Jenkins, Guy’sHospital; William Holland Kaye, Owens College, Manchester;Tikiri Banda Kobbekaduwa, Ceylon Medical College and UniversityCollege, London; Harold Albert Kisch and George MackenzieLester Lester, M.A. Oxon., St. Thomas’s Hospital; John Eaton
Lascelles, St. Mary’s Hospital; Ernest Browning Lathbury,St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Frederick Boulton Lowe, WilliamNorman May, Percy Frank Minett, Charles Sculthorpe Morris,L.D.S. Eng., and Maurice John Mottram, Guy’s Hospital; WilliamCameron Macaulay, B.A. Lond., Middlesex Hospital; JohnCrichton Stuart McDouall, Otago University, New Zealand;Aurelius Victor Maybury, Durham University and Guy’s Hospital ;Philip Jauvrin Marett, Westminster Hospital; Roy Charles Merry-weather, University College, London ; Echlin Storry Molyneux andIdris Naunton Morgan, London Hospital; Harold Richard Moxon,St. Thomas’s Hospital; Alexander Henry Muirhead, FrancisMorley Newton, and Hamish Nicol, Westminster Hospital; GeraldNunn, Guy’s Hospital; Charles William O’Brien and Alan FaradayCampbell Pollard, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; George RichardPaiuton, London Hospital; George Alexander Paulin, Royal Collegeof Surgeons, Edinburgh ; Christopher Trehane Pellow, St. Thomas’sHospital and Cooke’s School of Anatomy and Physiology; EdwardCrosby Peers, Griffith Henry Rees, Gerald Charles FrederickRobinson, Frederick Rogerson, and Richard Pugh Rowlands, Guy’sHospital; George Hooper Rains, Westminster Hospital; CecilEdward Reynolds, University College, London; Cyril StephenStokes Rigby. Birmingham University; Horace Hammond Rolfeand Herbert Bodley Scott, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; AlexanderRuete and Edward Arthur Smith, University College, Liverpool;Edward John Rocke Surrage, B.A., LL.B., King’s College, London ;Randolph St. George Seagrove, Guy’s Hospital; Kenji Takaki.St. Thomas’s Hospital; Francis Thompson, Alfred GeddesTresidder, and James Turtle, London Hospital; John EdwardLitton and Alexander Turnly, B.A.Camh., St. Bartholomew’s Hos-pital ; Cecil Vosper, King’s College, London; Albert James Walton,Thomas John Williams, John Henry Wolfe, and Percy CharlesWoollatt, London Hospital; Alfred Ernest Weaver, BirminghamUniversity; Solomon James Weinberg, Owens College, Manchester;Arthur Denham White and Frank Edred Whitehead, St. Bartho-lomew’s Hospital; Edward Kynaston Williams, B.A. Cantab., St.Andrew’s University; and James Alexander Williams, UniversityCollege, London.
Passed in Physiology only: Alexander Vigers Benson, LondonHospital.
52 gentlemen were referred in both subjects, and one in anatomyonly.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-The following gentlemen passed the Preliminary ScienceExamination for the Licence in Dental Surgery at the Julyquarterly meeting of the examiners :—
Walter Breese, Birkbeck Institute; John Piercy Brown, HoltSchool of Science, Birkenhead; Herbert Edgar Collett andWilliam Ewart Derriman, Guy’s Hospital; James Thomas Daly,Middlesex Hospital; Norman Sydney Deravin, Melbourne Uni-versity and Charms-cross Hospital ; Herbert Johnstone Fooks andFrancis Gordon, Middlesex Hospital; Ernest Gibbon, RutherfordCollege, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Thomas Errington Gibbs, BirkbeekInstitute and Charing-cross Hospital; Leonard Anderson Glaisby,Yorkshire College, Leeds; Roland Glentlining, Polytechnic Insti-tute, Regent-street; William John Goodman, Thomas James Greenand Reginald George Harrington, Guy’s Hospital; Charles TalbotVernon Greenslade, Brighton School of Science ; SamuelIlallam, Yorkshire College, Leeds ; Joseph Cecil Harris,Birmingham University; Samuel Isaacs, Owens College,Manchester; Matthew Jackson, Middlesex Hospital; HerbertHenning James, Charing Cross Hospital; John Jackson Law,Technical School, Blackburn; George Edward McMahon, HoltSchool of Science, Birkenhead ; Arthur Miller, Harris Institute,Preston; Arthur Lovering Moon, Guy’s Hospital; FrederickRudolph Moser, Charing Cross Hospital; Norman McLeod Nibhsand John Arnold Oates, Birkbeck Institute; Arthur BrearleyOddie. William Charles Retallack, and John Stuart Sawer, Bir-mingham University ; Sydney William Robinson and RobertAlexander Scott, Guy’s Hospital; Walter Duckett Southern,Municipal Technical College, Derby; Bernard Maxwell Stephens,Middlesex Hospital; Francis Edgar Sprawson and Francis Ray-mond Wilson. Birkbeck Institute ; and Henry Harrison Tomlinson,Holt School of Science, Birkenhead.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-At the PreliminaryScientific Examination held in July the following candidateswere successful :-
ENTIRE EXAMINATION’.First Division.-Frank Cyril Harvie Bennett, St. Mary’s Hospital;James Francis Blackett, Merchant Venturers’ Technical College,Bristol, and Bath Technical School; John Smeed Bookless, Guy’sHospital; Richard Charles Bristow, St. Olave’s Grammar School;Herbert Orpe Brookhouse, Guy’s Hospital; Cuthbert GarrardBrowne. Westminster Hospital and University Tutorial College;George Cockcroft, Guy’s Hospital; Leonard Colebrook, LondonHospital; Emily Susan Cooke, London School of Medicine forWomen; Josephine Coupland. London School of Medicine andRoyal Free Hospital; Wilfrid Arthur Edwin Dobbin, UniversityCollege, Cardiff ; Reginald Robert Elworthy, Westminster Hospitaland University Tutorial College; Hugh Roker Evans, UniversityCollege; Paul Leon Guiseppi, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital ; JohnNorman Glaister, University College; Bertram Thomas Johnson
Glover, University College, Liverpool; Thomas Mellor Hardy,University College, Sheffield ; Robert Francis Hebbert, St. Thomas’sHospital; Herbert George Murdoch Henry, University College,Sheffield ; Montague Leonard Hine, University College; HenryHudson, Owens College ; Thomas Edward Jones, University College,Liverpool; Sidney Herbert James Kilroe, Owens College; EthelMay Magill, London School of Medicine for Women; Albert JohnMay, Epsom College ; Evelyn Henry Bardens Oram, St. George’sHospital and University Tutorial College ; John Paulley, EpsomCollege ; Eleanor Whitworth Perkins, London School of Medicinefor Women; Ferdinand Charles Hungerford Powell, King’s College ;Alan Randle, University College ; James Ernest Helme Roberts,King Edward’s School and the University, Birmingham ; ArthurCarlile Sturdy, St. Paul’s School; Robert Evans Thomas, Uni-versity College, Bristol; Henry Francois Vandermin, Guy’s Hos-pital ; Helen Volckman, London School of Medicine and Royal FreeHospital; John Alexander Watt, University College; Sibyl
. Ibbetson Welsh, London School ot Medicine and Royal Free Hos--pital ; John Black Ferguson Wilson, Yorkshire College ; AndrewJohn Metford Wright, University College, Bristol; CourtenayYorke, University College, Liverpool; and Warrington York,Universitv College, Liverpool. ,
Second Division.-Augusta Dorcas Shelton Agar, University College,Bristol ; Herbert Ainscow, Owens College ; Edgar Alban, Guy’sHospital; Alexander Charles Anderson, Dulwich College; EwaldBalthasar, University College and Alwyne Institute; James LeslieBarford, Epsom College; Bertram Henry Barton, St. Bartholomew’sHospital; Arthur William Berry, Guy’s Hospital; RaymondGlendower Bingham, University College, Sheffield, and UniversityTutorial College; Walter Rowley Bristow, St. Thomas’s Hospital;Alexander Carruthers Bryson, London Hospital; Leonard BuckellCane, King’s College, Cambridge; Horace Gooch, London Hospital ;William Richard Griffith, University College, Liverpool; JohnErnest Hodson, Guy’s Hospital; Annie Wainwright Hyatt, Uni-versity College, Bristol; Charles Blenkinsop Jones, London Hos-pital ; Edith Anne Jones, University College, Cardiff, and AlwyneInstitute; Thomas Bramley Layton, Guy’s Hospital; HaroldNorman Little, Epsom College; Patrick Francis McEvedy, Guy’sHospital and private study ; Bertrand George Ebdon Machon,University College, Bristol ; Ivon Clarkson Maclean, St. Thomas’sHospital; Sylvia May Moore, Westfield College ; Emily HelenMorris, London School of Medicine and Alwyne Institute ; SamuelShuttleworth Rendall, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Harold BrookeScargill, Yorkshire College; Stanley Henry Scott. Epsom College;Thomas Gordon Starkey Smith, University College, Liverpool;Grace Maud Stagg, London School of Medicine for Women;George Wray Sudlow, Owens College; Stanley Upton, St. Bartholo-mew’s Hospital; and Harold Beckwith Whitehouse, St. Thomas’sHospital.
CHEMISTRY AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS.Arnold Alcock, Owens College; Leonard Tilsley Baker, Dulwich
College ; Ella Mabel Barker, London School of Medicme for Women ;Ella Beales,* Westfield College and Alwyne Institute; Harry Blake-way, King Edward’s Grammar School, Stourbridge; Frank Tread-well Boucher, Merchant Venturers’ Technical College, Bristol; JohnPhilip Buckley, Owens College; Henry Joseph Cates, AshfordGrammar School and University Tutorial College and privatestudy; Samuel Earle Cathcart,* Middlesex Hospital; John BasilClose, Yorkshire College; Ethel Constance Cousins,* UniversityMuseum, Oxford, and Millard Laboratory; Samuel Wilfrid Daw,Guy’s Hospital; Maurice Rowland Dobson,* Yorkshire College andAlwyne Institute ; George John Eady,* St. Bartholomew’sHospital ; Kenneth Edward’Eckenstein,* University College, Liver-pool ; William Vincent Field, Brighton Municipal School of Scienceand Technique; Frederick Pearson Fisher, King Edward’s GrammarSchool, Stourbridge ; Margaret Fisher, London School of Medicinefor Women; Arthur Leslie Foster, Guy’s Hospital ; Tom ScottFoster, Portsmouth Technical Institute and private study; SidneyFrank Fouracre, St. Thomas’s Hospital and private study; GertrudeGazdar, London School of Medicine and Royal Free Hospital;Elisabeth Mary Gibbon, Alwyne Institute; Carleton Wyndha:mGittens,* University Tutorial College ; Edith Mary Guest,* OxfordUniversity; Ethel Margaret Eades Hall, Alwyne Institute;Susie Eleanor Hill,* Westfield College; Herbert VawserHumphry,* University College and private tuition ; Arthur-Ernest Iles,* University College, Bristol, and University TutorialCollege; William Andrew Morton Jack, Dulwich College; HaroldEmlyn Jones, London Hospital ; Edward Cronin Lowe,* Guy’sHospital; Samuel Edward McClatchey,* Owens College and privatestudy; Henry Alvin Alahoiiey, Owens College; Claude HerbertMarshall, Dulwich College ; William Arnold Milner, AlwyneInstitute; Charles Max Page, Westminster School ; RobertElliot Pitts,* Middlesex Hospital and Alwyne Institute; ArthurHaigh Pollard, Epsom College and London Hospital; HughRidley Prentice,* St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and private tutor ;Arthur Herbert Rich, University Tutorial College ; Evan DavidRichards,* University College. Cardiff; Cecil Frederick Robertson,Mercer’s School ; Arthur Frederick Sanderson, St. Thomas’sHospital; Herbert Chavasse Squires.* Oxford University ; Clare,Oswald Stallybrass,* University College, Liverpool, and privatestudy; Reginald Woolsey Stocks.* Dulwich College and St. Thomas’sHospital; Arthur Arbuthnot Straton, Blundell’s School. Tiverton;Ida Clare Tengely,* London School of Medicine and Royal FreeHospital ; St. John Alexander M. Tolhurst, Guy’s Hospital ;Sydney Arthur Tucker, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital ; WilliamBunting Wamsley, Goldsmiths’ Institute ; Sidney Bernard Watson,London Hospital; Charles McMoran Wilson,* Owens College; andArthur Zorab, Guy’s Hospital.
BIOLOGY.
Godfrey Frederick Ely Allison, Owens College; Charles ErnestAnderson, King’s College; James Appleyard, University College;Charles Anthony Basker. Guy’s Hospital ; Lionel Hethorn Booth,*Epsom and University Tutorial Colleges; John Albert Bullbrook,Guy’s Hospital; Angel Camacho. Charing-cross Hospital; HowardJames Barrell Cane, University Tutorial College and private study ;Robert Colgate, University College; Bella Dawson, WestfieldCollege; Allan Baines Fearnley, private study and UniversityTutorial College; Archibald Thomas William Forrester, St.
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Bartholomew’s Hospital; Henry Mellor Fort, Owens College;Norman Kessen Foster, University College; Charles ThomasHawkins, University College, Cardiff; Reginald BeaumontHeygate, Epsom College; F. Garfield Hodder Williams, St.Bartholomew’s Hospital; George Montague Williams Hodges,*University College; Walter Leopold Holyoak,* WyggestonSchool; Charles Reginald Hoskyn, St. Bartholomew’s Hospi-tal ; Howell Tylford Howells, University College, Cardiff;Francis Robert Howse,* St. Paul’s School and St. Mary’s Hospital;Edward Henry Hugo, Epsom College ; Evan John Goronwy Jones,University College, Cardiff ; Ralph De Veil King, St. Mary’s Hos-pital ; Alfred John Lee, University College ; Ethel Mary Lomas,Owens College; Emily Mary Spencer Mecredy, Yorkshire College ;John Griffiths Morgan, London Hospital; Clive Newcomb,*Merchant Taylors’ School ; Owen Brynog Parry, Birkbeck Instituteand University Tutorial College ; Arthur Hardwicke Platt, EpsomCollege; Edward John Price, University College, Aberystwith;Marie Simpson, University College, Nottingham; WilliamFretson Skinner, University College, Sheffield ; George FrancisRawdon Smith, University College, Liverpool; Nora FrancesSmith and Eliza Macdonald Smith, London School of Medicinefor Women; Claude Edward Tangye, B.A.,* Birmingham Uni-versity ; Thomas Williams Wade, University College, Cardiff ;Norman Hamilton Walker, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; andJoseph William James Willcox, University College Bristol.
* These candidates have already passed a part of the examination.N.B.-The names of candidates who have obtained honours do not
appear in this list.The foregoing list, published for the convenience of candidates, isprovisional only, and is not final until the reports of the examiners
shall have been confirmed by the Senate.
THE PRINCE OF WALES’S HOSPITAL FUND.-By the will of Sir Henry Page Turner-Barron a sum of£3000 has been left to this fund free of legacy duty.PLAGUE IN SAN FRANCISCO.-The August
number of the Maryland Medical Journal states that a freshoutbreak of bubonic plague has occurred in San Francisco.A Chinaman, reported to have just arrived in the city fromone of the islands on the Sacramento river, died on July 6th.Three Japanese prostitutes also died from the plague in ahouse in Chinatown. These patients were sick before thearrival of the Chinaman. The necropsy confirmed the
diagnosis in three of the four cases. Before the present out-break, no cases had been reported since April. Thesituation is now being treated in a frank and decidedmanner, so that no serious danger is apprehended.ROYAL CORNWALL INFIRMARY, TRURO.- The
annual meeting of the supporters of this institution washeld at Truro on August 12th, under the presidency ofColonel Tremayne. The one hundred and second annual
report, which was presented, stated that during 1900 therewere 394 in-patients admitted, an increase of one on the
previous year ; the average daily number of in-patients was29, and the average number of days in hospital was 27.922 out-patients were treated, against 790 in the preceding12 months. The financial statement showed that the totalincome amounted to E2575, and that a favourable balance ofE338 remained.
CHARITABLE BEQUESTS AND DONATIONS.-Thecommittee of management of the Royal Free Hospital havereceived from Mr. Peregrine Purvis the munificent donationof .61000. By the will of Mr. Alfred Joseph Dettmar a sumof money is to be set apart by the executor to produce anincome of f.1500 a year. For 15 years .61000 of this sum isto be distributed among the Hospital for Paralysed andEpileptic (Albany Memorial), Queen-square, Bloomsbury ;the Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis and other Diseasesof the Nervous System, Regent’s Park ; and St. Mary’sHospital, Paddington. At the expiration of 15 years, or incertain events earlier, the capital of the fund producing theE1500 annuity is to be distributed among the three hospitals.
Parliamentary Intelligence.HOUSE OF COMMONS.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15TH.Cases of Small-pox in London.
MR. CBEMEB asked the President of the Local Government Boardwhether he could state how many cases of small-pox were treated atthe metropolitan small-pox hospitals in each of the years 1898, 1899,and 1900 ; how many of those cases bore vaccination marks and howmany were unvaccinated ; how many of the fatal cases in each year werevaccinated persons and how many were unvaccinated ; and how manycases were certified bv medical men to be cases of small’Dox and sub-sequently turned out to be not so suffering; and what steps he pro-posed to take to prevent such erroneous certification in the future.-Mr. LONG replied : I am informed that the number of cases of small-
pox treated at the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board in theyears 1898, 1899, and 1900 was 5, 18, and 66 respectively. The numberof cases which bore evidence of vaccination in each of these years was5, 15, and 49. There were no deaths in 1898 ; in 1899 there were three
deaths, all of them vaccinated cases, and in 1900 there were also threedeaths, only one of which was a case bearing evidence of vaccination.The number of persons wrongly certified by medical men to be suffer-ing from small-pox in these years was 31, 18, and 30 respectively. Ihave no authority to take any steps as suggested in the second para-graph of the question.
The Adulteration of Milk.The Adidtercctiozc of Milk .Mr. STRACHEY asked the President of the Board of Agriculture
whether he intended to adopt any of the recommendations of thedepartmental committee besides those referring to a milk standard, andespecially whether he intended to take any steps for ensuring that theaddition of separated milk to whole milk could be detected.-MrHANBURY replied: We are preparing circular letters to the localauthorities calling their attention to the recommendations of thecommittee with regard to the adulteration of cream with gelatin orother substances, and to the administration of the Food and DrugsActs generally, with the object of protecting the vendorwhose milk is proved to be genuine though below the regula-tion limit, and of preventing milk being reduced to that limit ifnaturally above it. The suggestion of the hon. member for earmarkingseparated milk by the addition of some innocuous substance is onewhich could not be carried into effect without further legislation. Wealso propose to direct the attention of local authorities to the desira-bility of a uniform procedure as to sampling and analysing the milktaken for examination, and to indicate what such procedure should be.The labeling of condensed milk would require further legislation. Wehave already made arrangements by which the vessels used in thetesting of milk can be officially standardised at the National PhysicalLaboratory.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16TH.FRIDAY, AUGUST 16TH.The Prevention oj Enteric Fever.
Sir MICHAEL FOSTER asked the Secretary of State for War whetherhis attention had been called to certain proposals contained in ascientific publication for the prevention by means of a Royal WaterCorps of enteric and other water-borne diseases in war; and whether,in view of the recent heavy losses by these diseases in South Africa, hewould give these proposals his serious consideration in order to ascertainwhether they offered any practical suggestions for preventing suchdisasters in future.-Lord STANLEY replied : The attention of theSecretary of State for War has been called to the pamphlet inquestion. The proposals have been carefully considered but are foundto be entirely impracticable for active service.
The Nitrsing Qnestion in Ireland.Mr. O’DOHERTY asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland whether he would consider the advisability of including theLondonderry City and County Infirmary in the list of those prescribedby the Local Government Board Order relating to trained nurses inworkhouse infirmaries in Ireland, in order to provide that nurses trainedin the said infirmary might be eligible for appointments in workhouseinfirmaries in the surrounding districts ; and, having regard to thedegrees held by the staff of the said infirmary, which consisted offive visiting physicians and surgeons and one resident doctor, and tothe ensuring thereby of efficiency of training for nurses, would heplace the nurses trained in this infirmary on terms of equality withnurses trained in Belfast and Dublin ?-Mr. GEORGE WYNDHAM repliedOwing to the relatively small number of patients that can be treatedat this hospital the Local Government Board has not seen its way torecognise the training there as sufficient to entitle its nurses to recoup-ment under the provisions of the 58th section of the Act of 1898. 1will, however, give the whole subject my personal consideration duringthe recess
The Conduct of Execittions.Dr. THOMPSON asked the Home Secretary if he was aware that in
executions as carried out in this country death was seldom instanta-neous, that in the majority of cases the vertebra was neither dislocatednor fractured, and that in many cases the pulse beat at the wrist afterthe fall of the drop for five or six minutes; and whether he would order acareful inquiry to be made into the present method of conducting execu-tions in Great Britain and Ireland with the view of steps being takento prevent possibility of the convict being conscious of suffering.-Mr. RITCHIE said : The exact cause of death is carefully investigatedin each case and the evidence is entirely opposed to what is suggestedin the question. I have no reason for supposing that any furtherinquiry is needed.
Tuberculosis and Cancer. Tzcberc2dosis and Cancer. -
Mr. JASPER MORE asked the President of the Local GovernmentBoard whether it would be possible for the promised Royal Commissionon Tuberculosis to inquire whether cancer was communicable fromanimals to man.-Mr. WALTER LONG replied that the appointment ofa Royal Commission with regard to tuberculosis was still under the con-sideration of the Government. Assuming, however, that such a corii-mission was appointed, he did not think that it would be practicablethat the matters referred to it should include investigation on the sub-ject mentioned by his hon. friend.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17TH.Medical Appointments in Dublin.
Mr. CLANCY asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant ofIreland whether his attention had been drawn to the fact that,though the North Dublin Board of Guardians agreed to grantan increase of salary to the two medical officers of theNorth Dublin dispensary district, the Local Government Boardrefused to sanction such increase; and whether he would statethe reasons why the Board so refused, while sanctioning similarincreases to the medical officers of the South Dublin Union.-Mr. WYNDHAM replied that the Board did not see its way to approvethe proposed increases of salary as the salaries already paid to thesegentlemen were larger than the average salaries paid in other districtsthroughout Ireland and also £20 a year in excess of the salaries paid tomedical officers in the South Dublin City districts. The effect of theincreases since sanctioned in the salaries of the medical officers of theSouth Dublin Union had simply been to bring up the salaries of thoseofficers to the same level as the salaries paid to their colleagues in theNorth Dublin Union.
The Close of the Session.This was the last sitting of the Session. Commissioners representing
His Majesty the King attended in the House of Lords, and in presenceof the Speaker and Members of the House of Commons they read theRoyal Speech proroguing Parliament.
