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of the Council of the Association of Certifying FactorySurgeons.We confidently appeal to all general practitioners to support

one who will work steadily for the betterment of their

position, and especially to those of Lancashire and Oheshire,to vote for a candidate who has always lived amongst themand who is in the closest possible touch with all the localopinion on current medical politics.

Copies of Dr. Renshaw’s election address and all particularsof his candidature, &c., may be obtained from the honorarysecretaries.-We are, Sirs, yours faithfully,

C. ADOLPHE K. RENSHAW,Lindenholme, Sale;

J. A. KNOWLES RENSHAW.11, St. John-street, Manchester;

Honorary Secretaries Election Committee.SAMUEL BUCKLEY,

Chairman of Committee.

The Candidature of Dr. William Bruce.To the Registered Medical Practitioners Resident in

Scotland.LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,-I beg respectfully to again

offer myself as a candidate for the honourable post of DirectRepresentative for Scotland at the approaching election.

For 20 years I have endeavoured to discharge the duties ofthat position to the satisfaction of my constituents and witha single eye to the interest of the medical public. I hopeI have not been unsuccessful in my endeavours to do myduty honestly and properly. I hold strongly that the pro-fession is not fully enough represented at present inthe Council, and my first efforts will be directed to inducethe Council to enlarge the present number of representativeselected directly. Failing to get the Council to take up theduty which it is legally entitled, if not bound, to do, I pro-pose, along with my English and Irish colleagues in thedirect representation, to petition the Privy Council to cometo our rescue and appoint at least one more representativefor each of the three divisions of the United Kingdom.

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As regards medical education and training, I hold stronglythat these should be more practical and clinical than theynow are. In particular, the great department of midwifery isnot taught as it should be. Clinical attendance at a lying-inhospital ought to be compulsory. The present medicalcurriculum much requires to be lightened in its first stagesby relegating botany, physics, and biology, to a preliminaryscience examination. In this way more time could be devotedto general clinical work, as also to special subjects such aspsychology, eye, ear, throat, and skin diseases.

If successful in my candidature, I trust I shall be able toassist also in dealing with the question of the sale of patentmedicines, in reform of hospital abuse, and in maintaining’the reputation of the profession by discountenancing, as faras the Council can, contract medical practice.

I am, ladies and gentlemen, your obedient servant,WILLIAM BRUCE, M.D.

P.S.-Perhaps I may be allowed to mention that, on theissue of my previous address some months ago, I had thesatisfaction of receiving promises of support from 765electors. To them and to the numerous others who havesince then announced their intention of voting for me, I begto offer my most grateful thanks. W.B.W.B.

The Candidature of Dr. Norman Walker.

To the Medical Practitioners of Scotland.LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,-For my reasons for asking

your support in my candidature for the post of Direct

Representative for Scotland I refer you to the inclosedaddress, in which I expressed my views on those matterswhich I believe come within the province of the GeneralMedical Council.

I may perhaps be permitted to remind you, as furtherreasons, of my considerable experience in medical publicwork. As senior editor of the Scottish Medical and Surgical.Journal I am necessarily acquainted with all the movementsin our profession. As secretary of the Edinburgh branchand the Representative for several years of the Edinburghand Fife branches on the Council of the British MedicalAssociation, I have become fully acquainted with thepolitical side of medical work. When, in view of thiselection, I withdrew from the representation of theEdinburgh branch, the Council of the Association did

me the much-appreciated honour of coopting me to itsmembership. I have served on nearly all its chief com-mittees and am at present chairman of the science committeeof the Association. As a member of the board of manage-ment of the triple qualification of the Scottish Colleges Iam brought into close contact with the direction of medicaleducation, and I believe I have been of some use in that

capacity. In the business committee of the general councilof the University of Edinburgh I am to some extent in touchwith the working of our Universities, in which all Scottishgraduates takf so much interest.As a set-off to the fact that I am no longer engaged in

general practice, I inclose a testimonial from those so

engaged in Edinburgh, among whom I work and who knowme best. It will be my constant endeavour as yourrepresentative to maintain and raise the position of ournoble and self-denying profession.

I am, Ladies and Gentlemen, yours obediently,Edinburgh, Nov. 16th, 1906. NORMAN WALKER.

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND.-

The following candidates having passed the necessary exa.mination have been admitted Licentiates in Dental Surgeryof the College :-W. T. Anderson (Galway), P. M. Blaek (Dublin), R. F. Cooper(Wexford), J. E. Hogan (Dublin), P. D. MeCreery (Kilkenny), A. K.Macdonald (Dublin), T. J. Ollivere (Cork).

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.-Basle : Dr. A. Labhardt has been recognised as privat-doeentof Pathology.—Berlin: Dr. Adolf Bickel has been appointedExtraordinary Professor of Internal Medicine.-Breslau: :Dr. Paul Krause, of the University Medical Clinic, has beengranted the title of Professor.—Gratz: Dr. Max Hofmannhas been recognised as privat-docent of Surgery and Dr.Eugen Petry as privat-docent of Medicine.-Heidelberg: Dr.Krehl of Strasburg has been appointed Professor of SpecialPathology and Therapeutics.—New York (College of Phy-sicians and Surgeons): Dr. F. W. Jackson has been appointedProfessor of Medicine.-Rostock: Dr. Paul Erdmann has bren

recognised as privat-docent of Ophthalmologv.-Strccsbnrg:Dr. Martin Bardels of Marburg has been recognised as

privat-docent of Ophthalmology.UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.-A memorial from

members of the Senate has been presented to the Councilurging that a paper or papers in natural science should beincluded among the compulsory subjects in the PreviousExamination. -Mr. R. P. Gregory, of St. John’s College, hasbeen appointed senior demonstrator of botany.-A universitylectureship in botany, stipend £100 a year, is vacant by theappointment of Professor Seward to the chair of botany.-Dr. B. Anningson, Professor G. H. F. Nuttall, Dr. J. LaneNotter, Dr. R. D. Sweeting, and Dr. A. Newsholme havebeen appointed examiners in State Medicine in 1907.-Professor Nuttall, Dr. C. W. Daniels, and Major W. B.Leishman, R.A.M.C., have been appointed examiners in

tropical medicine and hygiene in 1907.

DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS.-A legacy of £5000,bequeathed by the will of Mr. John Nield of Apsley House,Ashton-under-Lyne, will shortly be paid to the treasurerof the Ashton District Infirmary.-Mr. H. L. Saltarn ofLyndhurst, Hampshire, has bequeathed E8000 to theManchester Royal Infirmary, C8000 to the Royal SouthHants and Southampton Hospital, and £4000 each to theManchester Eye Hospital and the Southampton Eye Hos-pital.UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The council

has received from the committee and subscribers of theCarey Foster Testimonial Fund the sum of 143 to be appliedin the award of an annual prize in physics to be known asthe Carey Foster Research Prize. This fund is the balanceof the fund raised for the portrait of Professor G. CareyFoster by Mr. Augustus John which was presented to thecouncil in July.-The council has conferred the title ofProfessor of Clinical Medicine on Professor J. S. Risien

1 Appended to Dr. Walker’s address were the names of 400practitioners.—ED. L.

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Russell.-Professor Sir Victor Horsley, who has been connected with University College as a student and as a teachefor 30 years, has resigned his Professorship of Clinica

Surgery and his position as surgeon to the hospital or

account of increasing public and private professional dutiesThe council, in accepting his resignation, adopted unanimously the following resolution :-That the council, having received with great regret Sir Victo

Horsley’s resignation of his Professorship of Clinical Surgery and hiposition of surgeon to University College Hospital, whereby his officiaconnexion with the College is severed, desire to put on record theirecognition of his long service to the College and the distinction h.has conferred upon it by his eminence as a scientino investigator.

PRESENTATION TO A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER.-Mr. Robert Jones, M.D., B S. Lond., F.R.C.S. Eng., M.R.C.PLond., President of the Medico-Psychological Aseociation ojGreat Britain and Ireland, has been presented by the association with an illuminated address on vellum as a token oithe esteem in which he is held by the members and as anacknowledgment of his services as honorary general secretaryfor a period of over nine years.CONVICTION OF AN ABORTIONIST.-At the Devon

assizes held on Nov. 16th a woman, aged 35 years, wascharged with feloniously using an instrument on variousoccasions from February to September last. There were

altogether 24 indictments against the prisoner who waseventually found guilty and sentenced by Mr. JusticeKennedy to penal servitude for five years.DEATH FROM ALCOHOLIC POISONING.-At Devon-

port on Nov. 12th a coroner’s jury, after hearing the medicalevidence, found that the cause of death of a naval stoker whodied in a railway carriage on the way from Newcastle toDevonport was due to acute alcoholic poisoning. Theevidence showed that the deceased drank two pints ofwhisky undiluted on the journey.COLSTON DAY IN BRISTOL.-Nov. 13th was

observed as Colston Day in Bristol in the usual manner. Inthe evening the dinners of the Dolphin, Anchor, and GratefulSocieties were held when the aggregate collections for thecharities amounted to £3345, compared with L3626 in 1905.CARE OF THE FEEBLE-MINDED.—A Conference

of After-Care Committees was held on Nov. 8th at DenisonHouse, Vauxhall Bridge-road, under the auspices of theNational Association for the Feeble-Minded. Sir WilliamChance presided at the morning session, when a paper wasread by Mrs. Hume Pinsent urging the formation of after-care committees wherever special schools exist. Mrs.Pinsent took the opportunity of pointing out the necessityfor segregation anct showed if this were done how muchenergy and enthusiasm now expended on a hopeless taskwould be available for other work. The chairman pointedout that while the most constructive side of the work lay inthe formation of colonies for permanent care, yet thoseoutside institutions would always require the friendly aid ofafter-care committees. As an outcome of the paper a

resolution was subsequently passed in favour of establishingsuch associations at all centres. Dr. Boulenger (Belgium)described the after-care work that had been done in Belgium.Then followed the reports of the various after-care com-

mittees-Birmingham, Leicester, London, Nottingham, andBristol. It was stated that other centres, recentlystarted, did not care to report just yet, and also thata central committee had been formed to collect and sum-marise every year the reports of all the local associations.In the afternoon Lady Frederick Brudenell-Bruce took thechair and again urged the formation of industrial colonies.Dr. W. A. Potts (Birmingham) read a paper on FamilyHistories. He divided the feeble-minded into two groups :(1) deviations from the normal, which was always a smallclass; and (2) degenerative. The latter were recruitedlargely from those who were mentally weak; when notoriginating in that way consumption, alcoholism, and otherdiseases were found in the family record to an extent out ofall proportion to what obtains among normal schoolchildren. He urged, in addition to other measures, thepreaching and practice of hygiene as a means of diminishingthe numbers of defectives. Dr. Henry Ashby (Liverpool),who followed, asked for more records and more facts andstrongly deprecated any hasty conclusions. He stated thatmany of those who went to prison would do better inindustrial colonies which were so necessary for many ofthose leaving the special schools at the age of 16 years. A

short paper by Sir Edward Brabrook on Method and theValue of Unity in the Statistical Side of After-Care Workbrought the proceedings to a close.

Dr. Arthur Whitfield has been appointedProfessor of Dermatology in King’s College, London.

Parliamentary Intelligence.HOUSE OF COMMONS.

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 14TH.Civil Servants and Vaccination.

Mr. T. F. EicnABDs asked the Prime Minister whether he couldpermit Civil servants to claim exemption from the compulsory clausesof the Vaccination Acts equally wih other citizens who had a con-scientious objection, and whether he would request other Ministers toconsider favonrably any application made to them.-Sir HENRYCAMPBELL-BANNERMAN replied : The compulsory clauses of the Vacci-nation Acts only apply to children under the age of 14 years. As

regards the requirement of vaccination in the case of candidates forappointment in the Civil Service the matter is one for the Civil ServiceCommissioners or for the head of the department concerned and itdoes not appear to me that the matter is one in which I couldproperly intervene.

Conscientious Objectors to Vaccination.Mr. LUPTON asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department

whether his attention had been called to the case of E. M. Walden of37, Medusa-road, Catford, who had been summoned for not vac-

cinating his youngest child, he having been refused an exemptioncertificate on two successive occasions at the Greenwich police-court byMr. Kettle and another magistrate, notwithstanding that the samecourt had, on two previous occasions, given him exemption certificatesin the case of other children; and what steps he proposed to taketo prevent the continual prosecution of conscientious objectors.-Mr. GLADSTONE answered: I have received a letter from Mr. Waldenbut I regret that I have no authority to take action. The matter isone placed by statute within the discretion of the magistrate, and theonly remedy for the anomalies which at present occur lies in an altera-tion of the law. Legislation for the purpose would be in the hands ofmy right honourable friend the President of the Local GovernmentBoard.

Prison Crches.Mr. PICKERSGILL asked the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-

ment whether his attention had been drawn to the report of themedical officer of Birmingham Prison for last year that no fewer than68 babies at the breast with their mothers were admitted to the prisonduring the year, and that in the case of these babies the recentlyestablished creche was found very beneficial ; whether a creche existedin other prisons which had a similar proportion of babies among theirinmates ; and, if not, would he consider the desirability of establishingcreches in all prisons in which a considerable number of babies werereceived.-Mr. GLADSTONE replied: Yes, sir. It was decided thatcreches should be established at prisons where more than 50 babieswere received during the year. This has now been done at all suchprisons with the exception of Manchester where the work is in

progress.FRIDAY, Nov. 16TH.

The Gordon College, Khartoum.Mr. GEORGE GRrENWOoD asked the Secretary of State for Foreign

Affairs whether vivisectional experiments were habitually performedat Gordon College, Khartoum, in the Wellcome Research Laboratories,or elsewhere; whether the Gordon College, though not under thecontrol of the Foreign Office, was in any way subject to Britishcontrol; whether the Wellcome Research Laboratories formed part ofsuch college or what was their connexion with it; how suchlaboratories were maintained and whether or not by public money; andwhether operators in such laboratories or otherwise at the Gordon Collegewere subject to any inspection, regulation, or control.-Sir EDWARDGREY replied: No vivisectional experiments in the ordinary sense of theterm are conducted at the Well come Research Laboratories but fromime to time painless hypodermic inoculations have been given toiving animals in order to further the diagnosis and cure of the obscuretropical diseases to which men and animals are exposed when living in;he Soudan, and many valuable results have been obtained. Thecordon College is under an executive committee and trustees appointedunder the Gordon College at Khartoum Act, 1899. The Researchlaboratories, the equipment of which was given by Mr. Henry S.Wellcome to the Soudan Government, are affiliated to the GordonCollege. The maintenance of these laboratories is a charge upon theGordon College, the revenue of which is derived partly from an endow-nent and partly from a grant made annually by the Soudan Govern-nent. The laboratories are constantly visited by several members ofhe Soudan Governor’s Central Sanitary Board.

MONDAY, NOV. 19TH.

Defective Vision among Irish Children.Mr. JOHN REDMOND asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant

f Ireland whether defective vision was rapIdly on the increase inreland; whether the authorities in England and in Scotland weremaking elaborate and extensive arrangements for the testing of theight of children attending public schools in these countries and foruarding against the further increase of this scourge; whether thelommissiouers of National Education in Ireland had taken any steps inhis matter or had collected any information whatever with referenceo the prevalence of defective sight amongst children attending Irishchools; and whether the Government proposed to take any steps inhe matter.-Mr, BRYCE, in reply, said: The Commissioners of NationalJducation inform me that they have no information as to whetherefective vision is on the increase in Ireland. I understand that certaincal education authorities in England have, of their own motion,