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Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-

The following gentlemen passed the First ProfessionalExamination in Anatomy and Physiology, at a meeting ofthe Board of Examiners on the 12th inst. :-Thomas Carwardine, student of Middlesex Hospital; Harry LambertLack, of King’s College ; Charles Henry Duncan Morland, ofSt. George’s and Durham University; Arthur Walton Peake andDavid Charles Rayner, of Bristol School of Medicine; and TomRobinson Taylor, of Guy’s Hospital. (Ten candidates were referredfor six months.)

Passed on the 13th inst. :-Tom William Beazeley, of Queen’s College, Birmingham; John GrayClegg and William Percy Montgomery, of Owens College, Man-chester ; Allan Edwd. Mahood, of Trinity College, Dublin; WilliamSelby and Norman Octavius Wilson, of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital;and Richard Henry Anglin Whitelocke, of Glasgow and EdinburghUniversities. (Thirteen candidates were referred for six months.)

Passed on the 14th inst. :-Hugh Wells Armstead and Charles Pardey Lukis, of St. Bartholomew’sHospital; and Hamilton Ashley Ballance, of University CollegeHospital. (Thirteen candidates were referred for six months.)

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.-At a congregationheld recently the following degrees were conferred :-

Bachelors of Medicine and Bachelors of Surgery.-Frederick WilliamSaunders, Trinity; Eliot Curwen, St. John’s.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND.-The following gentlemen, having passed the necessaryexamination, have been admitted Fellows of the College:-Thomas Smith Burnett, L. & L.M. R.C.S.L, Deputy Inspector-General

of Hospitals and Fleets, R.N.; Francis Joseph Doyle, L.R.C.S.I.,L.K.Q.C.P.I., Surgeon Indian Medical Service; Frederick ThomasSkerrett, L.R.C.S.L, L.K.Q.C.P.I., Surgeon Medical Staff ; JamesWilliamson, M.B. and Mast. Surg., Univ. Aberd., Surgeon-MajorMedical Staff; Charles James Holmes, M.D., M.Ch. Royal Univ.,Irel., Surgeon Medical Staff ; and Richard Robt. Leeper, L.R.C.S.I.,L.K.Q.C.P.I.

The following gentlemen, having passed the necessaryexamination, have been admitted Licentiates in DentalSurgery of the College :-

S. A. T. Coxon (Wisbech), A. L. Harrington (Rochford), H. Hudson(Birmingham), T. Nottingham (Hull), and G. A. Story (Canterbury).

The following gentleman, having passed the necessary ex-amination, has been granted the diploma in Public Healthof the College :-

Augustus Constable May bury, M.R.C.S., L.S.A. Lond.

UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.-The following degreeswere conferred last week by the Vice-Chancellor ot theUniversity :-

Bachelo1’ in Medicine, Suyery, and Obstetrics.-Wm. Robert Miller.Doctol’ in Medicine.—Arthur Jas. Campbell; William Robert Miller.

A NEW CORONER.-Dr. J. F. Porter of Helmsleyhas been appointed coroner for the Pickering district of theNorth Riding of Yorkshire.NEW BATHS, PIMLICO.—On Saturday afternoon

the Duke of Westminster, accompanied by the Duchess,formally opened the new public baths and washhouses forthe parish of St. George, Hanover-square, at Buckingham-palace-road, Pimlico, which have been erected at a costexceeding £ 30,000.VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SCHOOL.OF INSTRUCTION.

At the biennial prize competition held at the Artists’ head-quarters on the 8th inst., Private E. C. Gates, 20th Middle-sex Rifle Volunteers, obtained the highest possible marks(30 out of 30), and was the winner of Surgeon Pearce’s prize.Other competitors in the several detachments acquittedthemselves well. The examiners were: Brigade-SurgeonsGiles, Stokes, DesVceux, and White; Surgeon-Major James,Surgeon Evershed, and Lieut. Maclure; Surgeon WalterPearce being the referee.COLLEGE OF STATE MEDICINE.-At a meeting of

the Council, duly convened, the following gentlemen wereelected Associates of the College :-Montague Cheale, Dip.State Med. K.Q.C.P.I., Uckfield, Sussex; Framroz S.Davár, D.P.H. R.C.P. & S. Eng., Bombay; Wm. Dick,Surgeon A.M.S., Dip. San. Sc., Vict. Univ., Chester;Dr. John Glaister, D.P.H. Camb., Putney; J. W. GregoryKeealy, D.P.H. R.C.P. & S. Eng., Gosport; C. J. W.Meadows, Surg.-Major Indian Army, D.P.H.Camb., Dacca,Bengal; R. Lawton Roberts, M.D., D.P.H.Camb., Ruabon;J. D. Smith, M.D., Fleet Surgeon, D.P.H. Aber., Hull;P. Caldwell Mmith, M.A., M.D., D.P.H. Camb., Glasgow.

ROYAL SOUTH LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-The Prince of Wales has intimated his intention of layingthe foundation stone of the new building for this hospitalin July.LEEDS HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.--

Mr. John Horsfall, M.A., F.R.C.S., has resigned his posi-tion as an honorary surgeon, in consequence of his departurefrom Leeds.

VACCINATION GRANTS.-The following gentlemenhave received the Government grant for efficient vaccinationin their respective districts :-Mr. Philip E. Hill, Crick-howell District of the Crickhowell Union (seventh time).-Mr. T. H. Tidswell, Morecombe District, Lancaster Union(fifth time).HEREFORD GENERAL INFIRMARY.-During the-

past year there was a considerable increase of both in- andout-patients. Of the former, the increase was 138, and ofthe latter 232. The cash account shows a deficiency of£ 158. Upwards of £ 600 had been expended on variousimprovements in the institution.

PRESENTATIONS.-Mr. A. W.White, L.R.C.P.Edin.of Treherbert, Glamorganshire, on his leavingthatneighbour-hood, has been presented with a purse containing £ 25, andan address, from the workmen of the surrounding collieries.and the inhabitants of the district, as marks of respect andesteem.-Mr. G. H. Darwin, M.R.C.P. Ed., has been pre-sented by the officers, sergeants, and constables of the-Manchester Division of the Lancashire Constabulary witha portrait of himself, as a token of appreciation of his ableservices in ambulance instruction to them.

POLLUTION OF THE RiVER LEA. - Mr. C. Buttonpresided over a crowded meeting of the ratepayers ofHackney to protest against the action of the TottenhamLocal Board in polluting the Lea with sewage. A resolutionwas proposed, requesting the London County Council to useevery endeavour in its power to compel that Board to dis-charge its sewage into the metropolitan sewers for twelvemonths, and to promote a Bill in Parliament compelling.the Board to connect with the main drainage. Sir Charles-Russell supported the resolution, which was adopted, and at.deputation was appointed to wait upon the Home Secretary,the London County Council, and the Hackney Board ofWorks.

ACTIONS FOR PENALTIES UNDER THE APOTHE-CARIES ACT.-At the instance of the Medical Defence-Union three actions were recently brought in the ExeterCounty Court in the name of the Society of Apothecaries,against Joseph Abbott, who is manager or assistant in the.employ of John M. Rendall, chemist, 98, Queen-street,Exeter. A penalty of £ 20 was claimed in each action fromAbbott for acting and practising as an apothecary without’having obtained a certificate under the Apothecaries Act.The actions were to have been tried on the 7th inst., but,previously to the day of hearing, the defendant paid the three-penalties claimed into Court, with costs, amounting in allto £ 65 5s. 6d.

MEDICAL DEFENCE UNION, METROPOLITAN DIVI--SION.-At a meeting of the Executive Committee held at.the offices of the British Medical Association, Strand, onThursday, May 8th, Dr. Fancourt Barnes in the chair, a,letter was read from Mr. Mead of Newmarket, acknowledg-ing in appropriate terms the vote of thanks passed by the’Committee to him at the last meeting, for the great trouble.he had taken and the amount of time and energy he haexpended in organising the branch. The Honorary Secre-tary (Dr. Campbell Pope) reported the very satisfactoryprogress of the branch in numbers. The number of members-up to date in the Metropolitan Division was 442. Dr.Bateman made a statement calling attention to the immense-number of unqualified persons practising in the metropolis,to the great injury of the profession, and gave several in-stances of a flagrant nature. Dr. de Havilland Hall pro-posed and Dr. Masters seconded a resolution that the hono-rary secretary be empowered to call a meeting to discuss analteration in the Medical Act, with a view to the betterprotection of the public, and to afford greater security forpractitioners in the exercise of their calling. This was-carried unanimously, and it was determined to lay anyresolutions passed by the proposed meeting before the centralcouncil of the Union and the Parliamentary Bills Committeeof the British Medical Association.

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WEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY.-The date of the annual dinner of the above Society at theCriterion has been postponed to Wednesday, June llth, at7 for 7.30 P.M., as the entertainment to be given toMr. H. M. Stanley by the Savage Club is to take placethere on the evening of the 7th prox., the date previouslyfixed for the Society’s dinner.

THE BRITISH HOME FOR INCURABLES. - In theabsence of the Earl Amherst, Mr. J. H. Hall presided atthe annual meeting of this charity in the Cannon-streetHotel. The report showed a deficit of dE511, said tobe due in part to there having been no festival, andun part to ordinary receipts having been affected by an,.appeal which had to be made in connexion with thebuilding fund.

BEQUESTS AND DONATIONS TO MEDICAL CHARITIES.Mrs. Lucas, late of Clifton, left by her will £ 1000 each.to the General Hospital and the Queen’s Hospital, Birming-ham, and 9800 each to the Bristol General Hospital andthe Bristol Royal Infirmary.-The Yorkshire Rugby FootballUnion has recently distributed (out of the surplus profits of’the Challenge Cup Competition) the undermentioned sumsto the following medical charities : £ 400 to the LeedsInfirmary, JE200 each to the Bradford Infirmary and theHull Infirmary, i150 each to the Halifax Infirmary, theHuddersfield Infirmary, and the Clayton Hospital, Wake-field, i125 to the Dewsbury Infirmary, and £100 to theYork County Hospital.-By the will of the late Mr. JamesOrmrod, J.P., of Bolton, the Bolton Infirmary receives£ 1000.-The late Miss Eliza Brisco of Bohemia, nearHastings, bequeathed £ 2500 to the Hastings ConvalescentHome, Beau Site, E2000 to the East Sussex Hospital,Hastings, and £ 1000 to the Children’s Convalescent Home,:St. Leonards-on-Sea.-The London Truss Society benefits;to the amount of i2000 by the will of the late Sir Jas. Tylerof Holloway.-Mrs. Charles Pease has given noo to the’Rotunda Lying-in Hospital, Dublin.

ORAL INSTRUCTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.-The festival dinner of the Association for the Oral Instruc-tion of the Deaf and Dumb was held in the Whitehall Rooms’of the Hotel Metropole on May 12th, the Lord Mayor in thechair. Lord Rosebery proposed "The Corporation of the’City of London and the Sheriffs," and, in the course of aneloquent address, said that up to the time of the founding ofthis Association deaf-mutes had lived in a prison of silence.The mere fluttering of hands was not the speech to whichthat Association had accustomed them. It was a trivialand imperfect substitute for one of the greatest of humandeprivations. They lived in a dungeon of silence, knowingnothing of voices or of what voices could give. It was a.great happiness and pride to him to know that the angelwho came to deliver them, so far as England was concerned,was his own wife’s mother. She herself was accustomedio pain and suffering, which in her bred no impatience andno discontent, but only taught her the most boundless- sympathy for the pain and suffering of others. At this

moment they were hailing the great discoverer who hadjust come back from Africa ; but those were the realdiscoveries, and the great conquests, that diminished thearea of suffering in men and enlarged the possibilities of’the human race. Subscriptions were announced amountingto £ 1957 13s. 6d.

BRITISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION. -The annualmeeting of the members of the Midland Branch of thisAssociation took place on the 9th inst., at the Guildhall,Derby. In the morning there was a council meeting,- followed by demonstrations. Mr. E..Houghton (Man-chester) described " Some Improvements in Continuous GumWork," with an improved furnace, using Fletcher’s gasolinegenerator; Mr. W. E. Harding, L.D.S , " The ImmediateTreatment of Septic Roots;" Mr. G. Brunton (Leeds),"’ The Treatment of Alveolar Abscess;" Dr. L. J. Mitchell,jun. (London), "Crown and Bridge Work." Electric motors, accumulators, lamps, &c., were shown by Mr. J. E.Birch (Leeds) and Mr. W. Broughton (Manchester). Mr."S. Wormald was re-elected treasurer, and Mr. I. Renshawwas appointed secretary of the branch for the ensuing year.It was decided to hold the next annual meeting at Darling-ton. After luncheon the business meeting was held. Mr.S. C. Quinby (Liverpool), the retiring president, havingGeem thanked for his services, Mr. Brunton (Leeds) took the

chair and delivered the presidential address. He traced theimprovements in dentistry, and described the objects of theAssociation, which he said had more than once been a terrorto evil-doers, and would continue to be such as long as therewere quacks who infringed the Act. Afterwards paperswere read by Professor E. H. Jacob, M.D., on Physicianor Dentist, and by Mr. L. Matheson, L.D.S., on Notes onCrown and Bridge Work, which were followed by shortdiscussions. In the evening the members dined together atthe Midland Hotel.

MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT.

Fees of Medical Officers of Health.IN the House of Commons, on Thursday, May 8th, in the Committee

on the Budget proposals, Mr. Storey moved an amendment having theeffect of disallowing the fee of 5s. proposed to be given to the medicalofficer of health for granting a certificate as to the sanitary condition ofa house, made necessary for obtaining exemption. In the course of thediscussion sevelal members spoke. Sir W. Harcourt agreed with theview that, as the words now stood in the clause, there would be an in-ducement to medical officers to grant certificates.-Mr. Ritchie objectedto the opinion of the right hon. gentleman that medical practitionerswould be induced, for a fee of 5s., to grant certificates when they oughtnot to do so. He thought, if the Government imposed new duties uponthe medical officers, the fee should be paid them.-Mr. H. Fowlersaid the proposal affected other public officers as well as medicalofficers of health. Occasionally the medical officer of health was paida large sum for devoting his time to the duties of the appointment,and in such cases investigation into the sanitary condition of housesshould form part of his work.—Mr. Brunner thought the appointmentof well-paid medical officers of health should be encouraged, and SirWalter Foster was of opinion that the Government proposal might bedangerous in the interests of public health.-Mr. Ritchie was preparedto admit that there was a distinction between medical officers whodevoted the whole of their time and those who devoted only a portionof their time to this work. If the House would allow the words to beinserted he would undertake to introduce on the report stage somewords with reference to medical officers who gave up the whole of theirtime to the performance of those duties.—Mr. J. G. Fitzgerald regrettedthat the Government had not stood firm, and again pointed out thatnew duties were about to be imposed upon professional men, and yethon. gentlemen objected to their having a fee for doing extra work.

Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act.The House went into Committee on this Bill, and, after considerable

discussion, the Bill was reported, amidst cheers.

Fish Supply.In the House of Commons on May 15th, in answer to Mr. Howell,

Mr. W. H. Smith said that many of the questions raised by Mr.Lawrence Hamilton had already been inquired into, and it was notlikely that more light could be thrown on the subject by the appoint-ment of a Royal Commission. The amount of fish condemned in 1889amounted to only 1 in 334.

VivisectioitMr. Samuel Smith asked the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-

ment a question in reference to the vivisection experiments on thelocal paralysis of the peripheral ganglia, and on the connexion ofdifferent classes of nerve fibres with them, reported to the RoyalSociety on Nov. 21st, 1889, by Mr. J. N. Langley, F.R.S. Andwhy, inasmuch as they were painful experiments, they were notincluded in Table III. of the Annual Report and Return under theAct 39 and 40 Vic., when the report was made to the inspector. Hewas informed that the experiments were conducted under the ordinarylicence and under the influence of anaesthetics, and that all the regula-tions had been complied with.

THE INQUIRY INTO METROPOLITAN HOSPITALS.On Monday, the llth inst., Mr. Nelson Hardy, F.R.C.S. Edin.,

gave evidence on the general condition of the out-patient depart-ments of hospitals. They were very much overcrowded, and as aresult the treatment was hurried, inadequate, and incorrect, patientsbeing, in many instances, treated by young and inexperienced students.The students were supposed to act under the direction of a qualifiedmedical man, but in the hurry of cases he was quite certain that agreat number of cases were seen by the students alone. He knew thatthe hospital authorities tried to restrict the treatment to qualifiedmen, but he also knew that it was impossible to do it. There werecases which, from a student’s point of view, were trivial, and to be gotrid of as quickly as possible. They were seen for a minute or two bya servant or a senior student, and given something to apply to thewound, and sent away to go on from bad to worse, and ulti-mately the patient has to seek refuge in an infirmary.-Lord Sand-hurst : Your statement is rather a sweeping one. Do you mean toinclude in this description all the large general hospitals ?—Witness :Yes ; except, perhaps, St. George’s, where the number of out-patientsis restricted. In the opinion of the witness many of the out-patientdepartments and free dispensaries were used as "clubs" for manywomen with little or nothing the matter with them, in which to gossipwith their friends. No doubt people were attracted to these placesfrom the eminent names identified with them, and suppose that theywill get the best medical advice, which they would certainly get ifthey were seen by these eminent physicians and surgeons, whereaspractically they are seen by either the assistant physician or surgeon,or else by a senior student or one of the house physicians, who are alsoyoung men only recently qualified. In the dispensary to which he hadbeen attached the means taken to prevent the spread of infectiousdiseases was to send them away either to the fever hospital or home ;at all events, to remove them from the waiting-room. Practically therewas no power to do anything else. In out-patient departments, he