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BIRMINGHAM, THE QuEEN’s HOSPITAL.-House Physician. Salary £50,with board, lodging, and washing.

BIRMINGHAM, UNIVERSITY OF (FACULTY OF MEDICINE).-Professorof Anatomy. Stipend R800 per annum.

BRACEBRIDGE ASYLUM, near Lincoln.-Junior Assistant MedicalOfficer, unmarried. Salary jE125 per annum, with apartments,board, attendance, &c.

BRISTOL ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN AND WOMEN.—AssistantHouse Surgeon for six months. Salary at rate of £ 50 per annum,with board, rooms, and attendance.

BLRTOV-oa-TRENT INFIRMARY.-HOUSE Surgeon. Salary £120 perannum, with rooms, board, coal, and light free.

CARNARVONSHIRE AND ANGLESEY INFIRMARY, Bangor.-House Surgeon.Salary B80 per annum, rising to £100, with board, washing, andlodging.

EAST LONDON HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN AND DISPENSARY FOR WOMEN,Shadwell, E.-House Physician for six months. Honorarium 0825,with board, residence, &c.

GLOUCESTER GENERAL INFIRMARY AND GLOUCFSTFRSHIRE EYEINSTITUTION.-House Surgeoncy. Salary 08100 per annum, withboard, residence, and washing.

GRIVrsnr AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL.-Resident House Surgeon. Salary£ 80 per annum, with lodging and washing.

HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, Virginia Water,Surrey.-Junior Assistant Medical Officer (female). Salary .E150,rising to .E200, with board, lodging, washing, attendance, &c.

INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE, India Office.-Examination for not less than12 Commissions in His Majesty’s Indian Medical Service.

LEEDS UNION INDOOR INSTITUTIONS, Beckett-street, Leeds.-AssistantMedical Officer, unmarried. Salary 08120 per annum, with board,washing, apartments, and attendance.

LEICESTER INFIRMARY.—House Surgeon. Salary 08100 per annum,with board, apartments, and washing.

MACCLESFIELD GENERAL INFIRMARY.—Senior House Surgeon. Salary.EIOO, with board and residence.

MANCHESTER, CORPORATION OF.—Medical Officer under the MidwivesAct. Salary 08250 per annum.

MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY.-Resident Surgical Officer, un-

married. Salary £ 150 per annum, with board and residence.MICKLEOVER, DERBY COUNTY ASYLUM.-Junior Assistant Medical

Officer. Salary 08120, rising to 08150 per annum, with apartments,board, washing, and attendance.

NEW HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, Euston-road, N.W.-House Surgeon andHouse Physician; also Resident Medical Officer for the MaternityDepartment (females), for six months.

NORTH-EASTERN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Hackney-road, E.-HouseSurgeon. Also House Physician, both for six months. Salary atrate of £ 60 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry in eachcase.

NoBTH-WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Kentish Town-road. - ResidentMedical Officer. Also Assistant Resident Medical Officer, both forsix months. Salary at rate of £ 50 per annum, with board,residence, and washing in each case.

READING, ROYAL BERKSHIRE HOSPITAL.-House Physician for fourmonths. Salary at rate of £ 80 per annum, with board, lodging, andwashing.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-Member of the Court ofExaminers.

ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, King William-street,West Strand, W.C.-Clinical Assistants for six months.

ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL, S.W.-Assistant Surgeon.SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL.-House Physician, unmarried. Salary R70

per annum, with board and residence.TlVERTON, DEVONSHIBF, INFIRMARY AND DlSPENSARY.—House Surgeon

and Dispenser. Salary 0880 and all found.WAKEFIELD, WEST RIDING ASYLUM. — Assistant Medical Officer.

Salary £140, rising to £160, with apartments, board, washing, andattendance.

WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith-road, W.-House Physicianfor six months. Board, lodging, and laundry allowance provided.

WOLVERHAMPTON AND MIDLAND COUNTIES EYE INFIRMARY.-HouseSurgeon. Terms £70 per annum, with rooms, board, and washing.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

JOSCELYNE.-On Nov. 7th, at Old Bank-house, Redditch, the wife ofH. Perev Joscelyne, L.D.S. R.C.S., of a daughter.

STRATON.--On Oct. 16tb, at Landour, India, the wife of CaptainC. H. Straton, Royal Army Medical Corps, of a son.

MARRIAGES.DALE-HALLETT.-On Nov. 5th, at Archway-road Wesleyan Chapel,

Highgate, Henry Hallett Dale, M.A., B.Ch. Cantab., to EllenHarriet ,(Nellie), daughter of F. W. Hallett, of Hornsey-rise, andgranddaughter of the late John Broad.

MACNAMARA-JERMAIN-On Nov. 5th, at Nazira, Assam, India, by theRev. E. M. Hadow, John Radley Macnamara, F.R.C.S.I., MedicalOfficer, Assam Co., son of the late John Sheridan Macnamara, ofDublin, and Mrs. Macnamara, Malpas, Cheshire, to Natalie Maude,second daughter of Captain Jermain, R.N. (retired), of Crondall,Hants.

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DEATHS.ALLINGHAM-On Nov. 4th, at Marseilles, Herbert William Allingham,

F.R,C.S., of Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, W., aged 42 years.CHALDECOTT.-At Parkside, Dorking, on the 5th inst., Chatles WilliamChaldecott, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., aged 76.

CHANDLER.-On Nov. 3rd. at Cornwall-road, Westbourne-park,Bentham Casaubon Chandler, M.D., aged 92 years.

N.B.-A fee of 5s. is charged,for the insertion of Notices of Births,lllarriages, and Deaths.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

A NEW DANGER IN THE DUSTBIN.

WITH reference to the paragraph in THE LANCET of Oct. 8th, p. 1058,under the above heading, when we commented upon explosives beingput into dustbins, we are glad to see that the London Gazette ofNov. 4th contains an order of the Secretary of State for HomeAffairs concerning the matter. It is now enacted that explosives shallnot be deposited in any receptacle of refuse or handed to anyoneemployed in the removal of refuse without due notice, or con-veyed in any carriage or boat used for the removal of refuse,under a penalty not exceeding £ 10 for the iirst offence or

L20 for subsequent offences. The order was timed nicely tocoincide with Guy Fawkes’ day. While we are on the subjectof dustbins we may say that in our opinion there is room for

improvement in the types of dustbins in general use. We haveobserved those of metal which are cylindrical, pail-shaped, or square,and hampers with and without metal linings. In addition, we haveseen dustbin substitutes, such as coal-scuttles, pails, metal linings.of tea and other chests, baths, barrels, and crates, and wood andcardboard boxes. Of all the types the cylindrical metal dustbinlooks the most wobegone. Its mouth is generally oval with laceratedlips and its sides are dented by brute force. We have also noticedthe left or "near" side of some dust-carts and observed that a con-siderable portion of the woodwork presents a macerated and pulpyappearance, as if some gigantic rodent had been gnawing it. Wecannot help thinking that there is a direct connexion between thisfibrous appearance of the wood and the dents in many dustbins andit seems that either the dustbins or the sides of the cart need to bemore elastic. It is impossible to fit a circular lid on to an oval-mouthed dustbin and that is no doubt partly the reason why lidsare seldom seen on them after they have been taken into use fora short while. Again, if the dustbins are stood on the kerbstonewith the lids on, the dustbin-pickers soon take them off. They areapparently allowed free-play. We recently saw two enterprisingyouths loading up a perambulator from the dustbins in the street.It would appear that the method of hauling the dustbins up tothe top of the cart by manual labour is partly responsible for thedents in the dustbins as the man after lifting a score or so 0

heavy dustbins is naturally anxious not to hold one up longer thanhe is obliged.

THE PROSTITUTION OF THE POST OFFICE.

A RIGHTLY indignant correspondent has written to us inclosing one of"Dr." Bell’s dirty little pamphlets on which we have commentedover and over again. The envelope containing it was, he says,opened by his wife in his absence, and naturally, as Bell putsnothing on the outside of his envelope to indicate the nature ofthe contents, any medical man’s wife or daughters might be broughtface to face with Bell’s disgusting assertions. In THE LANCET of

July 23rd, p. 239, we referred to the conviction of a man namedH. Berdot, who was prosecuted by the police for sending dirtycirculars to a gentleman named Williams. We then asked the police-authorities to proceed against " Dr." Bell in the same manner, andwe ask them again. They are perfectly aware of his practices andthe nuisance has been going on for years.

VICTIMS OF ALCOHOL IN RUSSIA.

DR. S. S. STUPIN of Moscow recently delivered a lecture in St. Peters-burg giving the results of his investigations into the havoc made byalcohol in Russia. He said the consumption of alcohol per head ofthe population in St. Petersburg and Moscow was but very little-under that in other great European towns. Deaths from alcoholismwere most numerous in St. Petersburg, being twice as many as.in Moscow. He found also that the mortality from alcoholismgenerally corresponded with the quantity of distilled liquors con-sumed per head and its fatal effects were most evident between the-

ages of 40 and 60 years, the mortality being, moreover, three to fivetimes less amongst women than amongst men. He gave no official,statistics in support of his statements but pleaded that such shouldbe carefully recorded in the future. Many professors present con-tested his general conclusions because of the want of specific" alcoholism" statistics in the official mortality returns.

A HISTORICAL EXHIBITION OF MEDICINE AND THEALLIED SCIENCES.

Ix reference to the Historical Exhibition of rare and curious objects,relating to medicine, chemistry, pbarmacy, and the allied sciences,to be held in London, organised by. and under the direction of, Mr.Henry S. Wellcome, we are now informed that the response to theannouncement of the exhibition has been beyond expectation andthat this, with the many valuable suggestions received, has promptedthe organisers considerably to widen its scope. The extent of thework thereby involved renders it impossible to fix at present adefinite date for the exhibition ; announcement will be duly made-later.

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THE NORTH-EASTERN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN.WF have received a circular letter signed by the Bishop of Stepney, theRector of Bethnal Green, the Rector of Hackney, the Vicar of Shore-ditch, the Missionary Rector in charge of the Roman Catholic Churchof St. John the Baptist, a number of well-known Nonconformist

ministers, and the Chief Rabbi, concerning the announcement

recently made that the North-Eastern Hospital for Children,Hackney-road, Bethnal Green, must, unless more funds are ob-tained, be partly closed at the end of December. The signatories ofthe letter end their appeal as follows :-

" Such a loss of hospital accommodation for children in a teemingdistrict where numbers of families occupy only one room, at anytime deplorable, would at this period of unusual distress be littleshort of a calamity to the struggling poor of our part of London,and we, the undersigned, brought into close daily contact withthe crying needs of the suffering little ones, earnestly appeal toyour readers to give freely towards the good object of enablingthis excellent hospital to tide over its difficulties without restrictingits beneficent work."

The closing of the hospital would undoubtedly be a great calamity tothe suffering poor of the neighbourhood and it is to be hoped that,despite the depression in trade and the general scarcity of money,the purses of the charitable will be opened in order that even asmall sum may be sent.

CARBIDE OF CALCIUM REGULATIONS.

SOME inconvenience has arisen in regard to the storage of carbide ofcalcium owing to the limitations imposed by the Home Office as tothe quantity to be contained in one vessel. The Secretary of State isnow of opinion that the limitation as to quantity may be removedinasmuch as it is thought that there can be no increase of danger inthe use of larger vessels either in conveyance or storage, providedthat the vessel is strong in proportion to the weight of its contents.The Secretary of State has also notified the fact that whereas it isdesirable to insert some condition in the licences as to the carbide

being rendered inaccessible to unauthorised persons it is seldom

necessary to require that each containing vessel should be fitted witha lock. These regulations are of interest to those who. as in countryplaces, employ acetylene for domestic lighting purposes or in thelamp of the motor-car.

PARALYSIS AND PRETENCE,

ON Nov. 8th Cecil Brown Smith was sentenced at the Guildhall police-court to three months’ hard labour for having placed himself inBishopsgate-street for the purpose of collecting alms, and, further,for having gathered charitable contributions by false pretences.Evidence was given during the trial that Smith had made as muchas 26 a week by feigning to be paralysed. When not employed inpursuing his vocation he lived in a good house at Upper Norwood,where he was well known and welcomed to smoking concerts as agood pianist. When engaged, however, in the pursuit of his callinghe appeared to be a decrepit, miserable, old man, apparently para-lysed down one side. Mr. Frederick Gordon Brown, one of the Citypolice surgeons, gave evidence that he had had an interview with theaccused and that he found his grip was perfectly good. He couldwalk without any dragging in his gait and could also walk back-wards with his eyes shut. His reflexes were good and his pupilswere normal. Smith himself pleaded guilty and said that he mustadmit that he had assumed a good deal. It would be interestingto know whether Smith had invented his method of making a livingout of his own head or whether he had read two stories in which asimilar character to himself figures, the one being Thackeray’s " MissShum’s Husband " and the other Sir Conan Doyle’s " The Man with aTwisted Lip." Mr. Frederick Altamont, however, did not pretend tobe paralysed, but merely posed as a decrepit crossing sweeper. SirConan Doyle’s hero passed himself off, if we remember rightly, asa hunchback. If it be true that Smith made e6 a week it is tobe feared that he will have many imitators, for nothing, it seems,will prevent the charitably disposed from giving indiscriminatealms to anybody who may ask them for it.

THE EMPRESS PATENT TEA INFUSER.

THIS is a simple arrangement for preparing an infusion of tea in thecup. It consists principally of a white enamelled bowl which fits intothe tea-cup and projects into it for about two inches. The bowl is

provided with an enamelled plug which serves to retain the tea-leaves but allows the hot water to percolate through them. A lidmade of the same enamelled material fits loce y on the

top of the basin so as to prevent the escap of aroma

and to keep the infusion hot. When sufficient time to make theinfusion of the desired strength has elapsed the whole aJr.1ngementis lifted out of the cup. The action is thus first percolation (bypouring boiling water into the bowl) and then infusion. The

apparatus is clean and satisfactory and by its use an excellent cupof tea, free from excess of astringent principles yet redolent with thearoma ot tea, may be prepared. The specimen was submitted to usby Messrs. Ellen and Co. of 16, Billiter-buildings, Billiter-street,London, E.C.

JV. A. II. W. (Leeds).-If our correspondent could give us a little moredefinite information we might be able to give him the reference to

the article in question. In the meantime it is possible that he isreferring to an article by Dr. W. Hunter upon ansemia produced byoral sepsis which appeared in THE LANCET of Jan. 27th, 1900, p. 221.

C. A. T.-Our correspondent has omitted to sign his name. We pub-lished the list as it was supplied to us by our local correspondent. Ifthe additional names are sent to us, properly authenticated, we shallbe happy to publish them.

Baynham.-Osler’s Principles and Practice of Medicine, Kimpton,Furnival-street, W.C., 18s. net.

COMMUNICATIONS not noticed in our present issue will receive attentionin our next.

Medical Diary for the ensuing Week.OPERATIONS.

METROPOLITAN HOSPITALS.MONDAY (14th).-London (2 P.M.), St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St,

Thomas’s (3.30 P.M.), St. George’s (2 P.M.), St. Mary’s (2.30 P.M.),Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), Westminster (2 P.M.), Chelsea (2 P.M.),Samaritan (Gynaecological, by Physicians, 2 P.M.), Soho-square(2 P.M.), Royal Orthopsedic (2 P.M.), City Orthopsedic (4 P.M.),Gt. Northern Central (2.30 P.M.), West London (2.30 P.M.), LondonThroat (9.30 A.M.), Royal Free (2 P.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.).

TUESDAY (15th).-London (2 P.M.), St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St.Thomas’s (3.30 P.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.). Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), West-minster (2 P.M.), West London (2.30 P.M.), University College(2 P.M.), St. George’s (1 P.M.), St. Mary’s (1 P.M.), St. Mark’s(2.30 P.M.), Cancer (2 P.M.), Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.), London Throat(9.30 a.M.), Royal Ear (3 P.M.), Samaritan (9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.),Throat, Golden-square (9.30 A.M.), Soho-square (2 P.M.), Chelsea(2 P.M.), Central London Throat and Ear (2 P.M.).

WEDNESDAY (16th).-St. Bartholomew’s (1.30P.M.), University College(2 P.M.), Royal Free (2 P.M.), Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), Charing Cross(3 P.M.), St. Thomas’s (2 P.M.), London (2 P.M.), King’s College(2 P.M.), St. George’s (Ophthalmic, 1 P.M.), St. Mary’s (2 P.M.),National Orthopsedic (10 A.M.), St. Peter’s (2 P.M.), Samaritan(9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.), Gt. Ormond-street (9.30 A.M.), Gt. NorthernCentral (2.30 P.M.), Westminster (2 P.M.), Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.),London Throat (9.30 A.M.), Cancer (2 P.M.), Throat, Golden-square(9.30 A.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.).

THURSDAY (17th).-St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St. Thomas’s(3.30 P.M.), University College (2 P.M.). Charing Cross (3 P.M.), St.George’s (1 P.M.), London (2 P.M.), King’s College (2 P.M.), Middlesex(1.30 P.m.), St. Mary’s (2.30 P.M.), Soho-square (2 P.M.), North-WestLondon (2 P.M.), Gt. Northern Central (Gynæcological, 2.30 P.M.),Metropolitan (2.30 P.M.), London Throat (9.30 A.M.), St. Mark’s(2 P.M.), Samaritan (9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.), Throat, Golden-square,(9.30 A.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.).

FRIDAY (18th).-London (2 P.M.), St. Bartholomew’s (1.30 P.M.), St.Thomas’s (3.30 P.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.), Middlesex (1.30 P.M.), CharingCross (3 P.M.), St. George’s (1 P.M.), King’s College (2 P.M.), St. Mary’s(2 P.M.), Ophthalmic (10 A.M.), Cancer (2 P.M.), Chelsea (2 P.M.), Gt.Northern Central (2.30 P.M.), West London (2.30 P.M.), LondonThroat (9.30 A.M.), Samaritan (9.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M.), Throat,Golden-square (9. 30 A.M.), City Orthopaedic (2.30 P.M.), Soho-square(2 P.M.), Central London Throat and Ear (2 P.M.).

SATURDAY (19th).-Royal Free (9 A.M.), London (2 P.M.), Middlesex(1.30 P.M.), St. Thomas’s (2 P.M.), University College (9.15 A.M.),Charing Cross (2 P.M.), St. George’s (1 P.M.), St. Mary’s (10 P.M.),Throat, Golden-square (9.30 A.M.), Guy’s (1.30 P.M.).

At the Royal Eye Hospital (2 P.M.), the Royal London Ophthalmic(10 A.M.), the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic (1.30 P.M.), and theCentral London Ophthalmic Hospitals operations are performed daily.

SOCIETIES.MONDAY (14th).-MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (11, Chandos-street,

Cavendish-square, W.).-Clinical Meeting. Cases :-Mr. M. Little:Displacement of the Lower Epiphysis of the Femur Backwards in aYout,h.-Mr. F. C. Wallis : Two Cases of Chronic Osteitis in Girls.-Dr. F. P. Weber: (1) Tremor of Left Lower Extremity of Ten Years’Duration; (2) Early Acromegaly; (3) A Case of Hanot’s Disease.-Dr. F. J. Poynton: Amaurotic Family Idiocy.-Dr. H. M. Fletcher:Multiple Syphilitic Disease of Joints in a Child.-Dr. A. Eddowes:(1) Case of Lichen with Fibrous Thickening of Ear, &c.; (2) SkinGout.

TUESDAY (15th).-PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (LondonHospital Medical College).-5 P.M. Laboratory Meeting. Demon-strations :-Dr. L. Hill : Some Experiments on the Effects of HighAtmospheric Pressure.-Dr. Sargent and Dr. Dudgeon: Two Casesof Emphysematous Gangrene due to Bacillus Aerogenes Capsulatus.- Dr. de Korte : A Preliminary Note on the Parasites of B ariolaand Vaccinia.-Dr. F. W. Twort: Tumours simulating Epitheliomafollowing on, and apparently due to, Inoculation of Blastomyces.-Dr. J. Catto: A New Species of Schistosomum. Dr. W. Bullochand Dr. Twort : Glanders in Man with a Note on the Virulence ofBacillus Mallei from Human Sources. Dr. W. Bulloch and Mr.E. E. Atkin: Experiments to determine the Nature of OpsonicAction.

CHELSEA CLINICAL SOCIETY (Chelsea Dispensary, Manor-street,King’s-road, S.W.).--8.30 P.M. Meeting.

WEDNESDAY (16th).-ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY (20, Hanover-square, W.).-8 P.M. Paper:—Mr. A. E. Conrady: Theories ofMicroscopic Vision. (A Vindication of the Abbe Theory.)