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The Accozcnts of the General Medical Council.ON March 16th returns of receipts and expenditure of the General

Medical Council and of the Branch Councils for England, Scotland,and Ireland, also receipts and expenditure of the Dental Registra-tion Fund for the ear 1899 were laid on the table of the Houseof Lords.

The Midwives Bill.The consideration of the Midwives Bill by the Standing Committee on

Law begins tc-day, Friday (March 23rd). Another step in the progressof the measure was marked on Wednesday, March 21st, when notice wasgiven of a motion to authorise the payment out of moneys to be pao-vided by Parliament of such expenses as the General Medical Council

tt may incur in the administration of the proposed legislation. A motion

of this kind is necessary in connexion with all Bills which involve

additional financial burdens. It is dealt with in committee of the wholeHouse.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

THURSDAY, MARCH 15TH.The Sanitary Condition of Matta.

Mr. STEVENSON asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whetherhe could now state the decision of Her Majesty’s Government withregard to the advisability of holding a departmental or inter-depart-mental inquiry into the sanitary condition of the barracks, hospitals,and burial grounds at Malta with the object of improving the buildingsoccupied by the army and by naval officers and others in that island.-Mr. CHAMBERLAIN replied: The consideration of this subject has notyet been concluded, but as at present advised Her Majesty’s Govern-ment do not perceive that any departmental inquiry will be required.

The Food of the Channel Fleet.Mr. MAcNEiLL asked the First Lord of the Admiralty (1) whether he

was aware that there was discontent among the crews of the ChannelFleet with respect to the quality and quantity of the food supplied tothe ships, and that complaints with reference to the quality andquantity of the food were discountenanced by the officers and regardedas evidence of insubordination; and (2) whether he would direct aninvestigation independently conducted to be made as to whether therations served on board Her Majesty’s ships of the Channel Fleet wereof the proper quality and quantity, and whether the Admiralty woulddirect the sale of provisions on board these ships to be discontinued, orprovide that goods be sold at the canteens not at extortionate pricesbut at the prices at which similar goods were sold on shore.-Mr.MACARTNEY replied to the question saying: The answer to the firstquestion is in the negative. With regard to the second question Imust refer the hon. member to the remarks made by me in the courseof the debate in this House on Thursday last. The Managing Com-mittee, which with two exceptions is composed of representatives of themen, should be competent to take precautions against extortionateprices being charged. As a matter of fact, it is understood that thegoods sold in the canteens are retailed at a lower price than that atwhich they could be obtained by the men on shore.

The TFozended who have Returned to the Front.Mr. WINGFIELD-DIGBY asked the Under-Secretary of Sate for War

whether he would give the actual or approximate number of those whohad been returned wounded since the commencement of the war whowere already cured of their wounds and back again at the front.-Mr. WYNDHAM: I can give the figures up to Feb. 2nd, which are asfollows:—Wounded: officers. 261 ; non-commissioned officers and men,4583. Returned to duty: officers, 67; non-commissioned officers andmen, 705. These figures do not include casualties in Ladysmith andKimberley since investment.

Dogs Regulatio2a Bill.Mr. WALTER Lo-vG, President of the Board of Agriculture, introduced

a Bill to amend the law relating to dogs. He explained that, themuzzling order having done its duty, there was now room for a moremoderate measure, and this Bill would clear up doubts as to the lawand enable local authorities to make by-laws.

Petroleum Bill.A Bill was introduced by Mr. URE to raise the statutory flash-point of

petroleum oil. Mr. Ure served on the Select Committee which inquiredinto the petroleum question and he introduced a Bill on the subjectlast session.

FRIDAY, MARCH 16TH.Milk Prosecutions.

General LAURIE asked the President of the Local Government Boardwhether his attention had been called to the report of the publicanalyst to the Vestry of Paddington for the quarter ending Dec. 25th,1899, wherein it appeared that the magistrate at the Marylebone PoliceCourt, in the case of a sample of butter containing 65 per cent. ofmargarine, imposed no fine but only costs of 12s. 6d., and gave the samedecision in another case where the sample contained 80 per cent. ofmargarine, and in another case where the so-called butter was entirelymargarine imposed a fine of 10s. and 12s. 6d. costs ; also in two othercases where a farmer had sent to the railway-station two churnsof milk from which half the cream was deficient the summonswas dismissed on the explanation that the milk from whichthese samples was taken was received at the farm dairy onthe evening of each day, mixed in a large container, and left for thenight, and that next day the churns were filled for transmissionto London by means of a tap at the bottom of the container, noprevious stirring up of the contents of the container taking place ;whether it would be possible to issue a circular or otherwise to instruct

magistrates having jurisdiction in such cases that when milk was leftundisturbed the cream rose to the top, and hence the lower part of themilk did not contain its share of cream, which it should be consideredhad been removed from it, and that such milk was to be dealt with asadulterated ; whether his attention had been further called to the factthat practically the same percentage of milk purchased at railwaystations was adulterated as of milk purchased in town, thus showing itwas not the retailer who was alone to blame ; and whether it waspossible in any way to assist local authorities who were

doing all in their power and expending large amounts of moneyin endeavouring to carry out the law so as to protect thehumbler consumers and who thus found their efforts discouraged.-Mr. WALTER LONG, President of the Board of Agriculture, replied,saying: I have seen the report to which my hon. and gallant friendrefers, but the information at present at our disposal would scarcelyjustify the adoption of the course suggested. Our inspectors are. how-ever, closely watching the administration of the Acts, in consultationwith the local authorities concerned, and the representations of my hon.and gallant friend will be kept in view. I could not take upon myselfto express an opinion as to the respective culpability of producers andretailers of milk so far as adulteration is concerned.

Death Certification.Sir WALTER FOSTER asked the President of the Local Government

Board whether his attention had been called to the frequency of com-plaints in coroners’ courts respecting the signature and filling up ofdeath certificates ; and whether he would bring in a Bill to amend thelaw of death certification, as recommended by the Select Committee of1893.-Mr. T. W. RUSSELL, on behalf of Mr. Chaplin, said : I am awarethat complaints have been made of the kind referred to. The questionis being considered, but I am afraid I cannot give the undertakingasked for by the hon. Member to bring in a Bill during this session.

Army Rejections for Bad Teeth.Mr. WEIR askfd the Under-Secretary of State for War, seeing that

the First Lorrl of the Admiralty recently stated that fully 25 per cent.of the recruits for the navy were rejected on account of bad teeth,would he state what percentage of the recruits for the armv wererejected for this cause during the year ending Dec. 31st, 1899.-Mr.WYNDHAM : The percentage was 7’74 of the total number rejected, 2’5of the total number presenting themselves.

The Treatment of Lunatics in Scotland.Mr. WEIR asked the Lord Advocate if his attention had been called

to the recommendations contained in the forty-first annual report ofthe General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland to theeffect that measures should be taken to give district lunacy boards per-missive powers to provide accommodation for the poorer class of privatepatient and would he say what action it was proposed to take in thematter.-The LORD ADVOCATE replied : The answer to the first paragraphof the question is in the affirmative. The Secretary for Scotland doesnot propose to take any action at present.

The Vote for the Ánny uledieaL Establishment.The House in Committee of Supply on the Army Estimates discussed

at length the vote of .E555.000 for the medical establishment and formeiicines, &c., for the year to March 31st, 1901.

Dr. FARQUHARSON spoke of the conspicuous success of the ArmyMedical Department in South Africa. He thought he might put it ashigh as to say that this department had been the real success of thewar. The more they heard of what was going on at the frontthe more they were filled with admiration for the pluck,devotion, and skill which had been displayed and the hardwork which had been carried out by the officers of the ArmyMedical Department. The Mauser bullet was a humane missileand where it gave a fatal wound was a swift mode oftaking life. But he could not speak in too severe termsof condemnation of the Boers for using soft-nosed bullets,the wounds from which, if he were to give details, would simply appalthe Committee. Sand and pebbles and every kind of external abomina-tion were found in the wounds where they had been caused by thisdescription of bullet. The hospital accommodation and nursing hadboth been excellent. It had been found that the new system underwhich distinct and definite military rank was given to the medicalofficers had worked admirably, and he hoped to hear that the medicalschools had done their best to provide a full and continuous flow ofgood candidates to fill up the ranks of the service. While the Govern-ment were proposing a large permanent increase to the army theincrease in the number of medical oflicers was only six. They oughtnot to rely on any hand-to-mouth system of employing civilians. Hedid not know that they would be very much longer able to obtain asufficient number of eligible candidates for the present somewhatmeagre pittance paid to men who had to go through six years ofexpensive and laborious preparation.Mr. PRICE also spoke in terms of praise with regard to the work of

the Army Medical Department in South Africa and suggested thatgreater inducements should be offered to medical men to join theservice.Mr. ARNOLD-FoSTER asked for an explanation of the circumstance

that large numbers of men on reaching South Africa had been sent tohospital.

Sir WALTER FOSTER said that many of the men sent out were suffer-ing from chronic disease which ought to have been recognised. Thenumber had so increased that temporary buildings for their accom-modation had to be provided, the special hospital allocated for theirreception having become full. The Royal Army Medical Corps haddone their duty splendidly and shown great courage and devotion;but it had notoriously been weakened in numbers of recentyears, and the pick of the corps having been sent to South Africait was necessary to supplement those left at home by civilians. Itmight be that the errors made in passing men for the front were madeby these temporary civilian substitutes. He regretted that a largerincrease of the corps was not proposed. It would probably be necessaryto offer an increase of pay in order to attract the best men. The WarOffice would have done better to spend money in this way than inlavish generosity to civilian surgeons who had gone to the front. Itwas perfectly right to send out Sir William Mac Cormac and Mr.Treves, who had rendered valuable services, but it was not necessarythat everyone should be treated on ;the same terms as the mostdistinguished men in the profession. He believed that when one

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of the distinguished surgeons asked for an assistant the WarOffice rated the assistant on an equality with his principaland paid him on the scale of £5000 a year. He also calledattention to the prevalence which had been noticed, especiallyat Ladysmith, of typhoid fever. In the debates of last yearit had been pointed out that Ladysmith was not a healthy place for acamp, that it was likely to be ravaged more or less by the prevalence offever, and that its water-supply was not satisfactory. Those criticismshad been amply verified by the terrible experience obtained in thatposition. A similar condition of affairs had prevailed in various campson the Modder river and elsewhere, and he hoped that the War Officeswould see that attention was paid not only to the surgical aspectsof the war but to its sanitary aspects. In some respects also ourambulances had not been found to be as useful as the ambulancesof our enemies who had lighter carts. He had been told by personsof experience that we had made a great mistake in having too heavywagons. The rule which ought to be followed was to obtain the lightestpossible wagon for the roughest country, but that was a rule which hadnot been followed in building their ambulance carts for the use of thewounded. He hoped that the debate might result in producing agreater amount of applications on the part of candidates for the RoyalArmy Medical Service. He thought that the last examination wasnot as satisfactory as it should be in the number of applicants and hehoped that the medical schools throughout the country would take thismatter up. He thought that the suggested modification of the ex-amination might be useful. These men were now carefully examinedunder the supervision of the General Medical Council before they couldobtain diplomas and consequently they ought to have an examinationin a special direction in connexion with their future duties. If thistraining were followed up by some experience, say, at Netley, sixmonths before they were attached to any Army medical service thecomplete education necessary would be given ; and if supplemented byopportunities to rub off the rust he thought a still more efficient ArmyMedical Corps would be produced than they had at present, whileaffording inducements to men entering the profession to make thatefficiency the object of their ambition.Colonel BLUNDELL recommended that for a certain period of time a

medical officer should be attached to a regiment.Mr. WASON suggested that information should be published as to the

reoults of inoculation against typhoid fever.Mr. GEORGE WYNDHAM, Under-Secretary of State for War, replying

on behalf of the War Office, said it was true that the committee couldnot pay too high a tribute to the fortitude, courage, and efficiencyof the medical officers which had been displayed. They were notexalted by the joy and intoxication of battle ; they were sustainedalone by their devotion to suffering humanity and this renderedtheir services in his opinion all the more heroic. The medicalschools in supplying candidates had fulfilled their part of thebargain, to which the department was the other party in allo-cating military rank. The result had been, he hoped, satisfactoryto them as it had been to the army; but the department did notreap the whole results of such a change in the first or second year.The next point raised was that the present numbers of the Royal ArmyMedical Corps were not adequate to the size of the Army. They mightexpect that the inducements which had been offered would, in thecourse of the next few years, give them numbers even more satisfactorythan those which had been forthcoming recently. It would be impos-sible to keep up at all times an establishment of the Royal ArmyMedical Corps which would be adequate to a time when they were-mobilising the whole of the Army for an expedition. Ordinarily therewere 107,000 regular troops in this country, but at this moment therewere, or there would be very soon, 208,000 in South Africa alone wholooked to either the Royal Army Medical Corps or civilian medical men.And, besides, there were now 100,000 regular troops in this country.If the Royal Army Medical Corps were sufficient to deal with thepresent numbers it would have to be three times as large as would benecessary one year in 20, certainly one year in 10. Reference had beenmade to the great services of Sir William Mac Cormac and Mr. Treves.He was sorry that some gentlemen had insinuated that the services ofthe other five consulting surgeons had been too generously recognised.A surgeon of the standing which these gentlemen had achieved whowent out to South Africa did not only risk his life but he made agreat financial sacrifice. His income was to be told in thousands, andto leave a clientèle of that size in order to proceed to South Africa,with the possibility of not returning for five, six, or seven months,was really, in addition to the personal sacrifice, to make a present ofP5000 or .E6000, or perhaps £10,000, to the taxpayers of the country.And, therefore, he did not think that .66000 a year was a shilling toomuch to pay for the services that such gentlemen had rendered. Theywere asked to offer such inducements to the Royal Army Medical Corpsas would enable them to obtain the heads of the medical profession.They hoped that gradually in respect to the Army Medical Corps, asin respect to every other branch of the service, they would be able toimprove the conditions under which men served, and that, therefore,they would obtain the best material within their reach. The statementthat a number of men were landed in South Africa who were at onceinvalided was one which deserved and would receive examination. Heunderstood it referred exclusively to reservists and militia men. Butlet it not go abroad that there had been any great amount of sick-ness in South Africa. The percentage of sickness in this expeditionhail been far lower than in any case of which there was record.It might be that some civilian practitioners had not their eyes trainedto the fact of certain chronic complaints which were injurious to thesoldier, but he thought he had proved that when they were sendingaway a force of the size of that now in South Africa they must bring totheir aid a great amount of civilian assistance, and it might be that thespecial attention usually paid had not been paid to those chroniccomplaints with which military officers were now acquainted in theirbearing upon soldiers. It was quite true that enteric fever had beenprevalent in Ladysmith, as it was usually where men were encampedior a lengthy period. But the Royal Army Medical Corps had madeenormous progress in sanitary appliances during recent years. Greatattention had been bestowed upon the conditions which enabled themto right vith this disease, and, taking it all round, he believed theamount of enteric fever in this campaign had been very much lower, forinstance, than it was in the Soudan. That he attributecl partly to theclimate of South Africa and also largely to the progress made inthe sanitation of camps. As to inoculation, the first experiments didnot cover any great number of men, and he thought the committee

would agree with him that they had done what was prudent in waitingfor the experience of the campaign generally before drawing upstatistics. The hon. and gallant member for the Ince Division(Colonel Blundell) had invited them to return to the system of aregiment having its own medical man. He was afraid he could not holdout any hope that even in the modified deg-ee the hon. and gallantgentleman advocated the system could be adopted.

Sir WALTER FOSTER said he agreed with every word the Under-Secretary had said about the work of the Royal Army Medical Corpsand about the aid given by the distinguished civil surgeons who hadgone to South Africa. When, however, one of these distinguishedsurgeons had to take an assistant with him he thought it wasunnecessary generosity on the part of the War Office to pay theassistant at the same rate as his chief; indeed, he considered it anabuse of the whole system. That was the point he wished to put beforethe Committee. He thought it was an unnecessary step to put all thesurgeons on the same footing.Dr. FARQUHARSON put forward the suggestion that officers of the

Royal Army Medical Corps should have study-leave granted to them.Mr. WYNDHAM assured the hon. Member that this matter was under

consideration. On the subject of inoculation Mr. Wyndham said thatthe whole system was voluntary. Every soldier proceeding to SouthAfrica was given the opportunity if he wished of being inoculated anda very large number-nearly 60 per cent. in some regiments-hadavailed themselves of it. The time for drawing conclusions from theexperiment would be when they had the whole results before them atthe end of the campaign.

MONDAY, MARCH 19TH.

Hospitals and Local Rates.Sir CAMBBON GULL asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether,

having regard to the representations which had been made to HerMajesty’s Government through the President of the Local GovernmentBoard, he could state if the Government would this session undertakelegislation relieving hospitals in Great Britain from local rates.-Mr.BALFOUR replied : As my hon. friend is aware I have already expressedsympathy with the object which he has in view, but the question is onewhich is surrounded by a considerable amount of difficulty, and I thinkthat probably the best plan would be to have a committee of thisHouse to look into the subject.

TUESDAY, MARCH 20TH.Medical Appointment in Dublin.

Mr. ARTHUR MOORE asked the Attorney-General for Ireland whetherit was intended to institute the office of medical referee tothe Registrar-General’s office in Dublin and what were to bethe duties and emoluments of the appointment.-The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Mr. Atkinson) replied: It is proposed to appoint a medicalman to the office of superintendent at present vacant in the Departmentof the Registrar-General. The salary attached to the post will be£350, rising by Z15 annually to £500. The duties of the officer will bethose generally of a superintendent, but particularly with regard to thepreparation of vital statistics.

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and others possessing information suitable for this column, areinvited to forward it to THE LANCET Office, directed to the Sub-Editor, not later than 9 o’clock on the Thursday morning of eachweek, for publication in the next number.

ADAMS, J., M.B., C. M. Edin., has been re-appointed Medical Officer bythe Runcorn Rural District Council.

ADAMS, J. D., M.D. St. And.. M R.C S., has been re-appointed Medical’Officer by the Langport Rural District Council.

ADFNEY, E. L., M.D., M.R.C.S., has been appointed Physician to theGeneral Hospital, Tunbridge Wells.

ALDERSON, WiLFRED E. M.D., MS. Durh., has been appointedHonorary Assistant Surgenn, Fleming Memorial Hospital forChildren, Newcastle-on-Tyne, vice R. F. Craggs.

ANDERSON. A. J., M.B., C.M. Edin., has been appointed Medical Officerfor the Ashford Sanitary District of the Staines Union, vice F. C.Tothill, resigned.

BAXTER, S. E., L.R C.P.Lond., M R.C.S.. has been appointed MedicalOfficer for the Wollaston Sanitary District of the WelJingboroughUnion, vice J. W. Orr, deceased.

BERRY, FREDERICK CHARLES, B.A., M.D.,B.Ch.Dub., has been re-

appointed Medical Officer of Health for Burnham (Somerset).BONE, B. M , M.B., C.M. Edin., has been re-appointed M&eacute;dical Officer

of Health by the Towyn District Council.BOYD, JOHN J., M B., Ch.M.Glasg., D.P.H. Cantab., has been appointed

Assistant Medical Officer of Health for the Borough and Port ofSouthampton.

BREWER, D., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., has been appointed SecondAssistant Medical Officer for the Workhouse and Infirmary of theParish of St. Mary Abbots, Kensington.

BROOK, W. H.B.. M.D.Lond., F.R.C.S.Eng., has beer appointed Coronerfor the Lincoln North District.

BRUZAUD, ALFRED S., M.R.O.S., L.R.O.P. Lond., has been appointedSenior Assistant House Surgeon to the Huddersfield Infrmmary.

BUCKLEY, JOHK, L.S.A., has been appointed Medical Officer for theHasland Sanitary District of the Chesterfield Union, vice R. H.Hamilton, resigned.