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The annual report of the Bristol Hospital Sunday Fun(which has recently been issued shows that f.17Z7 were

’collected in January last in 392 places of worship in the

city. This sum is an increase of L162 upon that collecte(in 1903 in 329 churches and chapels. At the annual meetingof the supporters of the fund the Lord Mayor stated thathere was a distinct falling off in the contributions from thewealthier parts of the city and in asking for more generou;support he pointed out that the annual expenses of thefour largest hospitals of the city exceeded their income byover £7000.

Education of Epileptic Children.The education committees of the city of Bristol and of the

counties of Somerset and Gloucester have for some time haèunder consideration the provision of a school for the educa-tion of epileptic children. A further step in the directiorof providing a joint institution has now been taken and 2

committee of the Bristol education authority has been askedto report upon some definite scheme. The cost of a schoo’to accommodate 100 children is estimated at f.6000 and thealternative suggestions are that it should be erected andmaintained at the joint cost of the three authorities or thatit should be erected by one authority and that the othersshould pay a proportionate sum for each child sent to theschool.

Bristol Cottage Homes.Although the Bristol board of guardians has not yet come

to an agreement with the Local Government Board as to thebest way to deal with the sick poor in the Bristol work-houses no charge of neglect can be brought against the

guardians with respect to the treatment of the children undertheir care. The aim of the board has been to keep allchildren who were not mere infants away from the work-houses. There are with this end in view in various parts ofthe city 16 homes, each accommodating from 15 to 20 children,and in the country 150 more children are living in specialhomes. At the end of November Mr. Walter Long, the Presi-dent of the Local Government Board, formally opened a groupof cottage homes which have been erected on a site of 20 acresat Downend. These buildings include 14 semi-detachedhouses, a larger house for 36 convalescent children, a smnlldetached hall, and a porter’s lodge. Each of the 14 housesaccommodates 12 children and contains on the ground floora children’s day room, a small sitting room for the foster-mother, a kitchen, and a scullery ; and on the first-floor twobedrooms for the children placed one on either side of thefoster-mother’s bedroom, which is provided with observationwindows, a small bedroom for isolation, a bathroom, anda lavatory. The cost of the undertaking is about .620,000.

Poor-law Administration in Exeter.At a meeting of the Exeter court of guardians held on

Nov. 29th it was decided that the parish of Exeter should bedivided into two districts instead of three as at present andthat Mr. E. A. Brash, L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng., andMr. G. T. Cla,pp, M.B. Cantab., M.R.C.S. Eng., should bethe respective medical officers at salaries of E90 per annum.Dec. 5th.

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SCOTLAND.(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

The University of Glasgon’ Installation of Chancellor.THE Right Hon. Lord Kelvin was on Nov. 29th installed

as Chancellor of the University of Glasgow in succes-

sion to the late Earl of Stair. The occasion was one

which evoked great interest, not only on account of theelevation of his lordship by the unanimous vote of the

general council to the highest official position in the

University, but on account of the distinguished libt of

graduates who received at the hands of the new Chancellorthe honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, among whom wasthe Princess Louise (Duchess of Argyll). Principal Storyas Vice-Chancellor presided and among the distinguishedpeople present were : His Grace the Duke of Argyll, Lo.dBlythswood, Lord Glasgow, Sir James King, Sir JamesBell, Sir Henry Craik, Principal Sir William Turner, Mr.Robert Gourlay, LL.D., Hon. James Hozier, M.P., and Mr..Parker Smith, M.P., with others representing differentuniversities and public bodies. After Principal Story hadopened the proceedings by reading prayer in Latin Dr.Smith, on behalf of the business committee of the general

council, intimated the unanimous appointment of LordKelvin as Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, where-upon Sir James King moved that his lordship be now installedin tiiit high office. The Vice-Chancellor then administeredthe required oath and the Chancellor signed the book andhaving been invested with his official robes took the chairamid great applause. Professor Glaister as dean of the

Faculty of Law then presented the recipients of the honorarydegree of Doctor of Laws. These were : Her Royal Highnessthe Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, who had acted asPresident of the Association for the Promotion of the

Higher Education of Women from the time of itsfoundation in 1877 until 1893, when Queen MargaretCollege became the women’s department of the Universityand when the association therefore ceased to exist ; the

Marquess of Ailsa; James Thomson Bottomley, M.A., D.Sc.,F.R.S., for 24 years associated with Lord Kelvin in the

teaching of natural philosophy in the University of Glasgow,being for that period Arnott and Thomson Demonstrator;James Donaldson, LL.D., Vice-Chancellor and Principalof the University of St. Andrexs ; the Right Hon. Sir JohnCharles Dalrymple Hay, Bart., Privy Councillor, and Admiralof the Navy ; the Very Rev. John Marshall Lang, D.D.,Principal of the University of Aberdeen ; GuglielmoMarconi, the distinguished inventor of wireless telegraphy;Andrew Graham Murray, Secretary for Scotland; the Hon.Charles Algernon Parsons, the inventor and perfector of thesteam turbine ; and Sir John Ure Primrose, Bart., LordProvost of the city of Glasgow. Thereafter Lord Kelvin de-livered his address which was largely reminiscent and dealtwith the great advance in the working power of the Univer-sity within recent years. The address was listened to withmuch interest by all. Principal Story then pronounced thebenediction and the proceedings terminated.

Anderson’s College 31edical SchoolThe Medico-Chirurgical Society of the College held its

annual dinner in St. Enoch’s Hotel on Dec. 1st. About80 persons were present. Professor It. Fullarton, honorarypresident of the society, presided and Mr. Watch and Mr.Duthie acted as croupiers. Among those present were manyof the governors, also Sir Hector C. Cameron and ProfessorJ Glaister of the University of Glasgow ; Professor HenryE.Clark, President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons ;Professor A. Macphail of St. Mungo’s College; and ProfessorJ. H. Nicoll, Professor C. C. Douglas. Professor R. B. Ness,Professor G. B. Todd, and Dr. J. G. Connal of Anderson’sCollege. The evening passed off very pleasantly with theusual toasts and many songs.

University of Aberdeen Medical Society.At a meeting of the above society on Dec. 2nd, Dr. James

Clark being in the chair, Dr. G. M. Duncan, assistant professorof pathology in the University, read an interesting lectureon Trypanosomial Diseases before a very large audience.Before proceeding to the subject in hand Dr. Duncan con-gratulated the society on its progress and in felicitous termsdescribed the benefits accruing from the existence of suchsocieties. He then dealt with the geographical clistribntionof trypanosomial diseases and described the symptoms causedin different animals by the various diseases as having a moreor less close resemblance-localised patches of ce:lema, emacia-tion, drowsiness, and muscular weakness. Sleeping sicknesswas then referred to. It occurred in Western, Africa, fromSenegambia in the north to St. Paul de Loanda in the

south, extending inland along the Senegal, Niger, and Congorivers, and also near Lake Nyanza. A peculiar feature ofthe disease was the length of time during which it mightremain latent-as long as seven years. The onset was veryinsidious and the symptoms resembled those that occurredin animals, the disease being mostly confined to negroes.Puffiness of the face, a sad, heavy expression, and sinkingof the head on the chest were well marked. A parasite, the trypanosoma, had been found to be the cause of thedisease and was apparently conveyed by the tsetse fly.Its inoculation in monkeys caused the same symptomsas in man. In the rat’s blood a trypanosoma was commonlyfound in this country but caused no manifest symptomsthough in considerable numbers. The symptoms variedaccording as the parasite was present in the blood only orin the cerebro-pinal fluid also ; in the former case theywere classed as trypanosoma fever and this was preliminaryto the disease proper, the mental symptoms appearingmly when the parasite occurred in the cerebro-spinal fluidis well. It was a very fatal disease and had decimatedwhole districts. Dr. Duncan next proceeded to discuss

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some recent’ work regarding the relationship between

trypanosoma and the Leishman bodies. The lecture was illus-trated by numerous lantern slides which were much appreci-ated. The close attention accorded to Dr. Duncan andthe hearty vote of thanks awarded to him on the motionof the chairman bore abundant testimony to the thoroughgrasp which the lecturer had of the subject and to the lucidand interesting manner in which he had handled it.

Death of Dr. E. B. Hector.Dr. Edward Bateman Hector, Castle Douglas, died on

Dec. 3rd. He had an extensive practice in Castle Douglasand district. He belonged to Montrose and came from apractice in Yorkshire to Castle Douglas six years ago. Hetook the degree of M.B., C.M.Edin. in 1883, and that of M.D.in 1902. Dr. Hector was a son of the late Mr. AlexanderHector, tacksman of salmon nshings at Bervie. and a youngerbrother of Mr. Alexander Hector who continued as lesseeafter his father’s death. The deceased gentleman was about50 years of age.

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IRELAND.(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

Hygiene in National Schools.A DEPUTATION of representative members of the medical

profession in Dublin was received on Nov. llth by Dr.W. J. M. Starkie, Resident Commissioner of NationalEducation. It included the President of the RovalCollege of Physicians of Ireland, the President of theRoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the President ofthe Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, the Presidentof the Lcinster Division of the British Medical Associa-tion, the President of the Royal Veterinary College,and two members of the General Medical Council. SirWilliam Thomson said that they represented the signatoriesof a petition addressed to all the educational authorities ofthe United Kingdom urging the teaching of hygiene andtemperance in primary and secondary schools, and he putbefore the Commissioner a short history of the originand progress of this movement. He said that theimmediate purpose they had in bringing this subjectforward was to submit to the Commissioners whetherit would not be possible to include in the public course ofinstruction in elemental schools lessons on the advantagesof cleanliness, pure air, pure food, &c., and, moreover, tomake this teaching compulsory. On the other hand, hethought that this was one of those subjects which might betanght without any following examination, the danger ofover-weighting children in regard to examinations beingobvious. Sir Christopher Nixon desired to emphasise twopoints in connexion with what had been said. The first wasthat elementary instruction in hygiene and temperanceshould be given at the earliest age, so that as the child com-menced to learn the principles of the Christian religion heshould also learn the principles of bodily health and that"cleanliness is next to godliness." He did not accept SirWilliam Thomson’s view in not requiring an examination ofan elementary kind in the subject of public health and con-sidered that there was a necessity for providing a catechismof public health in order that the study of what was neces-sary for the body should be dealt with in the same way asthat which concerned the child’s spiritual well-being.Dr. Starkie delivered a long and interesting reply inwhich he said that he was thoroughly in favour of spread-ing as far as possible the knowledge of hygiene in theschools and stated definitely that in the preparation of anew edition of the programme he would advocate to hiscolleagues on the Board its being made a compulsory subject.He said that he considered examinations in such a subject ashygiene unnecessary. Mr. A. Chance, in returning thanks onbehalf of the deputation to the Resident Commissioner fortheir very courteous reception, said that the reply which Dr.Starkie had made produced the impression on him that theirefforts had not been entirely successful.

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.A meeting of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons

in Ireland decided on Dec. 1st, on the motion of Sir CharlesCameron, to confer the honorary Fellowship of the College’on Dr. Anthony Traill as the first member of the medicalprofession occupying the distinguished position of Provostof Trinity College.

Rotunda Hospital, Dublin.A meeting of the board of governors of the Rotunda Hos-

pital took place on Dec. 2nd, Mr. R. O’Brien Furlong, C.B.,being in the chair. A letter was received from Sir ArthurMacan thanking the board for his recent election as

governor. The secretary reported the death since the lastmeeting of Dr. William C. Neville, pathologist to the hos-pital, an announcement which was received with muchregret. The Master nominated Dr. Roy S. Dobbin as clinicalclerk.

Dispensary Medical Officer’s Fees.A curious situation has arisen in Kilkeel, Co. Down, where,.

owing to an acute affection of the ear, one of the dispensiumedical officers, Mr. H. E. Evans, applied to the board ofguardians on Nov. 30th for leave of absence for three (laysto get further special advice. He nominated Dr. F. Floydof Kilkeel as his substitute at four guineas per week. The

guardians would only promise three guineas per week whichDr. Floyd declined, as the Irish Medical Association, ofwhich he is a member, had fixed on four guineas as thesum binding on their members, and Dr. Floyd refused totake less. The board declined to appoint a substitute onthe terms named, so Mr. Evans must remain and perhaps.lose his hearing or, in case he leaves for further advice, thedistrict may be left without the services of a medical man.Dr. Floyd generously offered to do duty for nothing but couldnot continue to do so in ca-e of a longer absence than threedays on Mr. Evans’s part.

Lisburn Board of Gacardians.As a contrast to the action of the Kilkeel board of

guardians it is pleasant to find the Lisburn board ofguardians passing unanimously and cordially the followingmotion :

That this hoard desire to express their admiration of the splendidservices rendered by two o of their me lical officers, Dr. Orrof Ballylessonand Dr. Mussen of Gleiiax,3,, who for 40 years haae discharged theirduties without a single complaint having been made against them, andfurther desire to express their thanks to these gentlemen for theirkindness and attention to the poor amongst whom they are placed.

1 isit of Lord and Lady Dcmllcy to Ulster.Their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess.

of Dudley arrived in Bel fast on Dec. 5tu and in the,evening Lady Dudley distributed the prizes in the UlsterHall to the pupils of the Municipal Technical College. Onthe 6th their Excellencies visited the People’s Palace andthe Countess of Dudley opened the Homes for the CrippleChildren of Ireland. A cordial vo’e of thanks, moved bythe Right Hon. Thomas Sinclair, D.L., l1nd seconded byProfessor J. W. Byer.;, M.D. R.U.I., was accorded to LadyDudley. On the ith their Excellencies visited Newry, where-the Lord Lieutenant opened a bazaar for the Newry FeverHospital and the Countess of Dudley was presented with anaddress from the Newry District Nursing Society.

The Belfast Workhouse.At an extraordinary meeting of the Belfast board of

guardians held on Dec. lst special reference was made tothe congested state of the workhouse and it was reportedthat in case the old Royal Hospital should still remain vacantit would be let to the guardians for the purpose of affordingthe necessary a.ccommodation. The Local Government Board

inspectors said that they never saw any thing o bad as thepresent condition of the workhouse and stated that in theblock where there were 700 infirm men the building waspacked from the ground floor to the top loft and the smellwas most offensive. It was utterly unfit for human beingsto be placed in.

Health nf Belfast.At the monthly meeting of the city corporation held on

Dec. 1st it was reported that the small.pox epidemic stillcontinued, there having been five fresh cases during theprevious week. The number of cases of infectious diseasenotified has increased, especially scarlet fever, of which 56cases had been reported between Oct. 23rd and Nov. 19th,while during the ; ame period 63 cases of enteric feverhad been reported.. The death-rate from all causes was.

18-4 per 1000.

Ballymena Cottage Hospital.At the annual meeting of the friends of this hospital on

Dec. 1st special reference was made in the medical report,to’ the loss sustained by the hospital in the death of thelate Dr. J. Stuart. There had been 80 intern and 15 externpatients during the year. The income from all sources was