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be self-destructive and the breakdown which eventuallyended his career was long feared by his friends. He was forsome years a valued contributor to our columns and hiscommand of foreign languages enabled him to supply uswith many interesting précis of articles appearing in foreignjournals. His health, however, gradually gave way and forsome 18 months before his death he practically did no

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ROLAND ARTHUR STEVENSON, L.R.C.P. LOND.,M.R.C.S. ENG.

AT Stoke-in-Teignhead, Devon, on Nov. 19bh, the body ofMr. Roland Arthur Stevenson, second son of the Rev. E.Stevenson, rector of Stoke-in-Teignhead, was laid to rest inthe same grave where four years ago his youngest brother,Leslie, midshipman of the Cæsar, was buried. The deceased,who was 38 years of age, was educated at the Owens College,Manchester, and St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, andobtained the qualifications of L.R C.P. Lond. and M.R.C.S.Eng. in 1899. He afterwards held the appointments ofhouse physician at the Brompton Consumption Hospital andwas then elected assistant medical officer of the Pine woodSinatorium, Wokingham, and after a few years was appointedmedical superintendent of the institution. Mr. Stevensonwas extremely popular at the institution and much sorrowis felt there and in Devonshire at his death, which occurredfrom appendicitis on Nov. 15th. Many wreaths were sent tothe funeral from the residents of the sanatorium and fromfriends in Stoke-in-Teignhead and district, many of whom hadknown him from a boy.

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SAMUEL AIRD JOLLY. L R.C.11. & S. EDIN..L.F.P.S. GLASG.

Mr. S. Aird Jolly, of Wingfield. Acacia-road, Acton, whoenjoyed a large practice in Acton and the adjoining district,died on Nov. 14th. at the age of 55 years. He held the posi-tion of medical officer and public vaccinator in the Brentfordunion, and was also one of the medical staff of theActon Cottage Hospital and Dispensary. Death was dueto meningitis, and came with remarkable suddenness. Asa well-known medical practitioner in Middlesex Mr. Jollywill be greatly missed and especially by the poor. He wasa staunch Churchman ani during the recent summer wasinstrumental in obtaining the presence of Her Highness thePrincess Louise Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein at a gardenfete in the rectory grounds on behalf of the parish churchextension fund.

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DEATHS OF EMINENT FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN.-Thedeaths of the following eminent foreign medical men areannounced :-Dr. L. V. Popoff, who succeeded to ProfessorBotkin’s chair in the St. Petersburg Military Medical

Academy. He was a voluminous writer on medical subjects.His age was 62 years.-Dr. Rabot of the Lyons Hospitals.-Dr. Planteau, professor of pathological anatomy in theMedical School of Algiers.-Dr. José Benicio de Abreu,professor of clinical medicine in the University of Rio deJaneiro.-Dr. Gustav Adolf Boehme, surgeon-general in theGerman army, whose name is well known in connexion withthe Red Cross movement. He was in his seventieth year andhad retired some four years ago.-Dr. Reincke, who waslargely responsible for the reorganisation of the sanitarydepartment of Hamburg.

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.-Berlin :Dr. Heinrich von Bardeleben, a son of the eminent surgeon,has been recognised asprivat-docent of Gynæcology.-Berne : :Dr. Asher of Leipsic has been appointed ExtraordinaryProfessor of Physiology.-Bonn : Dr. Karl Schmiz has beenrecognised as privat-docent of the History of Medicine.-Cracow : Dr. Joseph Latkowski and Dr. Erwin Miesowcz havebeen recognised as privat-docenten of Internal Medicine.-Leg7ibe-rg : Dr. Stanislaus Badzynski has been appointed tothe chair of Medical Chemistry and Dr. Paul Kucera hasbeen appointed Extraordinary Professor of Hygiene.-Lyons :Dr. Nicolas, agrégé, has been appointed Clinical Professor ofDermatology and Syphilis in succession to Dr. Augagneur;Dr. Qaiart, agrégé of the Paris Faculty, has been appointedProfessor of Natural History in succession to Dr. Lortet.-ist. Petersburg (Military Medical Academy) : Dr. Danilevskiis about to retire from the post of Director of the Academy.-Strasburg : Dr. Jacob Fr6(]6ric has been recognised asprivat-docent of Anatomy and Arithropology.

THE GENERAL COUNCIL OFMEDICAL EDUCATION AND

REGISTRATION.

TUESDAY, NOV. 27TH.THE eighty-fourth session of the General Council of Medical

Education and Registration for the United Kingdom wasopened in the reconstructed hall, 299, Oxford-street, London,to-day. Dr. D. MACALISTER, the President, occupied thechair. All the members were present except Dr. Barrs andDr. Cocking, who were unable to attend owing to illnE s3.

New Members.Mr. James William Beeman Hodsdon was introduced by

Sir John Batty Tuke as the new representative of the RoyalCollege of Surgeons of Edinburgh in place of Sir PatrickHeron Watson. Sir Charles Bent Ball, introduced by Dr.Little, took his seat as the representative of the Universityof Dublin, in room of Dr. Bennett.

The President’s Address.

[The PRESIDENT opened the business by delivering anaddress of a very interesting character. After referring ineloquent terms to the merits and services of the three

retiring members, Sir Patrick Heron Watson, Dr. E. H.

Bennett, and Sir Victor Horsley, he welcomed Mr. Hodsdonand Sir Charles Ball-an old member of the Council-inplace of the two former, ard pointed out that Sir Victor

Horsley’s seat would be filled bv one of the three successfulcondidates at the election of Direct Representatives nowproceeding. He continued as follows :]—The petition of theBritish Optical Association for the grant of a Charter.concerning which resolutions were adopted by the Councilon May 24th and transmitted to the Lord President,has been refused. It is, moreover, understood that the Sight-testing Opticians Bill, introduced in the House of Lordswith a purpose similar to that of the proposed charter, hasbeen dropped. Another petition for a charter of incorpora-tion was presented by the " National Association of MedicalHerbalists of Great Britain, Limited," and was advertised inthe london Gazette at the beginning of July. As it wasapparent that the grant of the powers and privileges soughtfor would be dangerous to the public and would tend todefeat the purposes of the Medical Acts, a memorandumsetting forth the objections to the grant was drafted andapproved by the members of the Executive Committee fortransmission to the Lord President. We have now beenofficially informed that in this case also His Majesty inCouncil has been advised to refuse the prayer of the

petitioners. The Executive Committee has had beforeit some additional information respecting medical quali-fications in Japan other than those conferred by theImperial University. On this subject it will report indue course to the Council. The committee has alsounder consideration applications from the Provincial MedicalBoard of Nova Scotia and from the University and College bywhich medical degrees are granted in that province, request-ing that in pursuance of the Order in Council of May llth,1906, these provincial diplomas may be recognised for regis-tration in the Colonial List of the Medical Register. Amemorandum setting forth the course of medical study andexaminations enforced by law in Nova Scotia has been pre-pared for the information of the committee and will be

printed with its minutes on the subject. During the summerit was my privilege to re-visit Canada in connexion with themeeting of the British Medical Association at Toronto. Bythe kindness of the Lord President of the Privy Council andof the Governor-General I was enabled to meet Ministersof the Crown at Ottawa, Toronto, and Quebec, and otherinfluential persons interested in the subject of medical

reciprocity between Canada and the mother country. I foundthat in some cases misconceptions existed as to the effectof recent Imperial legislation on the question and as to thesteps that are now necessary to procure the application ofthe Medical Act of 1886 to particular provinces. There isreason to believe that the explanations offered in answer toinquiries on these points have been serviceable in removingsuch misconceptions. Indeed, from an unofficial communica-tion that has recently arrived it would appear that in oneimportant province, which at present does not accept Britishdiplomas for registration, active steps are now being taken tc

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bring about the mutual recognition of medical qualifications ‘

as between this country and the province. It gives me greatpleasure to acknowledge the courtesy which as yourPresident I received at the hands of the Dominion andProvincial Ministers and of the university and medicalauthorities in Canada. From what I was able by theirkindness to see and hear of the conditions of medical andscientific education in the Dominion I was strengthened inmy conviction that nothing but good can result from a closerconnexion and a freer interchange between the professionalschools there and here.

[Having alluded to the celebration of the four hundredthanniversary of the University of Aberdeen, he continued :—] ]

During the hearing of certain cases in May the desire wasexpressed that the Council should be formally notified of allcases in which medical or dental practitioners are convicteden such charges as might bring them within the operation ofthe penal clauses of the Medical or Dentists Acts. Com-munications were accordingly addressed by the Registrar tothe Secretary of State for the Home Department, the UnderSecretary for Scotland, and to the Chief Secretary to theLord-Lieutenant of Ireland, asking that instructions mightbe given to this effect. From Eogland and Ireland we havereceived replies stating that the desired instructions havebeen issued ; from Scotland we have so far heard only thatour request will receive attention." In certain cases thatwill come before you for inquiry information received inconsequence of the steps thus taken by the Governmentauthorities will be placed at your disposal. The penal caseswhich you will have to consider do not, I think, raise

any new point of principle; they have been carefullyprepared for your inquiry by the help of the reconsti-tuted Penal Cases Committee and of your legal advisers.One of the dental cases illustrates afresh the unsatis-

factcry state of the law in relation to j oint stockcompanies which purport to carry on professional practice.The Bills prepared on the Council’s behalf, by means ofwhich it is proposed to remedy in some measure the existingabuses, have been communicated to the Lord President ; but,acting on advice which we could not disregard, we have notattempted to submit them for consideration by Parliamentduring the present autumn session. Next year we may hopeto be more successful in urging them on the attention ofParliament. An important opinion from eminent counsel,bearing on the "privilege" attaching to tae documentsand evidence submitted in connexion with the penal pro-cedure of the Council, has been obtained and will besubmitted to you in camerâ. It may be necessary, in

pursuance of the advice thus given, that you shouldsanction an addition to the Standing Orders relating tojudicial inquiries under the Medical and Dentists Acts.The Standing Orders respecting the inspection and visita-tion of examinations have been so adjusted by the ExecutiveCommittee as to embody the important principles laid downby the Council at its last meeting. You will be asked toapprove the form into which the rules have been cast by thecommittee and formally to sanction the issue of a revisededition of the Standing Orders which, owing to theaccumulation of a number of minor amendments madefrom time to time by the Council, it has been thoughtnecessary to prepare. The important report of the PracticalMidwifery Committee has by your direction been forwardedto the several teaching and examining bodies for theirobservations. From a large number of these bodies replieshave been received and have been arranged by the

Registrar for the information of the committee whichmet yesterday to consider them. The committee will

probably be able to report during the present sessionon the progress it has made. The Education Committeealso will have something to say on the questions remittedto it on the motion of Dr. Bruce (Minutes, May 26tb,19C6)-namely, what effect has been given to the provisoconcerning pupilage contained in one of the recom-

mendations of the Council, and generally what steps are

taken by the licensing bodies to insure that the fifth yearof the minimum curriculum shall be devoted to clinicalstudy. From inquiries which have been made by the

Registrar it would appear that little or no use is made ofthe permission to reckon a period of pupilage with an

approved practitioner as part of the fifth year. It will be forthe Council to consider whether a proviso that is practicallyinoperative is worth retaining. Its inclusion among our

recommendations has already given rise to misconceptionsregarding the lawfulness of employing in medical practice

the assistance of unqualified students who are described aspupils. Jn conclusion, I would say that, so far as can beforeseen, the business on the programme will probably becompassed by the end of this week. As the General

Registrar and his staff will soon be immersed in thelaborious work of receiving, verifying, and counting ballotpapers under the direction of the Branch Council for

England the comparative lightness of our agenda is highlyconvenient on this occasion.On the motion of Dr. NORMAN MooItE, seconded by Dr.

LITTLE, the President was thanked for his address which itwas agreed to print in the minutes.

Results of Competitions for Army and Indian MedicalServices.

The following tables were received : (a) Table showingresults of competition held in July. 1906, for commissionsin the Army Medical Service, and (b) table showing resultsof competition held in July, 1906, for commissions in theIndian Medical Service. In connexion therewith theRegistrar reported in reference to Table (b) :-As appears from the usual statement sent ty the department, there

were 47 candidates, of whom 25 passed for vacancy, nine qualified butwere unsuccessful, while 13 were rejected. In addition to the state-ment. however, a complete table of marks was sent, from which thefollowing information has been extracted :-All the 13 candidatesrejected failed to obtain qualifying marks, seven of them are not statedto have failed in any particular subject, while one failed in chemistryonly, three failed in medicine only, one failed in anatomy only, andone failed in each group of subjects, including midwifery.

Dr. McVAiL moved and Mr. YOUNG seconded :-

That the thanks of the Council be conveyed to the Director-Generalof the Army Medical Service and the Under Secretary of State forIndia, respectively, for the returns which they have again furnished tothe Council, with the request that these returns may in the futurecontinue to be furnished to the General Medical Council.

Dr. SAUNDBY expressed the op’nion that the tables were ofno use and he proposed as an amendment that the wordsrequesting a continuance of the returns should be deleted.

Dr. F. G ADYE CURRAN seconded the amendment.Dr. McVAIL said that the Examination Committee had

found the returns of very great use. They informed the pro-fession at large as to the standard of the various examinationsover a series of year?.

Dr. LIXDSAY STEVES supported the amendment.After some further discussion the Council voted. The

amendment was lost and the motion was then carried nem. con.

Report on Dental Business.On the motion of Dr NORMAN MooRE, seconded by Mr.

MORRIS, the following report from the Executive Committeeon the dental business transacted ince the last meeting ofthe Council was received and entered on the minutes :-

(1) The prescribed conditions having been duly fulfilled in each case,the names of the undermentioned persons have been restored to theDentists’ Register, from which they had been erased in conformity withthe provisions of 8ection 12 of the Dentists Act, 1878: DavidJ. Cameron,George Campbell, James W. Dallachy, Bertrand S. Davies, FrederickDonovan, Henry Forewell, John H. Gartrell, William H. Eall, Harold0. W. Harris, Henry Hightield, Gordon Hooper, Thos. C. M. Mulliner,Matthew S. Philson, Henry A. Washbourne.

(2) Information was received through the Colonial Office of theintention not to proceed with a proposed Bill to regulate dentalpractice in the Colony of Hong Kong.

(3) The committee received from the authorities in England andIreland promises to furnish to the Council records of all fines inflictedon dental practitioners, and an assurance from the Under Secretary forScotland that the matter would receive attention.

(4) The Committee receivad through the Colonial Office a copy ofan Act to regulate the practice of dentistry in Newfoundland, andreferred it to the Dental Education and Examination Committee forits information.

(5) A communication was received from the Royal College of Surgeonsof England intimating that its Licence in Dental Surgery had beenwithdrawn from three dental practitioners whose names had beenerased by the Gene al Council at its May session.

In reply to a question by Mr. MORRIS relative to the lastclause in the report,The PRESIDENT stated that erasure from the Dentists’

Register automatically removed the person concerned fromthe lil-t of Licentiates of any body. Similarly, restoration tothe Dentists’ Register automatically restored a name.

Revision of Standing Orders.The Executive Committee submitted a report as to the

revision of the Standing Orders relating to visitation andinspection and the adjustment of other amendments directedby the Council.The Executive Committee reported that they had considered this

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reference and that they had adjusted the Standing Orders in regardto the visitation and inspection ot examinations as follows:-

CHAPTER XXIII.—INSPECTION AND VISITATION OFEXAMINATIONS.A.-INSPECTION.

1. Under the powers conferred by Section 3 of the Medical Act, 1886the Council shall appoint inspectors to attend such of the qualify ingexaminations of the several licensing bodies as the Council ma3direct.

2. It shall be the duty of the Examination Committee to advise theCouncil as to the time and place of each inspection.

3. Three inspectors- one for medicine, one for surgery, and one formidwifery-shall be appointed for definite periods; and it shall betheir duty to conduct inspections where and when required by theCouncil.

4. An inspector shall not be a member of the Council, nor shall heduring his tenure ot office act as examiner in any qualifying examina-tion.

5. Each inspector shall receive from the President a formal com-mission in writing, under the seal of the Council.

6. The remuneration of an inspector shall be at the rate of five

guineas for each day during which he is absent from home on thebusiness of the Council, together with an allowalce for his actualtravelling and hotel expenses.

7. It shall be the duty of inspectors to report to the Council theiropinion as to the sufficiency or insufficiency of each examinationinspected by them. Their reports shall set forth in order all necessaryparticulars as to the questions proposed in the written, oral, andpractical parts of the examination, the cases and the appliances pro-vided for clinical examinations, the arrangements made for invigila-tion, the method and scale of marking, the standard of knowledgeshown by successful candidates, and generally all such details as maybe required for adjudicating on the scope and character of theexamination.

8. Inspectors shall include in their reports, in the form of a briefdiary, a statement of the days and hours at which they were presentduring the course of each examination inspected, and of the parts ordivisions of the examination in progress on each day.

9. Inspectors shall be made acquainted with such previous reports onthe examinations inspected as the Executive Committee or thePresident may direct, together VI ith the remarks and observations ofthe licensing bodies and the reports of the Examination Committeethereon. They shall also be provided with copies of the recommenda-tions of the Council in regard to professional examination, and shallinclude in their reports a statement of the extent to which theserecommendations have been carried out in the case of each examina-tion inspected.

10. The reports of inspectors when prepared shall be forwarded tothe President, who shall came them to be printed. The final proofcopies of the reports, as corrected, .hall be bigned in writing by theinspectors. and shall be preserved by the General Registrar as theauthoritative copies

11. Previous to the meeting of the Council at which the reports ofinspectors are to be considered, confidential copies, not exceeding 50 innumber, of each report shall be forwarded for consideration to thelicensing body to which such report refers, with a request that thebody will make such remarks and observations thereon as may bethought necessary and will forward the same with as little delay aspossible to the Ger eral Registrar.

12. A confidential copy of each report of the inspectors, togetherwith the remarks and observations made thereon by the licensing bodyconcerned, shall be supplied, when ready, to each member of theCouncil.

13. The Examination Committee shall consider and report to theCouncil on each report of the inspectors.

14. A copy of each report of the inspectors, together with the remarksand observations made by the licensing body concerned, and the reportof the Examination Committee thereon as approved by the Council,shall be forwarded to the Privy Council.

B.-VISITATION.

1. Under the powers conferred by Section XVIII. of the MedicalAct, 1858, the Council shall from time to time appoint members of theCouncil as visitors, who shall be deputed to attend and be present atsuch of the professional examinations required for obtaining the quali-fications of any of the licensing bodies as the Council may direct.

2. It shall be the duty of the Examination Committee to advise theCouncil as to the examinations to be visited and as to the time andplace of each visitation.

3. Each visitor shall receive from the President a formal commissionin writing under the seal of the Council.

4. A visitor shall not receive any remuneration but shall be paid hisactual travelling and hotel expenses.

5. It shall be the duty of visitors to report, separately from theinspectors, on each examination visited by them, and they shall includein their report such particulars and observations thereon as they deemimportant for the information of the Council.

6. Visitors shall include in their reports, in the form of a brief diary,a statement of the days and hours at which they were present duringthe course of each examination visited and of the parts or divisions ofthe examination in progress on each day. !

7. The reports of visitors when prepared shall be forwarded to the President, who shall cause them to be printed. The final proof copiesof the reports, as corrected, shall be signed in writing by the visitors,and shall be preserved by the General Registrar as the authoritative Icopies. I

8. Thereports of visitors shall be referred bv the President to theExamination Committee for consideration and report to the Counciland shall be deemed confidential unless in any particular case theCouncil shall otherwise direct.

Dr. PYE-SMITH moved that the report be received andentered on the minutes.This was seconded by Sir JOHN W. MooltE and agreed to.Dr. PYE-SMITH moved that the regulations as formulated

be adopted by the Council.Sir JOHN W. MOORE seconded the motion.

The PRESIDENT remarked that no change had been madeexcept embodying in the text of the rules the resolutionsformerly come to by the Council.

Dr. LINDSAY STEVEN moved to amend Standing OrderNo. 2 by providing that it shall be the duty of the Examina-

, tion Committee and of the Education Committee acting; jointly to advise the Council as to the time and place of

each inspection and visitation. He thought it was an errorB for the Council to depute such an important matter as the

time and place of inspection and visitation to the Examina-tion Committee. It was the duty of all the members to advise

! the Council and by including the Education Committee inthe Standing Order a larger number of members would beconcerned in this important duty.

Sir J. BATTY TuKE seconded the amendment, which afterfurther discussion was adopted.The adoption of the regulations was then agreed to.The committee also reported that it had further adjusted

the Standing Orders Cb. IX. ; 6. 9 XIV. 4 (2) (b); and theAppendix to Ch. XIV., embodying alterations which hadbeen adopted by the Council from time to time since thelast revision on July 15th, 1903.On the motion of Dr. NORMAN MOORE, seconded by Mr.

THOMSON, the report was received and entered on the minutesand it was agreed that power should be given to the Execu-tive Committee to issue the volume of Standing Orders whenready.

Election of Direct Representatives.Another report by the committee was in the following

terms :-On May 28th, 1906, the General Council passed the following resolu-

tion :-" That the Executive Committee be instructed to approach the Privy

Council ith the object of securing such alterations in the Regula-tions 8 and 10 of the Schedule of Instructions to Voters under Section 8of the Medical Act, 1886, as will provide for the adoption of theprinciples of voting by ballot in lieu of the existing open system ofelection of Direct Representatives."In consequence of the representation which was thereupon made the

Privy Council has given its consent to the proposed change in the modeof election, and revised rules for the conduct of elections by means ofthe use of ballot papers have been received.

On the motion of Dr. NORMAN MoORE, seconded by Mr.MORRIS, the report was received and entered on the minutes.

The Dentists’ Register.The Council afterwards sat in camerâ and at the close of

its deliberations the PRESIDENT announced that the Councilhad decided to restore to the Dentists’ Register the nameand qualifications of Mr. William Jones.The Council adjourned to the following day.

WEDKESDAY, NOV. 28TH.A large part of the day was taken up with the considera-

tion of penal cases, as the result of which the names ofthree medical practitioners were erased from the MedicalRegister.

After this Sir THOMAS MYLES, the representative of theRoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland, brought forward amotion that it should be remitted to tbe Education Com-

mittee " to consider and report how far it might be possibleto dispense with the customary attendance of students onsystematic lectures in the medical schools." The questionwhich Sir Thomas Myles wished to raise was whether thetime so saved might be devoted to a more extensive study ofthe purely : cientific portion of the curriculum, and hismotion provoked a keen and interesting debate. When theCouncil divided there voted for the motion, 7 ; against, 17 ;while 5 members declined to vote and 4 were absent.

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-At

the First Professional Examination in Anatomy and Physio-logy for the Diploma of Fellow, held on Ncv. 8th, 9t.h, 13th,14th, and 15th, 95 candidates presented themselves for theexamination, of whom 27 were approved and 68 were

rejected. The following are the names of the successfulcandidates :-Alfred Edward Arthur Carver, B.A. Cantab., Cambridge University;William Lawrence CrippR, B.C. Cantab., M.R.C S., L It C.P., Cam-bridge University and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; William IsaacCumberlidge, B.A. Cantab., M R.C.S., L.It.C.P., St. Bartholo-mew’s Hospital; Robert Dow Forbes, M.D., C.M. McQill,