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Appointments.SuccessJ ul applicants for Vacarccies, Secretaries of Public Instit2ctaone,and others possessing information s1titable for this column, art

invited to jorward it to THE LANCET Office, directed to the Sub-Editor, not later than 9 o’clock on the Th1trsday morning of eachweek, for p1tbliootion in the next number.

ADAMS, A., M.A., M.B., lias been appointed Medical Officer and PuolieVaccinator for the No. 5 District of the Liskeard (Cornwall) Union.

ALLBUTT, CLIFFORD, M.D., F.R.S., has been appointed Examiner inMedicine and Therapeutics for the Indian Medical Service.

BoGER, WILLIAM HENRY, L.R.C.P. Edin., M.R.C.S., has been re-

appointed Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator for the No. 4District of the Liskeard (Cornwall) Union.

BRIDGER, J. F. E., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointed CivilSurgeon to the Troops and Boer Prisoners stationed at Antigua.

BROWN, Major E. HAROLD, 1.M.S., M.D., has been appointed ClinicalAssistant to the Chelsea Hospital for Women.

COWDEN, W. J., M.D. R.U.I., has been appointed Certifying Surgeonunder the Factory :Act for the Dromore District of the County ofDown.

CUNNINGHAM, D. J., M.D., F.R.S., has been appointed Examiner inSurgical Anatomy and Physiology for the Indian Medical Service.

HAMMOND, WILLIAM, L.R.C.P., L.M. Edin., M.R.C.S., L.S.A., has beenre-appointed Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator for the No, 6District of the Liskeard (Cornwall) Union.

HARDING, NoRMAN E., M.B., Ch.B. Edin., has been appointed LocumAssistant Medical Officer to the Durham County Asylum.

LEITH, R. CALDER, M.A., F.R.C.P. Edin., F.R.S. Ed., has been appointedExaminer in Pathology and Bacteriology for the Indian MedicalService.

LEONARD, F. C., M.D., has been appointed Clinical Assistant to theChelsea Hospital for Women.

Low, V. WARREN, M.D., B.S" F.R.C.S.. has been appointed Surgeon tothe Out-patient Department of St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.

MACCARTHY, BRENDAN, M.D., B.Ch., B.A.O. Dub., has been appointedPermanent Medical Inspector on the staff of the Local GovernmentBoard at Londonderry.

MARSH, HOWARD, F.R.C.S., has been appointed Examiner in Surgeryand Diseases of the Eye for the Indian Medical Service.

MURRAY, R. MILNE, M.A., F.R.C.P.Edin., F.R.S. Ed., has been

appointed Examiner in Midwifery and Diseases of Women andChildren for the Indian Medical Service.

POWELL, J. F., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointed HouseSurgeon to the Victoria Hospital, Folkestone.

PROVIS, F. LIONEL, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointedRegistrar to the Chelsea Hospital for Women.

REES, D. C., M.R.C.S., L R.C.P. Lond., Senior Government PlagueMedical Officer, Cape Colony, lately Medical Superintendent, LondonTropical School of Medicine, has been appointed Medical Inspectoron the staff of the Medical Officer of Health for the Cape Colony.

STOCKMAN, RALPH, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Ed., has been appointedExaminer in Chemistry, Pharmacy, Botany, and Zoology for theIndian Medical Service.

WATERS, JAMES, L.S.A. Lond., has been appointed Medical Officer ofHealth and Public Vaccinator to the Bildeston District of, theCosford Union. Suffolk, and Medical Officer to the Workhouse atSemer. Suffolk.

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Vacancies.For jurther injormation regaraing each vacancy rejerence should be

made to the advertisement (see Index).

ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE, War Office, S.W.-Thirty Commissions.AYLESBURY, ROYAL BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HOSPITAL.-Resident Surgeon,

unmarried. Salary £80, rising to E100, with board and apart-ments.

AYR DisTRiCE LUNACY BOARD.-Medical Superintendent. Salary £500with house, coal, gas, &c.

BETHLEM HOSPITAL.-Two Resident House Physicians for six months,with apartments, board, &e. Honorarium at rate of E25 per quarter.

BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND HOSPITAL FOR SKU, AND URINARYDISEASES, Birmingham.-Clinical Assistant.

BRISTOL CITY LUNATIC ASYLUM.—Medical Assistant, unmarried.Salary E140 per annum, increasing to £160, with apartments, board,and washing.

CENTRAL LONDON SICK ASYLUM at Cleveland-street or Hendon.—First Assistant Medical Officer. Salary E120 per annum, with boardand residence at Hendon Asylum.

DUDLEY GUEST HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon for six months.Salary E40 per annum, with residence, board, and washing.

DURHAM COUNTY ASYLUM.-Third Assistant Medical Officer. Salary£150, rising to E180 a year, with apartments, board, laundry, andattendance.

FiSHERTON ASYLUM.-Assistant Medical Officer, unmarried. SalaryE150 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.

FOBRES LEANCHOIL HOSPITAL, Morayshire.—Medical Officer. SalaryE60 per annum.

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GLASGOW ST. MUNGO’S COLLEGE, MEDICAL FACULTY.—Notman Chairof Physiology.

GRAVESEND HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary £90 per annum, withboard and residence.

HORT’)N INFIRMARY. Banbury.-House Surgeon and Dispenser. Salary£80 per annum, with board and lodging.

HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, Great Ormond-street, London, W.C.-House Physician, unmarried, for six months. Salary JE20, withhoard and residence. Also Clinical Pathologist and Bacteriologist.Honorarium 50 guineas.

HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, Soho-square, W.-Honorary Assistant Anaes-thetist. Also House Physician for six months. Salary £30.

HULME DISPENSARY, Manchester.-Honorary Physician.INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE, India Office, S.W.-Nineteen appointments

in Indian Medical Service.LIVERPOOL BOROUGH HOSPITAL, Bootle.-Junior House Surgeon.

Salary £80 per annum, with board, lodging, and laundry.LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY FOR CHILDREN.-Assistant House Surgeon for

six months. Salary f:25, with board and lodging. ’,LONDON HOSPITAL, Whitechapel, E.-Surgeon.LONDON TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL, N.W.-Assistant Resident Medical ’IOfficer for six months. Honorarium at rate of 50 guineas per

alinum, with board, residence, and washing.LONDON THROAT HOSPITAL, 204, Great Portland-street, W.-Non-

resident House Surgeon. Honorarium at rate of £25 per annum.NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYSED AND EPILEPTIC, Queen-

square, Bloomsbury.-Assistant Physician.NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL.-Second Assistant House

Surgeon for six months, with board, lodging, and washing.Honorarium .B20. ’

NORTHAMPTON GENERAL INFIRMARY.-Assistant House Surgeon,unmarried. Salary £75 per annum, with apartments, board,attendance, and washing.

NOTTINGHAM GENERAL DISPENSARY.-Assistant Resident Surgeon,unmarried. Salary f:160 per annum, with apartments, attendance,light, and fuel.

ST. MARYLEBONE GENERAL DISPENSARY, 77, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square, W.-Resident Medical Officer. Salary £150 per annum,with apartments, attendance, coal, and light.

ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDEN, Plaistow, E.-ResidentMedical Officer. Salary £100 per annum. Also Assistant ResidentMedical Officer. Salary L80 per annum. Both with board, resi-dence, and laundry.

SHEFFIELD RoYAL HOSPITAL.-Honorary Dental Officer.SOMERSET ANDBATH ASYLUM, Cotford, Taunton.-Assistant Medical

Officer, unmarried. Salary £150 per annum, with apartments,board, and washing.

STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY ASYLUM, Stafford.-Junior Assistant MedicalOfficer, unmarried. Salary :E1&0, rising to :E200, with apartments,board, &c.

STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL INFIRMARY, Stafford.- House Surgeon.Salary f:120 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.

SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL.-Second House Surgeon and Anaesthetist.SWANSEA GENERAL AND EYE HOSPITAL.-Resident Medical Officer,

Salary B75, with board, apartments, washing, and attendance.THROAT HOSPITAL, Golden-square, W.-Junior House Surgeon. Salary

£100 per annum, with lunch.WHITTINGHAM COUNTY ASYLUM, Lancashire.-Junior Assistant Medical

Officer, unmarried. Salary .E150, with apartments, board, washing,and attendance.

WILTS COUNTY ASYLUM, Devizes.-Assistant Medical Officer, un-

married. Salary B160 a year, rising to .E190, with board, residence,attendance, and washing.

WOLVERHAMPTON AND STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL.—House

Physician. Salary f:100 per annum, with board, lodging, andwashing. --

THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, S.W., gives notice ofa vacancy as Certifying Surgeon under the Factory Acts at Rochfordin the county of Essex.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

ALDERSON.-On May 16th, at Eldon-square, Newcastle-on-Tyne, thewife of Wilfred E. Alderson, M.D., M.S. Durh., of a son.

Bow.—On May 20th, at Pentland-terrace. Edinburgh, the wife of M.Ranken Bow, M.B., C.M. Edin , of a daughter.

MAUND.-On May 17th, at Brackley House, Xewniarket. the wife ofJohn H. Maund. M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.GOODMAN—CLAY.—On April 28th, Cyril Goodman, M.A., M.B. Cantab.,

of Cairo, to Sue Elizabeth, younger daughter of Cassius M. Clay.STANDAGE-LONSDALE.-On March llth, at Holy Trinity Church,

Bangalore, India, by the Rev. A. J. Jones, M.A., chaplain, CaptainRobert Fraser Standage. I.M.S., son of the late Alfred Standage, ofHurcott, Worcestershire, to Gwendolen, daughter of the lateWilliam Lonsdale of Hutton Roof, Eastbourne.

SWINDALE-NEALE.-On May 19th, John Aston Swindale, M.B.,B.S. Durh., to Mary Frances, daughter of W. A. Neale, J.P., ofWaihi, N.Z. -

DEATHS.BODINGTON.-On Mav 8th, in Paris. George Fowler Bodington, M.D.

Durham, F.R.C.S. Eng., M.R.C.P., late Superintendent of theGovernment Asylum, British Columbia, aged 73.SIMMONDS.—On May 24th. at Camberwell-road, Henry MorrisSimmonds, M.R.C.P., L.S.A., aged 75 years.

N.B.-A jee of 5s. is charged for the insertion of Notim of Births,Marriages, and Deatha.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

FEES FOR INSURANCE EXAMINATIONS.

WE have received several more communications concerning the feestendered by life assurance societies to medical men for undertakingthe examination of candidates for policies. One of them contains theform of the medical report required by the Gresham Life AssuranceSociety, Limited. The report is marked " North-e-astern branch, ParadeChambers, High-street, Sheffield ; Francis Rankine, District Manager,"so that perhaps it is not in general use by the society. It consists of

questions to be put by the medical examiner to the person whose lifeis proposed for assurance and it is suggested that the medical manshould take down the answers of the person examined, as far aspossible, in his own words. The medical man is first asked to fill

up a long tabular statement regarding the family record, spacesbeing left for such useful information as the existence of thecandidate’s sister’s gout and the duration of his or her mother’sfather’s last illness. Then follows a table under six main headingswith 28 sub-headings, setting out the applicant’s pathological history.We pity the medical man who has to fill up such a table andthe applicant who has to answer the questions. Then we

come to the medical examination. Four observations are requiredabout the heart and five about the chest, elaborate measurementsbeing necessary for conscientious answers. Five observations haveto be made about the urine-and it is not considered sufficient thata medical man should state the presence or absence of albuminor sugar: he is also asked to state the tests which he has

employed. We note that the medical man is constituted a kind ofdetective in behalf of the Gresham Life Assurance Society, Limited.He is asked how he has identified the person proposing to assure ashimself or herself, and whether the sum proposed is excessive inrelation to his or her position in life. Altogether it is preposterousthat a medical man should be asked to undertake the filling upof such a document; but if he is seriously asked to render suchservice to the society he should be paid properly and not be offered10s. 6d.

THE R.A.M.C. UNIFORM.

To the Editora of THE LANCET...u...m:.,...a to w7 w,r n m c.._ n..:,.SIRS,—I am much obliged to "V. M. O." for his letter which

appeared in THE LANCET of May 17th. p. 1440. In reply to " Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel " I beg to say that some little time ago I received amemo. from the Volunteer Ambulance School of Instruction to theeffect that Volunteer medical officers were to wear " Sam Browne "

belts of R.A.M.C. pattern in all orders of dress except review order,&e., and in Paragraph 240 of the Volunteer Surgeon’s Guide thoseinstructions appear.

I am, Sirs, yours faithfully,May 24th, 1902. SURGEON -CAPTAIN.

A PLEA FOR THE FINAL YEAR STUDENT.

To the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,—In these days of cramming and multitudinous subdivisions otsubjects for the last and qualifying tests of our examining boards, thelot or burden of the poor student is becoming unbearable. After some

years of a busy working-class practice in a large manufacturing city Iam forced to admit that with a few exceptions I derived very littlematerial benefit from the questions put to me at my "final." To pre-pare the general practitioner, who constitutes about 85 per cent. of allmedical men turned out each year, for his future career there are

practically seven or eight absolutely essential subjects which he shouldbe well and practically taught-namely, anatomy, physiology, materiamedica, surgery, medicine, midwifery, forensic medicine, and chemistry;the remaining few odd subjects, which have been added during thepast few years, are pharmacy, biology, and pathology includingbacteriology. I shall begin with pharmacy. Beyond what can belearned in a couple of hours about this subject in these days ofmanufacturing chemists nothing is practically left for a medical manto do in the way of dispensing. As for biology, what examples of thisscience present themselves to the busy practitioner ? None, so far asmy experience goes. Lastly, there come pathology and bacteriology.Would it not be quite sufficient for the present-day student to be

taught and examined in the grosser pathology which is encountered ingeneral medical and surgical practice and in which the students of10 and 15 years ago were well versed and in my opinion were, andare up to the present time, as good and as practical men as are

now being turned out ? What have the researches of bacteriologistsdone to shorten the course and duration of diseases supposed to be ofmicrobic origin ? Phthisis still is rampant and still incurable. Entericfever runs its full course and still presents its complications. Of whatuse is the knowledge of a microbe to the practitioner when called outbetween 1 and 2 o’clock on a winter’s morning to the bedside of a manstricken down with pneumonia ? Is not a knowledge of what willrelieve and soothe his patient to be much preferred ?Since the introduction of bacteriology and antiseptics the poor

student is having a hard time, and he gets these two subjects so deeplyground into him that for the first six months or so of post-graduate