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certificates had been obtained by the licensee. The inspector was notpresent when the irregularities occurred, but he subsequently saw someof the animals. The irregularities were discovered from examinationof the reports made by the licensees.

TUESDAY, JULY 6TH.

The ilfeclicaz Attendance at an Ayrshire Colliery.Mr. REIR HARDIE asked the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-

ment whether he was aware that the New Cumnock CollieriesCompany, Limited, Ayrshire, Scotland, had intimated by notice to theirworkpeople that the deductions from their wages for medical servicewould be paid over to a certain practitioner who was a relative of themanaging director; that a memorial signed by 300 workpeople object-ing to this and directing the medical deductions to be handed over tothe two medical men hitherto acting for the workpeople had been sentto the firm, who had ignored the request; that pressure was beingbrought to bear upon the workmen, and threats of dismissal used tocompel them to agree to recognise the medical nominee of the companyand to desert the doctors of their own choice; and whether he proposedtaking action to enforce those provisions of the Truck Act which werethus being violated.-Mr. GLADSTONE answered : I have received a reportwith regard to this matter, from which it appears that the facts aregenerally as stated in the first two paragraphs of the question.The company took over the mine in question last March, and an agree-ment was entered into at the time between them and the men em-ployed at the mine in pursuance of Section 23 of the Truck Act, 1831,for deductions to be made in respect of the provision of medical attend-ance by the company. The company contend that the memorialreferred to in the question protesting against the new arrangement andrequesting that the deductions be paid to the same doctors as beforehas not terminated the agreement, and if this is so no infringement ofthe Truck Act is being committed. The company state, however, thatthey are not making deductions from the wages of those who havepersonally signified to them their objections to the deductions, but theydecline to collect deductions for the former doctors. The matterappears to be one for settlement between the company and the men.Mr. KEIR HARDIE: May I ask the right honourable gentleman

whether he is aware that the men do not complain of the deductionsbeing made ? They do object to the deductions going to a man whomthey do not want to pay. Is that not an infringement of the principleof the Truck Act ?-Mr. GLADSTONE: The point is not a new one. Itha3 arisen in many parts of the country. It is a matter of difficulty.Mr. KEIR HARDIE: Would not the Home Office instruct the mines

inspector to enter a prosecution ?-Mr. GLADSTONE : It does not seemclear that there has been an infringement of the Act.

Stornoway Infectious Diseases Hospital.Mr. WEIR asked the Lord Advocate, in view of the fact that the

medical officer for Ross and Cromarty in his last report stated that theStornoway infectious diseases hospital was in urgent need of a water-supply, would he state what action had been taken by the local autho-rity in the matter, and when a suitable supply was likely to beavailable.-Mr. URE replied: While the water-supply of this hospitalmight be improved, my honourable friend must not infer that the localauthority has not taken such action as is open to it, or that the hospitalis without a fairly satisfactory supply. The local authority does all itpossibly can to give a copious supply. The patients have never sufferedfrom the want of water, and the hospital has a very good record toshow in the number of recoveries of the patients treated. There havebeen no residents in the hospital since May 21st last except the nurseand her assistant.

The Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908.Captain CRAIG asked the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-

ment whether the Pharmaceutical Society had yet framed by-laws forthe registration of army compounders and certified dispensers underSection 4 (b) of the Poisons and Pharmacy Act of 1908 ; whether he wasaware of the effect upon army compounders and certified dispenserswho had for Tnany years held good appointments, and yet who, untilregistered, were liable to a penalty of E5 if they dispensed a prescriptioncontaining even an infinitesimal quantity of poison, although qualifiedto do so ; and what steps he proposed to take to hasten thePharmaceutical Society in drafting the necessary by-laws.—Mr.GLADSTONE furnished the following written reply : I am in-formed that a committee of the Council of the PharmaceuticalSociety is now engaged in the consideration of the question ofthese by-laws, but that some time must necessarily elapse before theycan be formulated. The matter will not be lost sight of. I would ipoint out that a certified assistant who dispenses a prescription con-taining poison is not liable to a penalty of .E5. The penalty is incurredonly when unregistered persons sell poison or keep open shop for thesale of_poison.

Appointments.Successful applicants for Vacancies, Secretaries of Public Institutions,

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

BAINBRIDGE, F. A., M.D. Cantab., M.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointedDemonstrator of Pharmacology at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

BALL, W. G., F.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointedJunior Demonstrator of Pathology at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

BARRIS, J. D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointed Demon-strator of Midwifery at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

DAviES, H. MORRISTON, M.C. Cantab., F.R.C.S. Eng., has beenappointed Assistant Surgeon to University College Hospital.

ETHERINGTON-SMIT]EI, R. B., M.B., B.C. Cantab., has been appointedDemonstrator of Anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

FISHER, J. B., M.D., C.M. Edin., D.P.H., has been appointed CertifyingSurgeon under the Factory and Workshop Act for the WhitehavenDistrict of the county of Cumberland.

GASK, G. E., F.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointedDemonstrator of Operative Surgery at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

HOWELL, C. M. H.. M.B., B.Ch.Oxon., has been appointed Demon-strator of Physiology at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

LEECH, F. S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., L.S.A., has been appointed aMember of the Honorary Medical Staff of the Gateshead Dispensary.

MooR, R. FOSTER, F,R.C.S. Eng., B.C. Cantab., has been appointedDemonstrator of Anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

PRITCHARD, HAROLD, M.D., B.S. Lond., has been appointed JuniorDemonstrator of Pathology at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

TATHAM, C. J. W., M.R.C.S., L.S.A., D.P.H., has been appointedAssistant Medical Officer of Health of Scarborough and MedicalOfficer of Schools.

WEAVER, A. E., M.D., Ch.B., D.P.H. Birm., has been appointed MedicalOfficer of Health of Abertillery.

WILSON, H. W., F.R.C.S. Eng., M.B.. B.S. Lond., has been appointedDemonstrator of Anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

Vacancies.For fecrther information regarding each vacancy reference should be

made to the advertisement see Index).

AYR COUNTY HOSPITAL.-Resident House Surgeon. Salary B70 perannum, with board and residence.

BELGRAVE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Clapham-road, S.W.-HouseSurgeon for six months. Salary at rate of JE20 per annum, withboard and residence.

BIRMINGHAM. CITY OF, EDUCATION COMMITTEE.-Medical Officer.Salary JB250 per annum.

BIRMINGHAM GENERAL DISPENSARY.-Resident Surgeon, unmarried.Salary .E200 per annum.

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BIRMINGHAM INFIRMARY.-Two Assistant Resident Medical Officers.Salary £ 104 per annum, with apartments, rations, &c.

BIRMINGHAM, QuEEN’s HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon for five months.Salary at rate of jE50 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.

BLACKBURN AND EAST LANCASHIRE INFIRMARY.-Junior House Surgeon.Salary E80 per annum, with board, washing, &c.

BRIDGWATER HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary at rateof C80 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.

BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.—Honorary Surgeon.CAMBRIDGE, ADDENBROOKE’S HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary 260

per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.CANCER HOSPITAL, Fulham-road, London, S.W.-Surgeon.CANTERBURY, KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL.-Assistant House

Surgeon, unmarried. Salary £60 per annum, with board andlodging.

CARDIFF INFIRMARY.-House Surgeon for six months. Salary .E30,with board, residence, and laundry.

CHELTENHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Surgeon-in-Charge of the BranchDispensary, unmarried. Salary C80 per annum, with board andlodging. Also House Physician, unmarried. Salary £70 perannum, with board and lodging

CHESTERFIELD AND NORTH DERBYSHIRE HOSPITAL.-Junior HouseSurgeon. Salary £80 per annum, with board, apartments, andlaundrv.

DERBY, DERBYSHIRE ROYAL INFIRMARY.-Assistant House Surgeon.Salary at rate of .E60 per annum, with board, residence, andwashing.

DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY ROYAL INFIRMARY.-Assistant HouseSurgeon. Salary £55 per annum, with board and lodging.

EXETER, ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER HOSPITAL.-Assistant HouseSurgeon, unmarried. Salary L60 per annum, with board, lodging,and washing.

GLASGOW DISTRICT MENTAL HOSPITAL, Lenzie.-Junior AssistantMedical Officer. Salary £125 per annum, with board, lodging. &c.

GORDON HOSPITAL FOR FISTULA, &c., Vauxhall Bridge-road, S.W.-Resident House Surgeon.

GOVAN PARISH SCHOOL BOARD.-Principal Medical Officer. Salary.E500 per annum.

GROSVENOR HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN.-Honorary Registrar.HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton.-

Resident House Physicians for six months. Salary £25.LEEDS, HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.-Honorary Surgeon

(Gynaecological and Obstetrical).LONDON HOSPITAL, E.-Medical Officer in charge of the X Ray Depart-

ment.

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TMACCLESFIELD GENERAL INFIRMARY.-Junior House Surgeon. SalaryJE60 per annum, with board and residence.

MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THECHEST, Hampstead and Northwood, Middlesex.-Junior ResidentMedical Officer, also Assistant Resident Medical Officer. Salary ineach case 250 per annum, with board and residence. Also ClinicalAssistants in the Out-patient Department.

RATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE RELIEF AND CURE OF THE PARALYSEDAND EPILEPTIC, Queen-square, Bloomsbury.-Surgeon for Diseasesof the Ear and Throat.

NEWPORT AND MONMOUTHSHIRE HOSPITAL.-Third Resident MedicalOfficer. Salary JB60 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.

NOTTINGHAM CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon (female) for sixmonths. Salary at rate of B100 per annum, with board, apartments,and washing.

NOTTINGHAM EDUCATION COMMITTEE.-Second Medical Officer (female).Salary .E250 per annum.

1’ERTE ROYAL INFIRMARY.-House Surgeon. Salary JB60 per annum,with board.

POPLAR HOSPITAL FOR ACCIDENTS, Poplar, E.-Assistant HouseSurgeon for six months. Salary at rate of £80 per annum, withboard and residence.

’QUEEN’S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Hackney-road, E.-House Surgeon,also House Physician, both for six months. Salary at rate of B60per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.

ROYAL EAR HOSPITAL, Soho.-Non-resident House Surgeon for sixmonths. Salary at rate of .E40 per annum. Also Clinical Assistants.

RYDE, ROYAL ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY HOSPITAL.-Resident JuniorHouse Surgeon. Salary B60 per annum,

SHEFFIELD ROYAL HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Physician, unmarried.Salary £50 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.

SOMERSET ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY.-Medical Officer of Health.Salary B700 per annum.

TYNEMOUTH VICTORIA JUBILEE INFIRMARY, Spring Gardens, NorthShields.-House Surgeon. Salary .E100 per annum, with rooms,board, &c.

WADSLEY, NEAR SHEFFIELD, WEST RIDING ASYLUM.—Fifth AssistantMedical Officer. Salary B140 per annum, with board, &c.

WALLINGFORD, BERKS COUNTY ASYLUM.-Second Assistant MedicalOfficer, unmarried. Salary oE150 per annum, with board, apart-ments, attendance, &e.

WALSALLAND DISTRICT HOSPITAL.-Junior House Surgeon. Salary £80per annum, with board, residence, &c.

WEST BROMWICH DISTRICT HOSPITAL.-Resident Assistant HouseSurgeon, unmarried. Salary 275 per annum, with board, residence,and washing.

WESTMORLAND CONSUMPTION SANATORIUM.-Resident Medical Super-intendent, unmarried. Salary .E300 per annum, with board andresidence.

WHITEHAVEN AND WEST CUMBERLAND INFIRMARY.-Resident HouseSurgeon. Salary £120 per annum, with board and lodging.

WOLVERHAMPTON AND MIDLAND COUNTIES EYE INFIRMARY.-HouseSurgeon. Salary B80 per annum, with apartments, board, andlaundry.

WOLVERHAMPTON AND STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL.-HouseSurgeon. Salary at rate of £80 per annum, with board, lodging, andlaundry.

WOLVERHAMPTON UNION, WORKHOUSE, &c.-Assistant Medical Officer.Salary £140 per annum, with apartments, rations, and washing.

WORCESTER COUNTY AND CITY ASYLUM, Powick.-Third AssistantMedical Officer. Salary £140 per annum, all found.

THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, S.W., gives notice ofvacancies as Certifying Surgeons under the Factory and WorkshopAct at Wallingford, in the county of Berks; and at Horsmonden, inthe county of Kent.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

COOPER.-On June 29th, at Eccleston-street, Eaton-square, S.W., thewife of Austin Cooper, M.D., of a daughter.

EMBLETON.—On July 6th, at 8, Heath Mansions, Hampstead, N.W., tothe wife of Dennis Embleton, B.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., a daughter.

SPOONER.—On July 2nd, at Coupar House, Blandford, Dorset, the wifeof William Casswell Spooner, M.B., Ch.B.Edinburgh, M.R.C.S.,L.R.C.P. London, &c., of a son.

STALLARD.—On June 26th, at 24, Burlington-road, Ipswich, Elinor,Walters Stallard, M.D., B.S., wife of Oswald Stallard, of a son.

MARRIAGES.DALLY-CURTOIS.-On July lst, at St. Philip’s Church, Earl’s Court, by

the Bishop of London, assisted by the Rev. Huntley Curtois, M.A.,and the Rev. Algernon Curtois, M.A., cousins of the bride, JohnFrederick Halls Dally, M.A., M.D. Cantab., M.R.C.P. Lond., of 105,Sloane-street, S.W., son of Dr. Frederick Dally, Belgrave House,Wolverhampton, to Norah Willoughby, youngest daughter of thelate Rev. Peregrine Edward Curtois, Vicar of Hemingford Grey, andof Mrs. Curtois, Grodmanehester, Hunts.

PHILLIPS-SINNOCK.-On July 1st, at the Congregational Church,Portishead, by the Rev. T. A. Carritt, Miles H. Phillips, B.S.,F.R.C.S., of 420, Glossop-road, Sheffield, formerly of Bristol, toEdna, second daughter of F. W. Sinnock, J.P., of Avon View,Portishead.

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DEATHS.CANTRELL.-On July 2nd, at Boscombe, Thomas Joseph Cantrell, M.D.,

of Hyde Park-square, W., in his 83rd year.MARSH.-After long suffering, on July 6th, at 68, East Dulwich-grove,

S.E., Walter Alfred Marsh, M.R.C.S.. L.S.A., aged 62 years.N.B.- A fee of 5s. is charged for the Insertion of Notices of Births,

Marr2ayes, and Deaths.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

A FLOATING " CHAMBER OF HORRORS."

THIS is neither more nor less than the Carcharodon Carcharias ofLinnaeus, the common shark of the high seas, whose voracity and" accommodation for whatever it devours would be almost incrediblewere it not attested and put on record by such authoritative observersas Dr. Condorelli and Dr. Perrando, two distinguished professors inthe medical faculty of the University of Catania. It will beremembered that on Dec. 28th last the Siculo-Calabrian cataclysmwas immediately followed, if not actually accompanied, by anupheaval of the Messinese Straits, like that

" Cumulo praeruptus aquae mons,"which whirled aloft the ships of Æneas in the same waters as sungby Virgil, and that, after flooding the beach, it swept out with itsbackwash to sea not a few of the citizens of Messina who happened tobe in the neighbourhood at that early hour. Of these unfortunatesthe bodies were never found until about a month afterwards, onJan. 26th, seven Catanian fishermen, cruising off Cape Santa Croce,netted a medium-sized dolphin and had already dragged it over theboat’s gunwale when an enormous shark, rising breast-highout of the water, snapped up their prey in a twinkling and

disappeared. After a moment’s panic the men went for the sea-robber, and not without difficulty harpooned him and broughthim in tow to Catania. Unfortunately they began to dissect

him, not, it may be said, by the scientific method desirablein the case of such an uncommon specimen of his kind, buthad scarcely opened his stomach when the spectacle before themmade them desist in horror. A number of human limbs, with thoseof a dog and a cow, lay scattered in the monster’s interior ! Noticewas immediately given to the sanitary authorities, and these, underthe direction of Professor Condorelli and Professor Perrando, had theremains-those of a man, a woman, and a child-removed to the

mortuary chamber. Exposed for purposes of recognition, no oneamong the many relays of Messinese citizens could identify them ;but the two medical experts, after minute and prolonged ex-

amination, succeeded in satisfying themselves that the man wasabout the age of 50 years, his hobnailed shoes and coarse stockingsindicating a humble rank; that the woman, of younger age, wasof the same condition (to judge from fragments of her dress),while the child might be between five and six years. Had thesepoor victims been seized and swallowed alive ? or were theyalready dead when the shark devoured them? Professor Perrandoand Professor Condorelli in the elaborate report which they have pre-sented to the Italian Zoological Society* have come to the con-clusion that the earthquake of Dec. 28th having occurred in the earlymorning when the inhabitants of Messina were, most of them,asleep, and therefore undressed, the corpses found in the shark musthave been of those who were either abroad at the time or who

living near the shore had at the instant of the shock got out of bedand into their clothes in hot haste and rushing into the open had beenswept up and out to sea by the retiring wave. The viscera-steepedas they were in sea-water-gave no sign of the ordinary putrefactiveprocesses (the liver, the spleen, and the intestines were in a marvellousstate of preservation), and the inference, horrible though it be, seemsirresistible that they were swallowed alive! The report proceeds todescribe the size and proportions of the monster-rare indeed, butnot unknown in Mediterranean waters. The Museum at Catania andother seats of learning in the Two Sicilies contain specimens of it-some of them having been taken after the battle of Aboukir, when ashoal of sharks was seen hovering about during the action. Others,it is said, were sighted in the Levant when, 11 or 12 years ago, theVictoria went down with Admiral Tryon and all hands. Interestingas the above details are to the nature student, they have also beennoted with satisfaction by the theologian, who, whatever other diffi-culties may beset the narrative of Jonah and the sea-monster (pre-sumably a shark rather than a whale), can appeal to the report ofProfessor Condorelli and Professor Perrando as proving that capacityto swallow and "accommodate a human being is not one of them!* " Notizie sul Carcharodon Carcharias L. catturata nelle Acque di

Augusta, e Considerazioni su Resti Umani trovati nel suo Tubo-

digerente," " Notices on the Carcharodon Carcharias of Linnæus

captured in the Waters of Augusta and Considerations on the HumanRemains found in its Digestive Cavity."

THE HOSPITAL GAZETTES.THE Guy’s Hospital Gazette (June 26th) contains, in the form of a

supplement, an excellent photogravure portrait of the late Dr. PeterHorrocks, obstetric physician to the hospital. This portrait has beenreproduced from the last photograph taken of its subject, and is acharacteristic likeness.-The London Hospital Gazette (June) devotesits clinical supplement to Osteo-Arthritis, upon which subject Dr.C. H. Miller contributes a useful article. The London Hospital Clubs’Union publishes the report of its honorary financial secretary for12 months ending with last March, which shows that the Union is