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1458 A PUBLIC sitting will be held on the 20th inst. by the Royal varies within considerable limits ; but if we admit that the temperature usually present when a person is clothed is Commission on the Metropolitan Water-supply to receive evi32° C. (90° F.), the insensible perspiration amounts every dence with regard to the epidemic prevalence of enteric fever in the Tees Valley in 1890-91. The inquiry has been thought twenty-four hours to from two to three litres of water.

necessary on

the

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account of the suspicion which has been thrown of the river water supplied for domestic

purity

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. New York (Post-Graduate School).-Drs. A. Palmer Dudley purposes. and George Edebohls have been appointed Professors of THE Royal Commission on Vaccination met on Wednesday Gynaecology and Dr. George T. Elliot Professor of Der- last, Sir James Paget in the chair. Dr. F. W. Barry, one of matology. the medical inspectors of the Local Government Board, was Paris.-The chair of Clinical Mental Pathology is officially further examined with regard to his report on the Small-pox declared vacant. in Sheffield in 1887, and also with regard to the Epidemic Pennsylvania, University of.-Dr. Charles K. Mills has been value of vaccination as a preventive to the spread of the appointed Professor of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine. disease. St. Petersburg (Military Medical Academy).-Dr. J. E. Shavlovski has been recognised as privat-docent in Anatomy. WE regret to learn that, owing to failing health, DeputyTomsk -The following Extraordinary Professors have been Surgeon-General Partridge has tendered his resignation of his promoted to Ordinary Professorships : Dr. Anfimoff (Psy- appointment on the India Office Medical Board. The appointchiatry), Dr. JerofeieS (Ophthalmology) and Dr. Grammati- ment is open to retired officers of the Indian Medical Service kati (Midwifery and Gynsecology). resident in or near London and is tenable for three years. -

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The selection of a successor is Secretary of State for India.

shortly

to be made

by the

DEATHS OF EMINENT FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN. THE deaths of the following distinguished members of Wu are asked to state that the dinner of the Volunteer the medical profession abroad have been announced :-Dr. 1 Medical Staff, which was to have been held on Thursday, Peter, Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Paris Faculty of June 22nd, and at which Lord Sandhurst had promised to Medicine ; an obituary notice will be found in another is, owing to various circumstances, postponed until 1 column.—Dr. J. Wojtaszek, privat-docent in Pharmaco- preside, the 1 autumn. gnosis and City Sanitary Officer in Cracow, of typhus fever contracted during the discharge of his duties.-Dr. ModrzeA MEETING will be held at University College on Thursday, jewski of Warsaw, who has written on deaf-mutism and a 1the 22nd inst., at 5 P.M., to consider the proposal to establish number of other special subjects of various kinds.a memorial to the late Professor Marcus Beck. The chair Dr. Frederick A. Salzer, Professor of Surgery in the University will be taken by Professor Erichsen, President of University of Utrecht.-Dr. Delasiauve, formerly physician to the l

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DR. RADCLIFFE CROCKER will, we understand, give an THE international competition for the prizes offered by their address on Dermatology in the month of September before the Majesties King and Queen of Italy, as patrons of the Croce School of Chicago. Post-graduate Rossa Italiana, for " the best contrivance to facilitate thethe transport of the wounded from the battlefield " has been postponed for another month, and the exhibition of the ARMY MEDICAL STAFF. articles in illustration of the said contrivance will be held from Sept. 15th till Oct. 15th next, in order to coincide THE annual dinner of the Army Medical Staff, which with the International Exposition of Medicine and Hygiene was held in the Whitehall-rooms of the H6tel Metropole, which will take place in Rome between those dates. The last day, therefore, on which the presentation of the articles in London, on Monday, June 12th, was the occasion of a very question can be made will be, not the 30th inst., but pleasant and well attended meeting. The toast list was commendably brief, the only toast given being that one which is July 31st. invariably honoured whenever and wherever Englishmen meet IT has been determined, as part of the programme of the together on social occasions-the health ofHer Most Gracious celebration of the jubilee of the Fellowship of the Royal Majesty the Queen. In no spirit of criticism but with a desire to still further enhance the success of these enjoyable College of Surgeons of England, that a dinner of the Fellows we may perhaps be permitted to point out that, a a of the College shall be held in the Whitehall Room of the gatherings will be seen from the list printed below of Surgeon-Captains, Hotel Metropole on Thursday, July 6th next, at 7.15 for the younger members of the Service were not numerically so 7.30 P.M. precisely. Sir James Paget, Bart., F.R.S., has well represented as were their seniors. We regret this, consented to take the chair. Information can be obtained because the future of every service depends upon the junior members of it in the present. From amongst them the tuture from Mr. Woodhouse Braine at the College. heads and superior officers of the department will in course of time have to be selected. THE summer dinner of the Irish Medical Schools’ and The following is a list of officers and guests present: Directors-General Sir T. Crawford, K.C.B., and Sir W. A. Graduates’ Association will take place at the Queen’s Hotel, Reading, to-day (Saturday, June 17th), at 6.30 P.M., the Mackinnon, K. C. B. (in the chair). Surgeon-Major-Generals R. Bowen, J. G. Faught, A. H. President, Professor Cuming, M.A., M.D., in the chair. W. H. Muschamp, J. B. C. Reade, C.B., P. B. Smitb, Fraser, Dinner tickets and cards of invitation for guests may be W. Stewart, J. J. Thompson, W. A. Thomson and F. Wade. obtained from the Secretary, Dr. Cagney, 93, Wimpole-street, Surgeon-Colonels H. Cayley, A. F. Churchill, O. Codrintrton, W. G. Don, A. G. Elkington, A. A. Gore, J. B. Hamilton, London. C. H. Harvey, J. Inkson, J. Jameson, J. H. Jeffcoat, C. A. DR. DANIEL JOHN LEECH will deliver the Croonian Maunsell, E. McGrath, T. F. O’Dwyer, E. H. Roberts, W. Sly, H. R. L. Veale and J. Watts. Lectures on the Physiological Action and Therapeutic Uses Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonels J. F. Beattie, G. of the Nitrites and Allied Compounds at the Royal College Evatt, J. E. ]U’ishbouri2e, G. C. Gribbon, J. Hector, J. W. of Physicians of London, Pall-mall East, on June 20tb, 22nd, Hulseberg, J. G. Leask, C. Mackinnon, W. McWatters, T. R. 27th and 29th. Mould, H. S. Muir, A. B. Robinson, W. G. Ross, F. P ___

1459 F. Stevenson, E. D. Tomlinson, W. W. TomlinW. J. Wilson, T. Wright and T. W. Wright. Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonels F. E. Barrow, J. M. Beamish, D. B. Brown. A. L. Browne, W. C. Grant, G. D. N. Leake, J. W. O. M. Martin, W. H. McNamara and C. F. Pollock. Surgeon-Majors W. G. Bedford, J. T. Cavey, W. A. Carte, J. J. Crean, P. M. Ellis, J. J. Falvey, T. J. Gallwey, J. J. Green, H. Grier, J. P. Hunt, G. A. Hughes, R. Jennings, J. J. Lamprey, T. Ligertwood, N. McCreery, T. W. Patterson, ’ D.S.O., W. S. Pratt, E. R. Power, H. D. Rowan, H. Saunders ’ and W. E. Webb. Surgeon-Captains S. G. Allen, W. Babtie, A. L. H. Dixon,I H. P. Elkington, J. M’Laughlin, S. C. Philson, H. I. Power,I W. P. Squire and E. O. Wright. I The following guests were present : Sir Joseph Fayrer, K.C.S.I., Mr. J. N. Dick, C.B. (Director-General, Royal Navy), Mr. V. Holt, Dr. Dawson Williams, and Mr. Thomas

Staples, W.

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son,

Wakley, jun. Sir Andrew Clark (President of the Royal College of Physicians) and Mr. T. Bryant (President of the Royal College of Surgeons) were unavoidably prevented from attending.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.

THE

ROYAL

BRITISH NURSES’ ASSOCIATION.

Charter which Her Majesty the Queen has to the Royal British Nurses’ Association and of which we have received a copy makes it a body corporate with a common seal, with a "capacity to sue and be sued in their corporate name, and for the purposes of the said corporation to take, purchase and hold any personal property, and also, notwithstanding the Statutes of Mortmain, any messuage, land and hereditaments, provided that the yearly value of such messuages, land and hereditaments shall not in the whole exceed .E2000, the yearly value of such messuages, land and hereditaments being for that purpose taken to be the yearly value thereof at the times they are respectively acquired by the corporation ; with power to sell, grant and demise mortgage or exchange and dispose of the said property, messuages, lands and hereditaments, or any part thereof ; provided that the corporation shall apply its profits, if any, or income solely in promoting its objects and for no other purpose." The purposes of the Corporation are the following : 1. The

Royal

granted

founding and maintenance of schemes for the benefit of nurses in the practice of their profession and in times of adversity, sickness and old age. 2. The maintenance of an AT an ordinary meeting of the Council of the College held office or offices for supplying information to persons seeking on Thursday, the 8th inst, Mr. THOMAs BRYANT, President, for nurses and to persons seeking for employment as nurses. in the chair, the minutes of the last ordinary meeting of 3. The maintenance and publication of a list of persons who the Council were read and confLmed. may have applied to the corporation to have their names The death of Mr. Marcus Beck, Member of the Council entered therein as nurses, and whom the corporation may and Member of the Court of Examiners in Surgery, was think fit to enter therein from time to time, coupled with such reported by the Secretary and a vote of condolence with the information about each person so entered as to the corporation may from time to time seem desirable. 4. The promofamily unanimously passed. A report from the Examiners in Physiology for the Fellow- tion of conferences, public meetings and lectures in conship of the College suggesting certain alterations in the exa- nexion with the general work of the corporation. 5. The mination, including the institution of a more practical exami- doing anything incidental or conducive to carrying into effect nation, was read and referred to the Nomination Committee the foregoing purposes. for consideration. The corporation have been endowed with powers of affiliaThe following new appointments were made : Mr. W. H. A. tion and also power to erect such buildings as may be deemed Jacobson as an Examiner in Anatomy for the Fellowship ; fitting for the purposes of the association. Dr. Montagu Handfield-Jone3 as an Examiner in Midwifery for As to the President and honorary officers, on the resignathe Conjoint Examination. Only one Examiner in Physiology tion or death of the President or of any honorary officer, and was appointed. as occasion may arise, the vacancies shall be filled up by the The vacancy on the Board of Examiners in Surgery, as well General Council, over which the President shall preside. as the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. S. J. HutchinIn reference to the qualification of members of the associason as a member of the Board of Examiners in Dental Surgery, tion, the corporation may by by-law regulate the qualificawill be filled at the Quarterly Council in July. tions of candidates for election, but no such by-law shall The Secretary reported that he had received a letter from come into force until approved by the Lords of the Privy the clerk to the Royal Commission on Vaccination stating Council. that the resolution of the Council respecting vaccination will The General Council shall be the governing body, with be iaid before the Commission at its next sitting. whom the ultimate decision on any matter affecting the The thanks of the Council were given to the President of corporation shall rest-such as expulsion or suspension of the College for his report on the proceedings of the General members. Medical Council and for his services thereon as the represenThe General Council shall annually elect to be members of tative of the Council. In accordance with

an

executive committee such number of members of the

request from the Royal College of corporation as may be prescribed by the by-laws for the Physicians, a committee, consisting of Sir ’YilliamMacCormac, time being in force. Mr. Howse, Mr. Langton and Mr. Pick, was appointed to confer with a committee appointed by them of equal number (Sir Dyce Duckworth, Dr. Church, Dr. Dickinson and Dr. a

Cheadle) on the whole subject of fees to be paid for the several qualifications granted by the respective Colleges and to take into consideration the expenditure incurred by the respective Colleges at the Examination Hall. A motion brought forward by Mr. Banks suggesting changes in the regulations of the Conjoint Board with respect to systematic practical instruction in medicine, surgery and midwifery was referred to the October meeting of the

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CHOLERA.

THE most important news which we have to chronicle this week in regard to the progress of epidemic cholera is connected with the serious outbreak of that disease at Mecca, where the numbers of pilgrims this season are expected to exceed those of any previous year, and with its prevalence in many places in Central and Southern France. Council. The next meeting of the Council will be held on July 7th. Several cases have occurred at Ximes, Montpellier, Cette, Narbonne, Besseges, Frontignan and other places. The total Mr. A. T. Norton (Member 1862, Fellow 1867) proposes to deaths from cholera that have occurred at Alais up to stand at the election of Members of the Council in July. June 12th amount to seventy and the disease has not appaThe various candidates are, therefore, Messrs Macnamara rently yet disappeared. A case of imported cholera is reported (Fellow, 1875) and Pemberton (Fellow. 1878) (seeking re-elec- at Lyons. The mortality amongst the pilgrims at Mecca is tion), and Messrs. Norton (Fellow, 1867), Anderson (Fellow, stated to amount to sixty or seventy a day. The total number 1869), Davies Colley (Fellow, 1870), Bloxam (Fellow, 1871), of pilgrims is double what it was last year. As many as Page (Fellow, 1871), Morris (Fellow, 1873), McCarthy 40, 000 have passed through Suez and the same number will (Fellow, 1873), W. H. Bennett (Fellow, 1877), and Mayo probably arrive at Mecca from Eastern countries and by overRobson (Fellow, 1879). land caravans. The Egyptian Government is stated to be taking