HOSPITAL REFORM IN IRELAND.

709 Daniel; Medicine (junior)-prize : B. A. Nicol; prize, E. H. the vignette being enclosed by an Bonney (equal); Surgery (senior)-prize : P. L. Daniel; taining the rose, shamrock, thistle, Surgery (junior)--prize : 13. A. Nicol ; Psychological Medi- tion shows the 5s. stamp. cine--prize: W. H. Unwin ; Practical Midwifery-prize : P. L. Daniel ; Practical Chemistry-prize : G. S. Oac’es ;

Midwifery--prize : E. L. Lilley ; Public Health-prize : Daniel; Therapeutics—prize : W. H. Park ; Pathologyprize : R. J. Wilson; Forensic Medicine and Toxicologyprize : E. L. Lilley. London (Royal Free Hospital) School off Medicine for

ornamental border conand leek. Our illustra-

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Women.--Winter Session, 1897-98. --Biology: Miss Martin. Physics : Miss Hickman. Chemistry : Miss Hickman. Physiology: Miss Naylor. Medicine: Miss Watts. Midwifery and Gynaecology: Miss Turnbull, lst Evans Prize; Miss Lovibond, 2nd Evans Prize ; Miss Ford and Miss Senior Anatomy : Mrs. Willey. Watts, 3rd Evans Prize Junior Anatomy : Miss Hooper. Organic Chemistry: Miss Summer Session, 1898.-Practical Organic M. Smith. Chemistry : Miss H. G. Jones. Practical Chemistry : Miss Simpson. Materia Medica: Mrs. Willey. Operative Midwifery : Miss Clapham, Evans Prize. I The London School of -Dental ,Surgery.--Saunder’s scholarship : W. H. Thomas ; Ashs’ Prize: W. H. Thomas. Class Prizes-Winter Session, 1897-98-Metallurgy-First Prize : ’, W. H. Thomas. Second Prize: H. G. Williams. Dental Mechanics-First Prize : W. H. Thomas. Second Prize : H. H. Belsey. Practical Dental Surgery Prize-Prize : A. G. Payne.-Summer Session, 1898-Dental Anatomy-First Prize : W. H. Thomas. Second Prize : A. G Payne and H. G. Williams. Dental Surgery-First Prize : W. H. Thomas. Second Prize: H. H: Belsey.

HOSPITAL REFORM IN IRELAND. MR. T. GARHETT HORDER, the Secretary of the Hospital Reform Association, has sent us some statistics of the varioushospitals in Ireland. In 1896 the population of Ireland was 4,486,100. The number of hospitals, including county infirmaries, is 92. Of this number the Dublin area with a population in 1891 of 349,594 has 31 hospitals. The proportion of hospitals to population is thus seen to be enormous. Some statistics follow with reference to various items in hospital management and income as regards

registration

Dublin.

I Government

THE PRINCE OF WALES’S HOSPITAL FUND.

The

The

following hospitals

were issued on behalf of this fund. about £35,000, and were issued to of They produced small subscribers a handy and convenient form of give which has become popular. This year a new issue for receipt, 1898 is made. It consists of four stamps, each of distinct design, with a face value of Is., 2s. 6d., 5s., and 10s. respectively. The designs for the stamps and the colours in which they are printed were selected by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. The Is. stamp is printed in red, the 2s. 6d. stamp in blue, the 5s. stamp in dark green, and the 10s. stamp in a lighter green. Each contains a vignette of the figure of " Charity, with the words " Prince of Wales’s Hospital Fund"

supported

almost

entirely by

supported by Government grants, by the county of Dublin or on the city of Dublin, by subscriptions and donations, by payments from patients, and by the Hospital Sunday Fund :following

are

assessments either

LAST year two stamps

are

grants :-

on

a sum

receive grants from the

The following other hospitals Corporation of Dublin.

Amount

Amount

(1896.),

(1896). Sir Patriek Dun’s Hospital jM50 City of Dublin Hospital ... 3 Mercer’s Hospital......... 300 The Children’s Hospital ... ? Jervis-street Hospital. ? Mater Misericordiæ Hos500 pital

National

Children’s Hos-

pital ....

The Orthopædic Hospital... National Maternity Hos-

2125 125

pital...............?

St.

Vincent’s Hospital ...

?

...............

population of 75,345 has 12 hospitals with in-patients, 40,827 out-patients, and 383 The five-shilling stamp reproduced in I)Iack-and-whit,6-an(i enlarged Belfast with*a population of 255,950i maternity patients. by one-third, to show the details. has 12 hospitals with 514 beds, 4466 in-patients, and 50,594 out-patients. County infirmaries number 32 with 1588 beds, and the date 1898 in the top right-hand corner. A facsimile 11,395 in-patients, and 24,963 out-patients. In all, these inThe disof the Prince’s signature appears at the bottom The ls., 5s., stitutions possess 75 nurses and 22 probationers. between the relation of hospitals to population crepancy and 10s. stamps have the Prince of Wales’s feathers introexisting in Cork a-s compared with Belfast will strike theduced, whereas in the 2s. 6d. stamp these are replaced by a reader at once and it is obvious that some readjustment i& fleur-de-lis. The 10s. stamp is intended as a national emblem, nrgently required. Cork with

a

629 beds, 3671