728 for an administrative post. He thus has to retire on E500 a year, whereas if he had had as formerly the chance of succeeding to an administrative post he would have earned a pension of £700 by the time he had passed through his term of office, plus the additional E250 a year for the holding of such post ; he thus loses £450 a year now as compared with
London Hospital.-The session will open on Thursday, Oct. lst. The annual dinner will be held in the college library the same evening, when Mr. Lewis Mackenzie, F.R.O.S. Eng., will be in the chair. St. Mary’s Hospital.-The session will commence on Thursday, Oct, lst. The annual dinner of the past and former years. present students will be held at the Whitehall Rooms, Hotel This is a brief summary of the grievances which at present Metropole, on Friday, Oct. 2nd, Dr. R. Farquharson, M.P., await redress in the Indian Medical Service. A report issued in the chair. Middlesex Hospital.-The session will open on Thursday, by the Royal Naval and Me lical Committee of the British Medical Association mentions them, and some additional i Oct. lst, at 3 P.M., when Mr. William Herne, M.R.C.S., ones, in full detail, and offers at the same time suggestions L.D.S,, will give an introductory address, after which the for remedy which are valuable in proportion to their prizes gained during the previous year will be distributed by complete simplicity. It is because the causes of complaint the Hon. Mr. Justice Wills. The annual dinner will take could be so easily removed that we refuse to believe that the place the same evening at the Trocadero at 7 P.M., Dr. W. Indian Government will not soon take steps to remove them. Pasteur in the chair. Proposals for improving the pay and general conditions of St. Thomas’s Hospital.-The session will open on Oct. lst the service have, we are informed, been actually formulated and the annual dinner will take place on the following by the Government of India, and it is stated that they will evening at the Hotel Cecil, when Dr. Cullingworth will shortly be taken into consideration by the Secretary of State occupy the chair. for India in Council. There should be no more delay. The University College.-The session will open on Monday, Indian Medical Service has been always held in high repute Oct. 5th. and esteem by the medical profession at large and, influenced Westminster Hospital.-The session begins on Thursday, no doubt by this official intimation of early measures of reform, Oct. lst. The annual dinner will take place on Friday, as well as by the belief that a service with so honourable a Oct. 23rd, at the Trocadero, Mr. Walter G. Spencer, M.S., past will not be allowed to sink below its own high level, a F.R.C.S., in the chair. Application for tickets should be large number of candidates presented themselves at the made to the secretaries of the dinner: Mr. Arthur Evans, competitive examination just held in London. 41 candidates M.S., F.R.C.S., 53, Queen Anne-street, W. ; Mr. J. H. Hebb, - of whom 23 had University degrees, competed for 16 appoint- Westminster Hospital ; and Mr. C. G. Browne, Westminster ments and 29 of them were reported to have qualified for Hospital. commissions. It rests now with the Secretary of State for London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for India in Council to justify the hope and belief that have Women.-The introductory address will be given by Miss been raised and to maintain the efficiency and popularity of at the Medical School on Thursday, Oct. lst, Pace, M.D., the Indian Medical Service. And the sooner action is taken at 4 P. M. The winter session will commence on Friday, the better. Oct. 2nd. ____
readers the merits of the two services, and although we have just enumerated the grievances experienced by the members of the Indian Medical Service we yet say that each service holds out a prospect to the right sort of medical man of an honourable, eventful, and useful career. The Army Medical Service has been much improved and there is no reason to doubt that further improvement will come. To the Indian Medical Service redress of obvious injustice is promised and we cannot think that the Government of India will be so shortsighted as to withhold it much longer.
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Royal Dental Hospital.-The session will commence Thursday, Oct. lst. National Dental Hospital.-The session will commence Thursday, Oct. lst.
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University of Birmingham.-The session will open on Monday, Oct. 5th. University College, Bristol.-The session will commence on Thursday, Oct. lst. Unirersity College, Cardiff.-The session will begin on Tuesday, Oct. 6th.
Yorkshire College, Leeds.-The session will open on Oct lst. Thursday, WINTER SESSION, 1903-04. University of Durham.-The session will commence on Thursday, Oct. lst. LONDON. University College, Liverpool.-The session will open on 8&’. Bart7iolonie7v’s Hospital.-The session will begin on Oct. lst, when Sir Dyce Duckworth will give the Thursday, Thursday, Oct. lst. address. inaugural Charing Cross Hospital.-The session will commence on Manchester.-The session will commence on Owens Thursday, Oct. 1st, by the annual prize distribution to the Thursday,College, Oct. lst. students and an introductory address to be delivered in the University College, Sheffield.-The session will open on .anatomical theatre at 4 P.M. by Sir Charles Wyndham. Oct. 1st. The introductory address will be The dinner of the past and present students will take place Thursday, delivered on Oct. 15th by Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B., M.P., at the Hotel Cecil on the evening of the same day. St. George’s Hospital.-The session will open on Thursday, F.R.S. SCOTLAND. Oct. 1st, when the introductory address will be delivered by session will open on Tuesday, Aberdeen.-The University of Dr. W. R. Dakin, F.R.C.P. Oct. 13th. session will on Guy’s Hospital.-The begin Thursday, University of 8t. Andrews (United Colleges of St. Andrews Oct. lst A house dinner will take place on the same evening .at 7.30 P. M., in the college dining-hall. Mr, P. H. Pye- and University College, Dundee).-The session will open on Smith, M.D., F.R S., will preside and Mr. Robert Gordon, Tuesday, Oct. 13th. University of Edinburgh.-The session will commence on (president of the clubs’ union council), will be the guest of the evening. Applications for tickets for the dinner should Tuesday, Oct. 13th. University rf Glasgom.-The session will open on be made to Mr. A. W. Ormond, F.R.C.S., honorary secretary of the students’ club, Guy’s Hospital. The opening meeting Thursday, Uct, 15th. Anderson’s College, Glasgom.-The session will begin on of the Physical Society will be held on Saturday, Oct. 10th, in the physiological theatre, at 8.30 P.M., Sir Samuel Wilks, Thursday, Oct. 15th. St. Mungo’s College, GZasgo7v.-The session will begin on Bart., M.D., LL.D., F.R S., in the chair. Dr. J. F. GoodThursday, Oct. 15th. hart, LL.D., will address the society. Queen Margaret College, Glasgom.-The session will begin King’s College Hospital.-The session will open on Thursday, Oct. lst, when the introductory lecture will be delivered on Thursday, Oct. 15th.
by Sir John Alexander Cockburn, K.C.M.G., on Imperial Federation and its Physiological Parallels. The old students’ dinner will be held on the same evening at 7 P.M., at the Hotel Cecil, Strand, W.C. Dr. Charles Henry Allfrey, F.R C.S., will preside. Application for dinner tickets, price £1ls., should be made to Dr. J. F. W. Silk, 47, Devonshirestreet, Portland-place, W.
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Qttee7i’s College, Belfast.-The session will begin Tuesday, Oct. 20th. Queen’s College, Cork.-The session will begin Monday, Oct. 26th. University of Dublin.-The session will begin Thursday, Oct. lst.
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