THE BATEMAN APPEAL.

THE BATEMAN APPEAL.-PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.

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THE BATEMAN APPEAL.

its present site will cost about half a million, and it is intended next month to launch " the largest appeal ever made in this country for any single hospital." The new building will include a paying patients’ wing and greatly enlarged and improved accommodation for the nursing staff, which numbers nearly 200.

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As already explained in THE LANCET, it has been felt that material assistance ought to be offered to Dr. Bateman to meet the legal expenses of his recent successful appeal against conviction and to make the deficiency in his professional income. RONTGEN SocIETY.-A general meeting of this good the Bateman Fund has been opened Accordingly, society will be held on Tuesday, April 7th, at 8.15 P.M., and lists of contributions have appeared in recent in the British Institute of Radiology, 32, Welbeck-street, We have received additional contributions as London, W. Mr. R. Craig Rodgers will read a paper on issues. follows :the Organisation and Equipment of X Ray Rooms arranged for Private Radiologists, and Mr. G. T. Loughborough will read a paper on Acute X Ray Burns The eighth Silvan us Thompson Memorial Lecture will be delivered by M. Le Due de Broglie, Paris, during the International Congress of Radiology, to be held next July, and the Mackenzie Davidson Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Sir Berkeley Moynihan, also at a meeting to be held during the

International Congress.

THE

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GOVERNMENT ACT, IRELAND.-The Local Government Act became law last week, having been under discussion in the Oireachthas for nearly a year. It makes notable changes in the machinery of local governThe county is now to be the ment in the Free State. only unit for administration and sanitary purposes. The rural district councils are abolished. From the medical point of view the most important provision of the Act is that for the appointment of a medical officer of health for each county area. Certain changes are also made in the laws regarding pensions of officers of local authorities, but medical officers are not injuriously affected. Among the statutes repealed by the present Act is the Ministry of Health Act (Ireland), 1919, and with it goes the Irish Public Health Council.

DONATIONS

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BEQUESTS.-MrS. Elizabeth Shaw,

Already received and acknowledged Prof. A. L. Mcllroy Prof. W. Blair Bell Dr. L. Franklin

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Anonymous Dr. F. A. M. Flegg Dr. F. S. D. Hogg Dr. G. Hollings ........

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Dr. J. Macdonald Dr. W. W. Maxwell.. Dr. H. P. Miller Dr. H. T. Nixon Dr. C. E. Silvester Dr. J. H. Waddington Dr. R. S. Corey A. M. W. Dr. H. S. Hollis .......

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Remittances should be forwarded to the Manager of THE LANCET, 423, Strand, W.C. 2, and made payable to the " Bateman Fund Account."

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of Kensington, W., and Newbury, Hants, left by will 91000 TUESDAY, MARCH 31ST. to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and .S1000 to the Hospital for DOGS PROTECTION BILL. Incurables, Putney.-Mr. Robert Meggitt, Uplands, Richmond, Surrey, bequeathed 95000 to Richmond Royal Lord BANBURY, in moving the second reading of the Hospital. The testator also directed that ,615,000 be divided Dogs Protection Bill, said that a similar measure had three among the Royal Hospital for Incurables, Putney Heath, times passed the second reading stage in the House of King Edward’s Hospital Fund, London, the London Hospital, Commons, and on one occasion was reported to the House London Orphan School, Watford, and Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. from a Standing Committee without amendment. The He also left 500 for distribution among the poor of Rich- passing of the Bill would in no way prevent experiments mond.-At the annual meeting of University College, from being made on other animals ; all it would do was to London, it was announced that Mr. Geoffrey Duveen, in prevent them from being made on dogs. He was aware addition to his generous gift of .815,000 of last year, had given that very many medical men were against the Bill, but on 250,000 for the construction and equipment of a new Royal the other hand many were in favour of it. The use of Ear Hospital, which will contain 42 beds for in-patients and dogs in vivisection was unnecessary. Viscount KNUTSFORD, in moving the rejection of the ample room for the treatment of out-patients, and will embody all the latest improvements in hospital construction Bill, said he did not suppose the whole medical and surgical and equipment.-Under the will of Mrs. Jane Lewis, of world had ever been so unanimous on any subject as it was Hackney, in accordance with the views of the testatrix, on this question. They were all reluctant to use dogs for 222,000 will be devoted to the erection of a new wing to the experiments, but they were compelled to do it because it Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin.-The widow was necessary for the advance of knowledge. Sir Frederick of Mr. Tetley, a director of Courtauld’s, Ltd., in fulfilment Treves, who was always quoted at anti-vivisection meetings, of her husband’s desires, is distributing ;S40,000 amongst wrote : " No one could be more keenly aware than I am the charities in Leigh, Flint, and Coventry, and othsr places of the great benefits conferred on suffering humanity by where Courtauld’s had works. The treasurer of Leigh certain researches carried out by means of vivisection." Infirmary has received 24000 from the fund for the infirmary, Diabetes was no longer a sentence of death on young boys and .S1000 for Leigh Sick Nursing Association.-Representa- and girls, and was no longer an intolerable burden on adults, tives of the trustees of the Treloar Cripples’ Home, Alton, thanks wholly and solely to experiments on dogs. on Feb. 20th received at Portsmouth a cheque for 210,000, Lord LAMBOURNE supported the Bill. Lord MILDMAY of FLETE, who opposed the Bill, said only being the amount raised in the town for the establishment of a ward for the treatment of Portsmouth’s 500 crippled last Friday he presided over the Medical Research Council children.-Lord Bledisloe is giving one half of his salary as in the absence of Lord Balfour, and he had been authorised Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture to to make known how strong and unalterable was the objection the Lydney and District Cottage Hospital.-Bradford of its members to this Bill as likely seriously to impede the Woolcombers, Ltd., are contributing j313,000 towards the progress 01 medical science aiicl greatly to retard tiie successbuilding fund of the contemplated new Bradford Royal ful treatment of disease. His experience on the Medical Infirmary.-Sir Louis Pearson, who has just retired from Research Council, and in connexion with the management the presidency, has promised 25000 towards the extension of the Middlesex Hospital, had convinced him that in no fund of the Nott ngham General Hospital.-Princess walk of life were to be found more admirable qualities and Louise has made a donation of 21000 to the Princess Louise beautiful characters than those engaged III medical research. Lord RAYLEIGH said some persons thought that a reHospital for Children, Kensington.-Lord Leverhulme has sent a donation of£ £ 1000 in connexion with the appeal to spectable minority of the medical profession were in favour rebuild the Kensington, Fulham, and Chelsea General of the Bill. He had had an opportunity of going through Hospital.—Mr. Daniel Henry Shilson, of St. Austell, Cornwall, the names which the noble lord had brought forward a year left, annng other bequests,