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at the School and Hon. Medical Officer to the JessopHospital.

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SCOTLAND.

Glasgow University.-The session in the Faculty of Medi-cine will be opened on Monday, Oct. 22nd.

Anderson’s College Medical School, Glasgow.-The sessionwill be opened on Tuesday, Oct. 23rd.

Western Medical School, Glasgow.-The session will open onOct. 22nd.

University College, Dii,2zdee.-The session will open on

Oct. 22 ad.IRELAND.

Queen’s College, Cork-The term will commence on Oct. 17th.Queen’s College, Belfast.-Lectures will commence on

Oct. 30th. Examinations for scholarships on Oct. 23rd.

Annotations." Ne quid nimis."

ENGLISH QUARANTINE AND IMPERIALSUBVENTIONS.

DURING one of the closing sittings of the House of

Commons, when supply was under consideration, Sir F. S.Powell moved to reduce the vote for the Privy Council by£1414, the cost of carrying on our last vestige of the oldquarantine system-namely, the maintenance of two hulksand a staff of men at the Mother bank, in the Solent. The

Paliamentary Secretary to the Treasury then announced thatthis was the last year that the amount should appear in the

votes, since a Bill was in preparation for doing away withthis final remnant of an antiquated system of sanitary- defence. The quarantine establishment at the Motherbankprobably owes its long-sustained existence solely out of

- consideration for commercial purposes, and especially inorder to meet the views of South American States. Beingsituated at one point of the coast only, it could not pretend to

<deal with any arrivals except those in our southern ports ;and although there is much doubt as to the limitationof the powers of quarantine officers under our Quaran-tine Act, and the Orders in Council made under it, it

was generally admitted that only yellow fever and possiblyplague would be subjected to quarantine restrictions by thePrivy Council. But on the only occasion in modern timeswhen we really had yellow fever imported the ship went toSwansea instead of to Southampton, and the disease was- dealt with by the local sanitary authority in an ordinarycommon-sense manner, and the mischief soon abated. Yellowfever needs less, rather than more, restrictions than are calledfor in the case of cholera by reason of the conditions of- climate under which alone it can spread ; and if we find itadvantageous and proper to do without quarantine in the.case of cholera we can certainly abandon the system for theother two exotic diseases for which it has hitherto been

professedly maintained. The Government will probably beglad to be quit of the Motherbank expenses because so longas they were maintained to deal with a danger which hardlyexists it was difficult to maintain that Imperial subventionsto keep out a much greater danger-namely, cholera-were.contrary to the principles of English sanitary legislation.I

DR. BEAVEN RAKE OF TRINIDAD.

WITH great regret we learn that a telegram has beenreceived at the Colonial Office announcing the deathfrom fever, at the early age of thirty-six, of Dr. Beaven

Rake, Government surgeon and Director of the Leper Hos-pital in Trinidad. No particulars are as yet to hand, exceptthat the sad event occurred on Aug. 24th Dr. BeavenRake had made for himself a very high reputation as oneof the greatest living authorities on leprosy ; and it was a

matter of general satisfaction when a few years ago he wasnominated by the Royal College of Physicians to be one ofthe Commissioners sent out to India by the "NationalLeprosy Fund." He has been a prolific and able contri-butor to THE LANCET and other journals, and his valuableobservations will always be a mine of wealth to other

investigators in the domain of leprosy. His amiable dis-

position and sterling qualities attracted around him an

army of sincere friends, and his loss will be widely felt

within and without the profession. He leaves a widowand three little sons.

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF HYGIENE,BUDAPEST.

THE SEMMELWEIS MONUMENT.

THE first Act of the Congress once duly declared openby His Imperial and Royal Highness the Archduke CharlesLouis, will be a gracious act of homage to the greatest ofHungarian sanitary reformers. The whole Congress will

proceed in a body to the cemetery to assist at the unveilingof a monumental tombstone placed over the grave of the lateProfessor Semmelweis. We are able to give a sketch of thismonument. A funeral oration will be delivered by Dr.Ferdinand Hiippe, Professor at Prague.

FIG. 1.

Monument erected at the Central Cemetery of Budapestin honour of Professor Semmelweis.

Ignatius Phillipus Senunelweis, born in 1818 at Buda, wasone of the many children of a shopkeeper, who gave his son a