789APPOINTMENTS.—VACANCIES.—NOTES. SHORT COMMENTS, ETC.

Appointments.COLERIDGE. ALFRED, M.B., B.S.’Lond., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng.,

has been appointed Medical Officer to the MoretonhampsteadDistrict of the Newton Abbot (Devon) Union.

JouLE, JoHN, L.R.C.P. Lond., L.S.A. Lond., Medical Officer andPublic Vaccinator for the Mullion District by the Helaton(Cornwall) Board of Guardians.

PATEY, W., M.D. Glasg., Certifying Surgeon under the Factory andWorkshop Acts for the Newton Abbot District of the county ofDevon.

PLAYFAIR, E., M.B.Lond., Assistant Anaesthetist and Instructor inAnaesthetics at King’s College Hospital.

Vacancies.F’orfurther information refer to the advertisement columns.

Bedford County Hospital.-Res. M.O. £ 150.Birkenhead Bo-roug4 Hospital.-Honorary Appointments.Bristol Royal Infirmary.-H.P. and H.S. £ 120.B’ltry Infirmary, Lancashire.-Jun. H.S. £ 200.Cambridge. Addenbrooke’s Hospital.-H.S. £ 300.Carlisle Non-Provident Dispensary.-Res. M.O. 2250.Chelmsford, Administrative County of Essex.-Tuberc. Officer. £ 500.Chester Royal Infirmary -H.S. :E150.Chichester, Graylingwell War Hospital.-Res. M.O. 21 1 per day.Denbighshire County Council, Maternity and Child jVelfare.-Female

M.O. £ 400.Derby County Council, Maternity and Child Welfare.-Female M.O.

£400.Derby, Egginton War Hospital.-H.S. £ 315.Devonport, Royal Albert Hospital.-Res. H.S. 2200.Durban, Natal Corporation.-Female M. Pract. £ 600.Egyptian -41in-’stry of Education.-Female M.O. £ 492.Great Northern Central Huspital, Holloway. N.-Casualty Officer. £ 130.Hertfordshire Coxznty Council.- Female M.O. £ 350.HospitaL for Sick Children, Great Ormond-street. W.C.-H.S. 2100.Hxcddersfield Royal Infirmary.-Res. H.S. 2250.Leith Town Council.-Female M.O. £ 350Liverpool Infirmary for Children.-Res. H.P. £ 90.London Hospital. E -Asst. Aural Surg.Manchester City Sanitary Committee.-Female M.O. £ 400.Manchester Corp oration.-Ternp. Asst. Tubere. Officer. 2450.Margate, Royal Sea Bathing Hospital for Surgical Tuberculosis.-S.

£ 200.Northampton General -Hospital. -Junior H.S. £150.Roll of Honour Hospital for Children. TV.-Female Anzesthetist. 2120.Royal London Ophthalmic Ilospital, City-road, E.C.-Asst. Surg. Also

Sen. H.S. JE150.St. Mark’s Hospital for Cancer, Fisttila, and other Diseases of the Rectum,

E.C.-H.S. t;250.St. Margaret’s Hospital, Kentish Town.-Visiting Oph. S. 200 gs. i

Scottish Women’s Hospitals, St. Andrew-square, Edinbttrgh.-FemaleM.O.’s for Greece. £ 300.

Southampton Free Eye Ilospital.-H.S.Tottenham Education Corrzmittee.-Temp. Asst. M.O. 2500.Wigan County Borough.-Asst. School M.O. £ 400.

THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, S.W., gives notice ofvacancies for Certifying Surgeons under the Factorv and Work-shop Acts at Canterbury, at Bishop’s Waltham, and at Galgate.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

DREW.—On May 24th, at Park-gardens, Glasgow, to Jean, the wife ofMajor (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel) C. M. Drew, R.A.M.C.-a son.

FLETCHER.-On March 5th, at Southampton, Beatrice Hillman, thewife of Captain William Fletcher, M.D., R.A.M.C., of a son.

KEYNES.-On May 24th, at Newnham Grange, Cambridge, Margaret,the wife of Geoffrey Keynes, M.D., R.A.M.C., of a daughter (pre-maturely), who survived her birth only a few hours.

SMITH.-On May 24th. at " Springhill," Maisemore, Gloucester, thewife of Captain Philip Smith, M.C., M.D., R.A.M.C., of a daughter.

STOKES.-On Mav24th, at The Laurels, Sutherland-avenue, Bexhill-on-Sea, the wife of Captain K. H. Stokes, R.A.M.C., of a son.

TODHUNTER.-On May:24th, at The Lair, Pigeon Hill, Midhurst,Sussex, Majorie, wife of Captain J. R. A. Todhunter, M.B.,R.A.M.C., of a daughter. -

DEATHS.HOOPER.-On May 18th. at Heatherley, Sidcup, Kent, John Harward

Hooper, M.D., F.R.C.S., aged 78.MILLARD.—On Mav 22nd, suddenly, at Middlefield House, Pilrig,

Edinburgh, William Wright Millard, M.B., C.M.MOWLL.-On Saturday, May :25th, 1918, at Denynane, Hook-road,

Surbiton, FIeet-S’ureeon Richard Alfred Mowll, M.D., M.Ch.Queen’s Coll., Cork, Royal Navy (retired), aged 72 years.

PORTER. - On May 20th, in London, Colonel Alexander Porter, M.D.,F.R.C.S., I.M.S.

SPENCE.-On May 19th, at Nakuru. East Africa, from blood poisoning,Reginald Westmore Spence, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Lond., of Guildford,Surrey.

STEPHEN.-On May 22nd, at Mont Dore Hospital, Bournemouth,Captain Lionel Henry Yorke Stephen, R.A.M.C., aged 49.

WESTLAKE.-On May 25th, at " Brockenhurst," Grimsby, AlgernonWestlake, Major, R.A.M.C. (T.), aged 59 years.

N.B.-A fee of 5s. is charged for the insertion of Notices oj Births,Marriages, and Deaths.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

THE EVOLUTION OF AMBULANCE WORK IN THEARMY.

Surgeon-General G. J. H. Evatt delivered, on May 23rd,the second of the summer course of lectures at the College ofAmbulance (3, Vere-street, London, W.). The burden ofhis discourse might, he said, be summed up in the words," the value of the ultimate private soldier." He showedhow in the past the conditions under which the soldier hadto work were the reverse of those conducing to efficiencyand health, and he illustrated his remarks by a reference tothe unutterable misery prevailing on invalid ships returningfrom the American War of Independence. This was duenot only to want of organisation and lack of knowledge, butoften, in addition, to absence of sympathy. Happily forlater generations, out of the misery of Scutari arose thewonderful fixity of purpose and the commanding power of aFlorence Nightingale, which revolutionised the treatmentof the sick and wounded soldier, and was one of the greatfactors in the establishment of the Army Medical School.From mere prescription writers Army doctors becamehealth officers, and the medical school at Netley wasfounded. Surgeon-General Evatt went on to describethe dogged persistence with which Sir James Cantlie insistedon the training of medical students for Army work, andhow opposition was gradually overcome by training menat Charing Cross Hospital and demonstrating to LordWolseley the benefit to the Army of an organised systemof training. Meetings were held later at the Universities ofLeeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Dublin,resulting in drastic change in the teaching and trainingof the student. The excellent medical and surgical workbeing done to-day among our fighting forces was attributedby the lecturer largely to the work of Sir James Cantlie,Surgeon-General Sir Launcelotte Gubbins, and others whohad helped to bring efficiency into the medical departmentof the Army. Sir Launcelotte Gubbins, who presided, alsoemphasised the awakening of the country to the need of .

army medical reform by the conditions prevailing in theCrimean war. M. Dunant, who originated the GenevaConvention, had, he said, admitted that his ideas wereinspired by the work of Florence Nightingale. In theFederal armies of 1861-5 the lessons learned in fieldambulance work were taken to heart and a sanitary com-mission was set up largely composed of women. In ourown country improvement in the health of the soldierfollowed on the abolition of long service, the passing of thepurchase of commissions, and the raising of the level ofgeneral education by the Act of 1870, which resulted in alessening of crime and an increase in temperance in theservices. In conclusion, the chairman paid a tribute to thehygienic work of Professor Edmund Parkes.

A MODERN PARABLE OF THE SOWER.

ADAPTATIONS of the Jewish sacred writings to moderncircumstances are apt to be either dull or offensive. Wethink, however, that Dr. John Dill Robertson’s up-to-dateParable of the Sower, as it appears in Bulletin No. 1059 ofthe Chicago School of Sanitary Instruction, may be founduseful by those who agree with him that sanitary instructionis even more important than sanitary legislation.

1. Behold the cougher went forth to cough.2. And when he eonghej, some germs fell upon the sidewalk and the

feet of the pedestrians came and gathered them up and carried theminto their homes.

3. Some fell into nostrils that were hard and unfruitful and forthwitha slight cold appeared. It was not worse because there was much oppo-sition to them on account of the sterility of the soil.

4. And when the sun was up these colds were scotched, and becausethey had no roots these colds withered away.

5. And some fell in thorny places, such as those that have animmunity, and in this wise they were choked out.

6. But others fell into good ground for them, and brought forth muchdisease; some an hundred-fold, some sixty-fold, and some thirty-fold.

7. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear and go fonh to the HealthDepartment and view the great harvest of pneumonia, tuberculosis,lagrippe, and bronchitis, all of which is of record in the archives of thedepartment.

8. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear that over 10,000 of our peoplewere garnered during the year of our Lord 1917 from the seed of thecougher and sneezer, and now sleep with their fathers in their untimelysepulchres.

9. Be ye not of those who, having ears, hear not, and who, havingyes, see not those things, which we have herein set forth, and t hat sonearly concern their temporal health and salvation.

10. Muffle the cough, smother the sneeze and expectorate not inpublic places, to the end that divers and grievoua disorders come notanto thee, nor unto thy neighbor.11. And remember now the teachings of the Health Department that

;hy days may be long in the land which the Lord, thy God, givethhee.