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MEDICAL VACANCIES.Builth Union (Abergwessin District)—Medical Officer.Frome Union (2nd and 3rd D strict)—Medical Officer.Islington Dispensary-Physician (vice Dr. Welch, resigned), and Sur-

geon-Dentist.Kent and Canterbury Hospital—Assistant House-Surgeon and Dispenser.Leeds Public Dispensary—Resident Medical Officer.Liverpool Dispensaries—House-Surgeon, and Assistant House-Surgeon.Middlesex Hospital-Resident Physician’s Assistantship.Royal South London Dispensary-District Surgeon.St. George’s and St. James’s Dispensary-Surgeon, vice Mr. W. F. Clarke,

resigned.St. Marylebone Dispensary—Physician, vice Dr. Chorley, resigned.West Hertfordshire Infirmary—House-Surgeon, and Assistant Secretary.Westminster Hospital-Resident House-Surgeon.

MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS.Mr. W. P. ADAMS has been appointed Junior House-Surgeon to Charing-

cross Hospital, vice A. H. Buck, M.R.C.S.G. W. BALFOUR, M.D., has been elected a Physician to the Royal Infirmary,

Edinburgh, vice R. E. S. Jackson, M.D., deceased.Mr. J. BELL has been appointed Medical Officer for the Bishop Wilton Dis-

trict of the Poeklington Union, Yorkshire, vice Wright, resigned.A. H. BucK, M.R.C.S., has been appointed Senior House-Surgeon to Charing-

cross Hospital, vice Mr. W. Powell, resigned.W. T. BucxLE, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., has been elected House-Surgeon to the

Windsor Royal Infirmary and Dispensary, vice Mr. J. Brickwell.D. W. Buss, M.D., has been appointed a Physician to the Bristol Hospital

for Sick Children and the Out-door Treatment of Women, St. Michell’s-hill, Bristol.

W. COOPER, M.D., has been appointed Physician to the Suffolk GeneralHospital, Bury St. Edmunds.

P. CowEN, M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer for District No. 1and the Workhouse of the Leominster Union, vice J. Beavan, M.R.C.S.E.,resigned.

W. F. P. DAVIS, L.R.C.P.Ed., has been appointed Resident Medical Officerfor the Workhouse of the Salford Union, Lancashire, vice G. Clements,M.R.C.S.E., resigned.

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T. Evarrs, M.D., has been appointed House-Surgeon and Secretary to theRoyal Portsmouth, Portsea, and Gosport Hospital, vice D. O’Brien,M.R.C.S., resigned.

Dr. FRYER, F.L.S., &c., late Senior Resident Medical Officer at St. Mary’sHospital, Manchester, has been appointed Physicians’ Assistant to theWest Riding of York Lunatic Asylum and Hospital for Mental andNervous Diseases.

J. P. GANNON, M.RC.S.E., has been appointed House-Surgeon to the LockHospital and Asylum, Dean-street, Soho, vice J. G. Randall, M.R.O.S.E.,whose appointment has expired.

C. GIBSON, M.D., has been elected President of the North of England Obste-trical Society, vice W. Dawson, M.D., deceased.

G. HARRIES, M.D., has been appointed Medical Officer for District No. 5 of thePembroke Union.

W. H. KBMMTEE, M.R.C.S.E., of Oak House, Battersea, has been appointedDivisional Surgeon for the Battersea Sub-division of the V Division ofPolice, vice Richardson. Mr. Kempster has also been appointed Sur-geon to Battersea-park.

J. F. LITTLE, L.R.C.P.Ed., has been appointed Medical Officer for the HaleDistrict of the Prescot Union, Lancashire, vice Cross, deceased.

A. MACDONALD, M.D., has been appointed Lecturer on Materia Medica, &c.,at Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh, vice R. E. Scoresby-Jackson, M.D., de-ceased.

W. MACKEITR, L.R.C.P.Ed., has been appointed Medical Officer for theHurst-green District of the Ticehurst Union, Sussex, vice W. M. Harmer,M.R.C.P.Ed.

E. MALiNs, M.B., has been appointed Medical Officer for the 2nd RowleyRegis District of the Dudley Union, Worcestershire, vice Thos. Moore,L.R.C.P.L., resigned.

J. E. MORGAN, M.D., M.A., M.R.C.P.L., has been elected Physician to theManchester Royal Infirmary, vice Dr. Renand, resigned.

J. MURIEL, F.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer for District No. 2of the Ely Union, vice H. Pearson, F.R.C.S.E.

Mr. B. NASE has been appointed Junior Surgeon to the Northern Hospital,Liverpool.

Dr. H. W. NASON has been appointed Medical Officer, Public Vaccinator,and Registrar of Births &c., for the Rathcormac Dispensary District ofthe Fermoy Union, Co. Cork, vice W. Dwyer, L.R.C.S.Ed., deceased.

C. NUTT, M.R.C.S., has been appointed Assistant House-Surgeon to the RoyalPortsmouth, Portsea, and Gosport Hospital.

J. RAYNER, L.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer for the PrescotDistrict and the Workhouse of the Prescot Union, Lancashire, vice D.Barrow, M.R.C.S.E., deceased.

G. RITCHIE, M.D., has been appointed Medical Officer for District No. andthe Workhouse of the Rye Union, Sussex, vice W. J. Mullan, L.R.C.P.L.,deceased.

A. SIMPSON, M.D., has been appointed Medical Officer for the St. Peter’s Dis-trict, North Division, of St. Mary, Islington, vice F. Dawson, M.R.C.S.E.,resigned.

C. M. TIDY, M.B., C.M., has been appointed Assistant Lecturer on Chemistryat the London Hospital.

G. TOBIN, M.R.C.S.E., has been’ appointed Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator for the Rainford District of the Prescot Union, Lancashire, viceT. Shepherd, M.R.C.S.E., resigned.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

On the 21st ult., at Crawley, the wife of T. H. Martin, M.R.C.S.E., of adaughter.

On the 29th ult., at Botesdale, the wife of Arthur Pearse, M.D., of a daughter.On the 2nd inst., the wife of Frederick H. Alderson, M.R.C.S.E., of Grove-

terrace The Grove, Hammersmith, of a daughter.On the 2nd inst., the wife of Dr. H. C, Bunett, of Milford, of a son,

MARRIAGES.On the 24th ult., at Beechwood House, Laurencekirk, Alex. C. Campbell,

M.B., L.R.C.S.E., &c., of Laurencekirk, to Agnes, second daughter ofthe late David Scroggie, Esq.

On the 30th r.lt., at the Parish Church, Westbury-on-Trym, Robt. W. McCoy,L.K.Q.C.P., &c., of York, Western Australia, to Geraldine Jane Loftns,second daughter of the late Christopher Russell, M.D., of Enniskerry,Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

On the 1st inst., at St. Mary’s Church, Little Brickhill, Bucks, ShermanChesterman, Esq., of The Green, Banbury, to Susan, widow of W. F.Croome, Esq., and only surviving daughter of the late John Golby Mil-ward, Esq., of The Lawn, Danbury.

DEATHS.On the 7th ult., at his residence, St. Philip’s-road, Sheffield, S. Lawton,

M.R.C.S.E.On the 1st inst., at Alford, Lincolnshire, Bennet Langton, the youngest

child of Dr. R. Uvedale West, aged 14 years.On the 1st inst., at Penge, Surrey, after four weeks’ acute suffering, Reginald,

the youngest son of Charles G. Wood, Surgeon, aged 4 years.On the 3rd inst., John Williams, Esq., of Stanthill, Dursley, Gloucestershire,

and of Fynnonwen, Peterstone, Glamorganshire, aged 67.On the 4th inst., at Friar’s-road, Ipswich, Lizzie Alice, the only daughter of

J. H. Staddon, L.R.C.P.Ed., M.B.C.S.E., aged 1 year.

To Correspondents.THE TEDDINGTON MEDICAL OFFICER.

THE Rev. Mr. Trinde has sent us a letter, asking us categorieallywhether we have seen an authentic copy of the decision of the Poor-lawBoard in reference to the charges made against Mr. Clement ? If not,what means we have of judging that the charges have broken down?And if we have, why we do not give extracts to substantiate our opinion?We have seen an authentic copy of the decision of the Poor-law Board sentto the Kingston Board of Guardians. The best proof that the "charges"have broken down is the fact that Mr. Clement still retains his post ofmedical officer. The report of the Poor-law Board characterises the so-called giving a "false certificate" as " a mistake that probably arose from

, his (Mr. Clement’s) omission to strike out the printed words to the effectthat he had visited the case." The Poor-law Board further says: "It doesnot appear that Charles Smith stood in need of Mr. Clement’s professionalservices, being under treatment at the Hospital for Consumption." In

regard to the charge of neglect, the guardians are requested to inform Mr.Clement, "that had it not been for the evidence given by the relievingofficer as regards the circumstances of Caroline Harris’s previous illness,and for the fact that the order for attendance was not marked urgent,’the Board would have been unable to allow him to continue in the office ofmedical officer." In other words, the charges have "broken down."

A Studerat.-The date does not occur to us at the moment. Any medicalbookseller would give the necessary information.

H. W. B.-Yes, if qualified.THE communication of Dr. Wardell shall, if possible, appear in our next.

MILK FOUND IN THE BREASTS OF INFANTS.To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,—In answer to your correspondent, Mr. Mitchell, regarding the above,I beg to state that on the 29th ultimo I was attending a male child, agednine days, for obstinate constipation. Whilst manipulating the abdumen, Iperceived the breasts unusually large. I examined them, and found a nodu-lated substance in each, about the size of a walnut. Applying firm pressure,unmistakable milk exuded, to the amount of about half a drachm, from each.The woman told me that her last child, now two years old, had the samewhen an infant. I was rather amused by the ready treatment the motherproposed to adopt. She said, " I must get a backening plaster fur it; that iswhat I cured the other one with." Yours truly,May, 1867. EDWARD M. OWENS.

To the Editor of THE LANCET.SIR,—In corroboration of the value of the treatment recommended by Mr.

Joseph Thompson, jun., for infantile lactation, I beg to state that I hadlately a case in which the breasts of a female child were unusually developedat birth, and when she was seven days old they became hard, swollen, andnodulated. On the twelfth day they were larger than a full-sized walnut, andmilk was easily pressed from the nipples. I desired the mother not to squeezeor in any way to irritate the glands; to apply bread-and-water couthees, andto give attention to the infant’s bowels. By this simple treatment the secre-tion and swelling gradually 3ubsided, and entirely disappeared in about

twelve days. Yours faithfully,Hampstead, May 4th, 1867. W, HEATH STRANGE, M.D.