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BUXTON, DEVONSHIRE HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon. SalaryE70 per annum, with apartments, board, and laundry.

CANTERBURY, KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL.-House Physician,unmarried. Salary £90 a year, with board and lodging. AlsoSecond Honorary Physician.

CHELSEA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, Fulham-road, S.W.—Clinical Assistantfor three months.

CHESTERFIELD AND NORTH DERBYSHIRE HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.-Junior House Surgeon for six months. Salary £ 50 per year, withboard, apartments, and laundress.

ExMBtSTEB, DEVON COUNTY ASYLUM.-Junior Assistant MedicalOfficer. Salary £ 125, rising to .6155, with board, residence, andlaundry.

GLASGOW, GARTLOCH ASYLUM.—Junior Medical Officer. Salary £ 125,with board, lodging, and laundrv.

HARTSHILL, STOKE-UPON-TRENT, NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE INFIRMARYAND EYE HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon for six months.Honorarium B25, and board, apartments, and washing.

HASTINGS, FAIRLIGHT HALL CONVALESCENT HOME.-Visiting Physician(Honorary).

HOSPITAL FOR Sicn CHILDREN, Great Ormond-street, London, W.C.—House Surgeon, unmarried, for six months. Salary ;C20, withboard and residence.

K1NG’s COLLEGE, LONDON.-Sambrooke Medical Registrarship.LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY FOR CHIlDRFN.-House Surgeon. Salary £ 100

per annum, with board and lodging.LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.-Medical Officer to certain employes in the

Borough of Woolwich, south of Shooter’s Hill-road, exclusive ofShooter’s Hill fire station.

LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL, Liverpool-road, N.-Assistant ResidentMedical Officer. Salary ;C120 per annum, with board and lodging.

MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY.-Medical Practitioner. Salary ;C150per annum.

MARGARET-STREET HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OFTHE CHEST, Cavendish-square, W.-Physician (honorary).

MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THECHEST, Hampstead and Northwood, Middlesex.-Resident MedicalOfficer at Northwood. Honorarium £ 80, with board and residence.Also Senior and Junior Resident Medical Officers at Hampstead.Honorariums: Senior Officer, L100 per annum; Junior Officer,B50 per annum,

NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE RELIEF AND CURE OF THE PARALYSEDAND EPILEPTIC, Queen-square, Bloomsbury.-Resident MedicalOfficer. Salary jBlOO a year, with board and residence.

NEWCASTLE-uPON-TYNE DISPENSARY., Resident Medical Officer. Salary;E250, rising to B275, with residence.

NEWPORT AND MONMOUTHSHIRE HOSPITAL.-Junior Resident MedicalOfficer. Salary £70 per annum, with board, residence, andwashing.

NORTHAMPTON, ST. ANDREW’S HOSPITAL FOR MENTAL DISEASES.-Junior Assistant Medical Officer. Salary ;C200 per annum, withboard, rooms, and washing.

NOTTINGHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Physician. SalaryB100, with board, lodging, and washing.

ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, Plaistow, E.-AssistantResident Medical Officer, unmarried, for six months. Salary at rateof £80 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.

SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, Marylebone-road, N.W.-Clinical Assistants.

SHEFFIELD ROYAL HOSPITAL.-Two Honorary Anaesthetists. AlsoHonorary Assistant Dental Officer.

SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES OF LONDON. -Examiner in Surgery.TOTTENHAM HosPITAL, London, N.- Honorary Anaesthetist.UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-William Lindley Research Studentship in

Physiology. Value B100, for one year.VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Tite-street, Chelsea, S.W.-Two

vacancies on Surgical Staff to Out-patients. Also HonoraryAnesthetist.

WANDSWORTH INFIRMARY.-Senior Assistant Medical Officer, un-

married. Salary .El 45, with apartments, board, and washing.WARWICK CouNTY ASYLUM.- Assistant Medical Officer. Salary £ 100,

rising to .E130, with full board, &c.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

hza2os.-on April 6th, at Cairo, the wife of R. G. Kirton, P.M.O. ofthe Prisons Department, Egypt, of a daughter.

MASON.-On the 15th inst., at 45, George-street, Portman-square, thewife of G. A. Mason. M.A., M.B., B.C. Cantab., of a son.

STUBBS.-On April llth, at Brixton-hill, S.W., the wife of John D.Stubbs, M.B., B.C. Cantab., of a son.

VISGER.-On April llth, at Elm Lodge, Clevedoii, Somerset, the wifeot Charles Visger, M.R.C.S., a son.

MARRIAGES. MASON-JOHNSON.—OnApri) 15th, at St. Andrew’s Church, Gorleston-on-

Sea, Alfred Leighton Mason, L.D.S.R.C.S. Eng., to Mabel Marie,only child of the late George Randall Johnson, Waxham Hall,Norfolk.

ORMOND-EASOX.—On the 15th inst., at St. Paul’s Church, Forest Hill,S.E., by the Rev. Canon W. A. Moberly, Vicar of St. Bartholomew’s,Sydenham, and Rural Dean, assisted by the Rev. Douglas Scott,LL.D., Headmaster of the Mercers’ School, Arthur W. Ormond,F.R.C.S., of 37, Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square, and Guy’sHospital, to Mary Charlotte (May), daughter of Edward H. P.Eason, of Eversley, Forest Hill, S.E.

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

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

THE HEALTH AND MORALITY OF THE PITCAIRN ISLANDERS.

Mr. R. T. Simons, who last year was instructed by the High Com-missioner for the Western Pacific to inquire into the state of affairsin Pitcairn Island, in the South Pacific, where the mutineers of theBounty were landed to take their chance in 1790, has made a report inwhich the following passages occur:-

" The Pitcairn islanders number 77 males and 92 females, in-

cluding children and infants, of whom 68 males and 73 females arenow resident on the island. They are a hard-working people, moreor less healthy, exhibiting certain vicious tendencies which religionhas been unable to eradicate. Many of them are narrow-mindedand unstable. They have adopted an extraordinary patois (derivedfrom the language of the Tahitian women who accompanied themutineers of the Bonnty to Pitcairn Island) which is employedin conversation’among themselves, although most of the adultscan speak the English language fairly well-in some instances

very well, considering their circumstances and environment.There are persons of ability among them, but a few appear to belacking in intelligence. The children and young people are

numerous and, if properly cared for, should turn out usefulmembers of the commuuity.With regard to the morals of the islanders, in the aggregate

I fear I can say little in their favour. Fornication, adultery,illegitimate children, petty thefts, brawls, bad language, &c., are

faults among them (happily they do not use intoxicants) and itwas disquieting to learn that the laws and regulations dealing withthose offences had seldom been enforced. Indeed, the generallaxity has been so great, that abortion by means of drugs andinstruments of local contrivance was not of infrequent occurrence.I have made provision for the punishment of that and of othercrimes in the future.

On arrival at Mangareva, on my way to Pitcairn, the admini-strator of the Gambiers, a gentleman born and educated in theIsland of Mauritius, who is also in medical charge of the islandsunder his administrative control, mentioned to me that during thepast two years many of the Pitcairn women and girls had visitedMangareva, where venereal diseases are prevalent, and that, in con-sequence, he feared that some of them had contracted those com-

plaints and had introduced them into their island. Dr. Cassianfurther expressed his interest in the Pitcairn Island communityand generously proffered his medical services without remunera-tion, provided that those afflicted would go up to him for treat-ment. Accordingly, having ascertained after my arrival atPitcairn that a few such cases were existent on the island,I made known Dr. Cassian’s kindly proposal and invitedthe sufferers to accompany me back to Mangareva. None,however, responded to my appeal and I can only surmise that thepersons in question have preferred to go up in the cutter. I alsofonnd at Pitcairn Island consumption, lupus, glandular swellings,asthma, and various forms of skin disease. These cases will likewisebe taken in hand by Dr. Cassian under the conditions mentionedand it is to be hoped that the islanders will appreciate and will notfail to take advantage of that gentleman’s benevolent solicitude fortheir welfare. I discovered no deformities among the people, butthe front teeth of most of them are bad, the only visible result oftheir intermarriage with each other.Some years ago the Pitcairn Island community embraced the

faith of the Seventh Day Adventists, a religious sect having its originand headquarters in the United States. On their sabbath day, in theobservance of which they are scrupulous, the Pitcairn islanders,dressed in their best and looking clean and wholesome, make a favour-able impression. They are exemplary in their attendance at week-dayprayer meetings and Church gatherings, but, nevertheless, vulgarstories and exclamations and obscene songs are not unknown tothem, and it is an alleged fact that on suitable occasions womenwill accompany the men on board passing ships ostensibly to sellcurios, but in reality for immoral purposes. The Pitcairn peoplecontribute 10 per cent. of their produce and of any moneys theymay receive as a tithe to the Church, and they pay subscriptions tothe Sabbath school and other religious funds."

A REPUDIATION.

To the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,.—In the London Magazine for March is an eight-page advertise-ment of the O’Connor Extension Company, entitled "Life’s Handicap,"by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. In the I ext my name is

prominently displayed. Will you permit me to state that 1 am notthe author of the article and also that I have a letter from the managingdirector undertaking that my name shall not be used in such a maineragain. Thanking you in anticipation,

I am, Sirs, yours faithfully, ,

Bedford-square, W.C. CHISHOLM WILLIAMS, F.R.C.S. Edin.