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MANCHESTER CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, Pendlebury, near Manchester.—Two Female Resident Medical Officers for six months. Salaryat rate pf B100 per annum.

NEw HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN. Euston-road, N.W.-Female Radiographer.Salary B30 per annum. Also Female Assistant Pathologist. SalaryB100 per annum. Also Female Senior Clinical Assistant to Out-patient Department.

NORWICH, NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL.—House Physician.Salary B400 per annum, with board, residence. and laundry.

PUTNEY HOSPITAL, Putney Common, S.W.-Resident Medical Officer.Salary .2150 per annum, with rooms, board, and laundry.

QUEEN’S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Hackney-road. Bethnal Green, E.-House Surgeons for six months. Salary B100 per annum, withboard, residence, and washing. Also Temporary Medical Officer.Attendance once a week. £12 10s. per annum to cover travellingexpenses.

ROCHESTER, ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL, Kent.-Senior ResidentHouse Surgeon. Salary at rate of B300 per annum.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn-road, W.C.-Male and FemaleHouse Physicians .and House Surgeons for six months. Salary250 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.

SALISBURY GENERAL INFIRMARY.—House Surgeon and AssistantHouse Surgeon. Salary B150 and 2100 per annum respectively,with apartments, board, lodging, and washing.

SHEFFIELD ROYAL INFIRMARY.—House Surgeon. Salary 2100 perannum, with board and residence.

SOUTHAMPTON FREE EYE HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary B100per annum, with board, lodging, and laundry.

THROAT HOSPITAL, Golden-square W.-Honorary Medical Registrar.WESTMORLAND CONSUMPTION SANATORIUM AND HOME, Grange-over-

Sands.-Second Assistant. Salary B200 per annum, with apart-ments, board, and laundry.

. WOUNDED ALLIES RELIEF COMMITTEE. Sardinia House, Kingsway,W.C.-Assistant Surgeon for British Hospital in France forFrench Wounded. Salary 5 guineas a week.

THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, London, S.W., givesnotice of vacancies for Certifying Surgeons under the Factoryand Workshop Acts at Newport, in the county of Mayo; and atEast Grinstead, in the county of Sussex.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

BLOOD.-On March 23rd, at Brynland-avenue, Bishopston, Bristol, toDr. and Mrs. B. N. Blood, a daughter.

HARE.—On March 22nd, at the Imperial Nursing Home, Cheltenham,the wife of Captain Theodore Hare, R,A M.C., of a son.

LAMPLOUGE.—On March 25th, at Bredon, Alverstoke, the wife ofWharram H. Lamplough, M.D. Durh., temporary R.A.M.C., of adaughter.

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MARRIAGES.ASPLEN—O’DOVNELL.—On March 15th, at St. Stephen’s Church,

Cheltenham, William Reginald Ward Asplen, Lieutenant,R.A.M.C., to Kate Norah, only daughter of the late Colonel A. C.O’Donnell, Indian Army, and Mrs. O’Donnell, of Maryville, Tivoli-road, Cheltenham.

OWEN—BOND.—On March 20th, at the Pro-Cathedral, Clifton, AmbroseW. Owen. M.D., B.S. Lond., late temporary Lieutenant, H.A.M.C..of Porth. Glam., to Beatrice Nina Bond, of Brtdgwater, Somerset.

WAVGH—PICKFRSGILL.—On March 27th, at Christ Church, Sunderla.nd,William Grant Waugh, Captain, R.A.M.O.. to Enid, only daughterof the late Charles Pickersgill and Mrs. Pickersgill, of The ElmsNorth, Sunderland.

WHITE—MACKLIN.—On March 1st, at the British Legation, Teheran,Persia, Henry White, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., to Alice Martha,eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Charles Macklin, of

Ingleside, Wickham-road, Brockley, Kent.

DEATHS.HARPER.—On March 24th, at Rosary-gardens, South Kensington, James

Harper, M.D. Lond., Colonel, R A.M.C. (T.), aged 58 years.HNBBEBT.—On March 19th. of relapsing fever, in Mesopotamia, Robert

Francis Hebbert, Captain. I.M.S., aged 33 years.PRICE.-On March 29th, at Hooper’s Hill House, Margate. William

Price, M.D., last surviving son of David Price, M.D., of Margate,aged 79 years.

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ADLARD AND SON, London.Cleft Palate and Hare-Lip. By Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., M.S.,F.R.C.S. Third edition. Price 10s.

CHURCHILL, J. AND A., London.A Handbook of Colloid Chemistry. By Dr. Wolfgang Ostwald

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LEWIS, H. K., London.The Adolescent Period. By Louis Starr, M.D., LL.D. Price 4s. 6d.

net.

MALOINE, A., ET FIL9, 27, Rue de 1’Ecole de Medecine, Paris.La Gangrène Gazeuse et les Plaies Gangreneuses. Par les Drs. P.Moiroud et H. Vignes. Premier fascicule. Price 1.60fr.

OCEANA PRESS, Calle Chile, 525, Buenos AiresAnatomia de los Conductos Biliares y de la Arteria Cistica. By

Dr. Pedro Belou, Professor Titular de Anatomia Descriptiva de laFacultad de Ciencias Medicus de Buenos Aires.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

THE VITAL STATISTICS OF THE LEEWARDISLANDS.

IN his report for the year 1914-15 Mr. T. A. V. Best, theColonial Secretary of the Leeward Islands of the WestIndies (Antigua, St. Kitts-Nevis, Dominica, Montserrat,and the Virgin Islands), states that the total population ofthe colony, according to the last Census, was 127,193. Thegeneral health of the inhabitants during the year was good.The total number of patients admitted into the hospitalsof the colony was 3713, as against 3827 in the previousyear, whilst the number of deaths was only 266, as

against 354. In the Leper Asylum at Antigua therewere 39 lepers. The central lunatic asylum had 128patients. The Alexandra Cottage Home for Incurables,Dominica, maintained on an average 10 paupers.In the Yaws Hospital at St. Eitts 177 patients were

treated, all of whom were discharged as cured. Treat-ment had to be suspended and the ward closed for atime, as salvarsan, being a German preparation, was notprocurable. The average rainfall from January toDecember, 1914, on 72 stations in Antigua was 36’86 inches,or 7’39 inches below the average of the 40 preceding years.The highest maximum temperature was 911 F. on Oct. 27thand Nov. 8th, and the lowest minimum temperature 66°on Jan. 7th. Three shocks of earthquake were recorded.

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS YEAR BOOK.THE twenty-seventh annual issue of this useful guide,

edited by H. F. W. Deane, M.A., F.S.A., and W. A.Bulkeley Evans, M.A. (London: The Year Book Press,31, Museum-street, W.C. Pp. 767. Price 5s. net) containsin a form handy for reference information relative tothe governing bodies, staff, nomination and admission.entrance examination and scholarships, houses anddormitories, organisation and instruction, fees, charges,and prizes at the public schools, and details of the entranceexaminations to the Universities. The conditions ofadmission to the Civil Service and other professions areincluded, and the sections devoted to the navy and armygive the new regulations for temporary and permanentcommissions. A list of preparatory schools, a publicschools, bibliography, and short articles on the variousprofessions are other useful features of the work. As theofficial reference book of the headmasters’ conference itsummarises the work of the committee of this conference.An invaluable work of reference for parents.

CHILDREN’S COUNTRY HOLIDAYS FUND.Mr. Francis Morris, chairman of the Executive Committee,writes to say that the work of the Children’s Country

. Holidays Fund is being carried on despite the war, andthat donations are needed in order to send away the 18,OMto 20,000 children with whom it is hoped to deal this year,Efforts are being made to seek out the most ailmg childrenin the elementary schools of London in order to providethem with a summer fortnight in country cottages. Thiswork should appeal to all who have at heart the welfareof the growing generation.

HEALTH OF MAURITIUS.A CORRESPONDENT writes :-In connexion with your note lastweek on the public health of Mauritius attention maybedrawn to the meteorological observations taken at the RoyalAlfred Observatory, Pamplemousses, and at nine second-order stations. The observatory is about three miles fromthe West Coast, and is 179 feet above sea level. There are

considerable variations both in temperature and humidityin the different parts of the island, the coast districtsbeing hotter and drier than the higher altitudes in theintetior. Hurricanes occur between December and April.which is the hottest season. The mean rainfall at 49stations was 59’10 inches as compared with 75-83 inchesin 1913 and an average of 74-94 inches. Heavy rains,relatively to the normal, fell in February and June, Therainfall at the observatory was below normal, being43-12 inches as compared with a normal of 47’95 inches, andthe number of rainy days recorded was 215, as comparedwith an average of 204, a "rainy day" being one in which005 inch or more of rain was measured. The mean

temperature of the air at the observatory was 73.7° F. ascompared with an average of 73.4°, the highest tempera’ture recorded being 89.9° on March 10th, and the lowest54° on July 23rd. The highest and lowest temperatures

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recorded at the observatory between 1875 and 1914 were.94.7° on Dec. 23rd, 1900, and 49.9° on August 8th, 1907From February to September the temperature remainedgenerally above normal, falling to below normal in thelast quarter of the year.