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Mr. Carttar held an inquest on the body of a boy who died atDilston-road, Rotherhithe. He had been living in a house inSt. Helena-road with his father and eight other members ofthe family, but, having got into arrears with their rent, thelandlord, after warning the father, had taken off the doors

and windows in order to force him to leave the premises, andas a result the deceased died from chill. A sadder story can

scarcely be told. It is obvious if rent cannot be paid that thelandlord is entitled to possession, but the law must be veryfaulty if there is no better way of evicting the tenant thanthe course adopted in the last two cases. It may be hopedthat this occurrence will not pass unnoticed and that its

repetition will be rendered impossible.

OVERCROWDING OF THE PROFESSION IN NAPLES.

ACCORDING tosome statistics collected by the Fi. forvacz 1lledi.cczthe number of medical men in Italy is steadily and rapidlyincreasing, and the overcrowding is especially great in Naples,where there is one medical practitioner to every 513 inhlbi-tants. Medical incomes are consequently diminishing, and areshown by the income-tax returns to be distinctly inferiorto incomes earned by members of other liberal professions,as lawyers and engineers. The outlook is, according to thel/;iforma l4fediccc, a very gloomy one for medical men, and itdoes not seem possible to doubt that their position will soonbecome decidedly worse than it is now.

THE NEW ENTRIES AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS.

IT is premature to draw conclusions as to the numberscommencing the study of medicine in the present year. So

far as our returns go, in spite of the lengthened curriculum(mposed by regulation of the General Medical Council, thesenumbers show an increase. Our readers may remember thateast year there was a very considerable rise in the number ofmedical students registered during the year, a rush whichwas naturally attributed to the desire to get the advantageof the older and shorter curriculum. If the Scotch and Irish

and other returns not yet to hand should show, as our presentreturns seem to do, a further rise, we shall have to seekanother explanation. One thing seems clear : that that

calamity once feared by Lord Playfair is not likely to berealised-a dearth in the supply of medical men.

TYPHOID FEVER ON SEWAGE FARMS.

IT is alleged that two boys, each aged sixteen years,have died of typhoid fever, contracted from working onthe sewage farm of the Manchester Corporation at Carrington.This is a very serious allegation against the management ofthe farm, which will doubtless be fully met by the corpora-tion. For the negative evidence on this point of the pro-duction of enteric fever from sewage farm effluvia is so strong,from the history of the Croydon, Edinburgh, and other farms,(hat, if the facts be true, a strong presumption against thefarm is raised. In the meantime, another question crops up,as to whether boys of such age should be employed at all on asewage farm ; and whether, in view of enteric sewage beingoften dealt with on them, it would not be better to employmen of middle age for the purpose.

DINNER TO SIR WALTER FOSTER, M.P.

A DINNER, presided over by Dr. Withers Moore, President’Jf the Council of the British Medical Association, and’3ttended by a large gathering of leading members of themedical profession, was given on Wednesday evening lastat the Hotel Metropole to Sir Walter Foster, M.P., inhonour of his appointment as Parliamentary Secretary tothe Local Government Board. The chairman, in proposingSir Walter Foster’s health, congratulated him upon beingthe first member of the medical profession to be appointed

to a post in an English Government. In replying, SirWalter Foster said he had held almost every office inthe British Medical Association, and that it was in the

Association that he received his chief training for publicwork. He believed that in the great problems with

which the Government would have in the future to dealthe cooperation of medical men as authorities on the

laws of public health would be more and more required.Mr. H. H. Fowler, President of the Local Government

Board, whose health was most enthusiastically drunk,referred to the number of medical men with whom that

department had become officially associated as beingbetween 4000 and 5000 ; that department had recognisedthe fact that the most valuable part of a man’s propertywas his health, and the statistics of recent years showed aremarkable diminution in the death-rate.

BUCHANAN PRESENTATION FUND.

WE understand that a final meeting of the committee ofthe above fund is to be held on Thursday, November 3rd, atthe residence of the treasurer, Dr. Bristowe. Any intendingcontributors to the fund should forward their subscriptionsat once to one of the secretaries-Dr. W. H. Hamer, 73, Dart-mouth-park-hill, N. ; Dr. J. C. Thresh, The Limes, Chelmsford,Essex.

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ALLEGATIONS AGAINST A MEDICAL OFFICER.

SERIOUS charges of neglect of duty have been madeagainst one of the medical officers of the Birkenhead Unionby certain of the guardians. He is accused of havingneglected three cases that he was called upon to attend.The inquiry has been adjourned, when it is hoped that theofficer will be able to exonerate himself from the chargesmade against him. In the meantime it would be prematureto comment upon the case.

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TOUCH AND TEMPERATURE SENSE.

AN interesting case. illustrating peculiarities in sensory

perception, is recorded by Cavazzani and briefly mentionedin the Nell’J’ologis(’ïzes Centralblrtit. It is that of a patientwhose median and ulnar nerves had been injured and thensutured. On testing the sensibility after this it was foundthat in certain areas where the temperature sense was re-tained there was no sensibility to ordinary impressions, andin other areas the converse was the case, thus giving supportto Goldscheider’s idea that the end-organs and conductingpaths are different for the different kinds of sensibility. As,too, there were areas where only cold was perceived, whiletactile and thermal impressions were not felt, it seems as ifthere were separate paths for heat and cold. It was alsocurious that a trial made when the patient was about to leavethe hospital at a time when he was somewhat excited shouldhave furnished results not quite the same as those obtainedbefore-a change which is ascribed to the altered conditionof the nervous centres due to the excitement.

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Berlin.-The Second Anatomical Institute is now finished.It is under the direction of Professor Hertwig and will bedevoted mainly to microscopical anatomy and development.Dr. van Ackeren has left the Second Medical Clinic for

Chicago and Dr. Vogel has been appointed to his post.?’yM.—Dr. Beerwald has been appointed Oberarzt of

the hospital in place of Professor Rosenbach, who hasresigned.

TM/c.—Dr. Juffinger of Vienna has been appointedHonorary Lecturer in Laryngology and Rhinology.

111oscoiV.-Dr. KrinkotI has been appointed ExtraordinaryProfessor of Ophthalmology.

TfM.—Dr. Barteneff of KharkotI has been appointedi Extraordinary Professor of Children’s Diseases.