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VACANT STOOLS. - There are several appointmentsvacant in the London medical charities at this moment whichare the subject, in some cases, of that warm competition whichso commonly attends the announcement of any vacant officein the medical profession. The surgeoncy of the City ofLondon Truss Society, vacant by the lamented death of Mr.Taunton, has been warmly contested. The more prominentcandidates are Mr. Walter Tyrrel, surgeon to the National Truss Society; Mr. Allingham, surgeon to the Islington Dis-pensary; and Mr. Abernethy Kingdon, surgeon to the CityDispensary. Mr. Allingham has just withdrawn from the con-test. It has been determined to appoint a fourth assistant-surgeon to the London Hospital. Mr. Peter Gowland is can-didate for the appointment, and will probably be electedunanimously, and without opposition, in consideration of thelengthened period during which he has performed the duties ofassistant-surgeon to the hospital, first during the fourteenmonths of absence of Mr. Wordsworth in the East, and morelately during the seven months of indisposition of Mr. NathanielWard. Mr. Gowland will be somewhat of a pluralist-likehis colleague at the Fistula Hospital. We greatly doubt thewisdom of this. No young man can do justice to the duties offour onerous appointments; and even if he get through the me-chanical labour which attends them, he will find but littletime for that thought and scientific investigation whichlead to success and to eminence. The St. Pancras RoyalGeneral Dispensary announces also a vacancy in the office ofvisiting physician to attend patients at their own houses.Candidates must be members of the Royal College of Physicians,or of one of the universities.

A DENTIST’S FEE.-The Vienna correspondent of theTimps writes thus :-‘ On the day after that on which theAmeer quitted Vienna a dentist called on me, and stated thathe had been " done " by the foreigner, who had gone awaywithout paying him for a front tooth which he had put in forhim. In the course of conversation the dentist stated that hehad asked C20 for the job, and he was much hurt on being toldthat in my opinion he was rightly served, inasmuch as he hadbeen done whilst attempting to do."YELLOW FEVER.—We learn by the Indian Mail, that

yellow fever had again made its appearance at St. Thomas’s,and four cases occurred on board the Parana, two of themproving fatal, one victim being Mr. David Lake Finlay, agedtwenty-seven, surgeon of the ship. The steamer Solent wasdetained in quarantine at Vera Cruz, in consequence of theprevalence of smallpox at Havannah.HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK ENDING

SATURDAY, MARCH 6TH.—The returns for last week (whichended Saturday, March 6th) show a considerable increase ofmortality, an effect which the remarkable coldness of theweather on several days could hardly fail to produce. Thedeaths in London, which were about 1280 weekly in the latterhalf of February, rose last week to 1353, of which 694 weredeaths of men and boys, 659 those of women and girls. Ofthe five classes into which the causes of death are distributed,only one, namely, "local diseases," is found to produce theexcess above mentioned; and amongst local diseases the in-crease is due to those which affect the organs of respiration.Under this last head, comprising chiefly bronchitis and pneu-monia, 399 deaths are classed, whilst the corrected average isnot more than 283. The only corresponding weeks in whichnearly equal or greater numbers under this head are found, arethose of 1853 and 1855, when during or immediately after lowtemperature of the air the deaths from pulmonary diseaseswere 388 and 433. Bronchitis was fatal last week in 243 cases(the average being 140); pneumonia in 123 cases (the averagebeing 96). Influenza was specified as the cause of death inonly 4 cases; fatal cases of hooping-cough rose to 59. Fromphthisis (or consumption) 146 persons died; its mortality wasnot aggravated by the cold, for the number was exactly thesame as that of the previous week, and is scarcely equal to theaverage. In the sub-district of Lambeth Church (second part)two children died of hooping-cough in a family at 3, Neville-street ; and on the 1st and 3rd instant two children of typhusin a family at 50, Park-street. Four children have died since25th ult. of measles in the workhouse at Norwood, besides onefrom chicken-pox, and one from pyaemia,. Five children died ofmeasles in the sub-district of Poplar; 7 of hooping-cough in St.Paul, St. George-in-the-East. "Diphtheria" is returned in 7instances. One person died of destitution.Last week the births of 869 boys and 7T5 girls, in all 1644

children, were registered in London.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

On the 2nd inst., at Bramshaw Parsonage, near Lynd-hurst, the wife of J. Fraser, M. D., Rifle Brigade, of a daughter.On the 4th inst., at Clifton, the wife of J. Tyrell Ross, Esq.,

F.R.C.S., Bengal Army, of a daughter.On the 6th inst., at Winchester, the wife of Dr. Smith, Staff-

Surgeon Rifle Depot Battalion, of a daughter.

MARRIAGE.On the 9th inst., at St. George’s, Hanover-square, William

Blucher Dolton, M.D., of Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park, to EmilyFortescue, only daughter of J. S. F. Taylor, Esq.

DEATHS.

At Cawnpore, killed in the boats, on the 27th June, 1S57aged 20, Mary Anne Sophia, wife of Wm. Joseph Shaw, Assis-tant-Surgeon H.E.I.C.S., and eldest daughter of AnthonySouthby, M.D., of Bulford House, Wilts; and at the DilkhoshaPalace, on his way out of Lucknow, with the rescued garrison,on or about the 22nd November following, of decline, aged 24,the said William Joseph Shaw, eldest son of the Rev. WilliamShaw, of Stoke St. Mary, near Taunton, Somerset, havingescaped thither from Onaw, where he was stationed, about the8th of June, after an ineffectual attempt to join his wife in theentrenched camp at Cawnpore.On the 28th ult., J. May, Esq., L.S.A., of Marchmont-

street, Tavistock-square.On the 4th inst., of bronchitis, J. Prichard Wall, Esq.,

late of Mount-street, Grosvenor-square.

MEDICAL DIARY OF THE WEEK.

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WEDNESDAY,MARCH 17-

THURSDAY, 31ARCH 18.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 20

(ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1 1/2. P.M.METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL. — Operations,

2 P.M.

RoyaL INSTITUTION.-3 r.M. Prof. Huxley, " OnBiology."

Guy’s HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1 P.M.

WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.—Operations, 2 P.M.ROYAL INSTITUTION.-3 P.M. Prof. Huxley, "OnBiology."

PATHOLOGIGAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. - 8 P.M.

ST. MABY’s HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1 P.M.UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. - Operations,

2 P.M.ROYAL ORT3ioi?mDic HOSPITAL. - Operations, 2

P.M.ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.—4 P.M. Lum-

leiau Lectures: Dr. Tweedie, "On Fevers."MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.-8B P.M. Lett-somian Lectures on Surgery: Mr. V. de Méric,"On the Question of Unity or Duality of the

Syphilitic Virus."

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—Operations, 12 1/2 1’.:’11:.

I ST. GtEOR(M’s HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1 P.sc.

CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL. —) Operations, 1 P.M.j LONDON HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1 1/2 P.M.

RoYAL INSTITUTION.-3 P.M.—Prof. Tyndall, On

Heat."KING’S COLLEGE MEDICAL SOCIETY. - 8 P.M.L Annual General Meeting.(OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, MOORFIELDS.— Opera-

tions, 10 A.M.WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL. — Opera-

tions, H P.M.GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, KING’S CROSS.-

Opcrations, 2 1/2 P.M.ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.—4 P.M. Lum-

l, leian Lectures: Dr. Tweedie, "On Fevers."WESTERN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SOCIETY OFLONDON. — 8 P.M. Dr. Arlidge, "On the Pro-

I longation of the Menstrual Period."ROYAL INSTITUTION. — 8 1/2 P.M. Mr. Henry Tlios.

Buchle, "On the Influence of Women on the Progress ot Knowledge."(CHaxING-caoss HOSPITAL.—Operations, 12 1/2 P.M.ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1 P.M.ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1

P.M.

KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—Operations,2 ?:If.ROYAL INSTITUTION.—3 P.M. Prof. Btoxa’n, "On

the Chemistry of the Elements which Circulatein -Nature."Guy’s PHYSICAL SOCIETY.—8 P.M. Mr. Durham," On Steep in Health and Disease."

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—8 P.M.