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was the prelude of very rapid tuberculosis. During his lastillness he was attended by Mr. Raven of Broadstairs andby Dr. Tirard. His early death has called forth many.expressions of sorrow. One patient writes: "His deathwill be a great loss to us all who had the privilege ofknowing him, and also to the world at large, for he seemedto have a bright future before him."

JAMES W. T. SMITH, M.D.BELFAST and the entire province of Ulster, where

Dr. James W. T. Smith was so widely and so well knownas consulting physician, has received a serious shock bythe announcement of his death, which occurred at hisresidence, Wellington-place, Belfast, on July llth, atthe age of about sixty years. Born and brought up inBelfast, Dr. Smith gained his medical training in Dublin,where in 1848 he obtained the licence of the College ofSurgeons. He subsequently became, in 1853, a graduateof the late Queen’s University, and, by his singularly successful career in his native city, soon showed that hewas born to be a physician. His first appointment wasthat of a dispensary doctor, and here, as he often stated,he gained a very large and valuable experience. He soonafterwards was appointed as physician to the RoyalHospital, from which, on his retirement two years ago,he was elected to the consulting staff. Here, by hiscareful and thorough teaching, and by his accuracy indiagnosis, he gained the complete confidence of thestudents of the Belfast Medical School-a circumstanceof very great importance in his own career as a con-sultant, and to the public at large, with whom herapidly rose in high estimation. For many years he wasalso physician to the Lying-in Hospital, and afterwards.consultant; the latter office he also held in the BelfastHospital for Sick Children. A fainting fit in Armagh on theThursday evening, while engaged in a consultation, which.subsequently developed into an attack of left hemiplegia, wasfollowed by congestion of the lungs on Sunday, and the illnessterminated fatally on Monday evening. At no time was hismind in the slightest degree affected, and up to a short timebefore his death he was able to speak in his usual clear anddecisive manner to the members of his family who stoodaround his dying bed. From the first seizure Dr. Smithfelt he would not recover, and stated this to his son,Dr. Strafford Smith, and to his old friend Mr. McCleery,who attended him to the last. Unfortunately, hisdiagnosis of his own case was characterised by hisusual accuracy. It is impossible to estimate the lossthat Belfast and the north of Ireland have sustainedin the death of Dr. James Smith. For several years hewas one of the most prominent of the medical men inIreland. Thoroughly self-made (of which he was proud).and self-reliant, he had the complete confidence of thepublic. His province was at the bedside, where, by hiscareful examination, correct opinion, and attention to

details, he gained absolute hold of his patients. He had animmense general and obstetric practice, and in the past tenyears his consulting work extended to every county inUlster. No medical man was better known and morerespected and beloved in the north of Ireland than Dr.James Smith. He left strict instructions with his survivingfamily (two sons and five daughters) that his funeral was tobe private.

Dr. Smith was a widower, his wife, who was a memberof a family long connected with Belfast, and who was heldin deserved esteem, having died several years ago.

WILLIAM DE LA MOTTE, L.S.A..MANY relatives and many friends will have heard with

deep regret the tragic end of William De la Motte; he wasthe son of the late Henry De la Motte, a surgeon, ofSwanage, Dorsetshire, where his brother, George CotesDe la Motte, is still practising. His grandfather, PeterDe la Motte, Esq., who married a daughter of theRev. Digby Cotes, of Abbey Dore, in the county ofHereford, and resided at Weymouth, was a direct descend-.ant from Philip De la Motte of Tournay, who cameto this country at the time of the Revocation of the Edictof Nantes, and was appointed Ministre de la Parole de Dieuof the French Protestant Church of Southampton, where anumber of the De la Mottes are buried. Many of theDe la Mottes have done good service. His uncle, Peter Dela Motte, was a Lieutenant-General in the IndianArmy, and was made a C.B. in 1838. His brother, who

gave evidence at the inquest, is founder of the HuguenotSociety of London. William De la Motte was educatedprivately, and entered the London Hospital for his medicaleducation. He lately took the double qualificationL.S.A., and was due for his final at the Royal College ofPhysicians, London. At the time of his death lie was

assisting Dr. Hawkins in the Commercial-road, who highlyvalued and appreciated him as a conscientious, kind, andthorough gentleman.

Medical News.UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. - The following can-

didates passed the Intermediate Examination in Medicinein July last :--Entire Examination,.-First -Division: Hamilton Ashley Ballance,University College; Blackwell Charles, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital;John Howard Fletcher, Owens College; Chas. Arthur Fuller, St.Mary’s Hospital; Francis Octavius Grant, St. Thomas’s Hospital;John Howell Griffiths, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Fred. NewmanGrinling, University College; Robert Cullum Gully, St. Bartholo-mew’s Hospital ; Edwd. Marrack Hainworth, St. Thomas’s Hospital;John Owen Harvey, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Benjamin GrantHeather, St. Thomas’s Hospital; Arthur James Maitin, Queen’sCollege, Birmingham; John Leyden Morton, St. Mary’s Hospital;Julius Mostertz, University College; Alexander Paine, St. Mary’sHospital; Charles Herbert Perram, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital;Edwin Smith, St. Thomas’s Hospital; Wm. Turner, King’s College;Chas. Fredk. Myers Ward, Queen’s College, Birmingham; JamesSmith Whitaker, Owens College and Royal Infirmary, Manchester.-Second Division: Gabrielle Ruth S. Breeze, London School ofMedicine for Women; Francis Jordan Coleman, Guy’s Hospital;Ralph Henry Crowley, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Edmund S.Dukes, Guy’s Hospital; Chas. Joseph Harrison and Arthur DouglasHeath, University College; Thomas Wm. Hicks, St. Thomas’s Hos-pital ; Harold Julius Jager, King’s College; Wm. Jotm Johnson,Guy’s Hospital; John Jones and Alfred Goodman Levy, UniversityCollege; Stephen Nesfield, Owens and University Colleges; HaroldEverett Pace, London Hospital; Wm. Redpath, St. Thomas’s Hos-pital ; John Lorimer Sawers, University College; Geo. Samuel S.Smith, St. Thomas’s Hospital; Wilfred Newell Soden, St. Bartholo-mew’s Hospital; Whitley Stokes, St. Themas’s Hospital; AlfredCharles Ta’Bois, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; William MartynThomas, Charing-cross Hospital; Thomas Swale Vincent, Queen’sCollege, Birmingham ; Sydney Russell Wells, B.Se., St. George’sHospital.

Excluding Physiology. -First Division: Lullum Wood Bathurst, St.Bartholomew’s Hospital; William Thomas, Yorkshire College.-Second Division: Robt. Tnrle Bakewell, University College; AlfredHerbert Card, Frederick Hazell, and William Henry Jewell, Guy’sHospital; Alfred George Jones, Middlesex Hospital; Geo. Martyn,King’s College; Wm. Chas. Cunningham Park, Guy’s Hospital;John Dunnell Rawlings, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; ReginaldSmith, Owens College.

Physiology only.-First Division: Wm. Tillinghast Atwool, St. Mary’sHospital; Henry O’N. Fraser-Luckie, Henry Thomas Parker, andRowland N. U. Pickering, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; ClementMichael Rogerson, Yorkshire College; Richard John Stephens,King’s College; Josiah Percival Tildesley, Queen’s College, Bir-mingham ; Henry Eugene Tracey, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital;Albert Edward Tebb, Guy’s Hospital.-Second Division: AtwoodThorne, St. Mary’s Hospital.

Thefollowingcandidates passed the examination for Honours:Anatomy.-First Clase Thomas Carwardine (exhibition and goldmedal), Middlesex Hospital ; Ann Frances Piercy (gold medal),London School of Medicine for Women.-Second Class: MartinRandall, B.A., University College ; Leonard Rogers, St. Mary’sHospital; Frank William Wesley, University College; ThomasLlewelyn James, Yorkshire College.—Third Class: Lillie MabelAgnes Jones, London School of Medicine for Women; CharlesSatchell Pantin, Guy’s Hospital; Charles George Spencer, UniversityCollege.

Physiology and Hictolo,gg.-First Class: Ann Frances Piercy, ’LondonSchool of Medicine for Women ; Edmond Wallace Selbyand CharlesGeorge Spencer, University College. -Second Clctss: Thomas Car-wardine, Middlesex Hospital; Leonard Rogers, St. Mary’s Hospital;Frank William Wesley, University College ; Charles Samson Jaffé,St. Thomas’s Hospital; Maud Mary Chadburn, London School ofMedicine for Women.—Third Class: Clayton Arbuthnot Lane,St. Mary’s Hospital; Charles Satchell Pantin, Cluy’s Hospital;Christopher Thackray Parsons, St. Mary’s Hospital; Arthur JohnSharp, Guy’s Hospital ; Wilfrid Edgecombe, University College,Liverpool ; William Freer Lucas, Middlesex Hospital ; JosephLeonard Iredale, Leeds School of Medicine.

Organic Chemistry-First Class: Fredk. Gowland Hopkins (exhibitionand gold medal), Guy’s Hospital.-Second Class: William BamfordWinston, St. Thomas’s Hospital.

Materia dlediea and Pharmaceutical Chemistry-First Class: AnnFrances Piercy (exhibition and gold meda.1), London School ofMedicine for Women; Edmond Wallace Selby, Geo. ArbourStephens. 13.Sc., and Martin Itandall, University College; JohnCharles Baker, B.A., St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Wilfrid Edge-combe, University College, Liverpool.-Second Class: Arthur BassettJones, University College; Arthur John Sharp, Guy’s Hospital;Leonard Rogers and Christopher Thackray Parsons, St. Mary’sHospital.—Third Class: Charles Samson Jaife and William BamfordWinston, St. Thomas’s llospital; Frederick Gowland Hopkins,Guy’s Hospital.BRITISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION. - The annual

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MEDICAL MAGISTRATE.—Mr. Thomas CastleyBailey, L.R.C.P. Edin., M.R.C.S., has been placed on the Commission of the Peace for the borough of Crewe.

THE SEWERAGE OF HAYES, MIDDLESEX.-A plan ifor the drainage of this district has been selected by theUxbridge Rural Sanitary Authority at an estimated cost of910,500. The sewage will be chemically treated.

1PRESENTATION TO A LEITH DOCTOR.-On Saturday

afternoon, the 9th inst., Dr. Simpson, of Leith, was pre- sented with a Lansdowne épergne by the four local courts lof the Ancient Order of Foresters, as a mark of esteem and 1as an expression of their appreciation of his valuable servicesto the Order during a period of twenty-two years. !

GERMAN STATE AID FOR POOR CHILDREN.- Thousands of poor children will, in accordance with thedirect orders of the Emperor William, enjoy for the first timein their lives the benefit of a change to the seaside. The children of all the workmen employed in the Governmentfactories have been examined by medical men, and such as

require sea breezes will be sent for a holiday at the expense Iof the Government.

INGHAM INFIRMARY, SOUTH SHIELDS.-The seven-teenth annual report of the committee of the InghamInfirmary, to be presented to the governors at their meetingon the 19th inst., states that they are able to record that,notwithstanding the unexpected and extraordinary outlay,caused principally by the insanitary condition of the insti-tution, the balance-sheet shows a credit balance upon theyear’s working of f96 9s. 7d.THE ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION.-The

Duchess of Beaufort distributed the certificates to themembers of the Sherston Branch on Saturday, August 2nd.The Vicar (Rev. E. F. T. Ribbans) introduced the meeting,and Dr. Harrison spoke on behalf of the Society. Theineeting terminated with a vote of thanks to Dr. Harrisonfor the trouble he had taken and the able manner in whichhe had instructed those in the class ; and also to her Grace,who expressed her thanks and pleasure at being present ata meeting which was quite in harmony with her ownfeelings.BEQUESTS.-Mr. J. J. Cunningham, late of Kings-

town, bequeathed £ 500 to the Mater Miaericordiae Hos-pital ; f500 to St. Vincent’s Hospital ; £ 500 to the

Hospice for the Dying; f500 to St. Michael’s Hospital,Kingstown; £ 1000 to Jervis-street Hospital ; f200 tothe National Lying in Hospital; £ 100 to the Hospital forIncurables ; £ 500 to the Blind Asylum, Merrion ; ;f500 toSt. Joseph’s Hospital for Children ; and £ 200 to St. Vincent’sHospital Convalescent Home.—The late Mrs. CharlotteMills of Newbury bequeathed flOO to the NewburyDistrict Hospital.-Mr. Henry Branston of Newark hasgiven nooo to the Newark Hospital and Dispensary.-Thelate Mr. Joseph Orrell of Atherton bequeathed £ 500 to theBulton Infirmary.-Mr. Thomas Jeans, late of Bristol,bequeathed £ 25 each to the Royal Hospital for Incurables,the East London Hospital, the Eastern Dispensary, Bathand the Bath Mineral Waters Hospital.-Mr. Wm. Hodson,late of Wolverhampton, left by his will f200 to the Wolver-hampton Eye Infirmary and. flOO to the Hospital forWomen, Wolverhampton.—Lady Diana Belcher bequeathed£ 300 to the Seamen’s Hospital Society.-Miss Chippindaleof Tunbridge Wells has sent a donation of £ 100 to the RoyalHospital for Diseases of the Chest, City-road.-By the willof the late Mr. J. E. Flindt of Upper ’rulse Hill £20 each(free of legacy duty) is left to the Royal Hospital forIncurables, the Hospital for Consumption (Brompton), theLondon Hospital, the Metropolitan Free Hospital, and theCity of London Truss Society.-The sum of E3060 has beenleft by the late Mr. Thomas Richard Walker of Doncasterto the Scholfield Convalescent Fund.-The late Mr. C.Goding of Knightsbridge bequeathed £500 each to the St.George’s, Middlesex, Cancer, and General Lying-in Hos-pitals.-Miss Elizabeth Piper, late of Kingston, Wilts, leftby her will f500 to the Savernake Cottage Hospital.-Mrs.Symes, late of Gorphwysfa, bequeathed the residue of herpersonalty (upwards of £ 155,000) to various charitableinstitutions, amongst which are the Gloucester Infirmary,the Carnarvonshire Infirmary, and the Children’s Hospitalat Kingsholm, Gloucestershire.

COOPERATIVE PROVINCIAL SANITATION. - TheShipley Local Board has decided to join the Wind hill LocalBoard in an application to the Central Authority for a pro-visional order to form a local sewerage board for the dis-posal of the sewage from Shipley and Windhill.

INQUESTS AT TAVERNS.-The incongruity anddisadvantages of holding these inquiries at a tavern havebeen frequently the subject of public animadversion, andemphasised both by coroner and jury. A coroner’s court is,at present, only provided by the voluntary action of thelocal authority. No statutory compulsory powers, webelieve, exist to enforce such a provision. Mr. BraxtonHicks, the coroner, on holding an inquest a few days sinceat the Star and Garter, Battersea, again severely complained(in which the jury concurred) that there was no coroner’scourt for such an inquiry.HOSPITAL SUNDAY AND SATURDAY IN LIVERPOOL.—

The collections in the churches and chapels last January onbehalf of the Liverpool medical charities were so liberal, andthe efforts of the working men to make Liverpool’s HospitalSaturday a success were so hearty, that the committee wereenabled to divide the handsome total of £ 10,600 among thelocal hospitals and dispensaries, to whose managers thevarious sums awarded will be truly welcome. The sumawarded is only less by £ 200 than that distributed in 1874,which was the largest amount apportioned since the firstHospital Sunday in 1871.

COTTAGE HOSPITALS.-The formal opening of theStephen Cottage Hospital, Dufftown, was performed by theDuke of Fife on the 5th inst. His Grace presented the site,and towards the erection and endowment of the hospitalSir George Stephen of Montreal (a native of Duff town)gave £ 5000, with the stipulation that of this sum £ 2000should be appropriated for the building and furnishing, andf3000 invested as a permanent endowment.—Wirksworth:During the past year thirty-nine cases were admitted intothis hospital, and the average cost of each patient was£5 10s. 4d. The financial statement showed a deficiencyof f37 15s. 9d. Measures have been adopted with a viewto improve the income.-Brixton: Efforts are being madeto erect a cottage hospital in Brixton, a want in this.extensive district which is much felt. The committee ofthe Brixton Dispensary, in rebuilding its institution, hasprovided plans and accommodation in connexion with itfor the establishment of such a hospital, on conditionthat f2000 is raised for the purpose.

HOSPITAL SUNDAY AND SATURDAY PROVINCIALCOLLECTIONS.—The recent annual street collection inReading, on behalf of the funds of the Royal BerkshireHospital, amounted to f344 18s. The Hoyland Common(Barnsley Division) Hospital Sunday collection last monthsin aid of the Beckett’s Hospital, Barnsley, realised £ 70.The recent Belgrave Hospital demonstration in Pimlico,and the surrounding districts, in aid of the BelgraveHospital for Sick Children, produced £ 169 18. 7d an increaseof f38 4s. 6d. on the last year’s collection. The ElswickWorks governors of the Newcastle Royal Infirmary havemade a grant of £ 50 to the Fleming Memorial Hospital out,of the funds contributed by the workmen to the medicalcharities. The last Hull Hospital Sunday collections (theaccounts of which have recently been made up) show thatthe total amount received was :E639, an increase of about£ 38 on the previous year. This sum has been divided asfollows: Hull Royal Infirmary, £ 480 ; the Dispensary, jE62;. athe Victoria Children’s Hospital, £ 51; and the HomæpathicDispensary, f17.

MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT.

Education of b’lind and Deaf-mute Children (Scotland) Bill.Ix the House of Lords on the 12th inst. the Commons’ amendr.

ments to this Bill were considered and agreed to.Public Health Acts Amendment Bill.

This Bill, with amendments, passed through committee.The Army Estimates.

The House of Commons on Saturday afternoon was engaged in con-sidering the Army Estimates.-Dr. Farquharson directed the attention.of the Secretary of State for War to some new facts in connexion withthe medical establishments. He pointed out that the army doctors,although a scattered body, had behind them the sympathy of the