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was loyal in his dealings with his brother practitioners.As a surgeon he was conservative, and preferred gentle tomore heroic measures. He took the keenest interest in liiswork, and would at all times sacrifice his own comfort topromote the welfare of his patients. What, however, willchiefly dwell in the memory of his friends was his kindnessand goodness of heart. He was fall of charity, and wa,s

one of those who thinketh no evil. He had the happy giftof seeing the best and brightest side of everythtng andeverybody, and his cheery and sympathising manner helpedhis patients not a little. Rich and poor alike feel his luss,and his funeral was attended by most of the inhabitants.He is mourned by all, but by none more than his medicalbrethren. ’

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND.-At a

meeting of the Court of Examiners held on March 21st andfollowing days, the undermentioned gentlemen passed thefirst half of the examination for the Letters Testimonial ofthe College :-

Edward C. Clancliy. I Edmond F. Hayes.Andrew G. T. Hanks. I Thomas Hickey.

John Lundie.

SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES.-The following gentle-men passed the examination in the Science and Practice ofMedicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, and received certificatesto practise on March 24th :-

Carter, Robert James, The Grove, Camberwell.Jecks, Cyril William, Hilldrop-road, Camden-road.

THE annual Hospital Sunday collections were heldin Warrington on the 27th ult.THE Earl of Dunraven has consented to preside at

a festival dinner to be held in aid of the funds of St. Mary’sHospital.MR. FRANCIS PowELL has on the tapis a Bill to

regulate and control the employment of children in hawkingarticles in the street.

THE annual meeting of the supporters of theWorcester Dispensary was held on the 29th ult,, whensatisfactory reports were presented and adopted.ON the 24th ult. a Local Government Board

inquiry was held at Porth relative to the pollution of theRiver Rhondda by refuse from certain collieries adjacentto it.AN epidemic of diphtheria has broken out in one of

the suburbs of Canterbury, and there have been several fatalcases. A similar outbreak occurred in the same suburb lastyear. The cause is unknown.ON the 26th ult. the sixty-third annual meeting of

the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held, whenit was stated that the committee had decided to submittheir boats to more severe tests than heretofore as regardsself-righting properties.

INFECTIOUS DISEASE AT DARLINGTON.-The SundaySchools at Darlington have been closed, as all but one or twoof the elementary schools have been for some time, becauseof the great prevalence of scarlet fever and measles in thetown. The public library has also for the same reason beenclosed for three weeks.

AT a special meeting of the governors of theBradford Fever Hospital on the 25th ult. it was decided,subject to certain conditions, to sell the hospital to thecorporation for 10,000. Part of this sum is to be devotedto the provision of a hospital or hospitals for the receptionof persons suffering from infectious diseases in the town-ships or districts outside the borough, the sanction of Par-liament being asked for such appropriation.THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE.-The members of the

committee of the Pasteur Institute have decided to refusethe site offered by the municipality, and to purchase a sitefor 430,000 francs. They have also agreed on plans forthe erection of four buildings, to cost 60,000 francs. A

yearly revenue of 65,000 francs has been secured, leaving35,000 still to be obtained, and the subscription lists are tobe kept open until the desired sum is collected.

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AT a meeting in support of the fund now beingraised on behalf of Giiy’8 Hospital, held on the 30th ult. atthe Surrey Masonic Hall, CdmberweIJ, the sum of X62 wassubscribed.

HOSPITAL SATURDAY FUND.-At a meeting of thedelegates of this fund on the 26 h ult., the secretary reported.that as the result of the first, year’s work of the SurgicalAppliance Committee 540 patients had been supplied withsurgical instruments, at an average cost of 10s., the attend-ances recorded being 695. A grant of 4 per cent. for thepurchase of appliances for tne requirements of the presentyear was agreed upon.THE SANITARY INSTITUTE.—A petition has been

presented to Her Majesty in Council by the Duke ofCambridge, the Duke of Northumberland, the Duke ofWestminster, and others, on behalf of the Parkes Museumof Hygiene and the Sanitary Institu’e of Gret Britain,praying for the grant of a d1art..r ot incorporl1f.ion, underthe name of the Sanitary Institute. The petition will beconsidered by a Committee of the Privy Council on May 6th.

PRESENTATIONS.-- On the 22nd ult. Mr. Blackburnwas presented with a silver goblet by the members of theMonk Bretton Colliery St. John Ambulance Clares in re-cognition of his services as in-ttru.ctor.—Mr. A. W. Hugheshas been presented with an address and several cases ofsurgical instruments by the students of anatomy, Surgeons’Hall, Edinburgh, on the occasion of his resigning the postof Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Edinburgh RoyalCollege of Surgeons.ACCOMMODATION FOR UNTRIED PRISONERS AT THE

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT -At a meeting of the Court ofCommon Council at G’IHdhall on the :U’,11 ult., a letter wasread from the Home Office asking for information as to whatsteps the Corporation intend to take to bring the accom-modation for untried prisoners at the Centrdl CriminalCourt up to the standard indicated by the Committee whichrecently inquired into the subject. The letter was referredto the Law and City Courts’ Committee.LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE CITY.--The report on

the work executed by the Commissioners of Sewers of theCity of London for the year 1886 has just been issued byColonel Haywood, the engineer to that body. The reportgives a comprehensive statement of the sewers, housedrainage, dangerous structures, improvements, electriclighting, water-supply, scavenging, cemetery arrangements,artisans’ dwellings, and other matters which have occupiedthe attention of the commissioners during the past twelvemonths.THE MELBOURNE HOSPITAL.—From the annual

report of this institution it appears that during list yearthe income for the purposes of maintenancp, inclnsive of.E14,000 from the Parliamentary vote and £2806 from thecommittee of the Hospital Sunday Fund, amounted to;E23,362. The expenditure was £24,861. The benefits of thehospital were extended to 19,398 cases, of which number15,687 were out- and 3791 in-patients. The report recordsseveral alterations in the buildings, which have been under-taken to improve the sanitary condition of the institution,an object which has, it is stated, been fully achieved. Theerection of a hospital for the reception and treatment ofpersons suffering from consumption, and the removal of theinstitution to another site, could a suitable one be obtained,is advocated by the committee.

MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT.

Anthrax.

IN the House of Commons on the 25th ult., in reply to Dr. Cameron,Lord John Manners stated that the Anthrax Order of 1886 provides forthe destruction of carcasses of animals dead of anthrax by exposure taa high temperature or by chemical agents, and some local authorities,in districts where the necessary appliances exist, have been authorisedto adopt such modes of destruction instead of burial. In reference toburial, which in many parts of the country is the only available methodof disposing of carcasses, local authorities have been warned that thecarcasses should be buried entire and be well covered with lime. Mr.Ritchie also stated, in reply to Dr. Cameron, that the danger of anthraxbeing communicated to human beings is one almost exclusively incurredby those who have to deal with the hides or opened bodies of infectedanimals, and obedience to the Order of the Privy Council of Sept. 16th,1886, as to dealing with such animals and their carcasses, will practically