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ment towards the necessary funds for maintaining it of£1000 per annum. As you have already commented onthis gift, I need only remark here that to the Collegemedical school it is a matter of the first importance;the proximity of the new hospital to the College will beappreciated by every medical student; by means of it theCollege will be able to confer upon its professors and teachersof medicine and surgery important hospital appointments,so that the theory and practice of teaching shall go hand inhand, and we shall not again be troubled with the un-desirable spectacle of ill feeling and friction between theCollege authorities and those having the control of thehospital wards, where these students must obtain theirpractical bedside instruction. In every way the importanceto the future of the Manchester School of Medicine of thisproposal can scarcely be over-estimated.

MANCHESTER AND SALFORD ONE CITY.

The agitation which for some months has been in progress,and which has the support of a large number of influentialgentlemen, for the amalgamation of the neighbouringborough of Salford with Manchester proper, has advanced astage. The committee appointed in May last presented theirreport yesterday at a public meeting, and it was decided that,in all respects, it was desirable that the union of the twomunicipalities should be brought about, and steps are to betaken to induce the respective corporations to obtain powersto amalgamate. Possibly an important medical questionwill now stand in abeyance for a time-namely, the pro-vision of a new fever hospital for Salford. At the lastmeeting of the Salford Town Council another site was pro-posed for this, and a resolution was passed authorising the ’,purchase of a site of thirteen acres at E1000 per acre ; but ’,as there is considerable opposition to the scheme we shallprobably hear more of it before being carried into effect. Ifthe two corporations become one, there is but little doubtthat all fever patients will be sent to Monsall Hospital, and,still further, that the question of the transfer of this hospitalfrom the infirmary to the proper health authorities of thedistrict would then doubtless soon come to the front.

ROYAL INFIRMARY.

The election for the post of assistant physician to theinfirmary, to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion ofDr. Ross, resulted in the appointment of Dr. Harris, theyoungest of the six candidates. Dr. Harris is an old Man-chester student, who, after a very successful career as astudent here, continued his studies for some time afterwardsin Germany. For upwards of three years he has held thepost of pathologist to the infirmary, and is also assistantphysician to the Consumption Hospital.

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NORTHERN COUNTIES NOTES.(From our own Correspondent.)

NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD.

THE winter classes are now in full operation in the newbuilding of the University of Durham College of Medicine.I believe Dr. Oliver had the pleasure of giving the firstlecture in it. The number of new entries for the presentsession is as follows: thirty-four for the full course, thirty-three for the year of residence required for the degrees inmedicine, and one for the dental course, making in all

sixty-eight.-I hear that the amount subscribed for theLuke Armstrong Memorial approaches £600.—The report ofthe medical officer of health for the last fortnight shows thatthere is still a prevalence of scarlet fever in Newcastle, thirty-seven cases having been notified to him by practitioners.In reference to the last outbreak of scarlet fever in theJesmond district, several of the dairymen suffered muchloss through having their milk destroyed, and they havemade an application to the Town Council for compensation.It is to be hoped that this will be favourably considered,for it would much help the suppression of an epidemicdiffused by milk if the dairymen knew they would suffer nopecuniary loss by reporting and stopping the supply. Ibelieve that there is a good deal of scarlet fever now exist-ing on the Gateshead side of the Tyne, but as there is nonotification in any form existing there it is difficult to

get at the figures. The Gateshead practitioners are be-lieved to be unfavourable to a notification Act, at least toone that would leave the onus of reporting to them.-I regret to notice the death of an old and respected practi-tioner, Mr. Robert Davis, of Wrekington House, Gates-head, on the 8th of this month, in his sixty-fourth year.Mr. Davis was an M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. He was at onetime deputy coroner, surgeon to the Gateshead Dispensary,and medical officer for the south district of the GatesheadUnion. Mr. Davis had rendered signal service during thecholera epidemic at Gateshead, and was himself prostratedby the disease twice. He had a very extensive field forpractice, but he once told me that his father had the practicebefore him at a time when he was the only surgeon betweenGateshead and Durham city. Mr. Davis had suffered forsome time from bulbar paralysis, for which he was attendedby Dr. Philipson and his own sons, two of whom are in theprofession. He has also left a widow and a large familyof sons and daughters. His funeral took place on the llth,and was the occasion of the expression of much esteem forhis memory by friends far and near.I STOCKTON.

At a meeting of the Stockton Hospital Committee, heMlast week, the question of the extension of the hospitalwas considered. It is thought that, with the great increaseof men at work now in the town, the present accommodationwill very soon fall short of its requirements.

AMBULANCE WORK IN THE NORTH.

Surgeon-Major Hutton has been at work in the north forsome time. Last week he addressed a meeting at theextensive colliery works of Ashington, near Morpeth, andexplained the history and objects of the St. John Ambu-lance Association, and the benefits to everyone from under-standing a few simple rules. The lecture was very interest-ing, and resulted in the formation of a class of sixty men.Newcastle-on-Tyne, Oct. 17th.

EDINBURGH.

(From our own Correspondent.)

OPENING OF THE WINTER SESSION.

THIS year the medical classes in the University have metnearly a fortnight earlier than usual. As the classes in the

Faculty of Arts will not be opened until the 24th inst., Sir-William Muir does not until then give his Principal’s.address, so that the work in the various classes has got intofull swing on the first day of the session. In only a few ofthe classes was there any regular introductory address given,and where the general rule was departed from the lecturersso arranged their matter that it should have some specialbearing on the subject of the course. There are no changesin the professorial staff this year, as, fortunately, there i6no obituary record.

THE EXTRA-MURAL MEDICAL SCHOOL.

In the Extra-mural School there are several young recruits-to the body of lecturers. Dr. Alexander James, who lastyear retired from the lectureship on Physiology on hisappointment to the infirmary, now lectures on Practice ofPhysic, Dr. C. Watson MacGillivray lectures on Surgery atSurgeons’ Hall, and Dr. Hodsdon has commenced a course oflectures on Surgery at Minto House. Both these last-namedgentlemen made use of the occasion to give special addresses.to their students and the friends and colleagues collected tohear them. Dr. MacGillivray spoke of the development ofthe teaching in the Surgeons’ Hall, referring especially tothe newdissecting rooms and laboratories connected with thedepartments of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, &c. Manycelebrated men, he said, had carried on the teaching withinthe College walls, and some, though few, still continuedwith them. Medical science, like their colleagues, did notstand still; consequently the conditions of student life were’now very different from what they were when he was a,student. With all the alterations and additions to the

subjects which they had to study, there was no correspond-ing rearrangement of the curriculum. The only way inwhich the problem of how to get through their work could