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second ordinary general meeting of the club must be con-sidered satisfactory. An analysis of the profit and lossaccount and balance-sheet is very encouraging when thedifficulties inevitable in organising a new concern are con-sidered ; upon the whole, therefore, the directors of the clubhope that with continued good management and an increasedmembership a prosperous future is assured for the club.During the year a debating society has been formed andseven very interesting and instructive meetings have beenheld. The entertainment committee arranged a number ofsmoking concerts, billiard handicaps, &c., during theseason, which have been a great success and the means ofbringing the members together socially. The membershipof the club now amounts to 112 Dr. Richard Caton,physician to the Royal Infirmary, has been elected Presidentfor the ensuing year, succeeding the genial and popular Mr.Mitchell Banks.

Bequests to Local Charities.The late Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Fishwick, of Liverpool, has

bequeathed the following amounts to local charities :--£500to the Liverpool Hospital for Consumption, £100 to the

Liverpool Royal Infirmary, and £100 each to the Eye andEar Infirmary, Myrtle-street, and to the Liverpool Infirmaryfor Children. She also made bequests to non-medicalcharities.

Health nf Liverpool.The medical officer reported that 375 births were registered

in the city during the week ending April 24th, representinga birth-rate equal to 30 2 annually per 1000 of the popula-tion. The deaths registered during the same period amountedto 304, making a rate of mortality equal to 24’5 annually per1000 of the population. Of the deaths, 67 occurred in publicinstitutions devoted to the treatment of the sick. Theresidences of 9 who died in these institutions were outsidethe city. Of the total deaths, 124 were of children belowfive years of age ; of these, 82 were infants under oneyear. Among the causes of death, diseases of the lungsaccounted for 70 deaths, tuberculous diseases (includingphthisis) for 43, diseases of uncertain seat for 7,of the brain, &c., for 38, of the heart, &c., for 23,and of the stomach, liver, &c., for 19. Under the variousother classes of disease there were registered 44 deaths. A

report of the medical officer of health as to the result of therecently established inspection of Canadian and other horseswas submitted to the health committee. The members ofthe committee said the inspection had been very satisfactory,and the condition of horses now imported had very muchimproved.

St. Helens Health Committee.The health committee of the St. Helens corporation have

resolved to extend the sanitary depot at Boundary-road bythe erection of a six-cell destructor, &c., at a cost of £ 8000,and to take in a large plot of land which adjoins the depot.

Liverpool Anti-vivisectionists.The Liverpool anti-vivisectionists recently held a meeting

in the hall of the Young Men’s Christian Association in

Mount-pleasant. The following is a specimen of the

intemperate language indulged in by one of speakers, awell-known Liverpool public man : "The other day, sir, Iwas in a very famous university city, or in the suburbs of it,and there drew up a carriage in which was seated a gentle-man. I was immensely struck by his countenance and hisexpression. I said to myself, Who can that man be ? He isa remarkable man, a clever man, but if I ever saw a facethat seemed to have come out of hell, that is the face;and I was told immediately afterwards that this was

a gentleman of renowned fame for his great skill inthe practice of vivisection." The gentleman ailuded to inthe above statement is the reverse of this descriptionand benevolent-looking to a degree; but such are the

weapons employed by these unreasonable people.The Diamond Jubilee Nurses.

The subscriptions towards the amount required for extend-ing the district nursing staff in commemoration of theQueen’s Diamond Jubilee, alluded to in THE LANCET ofApril 24th, now exceeds .610,000.May 4th.

HOSPITAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.-A meetingof the medical profession and others interested in hospitalswill be held in Manchester on May 24th, at 4 P.M.

NORTHERN COUNTIES NOTES.(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

.Health of Newcastle.THE twenty-fourth annual report of Dr. H. E. Armstrong,

the medical officer of health of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, statesthat the death-rate of the city from all causes for the year1896 was 18 4 per 1000 population. The number of marriageswas 132 more than in the previous year. There were 43 fewerdeaths from zymotic diseases. The sanitary authority ofthe city last autumn added measles and whooping-cough tothe list of notifiable diseases, and resolved to admit domesticservants to the hospital for infectious diseases free of charge.

The Newcastle Hospital for Sick Children.The mayor and corporation, accompanied by the President

and members of the College of Medicine, and the Principal,professors, and lecturers of the College of Science, wearing:their robes, attended Divine service in Blackett-street Presby-terian Church, Newcastle, on Sunday last. when a sermon.was preached in aid of the funds of the Hospital for SickChildren. This is the first time that the Colleges haveattended officially any church service except that at theCathedral.

"The yceen’s Shilling."Under the above heading the Newcastle Daily Chronicle

invites its readers to subscribe ls. each towards the buildingfund of the Royal Infirmary, .613,000 of the .6100,000 pro-posed to be raised being still wanting. The Chronicle under-takes to collect the shillings and to acknowledge eachdonation in its columns. The best thanks of the communityare due for this kindly action of the proprietor of thepaper.paper.

Cyclists and the Diamond .7iibilee.The National Cycle and Motor Car Insurance Company,

33, King William-street, London, E.C., offer to contributethe odd shilling of their guinea premiums to the NewcastleDiamond Jubilee Fund for the rebuilding of the RoyalInfirmary. This gift is to be a permanent donation, notconfined to the present year ; and the shilling is to comefrom all the policies, not only in this district, but all over theUnited Kingdom.Newcastle. May 4th.

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SCOTLAND.(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

Glasgow University.MISS M. MACLEAN, M.B., C.M. Glasg., has been

appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy in Queen Margaret,College, and Miss D. Clark Demonstrator in the botanicallaboratory. Mr. W. H. Lang, B.Sc., is the new Lectareon Botany in the College, succeeding Mr. J. C. Willis,M.A , who some months ago was appointed Directorof the Botanic Gardens at Colombo. -The class ofpractical pathology in the Pathological Institute at theWestern Infirmary is being conducted by Mr. L. R.Sutherland, M.B. Glasg., Professor Joseph Coats being absenton sick leave. It is satisfactory to know that the latestreports concerning Professor Coats are decidedly favourable,and that his enforced rest is likely before long to lead to thecomplete restoration of his health.-At a meeting of theNatural History Society, held on the 29th ult., ProfessorF. 0. Bower, D Sc., delivered a lecture on Fixity of Positionas a Factor in Plant Life.-The statistics of the preliminaryexaminations issued by the Joint Board of Examiners showthat of 488 candidates in the arts and science faculties inthe University of Glasgow 216 satisfied the examiners, and of’81 entrants in the faculty of medicine 37 only passed.

Handsome Bequests.By the will of the late Miss Martha Brown of Waterhaugha.

a sum of .697,000 is conveyed to trustees for distributionamong various charitable and educational institutions. TheWest of Scotland Home for Incurables receives .821,000. anda similar sum goes to the corresponding institution in Edin-burgh ; the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, theRoyal Infirmary of Edinburgh. and the Royal Iafirmary ofGlasgow are each allotted B5000; the Sick Children’s Hos-pital, Edinburgh, and the Western and Victoria Infirmaries,.