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being infected with cholera germs has been suggested. Bethis as it may, a rapid diminution in the number of caseswas observed as soon as the diet of these poor people was im-proved in quality as well as in quantity. With the activemeasures that are being taken to improve the sanitary con-dition of the town it is to be hoped that the epidemic will;soon entirely die out.

DEATH OF PROFESSOR FONSSAGRIVES.

The death is announced of Professor Fonssagrives, on the21st inst., from an attack of cholera which carried him offin a few hours at his château near Auray, in the departmentof the Morbihan, whither he had retired some months agoowing to failing health. His friends and medical attendantwere at a loss to know how the lamented physiciancould have contracted the disease, as his residence is situ-ated in the open country far from any town, and he hadhad no communication with any cholera patient. Dr. Fonssa-grives was for a long time Professor of Hygiene atthe Faculty of Montpellier, and since his retirement hedid nothing in the way of practice, but occupied himselfa great deal in writing. He was the author of several works,among which his " Trait6 d’Hygieae navale" is the mostrecent, and is held in considerable esteem. But his principalwork is his " Trait6 de Thérapeutique et de Matière Médi-cale," the second edition of which is in the press. Dr.Fonssagrives was a corresponding member of the Academyof Medicine. He commenced his professional career as anaval medical officer, and at the age of thirty he was ap-pointed Professor of Therapeutics at the medical school atBrest. He was born in 1823.Paris, Nov. 26th.

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THE SERVICES.

WAR OFFICE.-Medical Staff: Brigade Surgeon R. W.Carter is granted retired pay, with the honorary rank ofDeputy Surgeon-General; Surgeon-Major D. Renton, M.D.,is granted retired pay, with the honorary rank of BrigadeSurgeon; Surgeon-General Alexander Smith, M,D., C.B.,and Surgeon-General Jones Lamprey, M. B., have been placedon retired pay.INDIA OFFICE.-The Queen has approved of the retire-

ment of the following officers of Her Majesty’s Indian Mili-tary Forces:-Brigade Surgeon Charles Kilkelly, of theBengal Army; Surgeon-Major George Edwin Seward, M.D.,of the Bombay Army.The following officers are granted a step of honorary rank

on retirement :-Deputy Surgeon-General Richard HenryPerkins, of the Bengal Army, to be Surgeon-General.Brigade Surgeon Alexander Morison Dallas, of the BengalArmy, and Brigade Surgeon George Stewart Watson Ogg,of the Madras Army, to be Deputy Surgeons - General.Surgeon-Major Frederick William Alexander De Fabeck, ofthe Bengal Army, and Surgeon-Major Charles Robertson,of the Madras Army, to be Brigade SurgeonsENGINEER VOLUNTEERS. - 2nd Gloucestershire (the

Bristol): Arthur Frederick Blagg, Gent., to be ActingSurgeon,RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. - 2nd Volunteer Battalion, the

Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) : Surgeon BertiePardoe Matthews is granted the honorary rank of Surgeon-Major.—21st Middlesex (the Finsbury) : Surgeon FrancisEdward Thurland resigns his commission.—1st Cambridge-shire : Honorary Assistant- Surgeon William Groom resignshis commission.—1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall’s): RichardCharles Mason Pooley, Gent., M.D., to be Surgeon ; EdwardScudamore Angove, Gent., to be Acting Surgeon.—1st Dum-fries : James Maclachlan, Gent., M.B., to be ActingSurgeon.ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS.—1st East Riding of York-

shire : The services of Surgeon Henry Dodd are dispensedwith.

MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT.

Brigade Surgeons.IN the House of Commons on Friday, November 21st, in

reply to Sir H. Fletcber, the Marquis of Hartington statedthat vacancies in the rank of brigade surgeon had notbeen filled up since the issue of the Circular on August lstas to the examinations. The officers among the senior

surgeons-major who had to be examined were serving inall parts of the world ; and the promotions could not takeplace until all their examinations had been held and hadbt en considered. But as the promotions would be antedatedto the time when the vacancies severally occurred, theofficers promoted would not be injured by the delay. Thehome examinations were fixed for the 27th and 28th inst.,those for the colonies for December 1st, and in India assoon as arrangements could be made.

The Contagious Diseases Acts.On Monday, Sir T. Brassey, in reply to Mr. Hopwood,

stated that, as is well known, the police no longer exerciseany compulsory powers in connexion with the ContagiousDiseases Acts, but voluntary applicants are received into thelock hospitals on signing a form attested by an inspector ofpolice. It had been suggested to the Mayor of Portsmouththat the duty of attestation should be performed by thesuperintendent of borough police on payment of a fee of2s. 6d. but this payment was proposed as a remunerationfor the extra duty entailed on the superintendent, and notas an inducement to patients to enter the lock hospitals.

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-

The following gentlemen passed the Primary or FirstProfessional Examination for the Fellowship at meetings ofthe Board of Examiners on the 24th and 25th inst. :—

Farne Henry Dawon, University College.Gilford, Has’ings, Guy’s.Gregory, Alfred, London.Harris, Clayton Campbell, St. Bartholomew’e.La ont, John Charies, Edinburgh.Owen, bamuel Walshe, Guy’s.Porter, Thoma; Mor, ison, Liverpool and University College.Ttiylor, William Fr, derick, Kingston and Gay’s.Taylor, Frederifk Howard, London.Wiiliams, William, St. Mary’s,

Of the 21 candidates examined 11 failed to satisfy theBoard, and were referred for six months’ further ana-

tomical and physiological study.COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND.-At the

November examinations the following obtained the licencesin Medicine and Midwifery of the College :-MEDiciNE. - Rol,)ert Abraham, John Martin Coates Cole, Eugene

Crowley, Ignatius P. Doyle, John T. Gaynor, Daniel Kenny, PatrickJoseph Kiernan, Annie McCall, John McGuinness, James LougheedR wiett.

MIDWIFERY.—Robert Abraham, John Martin Coates Cole, EugeneCrowley. J. P. Doyle, Th,)mas Fagill, John T. Ga)nor, Charles Hayden,Daniel Kenny, Patrick Joseph Kiernan, Marcus Moore London,Matthew MoAulay, An..ie MuCall, John McGuinness, James LogheedRowlett, Hugh Smith Morr son, William Alexander Wadsworth.

The undermentioned have been admitted members :-Frederick Joshua Roberts. Henry L. Smith.

Thomas Frederick Young.APOTHECARIES’ HALL. - The following gentlemen

passed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medi-cine, and received certificates to practise, on Nov. 20th :-

Gregory, Edward Thomas, Charing-cross Hospital.Lees, William, University College.Loftus, Arthur Smith, Caring-cross Hospital.Mullis, Geo. William, Gvy’s Hospital.Orr, Joseph Orlando, Toronto University.Shadwell, Barry Winbtanley, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Thomas, Thod. W., University College.

rhe following gentleman also on the same day passed thePrimary Professional Examination :-

Theodore Albert Vores Ford, St. Thomas’s Hospital.THE newly erected Lying-in Hospital at Brownlow-

hill, Liverpool, was formally opened on the 19th inst.PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—Tea and coffee will in

future be provided at the meetings of the Society from 8 to9 P. M., instead of at the close of the meeting as heretofore.THE Princess Christian has consented to open the

new building in connexion with the Middlesex Hospital onTuesday, Dec. 16 :h, at 12.30 P.M.THE Dean and Chapter of Durham have agreed to

grant an acre of land on Gilesgate Moor to the DurhamCorporation as a site for a hospital for infectious diseases.AN inspection of the Ambulance Station situated

in Seagrave-road, Fulham, will be made by the managers ofthe Metropolitan Asylums Board on Saturday, the 29Lh inst.,at 2.30 P.M.

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HYDROPHOBIA has been rampant in Vienna forsome weeks, there already having been some eighty casesand eleven deaths.

AN outbreak of diphtheria has occurred in thevillage of Littleboume, near Canterbury, and it has beendeemed advisable to close the schools.SCARCITY of water is still being complained of by

the inhabitants of Manchester and by the residents of manydistricts of Yorkshire.THE Royal Hants County Hospital has received a

donation of i500 from Mr. Thomas Courtney of HeadbourneWorthy, and also, through him, of £100 from his sister,Miss Courtney.PRESENTATION.-On the 4th inst. Dr. M. W.

Taylor, late of Penrith, was presented by the inhabitantsof the town and neighbourhood of Penrith with a service ofsilver plate and an address, on the occasion of his retirementfrom the town.THE Rev. G. N. Godwin, Chaplain to the Forces,

makes a public appeal to the benevolent on behalf of thewives and children of invalid soldiers at the Netley Hospital,who, he states, are sadly in need of warm clothing at thisseason of the year.AT a meeting of the British Medical Temperance

Association, held on Tuesday last in the Medical Society’sRooms, it was announced that the President, Dr. B W.Richardson, F.R.S., and the Council were now prepared tooffer a prize of 100 guineas for the best essay on thePhysical and Moral Advantages of Total Abstinence fromIntoxicating Liquors, to be oompeted for by medical studentsin the United Kingdom. Dr. Heywood Smith subsequentlyread a paper on the Use of Alcohol by Parturient Women.UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.-Dr. Donald Mac-

Alister has been elected to the new examinership inmedicine necessitated by the increasing entry for the ThirdM.B. Examination.-The following have been appointedmembers of special boards of studies :-Medicine : Mr.E. Carver, St. John’s. Physics and Chemistry : Mr. P. T.Main, St. John’s. Biology and Geology : Mr. J. W. Hicks,Sidney Sussex. The following gentlemen have beenappointed members of the syndicate of State Medicine : Dr.Bradbury and Professor Dewar. At a congregation held onthe 20th inst. the degree of Bachelor of Medicine was con.ferred on Oswald Auckinleck Browne, Trinity.-Duringthe Michaelmas Term the examinations for Medical andSurgical degrees will be held as follows :-For the degree ofBachelor of Medicine, first examination, Dec. 2nft, 3rd,4th, 5th, and 6th; second examinations, Dec. 5th, 6tb, 8’h,9th, and 10th ; third examination, first part, Dec. 9thand 12th; second part, Dec. 10t,b, llth, 13th, 15th, and 16th.For the degree of Bachelor of Surgery, Dec. 13th. For thedegree of Master of Surgery, Dec. 12th and 13th.HOSPITALS FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE.-The Works

and Sanitary Committee of the Kensington Vestry havingconsidered the special report of the General Purposes Com-mittee of the Asylums Board upon the subject of the recep-tion and treatment of non-pauper cases of infectious diseasesat the marquee hospitals, reported on the 19th inst. thatthey saw no reason to depart from the principles alreadyadopted by the vestry-viz., that the managers should beempowered to make adequate provision of hospital accommo-dation for infectious disease, for all classes of the populationin need of such accommodation ; that patients should beadmitted into the managers’ hospitals upon certificates signedby any duly qualified medical practitioner, conjointly withthe order of the medical officer of health ; that, as thehospitals of the managers have been established for the com-mon good at the public cost, no compulsory payment shouldbe exacted from persons whom the sanitary authority maydeem it necessary or expedient to remove to the hospitals forthe purpose of isolation ; that, all expenses incidental to themaintenance and treatment of such persons in the hospitalsshould be defrayed out of a common sanitary fund, themetropolis being treated for the purpose as a single district ;and that steps should be taken to alter, by Act of Parlia-ment, the constitution of the Board, by severing its con-nexion with pauperism in so far as relates to the treatment ofinfectious diseases, and by providing for the election of acertain proportion of the managers by the several sanitaryauthorities-i.e., the vestries and district boards.

Medical Appointments.Intimations for this column must be sent DIRECT to the Office ofTHE LANCET before 9 o’clock on Thursday Morning at the latest,

ADAM, Mr. MATTHEW A., has been appointed Public Analyst for theCounty of Kent.

BROGDEN, R. W., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., has been appointed House.Physician to Guy’s Hospital.

BURROUGHS, JOHN E. B., M.R.C.S., L.S.A.Lond., has been appointedby the Court of Assistants of the Merchant Taylor’s CompanyMedical Attendant at the Company’s and at Christopher Boone’sAlmshouses, at Lee, Kent, in succession to the late Mr. C. W.Steel.

CAIGER, F. FooRD, M.B., B.S., M.R.C S., L.R.C.P., has been appointedI-lotise-Ph5 sician to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

COOMBS, W. GODWIN, M.D., has been appointed Resident MedicalSuperintendent of the Eastern Counties Asylum for Idiots,Colchester.

DUNLOP, ROBERT S., M.B., C.M.Ed., has been appointed MedicalOfficer to Kilmaurs Parochial Board, vice G. Buchan, M.B.,resigned.

FIELDEN, W. E., M.D.Lond., has been appointed Assistant MedicalOfficer to the Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey, viceB. Hall, M.B Lond., resigned.

GREEN, C. D., M.B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., has been appointed ResidentAccoucheur to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

HEATON, FRED LUxMOORE, M.B.Oxon., L.E.Q.C.P.L, M.R.C.S., hasbeen appointed Medical Officer for St. Asaph District and Work.house, St. Asaph Union, vice Lodge

HICK, JOE. M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. & L.M.Ed., late Senior AssistantHouse-Surgeon to the General Infirmary at Leeds, has been ap.pointed Junior Resident Medical Officer to the Leeds PublicDispensary.

JoHNSTON, G. D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., has been appointed House.Physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

JONES, WILLIAM WANSBROUGH, M.A , M.B.Oxon., B.Sc.Lond.,M.R.C.S , has been appointed Resident Medical Officer of theConvalescent Hospital of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Cheadle.

KENNA, M. F., L.R.C.S.I., L.R.C.P.E., &c., has been appointedMedical Officer to the Fontstown Dispensary District of the AthyUnion, co Kildare, Ireland.

LANKESTER, H. H., M.R.C.S., L.S.A.Lond., has been appointed Non.Resident House-Physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

LAWSON, R., M.R.C.S., L.S.A.Lond., has been appointed AssistantHouse- Surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

MACKENZIE, H. W. G., M.A., M.B., has been appointed AssistantHou"e-Physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

MARRINER, W. H. LISTER, M.B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., has beenappointed Clinical Assistant in the Department for Diseases ofthe Throat at St. Thomas’s Hospital.

MURCHISON, FIN. FIN., M.B., M.A., has been appointed MedicalSuperintendent of Peckham House Asylum, Peckham, S E., viceJ. Ansell Brown, M.R C.S., L.S.A.Lond., resigned.

OAKES, HENRY, L.R.CP.Ed., L.F.P.S.Glasg., has been appointedMedical Officer for the Loppington District of the Wem Onion, viceWilson.

ORFORD, J., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.S.A.Lond., has been appointedHouse-Surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

PARKINSON, SIDNEY GEORGE, M.R.C.S., L.S.A.Lond., has been ap-pointed Medical Officer for the Second District of the Wimborneand Cranborne Union, vice Wyke-Smith.

PLOWMAN, S., M.R.C.S., L.S.A.Lond., has been appointed ClinicalAssistant in the Department for Diseases of the Skin and Ear atSt. Thomas’s Hospital.

ROBINSON, H. B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., has been appointed House-Surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

SALVAGE, J. V., MS., M.B.Dur., M.R.C.S., LR.C.P., has been ap-pointed House-Surgeon to Guy’s Hospital.

STOWERS, J. HERBxRT, M D., has been appointed Physician to theDepartment for Skin Diseases, North-West London Hospital.

SUTTON, S. W., M.D., B.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., has been appointedOphthalmic Clinical Assistant to St. Thomas’s Huspital.

WHITE, E. WOOD, B.A., M.B., B.Ch. Univ. Dub., has been appointedHonorary Surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital,vice Edwin Chesshire, F.R.C.S., resigned.

MARRIAGE.CARTER-BAKER.-On the 20th inst., at St. Jude’s, South Kensington,

Sidney Herbert Carter, M.B., Army Medical Staff, youngest son ofthe Rev. Henry Carter, D.D., of Kingstown, late Rector ofBallintoy, co Antrim, to Henrietta Margaret. youngest daughterof the late Rev. Robert Duncan Baker, M.A., Vicar of FristonandSnape, Saxmundham, Suffolk, and of Mrs. Duncan Baker, ofHogarth-road, Cromwell-road, S.W.

DEATHS.BODDY. - On the 20th inst., at Camberwell-road, William Barnard

Boddy, M.R.C.S., aged 89.FLUDER.—On the 15th inst., at Cromer, Norfolk, Arthur Eisdell

Fluder, M.R.C.S , L.S A.Lond, youngest son of the late CharlesFhider, of Lymington, Hampshire, aged 40.

MAHOMED.-On the 22nd inst., at Manchester-square, W., FrederickAkbar Mahomed, M.B Cantab., F.R.C.P., Assistant Physician toGm’s Hospital, in his 36th year.

MATURIN. - On the 19th inst., of scarlet fever, Leslie Maturin,M.K.Q.C.P.I., Resident Physician at Ck-street Fever Hospital,Dublin, eldest son of John Maturin, Esq., of Newtownstewart,co. Tyrone, aged 35. -

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