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42 BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.-House Physician and House Surgeon. Salary at rate of E120 per annum, with board, &e. HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, Great Ormond-street, London, W.C.- Two House Surgeons. Salary at rate of B100 per annum, with board, &c. HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY.-Senior House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary £250 per annum, with board, &c. LIVERPOOL, DAVID LEWIS NORTHERN HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon for six months. Salary at rate of jM50 per annum, with boar.i, &c. LONDON HOMŒOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Great Ormond-street and Queen- square, W.C. 1.-Two R"sident Medical Officer. Salary at rate of £100 per annum, with board. &c. MANCHESTER, BAGULEY SANATORIUM FOR TUBERCULOSIS.-Locum Tenens Second Assistant Medical Officer, unmarried. Salary E400 per ann,im with board, &c. MANCHESTFR CORPORATION.—Temporary Assistant Tuberculosis Officer. Salary £450 pel annum. ROYAL FRRE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn-road. W.C.-House Physician. ROYAL GENERAL DISPENSARY, Bartholomew Close, E.C -Resident Medical Officer. Salary S150 per annum, with apartments. ST. PANCRAS INFIRMARY (SOUTH), Pancras-road.- Female Assistant Medical Superintendent and Female Assistant Medical Officer for house adjoining. Salary at rate of E30( per annum. STAFFORDSHIRE, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND DUDLEY JOINT COMMITTEE FOR TUBERCULOSIS.—Two Senior Tuberculosis Officers. Also Two Assistant Tuberculosis Officers. Salaries B500 and E350 respec- tively. STOKE-ON-TRENT COUNTY BOROUGH.-Female Assistant Medical Officer in connexion with Maternity and Child Welfare Work, &c. Salary JE350 per annum. TAUNTON AND SOMERSET HOSPITAL.-Senior House Surgeon. Salary JB250 per annum, with board, &c. UNIVERSITY COLLEGF, HOSPITAL, Gower-street, W.C.-Assistant in Clinical Pathology Department. Salary £100 per annum, with lunch and tea. VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Tite-street, Chelsea, S.W.- House Surgeon for six months. Salary at rate of E200 per annum, with board, &c. WOOLWICH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH.-Female Assistant Medical Officer of Health. Salary £350 per annum. YORK COUNTY HOSPITAL.-Female House Physician. Salary .8200 per annum, with board, &c. THE Home Secretary gives notice of a vacancy for a Medical Referee under the Workmen’s Compensation Act for County Court Circuit No. 58, specially attached to the Plymouth, Kingsbridge, and Totnes and Paignton County Courts. Applications should be addressed to the Private Secretary, Home Office, Whitehall, S.W. 1, not later than Jan. 18th. THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, S.W., gives notice of vacancies for Certifying Surgeons under the Factorv and Work- shop Acts at Tavistock, Devon, and at Penarth, Glamorgan. Births, Marriages, and Deaths. BIRTHS. JACKSON.-On Dec. 27th, the wife of Dr. D. J. Jackson, Thornsbeach- road, Catford, S.E., of a son. SANDEMAN.-On Dec. 9th, at Muttra, U.P., India, to Captain C. S. Sandeman, R.A.M C., and Mrs. Sandeman-a daughter. WEBSTER.—On Dec. 30th, at Ty Gwyn, Merthyr Tvdfil, the wife of Lieutenant V. T. P. Webster, R.A.M.C., of a daughter. WEST.-On ueo. 25th, at Water Stratford Rectory, Buckingham, the wife of J. Frankland West, R.A. M.C., of a son. MARRIAGES. FRASER-OGDEN.-On Dec. 22nd, at St. Paul’s, Blackpool, Major Alastair N. Fraser, D S.O., R.A.M.C., to Constance, elder daughter of Herman Ogden, of Buxton. HART—HAWMSLEY-HLLL.—On Dec. 28th, at the Parish Church, Kneb- wortn, Hertq, Captain James Duucan Hart, M.C.. R.A.M.C., to . Margaret, only daughter of the late Andrew Hawkesley-Hill, Esq., and Mrs. Rawkesley-Hill, Liverpool. NEWTON - KEERS.-On Dec 26th, at Donoran House. Rasharkin, Charles Maurice Newton to Meta Keers. M.B., Ch.B. Edin., eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. S. B. B. Keers, Rasharkin, co. Antrim. PHILLIPS—CURRIE.—On Dec. 27th, at St. James’s Episcopal Church, Inverleith-row, Edinburgh, Surgeon J. E. Poillips. R M., Ba bados, to Elspeth, secona daughter of James Currie, of Inverawe, Argyll- shire, Leith. - DEATHS. BLYTHMAN.—On Dec. 29th, 1917, at Swinton, near Rotherham, Yorks. Clement Samuel Blythman, M.B., C.M. Edin., M.R.C.::i. Eng., in his 75t.h year. CASEY.-On Dec. 30th, at Park-street, Windsor, Edward Casey, M.D., aged 75. CovEY.-On Dec. 23rd, at Bede Cottage, Ellastone, Ashbourne, suddenly, William John Covey, M.R C.S., L.R.C.P. DEEBLE.-On De 28th, Surgeon-Lieutenaut-Coloner William Benjamin Chatterton Deeble, late 1st Life Guards Regiment and A.M D., aged 59. FLEMING.—On Dec. 24th, from wounds caused by a bomb on the previous day, Colonel Charles Christie Fleming. D.S.O., A.D.M.S., Highland Division, late R.A.M.C., son ot the late Deputy Surgeon-Geller.t.l Andrew Fuming, aged 53. PURVES.— n Dec. 30t,h, at Hardwicke Cottage, Wimbledon Common, WIlliam Laiùlaw Purves, late aural surgeon, Guy’s Hospital, III his 76th yeAr. ROBB.-On Dec. 20th, at King’s Gate, Aberdeen, Lieutenant-Colonel John Robb, M.D., I.M.S., aged 74 years. , N.B.-A fee of 5s. is charged Jor the insertion of Notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths. Notes Short Comments, and Answers to Correspondents. BARACKITIS. THE symptoms and treatment of "baracose" " are described with humour by Dr. Beranger in the Christmas number of the Pnris Medical. Some of our readers may have seen the condition. DIAGNOS . -Positif: Pour avoir la baracose, il suffit de vivre dans un« baraqne, d’y sejourner asoez longuement et enfin d’avoir peur pour sa peau. - Differentiel: Aucune affection ne se rapproche de ce terrible flaau. Le cafard si connu ne lui ressemble en rien, quoique son plus proche parent TRAITEMENT.-Préventif: Fuir autant qu’il est en son pouvoir le sejour trroL,nge dans les bsraques. Curatif immédiat mais mnmentcrne L’envoi en permission meme de cou te dnref, surtout 10rsqu’1l s’agit d’une naissance ou d’un mariage. Curatif defin2tif Le seul traitement, la seule médication, c’est la paix victorleuse et la destruction integrale du Bochisme. INFANT MORTALITY AND BABY CLINICS. THE Annual Report for the county borough of St. Helens, just issued by Dr. Joseph Cates, medical officer of health, contains an appendix on Infant Welfare Work by the deputy medical officer of health, Mr. C. W. Gee, in which the general infantile mortality in the borough (108) is compared with that of the infants attending the clinic. (24). The latter were mostly brought up for advice because they were losing weight or were otherwise ailing. The report sees in this fact a hopeful future for maternity and baby work. LECTURES ON MASSAGE. A SPECIAL Conference Number (price ls. ld. post-free) of the Journal of the Incorporated Society of Trained Masseusea (157, Great Portland-street, London, W. 1, and 23, Lime- grove, Manchester), reprints the lectures delivered at the members’ conference from Oct. 4th-6th last. They include Muscular Exercise in Relation to the Internal Secretions, by Dr. M. S. Pembrey, and the Treatment of Fractures, by Dr. J. B. Mennell, and should be read by all serious students of massage. ________ THE London Committee, which now becomes the British Committee, of the French Red Cross has entirely taken over the duties hitherto performed in part by a committee of our own Red Cross organisations. The headquarters of the Committee is at 9, Knightsbridge, W. 1. A. P.-Sir William Babtie’s case was considered on evidence before the Commission which he had then not seen and which has not been sinse published. When he did see it he made rebuttlllg statements to the Army Counol, who, being in possession of both sides, exonerated him com- pletely from the specific charges brought against him. Parent and Others.—The personal hardship in the case of a particular medical student may not be removed by the Ministry of National Service, which is concerned rather with the broad issue of providing the nation with adequate medical care consistently with the demands of the Services for medical personnel. Probably every fit male student may be expected to serve as surgeon-probationer in the Navy for six months after passing his second examination, and other demands may follow in accordance with the needs of the moment. J. L. M.-The reduction in the fee payable for notification of infectious diseases was announced in the Local Govern- ment (Emergency Provision) Act, 1916, datei May 26th. Part 2, Section 5, of the Provisions gives effect to a recom- mendation, ma ie by the Committee on Retrenchment in the Public Service, that the fee of a medical practitioner for a certificate or notification to a medical officer of health of a case of infectious disease shall be reduce t from 2s. 6d. tols. The new regulation was issued as a oroular to local authorities by the Local Government Board. The modifi- cation is distinctly stated to be " during the continuance of the present war and afterwards for such period or periods (if any) not exceeding one year, as the Local Government Board may fix." The circular can be obtained from Messrs. Wyman and Sons, Limited, 29, Bream’s-buildings, Fetter- lane, London, E.C. The following journals, magazines. 6&,.. nave been received :- Military Surgeon Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Public Head h, Archiv-s of Radiology and Electro-therapy, Dominion Medical Mont,hly, Cleveland Medical Journal Pnciiic Medical Journal. American ttevit-w of Tuberculosis American Journal of Medical Sciences. American Journal of Orthope dic Surger, Archives de Médecine et, (ie Pharmacie viilitaires, Maryland M edical Journal, British Journal ot Ophthalmology, Arc’nvfa Medicales Belges, Practi- tioner. American journal of Oostetrics New Zealand Medical Journal, Archives 01 Internal Me lieme, American Journal of Roentgenology, Surgery, Gyneculogy, and Obstetrics.
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BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.-House Physician and House Surgeon.Salary at rate of E120 per annum, with board, &e.
HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, Great Ormond-street, London, W.C.-Two House Surgeons. Salary at rate of B100 per annum, withboard, &c.
HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY.-Senior House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary£250 per annum, with board, &c.
LIVERPOOL, DAVID LEWIS NORTHERN HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon forsix months. Salary at rate of jM50 per annum, with boar.i, &c.
LONDON HOMŒOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Great Ormond-street and Queen-square, W.C. 1.-Two R"sident Medical Officer. Salary at rate of£100 per annum, with board. &c.
MANCHESTER, BAGULEY SANATORIUM FOR TUBERCULOSIS.-LocumTenens Second Assistant Medical Officer, unmarried. Salary E400per ann,im with board, &c.
MANCHESTFR CORPORATION.—Temporary Assistant Tuberculosis Officer.Salary £450 pel annum.
ROYAL FRRE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn-road. W.C.-House Physician.ROYAL GENERAL DISPENSARY, Bartholomew Close, E.C -Resident
Medical Officer. Salary S150 per annum, with apartments.ST. PANCRAS INFIRMARY (SOUTH), Pancras-road.- Female Assistant
Medical Superintendent and Female Assistant Medical Officer forhouse adjoining. Salary at rate of E30( per annum.
STAFFORDSHIRE, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND DUDLEY JOINT COMMITTEEFOR TUBERCULOSIS.—Two Senior Tuberculosis Officers. Also TwoAssistant Tuberculosis Officers. Salaries B500 and E350 respec-tively.
STOKE-ON-TRENT COUNTY BOROUGH.-Female Assistant Medical Officerin connexion with Maternity and Child Welfare Work, &c. SalaryJE350 per annum.
TAUNTON AND SOMERSET HOSPITAL.-Senior House Surgeon. SalaryJB250 per annum, with board, &c.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGF, HOSPITAL, Gower-street, W.C.-Assistant inClinical Pathology Department. Salary £100 per annum, withlunch and tea.
VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Tite-street, Chelsea, S.W.-House Surgeon for six months. Salary at rate of E200 per annum,with board, &c.
WOOLWICH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH.-Female Assistant MedicalOfficer of Health. Salary £350 per annum.
YORK COUNTY HOSPITAL.-Female House Physician. Salary .8200 perannum, with board, &c.
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THE Home Secretary gives notice of a vacancy for a Medical Refereeunder the Workmen’s Compensation Act for County Court CircuitNo. 58, specially attached to the Plymouth, Kingsbridge, and Totnesand Paignton County Courts. Applications should be addressed tothe Private Secretary, Home Office, Whitehall, S.W. 1, not laterthan Jan. 18th.
THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, S.W., gives notice ofvacancies for Certifying Surgeons under the Factorv and Work-shop Acts at Tavistock, Devon, and at Penarth, Glamorgan.
Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.
JACKSON.-On Dec. 27th, the wife of Dr. D. J. Jackson, Thornsbeach-road, Catford, S.E., of a son.
SANDEMAN.-On Dec. 9th, at Muttra, U.P., India, to Captain C. S.Sandeman, R.A.M C., and Mrs. Sandeman-a daughter.
WEBSTER.—On Dec. 30th, at Ty Gwyn, Merthyr Tvdfil, the wife ofLieutenant V. T. P. Webster, R.A.M.C., of a daughter.
WEST.-On ueo. 25th, at Water Stratford Rectory, Buckingham, thewife of J. Frankland West, R.A. M.C., of a son.
MARRIAGES.FRASER-OGDEN.-On Dec. 22nd, at St. Paul’s, Blackpool, Major
Alastair N. Fraser, D S.O., R.A.M.C., to Constance, elder daughterof Herman Ogden, of Buxton.
HART—HAWMSLEY-HLLL.—On Dec. 28th, at the Parish Church, Kneb-wortn, Hertq, Captain James Duucan Hart, M.C.. R.A.M.C., to
. Margaret, only daughter of the late Andrew Hawkesley-Hill,Esq., and Mrs. Rawkesley-Hill, Liverpool.
NEWTON - KEERS.-On Dec 26th, at Donoran House. Rasharkin,Charles Maurice Newton to Meta Keers. M.B., Ch.B. Edin.,eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. S. B. B. Keers, Rasharkin, co.Antrim.
PHILLIPS—CURRIE.—On Dec. 27th, at St. James’s Episcopal Church,Inverleith-row, Edinburgh, Surgeon J. E. Poillips. R M., Ba bados,to Elspeth, secona daughter of James Currie, of Inverawe, Argyll-shire, Leith.
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DEATHS.BLYTHMAN.—On Dec. 29th, 1917, at Swinton, near Rotherham, Yorks.
Clement Samuel Blythman, M.B., C.M. Edin., M.R.C.::i. Eng., inhis 75t.h year.
CASEY.-On Dec. 30th, at Park-street, Windsor, Edward Casey, M.D.,aged 75.
CovEY.-On Dec. 23rd, at Bede Cottage, Ellastone, Ashbourne,suddenly, William John Covey, M.R C.S., L.R.C.P.
DEEBLE.-On De 28th, Surgeon-Lieutenaut-Coloner William BenjaminChatterton Deeble, late 1st Life Guards Regiment and A.M D.,aged 59.
FLEMING.—On Dec. 24th, from wounds caused by a bomb on theprevious day, Colonel Charles Christie Fleming. D.S.O., A.D.M.S.,Highland Division, late R.A.M.C., son ot the late DeputySurgeon-Geller.t.l Andrew Fuming, aged 53.
PURVES.— n Dec. 30t,h, at Hardwicke Cottage, Wimbledon Common,WIlliam Laiùlaw Purves, late aural surgeon, Guy’s Hospital, III his76th yeAr.
ROBB.-On Dec. 20th, at King’s Gate, Aberdeen, Lieutenant-ColonelJohn Robb, M.D., I.M.S., aged 74 years. ,
N.B.-A fee of 5s. is charged Jor the insertion of Notices of Births,Marriages, and Deaths.
Notes Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.
BARACKITIS.THE symptoms and treatment of "baracose" " are describedwith humour by Dr. Beranger in the Christmas numberof the Pnris Medical. Some of our readers may have seenthe condition.DIAGNOS . -Positif: Pour avoir la baracose, il suffit de vivre
dans un« baraqne, d’y sejourner asoez longuement et enfin d’avoirpeur pour sa peau.
- Differentiel: Aucune affection ne se rapproche de ce terrible flaau.Le cafard si connu ne lui ressemble en rien, quoique son plus procheparent
TRAITEMENT.-Préventif: Fuir autant qu’il est en son pouvoir lesejour trroL,nge dans les bsraques.
Curatif immédiat mais mnmentcrne L’envoi en permission memede cou te dnref, surtout 10rsqu’1l s’agit d’une naissance ou d’unmariage.Curatif defin2tif Le seul traitement, la seule médication, c’est la
paix victorleuse et la destruction integrale du Bochisme.
INFANT MORTALITY AND BABY CLINICS.THE Annual Report for the county borough of St. Helens,
just issued by Dr. Joseph Cates, medical officer of health,contains an appendix on Infant Welfare Work by thedeputy medical officer of health, Mr. C. W. Gee, in whichthe general infantile mortality in the borough (108) iscompared with that of the infants attending the clinic.(24). The latter were mostly brought up for advicebecause they were losing weight or were otherwise ailing.The report sees in this fact a hopeful future for maternityand baby work.
LECTURES ON MASSAGE.A SPECIAL Conference Number (price ls. ld. post-free) of theJournal of the Incorporated Society of Trained Masseusea(157, Great Portland-street, London, W. 1, and 23, Lime-grove, Manchester), reprints the lectures delivered at themembers’ conference from Oct. 4th-6th last. They includeMuscular Exercise in Relation to the Internal Secretions,by Dr. M. S. Pembrey, and the Treatment of Fractures,by Dr. J. B. Mennell, and should be read by all seriousstudents of massage.
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THE London Committee, which now becomes the BritishCommittee, of the French Red Cross has entirely takenover the duties hitherto performed in part by a committeeof our own Red Cross organisations. The headquarters ofthe Committee is at 9, Knightsbridge, W. 1.
A. P.-Sir William Babtie’s case was considered on evidencebefore the Commission which he had then not seen andwhich has not been sinse published. When he did see ithe made rebuttlllg statements to the Army Counol, who,being in possession of both sides, exonerated him com-pletely from the specific charges brought against him.
Parent and Others.—The personal hardship in the case of aparticular medical student may not be removed by theMinistry of National Service, which is concerned ratherwith the broad issue of providing the nation with adequatemedical care consistently with the demands of the Servicesfor medical personnel. Probably every fit male studentmay be expected to serve as surgeon-probationer in theNavy for six months after passing his second examination,and other demands may follow in accordance with theneeds of the moment.
J. L. M.-The reduction in the fee payable for notification ofinfectious diseases was announced in the Local Govern-ment (Emergency Provision) Act, 1916, datei May 26th.Part 2, Section 5, of the Provisions gives effect to a recom-mendation, ma ie by the Committee on Retrenchment inthe Public Service, that the fee of a medical practitionerfor a certificate or notification to a medical officer of healthof a case of infectious disease shall be reduce t from 2s. 6d.tols. The new regulation was issued as a oroular to localauthorities by the Local Government Board. The modifi-cation is distinctly stated to be " during the continuance ofthe present war and afterwards for such period or periods(if any) not exceeding one year, as the Local GovernmentBoard may fix." The circular can be obtained from Messrs.Wyman and Sons, Limited, 29, Bream’s-buildings, Fetter-lane, London, E.C.
The following journals, magazines. 6&,.. nave been received :-Military Surgeon Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, PublicHead h, Archiv-s of Radiology and Electro-therapy, DominionMedical Mont,hly, Cleveland Medical Journal Pnciiic Medical Journal.American ttevit-w of Tuberculosis American Journal of MedicalSciences. American Journal of Orthope dic Surger, Archives deMédecine et, (ie Pharmacie viilitaires, Maryland M edical Journal,British Journal ot Ophthalmology, Arc’nvfa Medicales Belges, Practi-tioner. American journal of Oostetrics New Zealand Medical Journal,Archives 01 Internal Me lieme, American Journal of Roentgenology,Surgery, Gyneculogy, and Obstetrics.
