1338 NOTES, SHORT COMMENTS, AND ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

GISBURNE HOUSE, WATFORD, INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.-MedicalOfficer. Salary 243 12s. per annum. Also Dentist. Salary .815 perannum.

GREAT NORTHERN CENTRAL HOSPITAL, Holioway-road, London, N.-House Surgeon for six months. Salary at rate of JB40 per annum,with board, lodging, and laundry.

HALIFAX ROYAL INFIRMARY.—Third House Surgeon, unmarried.Salary 280 per annum, with residence, board, and washing.

HAMPSTEAD GENERAL NORTH-WEST LONDON HOSPITAL.—Patho-logist. Salary 2100 per annum.

HARTLEPOOLS HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary .8100 per annum,with board, washing, and lodging.

LANCASTER, COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM.—Assistant Medical Officer, un-married. Salary 4 guineas per week, with board, lodging, and ,,

washing.LE.A-.MINGTON, WARNEFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House Physician.

Salary .S85 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.LEEDS PUBLIC DISPENSARy.-Junior Resident Medical Officer. Salary

£100 per annum, with board and lodging.LEEK, STAFFORDSHIRE CouNrv ASYLUM, Cheddleton.-Assistant

Medical Officer. Salary .8210 per annum, with apartments, board,attendance, and washing.

LIVERPOOL, DAVID LEWIS NORTHERN HOSPlTAL.-House Physician.Salary at rate of 260 per annum, with residence and maintenance.

LOUGHI;OBOUGH AND DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.-Resident House Surgeon. Salary £120 per annum, with rooms,attendance, board, and washing.

MAIDSTONE, KENT COUNTY ASYLUM. — Fourth Assistant MedicalOfficer, unmarried. Salary 2200 to .8220 per annum, with quarters,attendance, washing, Ac.

MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THECHEST, Hampstead.—House Physician. Salary 275 per annum,with board, residence, and washing.

NEWCASTT.E-UPON-TYNE, CITY AND COUNTY OF.—Medical Officer ofHealth and Medical Superintendent of City Hospitals for InfectiousDiseas 3s. Salary 2700 per annum.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE DISPENSARY.—Visiting Medical Assistant. Salary£160 per annum.

NORTHAMPTON ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY.-Chief Tuberculosis MedicalOfficer. Salary £500 per annum.

NORTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon, unmarried.Salary £90 per annum, with apartments, board, washing, andattendance.

NORWICH, JENNY LIND INFIRMARY FOR CHILDREN.-Resident MedicalOfficer (female) for six months. Salary £50 per annum, with board,apartments, and laundry.

NORWICH, NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL.-Casualty Officer,unmarried, for six months. Salary J660 per annum, with board,lodging, and washing.

NOTTINGHAM CITY ASYLUM.—Junior Assistant Medical Officer, un-married. Salary JB200 per annum, with board, apartments, andlaundry.

PRESTON ROYAL INFIRMARY.—Senior and Junior House Surgeons,unmarried, for six months. Salaries £80 and B60 per annumrespectively, with board, residence, and washing.

QUEEN CHARLOTTE’S LYING-IN HOSPITAL. Marylebone-road, N.W.-Resident Medical Officer for four months. Salary at rate of J660 perannum, with board, residence, and washing.

ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL, London, W.-Casualty House Surgeon for sixmonths. Salary £100 per annum, with board and lodging.

ar. PETER’S HOSPITAL FOR STONE, &c., Henrietta-street, CoventGarden, W.C.-Junior House Surgeon for six months. Salary atrate of B50 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.

SHEFFIELD, JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WowEN.-Assistant House Surgeon,unmarried. Salary 260 per annum, with board, residence, andlaundry.

SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY (HEALTH DEPARTMENT.)—Second AssistantHealth Officer. Salary 4200 dollars for first year, up to 4300 dollarsfor the third year, with free furnished quarters, light, and water.Also Bacteriologist. Salary at rate of 5160 dollars for first year, upto 6000 dollars for the third’year.

STAFFORD, STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY ASYLUM.-Assistant MedicalOfficer, unmarried. Salary L160 per annum, with apartments,board, and washing.

SfAMFORD HILL AND STOKE NEWINGTON DISPENSARY.-AssistantResident Medical Officer. Salary £120 per annum, with board,apartments, attendance, &c.

S roKE-o-N-TRrNT bFECTlOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL, Bucknall.-AssistantMedical Officer (female). Salary £ 00 per annum, with apart-ments, board, washing, and attendance.

WESTMINSTER GENERAL DISPENSARY, 9, Gerrard-street, Soho, W.-Honorary Physician.

WESTON-SUPER-MARE HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary£100 per annum, with board and residence.

WOLVKRHAMPTON AND STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL.-HouseSurgeon for six months. Salary X80 per annum, with board, rooms,and laundry.

WORCESTER COUNTY AND CITY ASYLUM, Powick.-Junior AssistantMedical Officer, unmarried. Salary £160 per annum, with board,apartments, washing, and attendance.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.DEATHS.

BAGSHAWE.—On Nov. 2nd, at Warrior-square, St. Leonards-on-Sea,Frederic Bagshawe, M.D., F.R.C.P., J.P., aged 78 years.

BYRNE.—On Nov. 5th, at Sunwick. East Molesey, George Byrne,M.R.C.S.. L.1’.C.11. Lond., aged 56 years.

MAIR.-Oii Nov. 4th. in London, after an operation. Lurlovic WilliamDarra Mair, of Stone Court, Carshalton, M.D. Lond., MedicalInspector, Local Government Board, aged 46 years.

N.B.-A fee of 5s. is charged for the insertion of Notices of Birtlts,Marriages c d Deaths.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.RECENT PISTOL SHOOTINGS.

IF the series of crimes recently committe 1 with pistols does not lead tomore stringent measures for the prevention of the sale and carryingof these dangerous weapons, the country will presumably have to waituntil a Cabinet Minister or some equally prominent person isassassinated and public feeling thoroughly aroused. Such an eventhas happened in England before now, and has very nearly happenedin the United States, where conditions of life, at any rate in sonmStates, are widely different from those in our cities and provincialtowns, and where, no doubt, shooting crimes are of more frequentoccurrence than with us. We abstain from comment in detail

upon cases in which prisoners are under arrest, but we refer,among others, to the shooting of several persons in and aroundthe Horseshoe Hotel in Tottenham Court-road, with two deaths asits result; to the death of a man at Edmonton through a pistol shot,as to which one of the facts still to be determined is whether therewas a crime or whether an accident occurred to a man whose

possession of a pistol was at any rate unnecessary; to the murder ofa police inspector at Eastbourne—a cruel and wanton crime, whethercommitted by the man now under arrest or not, and one whichoccurred in a town some weeks ago rendered notorious by thesimultaneous killing of several persons, also by shooting; to thedeath oi a woman in London in a taxicab by a shot from a pistol,whetl’er it was tired by herself or by another person, or by accident;to the raiding of a jeweller’s shop in the Edgware-road where no shoot-ing took place, but where a gang of men armed with pistols succeededin committing a robbery and escaping scot free in a taxi-cab, whichaccording to the driver’s story they " commandeered " by threateninghim with instant death if he disobeyed ; and to a somewhat similarstory of demanding money by threats of murder in a provision shopat Balham. There may have been oher incidents of the same kindw,rich we have overlooked, and we may refer while discussing thesubject to the arrest of two men in Paddington. upon both of whom,according to the evidence of the police, pistols and cartridges werefound. and one of whom was stated to have said to the constables’’It is a good job for you all that I did not get my shooter out

’, in time, or else you would all have been shot dead, and then I wouldhave done myself in." The list is a formidable one and the cases haveoccurred within so brief a space that in none of them has the

’ responsibility been brought home as yet to whoever may have beenthe guilty parties. Whoever they may be, it is submitted that

pistol-owning should be rendered a privilege conceded only to thoseof irreproachable character and hedged round with stringent condi-tions, and that pistol-carrying should be made a serious offence.Its prevalence at present exposes law-abiding citizens to constantand unnecessary danger, and may at any time lead to consequenceswhich the whole nation may regret.

REFLEX STIMULATION OF THE VAGUS CENTRE IN

SEA-SICKNESS.

To the Editor of THE LA.NCET.

SIR.—On June 29th last you published for me a clinical note drawingattention to the value of reflex stimulation of the vagus centre and its

vicinity by vesication of the skin over the course of the par vagum inthe neck, between the mastoid process and the angle of the lower,jaw,and quoting cases illustrative of the beneficial effects of this treatmentin cardiac, respiratory, and gastric affections.There is one most clistressing form of nausea and sickness which I

have had no opportunity of treating-viz., that incidental to travel bysea. As it is reasonable to exp3ct that this condition may also be

amenable to reflex influence of the vomiting centre my object in

making this communication is to urge those medical men who "godown to the sea in ships" to take advantage of their ample oppor-tunities to test this method of treatment upon the victims of mal-de-merwho come under their care. I am, Sir, yours faithfully,

Driffield, E. Yorks, Oct. 28th, 1912. A. T. BRAND, M.D. Aberd.

AN INTERESTING CEREMONY.

ON Oct. 31st the Lord Mayor, Sir Thomas Boor Crosby, M.D., openedthe extension for surgical appliances of John Bell and Croyden.Limited, of 50, Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square, London, W.The Lord Mayor, who was received by Mr. Buckston Browne, Mr.James Boyton, M.P., and many members of the medical profession,cut with a pair of gold surgical scissors the ribbon restraining thecurtains, and disclosed a well-arranged reception room, containinga display of necessaries for the sick room. In the sterilising roomssterile dressings w3re manufactured and prepared in his presence.He was also sho .V11 the method of filling ampoules of stovainoan I glucose, large 11ucnlers of which are being despatched