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MEDICAL NEWS

University of Cambridge.On March 7th the following degrees were conferred :—

M.B. & B.Chir.-T. I. Evans.M.B.-C. J. Grosch.

King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London.

Hospitals within 11 miles of St. Paul’s desiring to parti-cipate in the grants made by this Fund for the year 1931,must apply before March 31st to the hon. secretaries at7, Walbrook, E.C.4 (G.P.O. Box 465A). Applications willalso be considered from convalescent homes which are inthe above area or take a large proportion of patients fromLondon.

British Social Hygiene Council.On Tuesday, April 21st, Mr. Maurice Bigelow, professor

of biology at Columbia University, New York, and Chairmanof the Executive Committee of the American Social HygieneAssociation, will lecture on Social Hygiene and the Family atthe Marble Arch Rooms, Old Quebec-street, London. TheDuchess of Atholl, M.P., will preside. Admission will beby ticket obtainable gratis from the Secretary of the BritishSocial Hygiene Council, Carteret House. Carteret-street,S.W.I.

Instruction for D.P.H. _

A three-months’ course of lectures and demonstrationson Clinical Practice and in Hospital Administration willbe given at the North-Eastern Hospital, St. Ann’s-road,Tottenham, N., by Dr. F. H. Thomson, the medical super-intendent, on Mondays and Wednesdays at 4.45 P.M., andalternate Saturdays at 11 A.M., beginning Wednesday,April 8th. Applications should be made to the MedicalOfficer of Health, London County Council, Public HealthDepartment (Special Hospitals), Victoria Embankment,E.0.4.

Tuberculosis Association.

This Association will meet at the Dunn Laboratory,Oxford, from March 26th to 28th. The afternoon of thefirst day will be devoted to a discussion on Stereoscopic andPostural Radiography of the Chest ; on the 27th Dr.Jaquerod will speak on the Natural Processes of Healingin Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and Dr. L. S. T. Burrell andDr. N. Tattersall on the Future of Artificial PneumothoraxTreatment; and on the last day, after the annual generalmeeting, Mr. H. Morriston Davies will show a cinemato-graph film of Thoracoplasty, Dr. J. Crochett will speak onGelatino-thorax, and the proceedings will close with anexhibition of radiograms. The hon. secretary of theAssociation is Dr. G. T. Hebert, of St. Thomas’s Hospital,S.E.1.

Hospitals at Brighton.The end of February brought to a close the annual meetings

of the governors of the hospitals at Brighton. At the meet-

ing of the Royal Sussex County Hospital Brigadier-GeneralA. 0. Brownlow, the chairman, vigorously rebutted the

charge of extravagance. He said that some eight yearsago these charges were first made, and Sir Napier Burnett,whose advice was asked, reported that there was no

ground for considering the hospital was extravagantlymanaged. Sir Napier urged a tightening up of controlwhich was at once undertaken. There were, however, stillpeople going about talking of alleged extravagance at theCounty Hospital. It was absolutely unfounded anddid a great deal of harm. The report showed that thehospital treated a greater number of cases in 1930 than in1929. In-patients in 1930 numbered 3212 ; out-patients107,504 ; casualty patients 8224 ; casualty dressings 23,279.The operating theatres fund had received a grant of £5000from the estate of Mr. Bernhard Baron, and towards theinitial outlay of £15,000 for the theatre block, which it ishoped will be opened in April, £9374 had been received.The report stated that consideration had been given to thesuperannuation scheme for hospital officers and nurses,but the governors regretted that the financial position didnot justify the introduction of the scheme. A quantity ofradium had been purchased, and Dr. H. Nethersole Fletchersaid that the fact that radium was available had broughtmany patients to the hospital at a much earlier stage of thedisease than would otherwise have been the case, and theresult was that many lives had been saved and muchsuffering alleviated.-At the Sussex Throat and Ear Hospitalit was reported that the urgently needed extension wasalmost complete. The extension provides, in addition to anew out-patients’ department, six small wards, threeconsulting rooms and dispensary, and additional accommoda-

tion for the nursing and domestic staffs. Legacies had beenapplied to current expenditure, and but for these theaccounts would show a much larger deficit than .8193.Some of the new wards are to be used by patients who areunable to pay nursing home fees, and the charges for thesewill be sufficient only to cover the maintenance cost, and,perhaps, a little general income for the hospital. -Brighton,Hove and Preston Dispensary is the oldest medical charityexisting in the town, having been established in 1809. Itsbuilding in Queen’s-road was erected in 1847 and here thework has been carried on continuously until June 30th lastyear. The governors have now disposed of the building tothe Independent Order of Rechabites, and the whole of thedispensary work will be concentrated at the northern branchin Ditchling-road. The hospital at Hove, an offspring ofthe dispensary, is dealing with between 400 and 500in-patients in a year, and an appeal is to be made for itsextension and maintenance. -The financial position of theSussex Maternity and Women’s Hospital was declared tobe a really anxious one. Roughly £10,000 a year wasneeded, and while receipts for services rendered producedabout £7000, there was still £3000 to be obtained bysubscriptions, donations, and in other ways. The overdraftat the bank was £586. No fewer than 642 patients wereadmitted during the 12 months, while 984 mothers wereattended in their own homes.-At the Sussex Eye Hospitalmeeting it was announced that negotiations between thegovernors of the Royal Sussex County Hospital and theSussex Eye Hospital had been reopened. The schemeunder consideration is that of erecting a new eye hospitalon land belonging to and adjoining the Royal SussexCounty Hospital. The question, it was stated, was beingvery carefully explored, but no decision had yet been arrivedat. A pageant on behalf of the rebuilding fund broughtin £4696, but another £7000 at least was needed.-Thegovernors of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Childrenwere compelled during the year to realise some investmentsto meet extraordinary expenditure. An overdraft of £3000,it was stated, left no a’ternative, and after such realisationthere still remained a balance due to the bank of £1649.

Queen Charlotte’s Birthday Ball.The date of this function, in aid of Queen Charlotte’s

Hospital Rebuilding Fund, has been changed from Tuesday,May 19th, to Thursday, May 28th. The ball will takeplace, as previously announced, at Dorchester House Hotel.Park-lane, W. The ball secretaries are Mr. Seymour W.Leslie and Mr. Digby C. H. d’Avigdor, who may be addressedat 29, Dorset-square, London, N.W.

A BRONZE bust of Mr. A. F. MacCallan, director forsome 20 years of the Egyptian Government ophthalmic hos-pitals, has been placed in the Giza Memorial OphthalmicLaboratory, Cairo, by his pupils and colleagues the ophthalmicsurgeons of Egypt. The bust was unveiled by Sir PercyLoraine on the occasion of the annual meeting of theOphthalmological Society of Egypt. The work was modelledfrom life by Mr. Francis Doyle-Jones, A.R.B.S.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths

BIRTHS.SHELDON.—On March 10th, at Sutherland-avenue, Maida Valr,

the wife of Dr. Wilfrid Sheldon, of a daughter.TOUSSAINT.—On March 9th, at Wilbraham-place, S.W., the

wife of Dr. C. H. C. Toussaint, of a daughter.

DEATHS.CHATER.—On March 5th, at The Victoria Nurses’ Home,

Pembroke Dock, of pleuro-pneumonia, John SamuelChater, M.D., formerly of Lincoln, aged 58.

FERGUSON.—On March 2nd, suddenly, Robert James Ferguson,M.D., F.R.C.S., New Dover-road, Canterbury, in his 68thyear.

JOHNSON.—On March 4th, at Madeira-mansions, Weston-supei-Mare, the Rev. James Bovell Johnson, M.D., aged 78 years.

MCCONNELL.—On March 9th, 1931, in London, James MeConnell.M.B., late of Battersea Rise.PANTING.—On March 3rd, at The Mythe, Malvern, after a short

i illness, John Panting, M.A., M.D., formerly of Watton.Norfolk.

PERIGAL.—On March 7th, at West Southbourne, Hants.Arthur Perigal, M.D., M.R.C.S., of New Barnet, Herts,aged 82.

RUSSELL.—On March 4th, at Cleveland-square, W., EdmondFrench Boys Russell, L.R.C.S.I., and L.R.K.Q.P.I.

STILL.—On March 6th, at Twicken ham George CarduoStill,M.B.,aged 69.

N.B.-A fee of 7s. 6d. is charged for the insertion of Notices ofBirths, Marriages, and Deaths.