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NozTS COUNTY COUNCIL, RANSOM SANATORIUM, Sherwood Forest,Mansfield.—Resident Medical Officer. Salary 2100 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.

PLYMOUTH, SOUTH DEVON AND EAST CORNWALL HOSPITAL.-House fPhysician for six months. Salary .890 per annum, with board,residence, and washing.

QUEEN CHARLOTTE’S LYiNG-iN HOSPITAL, Marylebone-road, N.W.-Assistant Resident Medical Officer for four months. Salary atrate of B50 per annum, with board, residence, and washing.

QUEEN’S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Hackney-road, Bethnal Green, E.-House Surgeon. Salary £ 80 per annum, with board, residence, and Jwashing.

RICHMOND, SURREY, ROYAL HOSPITAL.-House Surgeon. Salary, £ 100. per annum, with board, apartments, and washing.ROCHDALE INFIRMARY.-Second House Surgeon, unmarried. Salary

£100 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn-road, W.C.-Assistant Physician.ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-Third House Surgeon. Salary

at rate of ,c50 per annum, with board and residence.RYDE, ROYAL ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY HOSPITAL.-Resident House

Surgeon, unmarried. Satary B125 per annum.ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, Plaistow, E.-

Junior Resident Medical Officer for six months. Salary at rateof £ 70 per annum, with residence, board, and laundry.

SOUTHWARK UNION INFIRMARY, East Dulwich-grove, S.E.-SeoondAssistant Medical Officer. Salary 2120 per annum, with board,lodging, and washing.

SWANSEA GENERAL AND EYE HOSPITAL.-Third House Surgeon. Salary2125 per annum, with board, washing, and attendance.

TAUNTON RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL.-Medical Officer of Health.Salary 9110.

TAUNTON, SOMERSET AND BATH ASYLUM, Cotford.-Assistant MedicalOfficer, unmarried. Salary 2200 per annum, with apartments,board, washing, attendance, &c.

HROAT HOSPITAL, Golden-square, W.-House Surgeon. Salary275 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.

WALSALL AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL.-Assistant House Surgeon. Salary2110 per annum, with board, residence, and laundry.

WARWICK COUNTY ASYLUM. Hatton, near Warwick.-Second AssistantMedical Officer, unmarried. Salary .8200 per annum, with board,lodging, and laundry.

WILLESDEN URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.-Assistant Medical Officers ofHealth and Assistant School Medical Officers (two). Salary 2300 perannum each,

WILTS COUNTY ASYLUM, Devizes.-Junior Assistant Medical Officer.Salary 2200 per annum, with board, lodging, attendance, andlaundry.

WINCHESTER. ROYAL, HAMPSHIRE COUNTY HOSPITAL.-House Phy-. sician. Salary B80 per annum.

WINDSOR, KING EDWARD VII. HOSPITAL FOR WINDSOR, ETON, ANDDISTRICT.-Assistant House Surgeon. Salary .E75 per annum, withresidence, board, laundry, and attendance.

WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL.-Two Assistant TuberculosisOfficers. Salary 2300 per annum. -

YORK COUNTY HOSPITAL.-House Physician for six months. Salary atrate of £ 100 per annum, with board, residence, &c.

THE Secretary of State for the Home Department will appoint aSpecialist Medical Referee under the Workmen’s Compensation-Act, 1906, to act in all Aural cases arising in the Sheriffdom ofLanarkshire in which the services of a Medical Referee are

required. Applications should be addressed to the Private Secre-tary, Scottish Office. -

** The summary of vacant appointments, published weekly in thiscolumn, is, equally with other articles, the literary copyright ofthe Proprietors of THE LANCET.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

BARGES.—On Dec. 15th, at Eye, Suffolk, the wife of Henry E. Barnes,M.D. Lond., of a daughter.

CUNNINGHAM.-On Dec. 13th, at Boksburg, North Transvaal, the wifeof Norman Rowsell Cunningham, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., B.A. Cantab.,of a son.

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FERNIE.-On Dec. 13th, at Crooms-hill, Greenwich, the wife of C. H.Fernie. M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of a son.

MAY.—On Dec. 19th. at Woodleigh, Ware, Herts, the wife of George E.May, M.R.C.S., L:R.C.P., of a son.

MARRIAGES.GARNETT-CRAWFORD.-On Dec. 18th, at the Cathedral, Glasgow,

Graham Hogg Garnett, M.D., to Susan, youngest daughter of thelate James Crawford, of Shawton, Glassford, and Mrs. Crawford, ofStonelaw Tower, Rutherglen, N.B. ,

HAYMAN-ATWOOD.-On Dec. 18th, at St. Barnabas Church, TunbridgeWells, Charles Augustine Hayman, J.P., M.D., F.R.C.S., toElizabeth Caroline, daughter of the late Captain Atwood and Mrs.Atwood, of Brixton.

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DEATHS.HARRIS.-On Dec. 15th. at Mildenhall, Suffolk, Frederick Hills Harris,

M.R.C.S., L.S.A., in his 91st year.RUTTER.-ON Dec. 16th, at Wilbury-gardens, Hove, Joseph Rutter,

M.D., in his 80th year.

N.B.-A fee of 5s. is charged for the insertion of Notices of Birthe,Marriages, and Deaths. 1.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

VITAL STATISTICS OF THE GOLD COAST.jsf his report on the Blue-book of the Gold Coast Colony andits dependencies for the year 1912, Mr. W. C. F. Robertson,Acting Colonial Secretary, gives the population as 1,503,386,the number of Europeans being 2367. Amongst the latterthere were 28 deaths. These included 8 officials; in2 cases death was due to yellow fever, in 2 to blackwaterfever, and in 2 to malaria, the remaining 2 being due tonon-climatic causes. Thirteen European officials were

invalided during the year owing to: malaria, 3 ; blackwaterfever,2; neurasthenia, 2; adenitis, 1; neuritis, 1; various, 4.Sixty-two non-official Europeans were invalided owing to:malaria, 22 ; blackwater fever, 6; dysentery, 6; anæmia, 3;gastritis, 2; various, 23. The total number of Europeanscoming under treatment was 1004, as against 878 in1911. No means exist where’by accurate statistics re-

lating to the health of natives call be obtained, but thereturns show that the number of attendances forhospital and dispensary treatment was 25,964, or 1767 morethan in the previous year. Treatment wa.s given for 2282cases of malaria, 1931 of helminthic diseases, and 549 fordysentery. There were several outbreaks of sma,ll-pox inthe eastern province of the colony, and slight outbreaksalso occurred in the central and western provinces. Thenumber of successful vaccinations performed was 23,232. ,

There were 104 cases of sleeping sickness reported duringthe year with 3 deaths. There were 3 cases of yellow feveramong natives in Accra, all of whom recovered. The newEuropean hospital at Accra has not yet been completed,but the existing hospital, which comprises 3 European and4 native wards, containing 7 and 25 beds respectively,was made mosquito proof. The hospital at Seccondeeconsists of 6 European wards, including 2 for convalescents,with a total of 16 beds, while for native patients 4 wardswith 20 beds are provided. At Cape Coast there is accom-modation for 13 Europeans, and 4 wards containing 19 bedsfor native patients. At Coomassie there is a Europeanhospital with 4 wards, and a native hospital with3 wards. European nursing sisters are attached to theAccra, Seccondee, and Coomassie hospitals. There are

a lunatic asylum and a laboratory at Accra and a

special sleeping sickness hospital at Anum. The sanitaryconditions under the sanitary branch of the medicaldepartment show generally a marked improvement, butthe inadequacy of water-supplies remains a cardinaldifficulty. There is a pipe-borne supply at Obuasi inAshanti, and waterworks at Accra and Seccondee are incourse of construction. The climate, though hot and damp,is cooler than that of most tropical countries situated insimilar latitudes. It is not in itself unhealthy, but an evil

, reputation has been earned for it in the past by the preva-lence of mosquito-borne diseases, against which all possibleprecautions have constantly to be taken. The rainy seasonis marked by a considerable fall in the temperature, which,is found to be refreshing to many Europeans, but provestrying to some.

H. B. asks where he could obtain a cheap reproduction of thepicture, " The Doctor," by Sir Luke Fildes.

COMMUNICATIONS not noticed in our present issue willreceive attention in our next.

A DIARY OF CONGRESSES.

THE following Congresses, Conferences, and Exhibitions are announced.In 1914 :-

April 14th-18th (New York).-Fourth Congress of the InternationalSurgical Society.

20th-23rd (Wiesbaden).-Thirty-first German Congress forInternal Medicine.

May lst-Nov. 1st (Lyons).-International Town Life Exhibition.July 6th-llth (Blackpool).-Twenty-ninth ’Congress of the Royal

Sanitary Institute.8th-13th (Edinburgh).-Congress of the Royal Institute of

. Public Health.

Aug. 3rd-8th (London).-Sixth International Dental Congress.10th-15th (St. Petersburg),-Twelfth International Congress

of Ophthalmology.Sept. 7th-12th (Berne).-International Congress for Neurology,

Psychiatry, and Psychology. .

September (Vienna).-Third International Congress for Diseasesof Occupation.

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(London).-Anglo-American Exhibition.(Aberdeen).—Eighty-second Annual Meeting of the British Medical

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Association.(Auckland, N.Z.).—Australasian Medical Congress.(St. Petersburg).-Third Mendeléeff Congress of Pure and Applied

Chemistry and Physics.