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were relieved from duty on Saturday, the 30th ult.; and on jMonday last the whole of them were dispersed.METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL.-At a meeting of the

governors of this institution, held on the 3rd instant, Dr. H. IStavely King was unanimously elected physician to the hos- pital, in the place of Dr. Barnes, resigned.BANQUET TO A MILITARY SURGEON.-Colonel E. A.

Parker and the officers of the Chatham division of Roy al MarineLight Infantry entertained Dr. J. Drummond, late Deputy-In-spector of Hospitals, and for many years principal medical Iofficer at Melville Hospital, Chatham, at a banquet, as a mark ’,of their esteem and respect on the occasion of his retirement ’,from the service on full pay. Amongst those present were IMajor-Gen. W. H. Eden and most of the colonels commandingat Chatham. Dr. Drummond is succeeded by Dr. J. WingateJohnston (1847). ’

THE YELLOW FEVER IN LISBON.-At the last meeting ’,of the Academy of Sciences in Paris, Dr. Guyon sent in variouscoloured drawings of the state of the body and viscera underthe influence of yellow fever. Dr. Guyon, having studied thatdisease for many years in America, had visited Lisbon duringthe late invasion, where he had caused the drawings in ques-tion to be executed. He chiefly called the attention of theAcademy to a new fact exemplified in his drawings-viz., thecolour assumed by the liver, which at the same time tends todegenerate into a fatty substance. Dr. Lyons has arrived inthe course of the last week from Lisbon. His mission therewas of the same nature as that of Dr. Guyon, and we may ex-pect soon to hear of the results of his observations.HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK ENDING

SATURDAY, JANUARY, 30TH.-The total number of deaths inLondon during the week was 1363, showing a slight increaseon the rather high mortality of the previous week, and being75 above the average of the last ten years. Of these, 248 arereferred to the zymotic class of diseases; 260 to the constitu-tional ; 650 to the local ; 164 to the developmental ; 19 to vio-lence. The remaining 22 are sudden and other deaths, thecauses of which are not stated, or defined sufficiently for clas-sification. The deaths referred to the miasmatic order of dis-eases number 222, while the corrected average is 269. Only5 cases of diarrhoea were fatal, and 2 of small-pox. Hooping-cough carried off 54 children ; measles was fatal in 51 cases,scarlatina in 42. The deaths due to diseases of the organs ofrespiration numbered 380, whilst the corrected average of corre-sponding weeks does not exceed 284. The excess is caused bybronchitis, which is fatal much beyond its usual amount : 227deaths are the results of this complaint, 104 of pneumonia, 32of asthma ; only four are returned under the specific designa-tion of influenza.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

On the 29th ult., Louisa, wife of J. S. Loe, Esq., M.R.C.S.,of Leeds, of a daughter.On the 31st ult., the wife of James Stevens, Esq., M.R. C. S. ,

of Bloomsbury-square, of a son.

MARRIAGES.On the 8th of December, at Surat, Dr. F. S. Arnott,

H. E. I. C. S., Superintending-surgeon to Sir Hugh Rose, to Ann,third daughter of the late John J. Gabourd, Esq., of St. Helier’s,Jersev.

On the 27th ult., at Westport, Cupar, Fifeshire, A. Christie,Esq., of Hawk-hill, Edinburgh, to Margaret Isabella DurhamCarstairs, eldest daughter of William Carstairs, Esq., lateBombay Medical Staff.

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DEATHS.On the 1st ult., at the residence of her father, J. Taylor,

Esq., L.S.A., Old Kent-road, Emily Louisa, wife of C. D.Piper, Esq., of H. M.’s Royal Arsenal, and of Wood-street,Woolwich, in the 19th year of her age.On the 27th ult., at Surbiton, Kingston, Surrey, Charles

Edward Mason, only son of Charles J. Mason, Esq., M.R.C.S.,aged six months.On the 28th ult., at Jermyn-street, suddenly, Donald Camp-

bell, Esq., surgeon, H. E. I. Co. ’s service.On the 1st inst., R. L. Rawes, Esq., Secretary of the Royal

College of Physicians.

MEDICAL DIARY OF THE WEEK.

MONDAY, FEB. 8 ........

TUESDAY, FBB. 9........

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10

THURSDAY, FEB. 11 .

FRIDAY, FEB. 12 .......

SATURDAY, FEB. 13 .

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1½ P.M.

. METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL. -’ Operations,2 3p.M.(Guy’s HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 p.M.WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.

ROYAL INSTITUTION.-3 P.M. Prof. Huxley, "OnAnimals and Plants considered Morpholo-gically." "

" ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OFLONDON. - 8½ P.M. Mr. Hutchinson’s Case of"Bronzing of the Skin." - Dr. Mackenzie, " On

, the Action of Galvanism on the ContractileL Structure of the Gravid Uterus."

(ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGB HOSPITAL.- Operations,

2 P.M.RoYAL ORTHOPÆDIC HOSPITAL. - Operations, 2

P.M. SOCIETY FOR BELIM OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS

OF MEDICAL MEN IN LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.-7 P.M. Annual Dinner at the Freemasons.’Tavern.NORTH LONDON MEDICAL SOCIETY. -7 P.M. NORTH LONDON MEDICAL SOCIETY. — 7 P.M.

Annual Meeting.

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL,.-Operations, 12½ P.M.ST. GEORGE’s HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.

Operations, 1 p.M.LONDON HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1½ P.M.ROYAL INSTITUTION.-3 P.M.-Prof. Tyndall,"OnHeat."

ST. GEOaGE’S MEDICAL SOCIETY.-8 P.M. Mr>Holmes, " On a Case of Section of the Jaw for

the Removal of Naso-Pharyngeal Polypus."(OPHTHALMIO HOSPITAL, MOORFIELDS. - Opera-

tions, 10 A.M.WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL. - Opera-

tions, 1½ P.M.GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, KING’S CROSS.-’

’ Operations, 2½ P.M.

HUNTERIAN SOCIETY.-6 P.M. Anniversary Dinnerat the London Tavern.ROYAL INSTITUTION.-8½ P.M. Prof. Faraday, "OnL Static Induction."

CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL.-Operations, 12½ P.M. ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1½ P.M.

.. KiNa’s COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.I ROYAL INSTITUTION.-3 P.M. Prof. Bloxam, "On

II the Chemistry of the Elements which Circulatein Nature."

MIEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.-8 P.M,

To Correspondents.Mr. E. Ray, of Sittingbourne, Kent, has forwarded to us a document from the"Customs Fund Office, London," making inquiries of him, as the medicalattendant of one of the officers of that establishment, relative to his state of’health, with a view to the assurance of life. The Office does not pay for this

opinion. Mr. Ray says, with much pertinence to the question in general," I can see no difference between this and an ordinary life assurance office,and think it as much bound to pay for a professional opinion."

The Case at Tovill.-The lamentable disclosures made at the inquest on thebody of the late Betsy Brooker would appear to point to an error in practice,which in these days seems almost inconceivable. Pressure on our space pre-vents detailed comment upon a case which is of great importance, this week,but we hope to lay an account of it before our readers in our next impression.In anticipation, however, of what we shall then have to say, it may be as wellto state that there is no primd facie evidence for believing that the medicalwitnesses, who made the post-mortem examination, and gave evidence at theinquest, moved otherwise in the matter than in accordance with the strictestrules of medical ethics. Caution and candour should prevent reckless com-ments upon insufneiest evidence. The case appears to be one of retroversionof the uterus.

Mr. Marshall Weir’s case of" Placenta PraBvia" shall be inserted.

THE MILITARY HOSPITALS AT YARMOUTH.

DR. LOCKHART ROBERTSON would feel obliged by the Editor of THE LANCETcorrecting the statement in last Saturday’s number (page 131), that Mes rs.Poole and Brock have proceeded to Yarmouth for duty at the Military ZunaticAsyluva there. These gentlemen have been sent to Yarmouth to prepare forthe reception at the hospital of some of the wounded from India. The insanpsoldiers, despite the remonstrances of the Commissioners in Lunacy, continue,by the War-Office, to be farmed out for the profit of the keeper of a pauperasylum at Bow, one of the dismal East-eud suburbs, and from which place thepauper patients of the eo,,iiity of Middlesex were removed to Colney Hatch.Yet this asylum continues, by Lord Panmure, to be thought fit for the aecom-modation of the 13ritish soldier when disabled by mental disease.

Charles-street, Berkeley-square, W., Feb. 1858.