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Brighton have undertaken to supply poor families with suitableguards, upon receiving a written recommendation, subject tocertain regulations. The address is to Mrs. Muzzall, 2, Waterloo-street North. The movement deserves commendation.THE USEFULNESS OF ARTIFICIAL LIMBS.—A painfully

interesting performance is shortly to take place at the GrandOpera of Paris. M. Roger, the celebrated tenor, who had lastsummer the misfortune to lose his arm in consequence of a

gun-shot accident, will take a benefit, and will appear in frag-ments of his most favourite parts. The benefit will be sup-ported by the most distinguished performers at present in

Paris; and many people will, no doubt, be curious to see howfar the skill of the maker of artificial limbs can overcome diffi-culties, and enable an actor, so sadly bereaved as M. Roger, togo through the principal part of an opera.HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK ENDING

SATURDAY, DFCEMBER 3RD.-The total number of deaths regis-tered in London in the week that ended last Saturday was1304, being nearly the same as that returned for the precedingweek. In the ten years 1849-58 the average number of deathsin the weeks corresponding with last week was 1233 ; but asthe deaths included in the present return occurred in a popu-lation that has increased, they should be compared with theaverage raised in proportion to the increase-namely, with1356. The result is, that the deaths of last week were less by52 than the number that would have occurred if the averagerate of mortality for the end of November had ruled. Thedeaths from pulmonary diseases, exclusive of phthisis, declinedlast week from 314 to 284. Of these figures the chief consti-tuent is bronchitis, which declined from 19S to 167. The

mortality from small-pox slightly increases, for the deathsfrom this disease in the last three weeks were successively 29,30, and 39. 11 of these 39 occurred to persons who were 15

years old and under 60. Mr. Mears, the Registrar of the sub-district of Waterloo, first part, registered a death from small-pox last week in Salutation-place, where he states that manycases have occurred. Scarlatina was fatal in 87 cases; diph-theria in 13. The former seems still to prevail much in Isling-ton ; there were also 4 deaths from it in Cripplegate; 7 inMile-end Old Town; 4 in R,otherhithe. 10 children died fromsuffocation in bed, apparently by accident; 4 were murdered;16 died from having been born prematurely. 6 nonagenariansappear in the returns; the oldest died at the age of 97 years.

Births,Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

On the 25th ult., at St. James’s-place, the wife of J. E.Stephens, M.D., of a daughter.On the 25th ult., at Grafton-street, Bond-street, the wife of

Edward Hamilton, M.D., of a daughter.On the 29th ult., at Canterbury-row, Newington, the wife of

C. W. C. Otway, Esq., F.R.C.S., of a son.On the 5th inst., at Birtley Villa, the wife of Dr. G. Gibson,

of a daughter. ____

MARRIAGES.

On the 23rd ult., at Salthouse, Norfolk, Walter Sumpter,M.D., of Cley-next-the-Sea, to Esther, second daughter of thelate John Francis Johnson, Esq., of Salthouse, Norfolk.On the 1st inst., at All Saints’ Church, Frindsbury, F. J.

Brown, M. D., of St. Margaret’s Banks, Rochester, (late ofChatham,) to Harriet Landels, youngest daughter of John

Shepherd, Esq., Deputy Storekeeper, Military Store Depart-ment, Upnor Castle, near Rochester.

DEATHS.On the 30th ultimo, in London, aged 52 years, the Rev.

Henry Hall Davis, eldest son of the late Dr. David DanielDavis, Professor of Midwifery at University College, London.The deceased gentleman was possessed of great literary attain- ’’,ments. He leaves a widow, who will sincerely feel his loss. liOn the 1st inst., at Queen-street, Edinburgh, James Andrew,M.D. Cantab.On the 2nd inst., at Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square, I

John William Fletcher, Esq., F.R.C.S.E., late of the BengalMedical Service, aged 41.On the 3rd inst., at Amelia-place, Southgate-road, Eliza

Maclurcan, aged two years and a half, youngest and onlydaughter of R. J. Black, M.D.

Obituary.DR. JOHN POWER TRENCH.

IT is with regret that we record the death of Staff-SurgeonDr. John Power Trench, on full pay, of the Army MedicalDepartment, aged forty-one. His decease took place on the1st inst., at Notting-hill. Dr. Trench entered the Medical

Department on the 3rd of December, 1841, and served chieflyin the West Indies, Malta, and at Scutari. In Jamaica, in1850, Dr. Trench remained to give his assistance in the for-midable outbreak of cholera of that year, though on the eve ofdeparture for England for the recovery of his health. AtScutari he was engaged in much of the surgery of the Crimeanwar, and his duties there and at Malta, connected with thatexpedition, were of the most arduous and responsible kind.Devoted to his profession, energetic, assiduous, and indefatigablein its duties and in the pursuit of knowledge, his health gaveway; but it was only a few months since that he could be in-duced to relinquish work, and return to England. Possessedof acquirements and talents of no ordinary kind, estimable inall the relations of life, his family and friends have, in his death,to lament the premature loss of one in every way endeared tothem; and the Medical Department will miss one of its mostvaluable officers.

MEDICAL DIARY OF THE WEEK.

MONDAY, DEC. 12 ......

(ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.—Operations, 2 P.M.I METROPOLITAN’ FREE HOSPITAL. - Operations,{ 2 P.M.

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONBON.—8½ P.M. ClinicalI Discussion.

TUESDAY, DEC. 13 ......

(Guy’s HOSPITAL.—Operations, llf p.M.WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.—Operations, 2 P.M.

ROYAL MEDICAL AND CRIRURGICAL SOCIETY OBLONDON.—7½ P.M. Ballot.—8½ P.M. Dr. Haber-

.{ shon, "On the Etiology and Treatment of Peri-tonitis:’-Dr. Tilt, "On the Influence oftropical,Climates on Inflammatory Diseases of the

_ Womb."

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14 {

(MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1 P.M.ST. MABY’S HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1 r.ni.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. - Operations,) 2 P.M.ROYAL ORTHOPÆDIC HOSPITAL. - Operations, 2

P.M. HUNTERIAN SOCIETY.—8 P.3,r. Dr. Peacock, "On the French SOCIETY.—8 P.M. Dr. Peacock, "OnJ the French Millstone-makers’ Phthisis."LNOETH LONDON MEDICAL SOCIETY.-8 P.M.

THURSDAY, Drsc. 15 .>.

rST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1 P.M.CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL. -Operations, 1 .P.M.

i LONDON HOSPITAL.—Operations, 11, P.M.I GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, KING’S CROSS.—L Operations, 2½ P.M.

I FRIDAY, DEC. 16 ......... WESTMINSTER OrnTEALMio HOSPITAL. - Opera-{ tions, 1½ P.M. OPHTHALMIC HosrrTaL. - Opera=tions, 1½ P.M.

SATURDAY, DEC. 17 ...

(ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.—Operations, 1 P.M.ST. BABTSOLOMEW’s HOSPITAL.—OperatiiONs, 1½

{ P.M.

I KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—OperatIons, li P.M.CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL.—Operations, 2 P.M.

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