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children may thus be sent within the next few months. Itis stated that the cost per child is twenty shillings; all thework ia connexion with the management of this beneficialscheme is voluntary and unpaid.

MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEAI.TH.

The Sanitary Association has followed up its petition onthe status and qualifications of medical officers of health bya deputation to the President of the Local GovernmentBoard on Friday, the 14th inst. Sir H. Roscoe introduced thedeputation to Mr. Stansfeld, and Dr. Ransome explained tothe President what it was the Association desired to bringbefore his notice, and the suggestions were favourablyreceived by him.The Local Board of Withington have decided to grant a

fee of 2s. 6d. to every medical man supplying informationof the existence of a case of infectious disease.Manchester, May 17th.

LIVERPOOL.

(From our own Correspondent.)

THE ROYAL VISIT.

THE visit of Her Majesty to this city, extending from8 A.M. on the Ilth till 10 A.M. on the 13th, was a mostsuccessful one in all aspects except the weather. Insteadof the proverbial Queen’s weather, which might reasonablybe anticipated in this "merry month of May," there werepiercing winds and drenching rain combined-the weatherwas, indeed, as wretched as it could have been. In spite ofthis, however, the Queen, with a courage which was dulyappreciated, went through the whole of the heavy dutieswhich she had undertaken. On the first day of the visit,after travelling all night, she opened the InternationalExhibition with full State ceremonial. On the next dayshe was out in an open carriage for fully three hours, inaddition to going for a trip on the Mersey. This, seeingthat her sixty-seventh birthday rapidly approaches, is verysatisfactory proof of her capacity of physical endurance, aswell as her desire to comply with the wishes of her subjects,and to appear openly among them. In consequence of theprecautions taken by the authorities to prevent accidents,noticed in a previous letter, not one occurred during HerMajesty’s visit, though unfortunately one has occurredsince. On Saturday last a triumphal arch, erected in aleading thoroughfare, fell down suddenly during a heavynorth-west gale, causing severe injuries to several persons.The worst case is that of a lad aged eleven years, whosustained a concussion of the brain, but who is progressingfairly well. At the request of the Queen, conveyed throughGeneral Sir H. F. Ponsonby, the Mayor, Sir David Radcliffe,telegraphed the condition of the injured.

SIR DYCE DUCKWORTH.

The honour conferred upon this gentleman is an event oflocal interest, Sir Dyce being a Liverpool man. He is theyoungest son of the late Robinson Duckworth, and was bornin Liverpool in 1840. He was educated at the RoyalInstitution here, under the late Dr. Dawson Turner, afterwhich he commenced a mercantile career in the office ofMessrs. Holderness and Chilton, probably there acquiringbusiness habits, which have been very useful to him eversince. He received his medical education at the EdinburghUniversity and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, graduatingM.D.Edin. in 1863. Sir Dyce obtained high honours, thegold medal, and the prize for his thesis, " Observations onthe Anatomy of the Suprarenal Capsules." He is a brotherof Canon Duckworth.

REMOVAL OF A CITY CHURCHYARD.

For the purpoes of city improvements the churchyardof St. Thomas, Park-lane, is in course of removal, the remainsof those interred being removed for interment elsewhere,either by their surviving friends or by the authorities. Inthe latter case, the remains are conveyed to the newcemetery at Kirkdale, situated a few miles off. The churchwas built 136 years ago, on land outside Liverpool, in a laneleading to Toxteth Park. Now it is the centre of a thicklypopulated district, and hemmed in on all sides by housesand shops. The graveyard was never a public one, being

laid out in vaults and graves, mostly bricked ones, for theuse of private families of the better class. The soil wasunsuitable, being a very stiff clay, and the tendencyof vaults and bricked graves is to retain water. Thecontrast between this old burial-ground and our localcemeteries, where the soil is suitable, well-drained, and inaccordance with the most recent sanitary requirements, isvery striking. The churchyard was closed by Order inCouncil in 1854, but a few burials have been permitted infamily tombs by the Home Secretary.

A SUICIDAL EPIDEMIC.

On the 15th inst. there were no fewer than five cases ofattempted suicide brought before one of the borough justices.One was that of a married woman thirty-seven years of age,who had taken poison, and whose excuse was that she andher husband had been drinking together. The remainingcases were those in which suicide had been attempted eitherby the knife or poison, and in all drink had been theexciting cause of the rash act. This is confirmatory ofan old tradition that May is a month for suicides.Liverpool, May 18th.

NORTHERN COUNTIES NOTES.

(From our own Correspondent.)

SALT AND CHEMICALS.

A FEW years ago I gave you some particulars of the dis-covery by accident of a bed of salt of about 120 ft. inthickness in the valley of the Tees. Messrs. Bolckows and

Vaughan, the great iron manufacturers near Middlesborough,were boring for water, when, to their great surprise, theycame upon the bed of salt. This discovery has had theeffect of giving considerable impetus to the chemicalmanufactures of the north, the decomposition of thechloride of sodium by sulphuric acid being, as it were, thefirst step in the manufacture of various chemicals of com-mercial importance. The chemical trade in the north hasbeen for a considerable period in a languishing condition. A

company who own the largest chemical works in the countrywere rather unfortunate last year in their explorations on theTees for salt, but it is said that they also have now succeededin reaching the salt bed, and are raising a considerable quan-tity, which is sent to their works here. The yearly con-sumption of salt at these great works is 27,000 tons, and thecompany expect to raise this quantity for their own supply.This acquisition must prove of immense importance in theeconomics of the chemical trade in its present state.

INTERNAL BURNS.

An inquest was lately held at Cleator Moor on the body ofa labourer employed at one of the large ironworks situatednear that place. The deceased, it appears, was breakingsome red-hot metal, when he fell forward. He did not appearto be sufficiently injured to account for his death, but it wasshown by Dr. Matthers that the deceased died from internalburns through inhaling hot air and sand from the iron bed.DEATH UNDER CHLOROFORM AT NEWCASTLE INFIRMARY.

A death under chloroform took place last week at theNewcastle Infirmary. It was shown at the inquest by Dr.Maynard, house-surgeon, that the deceased, a quarryman,sustained an injury to his knee by falling on the pavement.Mortification set in, and symptoms of absorption of putridmatter. It was decided to amputate the thigh. Chloroformwas given with due care, but just before the operation thepatient died. It was further shown that on admission he wasunder the influence of drink, and the post-mortem disclosedold-standing disease of the heart, also fatty degeneration ofthe liver and kidneys; altogether he was a bad subject forthe administration of chloroform, and for any operationwithout its aid.

TYPHOID ON BOARD THE "WELLESLEY."One of the boys on board the Wellesley training ship in

Shields harbour having been attacked by typhoid fever, hewas, under the direction of the medical officer of the vessel,in order to prevent the possibility of the disease spreading,removed this week to the Tyne port sanitary authority’sfloating hospital at Jarrow. I believe there are at presentbetween 300 and 400 boys on board the Wellesley. This