Medical News.APOTHECARIES’ HALL. - Names of gentlemen who

passed their examination in the science and practice of Medi-cine, and received certificates to practise, on

Thursday, September 4th, 1856.BRADSHAW, ALEXANDER FREDERICK.CARNLEY, HENRY, Hull.CARVER, EUSTACE JOHN, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire.DANIEL, WILLIAM JAMES, Beaminster, Dorset.DUNNE, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Islington.HODGSON, WILLIAM JosEPH, Snaith, Yorkshire.PRYCE, CHARLES, Bayswater.RAYNER, THOMAS, Manchester.

THE PAROCHIAL MEDICAL STAFF OF MARYLEBONE.—The directors and guardians of the poor of Maryleholle havingresolved, upon the motion of Dr. Gourley, to direct theirdistrict medical officers to keep journals containing a generalstatement of the treatment of their pauper patients, the medi-cines prescribed, &c., the following memorial has been for-warded to the Board by the medical officers, in justification oftheir being unable to comply with such a request :-" To the Directors and Guardians of the Poo2- of the Parish

of Marylebone." GENTLEMEN,—We, the undersigned medical officers of this

parish, beg to acknowledge the receipt of a resolution of yourboard, requiring a detailed statement of the cause, symptoms,and treatment of every case of illness brought under our pro-fessional care, do hereby desire to express to your board ourunanimous opinion of the utter impracticability and impos-sibility of the proper performance of this duty amidst the

many others devolving upon us; and we further beg to remarkthat the practice itself is derogatory to our qualifications andusefulness as medical men, and we also consider our characterand conduct, as surgeons of long standing resident in yourparish, not such as to justify the want of confidence thisresolution manifestly implies.

(Signed) "HENRY OBRE, ALFRED ELKIN,EDWARD JOSEPH, EDWARD HEAD,G. W. BRIDGMAN, W. CLAPP. "H. C. STEWART,

The memorial was received at the last meeting of the board,and it will be taken into consideration at its next meeting, thedocument having been duly entered on the minute paper forconsideration.

DISMISSAL OE A UNION SURGEON.—The late inquiryinto the conduct of Mr. William Cooke, surgeon, for allegedneglect in the case of a pauper patient, named Sarah Loader, atBroad Chalke, has resulted in the dismissal of that gentlemanby the Poor-law Board. Mr. Cooke’s friends feel, however,that the facts did not justify such a decision, and ara takingsteps to induce the Board to reconsider the matter.—WiltshireCounty Mirror.STATISTICS OF CHRHISTS AND DRUGGISTS. — In 1831,

the number of chemists and druggists in England was 5835;while in 1851, there were 3632 men and 12 women carrying onthe business under the age of twenty years, and 11,701 menand 298 women of twenty years of age and upwards (exclusiveof 15,163 surgeons and apothecaries); making a total of 15,643persons, unrestricted, uncontrolled, and irresponsible, with astrock in-trade sufficient to depopulate the whole continent ofEurope. -Letter to " The Times" condemnatory of the Sale ofPoisons.VICTIMS BY POISONING.-" Mr. W. Wilson, of Bir-

mingham, says a local journal, "finds, by the Registrar-Gene-ral’s statistics, that 536 persons on an average are annuallypoisoned-ten in every week, or one in every sixteen hours,irrespective of those who die by the same means (whose truecause of death is only known to those who possess the dreadfulsecret of murder), and are registered with those who die from’cause unknown,’ ’sudden death,’ or by the ’visitation ofGod.’ On examination of the books of the General Hospital,he found that sixty-three cases of poisoning had occurred ineight years, and out of that number arsenic had only beenused in three cases, the number of females being forty-two, themales twenty-one. The deaths out of that number were onlyfive, making on the whole one death in every twelve cases."HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK ENDING

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6.-Eleven hundred deaths were re-

gistered in London in the week that ended, on Saturday. Thedeaths of males were 552, those of females, 548. As regardsthe total number, the present return differs little from those ofthe two previous weeks; and if the mortality produced byepidemic cholera in 1849 and 1854 be excluded from theaverage of corresponding weeks in the years 1846-55, it will

appear that the rate of mortality which now rules approxi-mates to the average rate at this season. As the births regis-tered last week were 1634, the excess of births over deathswas 534. Diarrhoea continuously decreases : the deaths fromit in the week were 124, which is less than half of the numbercaused by this complaint about three weeks ago. Four deathsare referred to cholera: 3 of these occurred to infants ; theremaining case is returned as follows :-St. Margaret, West-minster, in the Workhouse, on the 1st of September, a man,aged 40 years, "Asiatic cholera." He was in the last stage ofdisease when admitted. At 3, Tysoe-place, Clerkenwell, acoppersmith died on the 30th ult., at the age of 18 years, of"diarrhoea (28 days), gastro-enteritis (18 days)." With re-ference to the house in which the young man died, the medicalattendant remarks :-" There is a cesspool apparently underthe kitchen, with an untrapped drain in the court, which emitvery offensive efliuvia, and the whole of the family, with oneexception, have suffered from the complaint during the lastmonth." In two cases of scarlatina, out of the 29 which werefatal in the week, two men, aged respectively 36 and 45 years,were the sufferers. A child died of tetanus; apparently idio-pathic. Two women died at the age of 92 years, 2 women at93, a man at 93, and a woman of more extraordinary longevityis stated to have attained the age of 106 years. She died inthe Marylebone Workhouse on the 31st of August, and Mr.Joseph, who registered her death, was informed that she hadbeen there 34 years, and that her son is now living, and is 84years old. She had been formerly cook in a nobleman’s family.Last week the births of 827 boys and 807 girls, in all 1634children, were registered in London. In the ten correspond-ing weeks of the years 1846-55 the average number was 1451.At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of thebarometer in the week was 29 84’7 in. Ths mean daily readingwas above 30 in. on Wednesday and Thursday. The highestreading in the week occurred on the former day, and was 30.17°.The mean temperature of the week was 57’5°, which is 1"below the average of the same week in 38 years (as determinedby Mr. Glaisher). The highest reading occurred on Sunday (31set.August), and was 74° ; the lowest was 43’8°, and occurred onWednesday. The highest reading in the sun was 93 50° onThursday. The mean dew-point temperature was 48 ’8°, andthe difference between this and the mean temperature of theair was 8’7°. The mean temperature of the water of theThames was 62 8°. The wind blew generally from the east onthe last three days. The rain in the week was 0 ’09 in. Itfell heavily on the night of Saturday.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.—On the 4th inst., at Ovington-terrace, Brompton,

the wife of Fred. J. Genet, Esq., M. R. C. S., of a daughter.On the 6th inst., at Southsea, Portsmouth, the wife of Wm.

Bell, M.D., Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, of a,

daughter.On the 8th inst., at Greenwich Hospital, the wife of John

Grant Stewart, M.D., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.-On the 28th ult., at Holy Trinity Church,Brompton, Kent, William Burton, Esq., M.R.C.S., Brompton,to Alice, eldest daughter of Henry Weekes, Esq., M.R.C.S.,of the same place.On the 3rd inst., at the Parish Church, Rochdale, R. S.

Ogden, Esq., M.R.C.S., to Susanna, eldest daughter of SamuelLomax, Esq., of Castle-hill, Rochdale.On the 3rd inst., at St. Mary’s Church, Richmond, Surrey,

Augustus Petermann, M.D., to Clara Mildred, second daughterof the late Shirley Conyers Leslie, Esq.

DEATHS.—On the 2nd inst., David Aitken, Esq., of St.Paul’s-terrace, Islington, Surgeon in the H.E.I.Co.’s Service,and late of Kingsland, aged 73.On the 5th inst., at Sunbury, Middlesex, Mary Horton

Broxholm, youngest daughter of the late Robert Broxholm,Esq., M. R. C. S., of the above place.On the 5th inst., Alfred John Henry, the infant son of -

Buee, Esq., M.R.C.S., Slough, Bucks, aged sixteen weeks.319