1411VACANCIES.—BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, Great Ormond street, W.C.-Me(licalRegistrar. Honorarium 50 guineas. Also Resident, MedicalSuperintendent. Salary 100 guineas per annum, with board andresidence. Also House Surgeon for six months. Salary oC20,with board and residence.

JARROW’-ON-TYNE, PALMER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.—House Surgeon,unmarried. Salary £150 per annum, with board and residence.

KENT AND CANTRpmjRY HOSPITAL.—House Physician, unmarried.Salary oC90 a year, with board and lodging.

LIVERPOOL, WEST DERBY UNION WORKHOUSE AND HOSPITAL, Walton.Assistant Resident Medical Officer, unmarried. Salary R125 perannum, with board.

METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL, Kingsland-road, N.E.-Assistant Dispenser.Salary C75 per annum, with partial board.

MILROY LECTURES ON STATE MEDICINE AND PUDLIO HEALTH.-Milroy Lecturer for 1908.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE WORKHOUSE AND HOSPITAL.—Assistant MedicalOfficer, unmarried. Salary at rate of £150 per annum, withapartments, rations, and washing.

NIWPORT AND MONMOUTHSHIRE HOSPITAL.—Junior Resident MedicalOfficer. Salary oC70 per annum, with board, residence, and

washing.NORTHAMPTON, SAINT ANDREW’S HOSPITAL FOR MENTAL DISEASES.-

Third Assistant Medical Officer. Salary R150 per annum, rising to.E200. with board, lodging, and washing.

NORTH-WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Kentish Town-road.—ResidentMedical Officer and Assistant Resident Medical Officer for sixmonths. Salary at rate of JB50 per annum, with board, residence,and washing.

OLDHAM INFIRMARY.—Junior House Surgeon. Salary oC75 per annum,with board, residence, and washing.

QUEEN CHARLOTTE’S LYING-IN HOSPITAL, Marylebone-road, N.W.-Assistant Resident Medical Officer. Salary at rate of C50 perannum, with board, residence, and washing.

ROYAL WATERLOO HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN AND WOMEN, S.1i]. -Senior and Junior Resident Medical Officers. Salaries at rate of£70 and £40 per annum respectively, with board and washing.

ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL, Paddington.-Resident Casualty House Sur-geon for six months. Salary £100 per annum, with board andlodging.

SHEFFIELD ROYAL INFIRMARY.—Junior Assistant House Surgeon.Salary R65 per annum, with board and residence.

SHEFFIELD ROYAL HOSPITAL.—Assistant House Surgeon, unmarried.Salary oC60 per annum, with board, lodging, and washing.

SOUTHAMPTON, ROYAL SOUTH HANTS AND SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL,-House Physician. Salary £100 per annum, with rooms, board, andwashing.

TOTTENHAM HOSPITAL, London, N.-Two Honorary Assistant Phy-sicians. Also Honorary Assistant Surgeon. Also Honorary Physicianor Surgeon to the X Ray and Electrical Department.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, London, W.C.-Surgical Registrar.VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, Tite-street, Chelsea. S.W.-House

Physician for six months. Honorarium of .c25, with board andlodging. !

WADSLEY, NEAR SHEFFIELD. WEST RIDING ASYLUM.—Fifth AssistantMedical Officer. Salary B140. rising to oCl60, with board, &e.

WESTMINSTER GENERAL DISPENSARY.—Resident Medical Officer.Salary at rate of oC120 per annum, with rooms, gas, coal, andattendance.

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THE Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office, S.W., gives notice ofvacancies as Certifying Surgeon under the Factory and WorkshopAct at Farnham, in the county of Surrey, and at Cranborne, in thecounty of Dorset.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

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CALDICOTT.—ON Nov..7th, at Carmo, Chobham, Surrey, the wife ofCharles H. Caldicott M.B., of a son.

COLBY.—On Nov. 9th, at Hill View, Woking, the wife of Francis E. A.Colby, M.B. Cantab., F.R.C.S. Eng., of a son.

SPRIGGS.—On Nov. 9th, at Bryanston- street, W., the wife of EdmundIvens Spriggs, M.D., F.R.C.P., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

BURGESS—THOMPSON.—On the 28th September, 1906, at St. Thomas’sCathedral, Bombay, Capt. J. Hay Burgess, M.B., F.R.C.S., I.M.S.,son of the Rev. William Burgess of Rome, Italy, to Ethel, thirddaughter of the late Thomas Thompson of Beverley, East York-shire.

ROPER—DICK.—On Nov. 10th, at the Cathedral, Calcutta, CharlesRoper, M.B., of Digboi, Upper Assam, younger son of CharlesRoper of Upper Norwood, to Ethel Emily, second daughter of thelate George_Abercromby Dick, formerly of Ceylon.

DEATHS.BROWNE.—On Sept. 21st, at Sileworth, Taung, British Bechuanaland,

South Africa, Charles William Browne, F.R.C.S., L.S.A., FirstPrize Botany 1857, in his 69th year.HENSMaN,-On Nov. 3rd, at Centuria, Ilfracombe, Lieutenant-ColonelWilliam Hensman, R.A.M.C. (retired), late of Taunton, aged 72years.

WILES.-On Nov. 10th, Julius Wiles, Deputy Surgeon-General, late ofthe Rifle Brigade, aged 78 years. ,

N.B.—A fee of 1s is charged for the insertion of Notices of Births,Marriages, and Deaths.

Notes, Short Comments, and Answersto Correspondents.

HOSPITAL ABUSE.

A LETTER appeared in a recent number of a Dublin journal callingattention to the summer closing of the city hospitals. The writermentioned that during the summer of 1902 a very aged gentleman,suffering from " a bad stomach attack," asked him for admission toa city hospital. He, the writer of the letter, applied to threehospitals in vain but the sufferer was refused admission to all.The writer continues : " I pointed out then to the heads of theseinstitutions that they should not be accepting corporation grantsunless arrangements were made so that the citizens at all seasonsof the year might secure reasonable medical aid. I promised onthe occasion to bring the matter before the public health com-mittee but I did not do so. My friend is now dead, but before dyinghe cancelled bequests amounting to 2400 made to the above hospitals.I tried to prevail on him not to do so, but he insisted on cancellingas a protest against the almost general closing down of the city hos-pitals in the summer time." We cannot understand why the " cityhospitals " should be closed during all the summer, if indeed they areso, although we see that the writer of the letter allows that acutecases are admitted. But what strikes us as most remarkable in the

story is why a person who can afford to leave legacies of R400 shouldseek hospital aid. We can quite understand that some forms of " badstomach attack "-for instance, acute peritonitis-might necessitateremoval to a hospital, for it is not every private house even amongthe middle classes that possesses proper accommodation for eitherthe operation or the after-care of a laparotomy, but it would appearin this case that the very aged gentleman was unwilling to pay for amedical man’s attentions.

A QUESTION OF HOSPITAL ETHICS.To the Editors of THE LANCET.

SIRS,—In your issue of Oct. 27th, " Query " asks for the opinions ofyour readers upon certain points of hospital ethics. May I, as one ofyour readers, try to help him ? In my opinion the fees should go tothe hospital in any case. On the other hand, the hospital might offerthe medical superintendent of the x ray department an honorarium,or addition to his present honorarium if he be in receipt of such, for hiswork in the classes. It is true that his becoming known as an x rayexpert will benefit him, but the hospital will also derive benefit.The deduction " of all expenses incurred by the hospital seems to

me most difficult to estimate fairly. The amount of current consumedcould be easily calculated, not so the depreciation in tubes, coils, &c.

am, Sirs, yours faithfully,M.B.

"PROFESSOR" EASTBURN, A.M.S.IN THE LANCET of Jan. 19th, 1901, we referred to the ways of a dis-reputable quack calling himself Professor Eastburn, A.M.S., whopreys upon the credulity of his dupes, who are mostly seamen. Weconcluded by saying that we were unable to see why the Legislaturewhich is rightly hard upon thieving should not find some way ofputting down swindling as carried on by Eastburn. A few weeks agowe received a letter from Dr. George Newstead of Blyth, telling usof a foreign sailor who consulted him and who mentioned that he hadbeen in correspondence with Eastburn, to whom he had paid 10s. as a"preliminary fee." The letter acknowledging this fee also acknow-ledged the receipt of " replies to my queries and the phial of urine."Eastburn went on to say that the disease was curable but was of a veryserious nature and undertook to bring about a cure for a sum of£13 10s. to make up the balance of £14 which is his fee to poorerpatients. He wound up by saying that if the patient used theremedies of his (Eastburn’s) eclectic laboratory the deterioration ofthe nervous system might be stopped. " Otherwise it will soon be

impossible to ward off living decay and a premature end."We can only stigmatise this effusion-it is a lithographed

circular-as wicked. The police authorities in various places haverecently been prosecuting quacks for obtaining money under falsepretences and we think that it is the duty of the Glasgow policeto prosecute Eastburn. If his remedies are genuine and he is ableto make a diagnosis, even within reasonable distance of accuracy,from the examination of one phial of urine, and an irrelevantstatement from the patient, he can have no objection to statingin court what he does use. Eastburn states that the disease fromwhich the patient is supposed to be suffering will, if unchecked," inevitably terminate in complete effeminacy, annihilation of desire,impotency, physical collapse, and mental imbecility." Anybodywho professes to diagnose all this from an examination of one

phial of urine and a list of foolish questions, without seeing thepatient, is a liar. The whole circular is written in the usual style ofthe quack who plays upon persons’ fears as regards their sexualorgans and his career should certainly be put a stop to. We maymention that in the list of questions is one common to all quacks ofthis kind-e.g., No. 11: "Does one testicle hang lower than theother? " It seems to us that a prosecution might also lie for sendingthr, ugh the post improper circulars, for the list of questions is