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Museum of the College. The second course of lectures will

be commenced by Dr. J. Rose Bradford (Arris and Gale

Lecturer), who will lecture on May 29th and 31st and

June 2nd on "The Physiology of the Kidney." On June

5th, 7th and 9th the subject of the lectures will be "ThePathology of Tumours connected with the Bladder."

They will be delivered by Mr. J. H. Targett, F. R. C. S.(Erasmus Wilson Lecturer). Professor J. Hutchinson, jun ,will lecture on June 12th, 14th and 16th on "Injuries tothe Epiphyses and their Results," and Professor BernardPitts, on June 19th, 21st and 23rd, on "The Surgery of the Air Passages and Thorax in Children." The lectures will commence at 5 P. M.

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MEMORIAL TO SIR RICHARD OWEN.

H R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES, as chairman of the OwenMemorial Committee, will preside at a meeting to be held to-day (Saturday) in the rooms of the Royal Society, Burling-ton House, for the purpose of taking into consideration themost appropriate form of memorial and of appointing aworking committee, as well as for the transaction of otherbusiness in connexion with the movement. The meetingis called for 11.30 A.M., and will, we doubt not, secure a fullattendance.

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THE THIRSK DISASTER.

WHEN commenting recently on the evidence adduced at thetrial of the pointsman Holmes we pointed out that it was

the breach of rule and not any defect in the provision madeby the company’s regulations for dealing with the emergencywhich had actually arisen to which the accident must betraced. We observe that this same conclusion has beenreached by Major Marindin, the officer appointed by theBoard of Trade to conduct an inquiry into the circum-

stances of the accident, as the result of his independentinvestigation.

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BELVIDERE HOSPITAL, GLASGOW.

A vERY successful gathering took place under the auspicesof the Glasgow Southern Medical Society on the 12th inst.,when Dr. J. W. Allan, who has just retired from the office ofphysician superintendent of the Belvidere Fever Hospital,was entertained at dinner by his professional brethren. Dr.

Couper, the president of the Society, occupied the chair,and, after proposing the health of "Our Guest," read

an address to Dr. Allan framed by the Society in which wasexpressed their high appreciation of his eighteen years’ ser-vice at the hospital, and of the courtesy which he invariablyshowed to all seeking his advice and assistance. Dr. Allanmade an appropriate and feeling reply, and several other

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ABATTOIRS.

AN abstract is given in a daily contemporary of the reportof the London Model Abattoir Society with reference to thespread and working of the public slaughter-house system inEnglish and Welsh towns. Forty-eight towns in all haveobtained powers to raise loans for the provision of abattoirs,and there are other towns, such as Bolton, Birkenhead,Halifax, Leicester,- Huddersfield and Manchester, in whichabattoirs have b’een built without recourse to loans requiringthe sanction of the Local Government Board. As regards thesale of diseased meat there is, says the report, practicalunanimity as to the establishment of abattoirs rendering thispractice difficult and almost impossible. It also appearsthat there is the same unanimous evidence as to the greatimprovement in the public health and diminution of nuisancewhich have been found to result from abattoirs. As regardsfinances, the result in the majority of towns has been success-

ful, and where a slight loss has been experienced this is

generally attributed to the continuance of private slaughter-houses side by side with the abattoirs. But the authorities ofmost towns say that profit was not the object sought for inestablishing the system, and that any loss is more than com-pensated by other benefits. Provincial towns have powersgiven them for closing private slaughter-houses by the PublicHealth Acts Amendment Act, 1890. In London the CountyCouncil, as the licensing authority, has-especially since thepassing of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891-absolute-control over these licences, except in the case of premisesunder the authority of the City Corporation.

THE COMMITTEE ON HOSPITALS.

A MEETING- of the Committee for the final consideration ofthe recommendations of the Lords’ Committee on Hospitals,.and with special reference to the recommendation for thecreation of a central body to supervise the hospital systemwith a view to its better working, will be held on Jan. 24th.We do not gather that we are likely to receive from thisCommittee any fully considered suggestions for placing themedical attendance in workhouses on a broader basis. Con-

sidering the growth of workhouse infirmaries, the greatnumber of patients they contain and the number of grave-diseases which are healed in them, this question needs meredefinite attention than it has yet received. These infirmaries,too, are centres which afford unrivalled opportunities for thestudy of many interesting groups of disease.

GLYCOSURIA IN INFANCY.

CONSIDERABLE attention has recently been directed to-the occurrence of diabetes and glycosuria in young children.Dr. Julius Grosz of Prague, writing in the "Jahrbuch furKinderheilkunde, " Band xxxiv., Heft 1, comes to the followingconclusions : In certain digestive disturbances there is occa-sionally present in the urine of infants a strong reducingagent which gives the qualitative tests for sugar, and which isoptically active but does not ferment (not answering, there-

fore, to the yeast test). Minute quantities of carbo-hydratesare also found. Dr. Grosz never found glycosuria in healthybreast-fed infants. When it did occur there was always some-alimentary trouble, most commonly gastro-enteritis. Thereis,often an increase of reducing substances in the urine ofinfants in addition to the substance referred to above, whichis probably either lactose or some product of it. The limit ofassimilation of milk sugar in infants is very high, being inhealthy, breast-fed children about three grammes and three-tenths per kilogramme against one gramme and four-tentlasin adults. This limit, however, is easily lowered, especiallyby digestive disturbances, and the glycosuria in such cases.is therefore probably due to this lowering of the assimilationimit and partly also to the action of intestinal bacteria.

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Berlin.-Dr. Adolf Baginsky has been promoted to an

Extraordinary Professorship of the Diseases of Children.Breslau.-Dr. Gr6Douw has been recognised as privat-

docent in Ophthalmology. Florence.-Dr. A. Lustig has been promoted to the Ordi-

nary Professorship of General Pathology.Kharkoff.-Dr. Lomikovski has been promoted to the

Ordinary Professorship of Diagnosis.Naples.-Drs. Zagari and Volpe have been recognised as.

privat-docenten in Medicine, Dr. A. Breglia as privat-docentin Human Anatomy and Dr. G. Corrado as privat-docent inForensic Medicine.New York (Polyclinic).-Dr. W. H. Katzenbach has been

appointed Professor of Medicine, Dr. A. J. McCosh Professor-