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and in the second place, the doctors, speaking quite frankly,were much too poor to be called upon in a business of thatkind to add to the list of their gratuitous services, and evento pay for services which they rendered to others. Men- would ask why the medical school should not be self-sup-porting. Well, he doubted if any provincial medical schoolwas ever, from a strictly business point of view, self-sup-porting. The Bristol Medical School could not be made self-supporting, and he should suspect its efficiency and dignity ifit were so. They had not only a good medical school, but, withthe exception of one defect, which hehoped would be soon madegood, there were moral interests which would not be ignored.If they believed, as he did, that the moral idea precededand determined all true and abiding prosperity, they wouldregard the maintenance of that school as one of the para- ’mount duties of their citizenship.

Mr. Lewis Fry proposed a vote of thanks to Sir AndrewClark for coming amongst them to open the school and forIhis able address. He was very grateful to him for the en-i1arged view which he had put before them of the functionsof municipal government. With regard to Sir AndrewClark’s opinion on a certain subject, whether they agreedwith him or not they must be thankful to him for the couragehe displayed in candidly expressing his views on that difficult’question.

Dr. E. Markham Skerritt, Dean of the Faculty of theMedical School, seconded the vote of thanks.

The banquet was held at the Royal Hotel, Bristol. Sir.Andrew Clark presided, and he was supported, not only by arepresentative gathering of the Faculty, but by many leading.dtizens.

The whole of the arrangements connected with the dinnerwere entrusted to and well carried out by the following com-mittee :—Dr. E. Markham Skerritt, Dr. Shingleton Smith,Prof. Lloyd Morgan, Mr. Munro Smith and Mr. Paul Bush.

MUNICIPAL HONOURS AND MEDICAL MEN.

LAST year we expressed our gratification at the number ofmedical men upon whom had been conferred by their fellowcitizens the high and distinguished position of mayor, andit is once again our pleasing duty to welcome those

who have been called to this honoured office. Withinthe Dome at Brighton, on the evening of Nov. 9th,.’nearly three hundred guests assembled to honour Dr.

.Joseph Ewart, J. P., F. R. C. P., by a banquet. Dr. Ewart-who, as Sir Joseph Fayrer said in proposing the toast of"The Mayor," is eminently fitted for the office by his"high personal character, great scientific attainments and6,irm methods of conducting business "-has been elected’for the second time to fulfil the duties of mayor to the

borough of Brighton. Dr. Ewart, who is a native of Cum-berland, took his M.D. degree at St. Andrews University in1853. In the service of the East India Company he spent aconsiderable portion of his life, and was in medical chargeof the Meywar Bheel Corps at Kherwarra during the timeof the Indian Mutiny. After receiving high distinctionsfrom the Government, owing to failing health he returned,to England. Dr. Ewart has ever taken an active part inlocal affairs. His first election to the town council ofBrighton was in November, 1884. He was elected a

member of the watch and sanitary committee and the

lighting committee. Brighton is to be congratulated in

possessing for its Mayor a man of such tact and energy asDr. Ewart -Dr. A. R. CROUCHER, who has been chosen bythe borough of Hastings to act in the capacity of Mayor, tooktthe degree of M.D. at St. Andrews University in 1858, andis also M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.S.A. After practising for twoor three years in London he went to St. Leonards, on

.account of ill-health, where he has since resided. In 1874he was elected alderman for Hastings, and in that capacity"was the means of the sanitary committee of the town

being formed. He acted as chairman of this committeetill the year 1880, and by his advice the Hastings sana-

torium was built. Great interest has been taken by himin the water-supply to the borough, and it was mainly owing<to his influence that the new waterworks at Filsham werebrought forward. He has been fourteen years vice-president.of the Sanitary Aid Association, and has been on the Commis-:sion of the Peace since 1885. Dr. Croucher is the firstMayor of Hastings who has been elected from outside the

council.&mdash;The Mnyoral chair of Bacup has been occupied ontwo previous occasions by Alderman W. J. CLEGG, M.D.-namely, in 1884-5 and 1885-6. A native of the town whichhas honoured him with this distinction, after receivingsome slight instruction from his father he went to Paris,where lie studied for some time previously to enteringthe University of Edinburgh, where he obtained the

degree of M.D. and was first gold medallist.-GEORGEWRIGHT HUTCHINSON, M.D., who has been elected Mayorof Chipping Norton, is an ex-moderator (1878) of theGeneral Assembly of the Church of Scotland and a J.P. forhis county. Born Jan. 16th, 1848, he was privately educated,till two years before entering the University of Aberdeen, asan art student. Those two years were spent at the GrammarSchool, Aberdeen. Dr. Hutchinson entered the University ofAberdeen in October, 1863, and in May, 1865, commenced hismedical studies, which were continued there till April, 1869,when he graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Master in Surgery(at Aberdeen) with academical distinction in April, 1869. InMay, 1869, he succeeded Professor Mackendrick of Glasgowa,s resident and acting surgeon to Belford Hospital, FortWilliam, Inverness-shire. Here he remained for three yearsand a half. In January, 1873, he went to Chipping Norton,where he has since remained. Till June of this year he hasalways declined municipal life, but in that month he wasreturned at a by-election by an overwhelming majority.-Lymington has again chosen for its representative inthe civic chair a descendant of one of the oldestCornish families, Dr. W. ROBINSON HILL, who was born atStonehouse, near Plymouth. He studied medicine in theUniversity of Edinburgh, and was twice President of theRoyal Medical Society. At the Royal Infirmary he actedas house surgeon under Dr. Gillespie. After occupyingthe position for one year of resident physician to theBrompton Hospital for Consumption, he went to the BerlinUniversity and afterwards to the Paris hospitals.-REGINALD W. LATIMER GREEN, L.R.C.P. andL.R.C.S.Edin.,who was last year elected by the burgesses of Stratford-on-Avon to the mayoralty, has again been chosen by them tooccupy the civic chair. After being educated at Queen’sCollege, Belfast, and Edinburgh, he commenced practice atStratford-on-Avon in May, 1880, where three years after he waselected surgeon to Stratford-on-Avon Hospital and surgeonto the Provident Medical Institution.-The Mayor of Louth,PALEMOX BEST, M.B.Lond., J.P. &c., was educated at Bathand Swansea, matriculating at University College, London,in 1858. Entering the College in the same year, he receivedhis qualification in 1861. After taking his degree of M.B. in1864 he went to Louth, and has for a quarter of a centurytaken a most active part in the welfare of the Louth

municipality. St. Ives has chosen for its Mayor JOHNMICHAEL NICHOLLS, L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S., who studiedat St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and then went to Yeovil. Threeyears ago he was elected to the council and has recently beenre-elected. Until his election to the civic chair he acted aschairman of the sanitary committee, and to his energy aredue many of the sanitary improvements of the town.-J. M. HUGHES, M.B., M.S., who has been called to the officeof Mayor for the town of Ruthin, was educated at EdinburghUniversity and graduated as M.B., C.M. in 1886. Althoughhe has only resided in the district for six years, he has beentwice returned at the head of the poll. Dr. Hughes is medicalofficer of health for the Ruthin Union Rural District.-N. W. FAIRLESS-HuMPHREYS, M. R. C. S., L.S.A., has for thefourth time been elected Mayor of Montgomery.-Crewehas chosen for its representative in the civic chairWILLIAM HODSON, L.F.P.S. Glas., L.R.C.P. Irel., andAlderman J. P. ATKINSON, M.D., L.R.C.P., has acceptedthe Mayoralty of Saffron Walden.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LOCALGOVERNMENT BOARD.

ACCORDING to the twenty-first annual report of the LocalGovernment Board the number of medical officers of healtha moiety of whose salaries was repaid out of the countyfunds in 1891 was 1291, the corresponding number of in-spectors of nuisances being 1236, whilst the total number ofsanitary districts in England and Wales was 1586. The ratioof in-door paupers to every thousand inhabitants in the