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Mussen (assistant medical officer of health). A repast wasserved in the administrative block of the new FazakerleyHospital, Mr. John Utting presiding and giving the loyaltoasts and "The Lord Mayor." The Lord Mayor, responding tothe toast of his health, remarked that during the ten monthsin which he had experienced the pleasure of being LordMayor of Liverpool he had abstained from joining in thedebates of the city council, as he conceived it to behis duty, as a rule, to leave the council to do its ownbusiness without his interposition. He had, however, feltstrongly inclined to take part in the discussion at the pre-vious meeting of the council when a vote of E50 annuallyto Dr. William Hanna for services at the New Ferry Hos-pital was under discussion. He saw that the council in largepart failed to grasp the question at issue and to realise theimportance of the work intrusted to Dr. Hanna. As a ship-owner he could imagine what might be the loss to Liverpoolif a bad bill of health led ships from the port of Liverpoolto be placed in quarantine at foreign ports. The mainten-ance of a clean bill of health for this port depended chieflyon the medical inspection of the incoming vessels, andof the 350,000 transmigrants who yearly passed throughLiverpool. Hence the port sanitary work of the com-mittee, as well as its city hospital work, was of a mostimportant character and ought not be under-estimatedby the city council. Mr. John Utting (the chairmanof the committee), in acknowledging the toast of hishealth, thanked the Lord Mayor for placing the questionof Dr. Hanna’s salary in its true light, and emphasisedboth the commercial and sanitary aspects of the work ofprotecting the health of the port, which was not less

important than the safeguarding of the health of the city asa whole. What would happen were Liverpool to become aprey to cholera, as Hamburg had been ? If a single case ofcholera or plague escaped detection the results would bedisastrous. The commercial prosperity of Liverpool wouldreceive a severe, and it might be a permanent, check, whilethe loss of life might be incalculable. It was with greatpleasure that he found that the Lord Mayor had so clear agrasp of the value of Dr. Hanna’s services. At times itseemed a pity that the committee had dual duties, somepeople looking upon it merely as a committee subsidiary tothe health committee and others thinking that the committeeconfined its attentions to the infectious hospitals. He was

glad that the city council eventually realised that the com-mittee was in the right on the question of the special re-muneration to Dr. Hanna and did not do him the injusticethreatened by the council vote last month. Passing to thecity hospitals, he reminded the committee that the city councilat the beginning of the financial year reduced its carefulestimate by £10,000. The council reduced the resources ofthe committee but it did not reduce the committee’s

responsibilities, which were actually increased by extendedoperations, though the average of sickness was less than usual. Cariously enough, but suggestive, the decrease ofinfectious disease was only in the forms for which hospitalaccommodation was provided and the time was not fardistant when resources not expended in one direction wouldhave to be diverted to the reduction of other infectiousdiseases. The medical examination of school childrencarried on for the past eight months to trace the causes ofdisease showed that out of 6000 children only 7 per cent.were affected with scarlet fever (isolated in hospitals), whichwas formerly the most prevalent disease, while measles andwhooping.cough (not isolated in hospitals) accounted forfrom 60 to 70 per cent. of the cases. The moral was that

many cases of measles and whooping-cough must go to theisolation hospitals. Some inconsiderate people thought thatempty or partially empty hospitals denoted extravagance andfailure. To have the hospitals empty was a consummationdevoutly to be wished and was a sign of success.

Education Committee Appointment.The secondary education subcommittee of the education

committee has appointed Dr. F. E. S. Jeans as lecturer onhygiene for the evening classes for students preparing forthe certificate examination at the Oalton Secondary Schooland pupil teachers’ centre in succession to Dr. Robert E.Kelly, surgical registrar to the Royal Infirmary, resigned.

T7te Order of the Hospital of St. Jhon of Jerusalem.In recognition of the services rendered by Mr. Arthur

J. Evans, M.R.C S. Eng., L.R C.P. Lond., of Liverpool, suhse-quently to the disastrous earthquake in Jamaica on Jan. 14th

last, the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem inEngland has been conferred on him by the Grand Priory ofthat Order.Sept.17th. 17th.

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LEEDS.(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Resignation of Professor C. J. Wright.By the resignation of Professor Wright one of the oldest.

links of union between the original medical school of Leedsand the modern University is broken. It is given to fewmen to serve any institution for so long as Professor Wrighthas. Loyally and untiringly he has consistently done his workand has always had before him the high ideal of maintain-ing and increasing the reputation of the medical school.Professor Wright’s resignation was accepted with great.regret by the Council of the University and at a recent.

meeting of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine thefollowing resolution was unanimously passed and transmittedto Professor Wright :-The board has heard with regret that Mr. Wright has resigned the-

professorship of midwifery after forty years of faithful work in theinterests successively of the Leeds School of Medicine, the medicaldepartment of the Yorkshire College, and the School of Medicine ofthe University of Leeds. For two years Mr. Wright was assistantdemonstrator in anatomy, then for fourteen years lecturer on physio-logy, and for twenty-four years he rendered service in the departmentof midwifery, first as lecturer and later as professor. Mr. Wrightheld office as secretary of the council of the Leeds School of Medicinefrom 1878 to 1880, when he became the president for the year. Sincethe foundation of the University he has been one ot the representativesof the joint faculties on the Court of Governors. He has always beenan assiduous and conscientious attendant at board and Universitymeetings. The board desire to record their sense of obligation to Mr.Wright for his long and sincere service, of which they will always-retain a lively recollection.

The Open Air Swimming Bath at Roundhay Park.The provision for Leeds of an open-air swimming pool,

which was mentioned in this column on Feb. 16th of thisyear, has been happily accomplished and the bath is in everyway a great success and has been very largely used in spiteof the somewhat inclement nature of the summer. Thedimensions of the bath are 150 feet in length by 60 in width,and the depth varies from 3 to 5 feet. . The bottom andsides are cemented throughout and there is a continuous flowof water through the bath which is provided by the overflowfrom the Waterloo Lake and can be varied in amount asrequired. The bath is provided with about 40 dressing boxes,is well surrounded by trees, and is in every way a most

satisfactory addition to the bathing facilities of the city.The work was in large measure carried out by men from thecorporation Unemployed Registry Office and it is satisfactoryto learn that the experiment of employing these men is

regarded by the committee as encouraging.Sept. l6th. - ____

SCOTLAND.(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

l’he Royal Infirmary and St. M2GngG’s College, Glasgow.A CONFERENCE between the managers of the Royal Infir-

mary and the governors of St. Mungo’s College was held lastweek to consider the present position of the college. At,the meeting reports were submitted from a joint committeerepresenting St. Mungo’s College and the Royal Infirmaryin reference to the relations between the two bodies in thematter of medical teaching. After discussion it was foundthat no common basis of agreement could be arrived atand the meeting was adjourned sine die. St. Mungo’sCollege was originally brought into existence by themanagers of the Royal Infirmary chiefly to carry on themedical school of the infirmary and to be in a position totake advantage of the affiliation clauses of the 1889 Uni-versities (Scotland) Act, as only an incorporated collegecould become affiliated to a university, and the infirmarymanagers could not as a board become incorporated as acollege. The infirmary managers made over to the college-their medical school buildings in the grounds of the RoyalInfirmary, which had been erected a few years pre-viously by public subscription. Two of the chairs atthe college are partially endowed, one lectureship isfully endowed, and the college possesses some funds in