five, besides 7 more under the age of eight. It is worthy of note, however, that not a single death from small-pox, measles, diphtheria, typhus, or typhoid fever occurred. Scarlatina first made its appearance in the last month of 1877, and continued up to the end of June. The disease, when once introduced from a neighbouring township, spread entirely by infection. Unfortunately there is no hospital for infectious diseases in the place, and so the disease spread all over the town, till there was not one single street in which there was not a death. Mr. Sykes says that he is sure that if isolation of the first cases had been possible, the disease could have been stamped out, but as it was, the only thing which could be done was to advise voluntary isolation and distribute disinfectants, which measures were of course utterly futile. There is prospect for improve. ment of the town in the fact that a company has been established which will provide it with a supply of unpolluted water. PETERBOROUGH.-Typhoid fever was very prevalent in this town in 1878, more than 300 cases and 30 deaths having occurred. We should have been glad to have heard more particulars about the circumstances of these cases than is given in Mr. Thomson's otherwise interesting report. None of the other zymotic diseases except diarrhoea (25 deaths, mostly infantile) were very prevalent, but the death-rate was high, 241 per 1,000. Extensive works of water-supply and drainage are, however, in progress, and it is to be hoped that next year the deathrate from preventable causes will show a great diminution. At present the want of an infectious diseases hospital is much felt, and Mr. Thomson states that he is certain that the want of isolation of the first cases that occurred increased the epidemic of typhoid fever which caused so much of the preventable mortality in the borough. PONTYPOOL. In this urban district 147 deaths were registered during 1878. Of these 37 were under one year of age, and 40 between one and five years. Scarlatina was the chief epidemic, and caused no less than 25 deaths. The first case appears to have occurred in a lad who was in the habit of carrying out milk, and the question is raised by Mr. Mason whether the disease may not have been disseminated by means of the milk. Undoubtedly the epidemic was kept up in a great measure by neighbours visiting each other, and taking children with them into houses where the disease was present. During the year about 90 nuisances, mostly from defective private drainage, were removed. Parliamentary Proceedings. HOUSE OF LORDS. THE PLAGUE. Lord Carnarvon, in asking what measures the Government had taken, either separately or in conjunction with other Governments, to ascertain the nature of the pestilence now raging in Russia and its most effective treatment, mentioned that many years ago he himself was stricken by the plague. The Duke of Richmond and Gordon, in reply, said that Her Majesty's Government had applied to the Russian Government that we might be allowed, like Austria and Prussia, to send a physician to Russia to make inquiries as to the spread of the plague. The permission had not yet been received; but in the meantime he was in communication with the College of Physicians as to the selection of a gentleman to conduct the examination, and he had ordered precautions to be taken at our ports, so that none but passengers and crews with clean bills of health should get into this country from the Black Sea and the Sea of Azof (see SANITARY RECORD, page 102). He did not, however, apprehend that the plague would reach our shores. HOUSE OF COMMONS. (Friday, February 14.) REGISTRATION OF DAIRYMEN. In answer to Mr. Paget, Lord G. Hamilton said that it was intended to apply the law as to the registration of dairymen (see SANITARY RECORD, page 112) to all those who keep cows to sell produce, except private farms and private dairies. Law Reports. DISEASED MEAT. AT the Sheffield Town Hall George White, butcher, of Doncaster, has been fined 30l. for sending six carcases of diseased mutton to Sheffield for sale by a local butcher. The meat, on being seen by the medical officer of health, was immediately seized and condemned, the whole of the carcases being affected with rot. The sheep had been bought in Doncaster market for 9s. 9d. each. The extraordinary part of the case was that the Doncaster meat inspector had actually passed the mutton as fit for human food. OVERCROWDING. WILLIAM BARBER was summoned at the instance of James King, head sanitary inspector for Hove, for allowing his premises to be so overcrowded as to be dangerous and injurious to the health of the inmates. Inspector King stated that he inspected the defendant's house, 26 Conway Street. The front room, in which four persons lived and slept, was 11 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 8 feet high, and contained 880 cubic feet of air, whereas it should have been 1,800 feet. The back room on the same floor was also overcrowded; three persons lived and slept in it, and the dimensions were II feet in length, 9 feet in width, and 8 feet high. It contained 792 cubic feet of air, and the In the front room on requisite quantity was 1,350 feet. the first floor five persons lived and slept (the defendant and his family), in which there were 1,282 cubic feet, and the necessary quantity was 2,250 feet. the first floor was occupied by two persons, and there was a deficiency of 20 cubic feet. There were 14 persons living in the house, and all the rooms were more or less overcrowded, and in a filthy, neglected state. The magistrates imposed a fine of 20s., and ordered the abatement of the nuisance immediately. BABY FARMING. The back room on ELIZABETH SEAGER was summoned at the Westminster Police Court for having retained or received for hire or reward more than one infant under the age of twelve months for the purpose of nursing or maintaining such infant apart from its parents for a longer period than twenty-four hours, contrary to the provisions of the Infant Life Protection Act, 35 and 36 Vic., cap. 38, sect. 2. Mr. A. Spencer prosecuted on behalf of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The defendant pleaded guilty.' Mr. Spencer said the Act had been passed in 1872, after the notorious Walters' case, for the prevention of baby farming. It was very difficult to detect this crime, sufficient proof not being obtainable. There were special circumstances in this case which it was necessary to bring before the magistrate. When the inspector went to the house of the defendant she denied having any other child in the house under twelve months, but before he left he heard an infant's cry, and she then admitted that she had two under that age to take care of, and two others over that age. Again, the defendant lived in a small tworoomed cottage with her mother and these four children, and the cubic measurement of the rooms was not half that prescribed by law. The board would not have registered such a place in any circumstances. Two of the infants were about twenty months old, one was seven months, and' one ten weeks. Mr. D'Eyncourt thought there would be greater cruelty to children over twelve months in such cases. Mr. Spencer admitted that the Act was deficient in many provisions. It should have protected infants certainly up to five years of age. Mr. Samuel Babey, the inspector of the board, proved the facts as stated by Mr. Spencer. The place was not at all large enough for the children, but it was very clean and comfortable. The children were well cared for also. For the care of the four children the defendant received 25s. per week. One of the children was very sickly. The offence was very difficult indeed to detect, and he had seen sad cases of neglect. Mr. D'Eyncourt said the defendant was liable to six months' hard labour, and had it been the case of a man that would have been the sentence. He fined her 5., the alternative being six weeks' hard labour. Legal Notes and Queries. WATER-SUPPLY TO COTTAGES. SIR, Can you inform me whether the Public Health Amendment Act of last session gives increased powers to urban sanitary authorities in connection with supply of water to cottages, and if so, to what extent? M. O. H. [The Public Health (Water) Act, 1878, does not primarily give any increased powers to urban sanitary authorities in connection with supply of water to cottages, but by the 11th section of the Act, The Local Government Board may, if they think fit, by order invest any urban sanitary authority with all or any of the powers and duties which are by this Act given to a rural sanitary authority, and such investment may be made either unconditionally or subject to any conditions to be specified by the Board as to the time, portion of the district, or manner during, at, or in which the powers and duties are to be exercised.'-ED.] Correspondence. Ali communications must bear the signature of the writer, not necessarily for publication. LOCAL SANITARY OFFICIALS. (To the Editor of the SANITARY RECORD.) SIR,-The subject discussed by Sanitary Surveyor' in your last issue is one the importance of which can hardly be over-estimated, but while entirely agreeing with him as to the defects now existing in the qualifications of local surveyors, I am unable to endorse his wholesale condemnation of the questions given to candidates in the Sanitary Institute examinations. To my mind, the whole question is fraught with difficulties not to be so easily overcome as your correspondent seems to imagine. No one can doubt that works such as Molesworth's 'Formulæ,' Latham's and Denton's Sanitary Engineering,' etc., are of immense value, but I certainly object to the assumption that the constant use of even these excellent treatises, by all kinds of persons, is sufficient to ensure the adoption of correct principles and details in the design and execution of sanitary undertakings. On the contrary, I believe that a great deal of harm may, nay does, arise from the indiscriminate study of such publications, unaided by the proper training and experience which must go hand in hand with mere book-knowledge if satisfactory results be aimed at. The same remark applies to the scores of prepared tables' of the velocity and discharge of sewers. For my own part, I have not yet seen any tables capable of fulfilling the varied requirements of engineering practice without adequate professional knowledge on | the part of their possessor, neither do I believe that any table of this nature should be otherwise regarded than as a probable stumbling-block. If 'Sanitary Surveyor's' nom de plume be based upon any extensive experience in sanitary work he ought to be aware that a large amount of the popular distrust of sanitary science is attributable to its practice falling into the hands of charlatans, forced by the lack of learning to rely upon smatterings of knowledge gleaned from such dangerous sources as books published for the information and assistance of those possessing the discrimination and technical knowledge essential for their study. "Sanitary Surveyor' justly complains of men passing examinations and holding certificates through theoretical knowledge only, and this is certainly a most undesirable result. But what of the men (and their name is legion) who hold office as surveyors to the local boards of small towns, who, besides lacking every atom of theoretical knowledge, are equally deficient in practical attainments? This I hold to be the greatest anomaly of the present sanitary age, and it is one which I have already, upon more than one occasion, taken opportunity to publicly condemn. No improvement in this direction can be hoped for until steps have been taken to readjust the conditions under which local authorities are at liberty to appoint incompetent officials, even in those cases in which the Local Government Board refunds one-half of the salary paid. This has always seemed to me a question well worthy of the attention of the Sanitary Institute, especially as that body has already tacitly acknowledged its importance by instituting examinations for such officials and raising the standard of their qualifications. Failing, however, any action on the part of the Institute, I would suggest that steps might be taken to lay the matter before otherwise, with a view to that body considering the steps the Local Government Board, either by a deputation or necessary to meet the evil. Foremost among these I place the entire abrogation, or at least very considerable limitation, of the powers conferred upon local authorities by section 192 of the Public Health Act, by which the offices of surveyor and inspector of nuisances to an urban authority may be held by one and the same individual. The effect of this has been a general levelling down' of such so-called surveyors to the standard of the inspector, and not, as was possibly contemplated by the framers of the Act, a 'levelling-up' of the latter officers to the status of the former. The objection that an alteration of the conditions would involve increased expense for salaries is one which it is not difficult to meet, for I know of nothing more truly expensive than the prevailing system of 'starving' the official management of towns and other I trust that this question may be taken up vigorously and effectively, in which case 'Sanitary Surveyor' will not have written in vain. JOHN S. HODGSON. areas. February 15, 1879. VENTILATING COWLS. (To the Editor of the SANITARY RECORD.) SIR,-In Mr. Hood's work (5th edition) on Warming and Ventilating Buildings' is an account of some experiments on the action of cowls by Mr. Ewbank. His models were made of glass, and a strong blast of air was made to blow equally on them all. The lower ends of the models were all made to dip into a trough of water, and the height to which the water rose in the stem of the model showed the relative effect produced by each different form. The heights varied from 2 inches to 18 inches in the various cowls. Now if a heavy body like water can be drawn from 2 inches to 18 inches up a pipe by means of a strong blast of air passing by or through a cowl, may we not conclude that a light body like air would be drawn up the pipe and through the cowl? How are we to reconcile the results obtained by Mr. Ewbank with those obtained by the committee at Kew? F. BALL. 18 Bell Street, Henley-on-Thames, February 10, 1879. [The report on the subject has not yet, to our know. ledge, been issued.-ED.] THE ADMISSION OF WOMEN INTO THE LEARNED PROFESSIONS MEDICALLY CONSIDERED. (To the Editor of the SANITARY RECORD.) SIR, A Medical Woman,' in your issue of the 7th inst., complains that Dr. Hughes Bennett, in his excellent paper on the Higher Education of Women from a Medical Point of View, did not publish the facts on which he based his deductions. No doubt the author considered the facts sufficiently recognised by all thoughtful and intelligent people without having recourse to tabulated statements. With reference to the special class of women who take to teaching I think too many facts, more's the pity, could be adduced to support Dr. Bennett's theory. For my own part I can quite endorse his opinions from experience. In taking up the learned professions, and leaving out of consideration 'the toiling millions of women who labour for small wages,' the author has roused the querulous indignation of your correspondent. She apparently forgets that it is the medical, and not the social aspect of women's work that is under discussion. Now to my mind there are evident reasons why the question, only as it relates to women and the higher professions, need be discussed. It has been generally acknowledged that of all hard work that which necessitates severe mental strain is the hardest. Hence it follows that in most of the higher professions the wear and tear to the system, and the continuity of it, is considerably greater than that experienced by clerks and shop assistants. To this we may add the impossibility of a more than moderate success, unless there be more than ordinary ability or diligence thrown into it. Therefore we may, I think, take it for granted that Dr. Bennett's objections are specially applicable. If the difference between the inferior labour mart and that of the higher professions be so great amongst the male sex, how much greater must be this distinction amongst women, whose physical organisations are of so much more delicate a construction. No one can doubt or underrate the importance and difficulty of the question as to how unmarried women can best secure independence by their own exertions. But I think it is clearly evident that the great majority of women, say, nine out of ten, are physically incapable of taking up professions that only a great expenditure of mental power and energy can render lucrative. Their sex is a physiological protest against the continued mental slavery of our learned professions, and it would be well if the medical as well as the social considerations of the question were thoroughly and carefully studied. Only by considering the fitness of women medically can we, in my opinion, arrive at a fair and impartial solution of this, one of the most important and puzzling of present day social problems. RUTHERFORD DAVISON. Manchester, February 11, 1879. THE Stafford Rural Sanitary Authority, on reappointing the medical officers of health, have reduced the salaries of Dr. Tylecote, Colwich Sub-District, from 40l. to 30l. per annum, of Dr. Cookson, Castle Church District, from 251. to 20%., and of Mr. Weston, Seighford Sub-District, from 30%. to 20%. AIR INLETS (continued).—Special Window Inlets.We have seen how Dr. Bird was able to take advantage of an ordinary window in order to form an inlet, and how his arrangement has frequently been copied or invented over again. Sometimes, however, it has been varied to suit special cases. Mr. Buchan, of Glasgow, for instance, has modified the system to suit a northern climate. Instead of adopting the longitudinal slit formed by the raised bottom sash, he bores some fourteen holes in the lower rail of the upper sash, each inch wide at bottom and inch at the top, but coned so as to cause the entering air to clear the soffit and fly ceilingward. The holes are then cleared out with a red hot iron after being bored, which allows the air to enter with greater force. Buchan's Sash Ventilator. Two years ago Mr. Grover, of Westminster, introduced a system of window inlet which seems to combine the Lower Protective inlet, before described, with the simple inlet of Dr. Bird. The guard, when the window is shut, has a vertical position, but being hinged it can be made to assume, when required, certain deThe grees of elevation. outer air can either be made to enter below the bottom rail of the top sash and over the top rail of the bottom sash in the usual way, and there only. Or, the guard can be moved forwards into the room, and more air introduced in the same upward direction. The air entering at the guard level is prevented from escaping The value at the cheeks of the guard by a folding fan. of the improvement lies in its adaptability to very heavy sashes, as the upper inlet can be left permanently open if A Grover's Window Ventilator. represents the moveable guard of glass or other material. amount of required, and the entering air be doubled or trebled in a moment by moving the guard. The simplest mode of admitting fresh air into a room at the level of the window top is that invented by Mr. A. Cooper in 1870. He simply fits to an ordinary sash window a common holland blind, at the top part of which is inserted some open network or perforated flexible material. When an inlet of air is wanted into a room with one window in it, or-what is the same thinginlets and outlets with several Cooper's Ventilating Roller windows in a room, all that is Blind. A, common part the tapes. of window blind; z, the necessary to be done is to pull perforated portion; B, down the upper sash for a few window blind roller; cc, inches or a foot, and then pull down the blind until the perforated portion comes opposite to the opening made in the When the perforated part of the blind is not required it is wound back on the roller by the window. tapes at the top. In hot climates it is intended to prevent the entrance of mosquitoes. There is the usual intake of air directed upwards at the middle of the window. Any one is now at liberty to make use of this device. Glass Inlets. SPECIAL WINDOW INLETS.-Inlets at the glass panes. -The window pane has always been regarded as a convenient place in which to contrive an inlet ventilator, and a great many examples may be seen at the present day in a drive through any city. Chief among these inlets is that of Cooper. This is constructed by making a number of lance-shaped holes-within the compass of Cooper's Hit-and-Miss Revolving a circle-in two pieces of plate glass, and fixing them together in the centre, so that the inner or revolving piece shall act as a diaphragm and close the apertures in the outer pane when no air inlet is desired. This method of admitting air by perforated holes in glass panes and covering them by sliding plates was first invented by Mr. Lochhead in 1848. Messrs. Tell and Cook also used this wheeled system in 1854, only they adopted plates of metal with gauze-covered openings, and these may still be made useful under certain circumstances. A similar easy method of admitting air in the window pane was invented by Mr. Boyle in 1863, and this consisted of making a circular hole in the glass, and covering it with a somewhat larger and moveable piece, also circular in shape, held by a pin at the base and Boyle's Circular Sliding caught by a spring at the top when not dropped down to form the inlet. A constant inlet at the window pane is achieved by the use of the saw-cut glass, introduced some years ago, and now very largely used. Inlet. Saw-cut Constant Inlet. Nothing is more common in fanlights and in the centre portions of church windows which do not open, or in high placed windows, than the hopper forms of inlets. They are constructed in numerous ways, but may be simply described as having the effect of a pane of glass hinged at the bottom and falling forward into the room at the top. Sometimes the sides are glazed, and the inlet closeable at the top by a falling or rising plate of glass. Or, the pane may be brought back to the window perpendicular by means of a pulley and cord. Hopper form of Inlet. It was to remedy the shortcomings of the hopper contrivance that the louvre form of inlet was imported into buildings from the outlet forms in breweries and tanneries. Chief among the improvements made in the common louvre were those of Mr. Baillie between 1837 and 1844. He saw that taking the inlet area of a common hopper at 144 square inches, that afforded by a louvre occupying the same sized pane was equal to three times that amount, owing to the number of openings in the latter. Another advantage of the louvre is that it does not project into the room. These louvre inlets are now quite common in windows which are neither hung nor hinged, and in that case generally take the fixed form, the glass blades being fixed in the framework. They often, however, take the Venetian character in which the blades are made to open and shut by means of a cord and pulley. Moore's Glass Ventilator is the best known form of this kind, and is every Louvre form of Inlet with moveable blades worked by a cord. where in great demand. It may be here added whilst treating of the louvre, that the moveable blade or feathering form of louvre or Venetian ventilator is manufactured in iron by Messrs. Hayward Bros. of London, made specially to fix in a wall under the cornice-an air brick being set flush with the outer wall opening. The sizes commonly supplied have an inlet area of 45, 85, 125, and 205 square inches respectively, measured inside the frame of the box, and without deducting for the space taken up by the blades. The foregoing systems of inlets, as applicable to sash windows, represent the chief of those now in use. Some of them are equally suitable to the casement forms, and still more of them to the casement having lights over the transom. It is, however, questionable whether, in houses still to be built the constant inlets of air to a room should be obtained at the window, and whether they should not be contrived in the walls, which are equally in direct communication with the outer air, and where also the air can be warmed or cooled at will. The window is primarily contrived for light, and, although it is a convenient place when large inrushes of air are suddenly called for, it will be seen that much ingenuity is necessary to make it a continuous inlet on the small scale which changes the atmosphere of a room without perceptible draughts. Such openings for ventilation may be regarded as makeshifts, the best thing to be said in their favour being, that in houses already built, they offer the readiest means at hand, and that they can be provided by the tenant without having recourse to the landlord's leave for effecting those more natural openings which were neglected to be made by the builder. Notice of Meeting. SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH. Session 1878-79. THOS. STEVENSON, M.D., F. R. C. P., President. THE next meeting will be held on Friday, February 21, at 7.30 P.M. The council will present a report with regard to the preparation of a model code of regulations for lodging houses in urban districts, under the 35th sect. of the Sanitary Act, 1866. A ballot will take place for the following gentlemen :-Professor D. T. Ansted, M.A., F.R.S., as an honorary member; Alfred Clark, Esq., medical officer of health for Twickenham, as an extra metro politan member; Wm. Whitaker, Esq., H.M. Geological Survey, Jermyn Street, as an associate; J. B. Mackey, Esq., 23 Buckingham Place, Brighton, as an associate; Dr. J. S. Brookfield, late medical officer of health, Clayton West and Penistone, as a member. Dr. Dudfield will make some remarks on the Order in Council for the George Buchanan will deliver an address on The EviRegulation fof Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops. Dr. dence of Prevalence of Summer Diarrhoea deducible from Old Bills of Mortality.' Shirley F. Murphy, Esq., will read a paper entitled Autumnal Diarrhoea.' J. NORTHCOTE VINEN, M.D., St. John's, Southwark. WM. HY. CORFIELD, M.D., 10 Bolton Row, Mayfair. Hon. Secs. THE German trichinosis statistics for 1877 show a decline in the number of cases. Whereas the proportion in 1876 was one out of 2,000 pigs examined, in 1877 it was only one in 2,800. The absolute numbers were 701 trichinose out of 2,057,272 pigs. There were 343 cases of trichinosis discovered in American bacon and pork imported into Germany. The number of persons known to have suffered from trichinosis in the same year was 138. Notes and Queries. VITAL STATISTICS. In the preparation of vital statistics, Quetelet's four chief rules, which ought to be hung up in every room and office where figures are dealt with, deserve to be held constantly in view. He says; 1. Never have preconceived ideas as to what the figures are to prove. 2. Never reject a number that seems contrary to what you might expect, merely because it departs a good deal from the apparent average. 3. Be careful to weigh and record all the possible causes of an event, and do not attribute to one what is really the result of the combination of several. 4. Never compare data which have nothing in common CREMATION. PROFESSOR S. D. GROSS, of Jefferson Medical College, has been giving his ideas on the subject of cremation to a reporter of one of the Philadelphia daily papers :— 'If people could see the human body after the process of decomposition sets in, which is as soon as the vital spark ceases to exist,' said Dr. Gross, they would not want to be buried; they would be in favour of cremation. If they could go into a dissecting-room and see the horrid sights of the dissecting-table, they would not wish to be buried. Burying the human body, I think, is a horrible thing. If more was known about the human frame while undergoing decomposition, people would turn with horror from the custom of burying their dead. It takes a human body fifty, sixty, eighty years-yes, longer than that--to decay. Think of it! The remains of a friend lying under 6 feet of ground, or less, for that length of time, going through the slow stages of decay, and other bodies all this time being buried around these remains. Infants grow up and pass into manhood or womanhood; grow old and get near the door of death, and during all that time the body which was buried in their infancy lies a few feet underground in this sickening state, undergoing the slow process of decay. Think of thousands of such bodies crowded into a few acres of ground, and then reflect that these graves, or many of them, in time fill with water, and that water percolates through the ground and mixes with the springs and wells and rivers from which we drink. People turn with dread from the subject of cremation,' he said. Why, if they knew what physicians know, what they have learned in the dissecting-room, they would look upon burning the human body as a beautiful art in comparison with burying it. There is something eminently repulsive to me about the idea of lying a few feet under ground for a century, or perhaps two centuries, going through the process of decomposition. When I die I want my body to be burned. Any unprejudiced mind needs but little time to reflect in forming a conclusion as to which is the better method of disposing of the body. Common sense and reason proclaim in favour of cremation. There is no reason for keeping up the burial custom, but many against it, some of the most practical of which are but too recently developed to need mention. There is nothing repulsive in the idea of cremation. People's prejudice is the only opponent it If they could be awakened to a sense of the horror of crowding thousands of bodies under the ground, to pollute in many instances the air we breathe and the water we drink, their prejudice would be overcome. Cremation would be taken for what it truly is, a beautiful method of disposing of the body. The friends of the departed can do as they please with the remains. Take the ashes of a wife or daughter and put them in an urn. Place it on your mantelpiece or in as private a place as you please. Strew them on the ground if you like, and let them assist in bringing forth a blade of grass. This would be an advantage over the burial method, where human bodies only cumber the ground.' has. APPOINTMENTS OF HEALTH OFFICERS, INSPECTORS OF NUISANCES, ETC. BENNETT, Joseph Blacker, F. R.C.S. Eng., L. S. A. Lond., has been appointed Certifying Factory Surgeon for the Dewsbury District, vice Thornton, resigned. BERRY, Mr. John Peter, has been appointed Collector to the Melksham Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. COOKSON, Samuel, M.D. Univ. St. And., M. R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A. Lond., has been reappointed Medical Officer of Health for the Castle Church Sub-district of the Stafford Rural Sanitary Dis trict, at 20l. per ann. GREAVES, Charles Henry, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A. Lond., has been reappointed Medical Officer of Health for the Tillington Subdistrict of the Stafford Rural Sanitary District, at 37. per ann. HOOKINS, Mr. John, has been appointed Surveyor and Inspector of Nuisances to the Melksham Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. LAWSON, Joseph, M.B. Univ. Dub., L.R.C.S. Irel., has been ap pointed Certifying Factory Surgeon for the Hebden Bridge District, vice Thomas, resigned. LOPES, Ralph Ludlow, Esq., has been appointed Chairman of the Melksham Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. MARSHALL, Mr. William, has been appointed Surveyor, Inspector of Nuisances, and Collector to the Market-Rasen Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. MASON, Samuel Butler, L. R.C.P. Edin., L. F. P. S. Glasg., L.S. A. Lond., has been reappointed Medical Officer of Health for the Pontypool Urban Sanitary District, at 257. per ann. PAGE AND PADLEY, Messrs., have been appointed Clerks to the Market-Rasen Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. PARSON, William, M. R.C.S. Eng., M. and L.S.A. Lond., has been reappointed Medical Officer of Health for the Godalming Urban Sanitary District, at 157. 15s. per ann., for the year ending April 9, 1880. PERRY, George Joseph, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A. Lond., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Melksham Urban Sanitary District. RAMSDEN, Mr. Arthur, has been appointed Surveyor to the Skipton Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, Yorkshire, at 150l. per ann., vice Bradley, whose appointment will expire on March 25 next. RAWLINGS, Joseph, Esq., Manager of the Capital and Counties Bank at Melksham, has been appointed Treasurer to the Melksham Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. RICHARDSON, Thomas M., Esq., has been appointed Treasurer to the Market-Rasen Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. SAUNDERS, Charles Edward, M.D. Aberd., M. R.C.S. Eng., has been appointed Public Analyst for the City of St. Alban, at 157. per ann., and the fees allowed by Court on prosecutions. SCATCHARD, Thomas Edward, L. R.C.P. Lond., M. R.C.S. Eng., has been appointed Certifying Factory Surgeon for the Boston District, Yorkshire. TAYLOR, Mr. Francis J., has been appointed Clerk to the Bakewell Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, Derbyshire, vice Mr. John Taylor, resigned. TYLECOTE, Edward Thomas, M.D. Univ. Aberd., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A. Lond., has been reappointed Medical Officer of Health for the Colwich Sub-district of the Stafford Rural Sanitary District, at 30%. per ann. WARTENBURG, Victor Adolph, L.R.C.P. Edin., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A. Lond., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the St. Anne's-on-the-Sea Urban Sanitary District, Lancashire, at the rate of 30% per ann., until December 24 next. WESTON, Edward Francis, M.R.C.S. Eng. and L. M. L.S. A. Lond., has been reappointed Medical Officer of Health for the Seighford Sub-district of the Stafford Rural Sanitary District, at 201. per ann. WILSON, Joseph, Esq., has been appointed Chairman of the MarketRasen Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. MARKET-RASEN URBAN SANITARY DISTRICT. Medical Officer of Health. MUCH WENLOCK LOCAL BOARD AND URBAN SANITARY AUTHORITY, Salop. Collector. NEW FOREST RURAL SANITARY DISTRICT. Medical Officer of Health: 100/. for one year. Application, March 8, to E. Coxwell, Clerk to the Authority, Southampton. SMALLBURGH RURAL SANITARY DISTRICT, Norfolk. Medical WEST HAM RURAL SANITARY DISTRICT. Medical Officer of NOTICE. 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