Jflisqdtaitcous Jjfota. HEALTH

OFFICER, SINGAPORE.

Dr. Middleton lias been appointed Health Officer to the Singapore Municipality. SURG.-MAJ. LLOYD AND THE V.C. Her Majesty the Queen lias conferred the Victoria Cross on Surgeon-Major Lloyd for his bravery at Sinia, in the Kachin Hills. BENGAL SUB. MEDICAL SERVICE. A Committee consisting of Surgeon-Colonel Harvey, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, in Bengal, Sir A. W. Croft, Director of Public Instruction, and Surgeon-Major S. Bomford, Princij)al of the Medical College, Calcutta, lias been appointed for the purpose of advising the

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Government of Bengal regarding certain proposals for reorganising the Subordinate Medical Service of the Province. THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON OPIUM.

It will doubtless interest our readers at the moment to read the following letter addressed by Sir W. B. Hudson to Mr. R. M,

present

Dane,

C.S. :?

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In reply to an invitation, received through the Board of Revenue, that I should tender evidence to the Royal Opium Commission, and referring me to you, I beg to say that I have no wish to submit any. " I have nothing to say that has not already been said. " Not all the might of England will eradicate the use of opium in India, nor even materially curtail it; therefore the present enquiry is a waste of time and money, which I have no desire to add to." 11th INTERNATIONAL MED. CONGRESS.

following letter from Professor E. MaragSecretary-General, dated Rome, November 1893, is published for general

The

liano,

m.d.,

16th information:? My dear Sir and esteemed Colleague,?I have the honor to inform you that the Executive Committee, in its session of the 12th instant, has established that the Eleventh International Medical Congress, which had been postponed by deliberation of the 2nd August 1893 until April 1894, shall take place in Rome from the 29th March until the 5th April 1894. The Committee is very glad to have been able to satisfy thus the wish of. the majority of those foreign colleagues who had been requested to give their opinion on this purpose. Having thus had the pleasure to give you officially this information, I beg your leave to request you to render it public in the manner which you will judge best for the interest of the meeting and to ascertain in the meanwhile the

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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

colleagues of your country?that in consequence of the steps taken by the Committee for each of them convenient accommodation at usual prices will be provided for. The circumstances beyond our control, which had forced us to postpone the meeting, existing no more, the organising action for the Congress enters in a period of renewed activity, and the Organising Committee flatters itself to find you, the colleagues of your my dear Sir, as well as country, its zealous collaborators, now and in the future, as you had been, with so much success, for the past. In consequence of the adjournment of the Conof the statute have been gress, Arts. 1 and 11 altered as follows :? Art. 1.?The Eleventh International Medical Congress will be inaugurated in Rome on the 29th March 1894, and will close on the next following 5th April. Art. 11.?Papers to be read before the Congress should be announced not later than the The title should be accom31st January 1894. short a precis of the paper and very by panied by the conclusions; the latter will be printed by distributed among the care of the Board and members. Papers announced after the 31st, August 1893 will be marked in the provisional programme with an asterisk. The provisional programme will contain also those previously announced papers, which have been published in scientific papers after the adjournment. The railway companies

have established, that the reduction of fares should be available from the 1st of March till the 30th of April 1894. The Travelling Tickets of Membership and Railway passes will be sent by the SecretaryGeneral's Office to each member enrolled before the 14th February 1894. After this date the said papers should be applied for to the following gentlemen : In Austria to Professor H. Notlmagel, Vienna ; in Belgium to Professor Thiry, Bruxelles; in Bulgaria to Dr. A. Pusr.oullieff*. Sophia; in Denmark to Professor C. Lange, Kopenhagen ; in Egypt to Dr. Hassan Pacha Muhmoud, Cairo, and Dr. Onofrio Abbate Pacha, Cairo; in France to Dr. Marcel Baudoin, Paris; in Germany to Dr. Cai l Posner, Berlin; in Great Britain to Dr. G. H. Makins, London; Dr. G. A. Gibson, Edinburgh ; and Professor Sir William Stokes, Dublin ; in Luxemburg to Dr. Paid Koch, Luxemburg ; in Malta to Dr. G. O. Galea, La Valletta; in N< n vvay to Professor S. Laaehe, ?Christiania; in Netherland to Professor B. I. Stokvis, Amsterdam; in Poland to Professor Cybulski, Krakau; in Portugal to Professor J. T. ,de Souza Martins, Lisbon ; in Rumania to Dr. 'C. D. Seveieanu, Bucarest ; in Russia to Professor V. Pachoutine, St. Petersburg; in Servia ?

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to Dr. Y. Subboticz, Belgrad ; in Spain to Professor J. Calleja y Sanchez, Madrid, and Dr. A. Espina y Capo, Madrid ; in Sveden to Professor F. Holmgren, Upsala ; in Switzerland to Professor Th. Kocher, Bern, and Professor D'Espine, Ginevra; in Turkey to Dr. van Millingen, Costantinopel, and Dr. H. Perera, Salonik; in Hungariato Dr. L. Csatary de Csatar, Budapest; in Tunis to Dr. G. Fuuaro, Tunis. The first edition of the provisional programme is going to be printed and will contain details concerning the Congress and a list of all the papers announced till November 15t.h, 1893. It. should be well to remember the following articles of the statute :? Art. 2.?All physicians are admitted to have a part in the work of the Congress, provided they have satisfied the conditions of inscription, and obtained the required ticket of membership. Art. 3.?The doctors of other sciences who, for their special studies, should have an interest in the work of the Congress may be enrolled with the duties and rights of the members of the Congress who are doctors of medicine, being entitled to partake of the work, either by reading papers, or by having a part in the discussion. Art. 4.?The admission fee to the Congress one is fixed at twenty-five franks pound sterling ; it entitles to a copy of the report of the Congress, which will be forwarded to the members, as soon as it is published. Art. 17.?The persons who, not being comprised in the Art. 3, are interested in the work of a section, may obtain admission by consentment of the President of the Congress. Such persons will receive a special ticket and will pay the admission fee like the other members, being e itil led, however, to a copy of the Report of the Congress. The persons thus admitted to the Congress may speak neither in the general sittings nor in the sittings of the sections to which they are not enrolled. Art. 18.?The students of medicine may be invited or admitted by the President to attend the sittings, but only as hearers. They must obtain a special ticket which will be granted them without, payment. Members may apply to the Secretary-General's Office for railway passes for their wives and adult members of their families; the latter may be enrolled on payment of a fee of ten francs. Medical gentlemen and all persons who wish to take part in the Congress are requested to give their name as soon as possible, writing on this purpose to the Secretary-General to the Eleventh International Medical Congress, Genoa. Fees should be paid by post order or draft to the order of the Treasurer, Professor L. Pagliani, M.D., Director-General to the Office of Public Health, Home Department, Rome. =

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