Medical Officers' Reports. 1871, so this must be another clerical error. So confused are the statistics, apart from the tables, that it would be well for Dr.. Walker to revise pages 4 and 5. The construction of many of the sentences and paragraphs is most puzzling. After a time we seem to make out what the author is driving at, but the study required before the meaning is grasped is. great. For instance take the following few sentences, WHITECHAPEL.-At the last vestry meeting Dr. Liddle, the medical officer of health, reported that during the past fortnight seventy-nine deaths had been registered in the district, of which three were from zymotic diseases, viz. measles, two; whooping-The deaths of children under five are equal of cough, one. CHELSEA.-Dr. Barclay's last report states that during the fortnight ending the 13th inst. there were sixty deaths, the corrected average being sixtyeight. There were ninety-nine children born. ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR.-At the last vestry meeting Dr. Bateson, the medical officer, read his annual report, which was of an elaborate character, and contained information of a most interesting nature to the parishioners and public generally. The table appended to the report showed that during the year that ended April 1 there were born in the parish 2,170 children, and that 1,393 persons died. The death-rate was 24 in 1,000 persons living, or one death in 40 persons. He had again the pleasure of reporting no death from smallpox during the year. If vaccination did not prove a preventive without exceptions, it did in all cases afford protection to an almost unlimited extent, and when it did fail the attack was less severe, and recovery was rendered much more certain. Whoopingcough was the most fatal of the diseases. ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER. The report of Dr. Edmunds, medical officer, presented on May 18 showed that in the fortnight ending the 13th inst. there were thirty-two births and thirty-two deaths, three being from measles and one from erysipelas. A death from the latter was reported at the last meeting of the vestry as occurring in a public institution, which indicated a dangerous condition of things. He wished to know if he had power to visit such institutions and inspect them. The matter was referred to committee to inquire and report. BERSLEY.-At the last meeting of the Bersley Local Board the medical officer of health, Mr. Eames, reported as follows: The number of deaths in the township for the quarter ending March 30 was fifty, being at the rate of 25 per 1,000 of the population. There were four deaths from zymotic diseases; seven were over sixty, and seventeen under one year. Eight of the number were attended by illegal persons, consequently the cause of death is unknown, as the registrar would not receive their certificates. I believe the health of the township to be very good, and free from any epidemic. HANLEY.-Dr. J. Swift Walker's report for the year 1875 is in some respects a model report. The tables are clear and comprehensive, but few in number. The report proper also contains much interesting information. Out of 1,114 total deaths 572 were under five years of age, and 182 of these were under three months. The number of deaths from scarlet fever were 194 per 1,000 of the estimated population.' This we think must be a clerical error, for on referring to the tables, it is evident that only 19 deaths were due to this cause. Again, whooping cough has numbered 28 victims, being 6 per 1,000.' The population of Hanley is given as 39,976 in ratios with the percentage of total deaths. Table No. 4 shows the number of deaths from zymotic diseases for the past year, what occurred during the last ten years-from 1865 to 1874, the proportion of 1,000 deaths to the births in ten years, and the same in 1875 to 1,000 deaths. There were 189 during the year, being 46 more than occurred last year, but a less number than took place in 1872, 1871, 1868, or 1866, and bears a proportion of only 4't Walker's style of composition. to 1,000 deaths.' This is a fair specimen of Dr. 6 Speaking of 'The Explosives Act' the inspector is advised to be careful as to the conveyance of as from the experiments of paraffin and petroleum, Dr. Letheby no explosion can be produced by a fluid that will flash below 100.' It appears that at Hanley the council has a very slow way of proceeding; as they have not delegated their powers to a committee, notices may have to wait three months after having been served before proceedings can be legally taken. The sooner the council takes their medical officer's advice the better for sanitary work in Hanley, but Dr. Walker is wrong in supposing that the clause enabling a sanitary authority to delegate their authority is peculiar to the last Health Act. It is to be found in several of its predecessors. Not only can this authority be delegated to a committee, but it can be delegated to the clerk or any officer. Dr. Walker should aim at shorter sentences and paragraphs, and avoid such peculiarities as the following: Our disinfecting apparatus has been used more this year, but should only be too happy to say it was employed after every case of zymotic disease; it would often served to check the spread of infectious diseases.' The child death-rate in Hanley for 1875 was 19*2 per cent. under 1 year, of the births registered. The birth-rate was 44, and to this high rate Dr. Walker attributes, in some degree, the high general mortality viz., 3193 per 1,000 per annum. · Dr. SKIPTON AND SETTLE, YORKSHIRE. West Symes, the medical officer of health, reported at recent meetings of his various sanitary authorities that the total number of deaths in the quarter ending March 31, 1876, had been 239, equal to an annual death-rate of 1929 per 1,000 (calculated on the estimated population of his district at the middle of 1876, which is 49,555) as against 25.05 per 1,000, the rate in the corresponding quarter of 1875. The deaths included twelve from the 'seven principal zymotic diseases,' viz. two from scarlet fever, and ten from 'fever' (including gastric, infantile, remittent, and puerperal fevers, as well as enteric). One of the four deaths from enteric fever occurred at the village of Clapham, and the infection was clearly traced to a case on Ingleton Fells; Dr. Symes was informed by the medical man in attendance that it was the first case in Clapham for the last twenty-five years. The total number of births in the quarter was 403. Parliamentary Proceedings. HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, May 22. THE VIVISECTION BILL. The LORD CARNARVON moved the second reading of the Cruelty to Animals Bill, the provisions of which are founded on the recommendations of the commission appointed to inquire into the practice of vivisection. bill provides that vivisection should only be performed with a view to the advancement of human knowledge, the prolongation of human life, or the alleviation of human suffering; that it must take place in a registered place; that it must be performed by a person duly licensed by the Home Secretary; that the animals must be put under the influence of anææsthetics; that where pain would be prolonged after the anaesthetic effects had subsided the animals should be killed; and the experiments should not be made by way of mere illustration in lectures to students. The Duke of Argyll signified his approval of the main principle of the measure, but suggested that the animals included in its provisions ought to be defined. Lord Shaftesbury thanked the Government for bringing in the bill; and after a short discussion, in which Lords Henniker, Airlie, Stanley of Alderley, Winmarleigh, and Cardwell took part, the bill was read a second time. HOUSE OF COMMONS. THE DEATH OF MR. BRAVO. MR. CROSS, being questioned by Mr. Serjeant Simon and Mr. Callan as to the circumstances of the inquest on Mr. Bravo, and the possibility of further inquiry, replied that there were four physicians and several servants in the house who had not been examined on the inquest, and the coroner had omitted the usual practice of reading over to each witness the deposition he had made, and of procuring his signature. Sir William Gull had informed Mr. Cross that Mr. Bravo had not given him any assurance that he had not taken poison. The matter had been placed in the hands of the Treasury solicitor, and the police had received orders to spare no pains or expense in investigating the affair to the bottom. As to the coroner, Mr. Cross said he had no power over him, but he was not satisfied with his conduct, and had placed the papers in the hands of the law officers for their opinion whether application should not be made for a writ ad melius inquirendum, or what other steps should be taken for further inquiry. Monday, May 22. IMPRISONMENT FOR BREACH OF THE MR. BLAKE asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it was true that two tradesmen of Leicester (Palmer and Eagle) have been sent to prison for breach of the Vaccination Act, they having ample goods to distrain on; whether they were handcuffed, although they made no resistance whatever; and, whether this is in accordance with law. Mr. Cross believed the facts stated in the question were substantially true. He believed the magistrates had the power to send those persons to prison without first issuing a distress. It must be remembered that the discretion rested entirely with the magistrate, and that those persons had only to put their hands into their pockets to put an end to the matter, and they might have paid at the time if they chose. He was sorry to say it was true they were handcuffed, and he could not imagine why a man who was sent to prison simply because he had not paid a small fine should be treated exactly in the same way as if he had committed a criminal offence. It seemed to him an abuse of a petty power which he would do his best to put down. DRUGGING OF ANIMALS BILL. Wednesday, May 24. MAD DOGS. MR. SYKES asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his attention had been called to a judgment given by Mr. Turner in the York County Court, in which he held that no person was justified in shooting a dog whether mad or not, but that it was the duty of the police to capture the mad dog, and bring it before two magistrates, and who, if they were satisfied the dog was rabid, would give an order for its destruction. Mr. Cross said, my attention has been called to this subject by the question of my hon. friend; I only hope that the law is not in that state, but that I cannot answer for. If it were I should be extremely sorry for the police, who would be keeping the dog in great misery, and I should not like to be the magistrates. (Laughter.) I shall give no direction to the Metropolitan Police to act in that way. (Laughter.) Law Reports. PROSECUTION UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1867. A CASE of some importance under this Act was disposed of in the Central police-court of Glasgow, on the 20th inst. Daniel Scanlan, sheriff-officer, was charged with a contravention of the 49th section of this Act, in so far as on May 2 he removed from the house of Alexander Gibson, South Wellington-street, four stuff-bottomed chairs and a table, while a lad, a son of Gibson's, was lying in the house suffering from scarlet fever. At the first hearing of the case on Wednesday last, Mr. Macphie, writer, who attended for the defendant, objected to the relevancy of the complaint, on the ground that the articles mentioned were not of the class described in the Act. The Court yesterday gave effect to this defence, and dismissed the complaint. LIBEL ON VACCINATION OFFICERS. THE Queen's Bench Division on May 18 had before it the case of Amyott v. Mead, an action for libel, under these circumstances. The plaintiff, under the Vaccination Act, required a certificate from the defendant, as medical officer of the union, to enable him to claim from the guardians a fee of 1s. for vaccinating some child, and he sent the printed form for the purpose to the defendant, who signed it and sent it back, with this added to it, 'This is an attempt to swindle the guardians out of Is.,' which was the libel complained of. The plaintiff himself sent it to the guardians, which was the only publication of the libel, and the point taken for the defence was that there was no publication. The case was tried before Mr. Justice Mellor, who put it to the jury whether the certificate was sent to the guardians in the ordinary course, and they found that it was, and gave the plaintiff a verdict for 100/. Sir H. James, on the part of the defendant, moved to set aside the verdict on the ground that there was no publication except by the plaintiff's own act, which was voluntary on his part; but the court said that, as the certificate was signed by the defendant with the view of its being sent to the guardians, and as the jury thought that it was sent in the ordinary course, the action was maintainable, and the application was refused. IMPORTANT CASE OF MILK ADULTERATION. JOSEPH NUTTALL, milk dealer, Bradford, was charged at the Borough Court on the 22nd inst. with selling milk adulterated with 10 per cent. of water, and minus a large portion of the cream, which had been abstracted; and John Hanson, farmer, of Salterforth, near Colne, was charged with giving a false warranty in writing to the said Joseph Nuttall with respect to the milk, which it was alleged had been so adulterated.-Mr. McGowen, town clerk, appeared in support of the information, and Mr. Hutchinson was for the defendant Hanson.-The former stated, in opening the case, that he should satisfy their worships | that the milk in question, which was purchased from Nuttall, was considerably adulterated-adulterated in two ways, according to the meaning of the Act of Parliament, both by the addition of water and the abstraction of cream. He then proceeded to explain that when a charge was brought home to the vendor of selling an adulterated article, the Bench might dismiss him if he produced a warranty that the article he sold was represented by the person from whom he himself bought it, to be good and genuine. In the present instance, when Nuttall was spoken to in reference to the charge, he claimed the protection of a warranty, which he held from the defendant Hanson, who supplied him with the milk. The following is the form of the warranty: 'I, John Hanson, agree to supply Joseph Nuttall, of 33, North Wing, Bradford, with genuine, pure milk.' He (the town clerk) said he had taken a great deal of trouble to bring a case of that kind before their worships in a complete form, and he was now in a position to accommodate either Nuttall or Hanson. If Nuttall was content to take the responsibility, he was before the Court; but if he sought to escape under the guarantee, then Mr. Hanson was before them. The penalty for selling adulterated milk was 20/., and if people would deliberately set the law at defiance in this way, he must ask that the public should be protected. The only way of reaching people like the defendants was through their pockets, and he hoped the magistrates would impose the full penalty.-Mr. Booker, inspector of nuisances, was then called, and stated that on April 20 last he purchased a sample of milk from Nuttall, and complied with the formalities required by the Act of Parliament. He took the sample to Mr. Rimmington, the borough analyst, who subsequently certified that from 5 to 10 per cent. of water had been added to the milk, and a portion of the cream had been abstracted. Witness also produced two certificates of analyses which had been obtained by Nuttall in reference to Hanson's milk. One was dated May 31, 1875, and stated that the sample had been deprived of a great proportion of its cream; and the other was dated February 24 last, and stated that the milk submitted was adulterated with 10 to 15 per cent. of water. The agreement between Hanson and Nuttall, dated March 1, 1875, was also put in, which provided that the former should supply genuine pure milk to the latter at the rate of 9d. per gallon in summer, and 10d. per gallon in winter, delivered clear. Nuttall told the witness that he bought the milk under that guarantee, and sold it in the same condition as he received it. At Nuttall's request, he went to the Midland railway station, and took some milk out of the can as it arrived there, and obtained an analysis of it, upon which other proceedings would shortly be taken. In his defence, Nuttall contended that he had sold the milk as he had bought it, and he relied on the guarantee for its purity.-At the request of the Town Clerk the magistrates reserved their judgment until the case against Hanson had been heard.-The charge against Hanson was then gone into. Mr. Nuttall was put into the box and gave evidence with respect to the warranty produced. He stated that the agreement was only signed about a month since, although it was dated March 1.-Mr. Rimmington gave evidence with regard to the analysis, and Mr. Booker as to the conversation with Nuttall about the warranty.-Mr. Hutchinson, in defence, contended that the document put in by the defendant Nuttall was not such a document as was contemplated by the Act of Parliament. As provided by the Act, it must be a warranty for some article then in existence. The warranty produced was for a year, and referred to milk which was not then in existence.-The Town Clerk: Then, according to your argument, he must have a warranty for every can of milk.—The magistrates expressed themselves satisfied that the warranty was in legal form.-Mr. Hutchinson said there was no certainty that the milk was adulterated with water, as according to the admission of Mr. Rimmington, milk in its normal condition contained about 88 per cent. of water. A brother of the defendant was called, and stated that the milk was sent to Bradford in the same condition as it left the cows, but the can was left unlocked. It was also contended on the part of the defendant that the warranty was not in existence at the time the test was made, and that no sample of the milk taken for analysis was given to Hanson so that he might employ an analyst of his own choice.-The magistrates said they were of opinion that the warranty was in existence at the time, and in reply to Mr. Mossman, Nuttall stated that since he had shown Hanson the certificate which he obtained in February last, the milk had gradually improved in quality. The magistrates retired, and on returning into court, said they had decided to dismiss the charge against Nuttall, and to fine Hanson 10l. and 1/. 7s. costs, or two months' imprisonment. BRIEF NOTES OF CASES. GAS COMPANY POWERS. 1876. Dryden v. Putney Churchwardens. An old public highway gradually built upon and made into a new street.-Held that it was technically a new street' and the owners. that the paving expenses must be charged at the outset on (Metropolis.) (W. N., 1876, p. 85 ; 34 L. T., 69; 40 J. P., 263.) DISQUALIFICATION BY CONTRACT. 1876. Lewis v. Carr.—‘Municipal Corporation Act,' 1835, sect. 28.-Goods bought over the counter at the shop of an alderman, the order being given when the defendant was not present.-Held that there was no continuing contract, and that he was not liable to the penalty. (34 L. T., 390; 40 J. P., 279.) Legal Notes and Queries. MILK ADULTERATION. THE case of milk adulteration reported on page 369 has some special points of interest. A milk dealer was charged with selling milk which had been adulterated by the addition of water and the subtraction of cream. He pleaded in defence that the milk was not adulterated by himself, but by the farmer from whom he bought it, and that he did not know it was adulterated. Of course it would not do to allow such a defence to be set up indiscriminately. It is the business of the dealer to see that he buys a pure article. The strong feature of the Adulteration Act is that it makes the dealer responsible for the actual state of the article when he sells it, and not merely responsible for what he supposes it to be. If the latter were the case, it would be easy for him to buy an article from the wholesale dealer cheaper on the unspoken understanding that it was adulterated, and the law would be, as the old Act in fact was, almost inoperative. Now, the purchaser is effectually protected, for it is at the seller's own peril if he sells an adulterated article whether he knows of it or not. On the other hand, if this enactment stood alone, an injustice would be inflicted on the retail dealer by putting him at the mercy of the In wholesale seller. But he is allowed to protect himself by getting a warranty from the wholesale dealer that the article is pure. This had been done by the milk dealer who was charged with adulteration at the Bradford Policecourt, and he produced the warranty in defence. anticipation of the defence, the farmer who sold the milk had been brought up at the same time. Proofs had been obtained of the sale of watered and creamless milk by both; and as the town clerk drily intimated, they could arrange between themselves who would bear the penalty. The dealer was acquitted, and the farmer was fined 10. The town clerk showed a little of the botanical collector's pride at having secured a complete specimen case, root and branch, and he said that the procuring of it had cost some trouble. The trouble is fully repaid by the warning given to farmers and dealers. Review. The Law of Public Health and Local Government. By GERALD A. R. FITZGERALD. (Stevens.) WE gather from the Preface to this work that as Mr. Fitzgerald happened to be employed in framing the Public Health Act, 1875, he fancied that some obligation lay upon him to write a book about it. The ground-plan of the book is very simple. The author reprints the Act verbatim, appending here and there to the sections notes which have the merit of brevity, if no other merit, for many of them are only two or three lines long, and many whole sections of the Act are given without any annotations at all. After the Public Health Act, 1875, follows a division, entitled 'Incorporated Provisions,' which is not further defined in the Table of Contents, but which an examination shows to consist of certain sections of the Water Works Clauses Act, 1847, the Water Works Clauses Act, 1863, the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, the Towns Police Clauses Act, 1847, and the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 1847. Next follows Appendix I., which includes fragments of Poor Law Acts relating to audits. In Appendix II. we have ten statutes very appropriately described as Miscellaneous Statutes.' Appendix III. contains eight official documents, chiefly orders issued by the Local Government Board, and all of them well known. Appendix IV. is a Chronological Table' of the Sanitary Acts, passed between 1846 and 1874, and occupying 2 pages. We cannot but feel disappointed with Mr. Fitzgerald's book. Being a mere portfolio of Public Health and Local Government statutes and embracing by no means all of them, and those which are given being arranged with little regard to method or order, the raison d'être of the book is really not apparent. We are disposed to think that the author's mistake has been the cardinal one of considering the Public Health Act, 1875, as itself a work framed on lines too sacred to be tampered with. The real truth, however, is that the Act in question is an exceedingly crude and ill-arranged document, viewed merely as a literary production, and no commentator who accepts and adopts the sequence of subjects presented by the Act can possibly hope to produce a treatise on it which shall have any claims to be generally useful and handy as a book of reference. The order in which the respective subjects are treated of in the Act of 1875 is painfully illogical, and no man can possibly hope to write anything like even a moderately useful treatise on it, who does not carefully dissect and re-arrange for himself all the constituent enactments which make up the 343 sections of the Act. A very few words will suffice to illustrate what we mean. After four preliminary sections the Act opens with eight sections describing the authorities which are to execute it. Then follow provisions respecting sewers, scavenging, and water-supply, and the reader has to pass over upwards of 200 sections before he can find how the authorities just spoken of are to. to be elected, and what officers they are to appoint to look after the aforesaid sewers, scavenging, water-supply, and all the other things which a sanitary authority has to attend So that to make use of the Act one has to turn backThese wards and forwards in a most troublesome manner. misarrangements of the Public Health Act are grave blots in that Act, and as Mr. Fitzgerald has done his best to perpetuate these blots in his own book, we are unable to affirm that he has contributed much to the elucidation of the very complicated subject of public health law. Correspondence. All communications must bear the signature of the writer, not necessarily for publication. UNIFORM FOR SANITARY OFFICERS. SIR, The question of uniform for sanitary officers, raised by your correspondent Inspector,' is without doubt an important one, and well worthy of consideration; but while finding favour with some who hold the office of inspector of nuisances alone in large towns, where it is usually a permanent appointment, and where also the whole of the provisions of the 1875 Act are in force, some distinctive dress might not only be useful, but necessary to give weight and importance to the officer in carrying out his many onerous duties, and where he may not personally be known, it will not, I fear, be so popular with those borough engineers and local surveyors who are at the same time inspectors of nuisances to the urban authorities. Nor yet with the many practising architects, surveyors, and engineers who have given their services to the rural authorities for comparatively small salaries to retain their private practice, the board of course having the advantage of their practical experience. A uniform in the above cases would be superfluous, and tend rather to lower than raise the status of the officer, independent of the fact that rural inspectors are appointed from only one to three years, and liable, I believe, to dismissal at three months' notice. It is therefore premature to bring forward the question of uniform until our position is more secured. At present many of the rural authorities have adopted, and others are about to adopt, by-laws relative to building and drainage which will necessitate the inspector being a practical surveyor. It will therefore become necessary (and I have no doubt soon) for the Local Government Board to adopt some such system as that carried out by the War Office, in appointing clerks of works in the government service. First, temporarily for one or two years on probation, after a preliminary examination. Then, if found fit, permanently after a second examination by the Civil Service Commissioners, when they become entitled to wear uniform and have their status defined by grades according to length of service and ability. As sanitary engineering is now fully acknowledged as a most important branch of science, such an examination as the above would at once secure the sanitary surveyor a recognised position with or without uniform, and give greater confidence to the medical officer of health in the ability of his executive assistant. A SURVEYOR AND INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES. May 21, 1876. ABOUT 200 of the residents of the township of Newton Heath, near Manchester, who had attained the age of seventy years and upwards, were lately entertained at the Conservative Hall, Oldham Road, Newton Heath. It was stated that a committee had made a personal canvass through the neighbourhood, and had discovered upwards of 280 persons above seventy years of age, the average age being seventy-five. A NEW SYSTEM OF INTERMENT: EARTH TO EARTH' COFFINS. Sanitary Invention. As Mr. Seymour Haden pointed out in his letters to the Times our dead are scarcely properly termed buried. In consequence of their being sealed up in coffins of lead or wood, the decomposing bodies are imprisoned with all the noxious gases until such time as the wood may leak or the lead may burst, as is invariably the case, although it may not be generally known. Before this happens the greater part of the muscular fabric of the body is usually resolved down into a more or less liquid condition, and in this state undoubtedly a vast store of human remains are found highly dangerous to the health of the community. When a grave is opened no one can tell how shortly previous the results of decomposition may have been poured out into it, and revolting putrefaction may be revealed the moment the sexton's spade approaches the last tenant of the grave; in fact, the antiseptic properties of the earth have not become available to absorb the gases or liquids as they are gradually developed, but only when they have accumulated to such an extent that they cannot be absorbed and rendered innocuous. The wicker coffins which were suggested for carrying out the principle of earth to earth burial have one great objection, inasmuch as the corpse must throw off objectionable and deleterious gases long prior to the period usually accorded before sepulture. If the Eastern system of burial within twenty-four hours were adopted this might not be so liable to give so much offence and danger, but as the English custom demands the attendance of relatives and friends, perhaps, from a distance, all decency is violated in the attempt to carry out these rites without undue haste. Something far better than a compromise has been effected been the two systems, in the new patent Necropolis Earth to Earth 'Coffin. This is constructed of materials which effectually prewwent the escape of gaseous and offensive emanations for some short period, and enables the corpse to be carried to the grave after the customary lapse of time in the usual manner. But when this coffin, which possesses the strength, appearance and other essentials of the solid coffin is placed in contact with the mother earth, the composition of which it is constructed becomes disintegrated, and shortly afterwards allows the body to be resolved into its constituent elements. By this means earth to earth burial is effected without offending in any way the natural feelings of the mourners, or permitting any dangerous effluvia to escape; and the true earth to earth principle is so carried out that as decomposition gradually proceeds the products are absorbed and the marvellous antiseptic action of the surrounding earth prevents the dangers common to the accumulation of human remains in wooden or other coffins. It must be observed, however, that this excellent method of constructing coffins demands a considerable knowledge of the materials which are best adapted to fulfil this desirable object. Notice of Meeting. ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPAL AND SANI- APPOINTMENTS OF HEALTH OFFICERS, INSPECTORS OF NUISANCES, ETC. CHAPMAN, Mr. P. (previously Surveyor, Inspector, and Collector), has been appointed Collector to the Abersychan Urban Sanitary Authority. DAVIES, Mr. William Ynyr, has been appointed Surveyor and Inspector of Nuisances to the Cwm-du Ürbau Sanitary Authority, vice Healey, resigned. DREW, Samuel, M.D. Univ. Aberd., L. R.C.S. Edin., L.S.A. Lond., S.S. Cert. Cambridge, has been appointed Lecturer on State Medicine at the Sheffield School of Medicine. EYRE, Mr. H. R.,_ has been reappointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Ashborne Rural Sanitary District at 20. for one year. HESSLEGRAVE, Joseph, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A. Lond., has been reappointed till September 29 Medical Officer of Health for the Golcar, Linthwaite, Longwood, Marsden-in-Almondbury, Marsden-in-Huddersfield, Scammonden, and Slaithwaite Urban Sanitary Districts. KEITH, Alexander Ewing, M.B., C.M. Univ. Edin., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Guisborough Rural Sanitary District, vice Keith, Anderson, and Chalmers, whose appointments have expired: 400l. for one year. LOFTHOUSE, Mr. W., has been reappointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Wakefield Rural Sanitary District, and his salary increased from 120l. to 140l. per annum. SCATLIFF, John Milton Elborough, M.B., C.M. Univ. Aberd., M.R.C.S. Eng., has been appointed Certifying Factory Surgeon for the Brighton District, vice Philbrick, resigned. TREPESS, Mr. Francis P., has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Warwick Rural Sanitary District, vice Woods, whose appointment has expired: 200l. per annum for three years. WINN, Mr. William Edmund Metcalfe, has been appointed clerk to the Aysgarth Rural Sanitary Authority, vice Winn, deceased. VACANCIES. ABERSYCHAN URBAN SANITARY AUTHORITY. Surveyor and Inspector of Nuisances: 100l. per annum. Application, June 6, to Alexander Edwards, Clerk. Clerk. BELPER RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY. Surveyor and Inspector of Nuisances: 120/. per annum. Application, June 1, to James Bassett, Clerk. HUDDERSFIELD, CORPORATION OF, and URBAN SANITARY AUTHO MIDDLESBOROUGH, CORPORATION OF, and URBAN SANITARY AU- NORTH BIERLEY URBAN SANITARY AUTHORITY. Engineer and Surveyor: 250l. per annum. Application, June 2, to Lancaster and Wright, Clerks, Bradford, Yorkshire. PRESTON RURAL SANITARY DISTRICT. Inspector of Nuisances: 120/. per annum. Application, 29th instant, to G. Dixon, Clerk to the Authority. RUNCORN RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY. Inspector of Nuisances: 120l. for one year. Application, 30th instant, to H. Linaker, Clerk, Frodsham. SOWERBY URBAN SANITARY DISTRICT. Medical Officer of Health. Application, June 1, to Richard Hodgson, Esq., Chairman of the Authority. TAUNTON URBAN SANITARY DISTRICT. Inspector of Nuisances: 80l. per annum. YORK RURAL SANITARY DISTRICT. Medical Officer of Health: 150l. per annum. Application, June 1, to Henry Brearey, Clerk to the Authority. YORKSHIRE, NORTH RIDING OF. Public Analyst. Application, June 1, to William C. Trevor, Deputy Clerk of the Peace, Northallerton. REFORMED FUNERALS, upon the Earth to Earth principle, as advocated in the Times, and dispensing with all procession. Explanatory pamphlet, with list of charges, gratis on application.-LONDON NECROPOLIS COMPANY, No. 2 Lancaster Place, Strand, W.C. Patent Earth to Earth Coffins. NOTICE. THE SANITARY RECORD is published every Saturday morn |