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Dr. John Reid Forbes has been appointed a

member of the executive council and an official memberof the legislative council of the Gambia.British Serbian Units

The annual dinner of the British Serbian Units branchof the British Legion will be held on Thursday, Sept. 27th,at 7.30 P.M., at the Lysbeth Hall, Soho-square, London.

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Lieut.-Colonel A. E. Kidd of the 33rd Stationary Hospital,Macedonia, will take the chair. Tickets may be had fromMiss Marx, 24, -Nlelcornbe-court, Dorset-square, London,N.W.I.

King’s College HospitalOn Oct. 18th a service will be held in the church of

St. Clement Danes, Strand, London, W.C., at 5 P.M., tomark the twenty-first anniversary of the establishmentof King’s College Hospital in South London. TheArchbishop of Canterbury will give the address.

Society for the Study of InebrietyOn Tuesday, Oct. 2nd, at 4 P.M., Sir Malcolm Delevingne

will deliver the fifteenth Norman Kerr memorial lectureto this society in Friends House, Euston-road, London,N.W. The subject is to be Some International Aspectsof the Problem of Drug Addiction. Sir Malcolm was latelyBritish representative on the opium advisory committeeof the League of Nations.43rd Field Ambulance Reunion DinnerThe 43rd Field Ambulance R.A.M.C. are holding a

reunion dinner at the Grosvenor Hotel, Deansgate,Manchester, on Saturday, Oct. 27th, at 6 r.M. The secretaryfor the dinner is Mr. W. C. Dickson, 76, Boswall-drive,Edinburgh, who has compiled a history of the unit.A Hospital MergerThe Act to amalgamate the South Devon and East

Cornwall Hospital, the Royal Albert Hospital, and theCentral Hospital, Plymouth, has been issued by H.M.Stationery Office in book form. The full title of the measureis the Prince of Wales’s Hospital Plymouth Act, 1934,and it is dated July 12th, 1934. Sir Henry Lopes isnominated the first president of the court of governors.King’s Fund Miniature HospitalThe miniature hospital belonging to King Edward’s

Hospital Fund has lately returned from a year’s tour inthe provinces and will be on view at various shops in thesuburbs of London, as follows : Pratt’s, Streatham,Sept. 17th-29th; Ely’s, Wimbledon, Oct. 8th-20th;Marshall Roberts, Camden Town, Oct. 24th-Nov. 3rd ;Grant’s, Croydon, Nov. 6th-10th ; Chiesman’s, Lewisham,Dec. 12th-24th. Descriptions of the hospital, and corre-spondence, were published in THE LANCET last year (1933,i., 95, 223, and 277).Night Motor Volunteers

Dr. W. M. Frazer, medical officer of Liverpool, haswritten to the Merseyside Hospitals Council expressinghis thanks for the successful way in which it has organisedthe hospitals’ night volunteer motor service. The service,which was begun in 1931, is for the benefit of subscribersto the penny-in-the-pound scheme. Relatives and friendsof patients who are acutely ill are conveyed to and fromthe hospitals during the hours of the night when othermeans of transport are not available.A Rheumatism Supervisory Centre

Several encouraging points are mentioned in the annuareport of Dr. Reginald Miller, the physician in charge o:the rheumatism supervisory centre at Paddington GreerChildren’s Hospital. When the centre was opened in 1926 iiwas the first in London ; there are now more than a dozerrun on the same lines. " The number of serious relapse:and fatalities appears to be growing less," Dr. Mille]says, " probably owing to the fact that we are now gettinfour cases earlier and before they are badly affected witlheart disease." It is also noticeable that when a realbsevere case of rheumatic heart disease comes unde:observation the child is almost always one that has nobeen under any efficient scheme of supervision. Hi

points out, however, that rheumatic infection in ohildrejhas been exceptionally mild during the last two years, an(it is hardly likely that this mildness is permanent.

Medical DiaryInformation to be included in this column should reach aas

in proper form on Tuesday, and cannot appear if it reachesus later than the first post on Wednesday morning.Ms !(t<e?’ (Aa <Ae )’s< post OM TFeMesay morning.

LECTURES, ADDRESSES. DEMONSTRATIONS. &c.FELLOWSHIP OF MEDICINE AND POST-GRADUATEMEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 1, Wimpole-street, W.MONDAY, Sept. 17th, to SATLTRDAY, Sept. 22nd.-WEST-

’ MINSTER HOSPITAL, S.W. Course in Medicine andSurgery, open to men graduates only.-MEDICALSoCIETY oF LONDON, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W. Lecture-demonstration, by Dr. A. E.Clark-Kennedy, on Hemiplegia, at 2.30 P.M. on Tuesday,Sept. 18th.-PANEL OF TEACHERS. Individual clinicsin various branches of medicine and surgery are avail-able daily.&mdash;Courses of instruction, clinics, &c.,arranged by the Fellowship are open only to membersand associates.

AppointmentsEVANS, H. T., D.M. Oxon., M.R.C.P. Lond., has been appointed

Honorary Physician to the Cardiff Royal Infirmarv.GAIRDNER, A. C., B.M. Oxon., F.R.C.S. Eng., Honorary Assistant

Surgeon to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.GILLESPIE, N. A., B.M. Oxon., Honorary Assistant Anaesthetist

to the London Hospital.TODD, T. F., M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S. Eng., M.C.O.G., Assistant

Radium Registrar to the Christie Hospital and Holt RadiumInstitute. Manchester.

Dewsbury and District General Infirmary.&mdash;The followingappointments are announced :-

PYRAH. L. N., Ch.M., M.Sc. Leeds, F.R.C.S. Eng., HonoraryViRiting Surgeon ; and

MOIR, P. J., M.C., M.B. Glasg., F.R.C.S. Eng., HonoraryConsulting Surgeon.

Certifying Surgeons under the Factory and Workshop Acts :Dr. R. ST. J. KEMM (Cheddar, Somerset).

Medical Referee under the Workmen’s Compensation Act.1925 : Dr. F. P. STURM, of Leigh, Lanes, for the Altrincham,Warrington (Circuit No. 7) and Leigh (Circuit No. 8)Districts.

Births, Marriages, and DeathsBIRTHS

ADAMSON.&mdash;On Sept. 5th, at Palmerston-place, Edinburgh,.the wife of W. A. D. Adamson, F.R.C.S. Edin., of a son.

FREEMAN.&mdash;On August 25th, the wife of Dr. John DavidFreeman, of Gloucester, of a daughter.

HINCHLIFF.&mdash;On Sept. 8th, at Wakefield, the wife of G. W.Hinchliff, B.M., B.Ch. Oxon., of Dover, of a daughter.

JONES.&mdash;On August 28th, at Carmarthen, the wife of A. TrevorJones, M.D. Lond., of a son.

PURKIS.&mdash;On Sept. 6th, at Wickham-road, Beckenham, the wifeof Kenneth Purkis, F.R.C.S., of a daughter.

THEOBALD.&mdash;On Sept. 3rd, at Elmwood-road, Chiswick, the wifeof G. W. Theobald, M.D., of Devonshire-street, W., of a son.

WALDRON.&mdash;On Sept. 3rd, at Vanbrugh Park, Blackheath,S.E.3, the wife of F. R. Waldron, M.B., D.P.H., of adaughter.

WOOD-SMITH.&mdash;On August 29th, at a nursing-home, the wifeof F. G. Wood-Smith, M.B., B.Ch., of Ashley-place, S.W.,of a son.

MARRIAGESANDERSON&mdash;ANDERSON.&mdash;On Sept. Sth, at St. Bartholomew-

the-Great, Roland G. Anderson, M.D. Lond., of Harley-street, to Beryl, only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Ander-son, of Hornsey.

STEEL&mdash;JACOBS.&mdash;On Sept. 1st, at Uxbridge, W. Arklay Steel,M.D. St. And., M.R.C.P. Lond., to Catherine F. Jacobs,daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Jacobs, Parkstone, Dorset.

DEATHSBENNETT.-On Sept. 8th, at King’s-road, W. Swanage, Major

W. L. Bennett, R.A.M.C. (retd.).CLARKE.&mdash;On August 31st, at Ashburnham-avenue, Harrow,

John Tertius Clarke, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., sonof the late Thomas Worthington Clarke, of Hinckley,Leicestershire, aged 69.

MEADEN.&mdash;On August 31st, at Dymchurch, Kent, Lieut.-ColonelAlban Anderson Meaden, R.A.M.C. (retired).

SHELLEY.&mdash;On Sept. 2nd, suddenly, at The Oast House, IvyHatch, Kent, Lewis Wilton Shelley, M.C ., M.R.C.S.,L.R.C.P. Lond., of Lowndes-street, London, S.W.

SPALDING.&mdash;On Sept. 10th, 1934, Surgeon-Commander A. D.Spalding (retired) at Cleveland House, Bounds GreenRoad, N.ll. No flowers by request.

N.B.&mdash;A fee of 7s. 6d. is charged for the insertion of Notices ofBirths, Marriages, and Deaths.

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