THE POOR-LAW MEDICAL OFFICERS' MEMORIAL.

Medical charities, medical politics: the Irish dispensary system and the poor law, 1836–1872

This volume marks a welcome addition to published research on the establishment of a system of state medicine in Ireland during the nineteenth century. The author's objective is to explore the significance of the Medical Charities Act, 1851, and to analyse its effect on medical relief and epidemic control in Ireland up to the conversion of the Poor Law Commission to the Local Govemment Board in...

Entomology for Medical Officers

compass a general account of those arthropods with which the medical officer in tropical climates is concerned. It goes without saying that, coming from the pen it does, the book fulfils its aim. But it does more than this; it compresses into an extraordinarily small compass, an enormous amount of information. The language is a model of conciseness with the occasional diversion of a gentle gibe...

Royapuram Medical School War Memorial

Sir,?We trust you will give the hospitality of your columns to call the attention of the former students of the Royapuram Medical School, and the Medical College, Madras, to the Memorial we are endeavouring to raise to the old students who fell in the Great War. Till now we have received ten names, including those of the Medical College, and a sum of Rs. 1,000 has been collected. It is suggeste...

Designation of Army Medical Officers

Sin,?I was glad to sec a letter in your June number on the " Designation of Army Medical Officers," and I quite agree with i 's remarks on the subject. At present all Medical Officers in the Army are familiarly called " Doctors" (whatever their rank may be) ; but where the order of precedence is so studiously carried out as it is in India, the relative Military rank of Medical Officers ought to...

Child Welfare and the Teachings of Certain Dentists, School Medical Officers, Medical Officers of Health and Other Medical Men