second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors seventy-five single bed rooms, each provided with a lavatory and large closet. On each of these floors most abundant bath and toilet facilities are provided. In the basement are found the kitchen, pantry, serving rooms, etc. The kitchen is equipped with all the apparatus of a large hotel kitchen, and includes a nine foot imperial French range with broiler, stock and vegetable boilers, steam tables and other apparatus. The kitchen, pantries, toilet rooms, bath rooms and corridors are floored and wainscoted with enameled tile in white and cream with sanitary base, quarter rounds in all corners, and all other provisions for insuring absolute cleanliness. At the other end of the basement, well isolated from the kitchen suite, is a well lighted and completely equipped gymnasium for the exclusive use of the nursing staff. On the first floor are the dining room, offices, reception rooms and reading room. A very important addition to these features is the roof garden, which covers the entire area of the building, abundantly furnished with awnings and other necessary facilities, and including a large deck house for use in rainy or inclement weather. No pains have been spared in the plan or construction of this building to increase and maintain the good health of the nursing staff, and their safety has been carefully looked after in another direction by having a building thoroughly fireproof, with a smoke and fireproof stair tower of easy access from each floor. An elevator large enough to contain a bed runs from the basement to the roof garden.

The Maternity Building, which is the second of the group counting from Fifteenth Street, is 48′0'' x 88′0' on the ground plan and five stories high. The basement contains the kitchen, serving rooms, dining rooms, store rooms and other accessories of a similar nature. On the first floor are the physicians' offices and reception room; on the second floor there are four single rooms and two large wards and a delivery room; on the third and fourth floors there are five single rooms and two large wards each; on the fifth floor one single room and two large wards, operating room, surgeons' rooms, and sterilizing, etherizing and recovery rooms, with the operating room running up into the attic story. Each of these floors contains a well equipped diet kitchen, linen room, bath room and lavatories and all other necessary facilities. This building is fireproof throughout.

The building known as the Power House, which is the most easterly of the group, is 42′0′′ x 88′0′′ on the ground plan, seven stories high, including basement and attic. The basement and first story contains dynamos, engines, boilers, ice machine, etc. The boiler capacity being 450 H. P. On the second floor are two laundries, each fully equipped with a complete plant of steam laundry machinery. The third and fourth floors contain bed rooms for the servants' staff, with fifteen single rooms and bath room on each floor. The third floor is assigned to the women servants and the fourth floor to the men. A double staircase provides separate access to each of these floors, which are otherwise completely isolated. The fifth floor is unfinished at present and allows for future extension.

The clinical amphitheatre is 45'0" in diameter and 32′0′′ high, containing as before noted two hundred sittings, and completely equipped with etherizing, sterilizing and recovery rooms and private operating rooms, surgeons' dressing room and sitting room, X-ray room, dark room and clinical laboratory. The lighting of the amphitheatre is entirely through skylights, and the room is finished throughout in marble and cement.

In order to avoid the danger of an exhaustion of the fuel-supply from any cause, a storage capacity of five hundred tons has been provided in the coal cellars.

The architect, who has co-operated with the hospital authorities in these

improvements, is Mr. Horace Trumbauer, 1408 Land Title Building, Philadelphia, and the contractors are Messrs. Doyle & Doak, 1509 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.

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The Homœopathic Medical Society of the County of Philadelphia held its April meeting in the Hahnemann Medical College on the evening of Thursday, the 14th. The evening was devoted to a symposium on Gonorrhoea, a series of brilliant papers being presented by William Hunsicker, M.D., who wrote on Acute Gonorrhoea in the Male;" L. T. Ashcraft, M.D., who discussed in detail "The Surgical Treatment of Chronic Gonorrhoea ;" D. B. James, M.D., who considered "Acute Gonorrhoea in the Female ;" and Theodore L. Chase, M.D., who presented a review of "The Chronic Manifestations of Gonorrhoea in the Female." The wide clinical experience of all these contributors to the symposium rendered the latter particularly valuable.

The Wm. B. Van Lennep Clinical Club held its monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, April 5th, at the residence of Dr. J. W. Hassler, 861 North Broad Street. Dr. Hassler presented a paper under the title of "SerumTherapy," which aroused great interest and brought forth a spirited discussion of the recent advances in therapeutics. An excellent luncheon was served.

The Germantown Homœopathic Medical Society of Philadelphia, Pa., held its April meeting on Monday evening, the 18th, at the Albemarle, the northeast corner of Thirteenth and Walnut Streets. A novel and interesting feature of the occasion was the presentation of an illustrated lecture on "Life Among the Greenland Esquimaux," by Dr. Thomas S. Dedrich, the surgeon of the Peary Arctic Expedition. The increasing interest in the meetings of the society was shown by a large attendance.

The Saturday Night Club of Microscopists devoted its monthly meeting, on April 16th, to viewing an autopsy performed by Dr. S. W. Sappington.

The Homœopathic Medical Society of Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties held a Hahnemann Anniversary Celebration at the Hotel Colonnade, Chester, on Tuesday, April 12th. Dr. Charles Mohr, of Philadelphia, was the orator of the occasion.

Personals.-Removed. Dr. W. P. Weaver has removed from 316 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, Pa., to No. 74 Main Street, Lockport, N. Y.

Dr. Malachi W. Sloan desires to announce his removal from No. 4830 Baltimore Avenue to No. 4825 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia. His office hours will be from 8 to 10 A. M., 6.30 to 7.30 P.M. Sundays, 8 to 10 A.M only. Both phones.

Philip F. Hoffman, M.D., announces his removal to No. 35 South Nineteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Office hours: 8 to 10 A. M., 5 to 7 P.M. Sundays, 9 to 11 A. M. Bell Telephone: Locust 34-34 D.

Dr. Charles A. Ayers has removed to 1633 South Broad Street, Philadelphia. Hours: 8 to 10 A. M., 3 to 4 P.M., 6 to 8 P.M. Bell Telephone.

U. A. Sharetts, M.D., has removed to 1225 N. Tejon Street, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dr. Charles H. Helfrich announces his removal, on May 1st, to the Windsor Arcade Building, Fifth Avenue and Forty-Sixth Street.

Dr. Sam Bell Wakefield, Hahnemann, 1902, has located at 1606 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, Cal.

David Posey Brown, M.D. (Class 1901), after serving as interne (18 months) at McKinley Hospital, Trenton, N. J., has located at 305 E. State Street, Trenton; has been elected a member of the Medical Staff of the Hospital.

Albra W. Baker, M.D., has removed from 427 Park Avenue to 539 Market Street, Williamsport, Pa.

Weston D. Bayley, M.D., has removed from the Pennsylvania Building to 124 South Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia. Hours: 9 to 11, morning, 6 to 8, evening, except Sunday evening. Telephones-Bell, Spruce 4646; Keystone, Race 5509 A; Residence Phone-Bell, Poplar 2507.

Dr. Wm. Erwin, Hahnemann, Philadelphia, 1897, until recently First Assistant at Pennoyer's Sanitarium, Kenosha, Wisconsin, has located at 4917 Cedar Avenue, West Philadelphia.

C. Albert Bigler, M.D., has located at 4813 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia. Office hours: Until 10 A.M., 7 to 8 P.M., Sundays, 8 to 10 A. M. only.

Dr. James Clarke Logan, of Pittsburg, Pa., recently spent a few hours among his friends in Philadelphia while en route to Germany, where he will spend a year in post-graduate study in the University of Freiburg.

Dr. Ralph Deming, who has been spending a year in Berlin in the study of dermatology and genito-urinary diseases, has returned to Philadelphia and will open an office within a few weeks.

Obituary.-THEODORE YOUNG KINNE, M.D., of Paterson, N. J., died at his home in that city from heart disease on March 4th, aged 65 years. Dr. Kinne was born near Syracuse, N. Y., on August 27, 1838. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1858, but at the end of a year concluded to take up the study of medicine and accordingly entered the Albany Medical College, whence he was graduated, valedictorian of his class, in 1862. In 1864 he entered the United States army as assistant surgeon of the 184th Regiment, New York Volunteers; and later he was transferred to the regular army service. In 1867 he entered upon practice in Paterson, N. J., and became a prominent figure in the life of that city. His personality won for him eminence in medical affairs, both State and National; and in 1891 he was elected president of the American Institute of Homœopathy.

HENRY MARTIN DEARBORN, M.D., of New York, died at his home in that city from pneumonia on February 16th, after an illness of eight days. Dr. Dearborn was born in Epson, N. H., in 1846. He received a portion of his medical training in Harvard and completed his course and received his degree from the medical school of Maine at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, in 1869. He began practice in Boston, but in 1880 he removed to New York and there achieved success as a dermatologist. He was a member of the faculties of the New York Homoeopathic College and of the New York College and Hospital for Women. His recently-issued book, Diseases of the Skin, is regarded as a standard work in that specialty.

HENRY G. SOUDER, M.D., who graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1875, died suddenly at his home in Woodstown, N. J., on April 1st, from apoplexy, aged 58.

GEORGE H. NEAL, M.D., a graduate of Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago in 1881, died at his home in Falls City, Neb., on March 15th.

HENRY NEWELL SMALL, M.D., who graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago in 1886, died at his home in that city on March 15th, from cerebral hæmorrhage, after an illness of two days, aged 62.

ALBERT STANLEY DOLAN, M.D., who graduated from the University of Michigan Homoeopathic Medical College, Ann Arbor, in 1882, and who was formerly assistant at the Southern California Hospital for the Insane, died at Riverside, Cal., March 21st, from heart disease.

CHARLES E. WETTON, M.D., of Syracuse, a graduate of the New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital, died in Hahnemann Hospital, New

York City, on March 26th, from cerebral hæmorrhage, after an illness of four weeks, aged 41.

CLINTON MUNSON, M.D., a graduate of the Hahnemann College of Chicago in 1872, of Tacoma, Wash., died from septicemia after a long illness in a sanitarium in San Francisco, March 20th.

MARY DENISON Moss, M.D., who graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine in 1875, died at her home in Providence, R. I., from heart disease, March 25th, aged 64.

American Institute of Homœopathy.-The American Institute of Homœopathy will meet in Niagara Falls June 20 to 25, 1904. Headquarters will be at the International-Cataract Hotel. Rooms can now be engaged. The Passenger Associations have granted a special rate of a fare-and-a-third for the round trip, on the certificate plan. About the middle of May the Annual Announcement of the coming meeting will be mailed to all homoeopathic physicians whose names are in Polk's Medical Register. Blank applications for membership will be enclosed. For further information address the Secretary, Dr. Ch. Gatchell, 100 State Street, Chicago, Ill.

The Class of '94, Hahnemann Medical College, is to commemorate its tenth anniversary at the time of the Alumni Banquet on May 21st. The class will meet in the college building at 11.30 A. M. on that day, thence adjourning to luncheon at the Philadelphia Athletic Club. Every member is urged to be present on the festive occasion.

The Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Western New York Homœopathic Medical Society was held at the Hotel Iroquois, Buffalo, New York, in the afternoon of April the 8th, and drew forth a large attendance of physicians from the western part of the Empire State. The scientific program included a number of valuable papers, as follows: "A Report on Three Kinds of Eye Cases," by F. B. Seitz, M.D., of Buffalo, N. Y.; "The Roentgen Ray in Medicine and Surgery," by L. J. Sanders, M.D., of Rochester, N. Y.; "The Diagnostic Value of Leucocytosis," by Warren C. Daly, M.D., of Rochester, N. Y.; "The Question of Diet in Chronic Nephritis," by F. Mortimer Lawrence, M.D., of Philadelphia; "The Complications of Posterior Urethritis and Their Treatment," by L. T. Ashcraft, M.D., of Philadelphia; and "The Diagnosis of Diseases of the Gall-Bladder and Ducts," by George T. Mosely, M.D., of Buffalo, N. Y.

In the evening an informal reception was extended to the guests of the society, Dr. F. Mortimer Lawrence and Dr. Leon T. Ashcraft, of Philadelphia. To this not only the members of the society, but their wives and lady friends were invited, and the function proved a most delightful one. It was followed by a banquet in the Teck café. There was no formal program, but brief speeches were made by the guests of honor and an excellent vaudeville entertainment was provided.

New York Letter.-Alumni Day, N. Y. H. M. C. and H., comes this year on May 12th. An elaborate program has been arranged, with morning clinics at Flower Hospital, luncheon at the college, to which everybody is invited, commencement exercises in the afternoon at Mendelssohn Hall, when the class of '04 will receive sheepskins, and, best of all, the Alumni banquet at the Waldorf in the evening. Don't fail, whatever else you miss, alumnus, physician, homoeopathist, wherever you may be-don't fail to reach the banquet. When you read this, turn the leaves of your appointment-book and write large and plain under date of May 12th, Alumni Dinner, WaldorfAstoria, 7 P.M. The business meeting of the association will be held just be

fore the dinner. Five hundred or more members of the profession will be in attendance. Prof. Willis A. Dewey, '80, is president of the Alumni Association, and will address the guests. Dr. William Francis Honan, '89, will be toastmaster, a rare feature that no one should miss. The classes of 1864, '69, '74, '79, '84, '89, '94 and '99 will have reunions. Come, and you shall have a royal good time.

The Practitioners' Course of the New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital will begin May 2 and close May 21, 1904. This will be the second annual session, and in view of the success last year, a large attendance is assured. Twenty or more distinct courses will be given, and all the hospitals connected with the college will be freely utilized for clinical material. Representative men of the faculty have promised special lectures in post-graduate work, and every attempt has been made to offer to the profession what is newest and best in the whole field of medicine at the present time.

The Academy of Pathological Science held a meeting on March 25th at the residence of Dr. G. F. Laidlaw, 58 West 53d Street. Dr. E. G. Rankin was elected to membership. Subjects and specimens were presented by Drs. E. G. Tuttle, A. R. McMichael, L. W. Ely, and G. F. Laidlaw.

The County Society met April 14th at Carnegie Hall. Dr. L. L. Danforth presented a paper entitled, "Some Questions Concerning Pregnancy and Labor," which was discussed by Dr. F. W. Hamlin. "Nasal Obstruction" was the title of a paper by Dr. R. M. Jones, presented by the Committee on Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat, G. A. Shepard, M.D., Chairman. The paper was discussed by Drs. Teets, Garrison, Dillingham, Reynolds, Berghaus, Young, and others. "Our Materia Medica, with Some Considerations as to its Applications," is the title of a forcible paper by Dr. J. C. White, Portchester, the reading of which was followed with the greatest interest. Dr. Thomas F. Dillingham supplemented the paper with an able discussion.

John Hutchinson, M.D.

Springfield, Mass., to Have a New $100,000 Homœopathic Hospital.-Daniel B. Wesson, multi-millionaire and surviving partner of the old revolver-manufacturing firm of Smith & Wesson, has made the greatest of his many gifts to charity and the city in which he is an honored citizen, by presenting to the trustees of the Hampden Homœopathic Hospital plans for a new hospital which he will build for them at a cost of between $75,000 and $100,000. The only conditions accompanying the gift are that Mr. Wesson shall be allowed to place in the building a tablet declaring it to be a memorial to his wife, and that the incorporators of the Hampden Homoeopathic Hospital agree to maintain the building.

The gift is the largest ever made by a Springfield man, and will result in Springfield being possessed of a private hospital unexcelled in the United States, and which will only be equalled by the woman's hospital to be built in New York City in the near future.

The plans for the building, which is to be built on the High Street property east of the building now used for the hospital, were prepared under the personal supervision of Mr. Wesson and Dr. J. H. Carmichael, the leading spirit of the hospital. In their preparation, every good point recognized in hospital construction was utilized. Many of the new ideas to be worked into the women's hospital in New York were incorporated in the plans, and others were arranged for which have never been used in any institution of the kind.

The business policy of the hospital will be changed but slightly. It will still be a hospital for the care of private cases, where any recognized and competent physician or surgeon can bring and treat or operate upon his patients. The fees will be changed but slightly, and then only for the rooms in which extra conveniences in the way of baths are installed.