PERSONAL AND GENERAL ITEMS.

Dr. Harold L. Babcock, class of 1910, B.U.S.M., has opened an office in the Charlesgate, 535 Beacon St., Boston, where he will specialize in diseases of the ear.

Dr. Carl A. Williams has removed from New London, Conn., to 61 Passaic Ave., Passaic, N. J.

Dr. John A. Hayward, B. U. S. M., 1906, has removed from Bangor to Waterville, Maine.

FOR RENT.-A physician having a three-room office suite in Warren Chambers, 419 Boylston St., Boston, will sub-let for forenoon or evening hours. Address "Warren Chambers,” care of New England Medical Gazette, 422 Columbia Road, Dorchester, Mass.

Dr. H. T. Karsenar, recently a member of the staff of the University of Pennsylvania has been appointed Assistant Professor of Experimental Pathology at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. George Frederick Jelly died in Wakefield, Mass., on October 24, 1911. Dr. Jelly was born in 1842; graduated from Brown University, and from the Harvard Medical School. He has been closely associated with neurological work for the past forty years, having held many positions of prominence in various medical societies. He was perhaps the best known expert in mental diseases in Boston, and particularly in his court work was he highly esteemed as a frank and fearless witness.

Dr. W. Kernig, the well-known Russian physician, has retired from service in the Obuchow Hospital for Women at St. Petersburg, after fortyseven years of activity. He will doubtless be best known in medical science for his sign of meningitis.

The will of the late Mrs. Sarah P. Sears of Waltham provides a bequest of $10,000 to the Waltham Hospital.

The Boston Dispensary receives $100,000 and the Boston Lying-In Hospital $125.000, under the will of the late Dr. Charles G. Weld of Newport, R. I.

Early in October the Medical School of New York University paid the last $20,000 of its mortgage of $175,000 which has been carried for a long time. The payment was made possible by a bequest from John J. Kennedy.

The sixty-ninth anniversary of Ether Day was held at the Massachusetts General Hospital, on October 16. The speaker was Dr. Simon Flexner of New York City.

Mrs. E. H. Harriman has provided a fund for the Roosevelt Hospital, New York, the income from which will be used for a research laboratory at that institution.

Jefferson Medical College has formally received the new building for the new institute of anatomy, made possible by a gift from Mr. Daniel Baugh. This will be known as the Baugh Institute of Anatomy, the director of which will be Dr. Edward A. Spitzka, the well-known anatomist.

The use of saccharine has been forbidden by the New York Board of Health. This action is in accordance with a decision of the Department of Agriculture which forbids the use commercially of saccharine in the District of Columbia after January first next.

ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL.

On October 19 the Out-Patient Department of St. Luke's Hospital was transferred to a new pavilion which has just been completed. This building was provided for by a legacy of $200,000 from the late Mrs. John G. Heckscher, and will be called the Travers' Pavilion in memory of her parents. Its two lower floors will be used for dispensary purposes, the two upper for open-air treatment patients, and the intervening ones for dormitories.

It will be surprising to many to learn that this hospital, which is now one of the best equipped in the city, was started by the gift of one dollar made by a sick girl to the rector of the Church of the Holy Communion. This girl asked that the money be used to build a hospital, and the story of her interest went abroad and has brought in several millions.

NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE BOARD RESULTS.

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The results of the July examinations in New Hampshire should certainly be very gratifying to those who are interested in Boston University. time two students appeared for examination from the University. two received the highest marks given to any of the candidates, one 87 per cent. the other 84 per cent. The next highest mark received by and other candidate was 83 per cent.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL.

The forty-seventh annual report of this institution has recently appeared. It shows that during the year 10,365 patients were treated in the hospital proper, 3,250 in the South Department, 38,695 at the Haymarket Square Relief station, and 14,483 at the East Boston Relief station. In the OutPatient Department there were 40,032. In the report particular emphasis is given to the large amount of routine and research work performed in the Pathological Department.

A PROPOSED GARBAGE PLANT ON LONG ISLAND. According to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, a rumor is circulated to the effect that the city of Boston will use one end of Long Island for a city garbage plant. As the remainder of the Island is already devoted to the almshouse and its hospital, and to Government barracks, the proposition seems unwise, particularly so when one considers that there is a tuberculosis department in connection with the institution, also that the great number of inhabitants are aged and infirm. It is certainly hoped that the rumor is not well founded.

THE POOR BABY IN THE WINTER TIME.

"Imagine the great army of babies seen during the summer time to crowd up every available space; the sidewalk, thoroughfares, roofs, cars, parks, beaches, etc., at all hours from early morning until late at night; then ask yourself where are all these tiny ones in the winter time. Are they to be seen on the sidewalks, thoroughfares, beaches, etc.? Oh, no, they are almost like the summer clothes of a tenement-dweller stored away in a room for the winter, not to see the outside until the next warm season arrives. This their "wise" mothers do to prevent them from catching cold. Think of a baby put away to pass its days in the warmest part of the house, the kitchen, where there are half a dozen other children playing around and creating lots of dust; where an industrious mother sweeps the room, dusts off the mantel piece, removes the ashes from the stove, builds up a fire, and smoke escapes into the room, closes the chimney valve for economy's sake, and coal gas accumulates in the room, fries some potatoes, meat, or the milk scorches and fills the room with a choking suffocation; where the husband, boarders or visitors smoke cigarettes or pipe; and its nights in a bedroom having no window at all, or a shaft-window which is never opened and even many times something pasted around its framework to prevent the least escape of warmth and the ingress of cold air through any possible crevice, etc."-The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette.