H. Welch, Dr. S. W. Lambert, Dr. Thomas Darlington and Rev. Dr. Aked.

THE Medical Faculty of Paris has made regulations which will prevent the professors of anatomy, histology, physics, chemistry and pharmacology from serving as physicians, surgeons or accoucheurs in the hospitals, and will require them devote themselves exclusively to their teaching work.

QUARANTINE bars are to be raised in Texas against persons having advanced tuberculosis. This announcement is made by Dr. W. H. Brumby, the State health officer of Texas. Quarantine against cases of advanced tuberculosis might prove advantageous to the consumptives, if not to the State of Texas.

THE Imperial Board of Health of Germany furnishes seven different sera for diagnostic and medico-legal purposes. There is an agglutinating serum for typhoid, and one for cholera; a bactericidal serum for each of these diseases; an agglutinating paratyphoid serum, a dysentery serum and a precipitating serum for the blood test.

THE permanent home of the Henry Phipps Institute for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis is to be at the northeast corner of 7th and Lombard streets, Philadelphia, in the heart of a district where tuberculosis is most prevalent. The hospital will cost about $300,000. Mr. Phipps will also provide a sufficient endowment to make it self-supporting.

THE Indians of the Tulalip Reservation, Snobornish county, Washington, are said to be suffering an epidemic of influenza. Nearly 100 deaths are said to have occurred. There is an influenza, which has its endemic center in Southern Asia, and is vastly more fatal than the influenza which came to us from Siberia in 1889. The tropical sort of influenza may have attacked these unfortunate Indians.

Ir is reported that the German habit of frequent family outings in the parks has been seriously disturbed of late on account of the dust raised by automobilists. Vigorous protests are made, the complainants saying that their outings no longer refresh them, but that, on the contrary, they are injured and annoyed by the dust. The Imperial Board of Health is considering the situation seriously in the hope

of restoring to the poor and middle classes the fresh air which they enjoyed before the advent of the automobile.

A BOARD of medical officers will meet at the Bureau of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service in Washington on July 15 to examine candidates for admission to the grade of assistant surgeon to the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. Candidates must be between 22 and 30 years of age, and graduates of reputable medical colleges, and must furnish testimonials. The examination will be physical, oral, written and clinical. For invitation to appear before the board application should be made to the Surgeon-General, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, Washington, D. C.

THE great work of preparation for New York's new water supply was formally begun on June 20, when Mayor McClellan started the excavation for the Catskill aqueduct. The water is to be stored in three reservoirs in the Catskills. Aqueducts will pass under the Hudson river at Storm King at a depth of about 700 feet, coming up at Brickneck, on the east side of the river. The course of the conduits from here on will involve less remarkable, but still very interesting engineering. The estimated capacity of the new system is 600,000,000 gallons daily, and the cost is estimated at $161,000,000. Eight or ten years will be required for the completion of this great work.

THE Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises has secured the passage by the New York city council of a very useful ordinance. It provides that signs shall be placed on the corners of all streets in which a hospital is situated. The signs read "Hospital Street," and the areas bounded by these signs are to be known as "hospital zones." Within these hospital zones hucksters must not cry their wares, street musicians must not perform, street cars must run slow and avoid unnecessary whistling or gonging, teamsters must walk their horses, newsboys must ply their trade in comparative silence, and children must not collect in numbers nor make a noise. A fine of $10 is the penalty for disturbing these silent precincts with unnecessary noise. Health Commissioner Darlington and Police Commissioner Bingham are both said to be pleased with this ordinance, and will enforce it.

THE auspicious circumstances under which the ceremonies commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the University of Maryland were begun and ended marked the day "as the most glorious in all its history" as an institution.

Bishop Wilson, in the baccalaureate sermon, said:

"No fact was more in evidence during the centennial week than the all-prevailing sentiment among alumni, friends, invited guests and the people of Maryland that the old university was worthy of the respect and affection of the people of this State and nation; that she stood for the very best traditions and principles in her educational work and in her moral influences. If this assertion is correct, we owe to her founders and to those who have succeeded them a debt which those now directing her affairs and those who follow can only pay by observing the same high standards and living up to the same high conceptions of duty. 'Other men labored and ye entered into their labors.'"

OUR ALMA MATER. Dear mother of a kindred line,

On this, thy golden wedding day, Within thy temple, graced by time,

We meet to cheer thy onward way. We come from many a distant home,

From duties fraught with earnest care; We gather beneath thy lofty dome To breathe again thy native air. On this centennial of thy birth

The annals of an honored past, Like flowers fresh from mother earth, Survive the storms of winter's blast. We dearly love thy hallowed halls, Where art and science meet in truce; We hail with joy thy pillared walls, Adorned by time's most noble use. We here renew our student vows

To hold aloft thy code of truth; To till the seed our mother sows

In hearts alive with pride of youth. One hundred years, brief span of time, 'Tis but the early dawn of light; Mav vears with greater brightness shine As lights to mark thy onward flight! -From the Hospital Bulletin.