as possible, be placed before him. Let any young man sit calmly down and think good and deep before embarking on medicine as a life career. Let him add it up in dollars and cents what it is going to cost him in board, books and fees; let him add to this the amount he has been earning per annum or could earn per annum. Let him take this sum total at the end of the five years he has devoted to the study of medicine, less his cost of living, and he will have a capital of an earning possibility far in advance of an M.D. This will apply to the average student, and possibly to more than the average student. But the difficulty will be in getting him to believe it.

The Medical Student's life has greatly changed within the last two decades. Gradually the "rush," the "haze," and "elevation" has died out as popular introductories. The annual dinners or banquets have been almost done away with, and along with them have gone the beer and the booze. It is doubtful if in many of the colleges there is ever heard," "Tis wine that makes you feel so fine." The Hallowe'en escapades are things of the past. There is no more pelting of professors with split peas or shelled corn. There is no hideous nightmares like the suspending of cadavers on butchers' hooks. Smoking in most of the dissecting rooms is a practice fast going into oblivion; in fact, that practice would not be tolerated in a well-conducted institution. Teas and assemblies and light amusements have superseded those thrilling episodes of vanishing days. But how the old 'un loves to tell his reminiscences and chuckle over the gapes of the present youngster. It is the day now for sober determination to work and get the best that is going in the progress of the medical course.

Statistics regarding the foreign-born insane in Ontario, as given by the Hon. Mr. Hanna at a political meeting in Nova Scotia, are somewhat alarming, and they would certainly call for more rigid inspection at the hands of the immigration authorities of the Federal Government. Mr. Hanna says that some two years ago his department began to trace the history as far as possible of those already in the various hospitals for the insane in Ontario. He is reported as having spoken as follows: The result of our investigation shows an alarming increase in the proportion of foreigners committed to these institutions since 1903. The foreign-born popu

lation in our hospitals for the insane was 90 per cent. more admitted in 1907 than in 1903, the exact figures being: in 1903, 180 foreignborn admissions; while in 1907 we had 346 foreign-born insane dumped into the institutions of our Province, at a cost of $200.00 each per year for the remainder of their days, which statistics show will average thirty years. This means an outlay of $6,000 per patient, or a total charge in future payments in respect of the admissions of 1907 alone, of upwards of $2,000,000. Reverting to the Toronto institution, he went on to say that the proportion of people born outside of Canada, according to the census returns, is 20 per cent., yet in the year 1907, out of 262 admissions to the above institution, 134 were foreign-born, that is, born outside of Canada, while but 128 were Canadians. That is, the foreign-born contributed 134 instead of 32, which would have been their proper proportion. They contributed over four times their proportion. Of this 134, 77 were very recent arrivals-some of them being admitted almost from the port of landing to the institution and made a charge upon the people of Ontario. This means that in that institution alone there has been imposed upon the people of Ontario a charge of $804,000. Two years ago the Province of Ontario began to deport, and since that time upwards of two hundred have been deported.

Criminal Abortion has been much in evidence not only in Canada, but in the United States. That it is a subject which vitally concerns the medical profession on both sides of the line has been forcibly brought home to us by a lay paper here and a professional paper there. In his address as chairman of the section on obstetrics and diseases of women of the American Medical Association, Dr. Walter B. Dorsett, St. Louis, Mo., dealt with this subject under the following title: Criminal Abortion in Its Broadest Sense. He considers it is high time that medical men should have a heart-toheart talk on this matter; and, in view of the position of affairs in certain places in Canada, this might advantageously be done. He tersely puts these questions: Does it concern us as physicians? Does it concern us as members of the American Medical Association and of this section? Does it concern us as citizens of this, our beloved country? These can likewise apply in Canada. If the abdominal surgeon and obstetrician can see the results of interference with conception, can we afford to be blind to it? The paramount question, however, is that of the criminality of the woman herself and he discusses it fully. All know that these unfortunate

girls and women come to the doctors inciting them to crime. If the operation is undertaken by unprincipled men or women, who have their moral senses blunted, the woman herself is an active participant in the crime, although passive in the operation. Should she be punished? So far as our knowledge of the Criminal Code of Canada goes-and we are informed that it is so-there is no punishment for the one who first incites to this crime and who subsequently participates in it. The doctors do not go chasing after this, as they certainly do not after other medical or surgical work. It comes to them. If they or any other man or woman undertakes it they are the only ones punishable. The woman goes scot free in the eyes of the law and only bears the odium of her immorality, which is good lot, but is it enough? In nine States of the American Union a woman who solicits, submits to, or performs an abortion on herself is guilty of a felony. In seven States the above offence is a misdemeanor, and in the remaining States and Territories, namely, thirty-five, the woman is guilty of no crime. Does this show that in Canada our Criminal Code is inefficient and inadequate in connection with the crime of criminal abortion, as well as in the thirty-five States of the United States referred to? The answer that the victim has already suffered enough and run enough danger cannot be considered a sufficient one; and it appears to us that our laws are not good enough nor sufficient enough against the crime of criminal abortion. In three ways can good work be performed: Education of mothers to the fact that they should educate their daughters that conception means life and not quickening; that medical faculties do their duty in the matter of teaching medical ethics; that the provincial and national medical bodies work towards securing the enactment of laws applicable to the inciters of these crimes.

News Items

LT-COL. WM. NATTRESS, M.D., died recently in Toronto, in his 59th year.

DR. G. W. RACEY has purchased the medical practice of Dr. Cawthrope, Parkhill.

DR. CALLAGHAN, who comes from Port Arthur, has started a practice at Chepstow.

DR. TOM MCCRAE, Baltimore, Md., was married recently to Miss Gwynne, of Dundas, Ont.

DR. CHARLES R. DICKSON has returned to Toronto from the meeting of the electropeutists.

DR. JOHN CLARK, Smithport, Pa., was recently visiting in Hamilton and vicinity, his old home.

THE Montreal General Hospital will receive $5,000 under the will of the late Alderman Carter of that city.

DR. CHAS. E. HICKEY, Medical Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane, Cobourg, died September 19th, aged 68 years.

DR. J. MCCULLOUGH, late of Blackstock, leaves shortly for Edinburgh to spend some time in the principal hospitals there.

DR. WADE, of Cobourg, has been appointed surgeon of the 40th Regiment. Dr. McCoun, of Campbellford, is the senior surgeon.

DR. C. II. BRERETON, of Bethany, a well-known physician, died at the residence of his son, Dr. T. C. Brereton, at Carnduff, Sask.

DR. VICTOR Ross, of Barrie, has returned from Edinburgh and London, where he spent the past several months walking the hospitals.

DR. W. BRODDY, Uxbridge, leaves shortly for England to take a position as surgeon on a vessel plying between England and South Africa.

DR. E. A. E. HOWARD, who has severed his connection with St. Michael's Hospital, has been appointed ship's surgeon on the Empress of India.

DR. DAVIDSON has taken the place of Dr. Racey as assistant to Dr. C. W. Holmes, of Oshweken, Ont. Dr. Racey has gone to Parkhill to practice.

TYPHOID FEVER CASES in the Montreal hospitals during the last week in September were as follows: Hotel Dieu, 30; Royal Victoria, 50; General, 41; Notre Dame, 20.

DR. T. ALEXANDER DAVIES, Toronto, desires to announce to the members of the profession that he is confining his practice exclusively to the eye, ear, nose and throat.

To the endowment fund of the Montreal General Hospital $40,000 has recently been donated under the will of the late Mrs. Hope and by Mrs. George R. Hooper.

DRS. GRAHAM CHAMBERS and Walter McKeown, editors of this journal, have been made Associate Professors in Medicine and Surgery respectively in the University of Toronto.

DR. ADAM H. MILLER, who spent the holiday season at the home of his father, ex-Warden John Miller, J.P., of Haldimand Township, has returned to Toronto, where he will spend a year as assistant to Dr. Caven.

DR. HENRY, son of the late Andrew Henry, formerly Clerk of Mono Township, is now practising his profession at Estevan, Sask. Dr. Henry purchased a new residence in that town recently and intends remaining there.

DR. CHARLES M. STEWART, who has been doing post-graduate work in London this last six years, has returned to Toronto and opened an office at 142 Carlton Street. He will confine his practice to diseases of the ear, nose and throat.