Dissertations on the above subjects must be transmitted, post-paid, to J. B. S. Jackson, M.D., Boston, on or before the first Wednesday in April, 1875. The following are the questions proposed for 1876:

I. Civil Hospital-Construction (not of Lunatic Asylums); Location, Materials, Arrangement, Warming, Ventilation, Drainage, Lighting; with Designs.

The author of a dissertation on this subject, considered worthy of a prize, will be entitled to a premium of Three Hundred Dollars.

2. Do Women require mental and bodily rest during Menstruation; and to what extent?

The author of a dissertation on this subject, considered worthy of a prize, will be entitled to a premium of Two Hundred Dollars.

Dissertations on these subjects must be transmitted as above, on or before the first Wednesday in April, 1876.

Each dissertation must be accompanied by a sealed packet, on which shall be written some device or sentence, and within which shall be enclosed the author's name and residence. The same device or sentence is to be written on the dissertation to which the packet is attached.

The writer of each dissertation is expected to transmit his communication to the President of the Committee, J. B. S. Jackson, M.D., in a distinct and

plain handwriting, and with the pages bound in book form, within the time specified.

Any clue by which the authorship of a dissertation is made known to the Committee, will debar such dissertation from competition.

Preference will be given to dissertations which exhibit original work.

All unsuccessful dissertations are deposited with the Secretary, from whom they may be obtained, with the sealed packet unopened, if called for within one year after they have been received.

By an order adopted in 1826, the Secretary was directed to publish annually the following votes :

I. That the Board do not consider themselves as approving the doctrines contained in any of the dissertations to which premiums may be adjudged.

2. That in case of publication of a successful dissertation, the author be considered as bound to print the above vote in connection therewith.

RICHARD M. HODGES, M.D., Sec'y,

Boston, Mass.

Fiske Medical Prize Questions.

The Trustees of the Fiske Fund, at the annual meeting of the Rhode Island Medical Society, held in Providence, June 10th inst., gave notice that no

award had been made by them for questions proposed for the year 1874.

They propose the following subjects for 1875:

I.

Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, its pathology and

treatment.

2. Pyæmia.

For the best dissertation on each or either of these subjects, they will pay the sum of Two Hundred Dollars.

Every competitor for a premium is expected to conform to the following regulations, viz. :

To forward to the Secretary of the Fiske Fund Trustees, on or before the first day of May, 1875, free of all expense, a copy of his dissertation, with a motto written thereupon, and also accompanying a sealed packet, having the same motto inscribed upon the outside, and his name and place of residence within.

Previously to receiving the premium awarded, the author of the successful dissertation must transfer to the Trustees all his right, title and interest in and to the same, for the use, benefit and behoof of the Fiske Fund.

Letters accompanying the unsuccessful dissertations will be destroyed by the Trustees unopened, and the dissertations may be procured by their re

spective authors, if application be made therefor

within three months.

LLOYD MORTON, M.D.,

FENNER H. PECKHAM, M.D., Trustees.
GEO. W. JENCKS, M.D.,

S. AUGUSTUS ARNOLD, M.D.,

Annual Prize

Secretary of Fiske Fund.

OF THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

Dr. B. F. Dawson, the founder and late editor of the above Journal, offers the following prize for the best essay on the subjoined subject :

One hundred and fifty dollars, in gold, for the best essay on "Congenital Deformities, and Diseases depending on Maladies of the Uterus or Membranes."

The competing essays must be sent to the publishers (Wm. Wood & Co., 27 Great Jones Street, New York) of the Journal on or before April 15, 1875.

The names of the authors must accompany the manuscripts in sealed envelopes, as usual with prize papers.

The essays may be written in the English, French, or German language; and that one to which the prize may be awarded by the censors, whose names will accompany and vouch for the verdict, is claimed for first publication in the Journal.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Board of Health of the City of Chicago. Office, Rooms 15, 16, 17, Honore Block.

Created by law, March 9, 1867.

The Board is composed of the Mayor and six other persons, appointed by the Judges of the Superior Court; three of these must be physicians. Two members are appointed biennially to fill the places of two who go out of office. They receive $500 annually for services, and are required to give bonds of $25,000 for the faithful discharge of their duties.

The Board establishes regulations deemed necessary to promote the health and sanitary condition of the city, and has general supervision over subjects of this class. They employ sanitary inspectors and police, and make annually a report in writing to the Common Council.

The Board elects one of their members Sanitary Superintendent, who is the chief executive officer, and who devotes his whole time to the duties of the office, and receives $2,500 salary; they elect also a Health Officer, who is a general executive officer