Dr. John M. Cruice has been elected a member of the Board of Managers of St. Joseph's Hospital, Philadelphia, to succeed his father, recently deceased, also secretary.
Prof. T. B. Wiggin of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, who resigned from the faculty last spring, has been reinstated and now holds the chair of clinical diagnosis.
Dr. A. F. Lemke, Chicago, has been appointed adjunct professor of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Medical Department of the University of Illinois, Chicago.
At the department hospital, the Presidio, San Francisco, Cal., twenty-one cases of smallpox are at present in quarantine. The infection was carried from the East, about ten days ago.
Dr. A. B. Richardson, superintendent of the Massillon (Ohio) State Hospital, has been appointed superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, Washington, D. C., to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. W.