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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[June 29, 1872. 
THE WATER FAMINE IN BERMONDSEY. 
The dispute which has now for some tune been i 
raging, as to whether the water supplied to the me¬ 
tropolis is open to the charge of containing unoxi¬ 
dized recent sewage contamination, or whether the 
Government officials have been slandering good 
water and indulging in unnecessary indignation 
against the companies supplying it, has at least in 
one district been in abeyance during the recent hot 
weather; for in Bermondsey the people have been 
left almost without any supply at all, either good, 
bad or indifferent. Grimly satirical upon our 
boasted civilization is it that side by side with the 
newspaper accounts of the opening of a new museum 
for the special educational benefit of the “ working 
man ” in the east of London, we may read how lus 
representative in the south of London has had to 
bring home the water for tea in a bottle from 
the factory where he works, or how he and his wife 
have had to wash for three days in the same water. 
And with such scarcity of supply for necessary wants 
of course such luxuries as baths and washhouses 
or the flushing of sewers are not to be thought of. 
The want of interest that, spite of the new 
watchword, has been evidenced in the House of 
'Commons about the progress of the Public Health 
Bills, may perhaps be partly attributed to a feeling 
that the creation of machinery for securing purity 
of water without a guarantee of the supply is, 
after all, putting the cart before the horse. Such 
a state of things would hardly be tolerated in an 
■effete Eastern town; but the probability is that 
there the people would not be handed over to that 
modern invention for defying public opinion and 
sinking the individual conscience—a public com¬ 
pany. 
VIRES ACQUIRIT EUNDO. 
From Clifton we hear that the members of the 
trade, with one exception, have joined in a notice 
to the public that on and after the 1 st of July their 
shops will be closed for general business at 7 p.m. 
At Kilburn, the pharmacists have determined to act 
with those of St. John’s Wood. And from Shepton 
Mallet we have received a circular, sent out by Mr. 
G. J. Cottrill, saying that as he does not keep an 
assistant he proposes to close at five o’clock on 
Wednesday afternoons. 
irmadiras jrf % Ijjanratcutital jsSwittg. 
EXAMINATIONS IN LONDON. 
June.lSth and 2 6th, 1872. 
Thirteen candidates presented themselves for the 
Major Examination; of these, -five failed. The follow¬ 
ing eight passed, and were declared duly qualified to be 
gistered as,— 
PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTS. 
♦Townley, Thomas William.... Ambleside. 
♦Jasper, Frederick William.... Penzance. 
♦Shenstone, William Ashwell .. Colchester. 
Rammell, Edward.Crediton. 
Warren, William...Chertsey. 
Jameson, William Edward.... Bristol. 
Bouttell, Harold .. .... Sudbury. 
Bradford, Cordley.Spalding. 
Forty-two candidates presented themselves for the 
Minor Examination; of these, sixteen failed. The fol¬ 
lowing twenty-six passed, and were declared qualified to 
be registered as 
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS. 
♦Watson, William.Chatham. 
♦Perry, George Edward ..Dudley. 
♦Goldsmith, John Jackson .... Abingdon. 
Cleaver, Edward Lawrance .. London. 
Wheeler, Albert ..Southsea. 
Dunston, Alfred .Spalding. 
Plummer, Arthur ...... .... Reading. 
Baynham, William Bevan .... Bath. 
Sturton, Richard.Cambridge. 
i f Edwards, Charles .London. 
\ Jones, Owen Williams .Flint. 
Sherburn, Frederick ... Keighley. 
Johnstone, William.. .Nottingham. 
Sangster, William .. Islington. 
Jones, David..Rhyl. 
Colling, Robert.............. Stockton-on-Tees. 
Newton, Thornton Albert 
Claughton ..Devonport. 
Brookes, Frederick James .... Selby. 
■s (Bell, Thomas ......Harrogate. 
I" ( Cordell, Richard Taylor.Bodmin. 
3 ( Leake, Thomas Whaplate .... London. 
& \ Taylor, Henry Francis.Exeter. 
" Thirlby, William Arthur .... Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 
Atkinson, Miles Christopher .. Manchester. 
Lewis, Edward...Sandown. 
France, Joseph.Rotherham. 
The above names are arranged in order of merit. 
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION. 
The undermentioned were received in lieu of this 
Examination:— 
Dr. Odlixg, F.It.S., the Fullerian Professor of 
Chemistry at the Hoyal Institution, has been elected 
Waynflete Professor of Chemistry in the University 
of Oxford, in the room of Sir Benjamin F. Brodie, 
F.R.S., resigned. Dr. Odlixg has also been elected 
a Fellow of Worcester College. 
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We learn from the ‘ British Medical Journal ’ 
that the Pharmaceutical Society of Lisbon has de¬ 
termined to hold an exliibition of Portuguese medi¬ 
cinal products, and that a committee has been ap¬ 
pointed to arrange the time, place and other details. I 
Certificates of the University of Cambridge. 
Bayston, George ....Guildford. 
Izod, James .. Sittingboume. 
Certificate of the University of Oxford. 
Daves, William .Torquay. 
Certificate of the University of Durham. 
Barkas, Charles Edward ...... Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
Certificates of the College of Preceptors. 
Pearson, Thomas Styan.York. 
Robinson, James Hedley.North Shields. 
♦ Passed with Honours. 
