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The Medical Register for 1881. (Spottiswoode and Co.)---From the latest

official data given in this volume, it appears that the number of persons legally qualified to practise in the United Kingdom is 22,936. Of those, there are in England 15,018 ; in Scotland, ;

in Ireland, 8,564; so that it appears that 69 per cent. of the whole number of British practitioners are registered in England, 15 per cent,. in Scotland, and 15-6 per cent. in Ireland. A slight increase has taken place in the number of practitioners during the last five years, the total number of medical practitioners for 1877 having been 22,713, while it is now 22,936.