HART, ERNEST ABRAHAM English medi cal journalist, was born in London on June 26, 1835, the son of a Jewish dentist. Beginning on the Lancet in 1857, he was made editor of the British Medical Journal in 1866. He took a leading part in the exposures which led to the reform of the treatment of sick poor throughout England, and the Infant Life Protection act of 1872, aimed at the evils of baby-farming, was largely due to his efforts. The record of his public work covers nearly the whole field of sanitary legislation during the last 3o years of his life : the amendments of the Public Health and of the Medical acts, the measures relating to notification of infectious disease and to vaccination, and the improvement of factory legislation, etc. From 1872 to 1897 he was chairman of the parliamentary bill committee of the British Medical Association. He died on Jan. 7, 1898.