File Nos. 002-95103
                                                        811-04196


               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                     Washington, D.C.  20549




       EV Traditional Worldwide Health Sciences Fund, Inc.
                   (Exact Name of Registrant)


                    NOTIFICATION OF ELECTION

     The undersigned registered open-end investment company hereby
notifies the Securities and Exchange Commission that it elects to
commit itself to pay in cash all redemptions by a holder of record
of an interest in the registrant, limited in amount with respect to
each holder during any 90-day period to the lesser of (i) $250,000,
or (ii) one percent of the net asset value of the registrant at the
beginning of such period, as provided by Rule 18f-1 under the
Investment Company Act of 1940.  It is understood that this
election is irrevocable while such Rule is in effect unless the
Commission by order upon application permits the withdrawal of this
Notification of Election.

                            SIGNATURE

     Pursuant to the requirements of Rule 18f-1 under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has caused this
notification of election to be duly executed on its behalf in the
city of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the 16th
day of September, 1996.

                              EV TRADITIONAL WORLDWIDE HEALTH
                                 SCIENCES FUND, INC. 


                              By/s/ James B. Hawkes         
                                President and Director


Attest:  /s/ Eric G. Woodbury      
          Assistant Secretary