1098 for Women. He became honorary obstetric officer to the Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, in 1921 and lecturer in obste- trics and gynxcology in the university in 1926, and he was also on the staff of the Birmingham General Dispensary and West Bromwich District Hospital. Dr. Graham retired in 1934 and went to live in the western highlands of Scotland, but during the 1939-45 war he and his wife moved into residence at the Royal Infirmary, Inverness, where he worked as a general surgeon. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, whom he married in 1908. H. L., to whom we are indebted for this biography, writes: "Lewis Graham was much appreciated and admired by his patients, and respected by generations of students who bene- fited from his teaching and advice. " A great joy to him was his Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, acquired at the end of the 1914-18 war, which had an open touring body designed by himself and built under his scrutiny at Birmingham. It became a well-known landmark in Birming- ham. The car remained in superb condition and ran as well in 1968 as the day he got it. He was an excellent photographer and he and his wife were experienced mountaineers. They had climbed all the major’ Munros ’ in Scotland. As a member of the Midland Association of Mountaineers, he gave excellent travel talks illustrated by his own photographs. Very many past students, hospital residents, and friends have enjoyed a rest with them in their house on the beautiful Scottish hillside within sight of the hills of Skye." Parliament QUESTION TIME Cost of Proprietary Drugs Mr. B. C. G. WHITAKER asked the Minister of Health what estimate he has made of the cost to the National Health Service of the prescription of proprietary drugs for which there were cheaper non-proprietary equivalents, including meprobamate, paracetamol, prednisolone, bendrofluazide, and phenoxy- methyl penicillin.-Mr. KENNETH ROBINSON, the Minister of Health, replied: It is rarely possible to demonstrate exact equivalence, but I estimate that there would have been a saving of a little over El million in the year ending Sept. 30 1967, (including about S200.000 in respect of the five drugs referred to) if non-proprietary products containing the same amounts of the same active ingredients as proprietaries had been supplied. Administrative Cost of Prescription Charges The Ministry of Health expects the total administrative cost of reintroducing prescription charges, with exemptions under the interim arrangements, to be between £ lI2 million and E3/4 million. Notes and News THE W.H.O. AT TWENTY THE 21st World Health Assembly opened in Geneva on May 6; Prof. Eugene Aujaleu was elected president of the assembly. In his annual report the director-general of W.H.O., Dr. M. G. Candau, paid special attention to the programmes for eradicating malaria and smallpox. Of the 148 countries which had had malaria when the campaign started, 35 claimed eradication; and campaigns were under way in 54 others. The total population in malaria-free areas or areas in which eradica- tion or preliminaries were in progress was 1500 million, 2% up on 1966. However, there were no proportionate advances in territories in the final maintenance phase. Cases have been reported in areas already freed from malaria: the fundamental cause, Dr. Candau suggests, is " the lack of adequate basic health services to sustain the gains already achieved". By the end of 1968 smallpox-eradication programmes are expected to be under way in 21 endemic countries and in 28 countries bordering them. None the less, 120,000 cases (perhaps only 10% of the true figure) were reported in 1967, and this was the highest in the past decade. The spread of rabies continued, and cases of plague continued to increase; but there was no further advance in the westward spread of cholera. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS TUTORS FOLLOWING the successful completion of the pilot scheme for surgical tutors, carried out with the assistance of a grant from the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, the Royal College of Surgeons of England has decided, after consultation with regional postgraduate deans, senior administrative medical officers, and others, that a full surgical tutorial scheme should now be implemented throughout England and Wales. The terms of reference for the tutors are: (1) R.C.S. tutors are appointed for a period of five years in the first instance. (2) Their responsibilities, under the general guidance of the Council’s regional representative on the advisory panel on the training of surgeons, include: (a) To act as general adviser to those in training posts for the F.R.C.S. (b) To work in close cooperation with the postgraduate dean and the clinical tutors in the region. It is, of course, understood that some R.C.S. tutors have also been appointed as regional clinical tutors. (c) To arrange seminars, joint ward rounds, journal readings, and discussions. (d) To establish and maintain facilities for study, including surgical library facilities. (e) To arrange for time off for study and for attending appro- priate scientific meetings. (f) To encourage research in surgery, particularly in the clinical field, and to advise on the preparation of articles for publication. The first list of tutors has been published and further lists will be issued in due course. FURTHERING THE HOSPITAL PLAN BETWEEN the 2500 hospitals, often old, badly sited or equipped, or inefficiently small, and the network of fairly large modern district hospitals which is the aim of the hospital plan lies an important transitional period. Ministry of Health circular H.M. (68)31 gives some guidance to administrators on the principles which should govern this time of closure and change in hospitals. Closures will result when new building along district-hospital lines means that smaller hospitals are no longer needed (half the hospitals now in use have less than 100 beds) or when existing accommodation is being more efficiently used. In forty-five acute hospitals with less than 50 beds, the occupancy-rate is under 60%. In the event of closure, the decision for which rests with the Minister of Health, the buildings may be diverted to other Health Service uses; but, in general, closure will be preferred.
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for Women. He became honorary obstetric officer to the
Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, in 1921 and lecturer in obste-trics and gynxcology in the university in 1926, and he was alsoon the staff of the Birmingham General Dispensary and WestBromwich District Hospital.
Dr. Graham retired in 1934 and went to live in the western
highlands of Scotland, but during the 1939-45 war he and hiswife moved into residence at the Royal Infirmary, Inverness,where he worked as a general surgeon.He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, whom he married in
1908.
H. L., to whom we are indebted for this biography,writes:
"Lewis Graham was much appreciated and admired by hispatients, and respected by generations of students who bene-fited from his teaching and advice.
" A great joy to him was his Rolls Royce Silver Ghost,acquired at the end of the 1914-18 war, which had an opentouring body designed by himself and built under his scrutinyat Birmingham. It became a well-known landmark in Birming-ham. The car remained in superb condition and ran as well in1968 as the day he got it. He was an excellent photographerand he and his wife were experienced mountaineers. They hadclimbed all the major’ Munros ’ in Scotland. As a member ofthe Midland Association of Mountaineers, he gave excellenttravel talks illustrated by his own photographs. Very many paststudents, hospital residents, and friends have enjoyed a restwith them in their house on the beautiful Scottish hillsidewithin sight of the hills of Skye."
Parliament
QUESTION TIME
Cost of Proprietary DrugsMr. B. C. G. WHITAKER asked the Minister of Health what
estimate he has made of the cost to the National Health Serviceof the prescription of proprietary drugs for which there werecheaper non-proprietary equivalents, including meprobamate,paracetamol, prednisolone, bendrofluazide, and phenoxy-methyl penicillin.-Mr. KENNETH ROBINSON, the Ministerof Health, replied: It is rarely possible to demonstrate exactequivalence, but I estimate that there would have been a
saving of a little over El million in the year ending Sept. 301967, (including about S200.000 in respect of the five drugsreferred to) if non-proprietary products containing the sameamounts of the same active ingredients as proprietaries hadbeen supplied.
Administrative Cost of Prescription ChargesThe Ministry of Health expects the total administrative cost
of reintroducing prescription charges, with exemptions underthe interim arrangements, to be between £ lI2 million and E3/4million.
Notes and News
THE W.H.O. AT TWENTY
THE 21st World Health Assembly opened in Geneva onMay 6; Prof. Eugene Aujaleu was elected president of theassembly. In his annual report the director-general of W.H.O.,Dr. M. G. Candau, paid special attention to the programmesfor eradicating malaria and smallpox. Of the 148 countrieswhich had had malaria when the campaign started, 35 claimederadication; and campaigns were under way in 54 others. Thetotal population in malaria-free areas or areas in which eradica-tion or preliminaries were in progress was 1500 million, 2%up on 1966. However, there were no proportionate advancesin territories in the final maintenance phase. Cases have been
reported in areas already freed from malaria: the fundamentalcause, Dr. Candau suggests, is " the lack of adequate basichealth services to sustain the gains already achieved". By theend of 1968 smallpox-eradication programmes are expected tobe under way in 21 endemic countries and in 28 countriesbordering them. None the less, 120,000 cases (perhaps only10% of the true figure) were reported in 1967, and this was thehighest in the past decade. The spread of rabies continued,and cases of plague continued to increase; but there wasno further advance in the westward spread of cholera.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS TUTORS
FOLLOWING the successful completion of the pilot schemefor surgical tutors, carried out with the assistance of a grantfrom the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, the Royal Collegeof Surgeons of England has decided, after consultation withregional postgraduate deans, senior administrative medicalofficers, and others, that a full surgical tutorial scheme shouldnow be implemented throughout England and Wales. Theterms of reference for the tutors are:
(1) R.C.S. tutors are appointed for a period of five years in thefirst instance.
(2) Their responsibilities, under the general guidance of theCouncil’s regional representative on the advisory panel on the
training of surgeons, include:(a) To act as general adviser to those in training posts for the
F.R.C.S.
(b) To work in close cooperation with the postgraduate dean andthe clinical tutors in the region. It is, of course, understoodthat some R.C.S. tutors have also been appointed as regionalclinical tutors.
(c) To arrange seminars, joint ward rounds, journal readings, anddiscussions.
(d) To establish and maintain facilities for study, includingsurgical library facilities.
(e) To arrange for time off for study and for attending appro-priate scientific meetings.
(f) To encourage research in surgery, particularly in the clinicalfield, and to advise on the preparation of articles for publication.
The first list of tutors has been published and further listswill be issued in due course.
FURTHERING THE HOSPITAL PLAN
BETWEEN the 2500 hospitals, often old, badly sited or equipped,or inefficiently small, and the network of fairly large moderndistrict hospitals which is the aim of the hospital plan lies animportant transitional period. Ministry of Health circularH.M. (68)31 gives some guidance to administrators on the
principles which should govern this time of closure and changein hospitals. Closures will result when new building alongdistrict-hospital lines means that smaller hospitals are no
longer needed (half the hospitals now in use have less than 100beds) or when existing accommodation is being more efficientlyused. In forty-five acute hospitals with less than 50 beds, theoccupancy-rate is under 60%. In the event of closure, thedecision for which rests with the Minister of Health, thebuildings may be diverted to other Health Service uses; but, ingeneral, closure will be preferred.
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AN EXAMPLE FROM SCOTLAND
IN a circular to regional boards, management committees,and boards of governors, H.M. (68)28, the Ministry of Healthcommends to hospital authorities some of the observations ofthe Committee on the Administrative Practices of HospitalBoards in Scotland (the Farquharson-Lang report). Thecommittee had been especially concerned with the relationbetween hospital authorities on the one hand and the day-to-day administration by officers on the other; and the Ministry’scircular includes an extensive extract from the report. The
Farquharson-Lang Committee made some specific observationson the size of the Scottish boards of management and on theirinfrastructure. A membership of 12-15 was thought suitablefor Scotland, but the Ministry of Health thinks that while 15had been found a satisfactory number for hospital managementcommittees in England and Wales, larger numbers, up to 20,may be justifiable. The Scottish report recommended thatboards should have no more than three committees and fewersubcommittees than at present; it predicted a tendency tomore ad-hoc committees; and it recommended that housecommittees should be abolished. The Ministry commendsthe principle of fewer subcommittees; it leaves hospitalauthorities to reach their own decisions on the fate of housecommittees.
INFORMATION ON CANCER TRIALS
AT the meeting of the International Union Against Cancerin Tokyo in 1967 a committee on clinical therapeutic trialswas set up to help with information exchange, the organisationof cooperative international trials, trial design, and the trainingof investigators. The first of these tasks will be the responsi-bility of the information office on clinical therapeutic trials.Investigators considering a trial will be able to obtain informa-tion on similar trials, published and unpublished, and thosewith work in hand are asked to send information regularly tothe office or to one of the ten committee members.
Correspondence to the office should be addressed to Dr. RobertFlamant, Unite de Recherches Statistiques de l’I.N.S.E.R.M.,Institut Gustave Roussy, 94 Villejuif, France. The committeemembers include Mr. J. L. Hayward (Guy’s Hospital, LondonS.E.1) and Dr. G. Higgins (Veterans Administration Hospital,Washington D.C., U.S.A.).
CROMWELL’S WELFARE STATE
FREE medical treatment for the poor was proposed in atreatise written in England in 1648. Doctors were urged tomake up their losses by overcharging patients who could affordto pay, but one who put this into practice soon fell foul of theCollege of Physicians. The idea of free treatment was not
completely unaccepted, however, for in Cromwell’s NewModel Army the soldiers had their wounds dressed byphysicians and apothecaries who were paid by the Govern-ment. The money for this came from a national levy, authorisedby Parliament, which was collected to pay for the maintenanceof the army. It was argued that a similar organisation couldwork in peace time to provide free treatment for civilians.
Many people will be surprised to learn that such questionswere raised in England in the 1650s, as Miss C. V. Wedgwoodillustrated at a recent meeting of the faculty of the history ofmedicine and pharmacy of the Society of Apothecaries.
DRESSING AIDS FOR THE DISABLED
ANYONE with a disability which limits movement (especiallywhere manual dexterity is affected) or leads to giddiness onstooping or lack of coordination will find dressing a problem,even when assistance is at hand; old people and the mentallyhandicapped may face similar difficulties. A Central Councilfor the Disabled booklet 1 lists a large number of devices someof which may not be widely known. Many of the ideas makeuse of elastic (in guff-links, buttons, and shoe-laces, for example)our Velcro ’-twin surfaces of nylon hooks and eyes which can
1. Disabled Living Activities Group, Central Council for the Disabled.Clothing Fastenings for the Handicapped and Disabled. Pp. 45.Obtainable from the Council, 39, Victoria Street, London S.W.1.7s. 6d., post free.
be peeled apart easily but are secure under tension. Manyperfectly fit women ask for help in- zipping up dresses; and forthe handicapped woman who may find the process even moredifficult the booklet suggests the use of tabs to extend thefastener or those large rings which are standard ornamentalextras on many modern clothes.
University of CambridgeThe degree of M.B. has been conferred on the following:C. A. McC. Aitken, J. P. Bolton, R. A. C. Hughes, Jennifer A. Jackson,
B. W. R. Moore, J. H. Newman, R. J. Thompson.
University of LondonMr. N. L. Browse, senior lecturer and assistant director of
the surgical unit at St. Thomas’s Hospital, has been appointedto the readership in surgery tenable at St. Thomas’s HospitalMedical School.
University of Newcastle upon TyneMr. G. S. Makin has been appointed lecturer in surgery.
University of SheffieldDr. George Hudson, reader in anatomy and preclinical dean
in the University of Bristol, has been appointed administrativedean in the faculty of medicine.
This appointment is a result of the rearrangement of the administra-tive organisation of the faculty. In future the dean dealing withacademic and policy matters will be chosen from the heads of depart-ments on a rotating basis as is the practice in other faculties; and theadministrative dean, the holder of a full-time university appointment,will deal with the day-to-day business, including the admission ofstudents. Other officers will include a whole-time postgraduatedean, dealing with postgraduate medical education, a clinical dean,dealing with the clinical aspects of the undergraduate curriculum,and a subdean who will assist the administrative dean.
Dr. M. Grindle has been appointed lecturer in genetics,Dr. J. T. Hindmarsh lecturer in chemical pathology, andDr. I. Zamiri lecturer in medical microbiology.
University of DublinThe degree of M.D. has been conferred on Davendralingam
Sinniah and W. D. Thornton.
Royal College of Surgeons of EnglandAt a meeting of the council on May 9 with Sir Hedley Atkins,
the president, in the chair, Begley prizes were awarded toR. W. Hoile and to M. C. E. Hutchinson. A diploma of mem-bership was granted to A. H. Chapman, together with thosementioned in our issue of May 4 (p. 985).
Royal College of Physicians of EdinburghAt a meeting of the college on May 7, with Dr. C.
W. Clayson, the president, in the chair, the following wereelected members:
J. D. 0. Kerr, P. J. Hare, Maurice Klat, Bijan Kumar Chakrabarti,Philip Rowlands, A. R. Robinson, Catherine A. R. Pippen, Mervyn Cheong,Ashis Ranjan Banerjee, Jamil Ahmad Siddiqui, P. D. Rohde, W. A. M.Cutting, C. L. Mathews, Surrinderbir Singh Garewal, R. H. G. Fisher,Ved Prakash, Sudhir Ranjan Datta, Navaratnam Paramaesvaran, PrakashHari Talavlikar, J. D. Eddy, John Nsibambi, Mya Oo, Zainal Abidin BinSarih, Stanley Kin Kok Seah, Venkatesan Sundararajan, A. G. Boohene,D. W. Hide, D. C. Lowe, P. M. Grinwald, W. B. B. Buie, Latif AhmadQureshi, Chandulal Nathalal Buddhdev, Charles Lwanga Sezi, Jacob Jacob,J. E. B. Adamson, R. C. Borthwick, T. E. Hothersall, John Knox, F. M.Pope, J. Osamudiame Ayanru, N. A. Don, Sachchida Nand Sinha, SomdattaGurudatta Soni, D. H. Franklin, R. D. M. Scott.
The Ambuj Nath Bose prize had been awarded to Dr.Rabindra Nath Chaudhuri.
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of GlasgowThe following have been admitted:F.R.C.S.G.-Zafar-ul-Haq, J. F. St. C. Isbister, Solomon Lewitton,
Roy Miller, F. J. Muller, V. B. Smith, Norman Vincenti.M.R.C.P.G.-Janaksinh Navnitdas Asher, Sadrudin Jamal Karim Bardai,
Digoarachchi Tilekawardana Dayananda Bulugahapitiya, Sheila J. D.
Black, Michael Gan Ghee Chin, W. A. M. Cutting, P. G. Fernandez, TengChye Lanny Khoo, Mohamed Osman El Motasim, Andrew Motherwell,Frank Murphy, Alistair Macleod, I. S. Ruthven, Samuel RukeratabaroKabeba Sebikari, P. N. Sperryn, Venkatesan Sundararajan, Sek CheongTham, Chung Kim Wong.
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Research Fellowships for RegistrarsThe board of governors of Charing Cross Hospital, London,
has established two research fellowships for registrars andsenior registrars. Each fellowship will be held for a year, orat most two years, during which the registrar will be paid fromthe endowment funds and receive any appropriate incrementat the National Health Service scale; he will be released fromall clinical duties and will be considered to be on study leave.His appointment will be reserved for him at the end of hisresearch project.Nuclear Medicine SocietyMr. C. F. Barnaby is to speak on the legal aspects of the use
of ionising radiations in medicine on Friday, May 31, at 7.30P.M., at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, ClevelandStreet, London W.1.
Prof. Brian Maegraith, dean of the Liverpool School of TropicalMedicine, has been appointed honorary consultant in malariologyto the Army.
Pamphlets and Reports
Blood Flow through Organs and Tissues. The proceedings ofan international conference held in Glasgow, in March, 1967.
(Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins.Toronto: Macmillan. 84s. [plus 4s. 6d. postage];$13.50.)
Drugs and Sensory Functions. A multidisciplinary interna-tional gathering at the Royal College of Physicians, London, at whichpapers were read on the effects of drugs on smell, taste, hearing, andvision, and on the central nervous system. (London: J. & A. Chur-chill. 75s.)
Principles and Practice of Screening for Disease. ThisW.H.O. monograph, by J. M. G. Wilson and G. Jungner, which wereviewed enthusiastically but prematurely (Lancet, 1967, ii, 83), hasnow been published as Public Health Paper no. 34. (H.M. StationeryOffice, P.O. Box 569, London S.E.1. Pp. 162. 14s.)
The Design and Function of Laboratory Animal Houses.Based on a symposium organised by the Laboratory Animals Centreand the Laboratory Animal Science Association, and held in Londonin May, 1967. (Obtainable from Laboratory Animals Ltd., 7 WarwickCourt, London W.C.1, or from the Laboratory Animals Centre,Medical Research Council, Woodmansterne Road, Carshalton,Surrey. 22s. 6d.)
AppointmentsBLACK, H. J., M.B. Belf., M.C.PATH.: consultant in pathology, Huddersfield.DALY, D. W., CH.M. Leeds, F.R.C.S. : consultant general surgeon, Nottingham
area.
EsPINER,’H. J., M.B. N.z., CH.M. Brist., F.R.C.S. : consultant general surgeon,United Bristol Hospitals and South Western R.H.B.
WITHNELL, ALLAN, M.D. Manc., D.P.H. : M.O.H. and principal school M.o.,Gloucestershire County Council.
Diary of the Week
MAY 19 To 25
Monday, 20thROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, Ducane Road, London W.12
4 P.M. Dr. D. A. Price Evans: Operon in Medicine.6 P.M. Dr. J. Alfred Lee: Extra and Intradural Analgesia.
INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton Hospital, London S.W.36.15 P.M. Mr. Vernon C. Thompson: Bronchiectasis.
INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330 Gray’s Inn Road, LondonW.C.1
5.30 P.M. Prof. A. Sinha (New Delhi): Cholesteatoma with CentralPerforations on the Tympanic Membrane.
WRIGHT-FLEMING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY, St. Mary’s Hospital,Paddington, London W.2
5 P.M. Dr. P. J. Lachmann: Complement in Disease Processes. (ThirdAlmroth Wright lecture.)
POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE 196811.20 P.M. (Scottish Television.) Organisation in General Practice.
Tuesday, 21stUNIVERSITY OF LONDON
5 P.M. (Middlesex Hospital Medical School, Cleveland Street, W.1.)Dr. Margaret Ward Orsini (Wisconsin): Sequence of Events inImplantation in a Comparative Series-Hamster, Rabbit, Ferret,Sheep.
ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL4 P.M. Mr. A. G. Cox: Surgical Aspects of Malabsorption.
INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin,Lisle Street, London W.C.2
4.30 P.M. Dr. R. W. Riddell: Subcutaneous and Systemic Fungus-infections.
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE, Millbank, London S.W.15 P.M. Dr. L. C. Payne: Computer-assisted Medicine.
MEDICINE TODAY1.15 P.M. (B.B.C.-2.) The Child Who Wheezes. (Part I.)
POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE 196811.35 P.M. (Tyne Tees Television.) New Horizons in Radiodiagnosis.
(Repeat.)
Wednesday, 22ndROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL
11.45 A.M. Dr. G. R. Thompson: Metabolic Bone Disease and the Gut.2 P.M. Dr. Sylvia Lawler: Chromosomes in Clinical Pathology.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn Road, London W.C.15.15 P.M. Dr. W. R. Pitney: Purpura.
NATIONAL BIRTHDAY TRUST5 P.M. (27 Sussex Place, Regent’s Park, London N.W.1.) Sir John Peel:
Future of the Maternity Services. (Dame Juliet Rhys-Williamslecture.)
POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE 19681.10 P.M. (Scottish Television.) Organisation in General Practice.
(Repeat.)1.15 P.M. (Tyne Tees Television.) Organisation in General Practice.
Thursday, 23rdROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL
4 P.M. Mr. P. McKelvie: Cancer of the Maxilla.KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, Denmark Hill, London S.E.5
4.45 P.M. Prof. R. R. A. Coombs: Tissue Damage by Allergic Reactions.(Wiltshire Lecture.)
ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL5 P.M. (Wright-Fleming Institute.) Dr. E. Tylden: Severe Vomiting in
Pregnancy.WESTMINSTER MEDICAL SCHOOL, Horseferry Road, London S.W.1
5.15 P.M. Sir Clifford Naunton Morgan: Cancer of the Rectum.LONDON JEWISH HOSPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY
8.15 P.M. (11 Chandos Street, London W.1.) Prof. J. P. Shillingford:Myocardial Infarction.
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE5 P.M. (Physiology department.) Prof. L. Severi (Perugia): Carcinoma
of the Breast.UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, Foresterhill, Aberdeen
5 P.M. Prof. H. W. Fullerton: Thrombosis.
Friday, 24thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London
W.C.25 P.M. Mr. D. E. Poswillo: aetiology and Surgery of Cleft Palate with
Micrognathia. (Hunterian lecture.)ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL
4 P.M. Dr. E. J. M. Campbell: Conduct of Experiments.
CORRIGENDA: Effects of Legalising Abortion.-In the letter byDr. C. P. Harrison (April 27, p. 917) the total births and legal abortionsin Sweden, in 1947, should have been given as 135,000 (not 150,000).
Ubiquitous Blue Spot.-The last clause of the 3rd paragraph inDr. Iancu’s letter (May 4, p. 983) should have read: " and evennot a part of the body where the skin is at maximal tension over abony prominence ".
