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229 and his wife died. He took into partnership Dr. Herbert Dent, who became a lifelong friend. Dr. Fenner was one of the original founders of the Cromer golf-club. After leaving Cromer, where he had many celebrated patients, among whom were the Empress of Austria, King Edward VII, and Winston Churchill (then a boy of twelve), Dr. Fenner came to London in 1897, where he lived in Spanish Place. For many years he was in partnership with the late Sir Morice Abbot-Anderson in Birchin Lane, where he held appointments as medical officer to the City banks and insurance companies. In 1898 he accompanied the late Kaiser William II and the Empress on their tour in Palestine. During the last war he retired from his City practice and continued as a consultant at Spanish Place. In 1917 and 1918 his two sons were killed, and his daughter died.. His second marriage was in 1925 to Barbara Murray-Smith. He continued in practice in Upper Brook Street and afterwards at Hertford Street until the present war, when he had to leave London. He lived for a time on the South Coast and for the last eighteen months at Liphook. " Bob " Fenner, as he was affectionately called, was a keen yachtsman and at one time owned the yacht Chough. He was a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, the Reform Club,. and the City Carlton. He was an all-round sportsman and in his younger days an enthusiastic rugger player and rowing man. He retired as major in the militia battalion of the Royal Fusiliers and during the last war was chief constable of the Marylebone police volunteers and head of the Tha:q1es police patrol. H. CORRIGENDUM.—IN the last sentence of the notice of Mr. Harrison Butler appearing last week it should have been stated that his younger son succeeded him as honorary surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital (not house-surgeon as printed). Births, Marriages, and Deaths- BIRTHS ACKNER.—On Feb. 8, in London, the wife of Flight-Lieutenant Brian Ackner, RAFVR—a daughter. APLEY.-On Jan. 22, the wife of Mr. A. Graham Apley, FRCS, Shillingford, Exeter-a daughter. BOwLBY.-On Feb. 9, at Broad Chalke, Salisbury, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel John Bowlby, RAMC—a daughter. . DAVENPORT JONES.—On Feb. 4, at Bournemouth, the wife of . Major I. Davenport Jones, RAMC—a son. DAVIDSON.—On Dec. 31, at Carlisle, the wife of Captain T. K. Davidson, RAMC—a son. DENNY.-On Feb. 8, at Plymouth, the wife of Surgeon Lieut.- Commander G. C. Denny, RN—a, daughter. LLOYD.—On Feb. 4, at Ross-on-Wye, Dr. E. Jean Lloyd (nee Thomas), the wife of Dr. Marner Lloyd-a daughter. MULLER.—On Feb. 8, in London, the wife of Surgeon Lieutenant Christopher Muller—a daughter. MARRIAGES CAIRNS—WRIGHT.—On Jan. 25, at Bradford, Gordon David , Cairns, major RA, to Marcia Jean Wright, lieutenant RAMC. CHANCE—BIRKMYRE.—On Feb. 10, in London, Clifford Chance, Me, MB, to Sheila Birkmyre (nee Kempster). HEYDON—DANBY.—On Feb. 8, at Sutton, Bernard Louis Francis Heydon, -A,11), to Kathleen Norah Danby. POWELL—TRENCH.—On Feb. 3, at Wandsworth, H. Denis W. Powell, MB, to Leonore Elisita Trench. RUTHERFORD—MICHAUD.—On Jan. 20, at Port Said, Raymond Denys Rutherford, major RAMC, to Simone Michaud. WOODSEND—COOKE.—On Feb. 8, at Catterick. Yorks, Gervase Woodsend, MROS, to Katharine Frances Cooke. DEATHS ALLAN.—On Feb. 4, at Tunbridge Wells, Alexander Smith Allan, MB GLASG., DTM. EATON.—On Feb. 3, at Lanark, Ernest Milne Eaton, MD GLASG., FRFPs, Do, formerly of Blackpool. GILBERT.—On Feb. 2, at Emsworth, Charles William Gilbert, MROS, Havant. and Albany, Australia, aged 74. HOWARD.—On Feb. 4, at Oxford, Vincent Howard, MRCS, aged 75. KINLOCH.—On Feb. 5, Robert Blair- Kinloch, MB LOND., of St. Albans, aged 69. LYNN ALLEN.—On Feb. 5, at Kingston Deverill, Warminster, James Lynn Allen, MB CAMB., formerly of Liphook, Hants. MCKENDRY.—On Feb. 3. at Westcliif-on-Sea, Thomas Torrens McKendry, MB Rui, aged 82. RITCHIE.—On Feb. 7, at Edinburgh, William Thomas Ritchie, OBE. MD EDIN., FRCPE. STANLEY.—On Feb. 7, at Thirfield St. Michael’s, near Tenterden, Kent, Edmund Hamilton Blake Stanley, MRCS, lieut.-colonel IMS retd., aged 69. WALLIS.—On Feb. 6, at Worthing, Charles William George Robinson Wallis, BA OXFD, MRcs. aged 86. WYLLYS.—On Feb. 4. William Wyllys, MRCS, formerly of Great Yarmouth, aged 73. Notes and News THE DISPLACED IT has been estimated that somewhere about 20 million people have been displaced by the German methods of governing Europe. General Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied Military Forces in Western Europe, and- Mr. H. H. Lehman, director-general of UNRRA. have now agreed that teams of UNRRA workers should act with the Army in coping with these homeless people. Each team will have about 12 members including a director, a supply officer, a medical officer, a nurse, welfare -workers and clerks. It is hoped that many members of the teams can be recruited from among the refugees themselves. The UNRRA workers will be civilians, but while coöperating with the Army they will wear uniforms and, as in other civilian services, be subject to general military discipline. They will be attached to appropriate military staffs under the Displaced Persons branch of G 5 or the Civil Affairs branch of SHAEF, which is a military organisation dealing with civilians in their contact with the Army. Most of the work will probably have,to be done in Germany, but at the request of the governments concerned teams will also be sent to the liberated territory of friendly nations. OVER A CUP OF TEA A VERY large tea-party gathered in London on Jan. 30, at the invitation of Foyle’s Book Shop, to hear a talk on Doctors by Dr. Charles Hill, secretary of the British Medical Association. He spoke of the doctor’s traditional relations with his patients. In this mutual contract, he said, the doctor is chosen by the patient and owes loyalty to no-one else ; and the patient is better able to judge the merits of his doctor than any committee in the town hall. He pointed to the dangers of dividing the doctor’s loyalty, as might happen under a national medical service. The doctor would naturally feel a duty towards the body that paid him, whatever that body might be : he would no longer be answerable to the patient alone. Again, a national service might interfere with free choice of doctor ; and though this was sometimes said to be merely a formal objection he believed it to be a real and- serious one. He discussed the fate of the voluntary hospitals, setting out the danger in which they would stand if the proposals relating to them in the white-paper were fulfilled. While there are good and bad voluntary hospitals, it would be a great misfortune if’all such hospitals, whatever their standard, were relegated to a status inferior to that of the municipal hospitals. This must happen, he felt, if they were to be financed on the lines laid down in the white-paper. He emphasised the dangers of bad housing, which have been blamed, he said,* for the deaths each year of 15,000 children under five. The betterment of housing, he thought, might well claim the country’s energies as a primary reform. He noted that most people are not health-minded but disease- minded, their conversation dealing with two periods-before rd!y. operation and after my operation. People should find an interest in good health, and children at school should learn the normal working of the human body. He advocated larger research grants. The Government, he said, allot £250,000 a year to research-only one-tenth of 1% of the estimated cost of disease. He suggested that they should allocate E2 million to research on rheumatism alone. MANY KINDS OF SERVICE THE Friends’ Ambulance Unit offers a wide range of experi- ence to its members, as the fifth annual report 1 demonstrates. Orange stars on a map of the old world show them to be scattered from the far shore of China in the east to Morocco in the west, and from Ethiopia in the south to Scandinavia in the north. They are helping to staff field surgical units in France, Belgium, and Holland, to maintain and move a mobile hospital, and to relieve civilians in Italy; they are working in UNRRA camps for Yugoslav and Greek refugees ; they are running clinics in Syria and hospitals in Ethiopia ; they have helped to fight famine in India and to transport supplies in China. Some of those remaining at home have volunteered as subjects for medical research. It takes courage to agree to having a cardiac catheter passed. 1. Obtainable from the FAU, 4, Gordon Square, London, WC1.
