687 Louisa was operating in one of the bathrooms. Later in the war she was chief surgeon to the Military Hospital, Endell Street, and in 1917 was awarded the CBE. Soon after the armistice she retired to Penn, Bucking- hamshire, where she became a JP and interested herself in local affairs... Immediately this war broke out she left her much-loved home to.come to London. She felt that she must be in touch with the stress and strain of war, and wished, in particular, to be near the hospital founded by her mother, so that she might offer it any help which was in ’her power to give. She got to know every individual in the hospital and identified herself with every aspect of its life-domestic, administrative, nursing and medical. When the bombing started, even if she were not working in the hospital during the raid, she would appear a few minutes after the- all-clear, just to see that all was well and to wish everyone God-speed. In thinking of her, the words courage, integrity and humour come to mind, and the many friends who will miss her will never forget these, her outstanding qualities. JANSEN OSWALD DAVID WILLIAMS M B CAMB. ; CAPTAIN RAMC Jansen Williams matriculated at the Cardiff High School when he was fourteen, and was at Cambridge before his seventeenth birthday. But if he was some years younger than his fellows, they were kept in the dark about it. His powers of application at work were not extreme, but he could learn -much in the limited time he allowed himself. He played rugby football, as all good Welshmen do, and represented his school, college and hospital at the game. " Jod " entered St. Thomas’s Hospital in 1937 with many of his friends. He found no difficulty with the clinical side of medicine and once remarked that one could glean enough from the lunch-time talk to see one through. He qualified in 1940 and took his Cambridge degree the following year. He held a job at Farnham County Hospital for six months when he volunteered for the Navy, but, as with so many, found himself attached to a regiment. He married during his period of service at home, and went abroad with a general hospital in October, 1942. He was one of the first medical men to land in N. Africa. After a short stay at the base, he moved to the fighting line, and remained with an advanced field ambulance during the Sicilian and Italian campaigns. He was killed in action last month. , H. B. L. w. DR. ERIC PRITCHARD , ALL Eric Pritchard’s friends must be grateful, writes H. W. C., for your sympathetic obituary notice. He may certainly be said to have been the originator of ’the infants’ charter. One of the things not mentioned seems to warrant a further note. Pritchard made the really astounding discovery that neonatal fractures of long bones require no treatment of any kind. Travel- ling up to Paddington from Burnham he told me the following story. ’ An infant victim of fragilitas ossium was found to have 29 fractures. Obviously no splinting or other local treat- ment was possible. After a few months all bones were found to be completely normal. Pritchard then produced a series of X rays of an infant’s untreated fracture in the middle of the femur-great shortening of the limb had occurred as the broken shaft was crossed and the ends inches apart. The second picture showed nothing but a huge mass of callus. In later ones the callus gradually thinned and from its centre there finally emerged a perfectly healthy normal femur. After this experience no natal fractures received treatment of any kind. The UNITED AFRICA Co. Ltd., of Unilever House, Black- friars, E.C.4 have a small supply of dried bananas, imported from the British Cameroons. They are willing to send a box to any hospital which urgently needs bananas for the treatment of ceeliae disease. Notes and News A NEW LINK WITH THE USSR THE Anglo-Soviet Medical Council was founded in 1941 and has contributed much to the steady growth in understanding between Russian and British scientists and medical men. Now a sister body has been formed in the United States which like the ASMC is designed for the exchange of medical informa- tion. The American-Soviet Medical Society, through meet- ings, by means of a journal, and by setting up a library of information, will tell doctors and members of allied professions in America on what problems the Russians are working and how they are solving them. The society will also be sending medical books and periodicals to the Soviet, and will help to develop closer cooperation between the Russian and American medical corps. When conditions allow, plans will be made to exchange students and scientists, and to arrange study tours in the two countries. All American doctors and those engaged in allied professions are invited to become members. The journal, to be called the American Review of Soviet Medicine, will be edited by Prof. Henry E. Sigerist, author of Socialised Medicine in the Soviet Union (1937). The president of the new society is Dr. Walter B. Cannon. University of Cambridge On Nov. 19 the following degrees were conferred : MD.-*D. D. Evans,’*E. T. D. Fletcher, J. B. Murray. MB, B Chir.-F. M. Deighton. Socialist Medical Association The central London branch of this society is holding its first meeting at 8.15 PM, on Monday, Nov. 29, at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C. 1, when Dr. Philip Inwald will speak on socialism and medicine. Glucose Tablets for Hypoglycæmia Glucose in tablet form is now available in sufficient quantity to meet the demand by diabetic patients. The Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the Directorate of Medical Supplies, have arranged for a special allocation of glucose to go to the manufacturers of these tablets. Ample supplies are available so long as the distribution of these tablets is confined to the diabetic members of the public, and to a great extent this responsibility lies with the retail chemists through whom the distribution will be made. Insulin Colour Code Three, distinct types of insulin are now in regular use- unmodified insulin, protamine zinc insulin and’ Globin insulin (with zinc).’ Alternative strengths of two of these make a total of six different preparations. To reduce the chances of confusion to a minimum, British manufacturers have agreed to adopt a uniform design for labels and cartons, by which each type and strength of insulin, of whatever make, will be readily identifiable by a distinctive colour scheme. In addition, the unit strength per c.cm. will be stated in bold figures on both label and carton. An explanatory card can be obtained from any of the manufacturers, Allen and Hanburys Ltd., Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd., British Drug Houses, Ltd., or Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Royal Society of Medicine At the meeting of the section of medicine at 2.30 PM, on Wednesday, Dec. 1, the third centenary of the publication of the Religio Medici will be commemorated. Dr. H. P. Bayon will also give some personal recollections of Robert Koch who was born on Dec. 11, 1843, and Dr. Douglas Guthrie will read a paper on Andrew Boorde (1490-1549) physician, priest and traveller. At 5 PM, on the same day at the section of surgery Mr. A. Rainsford Mowlem, Mr. P. H. Jayes and Dr. Peter Gabarro will open a discussion on modern methods of skin grafting. On Dec. 3, at 10.30 AM, at the section of otology Air-Commodore E. D. D. Dickson, Squadron-Leader J. E. G. McGibbon and Squadron-Leader Colin Campbell will describe a clinical and experimental investigation of acute otitic baratraums. Major E. P. Fowler, USAMC, will also speak on the prevention of otitis due to otitic baratraum with radon. On the same day, at 2.30 PM, at the section of anaesthetics Dr. I. W. Magill will ask : Is a Proper Perspective being Lost by Anaesthetists Today ? At the same hour, at the section of laryngology, Major Freda Bannister and Mr. G. Ewart Martin will open a discussion on local regional anaesthesia in nose and throat operations.
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Louisa was operating in one of the bathrooms. Later inthe war she was chief surgeon to the Military Hospital,Endell Street, and in 1917 was awarded the CBE.Soon after the armistice she retired to Penn, Bucking-hamshire, where she became a JP and interested herselfin local affairs...Immediately this war broke out she left her much-loved
home to.come to London. She felt that she must be intouch with the stress and strain of war, and wished, inparticular, to be near the hospital founded by hermother, so that she might offer it any help which was in’her power to give. She got to know every individualin the hospital and identified herself with every aspect ofits life-domestic, administrative, nursing and medical.When the bombing started, even if she were not workingin the hospital during the raid, she would appear a fewminutes after the- all-clear, just to see that all was welland to wish everyone God-speed. In thinking of her, thewords courage, integrity and humour come to mind, andthe many friends who will miss her will never forget these,her outstanding qualities.
JANSEN OSWALD DAVID WILLIAMSM B CAMB. ; CAPTAIN RAMC
Jansen Williams matriculated at the Cardiff HighSchool when he was fourteen, and was at Cambridgebefore his seventeenth birthday. But if he was some
years younger than his fellows,they were kept in the dark aboutit. His powers of application atwork were not extreme, but hecould learn -much in the limitedtime he allowed himself. Heplayed rugby football, as all goodWelshmen do, and represented hisschool, college and hospital atthe game. " Jod " entered St.Thomas’s Hospital in 1937 withmany of his friends. He found nodifficulty with the clinical side ofmedicine and once remarked thatone could glean enough from thelunch-time talk to see one through.He qualified in 1940 and took hisCambridge degree the following
year. He held a job at Farnham County Hospital forsix months when he volunteered for the Navy, but, aswith so many, found himself attached to a regiment.He married during his period of service at home, and wentabroad with a general hospital in October, 1942. He wasone of the first medical men to land in N. Africa. Aftera short stay at the base, he moved to the fighting line,and remained with an advanced field ambulance duringthe Sicilian and Italian campaigns. He was killed inaction last month. ,
H. B. L. w.
DR. ERIC PRITCHARD ,
ALL Eric Pritchard’s friends must be grateful, writesH. W. C., for your sympathetic obituary notice. Hemay certainly be said to have been the originator of’the infants’ charter. One of the things not mentionedseems to warrant a further note. Pritchard made thereally astounding discovery that neonatal fractures oflong bones require no treatment of any kind. Travel-ling up to Paddington from Burnham he told me thefollowing story.
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An infant victim of fragilitas ossium was found to have29 fractures. Obviously no splinting or other local treat-ment was possible. After a few months all bones werefound to be completely normal. Pritchard then produceda series of X rays of an infant’s untreated fracture in themiddle of the femur-great shortening of the limb hadoccurred as the broken shaft was crossed and the endsinches apart. The second picture showed nothing but ahuge mass of callus. In later ones the callus graduallythinned and from its centre there finally emerged a perfectlyhealthy normal femur. After this experience no natalfractures received treatment of any kind.
The UNITED AFRICA Co. Ltd., of Unilever House, Black-friars, E.C.4 have a small supply of dried bananas, importedfrom the British Cameroons. They are willing to send a boxto any hospital which urgently needs bananas for the treatmentof ceeliae disease.
Notes and News
A NEW LINK WITH THE USSRTHE Anglo-Soviet Medical Council was founded in 1941 and
has contributed much to the steady growth in understandingbetween Russian and British scientists and medical men.Now a sister body has been formed in the United States whichlike the ASMC is designed for the exchange of medical informa- tion. The American-Soviet Medical Society, through meet-ings, by means of a journal, and by setting up a library ofinformation, will tell doctors and members of allied professionsin America on what problems the Russians are working andhow they are solving them. The society will also be sendingmedical books and periodicals to the Soviet, and will help todevelop closer cooperation between the Russian and Americanmedical corps. When conditions allow, plans will be made toexchange students and scientists, and to arrange study toursin the two countries. All American doctors and those engagedin allied professions are invited to become members. Thejournal, to be called the American Review of Soviet Medicine,will be edited by Prof. Henry E. Sigerist, author of SocialisedMedicine in the Soviet Union (1937). The president of the newsociety is Dr. Walter B. Cannon. ’
University of CambridgeOn Nov. 19 the following degrees were conferred :MD.-*D. D. Evans,’*E. T. D. Fletcher, J. B. Murray.MB, B Chir.-F. M. Deighton.
Socialist Medical AssociationThe central London branch of this society is holding its first
meeting at 8.15 PM, on Monday, Nov. 29, at the Conway Hall,Red Lion Square, W.C. 1, when Dr. Philip Inwald will speak onsocialism and medicine.
Glucose Tablets for HypoglycæmiaGlucose in tablet form is now available in sufficient
quantity to meet the demand by diabetic patients. TheMinistry of Health, in cooperation with the Directorate ofMedical Supplies, have arranged for a special allocation ofglucose to go to the manufacturers of these tablets. Amplesupplies are available so long as the distribution of thesetablets is confined to the diabetic members of the public,and to a great extent this responsibility lies with the retailchemists through whom the distribution will be made.
Insulin Colour CodeThree, distinct types of insulin are now in regular use-
unmodified insulin, protamine zinc insulin and’ Globin insulin(with zinc).’ Alternative strengths of two of these make atotal of six different preparations. To reduce the chances ofconfusion to a minimum, British manufacturers have agreed toadopt a uniform design for labels and cartons, by which eachtype and strength of insulin, of whatever make, will be readilyidentifiable by a distinctive colour scheme. In addition, theunit strength per c.cm. will be stated in bold figures on bothlabel and carton. An explanatory card can be obtained fromany of the manufacturers, Allen and Hanburys Ltd., BootsPure Drug Co. Ltd., British Drug Houses, Ltd., or BurroughsWellcome & Co.
Royal Society of MedicineAt the meeting of the section of medicine at 2.30 PM, on
Wednesday, Dec. 1, the third centenary of the publication ofthe Religio Medici will be commemorated. Dr. H. P. Bayonwill also give some personal recollections of Robert Koch whowas born on Dec. 11, 1843, and Dr. Douglas Guthrie will reada paper on Andrew Boorde (1490-1549) physician, priest andtraveller. At 5 PM, on the same day at the section of surgeryMr. A. Rainsford Mowlem, Mr. P. H. Jayes and Dr. PeterGabarro will open a discussion on modern methods of skingrafting. On Dec. 3, at 10.30 AM, at the section of otologyAir-Commodore E. D. D. Dickson, Squadron-Leader J. E. G.McGibbon and Squadron-Leader Colin Campbell will describea clinical and experimental investigation of acute otiticbaratraums. Major E. P. Fowler, USAMC, will also speak onthe prevention of otitis due to otitic baratraum with radon.On the same day, at 2.30 PM, at the section of anaestheticsDr. I. W. Magill will ask : Is a Proper Perspective being Lostby Anaesthetists Today ? At the same hour, at the sectionof laryngology, Major Freda Bannister and Mr. G. EwartMartin will open a discussion on local regional anaesthesia innose and throat operations.
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Medical ’Casualties ,
The following RAMC officers have been posted as prisonersof war : Captain W. R. Jackson, MB LEEDS ; Major J. R.Macdonald, MB EDIN. ; and Major P. E. F. Routley, BM OXFD.
Medical Honours
The- following awards have lately been made to RAMC. officers :
DSO.--Colonel Malcolm MacEwan, I2FC, MD.During continuous dive-bombing of an advanced dressing-station
although all ranks were ordered to take cover Colonel MacEwanremained at his post, attending seriously wounded cases. Hisdevotion to duty and complete disregard of personal safety was anexample to all ranks.
MC.—Major M. E. M. Hereford, MB BRIST., Captain B. E. W.‘
Aldwell, MB DUBL.; Captain J. S. Martin ; Captain Jan Miedema,MB EDIN.
Training for Maltese Specialists .
As a tribute to the courage and endurance of the people ofMalta, the Nuffield Foundation have, with the approval ofLord Nuffield, offered to provide grants for the training inGreat Britain of six Maltese doctors, chosen by the govern-ment of Malta, for the following appointments in the public-service of the island : orthopaedic surgeon or assistant ortho-paedic surgeon, radiologist, tuberculosis officer, two infantwelfare officers, and a medical officer to undertake the medicalcare of the civil prison and reformatory. The grants will betenable for a period not exceeding 2 years. The men orwomen who are chosen will receive a grant of E400 per annumif unmarried, and 9600 if married and a further allowance intravelling expenses. The recipients will be required to givean undertaking to return to the island at the end of theirtraining to take up the appointment for which they have beenselected. The institutions in which they will receive theirtraining will be chosen by the trustees of the foundation inconsultation with the Colonial Office.
Care of Disabled in BirminghamA Birmingham Welfare Council, dealing with the training
and employment of disabled persons, has been set up inBirmingham on the initiative of the City Reconstruction Com-mittee. At the first meeting, held on Nov. 18, AldermanNorman Tiptaft, chairman of the Reconstruction Committee,said that " the primary aim of the organisation is to ensurethat no Birmingham citizen in need of help of any sort onaccount of injury should be neglected." It might establish acentral office, staffed by trained people who could act asskilled advisers to the disabled ; t might arrange a schemefor pooling the local-authority and the national statutoryorganisations in providing workshops similar to those of theLord Roberts Memorial Fund ; it might set up a large centralinstitution for training partially disabled persons and extendthe work of cripples ; and it might use its influenee to securejobs for disabled persons in both industrial and commerciallife. Birmingham agencies concerned in the welfare of dis-abled persons had produced various suggestions, and thismade it more than ever necessary to have a unified councilwhich would prevent overlapping. ’
Major Llewellyn Ryland, a member of the board of theRoyal Cripples Hospital, was elected chairman.
"... I would like to see every anthropological depart-ment with its laboratory attached, or at least in very closeworking relations with suitable laboratories in other depart-ments. There the student will learn, by practice, the experi-mental basis of evidence ; the controls that are necessary andpossible in the comparative study of smallish groups ; andwhatever equipment of tests is going to help him alono, hisspecial line of interests. There it might be possible to developthose beginnings of the experimental study of social thinking,and of group leadership, that have already appeared. Therecould be worked out ways of showing how the basic functionalmeasures of which I have spoken do actually affect the sortof behaviour in which the anthropologist is interested. There
perhaps concrete and controlled demonstrations could beachieved of some of the effects of propaganda, and of some ofthe conditions of the spread and change of public opinion.Nobody can tell how much can be accomplished, for nobodyhas seriously tried ".-F. C. BARTLETT, FRS, giving the Huxleymemorial lecture on Nov. 23.
The Minister of Health has appointed Sir Edward Campbellto be parliamentary private secretary, Mr. Michael Reed to behis private secretary, and Miss L. R. Prescott to be his assistantprivate secretary.
Infectious Disease in England and Wales°
WEEK ENDED NOV. 13
Notifications.—The following cases of infectious diseasewere notified during the week : smallpox, 0 ; scarletfever, 3236 ; .whooping-cough, 1902 ; diphtheria, 819 ;paratyphoid, 4 ; typhoid, 5;’ measles (excludingrubella), 557 ; pneumonia (primary or influenzal), 781 ;puerperal pyrexia, 158 ; cerebrospinal fever, 41 ; polio-myelitis, 20 ; polio-encephalitis, 2 ; encephalitis leth-argica, 1 ; dysentery, 158 ; ophthalmia neonatorum,89. No case of cholera, plague or typhus fever wasnotified during the week.The number of civilian and service sick in the Infectious Hospitals
of the London County Council on Nov. 10 was 1894. During theprevious week the following cases were admitted: scarlet fever,202 ; diphtheria, 54 ; measles, 8 ; whooping-cough, 49.
Deaths.-In 126 great towns there were no deathsfrom enteric fevers or measles, 1 (0) from scarlet fever,7 (0) from whooping-cough, 13 (1) from diphtheria 64 (7)from diarrhoea and enteritis under two years, and 46 (6)from influenza. The figures in parentheses are those forLondon itself.
Bristol and Manchester each had 4 deaths from influenza, Liver-pool reported 10 fatal cases of diarrhoea., Birmingham 6.
The number of stillbirths notified during the week was199 (corresponding to a rate of 32 per thousand totalbirths), including 23 in London.
Births, Marriages and Deaths
BIRTHSBELL.-On Nov. 12, at North Shields, to Dr. Jean M. Bell (née
Cass) wife of the Rev. R. G. Bell-a son.CURWEN.—On Nov. 13, in London, the wife of Surgeon Lieut..
Commander Montague Curwen, RNVR—a son.DICK.—On Nov. 21. at Oxford, the wife of Dr. W. Pointon Dick-
a daughter.FOOTE.—On Nov. 21, at HorseU, Woking, the wife of Surgeon
Lieut.-Commander E. S. Foote, RNVR—a daughter.RIDLEY.—On Nov. 20, at Woking, the wife of Major N. H. L.
Ridley, RAMC—a son.WAINWRIGHT.—On Nov. 17, at Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent, the wife
of Mr. Denys Wainwright, FRCSE—a son.WILLCOX.—On Nov. 20, at Windsor, the wife of Major Philip
Willcox, RAMC—a son.
MARRIAGESKNOWLES—JAMES.—On Nov. 20, at Woking, James White Jackson
Knowles, surgeon lieutenant RNVR, to Anne James.MABTIN—STEWART.—On Nov. 11, in London, Thomas Dawson
Masson Martin, Macs, to Eileen Hannah Stewart.
DEATHSBATES.—On Nov. 21, at Worcester, Tom Bates, FRCS., aged 65.BURTON.—On Nov. 16, at Spalding, Lincs, Wilfred Robert Burton,
LRCPI,HARDY.-On Nov. 15, Edward William Dacre Hardy, MC, Macs.LESLIE-SPINKB.-On Nov. 18, at Woolacombe, N. Devon, Charles
Frederick Leslie-Spinks, LRCPE, formerly of Bournemouth.MATTHEws.-On Nov. 12, in London, Guy Matthews, MB LOND.,
aged 56.MICHAEL.—On Nov. 20, at Harrow Weald, Cyril Eden Michael,
MB CAMB.
MOORE.—On Nov. 18, at Duckyls, near East Grinstead, FrederickCraven Moore, MD MANC., FRCP, aged 71.
PAREs.-On Nov. 17, at Woking, Basil Pares, CMC, Dso, MRCSsurgeon lieut.-colonel, late lst Life Guards, and Royal HorseGuards, aged 74.
PARSONS.—On Nov. 17, Gerard Lyne Parsons, Macs, of Radlett,Herts.
ROGERS.—On Nov. 16, at Yelverton, George Frederick Rogers, lIiDOAM.B.
SPENOE.—On Nov. 14, Arthur Dunbar Spence, MB EDIN., of Har-penden. formerly of Rangoon. ,
WHILLIS,—On Nov. 20, Robert Whillis, MB CAMB., FRCSE.
A SHORT schedule of amendments to the BP 1932 containsonly one addition to the monographs-a’ liquid extract ofcolchicum corm, which will replace the ordinary liquid extractmade from the seed. The colchicine content of the newextract is the same as of the old-gr. 1/70 per min. 5. Tinc-ture of orange can now be omitted from confecvion of sulphur.
The/act that goods made of raw materials in short supply owingto war conditions are advertised in this paper should not be takenas an indication that they are necessarily available for export.
