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Mr. WILLIAM KENNETH FITCH, editor of the Pharma-ceutical Journal from 1933 to 1957, died on Oct. 28 at theage of 73. After qualifying as a pharmacist in 1920 heworked as laboratory manager for William Martindale,the pharmaceutical firm, until 1930, when he joined thestaff of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain andbecame assistant editor of the Pharmaceutical journal. Hewas made editor in 1933, and in 1946 became publicationsmanager as well; he was responsible for the growth, notonly of the journal, but of the society’s work in bookpublishing. After his retirement he was assistant secretaryof the society, and was also editor of the Journal Mondialde Pharmacie, the quarterly journal of the InternationalPharmaceutical Federation.

AppointmentsBARTON, N. J., M.B. Cantab., F.R.C.S.: consultant orthopxdic surgeon,

Nottingham area.EGDBLL, H. G., M.B. Leeds, M.R.C.P.E., D.P.M.: consultant psychiatrist,

Airdale General Hospital.GENTLES, A. W., M.B. Cantab., F.R.C.S., D.o.: consultant ophthalmologist,

Harrogate and Ripon area, Leeds R.H.B.JANDA, ZDENEK, D.P.M. : consultant psychiatrist, State Hospital, Carstairs.WiLSON, D. H., M.B. Leeds, F.R.C.S., D.T.M.&H.: consultant surgeon,

General Infirmary, Leeds.

East Anglian Regional Hospital Board:DEE, ROGER, B.M. Oxon., PH.D., F.R.C.S. : consultant orthopaedic

surgeon, Norwich, Lowestoft, and Gt. Yarmouth H.M.C. andCromer H.M.C.

RoSBORouGH, DESMOND, M.B. Lond., F.R.c.s.: consultant ortho-pxdic surgeon, Ipswich and East Suffolk area.

VISICK, J. H., M.B. Lond., F.F.R., D.M.R.D.: consultant radiologist,North East area.

Manchester Regional Hospital Board:ARCHER, J. F., M.D. L’pool, DIP.BACT.: consultant microbiologist,

Bury and Rossendale hospital group.BARNARD, R. J., M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.E.: consultant urologist,

University Hospital of South Manchester.FREEMAN, ERIC, M.R.C.P., M.R.C.P.E.: consultant physician in

geriatrics, University Hospital of South Manchester.HAY, G. G., M.D. Manc., D.P.M., D.C.H.: consultant psychiatrist,

University Hospital of South Manchester.PATHAK, U. N., M.B. Punjab, F.LC.S., F.R.C.O.G. : consultant obstetri-

cian and gynxcologist, Salford hospital group.POLLARD, J. A., M.B. Manc., F.F.A. R.C.S. : consultant anaathetist,

North Manchester, Booth Hall, and Monsall hospital groups.RIGG, KATHLEEN J., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.PATH., D.C.P.: consultant

haematologist, Salford hospital group.SAYED, Z. A., M.B. Punjab., M.SC., DIP.PSYCH.: consultant psy-

chiatrist, Prestwich Hospital.WILLIAMS, R. F., M.B. Edin., M.R.C.PATH.: consultant micro-

biologist, Booth Hall, Monsall, and Royal Manchester Child-ren’s Hospital.

South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board:BARKLEY, HARRY, M.B. Lond., B.SC. L’pool, M.R.C.P., F.R.C.PATH.:

consultant pathologist, South West London hospital group.BENSTED, J. P. M., M.B. Cantab., M.R.C.PATH. : consultant patholo-

gist, Croydon and Warlingham Park and St. Helier hospitalgroups.

BICKNELL, DOROTHY J., M.B. Birm., D.P.M.: consultant in mentalsubnormality, North West Surrey hospital group.

MURPHY, MARGARET K., M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.C.S., D.A.: consultantanesthetist, St. Helier hospital group.

NuNNBLBY, JOYCE B., M.B. Lond.: consultant venereologist, SouthWest London hospital group.

ROHDE, P. D., M.B. Cantab., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.P.E., D.P.M.: consultantpsychiatrist, Banstead, and Chelsea and Kensington hospitalgroups.

South Western Regional Hospital Board:DAVIES, R. A. C., M.B., B.sc. Lond., F.R.c.s.: consultant orthopaedic

and traumatic surgeon, N. Gloucestershire clinical area.ELLIS, R. P., B.M. Oxon., F.R.C.S., D.o.: consultant ophthalmologist,

Plymouth clinical area.GEORGE, MICHAEL, M.B., B.SC. Edin., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.P.B.: consultant

general physician, Devon and Exeter clinical area.JAMES, I. P., M.B. Cantab., M.A.N.Z.C.P., D.P.M.: consultant in

forensic psychiatry, Bristol clinical area.REEVES, D. S., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.PATH., D.A.: consultant micro-

biologist, Southmead Hospital, Bristol.TRIBE, C. R., D.M. Oxon., M.R.C.PATH., D.T.M.&H.: consultant in

morbid anatomy and histopathology, Bristol clinical area,Southmead.

Notes and News

ABORTION INQUIRYAT the end of its third review of the 1967 Abortion Act,.

the Abortion Law Reform Association concludes that " thereis nothing in the working of the Abortion Act so far whichneed give rise to really serious concern " and goes on tasuggest how surprisingly smoothly " this radical (at thetime) change in the abortion law has been brought about "and notes " the extent to which it has changed medical andsocial attitudes ". The A.L.R.A. would not, however, resista public inquiry provided that it were independent, compre-hensive (e.g., it should look into the implementation of theFamily Planning Act), and planned to give time for writtenand oral evidence to be prepared; nor should any verdicton the report be pronounced until various other inquiries.into the Act and into family planning and unwanted preg-nancy have been completed. No doubt all these points wereput to the Secretary of State for Social Services when anA.L.R.A. delegation met him on Oct. 26. Most of theA.L.R.A. report covers familiar ground, though the figuresfor London Emergency Bed Service abortion cases may notbe widely known: in 1967 the 4400 abortion cases handled

by the E.B.S. constituted 10% of the whole case-load, butby the first half of this year 1600 such cases had been handled(6% of the total). With one exception the Association’s.evidence has been presented clearly and responsibly.Prostaglandins, the A.L.R.A. says, are " likely to trans-form the entire abortion situation within the coming decade"so that " within the foreseeable future the whole approachand practice of abortion may undergo revolutionarychange". The prospect of self-administered abortion-inducers being widely taken, perhaps without medical

supervision, has its alarming side, and in the absence ofreports of a well-monitored series of women taking prosta-glandins by mouth or otherwise self-administering themas a means of birth control, such predictions seem pre-mature.

FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS BILL

UNDER the terms of this Bill, those families will qualifyfor a supplement where the breadwinner is in full-timework, but the family income is less than the amount thefamily would be receiving if it were on supplementarybenefit. If the family’s income falls below a prescribedamount-E15 a week for a family with one child, plus E2for each additional child-a family income supplement ofhalf the short-fall, within a maximum of E3 and a minimumof 4s. a week, will be paid. It is estimated that 110,000 two-parent families and 54,000 fatherless families will qualifyfor the supplement. Unlike family allowances, familyincome supplements may be paid to families with a singlechild. The new measures are also designed to help wage-stopped families, whose income is affected by the rule thatlimits supplementary benefits for the unemployed so thatthe claimant’s income is no greater when he is receivingbenefit than when he is working. Most men with familieswho will qualify for family income supplement are wage-stopped when they lose their jobs. Family income supple-ments will increase their incomes while they are working,so that the wage-stop reduction will be much smaller or willdisappear altogether. About 24,000 families were wage-stopped in August this year. When claims for familyincome supplements are assessed, family allowance will beincluded in the assessment, but capital-as distinct fromthe income from capital-will not. Eventually the amountspaid to claimants will be fixed for six-monthly periods. TheSupplementary Benefits Commission will be the formal

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family income supplement cases to the SupplementaryBenefits Appeals Tribunals. The proposals in the Bill willcost a total of E8’6 million a year. About E4’5 million willgo to two-parent families, and £2-5 million to fatherlessfamilies. There will also be extra Supplementary Benefitcosts of about El million a year because of additional bene-fits payable in wage-stopped cases. The cost of administer-ing the schemes is expected to be about E600,000 a year.It is hoped that the scheme will be operating by August,1971.

MANAGEMENT TEACHING CENTRE

AT RUCHILL HOSPITAL

ON Nov. 3, Lord Cohen of Birkenhead opened newaccommodation which forms a management teaching centrefor doctors at Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow. The centre is

part of the University of Glasgow’s department of epi-demiology and preventive medicine, although support forits development has come from the Western RegionalHospital Board, the board of management for GlasgowNorthern Hospitals, and the Nuffield Provincial HospitalsTrust. It consists of a suite of rooms suitable for specialistconferences and residential accommodation of a highstandard. The centre can accommodate 20-24 people.An important aspect of much current thinking about the

administrative reorganisation of the National Health Ser-vice concerns the management role of the clinician;in addition to his primary clinical role, today’s doctor is

increasingly concerned with complex technical develop-ments and with the complex administrative problems thataccompany them. Just as "business" became " BigBusiness ", " medicine " has in many ways become " BigMedicine." In 1966 the department of epidemiology recog-nised the need for clinicians to become more aware of

management problems in the N.H.S. and instituted a seriesof one-week residential courses with the title ManagementAppreciation for the Clinician 1. From an experimentalbeginning, the courses have now become an establishedpart of the department’s postgraduate programme, and aregular series of four courses is held each year.

At least for the present, the courses do not attempt totrain managers in the industrial sense: their primary purposeis to help the clinician become more aware of the com-plexities of the modern Health Service and to introducehim to some of the management techniques that haverelevance to the problems he meets. The topics coveredrange from the discussion of current issues (for example,manpower and finance) to an introduction to theories oforganisation, the scope of operational research in the HealthService setting, and the uses of record data. The courses

are, in the main, designed for senior registrars and juniorconsultants, and participants are, in general, nominatedby the five Scottish regional hospital boards, but this doesnot mean that admissions are restricted. Both generalpractitioners and administrators are welcome, as are doctorsfrom south of the Border.

In addition to providing an effective basis for the presentseries of courses, the new accommodation will permit thedevelopment of management training in a number ofdirections. One course which combined consultants,matrons, and non-medical administrators in the discussionof common problems has already been held and was

judged valuable by those who took part. Other plansinclude more advanced courses for clinicians who are takingpart in the administration of the Health Service and coursesfor hospital doctors and general practitioners which wouldhave relevance to the development of health centres and theintegration of services within them.

Further information about the centre and its courses may behad from Dr. F. A. Boddy, Department of Epidemiology andPreventive Medicine, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow N.W.1. Anderson, T., Walker, J. Lancet, 1968, ii, 1028.

CHRISTMAS CARDS

THE habit of sending Christmas cards dies hard for

many people. If justification is needed for the habit, charitycards provide a means of helping to offset the commercialisa-tion of Christmas. Most charities offer a selection includingreproductions of well-known paintings and modern designsboth religious and secular in theme. Many organisationsalso produce calendars, gift-tags, and small presents; all thecharities listed below will overprint their cards with a

name and address, but orders must be placed within a weekor two. Illustrated leaflets or samples of the cards are senton request.The National Kidney Research Fund (54 Paddington Street,

London W1M 3RQ) offers 4 very good cards-1 reproductionand 3 attractive, original designs; the Ockenden Venture, withLifeline (Ockenden, Guildford Road, Woking, Surrey), has avaried and striking collection of cards, and also offers ball-pointpens at Is. each. The National Marriage Guidance Council(Book Shop, 58 Queen Anne Street, London W1M OBT), theCystic Fibrosis Trust Children’s Fund (Stuart House, 1 TudorStreet, London E.C.4), the Greater London Fund for the Blind(2 Wyndham Place, London W.1), and the Grenfell Associationof Great Britain and Ireland (P.O. Box 349, Hope House, 45Great Peter Street, London S.W.1) all offer, beside their mainrange of new designs, economy packs containing a selection oflast year’s cards at a low price. The Grenfell Association (whichsupports medical work in Labrador and Northern Newfoundland)is also selling books, tea-towels, oven-gloves, note-pads, andstationery. Other medically oriented charities selling cards includethe Multiple Sclerosis Society (4 Tachbrook Street, LondonS.W.1), the Migraine Trust (23 Queen Square, London W.C.I),the Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain (26 BoroughHigh Street, London S.E.1), the Chest and Heart Association(Tavistock House North, Tavistock Square, London WCIH 9JE),and the British Rheumatism and Arthritis Association (1 Devon-shire Place, London WIN 2BD), which has a shop at 94 Maryle-bone High Street, London W.1. The 1959 Group of Charities,224 Walworth Road, London S.E.17, has prepared a completelist of shops selling charity Christmas cards in London and theProvinces; applicants should send a stamped, addressed envelope.

University of CambridgeThe degree of M.B. has been conferred on the following:Janet E. Baldock, Judith K. Bury, C. P. Forrester-Wood, Sarah J.

Graf, Susan M. Hammond, M. J. Kelly, W. M. C. Martin, D. A.Playfair, J. B. Quayle, F. J. M. Walters, M. P. Young.

University of AberdeenjThe degree of PH.D. has been conferred on T. J. Crow.

University of EdinburghProf. D. E. C. Mekie, director of studies of the Edinburgh

Postgraduate Board for Medicine, has been appointed firstpostgraduate dean in the faculty of medicine. The appoint-ment has been created in view of the recommendations inthe report of the Royal Commission on Medical Education.

Dr. J. D. McGregor has been appointed senior lecturerin pathology, Dr. R. L. Marshall lecturer in anaesthetics,Dr. J. A. A. Hunter lecturer in dermatology, Dr. P. L.Heywood and Dr. J. S. Patterson lecturers in generalpractice, Dr. A. C. Parker lecturer in medicine and thera-peutics, and Dr. Susan Yealland lecturer in orthopaedicsurgery.The degree of M.D. (commended) has been conferred on

Marie M. Ogilvie, and that of CH.M. on J. L. Boak, whowas awarded a gold medal. The degree of M.B. has beenconferred on C. S. Broadwood.The following diplomas have been granted:D.M.R.D.-S. J. Collighan, Pantelis Peratites, D. H. K. Smith.D.M.R.T.-Helen J. Stewart.D.P.M.-J. A. Clarke, Syed Manzar Hasan, Una W. Turnbull.D.S.M.-Anne M. Watt.

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University of GlasgowProf. J. H. Hutchison, who holds the chair of child

health, has been elected dean of the faculty of medicine.Prof. A. J. Haddow, formerly associate dean, has beenappointed administrative dean. Prof. C. M. Fleming, whohas been dean of the faculty of medicine and director ofpostgraduate medical education since 1959, has been ap-pointed to the new post of dean of postgraduate medicine.

University College, CardiffA personal chair in anatomy has been awarded to Mr.

D. B. Moffat.

Mr. Moffat, who is 49 years old, was educated at SwanseaGrammar School and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London; he

took the Conjoint diploma in

1943, and graduated M.B. in 1953and M.D. in 1960. He becameF.R.c.s. in 1953. After appoint-ment as house-surgeon and super-numerary chief assistant at St.

Bartholomew’s, and war-time ser-vice in the R.N.V.R., he moved toWales to become demonstratorin anatomy at University College,Cardiff, where he is now reader.In 1962 he was an Arris and Galelecturer. He was, until retiring, asurgeon captain R.N.R., andearlier this year he was appointedhonorary surgeon to H.M. the

Queen. His chief research interestsare the embryology of the intra-

cranial arteries and the structure and function of the kidney. Hehas contributed to a number of books, and is joint author of amonograph on the blood-vessels of the kidney, which is to bepublished shortly.

Royal College of Physicians of LondonAt a meeting of the college on Oct. 29, with Lord Rosen-

heim, the president, in the chair, Sir Robert Drew waselected second vice-president. Dr. W. R. S. Doll, Dr. C. F.Hawkins, Dr. J. H. D. Millar, and Dr. J. M. Naish wereelected councillors.The award of the Frederick Murgatroyd prize for 1970

to Dr. R. G. Hendrickse was announced. The award of theHamilton Fairley medal for 1970 to Sir Peter Medawarwas approved.The following were elected and admitted as members of

the college:Mahdi Fawzi, Peter Hudgson, Stanley Miles, J. A. Oddie, H. A.

Sissons, J. M. Stansfeld, Paul Szekely.

Licences to practise were conferred, jointly with the

Royal College of Surgeons of England, on the following:Ismail Abrahams, Tolu Ajayi, Bahman Ardalan, M. G. Ashton,

Barbara Bailin, A. P. D. Bangay, Michael Bamham, P. J. Barrett, P. G.Bartlett, R. 0. Barton, C. J. Bastin, R. P. Bax, Jane Begg, Patricia M. Beni-son, 1. W. Bintcliffe, H. MacN. Bishop, J. W. Blake James, J. D. H.Boulnois, D. W. L. Bourne, P. Bowen-Roberts, R. J. Boyd, M. G. Britton,P. F. Brodribb, Christine P. V. Brooks, N. H. Brooks, A. J. Burch,J. F. Burman, R. A. F. Burn, J. D. H. Cameron, J. C. Campbell,R. T. Casson, Deoram Khandoo Chaudhari, G. T. Cheney, R. N.Clayton, B. G. Collins, C. W. F. M. Cox, C. J. C. Cox, N. L. Cox,D. McK. Craig, I. T. Craigie, S. A. Craven, B. McK. Crichton, T. J.Crofts, Peter Crome, Stephen Crooks, Jacqueline M. Cusworth, D. M.Davies, Gillian V. Davies, Jean P. A. Dayer, R. G. de Glanville, Markde Medina, P. A. Dieppe, Magda M. Dryden, H. G. Dunckley, JosephEldington, K. C. Elliott, M. S. Elliot, George Flouty, S. J. F. Fosbury,R. C. Froggatt, R. H. S. Furness, Mohamed Kernel Gajraj, N. H.Gamper, Nupur Gangopadhyay, J. R. Garland-Collins, D. J. Garlick,S. J. Gomes, 1. C. Goodrick, F. H. Greaves, A. E. Green, J. 0. Griffiths,R. S. Gunn, Mukhtar Haidar, R. B. Hale, W. A. P. Hamilton, D. S.Harris, J. W. Hawkswell-Curtis, S. H. J. Hayhoe, C. J. Healey, B. F.Hemphill, B. M. Higginson, Elisabeth M. Hodson, B. L. Holt, N. B.Houghton, M. L. Howse, C. G. E. Hunt, Henrietta M. H. Ip, A. P.Isaac, C. A. N. Jarvis, Ivan Jelen, Jillian A. Jellicoe, D. H. Jobson,A. J. Johnson, Sheila M. Johnson, Ihab Mohamed Kamal, B. R. Kenning,Mohanlal Lahiri, R. G. Lambert, M. A. Lauxer, B. C. Lim, J. D. I.Liadsay, P. J. Lyndon, K. R. McIntyre, Arif Mahmood, P. G. P.

Manson-Bahr, Philippa J. J. Marsh, F. W. Martin, D. H. Matthews,Edith Qentso Mohapi, D. K. Moynagh, D. P. Mullard, Harendra Nath,C. J. Noble, C. D. Norris, T. M. O’Carroll, Mohammed Saleh Oran,N. J. B. Page, Michael Frits Panduro-Madsen, Kantilal NaranbhaiPatel,M. R. Paul, R. G. Paul, V. J. Phillips, Reginald Platt, P. V. Powell,A. E. Pruss, Rupert Puritz, G. J. Radcliffe, T. L. Ramsey, KathirKhanta Ratnavel, J. F. Redden, J. L. Reddington, M. J. Reilly, J. A.Rennie, N. J. Renton, Richard Rigby, R. T. B. Rodgers, A. C. Ruddle,Neil Rushton, M. J. Rymer, Abdur Rahman Sahibzada, J. C. Salt,B. J. G. Sanderson, R. A. Savage, R. H. Savage, J. H. Scarffe, CharlesScholefield, W. F. S. Sellers, Pamela J. Seymour, Mohamed AhmedShaker, P. C. Sharpe, J. F. Shaw, P. J. Simpson, Andrej Jan MichalSlovak, W. R. Smith, A. P. Solley, C. J. Speirs, B. G. Steggles, MarkStewart, G. F. Stratton, B. D. Sullivan, D. A. D. Sullivan, A. R. Suther-land, Jennifer B. Thorn, J. A. Vanderpuije, Edward Vandyk, M. N.Vellacott, Richard Vincent, T. A. N. Waller, G. N. G. Walles, J. A.Walter, Susan P. Wellstood-Eason, P. B. West, C. N. Westwood,P. T. Wheeldon, S. A. Whitehouse, G. C. Wilkinson, P. T. Williams,Catharine J. Wilmshurst-Smith, J. M. Winner, P. L. Wittels, A. B.Xavier.

The following diplomas were granted jointly with theRoyal College of Surgeons of England:D.A.-Dorothy M. M. Bardgett.D.C.H.-Yasmeen Omar Akbani, Sheikh Mohammad Ashraf, Brian

Attock, Naomi M. R. Barclay, Mohammad Basharat, David Chung-Kwong Bau, William Beresford, Tariq Iqbal Bhutta, Margaret H. Birch,I. M. Bowles, N. F. Brown, Arnold Yim-Woon Cheung, Sau-Ha Chow,Carol Church, R. G. Collier, Jean A. Cunningham, D. R. L. Davies,Heather M. R. Davis, Ruhunage Don Bennette Dayaratne, NibhasChandra De, Sitansu Bhusan Deb Kanungoe, Stephanie G. De Silva,D. F. Dickinson, J. F. B. Dossetor, Nasrin Hashim Doughramachi,P. G. Estcourt, Timothy Olatunji Fadahunsi, L. J. Findley, Jeanne H.Foley, Esther E. Fonseca, Joanna F. Frears, A. L. Freeman, Susan Gage,Nashwa Aziz Godsi, Valerie P. Gurney, Jennifer K. Gwilliam, TeslimKayode Hanid, Khalid Nasir-Ul Haque, D. R. Harper, Sandra J.Hartley, Lorna M. U. Hatcher, Ann M. Heelas, Judith A. Hollis,Shafqat Hussain, Masuklal Kapurchand Jain, Emil Mosa Jarjoui,R. N. Jeffrey, D. I. Johnston, Eve Jones, R. D. Jones, Khalid Khan,Angela L. King, Sandra M. King, P. A. Knoyle, Shivaputra IshwarKurbetti, Christopher Lawrence, Janet M. Lovegrove, N. R.

MacDonald, D. N. MacLennan, Jacqueline A. McQuade, Mahesh,Mohammed Khaled Youness Mardini, Anne S. Marsden, D. J. Matthew,Elizabeth M. Molyneux, C. J. Morley, Margaret E. Moss, Hewatudu-wewattege Bertram Nanayakkara, Santi Ranjan Nandi, Rajinder PertapNarula, Diana L. Norkett, Daisy Amin Farag Obeid, D. A. O’Kane,Oladapo Olatunji, Malcolm Panter-Brick, Anne M. Panting, J. G. Parkes,Margaret A. Parr, Yogananda Pasupati, Hasmukhkumar Rambhai Patel,E. R. L. Paton, D. H. Patterson, R. G. Pinniger, J. B. Pollitt, P. D.Poore, M. P. Psiloinis, Mohammad Sarfraz Akhtar Qureshi, MallawaArachchige Wimal Sarath Ranasinghe, C. F. Randall, Caroline M. Raper,Timothy Rigby-Jones, Milan Roy Choudhuri, Rosemary D. Sheppard,J. A. Simons, C. A. Smith, Margaret H. Smithers, Paula Sneath, MaryE. Spencer, A. J. Spicer, Margafet L. Stapley, Indu Sud, Gaafar IbnaufSuliman, C. R. S. Tait, Chuen Wai Tam, Satish Prasad Tandon, R. J.Taylor, M. J. Thearle, R. J. Thew, I. G. Thwaites, Marion A. TippleR. 0. Walters, J. 0. Warner, Jane E. M. Watkeys, R. T. Watson,R. W. Watt, Roger Wheeldon, Eunice E. M. Williams, Peter WillisWing-Tak Wing, T. C. Young.D.I.H.-Sami Abdul Jabbar Al Shaikly, Elizabeth E. Clarke, Theunis

Coetzee, G. A. B. Cunningham, J. E. Davies, Shashikant Jagjivan Desai,G. R. M. Fernando, Raphael Israeli, Abhaya Gamini Karunanayake,F. F. Kinnaird, Esmaieel Makooi, Jan Mohammad, Rosemary R.Northfield, Paul Psaila-Savona, Thambipillai Ratnavel, ChandruPahlajrai Sadarangani, E. T. Shennan, Abd El Momen Ahmad Suleiman,Abdalla Suliman, P. J. Truesdale, J. E. Waage.D.L.O.-Arvind Kumar.D.M.R.O.-Darma Lingham Appavoo, Ismail Ebrahim Asmal,

Esmail Bazargan, Anne F. Burditt, Christine Butcher, A. T. Carty,Kenneth Clark, Arabelle M. Dean, A. W. Duncan, R. H. Fox, J. K.Galloway, W. J. W. Greene, J. M. Guy, Michael Hale, J. E. Houghton,June M. Hunt, G. D. Hurley, Mohamed Ali Abdul Rahman Jaff,A. S. Jamieson, W. D. Jeans, Mukund Diwakar Joshi, Ali Jumshyd,Rahmatullah Khan, David Livingstone Akiiki Kigundu-Luyimbazi,J. H. Lazarus, J. C. Lynch, V. L. McAllister, G. B. MacFie, W. H.McKinley, Mohammed Saleem Malik, Henry Yan-Ling Mang, J. 0. M.Mills, Chidambaram Pallai Muthusami, Logendra Sirkari Naidoo,King Kwi Ng, D. J. Nolan, P. F. Packer, G. J. S. Parkin, Momeda AnnaParsad, Frances G. Richards, M. D. Rosewame, Albert SchembriWismayer, Kishorchandra Jatashanker Shah, Hilary S. Skene-Smith,Lorraine E. Smith, M. J. G. Smith, Prashant Haridas Somaia, L. W.Stassen, Hock San Teo, Aye Thin Thin, K. A. Tonge, M. M. Walker,Elisabeth M. Watkin, L. A. Williams, A. G. Wilson, 1. G. Wylie, I. M.Young.D.O.-Adenike Abiose, Muhammad Mukhtar Ahmed, Akram

Mohammed Ridhya Al-Shabibi, Sajjad Ahmed Awan, Nawazish AliBhutta, Easin Ali Biswas, Utpal Sinha Chowdhury, J. R. Elder, M. G.Falcon, W. R. F. Ferguson, Zafar Iqbal Amjad Ghauri, T. J. Halliwell,Akram Sadik Hassan, J. W. Howe, Eleanor B. Jones, Arun KumarKabra, Tag El Din Ahmed Abdel Latif, Abdul Halim Lawand, R. M.McFadzean, K. S. Malla, N. B. Munro, A. G. Murphy, Somasundram

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Pathmayokan, M. R. Paul, S. F. J. Pilley, Clare A. Pirie, Ahmad ShahRahimi, John Richardson, Santanu Kumar Saha, Francis XavierSammut, Suranganie Zita Augusta Subasinghe, D. S. I. Taylor,Karamjit Singh Toor.

D. Phys. Med.-T. J. Gibson..D..P.M.—Thirunavukarasu Ganesvaran, Susan Woollacott.D.P.H.-Noreen Y. Chinnatamby.D.7".M.&’.—Tosaddak Ahmed, Faik Abdul Rahim Al-Alusi, Benu

Dhor Borgohain, Shishir Kumar Bose, Lumbwe Chiwele, Abdul SultanAkbar Datoo, Gopal Chandra Datta, Hussain Daud, Olav Espegren,Mohammad Fuzail Farooqui, Khalid Irfan Faruqui, C. W. Friedericks,A. C. Grunow, Syed Zulfiqar Haider, Muhammad Ibrahim, G. J. Jager,Manjit Kaur, Ramesh Kumar, Sarah B. McIntyre, C. J. M. Maxwell,Sigrun Marie Megedal, Thomas Ogada, Jack Onno, Mohd AkramRajput, Stanislav Rehor, Arun Kumar Saha, Hem Sharma, NilmoniSikdar, Surjeet Singh, F. B. Thomsen, D. J. Waller.

Epidemiology and Medical Care UnitThe Medical Research Council and the Department of

Health and Social Security have jointly agreed to establishan Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit at NorthwickPark Hospital. Dr. T. W. Meade has been appointeddirector of the Unit.

Dr. Meade, who is 34, received his medical education at theUniversity of Oxford, where he graduated B.M. in 1960, and St.Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He became M.R.C.P. in 1964.After house-officer and registrar appointments in London andOxford he joined the staff of the M.R.C. Social Medicine Unitin 1964. In 1968 he was appointed senior lecturer in the depart-ment of public health at the London School of Hygiene andTropical Medicine; he spent a year working in the epidemiologyprogramme of the Schieffelin Leprosy Research Sanatorium, nearVellore, South India. His research interests include the clinicaland epidemiological aspects of degenerative arterial disease, thedevelopment and evaluation of screening methods, and theapplication of epidemiology to the health problems of tropicalcountries.

Diary of the Week

NOVEMBER 8 TO 14Monday, 9thINSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330/332 Grays Inn Road,

London W.C.I.5.30 P.M. Dr. A. G. Stansfield: Neoplastic Diseases of the Lympho-

reticular System.

Tuesday, 10thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields,

London W.C.25 P.M. Mr. G. S. Makin: Tissue Perfusion and Lactic Acidosis in

Hasmorrhagic Shock. (Arris and Gale Lecture).BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION

5.30 P.M. (Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, LondonW.C.I.) Prof. J. L. Gibbons: Adrenocortical Function inPsychiatric Disorder.

WESTMINSTER MEDICAL SCHOOL, Horseferry Road, London S.W.15.15 P.M. Prof. Harold Ellis: Arterial Surgery of the Lower Limb.

MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY4.30 P.M. (Medical School.) Mr. Richard Johnson: The Search for the

Mechanisms of the Neurological Control of Eye Movements.8 P.M. (Medical School.) Surgery. Sir Harry Platt: The Story of

the Manchester Surgical Society.

Wednesday, llthROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, Hammersmith Hospital,

London W.12 22 P.M. Prof. T. P. Whitehead: The Large-scale Production of Unex-

pected and Unexplained Laboratory Results.INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH

5.30 P.M. Prof. Niilo Hallman (Helsinki): Hasmodialysis—its Indi-cations in Infancy and Early Childhood.

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of theSkin, Lisle Street, London W.C.2

4.30 P.M. Dr. Arthur Jarrett: Keratin Formation.INSTITUTE OF ORTHOPEDICS, 234 Great Portland Street, London

WIN 6AD6 P.M. Dr. J. T. Scales: Arthroplasty of the Hip Using Foreign

Materials.8.15 P.M. Mr. J. N. Wilson: The Stanmore Total Hip Replacement.

INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, LondonS.E.5

5.30 P.M. Dr. M. H. Lader: The Human Pharmacology of Sedativesand Hypnotics.

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of GlasgowAt a meeting of the college on Oct. 27, with Mr. R. B.

Wright, the president, in the chair, Sir Dugald Baird,Prof. D. F. Cappell, and Dr. C. R. Clayson were admittedas honorary fellows. Dr. W. R. Lawson and Dr. J. RWallace were admitted as fellows qua surgeon. Dr. HeatherM. May and Dr. I. R. McDougall were admitted as

collegiate members.

Royal College of Physicians of IrelandAt a meeting of the college on Oct. 26, Dr. David

Mitchell, president, admitted the following to the licencein medicine and obstetrics:

S. Beejadhur, N. A. Beharry, M. H. Cassimjee, C. Harilall, B. Low-Chew-Tung, D. G. Mather, M. S. Moosa, D. P. O’Connell, B. 0. Ojo,M. J. Premjee, M. Ramjoorawon, M. P. Rosen, S. Valli, J. Walsh.

Ethics of Drug PromotionA symposium on this subject is to be held by the London

Medical Group (103 Gower Street, W.C.1) on Tuesday,Nov. 10, at 5.45 P.M. at the Middlesex Hospital MedicalSchool, Cleveland Street, W.l. The speakers will beDr. G. R. Daniel and Dr. Andrew Herxheimer.

CORRIGENDA: Our contents page for Oct. 24 should haveshown Dr. D. C. Thrush as M.R.C.P.

Carbenicillin in Pseudomonas Infections.-In an editoriallast week (p. 919) the first sentence of the third paragraph con-tained an error. Only 4 patients (not 14) in the group of 17 werefound to harbour resistant pseudomonas after treatment.

INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY, 10 Henrietta Street, London W.C.25 P.M. Mr. J. E. A. Wickham: Surgery of the Kidney.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Grays Inn Road, London W.C.15.15 P.M. Dr. A. J. Levi: Wilson’s Disease.

LIVERPOOL MEDICAL INSTITUTION8 P.M. Mr. George Mavor: Indications for Arterial Reconstruction,

with reference to early Femoropopliteal Atherosclerosis.MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY

7.30 P.M. (Medical School.) Pathology. Dr. A. A. Sharp: Throm-bolysis.

Thursday, 12thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND

5 P.M. Prof. J. A. Stallworthy: The Surgery of Endometrial Cancer-in the Bonney Tradition. (Victor Bonney lecture).

BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION5.30 P.M. (Institute of Child Health.) Prof. H. E. de Wardener:

Calcium and Phosphorus Metabolism in Chronic RenalFailure.

INSTITUTE OF CARDIOLOGY4 P.M. (National Heart Hospital, Westmorland Street, London W.l.)

Mr. David Waterson: Surgery of Neonates.ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, London W.2

5 P.M. Prof. P. J. Huntingford: Induced Abortion in Europe.UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, London

5.30 P.M. (15 Gordon Street, W.C.I.) Dr. Macdonald Critchley :Lingua Adamica Restituta. (Rickman Godlee lecture).

LONDON MEDICAL GROUP5.45 P.M. (University College Hospital Medical School Union, Huntley

Street, W.C.I.) Dr. L. N. Jackson: Male Sterilisation.ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE, Millbank, London S.W.1

5 P.M. Prof. L. J. Bruce-Chwatt: Malaria Eradication.ROYAL INFIRMARY, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh 3

5 P.M. Dr. A. H. T. Robb-Smith: A Cool Look at the Reticuloses.(Honyman Gillespie lecture).

UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE5 P.M. Prof. K. G. Lowe: Clinical Research and Patient Care.

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, Foresthill5 P.M. Dr. R. G. Hendrickse: Paediatrics in West Africa.

Friday, 13thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND

5 P.M. Prof. H. G. Stack: The Palmar Fascia, and the Development ofDeformities and Displacements in Dupuytren’s Contrac-ture. (Hunterian lecture.)

ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL11 A.M. Mr. J. R. Cobbett: Microsurgery Techniques in Repair.