Notes and News
2
837 Notes and News ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT FUND Sir Arnold Lawson, in accepting the presidency at last week’s meeting of the Fund, promised to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, the late Sir Thomas Barlow, to whom many tributes were paid for his guidance and counsels. Dr. C. Luther Batteson was elected hon. treasurer, and the meeting was glad to welcome back Mr. R. M. Handfield-Jones as hon. secretary after his absence on war duties. Long work -in various capacities was recognised by the election as vice- presidents of Dr. C. 0. Hawthorne, who has been chairman of the case committee for many years ; Mr. F. J. Strong Heaney, hon. local secretary in Liverpool; and Dr. W. P. S. Branson. The 109th annual report shows that the Fund’s income from subscriptions and donations in 1944 was f 16,856, which repre- sents an increase of £1752 over the previous year and an increase of £2321 over the pre-war figure for 1938. Legacies amounted to £24,463, which was about the same as in 1943. " This material help to the Fund and the endowment of its work for future years is of the greatest value to the committee, which appeals to all medical practitioners to remember the Fund in their wills." . Mention was repeatedly made of the excellent work of the Ladies’ Guild, which, though carried on independently, is an essential part of the Fund and performs tasks no other body could undertake so well. ANTIDOTE TO INDUSTRIAL WORK MosT jobs done by the not very highly skilled are cramping both to mind and body. Palliatives such as rest pauses, cups of tea, and music-while-you-work have proved their value and are now widespread in industry. The " purposeful physical training " demonstrated in London on June 22 by the Central Council for Physical Recreation is a further step forward. As Sir Wilfrid Garrett (Chief Inspector of Factories) said in his opening remarks, the Council’s plans are to be welcomed as another aid to " making a factory more than a place to work in." Their primary aim is to provide suitably planned active recreation to counteract the mental and physical insults inflicted on the human organism. They claim that they can prevent boredom and apathy in the short run, and the phy- sical defects and deformities that develop more insidiously. The demonstration was ingeniously contrived to show (on the stage) workers engaged on their job, and (on the floor) workers learning to apply the antidote and obviously revelling in it. Already 27 firms have lessons in work time, and representa- tives of some of the largest of them came to testify to the excellent results. A commentary was given by Mrs. H. M. Watt, the Council’s adviser on industrial work. The demon- stration was given with intent to convert industrialists, but it is to be hoped that doctors were in the audience. NEW CAMPAIGN AGAINST DIPHTHERIA THE Ministry of Health point out that during the war more children have been killed by diphtheria than by bombs. The number of children under 15 in England and Wales who lost their lives as result of air-raids is 8000, while nearly 9000 died from diphtheria. This happened in spite of the fact that, since the national campaign for immunisation started, the annual total of deaths has been reduced year by year. For every three children who died from diphtheria before the campaign began in 1942, only one is dying today. But to maintain this improvement, and entirely defeat diph- theria as an epidemic disease, it is estimated that at least 75% of all children under 15 must be protected. More than 5 million children have been immunised but 3 million remain unprotected. The Ministry have therefore launched a new summer campaign in favour of immunisation. The main aim is to get at least half a million infants protected before they reach their first birthday. MEDICAL FILMS Two films of medical interest are now being shown to the public, In Penicillin (at the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square7i-’we follow the progress of a battle casualty from the front line in Holland to final recovery in an EMS hospital in England, and observe that he receives penicillin all the way. As inserticens in this integrating theme we are introduced to the galaxy of scientists who played a part in establishing the thera itic uses of this drug ; we see how it was dis- covered, teste lim laboratory and hospital, and manufactured on an experimental scale, and how it is manutactured in quantity today ; we are shown the pure crystalline substance and told that it may soon be synthesised. The whole film is informative, clear, concise, and admirably unemotional; it gives due credit to the many different workers both in this country and the USA, and while making it clear that penicillin was given priority research facilities as a military measure, we are shown how valuable it is in civilian practice-we are even told which infections it is good for, and which it is powerless against. It is a film to be recommended to doctor and layman alike. Produced by John Taylor with Realist Film Unit ; sponsored by ICI and the Therapeutic Research Corporation : running time 20 minutes, Stricken Peninsula, the Ministry of Information release of the month for June, is concerned with war-ravaged Naples. It shows the chaos which greeted the liberating armies, and the measures they adopted to restore order. Among other items we see the measures taken to control the typhus outbreak-DDT dusting and typhus vaccine for all entering or leaving the area—and the hospitals reorganising their ruins and installing equipment which had been hidden during the German occupation. Produced by Paul Fletcher : running time 14 minutes. POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AFTER RELEASE FROM SERVICES As announced in THE LANCET of April 21 (p. 507), medical officers requiring postgraduate training on release from the Forces, under the Government scheme, should apply to one of the central offices in London or Edinburgh, to their own uni. versity or medical school, or to the university nearest to where they are living (for. addresses see THE LANCET of June 16, p. 773). The Fellowship of Post-Graduate Medicine, of 1, Wimpole Street, Wl (telephone, Langham 4266), inform us that they will also be glad to help Service doctors, by supply- ing lists of available postgraduate courses &c. For Scotland the addresses are as follows : St. Andrews.—Prof. W. J. Tulloch, Medical School, Dundee. Aberdeen.-Prof. R. S. Aitken, Department of Medicine, Foresterhill, Aberdeen. Edinburgh (central office for Scotland).-Prof. Sydney Smith, ° University New Buildings, Edinburgh 8. Glasgow.-Prof. J. Hendry, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University, Glasgow. EPSOM COLLEGE AT the 92nd annual general meeting of governors, held on June 22, Lord Leverhulme, the president, referred to the new Education Act and. stated that the good news that Epsom College and all other public schools are safe in their independ- ence at least for some years to come is a result of the patient work of the Governing Bodies Association, the Headmasters’ Conference and other bodies. The new Burnham scale will affect salaries as a whole ; but, as many feel that the new scale is not generous enough to graduates or to headmasters, most public schools will wish to pay more. A fair and reasonable post-war salaries scale at Epsom is now being considered. The fees too will have to be increased ; they did not cover the cost just before the war, and a heavy rise in expenses must follow removal of war-time restrictions. In moving the adoption of the report, the President spoke of the college centenary in 1953 and of the war memorial. Together these afforded great opportunities for advancing the school and paying tribute to the founder and the fallen. In dealing with the finances during 1944, Lord Leverhulme said that the small surplus on the school account would have been more by some i1300 but for the Vl bombs ; boys not taking public examinations were sent home two or three weeks before the end of the summer term, and an allowance was made to parents. The number of boys during the year 1944-45 showed an increase of 15, and the school is likely to have its full complement of 500 in 1946. University of Oxford On July 21 the honorary degree of MA is to be conferred on Colonel L. M. Dyke, USAMC, officer in charge of the 91st General Hospital (Churchill Hospital). Medical Honours Dr. Raymond Lewthwaite, field director of the Typhus Research Commission, and Mr. Kenneth Mellanby, PH D, experi- mental biologist to the commission, have been appointed OBE. The order of Polonia Restituta (second class) has been conferred on Air Marshal Sir Harold Whittingham.
Transcript of Notes and News
837
Notes and News
ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT FUND
Sir Arnold Lawson, in accepting the presidency at last week’smeeting of the Fund, promised to follow in the footsteps of hispredecessor, the late Sir Thomas Barlow, to whom manytributes were paid for his guidance and counsels. Dr. C.Luther Batteson was elected hon. treasurer, and the meetingwas glad to welcome back Mr. R. M. Handfield-Jones as hon.secretary after his absence on war duties. Long work -invarious capacities was recognised by the election as vice-presidents of Dr. C. 0. Hawthorne, who has been chairman ofthe case committee for many years ; Mr. F. J. Strong Heaney,hon. local secretary in Liverpool; and Dr. W. P. S. Branson.The 109th annual report shows that the Fund’s income from
subscriptions and donations in 1944 was f 16,856, which repre-sents an increase of £1752 over the previous year and anincrease of £2321 over the pre-war figure for 1938. Legaciesamounted to £24,463, which was about the same as in 1943." This material help to the Fund and the endowment of itswork for future years is of the greatest value to the committee,which appeals to all medical practitioners to rememberthe Fund in their wills.". Mention was repeatedly made of the excellent work of the
Ladies’ Guild, which, though carried on independently, isan essential part of the Fund and performs tasks no otherbody could undertake so well.
ANTIDOTE TO INDUSTRIAL WORKMosT jobs done by the not very highly skilled are cramping
both to mind and body. Palliatives such as rest pauses,cups of tea, and music-while-you-work have proved theirvalue and are now widespread in industry. The " purposefulphysical training
" demonstrated in London on June 22 by theCentral Council for Physical Recreation is a further step forward.As Sir Wilfrid Garrett (Chief Inspector of Factories) said inhis opening remarks, the Council’s plans are to be welcomed asanother aid to " making a factory more than a place to workin." Their primary aim is to provide suitably planned activerecreation to counteract the mental and physical insultsinflicted on the human organism. They claim that they canprevent boredom and apathy in the short run, and the phy-sical defects and deformities that develop more insidiously.The demonstration was ingeniously contrived to show (on
the stage) workers engaged on their job, and (on the floor)workers learning to apply the antidote and obviously revellingin it.
Already 27 firms have lessons in work time, and representa-tives of some of the largest of them came to testify to theexcellent results. A commentary was given by Mrs. H. M.Watt, the Council’s adviser on industrial work. The demon-stration was given with intent to convert industrialists, butit is to be hoped that doctors were in the audience.
NEW CAMPAIGN AGAINST DIPHTHERIA
THE Ministry of Health point out that during the war morechildren have been killed by diphtheria than by bombs.The number of children under 15 in England and Wales wholost their lives as result of air-raids is 8000, while nearly9000 died from diphtheria. This happened in spite of thefact that, since the national campaign for immunisationstarted, the annual total of deaths has been reduced year byyear. For every three children who died from diphtheriabefore the campaign began in 1942, only one is dying today.But to maintain this improvement, and entirely defeat diph-theria as an epidemic disease, it is estimated that at least 75%of all children under 15 must be protected.More than 5 million children have been immunised but
3 million remain unprotected. The Ministry have thereforelaunched a new summer campaign in favour of immunisation.The main aim is to get at least half a million infants protectedbefore they reach their first birthday.
MEDICAL FILMS
Two films of medical interest are now being shown to thepublic, In Penicillin (at the Warner Theatre, LeicesterSquare7i-’we follow the progress of a battle casualty from thefront line in Holland to final recovery in an EMS hospitalin England, and observe that he receives penicillin all the way.As inserticens in this integrating theme we are introduced tothe galaxy of scientists who played a part in establishingthe thera itic uses of this drug ; we see how it was dis-covered, teste lim laboratory and hospital, and manufactured on
an experimental scale, and how it is manutactured in quantitytoday ; we are shown the pure crystalline substance and toldthat it may soon be synthesised. The whole film is informative,clear, concise, and admirably unemotional; it gives due creditto the many different workers both in this country and theUSA, and while making it clear that penicillin was givenpriority research facilities as a military measure, we are shownhow valuable it is in civilian practice-we are even told whichinfections it is good for, and which it is powerless against.It is a film to be recommended to doctor and layman alike.Produced by John Taylor with Realist Film Unit ; sponsoredby ICI and the Therapeutic Research Corporation : runningtime 20 minutes,
Stricken Peninsula, the Ministry of Information releaseof the month for June, is concerned with war-ravagedNaples. It shows the chaos which greeted the liberatingarmies, and the measures they adopted to restore order.Among other items we see the measures taken to control thetyphus outbreak-DDT dusting and typhus vaccine for allentering or leaving the area—and the hospitals reorganisingtheir ruins and installing equipment which had been hiddenduring the German occupation. Produced by Paul Fletcher :running time 14 minutes.
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AFTER RELEASEFROM SERVICES
As announced in THE LANCET of April 21 (p. 507), medicalofficers requiring postgraduate training on release from theForces, under the Government scheme, should apply to one ofthe central offices in London or Edinburgh, to their own uni.versity or medical school, or to the university nearest to wherethey are living (for. addresses see THE LANCET of June 16,p. 773). The Fellowship of Post-Graduate Medicine, of1, Wimpole Street, Wl (telephone, Langham 4266), inform usthat they will also be glad to help Service doctors, by supply-ing lists of available postgraduate courses &c.
For Scotland the addresses are as follows :St. Andrews.—Prof. W. J. Tulloch, Medical School, Dundee.Aberdeen.-Prof. R. S. Aitken, Department of Medicine,
Foresterhill, Aberdeen.Edinburgh (central office for Scotland).-Prof. Sydney Smith, °
University New Buildings, Edinburgh 8.Glasgow.-Prof. J. Hendry, Department of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, The University, Glasgow.EPSOM COLLEGE .
AT the 92nd annual general meeting of governors, held onJune 22, Lord Leverhulme, the president, referred to the newEducation Act and. stated that the good news that EpsomCollege and all other public schools are safe in their independ-ence at least for some years to come is a result of the patientwork of the Governing Bodies Association, the Headmasters’Conference and other bodies. The new Burnham scale willaffect salaries as a whole ; but, as many feel that the new scaleis not generous enough to graduates or to headmasters, mostpublic schools will wish to pay more. A fair and reasonablepost-war salaries scale at Epsom is now being considered. Thefees too will have to be increased ; they did not cover the costjust before the war, and a heavy rise in expenses must followremoval of war-time restrictions. In moving the adoptionof the report, the President spoke of the college centenary in1953 and of the war memorial. Together these afforded greatopportunities for advancing the school and paying tribute tothe founder and the fallen.
In dealing with the finances during 1944, Lord Leverhulmesaid that the small surplus on the school account would havebeen more by some i1300 but for the Vl bombs ; boys nottaking public examinations were sent home two or threeweeks before the end of the summer term, and an allowancewas made to parents. The number of boys during the year1944-45 showed an increase of 15, and the school is likely tohave its full complement of 500 in 1946.
University of OxfordOn July 21 the honorary degree of MA is to be conferred on
Colonel L. M. Dyke, USAMC, officer in charge of the 91stGeneral Hospital (Churchill Hospital).Medical Honours
Dr. Raymond Lewthwaite, field director of the TyphusResearch Commission, and Mr. Kenneth Mellanby, PH D, experi- mental biologist to the commission, have been appointed OBE.The order of Polonia Restituta (second class) has been
conferred on Air Marshal Sir Harold Whittingham.
838
University of LondonNames lately added to the university’s roll of honour
include the following :Lieut.-Colonel J. D. F. Arm- Captain J. H. Keesey, RAMC (St.
strong, RAMC (St. Mary’s) Thomas’s)Captain F. A. S. Austen, RAMO Surgeon Commander H. de B.
(Middlesex) Kempthorne, RN (St.Captain R. J. D. Carrick, RAMO, Thomas’s)
(Middlesex) Captain J. H. T. Lawton, RAMOCaptain S. Conway, RAMC (UCH)
(Bart’s) Captain M. R. Mullins, SAMCSurgeon Lieut.-Commander (Guy’s)H. de L. N. Davis, RNVR Captain J. A. Perkins, RAMO(Bart’s) (London)
Captain J. T. Doyle, RAMC Captain P. A. Robinson, RAMO(Guy’s) (Middlesex)
-
Surgeon -Lieutenant H. E. D. Captain J. A. Sandilands, RAMOGale, RNVR (Bart’s) (Bart’s)
Squadron-Leader J. H. P. Flight Lieutenant G. E. T.Gauvain, RAFVR (Bart’s) Soden, BAFVB (Bart’s)
Surgeon Lieutenant R. L. Hall, Captain J. R. 0. Thompson, GO,RNVR (Bart’s) . RAMO (King’s & Bart’s)
Captain S. C. H. Hood, RAMO Major A. Waymouth, RAMO
(Middlesex) (Bart’s)Captain J. P. Irwin, RAMC (St. Captain David Winser, MO,
Thomas’s) ARMO (Charing Cross) ’
Royal College of Surgeons of EnglandProf. F. Wood Jones, FRS, has been appointed as the first
Sir William H. Collins professor of human and comparativeanatomy in the College. He will take up his duties on retiringfrom the chair of anatomy at Manchester University at theend- of the year.
Professor Wood Jones, who is 66 years of age, graduated BScin the University of London in 1903 and took his MB the followingyear. He became a demonstrator in anatomy at the London andSt. Thomas’s Hospitals and then’lecturer in anatomy in the Uni-versity of Manchester. After some Wanderjahre as a medicalofficer in the Far East he was appointed anthropologist to theEgyptian Government and took part in the archæological surveyof Nubia. In 1910 he took his DSc Lond. in zoology and wasappointed to the chair of anatomy at the Royal Free Hospital. In1915, 1916, and 1919 he delivered Arris and Gale lectures at theRoyal College of Surgeons, and in this laft year he took up thechair of anatomy at Adelaide which he resigned on his appointmentto the Rockefeller chair of physical anthropology in the Universityof Hawaii in 1927. He was elected FRS in 1925 and FRCS in 1930,when he left Hawaii to become professor of anatomy in Melbourne.During 1932-33 he acted as director of anatomy at Peiping. UnionMedical College. He took up his present appointment eight yearsago. Professor Wood Jones served as a captain with the RAMCduring the last war. His publications include books on corals,arboreal man, the mammals of South Australia, and sea birds aswell as The Principles of Anatorn as seen in the Hand. His Un-scientific Excursions appeared in 1934, Life and Living in 1939, andDesign and Purpose in 1942.
’
Summer School in Social BiologyThe summer school which the British Social Hygiene
Council is holding at University College, Nottingham, fromJuly 28 to Aug. 11, under the direction of Prof. WinifredCullis, D sc, is open to teachers, social workers and membersof the general public interested in education and social prob.lems from a biological angle. Courses of lectures will begiven on biology in education, the biological approach topersonality, the social aspects of health, the contribution ofnatural history to social biology, and food production andnutrition. Dr. Mary Collis and Dr. A. C. Tibbits will also givean account of the scheme of sex education which thev havehelped to set going in schools in- Nottinghamshire. At theevening sessions lectures will be given on the broader appli-cation of biological knowledge to human life and culture, andspeakers will include Sir Drummond Shiels, Dr. Otto May,and Dr. E. Glover. Further information may be had fromthe secretary of the council, Tavistock House North, London,WC1.
’
The Title ° Nurse "
The provision under the Nurses Act, 1943, which restrictsthe use of the title " Nurse " to persons possessing one of thestated nursing qualifications, will come into -force on Oct. 15.It will then become an offence for anyone to use this titleunless he or she is on the State Register or is an enrolled assist -ant nurse, though children’s nurses may still do so. The Actalso defines the terms " Trained Nurse " (on the general partof the Register), " Maternity Nurse " (midwives),
" StudentNurse " (training for State Registration), and " Pupil Assist-ant Nurse " (training for Assistant Nurses’ Roll). From thesame date, agencies supplying nurses must be licensed by localauthorities, and must supply only those who are entitled to thetitle " Nurse." ,
British Medical AssociationTDr. Robert Craig, the Scottish secretary of the BMA, is
retiring under the age-limit. His appointment will not befilled until serving officers have had opportunity to answer theadvertisement that will shortly appear.Medical Society of LondonOn Monday, July 9, at 4 PM, there will be a clinical meeting
at St. George’s Hospital, SW1. A discussion of cases willfollow at 5 PM.
Middlesex County Medical SocietyAt a meeting of the society to be held at 1, Wimpole Street,
London, WI, at 5 PM, on Wednesday, July 4, Sir ReginaldWatson-Jones- will speak on accident services in the RAF.Royal Sanitary InstituteAt a meeting to be held at the Town Hall, Banbury, at
10.15 AM on Saturday, July 7, Prof. G. S. Wilson will read apaper on bacterial food-poisoning.Anglo-Soviet Medical Council
Prof. Arnold Sorsby is attending the 220th ’anniversarycelebrations of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscowas representative of the Council.Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Mr. Arnold Tunstall has been appointed house governor.and secretary in succession to the late Mr. Harold Shrimpton.Belgian Visitors to Britain .
The fourth group of representatives of the Belgian Fon-dation Universitaire to visit this country as guests of theBritish Council have arrived in London. They include :Prof. M. Florkin (Liege), Prof. F. Albert (Liége), Prof. F.Bremer (Brussels), Prof. A. Castille (Louvain), Prof. J. C.Firket (Liege), Prof. H. R. Fredericq (Liege).Typhus in United States Troops
Colonel Joseph F. Sadu-,k, -Jr., of the US Typhus Commission,speaking in Texas on May 14, said that although Americantroops have been exposed to epidemic louse-borne typhus inmany parts of the world, the US Army has had less than 50
cases of the disease, and not a single death.Order of St. John of Jerusalem
-
The King has sanctioned the following promotions in, andappointments to, this order :
Knights.—Surgeon Rear-Admiral C. P. G. Wakeley, CB, FRCS ;John Macintosh Wilson, MB; Air Marshal Sir Harold Whittingham,KCB, KBE, KUP.
Commanders.—Lieut.-Colonel Duncan Campbell Lloyd Fitz-Williams, CM&, MD, FRCS ; Major-General Sir Ernest M. Cowell,KBE, CB, DSO, KHS ; Major-General Sir Percy Tomlinson, KBE,CB, Dso, FROP ; David Leslie Beath, OBE, MROS ; Evan Lewys.Lloyd, MRCS ; Theodore Howell Leggett, MD, RCAMCR.
Officers.—Leonard Duncan Porteous, MRCS; John BenjaminMcKay, MB ; Captain George Ferguson Shepherd, FROSi ; WilliamMailer, MB ; Major Geoffrey Benion Thomas, FRCS, IMS; CharlesVere Nicoll, MRcs ; Air Commodore Duncan McLaren, MB ; Group-Captain James Kyle, MRCS ; Surgeon Commander John StephenElliot, MB ; Surgeon Commander Arthur Edwards Ginn, MRcs;Arthur Percy Spark, MB ; Samuel McClure, MD; Surgeon Com-mander Carlton Henry Birt, MRcs ; Charles Herbert Buckley,MRCS; John Caradoc Ashton, MB; Surgeon Captain ArchieMcCallum, OBE, MD ; Lieut.-Colonel Lloyd Kirwood-Ledger, OBE,IMS; Colonel David Clyde, OIE, IMS.
Charity Organisation SocietyOn an appropriate date the title of this society is to be
changed to The Family Welfare Association. It seeks
general recognition as the ’’ national family casework
agency." Between the beginning of the war and the end oflast year, over a million Londoners had brought their prob-lems to its citizen’s advice bureaus, and 55,000 Londonfamilies had been assisted in every kind of trouble anddifficulty. " The comfort and -help given through thispersonal service make their continuance in the post-warperiod a vital necessity," and the society needs an increase of£15,000 a year in its income. Its address is 296, VauxhallBridge Road, London, SW1.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WAR YEARS.—La Press M6dicakfor June 9, 1945, contains a classified bibliography drawnfrom five British and American journals in the years 1940-44,when France was largely cut off from outside news. Since theseverance worked both ways, a bibliography of Frenchmedical work covering the same period would be useful inBritain and America.
The fact that goods made of razv materials in short supply owing-
as war conditions are advertised in this paper should not be takenas’ an indication that they are necessarily availabl e for export.
