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Abridged minutes Of the first meeting of Council in the 1959-60 session held in the Council Chan3ber, British Medical:Association, Tavistock Square, W.C,1, on Friday 23rd October 1959, at 10.30 a.m. Present : Dr. H. D. Chalke, in the chair, Professor C. Fraser Brockington, Drs. F. G. Brown, C. Metcalfe Brown, J. S. G. Burnett, H. M. Cohen, Sir Allen Daley, Drs. R . H. G. H. Denham, Dorothy F. Egan, Catherine M. Gray, L A. Gillet, J. Gorman, W. G . Harding, E. Hughes, A. Hutchison, J. D. Kershaw, J. Craig Lindsay, J. Stevenson Logan, Jean M. Mackintosh, J. Maddison, W. R. Martine, Ma13r T. Paterson, R. C. M. Pearson, J. R, Preston, A. L. Smallwood, J. A. Stirling, J. A. Struthers, W. G. Swarm (deputising for J. B. McKinney), G. W. H. Townsend, W. C. Turner, Nora I. Wattle, Professors G. S. Wilson and R. C. Wofinden, with Major-General P. J. L. Capon, by invitation, and Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke, medical secretary, in attendance. Announcement by the Chairman
Before taking the formal business of the meeting, the chairman thanked the following members of the former Council who were not on the new Council : Dr. Chas. F. White, Major-General P. J. L. Capon (attending for a special item of business to be dealt with later), Dr. D. H. Geffen, deceased, Drs. R. A. Leader, J. W. Lobban, V. P. McDonagh, G. S. Robertson, Mr. J. F. A. Smyth, Dr. J. B. Tilley, and Dr. N. V. Williams (deputising for Dr. F. J. Welton at the present meeting). The president extended a warm welcome to Drs. J. A. Fraser (absent), Mr. J. Fletcher, Drs. A. Hutchison, T. Seymour-Jones, J. Craig Lindsay, W. R. Martine, R. C. M. Pearson, J. R. Preston, W. C. Turner and F. J. Welton. Minutes The minutes of the meeting of Council held on 25th September, 1959, having been circulated, were taken as read, and were approved and signed by the chairman. Apologies The medical secretary read a list of 16 members who sent apologies for inability to attend the meeting. Business Arising ]~orn Previous Minutes :--(a) Finance. The chairman announced that one of the most distinguished honorary members of the Society, namely Dr. Huntington Williams, commissioner of health for Baltimore, had made a second generous gift of U.S. $100 to the general funds of the Society. At the chairman's request the medical secretary read a letter to himself of 9th October enclosing the gift and sending a message of loyal greetings to the Society, and to its newly-elected president, Dr. J. Stevenson Logan. Resolved : to convey the warm thanks of the Society to Dr. Huntington Williams for his most generous gift and fraternal greetings which were very heartily reciprocated. The treasurer invited the attention of members to the statement of accounts and list of cheques for September, 1959, and informed Council that the Society's auditors were completing their audit. The accounts and list of cheques were received and approved. On the motion of the treasurer seconded by Dr. Burnett. Resolved : the sum of £1,250 to be put into the contingency reserve fund established in 1957-8 to bring the total to £2,000. This sum would be needed in the event of the appeal to the House of Lords failing, for payment of rates on the Society's premises from 1956 to date, and the costs of the action. 114
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(b) Services Group Course. With permission of Council, the chairman at this point introduced the subject of the Services Group course on public health problems of jonising radiations. After hearing the chairman and Major-General Caponwho attended by invitation and Dr. Metcalfe Brown, Resolved : the Services Group to continue with the holding of the course. (Major-General Capon was then thanked for his attendance and withdrew from the meeting.) (c) Housing Advisory Committee on Standards. Noted: the Society had received the thanks of the Housing Advisory Committee on Standards of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government which awaited a further addendum from the Society on hand basins in water closets and methods of disposing of infected dressings and placentae. (d) Younghusband Report. Noted : views of some of the Branches on the Report were still awaited. After hearing from Dr. Wattle the reasons for the resolution from the Scottish Branch on the unsatisfactory salary differentials for health visitor sistertutors, Agreed : the matter be referred for consideration to the General Purposes Committee. Professor Fraser Brockington informed the meeting that the special four-year training cottrse for health visitors in co-operation with the University of Manchester and the Manchester hospitals and local authority with a large content of social science had started on 1st October. After listening to the views of Dr. Pearson, Dr. Harding and Sir Alien Daley, Agreed : at the instance of Dr. Townsend : to refer to the General Purposes Committee the suggestion that the question of conditions of service of health visitor sister-tutors, superintendents of nursing and others might form the subject of discussion with the Royal College of Nursing. (e) Central Office Reorganisation. Dr. Townsend having eniarged upon the minutes of special augmented meetings of the General Purposes Committee on 24th September and 15th October, 1959, annexures 4 and 5 on agenda), Resolved:-(1) the office establishment recommended in annexure 5 (medical secretary in charge of office administration, administrative assistant, book-keeper, typist and part-time typist) be approved; (2) an administrative assistant be appointed as soon as possible by General Purposes Committee assisted by Sir Allen Daley and Dr. Jean M. Mackintosh ; the appointment to be advertised and the question of suitability of Service candidates tbr such an appointment to be investigated by the chairman, and the chairman of the Genera/ Purposes Committee; (3) the appointment of book-keeper and remaining staff to be considered after the taking up of duties by the administrative assistant. (f) Standing Conference of Health Visitors Training Centres. The chairman and Dr. Hughes described the discussion at the Ministry of Health on 7th October with the Royal College of Nursing, the Womens Public Health Officers Association, and British Medical Association (represented by the chairman), at which Drs. Egan and Hughes, accompanied by the medical secretary, represented the Society. (g) Conference on "'Family Visiting of the Future." Noted : Dr. Bertha M, Butters and the medical secretary had attended a conference on "' Family visiting of the future " organised by the Royal College of Nursing at the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College on 3rd October. A report of the main points of interest had been drawn up. Professor Fraser Brockington mentioned a conference on this subject at the Ciba Foundation on 12th November, organised by the United Kingdom Committee of the W.H.O, at which medical officers of health would be welcome.
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(h) Annual General Meeting of National Council o f Social Service. Noted: the meeting had been postponed to 8th December owing to the election date failing on 8th October. The item was, therefore, withdrawn. .j
Trials with live poliomyelitis vaccine By permission of the chairman, Professor Wilson sought the help of the Society in trials which the Public Health Laboratory Service, working under the Medical Research Council, desired to undertake of attentuated live poliomyelitis vaccine. Decided : to refer the matter to an early meeting of the Research Committee. Report of General Purposes Committee Dr. Burnett reported on annexure 3 to the agenda being the minutes of the meeting of the General Purposes Committee of 25th September. The chairman described the conference which had taken place at the Ministry of Health on 15th October between Sir John Charles and Messrs. Emery and Tyas, on the one hand, and himself and Drs. Kershaw, Stevenson Logan, Townsend, accompanied by the medical secretary, on the other. It was emphasised that the Society's wish was that the wide range of public health opinion it could furnish, which was always available to the Ministry, would be utilised to the full. There was a useful discussion, and the outcome of the conference could be regarded assailsfactory. Dr. Burnett expressed the genera/ regret manifested on learning of the closing down of the New South Wales Branch. Both Sir Allen Daley and Dr. Jean Mackintosh who had visited Australia testified that the Branch had suffered from lack of local support for years. Resolved : the Branch be informed of Council's hope that it would Come to life again at some future date with the assurance that very sympathetic consideration would be given to a request for financial assistance in reinstating the Branch. The report was received and the recommendations in the minutes were approved. Third International Congress of School and University Health Dr. Smallwood reported on the congress held at Unesco House, Paris, from 6th to 8th July. Resolved : (1) Dr. Smallwood to be thanked for his report ; (2) at the instance o f Dr. Kershaw, the School Health Service Group to recommend for approval by the chairman of Council, the name of a rePresentative who would attend at the next International Congress without cost to the Society. Resolutions from Royal College of Midwives Agreed : (1) the Royal College of Midwives to be informed that the Society was not fully convinced that the use of sterilisable cotton blankets in ambulances conveying maternity patients to hospital would achieve the results sought and had been reinforced in this view by the opinion of the director, Public Health Laboratory Service ; (2) the Royal College to be informed that the Society was in complete agreement with the suggestion that notification of births and still-births should not be carried out on an open postcard but by some means which would preserve the confidentiality of the document° Election of Committees, etc. (a) General Purposes Committee. With Drs. Stevenson Logan and Struthers as
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tellers, the committee for 1958-59 session was re-elected--that is : the president, chairman of Council and honorary treasurer, ex officio, Drs. Burnett, Cohen; Egan, Harding, Kershaw, Maddison, G. W. H. Townsend and Professor Walton, (b) Evironmental Health Committee. Dr. Burnett, Major-General Capon, Drs. Meredith Davies, Gorman, Irene Green, Hughes, Turner, Weir and Professor Walton. (c) Research Committee. Drs. Bradley, Metcalfe Brown, Major-General Capon, Drs. Chalke, Cockburn, Cohen, Dodds, Mr. D. H. Goose, Drs. Miriam Florentin, Gillet, Professor Grundy, Drs. Harding, Herford, Hutchison, lrvine, W. P. D. Logan, Jean Mackintosh, MacDougall, Maddison, McMath, PinSent, Professor D. D. Reid, Drs. Riddell, Taylor, Tyser and Professor Wilson. (d) Committee on Food Matters. Drs. Belam, Day, Maddison, Martine, Llewelyn Roberts, Greenwood Wilson and Professor Wilson. (e) Advisory Committee on Radiation Hazards. Drs. Metcalfe Brown and Burnett, Major-General Capon, Dr. Chalke, Mr. G. B. Courtier, Dr. Meredith Davies, Colonel Gordon, Professor Grundy, Drs. Levitt and Madge, Air Commodore A. Muir, Drs. Stifling and Katharine Williams. (f) Joint Liaison Committee with R.M.P.A. Drs. Cohen, Rachel Fidler, J. A. Fraser, Gillet, Harding, J. T. C. Keddie, Kershaw, Stevenson Logan and J. A. Scott. (g) Refresher Course Sub-committee. Drs. Dorothy Egan, Harding, nominee of School Health Service Group approved by Chairman of Council, Dr. Struthers, Mr. T. B. Tomlinson and nominee of County District Group approved by chairman of Council (h) Editorial Board. Dr. Chalke, Mr. G. C. L. Elliston, Drs. Harvey Flack, Kershaw, Smithard, Struthers and Mr. E. Underhill. (i) Neech Prize Assessors. President and chairman, Editorial Board, ex officio Professors Fraser Brockington and Wofinden. Nomination of Representatives on Outside Bodies (1) (a) Central Health Service Council (chairman of Council, ex officio). (b) Standing Dental Advisory Committee--Mr. J. F. A. Smyth. (c) Standing Mental Health Advisory Committee--Dr. Scott. (d) Standing Nursing Advisory Committee--Dr. Dorothy Egan. (e) Standing Tuberculosis Advisory Committee--Dr. Williams. (2) Court of Governors, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine-Dr. Chalke. (3) National Old Peoples Welfare Council--Drs. Hughes and Irvine. (4) Central Medical Recruitment Committee--Dr. F. G. Brown. (5) United Kingdon Committee of W.H.O.--Professor Fraser Brockington. (6) General Medical Services Committee of B.MoA.--Dr. Cha!ke with Dr. Harding as deputy (already nominated by the Public Health Committee, B.M.A.). (7) Executive Committee, Central Council for the Care of Cripples--Dr. Irene Green. (8) R. S. H. Congress, 1960--the president and medical secretary. (9) The Churches Council of Healing--Dr. Townsend. (10) Regional Hospital Boards--Noted and endorsed by Council :--North Western Branch Drs. J. G. Hailwood and J. W. Lobban--Liverpool, R.H.B. Drs. C. Metcalfe Brown and A. J. Simpson--Manchester, R.H,Bo Midland Branch Dr. J. F. Galloway--Birmingham, R.H.B.
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Other Business M e n t a l H e a l t h R e v i e w T r i b u n a l s . Resolved : to refer the q u e s t i o n o f m e m b e r s h i p o f m e d i c a l officers o f heaRh o n M e n t a l H e a l t h R e v i e w T r i b u n a l s to the G e n e r a l P u r p o s e s C o m m i t t e e at a n e m e r g e n c y m e e t i n g to be held at 1.30 p.m. on 23rd O c t o b e r , w i t h p o w e r to act.
Termination T h e r e being n o o t h e r business, the c h a i r m a n t h a n k e d m e m b e r s for t h e i r attend a n c e a n d closed the m e e t i n g at 12.45 p.m.
Branch and Group Reports Services Group REVIEW
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The annual cocktail p a r t y of the G r o u p was held at the Hotel St. George, Harrogate, on 28th April. The function was a most successful one, upwards of 80 members and their guests attending. The annual general meeting of the G r o u p was held on board the troopship Nevasa in Southampton Docks, on 2nd June. Dr. J. Craig Lindsay, medical officer of health, Aldershot, was elected president for the year 1959-60. This meeting was organised by the kind invitation of the British India Steam Navigation Company who entertained mem• bets to lunch on the ship. In the morning a tour of the ship's hospital, troops' quarters, cabins and galley was made. A n interesting talk on "Port Health" was given by Dr. W. P. Catgill, deputy port medical officer, Southampton. It is hoped to publish a summary of his address in a forthcoming issue o f P u B L I C H E A L T H. Thanks were due to the staff of the British India Steam Navigation Company and to Lieut.-Colonel E. D. H. Williams, R.A.M.C., A.D.M.S. Embarkation, for the hospitality provided and the excellence of the organisation, both of which were much appreciated.
1958/9 Under the presidency of Major-General P. J. Capon, Q.a.P., the Services G r o u p has had a highly successful year. A t the first meeting, on 20th N o v e m b e r , a paper, entitled "The Third Part", was read by T, Lloyd, Esq., T.D., associate m e m b e r . This paper was published in the February number of P U B L I C H E A L T H . •The presidential address, entitled "Rations throughout the Ages" was delivered at B.M.A. House on l l t h December. This address proved of much interest and will appear in a forthcoming number of P u n L I C H E A L T •. Many fascinating exhibits were shown. A t the conclusion of the m e e t i n g s cocktail party was held for members with their ladies and guests. The annual dinner of the G r o u p was held on 23rd January at the Junior A r m y and Navy Club, when the president occupied the chair. Fifty members and guests were present, including the president of the Society and the directors-general of the Navy and Army. Speeches were brief and entertaining. The health of the G r o u p was proposed by Dr. J. A. Stirling with a reply by Midland Branch Dr. W. S. Parker, Major-General Capon RADIOACTIVE WASTES proposed the health of the guests, and Surg. The fifth meeting of the session was held Vice-Admiral Sir Cyril May replied. at Lancaster Street Welfare Centre, BirmingA meeting was held at the Royal Army ham, o n 12th M a r c h , with Dr. T. Ross Medical College, Millbank, on 20th Febru- (president-elect) in the chair. After routine ary. Major J. M. Adam, R.A.M.C., delivered business the chairman introduced Mr. R. H. a most interesting address entitled "Films B u R N S, Industrial Chemistry Group, and Stills from the Antarctic", illustrated by Atomic Energy R e s e a r c h Establishment, a film and lantern stides. Before the con- Harwell, who spoke on "The Disposal of clusion of the meeting members visited the Radioactive Wastes". museum and saw a d i s p l a y of exhibits on Mr. Burns said that with the growing use antarctic clothing and rations, and tubercu- of radionuclides in industry and the medical losis control in Gurkhas. fields the disposal of radioactive wastes
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Abridged minutes Of the first meeting of Council in the 1959-60 session held in the Council Chan3ber, British Medical:Association, Tavistock Square, W.C,1, on Friday 23rd October 1959, at 10.30 a.m. Present : Dr. H. D. Chalke, in the chair, Professor C. Fraser Brockington, Drs. F. G. Brown, C. Metcalfe Brown, J. S. G. Burnett, H. M. Cohen, Sir Allen Daley, Drs. R . H. G. H. Denham, Dorothy F. Egan, Catherine M. Gray, L A. Gillet, J. Gorman, W. G . Harding, E. Hughes, A. Hutchison, J. D. Kershaw, J. Craig Lindsay, J. Stevenson Logan, Jean M. Mackintosh, J. Maddison, W. R. Martine, Ma13r T. Paterson, R. C. M. Pearson, J. R, Preston, A. L. Smallwood, J. A. Stirling, J. A. Struthers, W. G. Swarm (deputising for J. B. McKinney), G. W. H. Townsend, W. C. Turner, Nora I. Wattle, Professors G. S. Wilson and R. C. Wofinden, with Major-General P. J. L. Capon, by invitation, and Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke, medical secretary, in attendance. Announcement by the Chairman
Before taking the formal business of the meeting, the chairman thanked the following members of the former Council who were not on the new Council : Dr. Chas. F. White, Major-General P. J. L. Capon (attending for a special item of business to be dealt with later), Dr. D. H. Geffen, deceased, Drs. R. A. Leader, J. W. Lobban, V. P. McDonagh, G. S. Robertson, Mr. J. F. A. Smyth, Dr. J. B. Tilley, and Dr. N. V. Williams (deputising for Dr. F. J. Welton at the present meeting). The president extended a warm welcome to Drs. J. A. Fraser (absent), Mr. J. Fletcher, Drs. A. Hutchison, T. Seymour-Jones, J. Craig Lindsay, W. R. Martine, R. C. M. Pearson, J. R. Preston, W. C. Turner and F. J. Welton. Minutes The minutes of the meeting of Council held on 25th September, 1959, having been circulated, were taken as read, and were approved and signed by the chairman. Apologies The medical secretary read a list of 16 members who sent apologies for inability to attend the meeting. Business Arising ]~orn Previous Minutes :--(a) Finance. The chairman announced that one of the most distinguished honorary members of the Society, namely Dr. Huntington Williams, commissioner of health for Baltimore, had made a second generous gift of U.S. $100 to the general funds of the Society. At the chairman's request the medical secretary read a letter to himself of 9th October enclosing the gift and sending a message of loyal greetings to the Society, and to its newly-elected president, Dr. J. Stevenson Logan. Resolved : to convey the warm thanks of the Society to Dr. Huntington Williams for his most generous gift and fraternal greetings which were very heartily reciprocated. The treasurer invited the attention of members to the statement of accounts and list of cheques for September, 1959, and informed Council that the Society's auditors were completing their audit. The accounts and list of cheques were received and approved. On the motion of the treasurer seconded by Dr. Burnett. Resolved : the sum of £1,250 to be put into the contingency reserve fund established in 1957-8 to bring the total to £2,000. This sum would be needed in the event of the appeal to the House of Lords failing, for payment of rates on the Society's premises from 1956 to date, and the costs of the action. 114
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(b) Services Group Course. With permission of Council, the chairman at this point introduced the subject of the Services Group course on public health problems of jonising radiations. After hearing the chairman and Major-General Caponwho attended by invitation and Dr. Metcalfe Brown, Resolved : the Services Group to continue with the holding of the course. (Major-General Capon was then thanked for his attendance and withdrew from the meeting.) (c) Housing Advisory Committee on Standards. Noted: the Society had received the thanks of the Housing Advisory Committee on Standards of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government which awaited a further addendum from the Society on hand basins in water closets and methods of disposing of infected dressings and placentae. (d) Younghusband Report. Noted : views of some of the Branches on the Report were still awaited. After hearing from Dr. Wattle the reasons for the resolution from the Scottish Branch on the unsatisfactory salary differentials for health visitor sistertutors, Agreed : the matter be referred for consideration to the General Purposes Committee. Professor Fraser Brockington informed the meeting that the special four-year training cottrse for health visitors in co-operation with the University of Manchester and the Manchester hospitals and local authority with a large content of social science had started on 1st October. After listening to the views of Dr. Pearson, Dr. Harding and Sir Alien Daley, Agreed : at the instance of Dr. Townsend : to refer to the General Purposes Committee the suggestion that the question of conditions of service of health visitor sister-tutors, superintendents of nursing and others might form the subject of discussion with the Royal College of Nursing. (e) Central Office Reorganisation. Dr. Townsend having eniarged upon the minutes of special augmented meetings of the General Purposes Committee on 24th September and 15th October, 1959, annexures 4 and 5 on agenda), Resolved:-(1) the office establishment recommended in annexure 5 (medical secretary in charge of office administration, administrative assistant, book-keeper, typist and part-time typist) be approved; (2) an administrative assistant be appointed as soon as possible by General Purposes Committee assisted by Sir Allen Daley and Dr. Jean M. Mackintosh ; the appointment to be advertised and the question of suitability of Service candidates tbr such an appointment to be investigated by the chairman, and the chairman of the Genera/ Purposes Committee; (3) the appointment of book-keeper and remaining staff to be considered after the taking up of duties by the administrative assistant. (f) Standing Conference of Health Visitors Training Centres. The chairman and Dr. Hughes described the discussion at the Ministry of Health on 7th October with the Royal College of Nursing, the Womens Public Health Officers Association, and British Medical Association (represented by the chairman), at which Drs. Egan and Hughes, accompanied by the medical secretary, represented the Society. (g) Conference on "'Family Visiting of the Future." Noted : Dr. Bertha M, Butters and the medical secretary had attended a conference on "' Family visiting of the future " organised by the Royal College of Nursing at the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College on 3rd October. A report of the main points of interest had been drawn up. Professor Fraser Brockington mentioned a conference on this subject at the Ciba Foundation on 12th November, organised by the United Kingdom Committee of the W.H.O, at which medical officers of health would be welcome.
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(h) Annual General Meeting of National Council o f Social Service. Noted: the meeting had been postponed to 8th December owing to the election date failing on 8th October. The item was, therefore, withdrawn. .j
Trials with live poliomyelitis vaccine By permission of the chairman, Professor Wilson sought the help of the Society in trials which the Public Health Laboratory Service, working under the Medical Research Council, desired to undertake of attentuated live poliomyelitis vaccine. Decided : to refer the matter to an early meeting of the Research Committee. Report of General Purposes Committee Dr. Burnett reported on annexure 3 to the agenda being the minutes of the meeting of the General Purposes Committee of 25th September. The chairman described the conference which had taken place at the Ministry of Health on 15th October between Sir John Charles and Messrs. Emery and Tyas, on the one hand, and himself and Drs. Kershaw, Stevenson Logan, Townsend, accompanied by the medical secretary, on the other. It was emphasised that the Society's wish was that the wide range of public health opinion it could furnish, which was always available to the Ministry, would be utilised to the full. There was a useful discussion, and the outcome of the conference could be regarded assailsfactory. Dr. Burnett expressed the genera/ regret manifested on learning of the closing down of the New South Wales Branch. Both Sir Allen Daley and Dr. Jean Mackintosh who had visited Australia testified that the Branch had suffered from lack of local support for years. Resolved : the Branch be informed of Council's hope that it would Come to life again at some future date with the assurance that very sympathetic consideration would be given to a request for financial assistance in reinstating the Branch. The report was received and the recommendations in the minutes were approved. Third International Congress of School and University Health Dr. Smallwood reported on the congress held at Unesco House, Paris, from 6th to 8th July. Resolved : (1) Dr. Smallwood to be thanked for his report ; (2) at the instance o f Dr. Kershaw, the School Health Service Group to recommend for approval by the chairman of Council, the name of a rePresentative who would attend at the next International Congress without cost to the Society. Resolutions from Royal College of Midwives Agreed : (1) the Royal College of Midwives to be informed that the Society was not fully convinced that the use of sterilisable cotton blankets in ambulances conveying maternity patients to hospital would achieve the results sought and had been reinforced in this view by the opinion of the director, Public Health Laboratory Service ; (2) the Royal College to be informed that the Society was in complete agreement with the suggestion that notification of births and still-births should not be carried out on an open postcard but by some means which would preserve the confidentiality of the document° Election of Committees, etc. (a) General Purposes Committee. With Drs. Stevenson Logan and Struthers as
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tellers, the committee for 1958-59 session was re-elected--that is : the president, chairman of Council and honorary treasurer, ex officio, Drs. Burnett, Cohen; Egan, Harding, Kershaw, Maddison, G. W. H. Townsend and Professor Walton, (b) Evironmental Health Committee. Dr. Burnett, Major-General Capon, Drs. Meredith Davies, Gorman, Irene Green, Hughes, Turner, Weir and Professor Walton. (c) Research Committee. Drs. Bradley, Metcalfe Brown, Major-General Capon, Drs. Chalke, Cockburn, Cohen, Dodds, Mr. D. H. Goose, Drs. Miriam Florentin, Gillet, Professor Grundy, Drs. Harding, Herford, Hutchison, lrvine, W. P. D. Logan, Jean Mackintosh, MacDougall, Maddison, McMath, PinSent, Professor D. D. Reid, Drs. Riddell, Taylor, Tyser and Professor Wilson. (d) Committee on Food Matters. Drs. Belam, Day, Maddison, Martine, Llewelyn Roberts, Greenwood Wilson and Professor Wilson. (e) Advisory Committee on Radiation Hazards. Drs. Metcalfe Brown and Burnett, Major-General Capon, Dr. Chalke, Mr. G. B. Courtier, Dr. Meredith Davies, Colonel Gordon, Professor Grundy, Drs. Levitt and Madge, Air Commodore A. Muir, Drs. Stifling and Katharine Williams. (f) Joint Liaison Committee with R.M.P.A. Drs. Cohen, Rachel Fidler, J. A. Fraser, Gillet, Harding, J. T. C. Keddie, Kershaw, Stevenson Logan and J. A. Scott. (g) Refresher Course Sub-committee. Drs. Dorothy Egan, Harding, nominee of School Health Service Group approved by Chairman of Council, Dr. Struthers, Mr. T. B. Tomlinson and nominee of County District Group approved by chairman of Council (h) Editorial Board. Dr. Chalke, Mr. G. C. L. Elliston, Drs. Harvey Flack, Kershaw, Smithard, Struthers and Mr. E. Underhill. (i) Neech Prize Assessors. President and chairman, Editorial Board, ex officio Professors Fraser Brockington and Wofinden. Nomination of Representatives on Outside Bodies (1) (a) Central Health Service Council (chairman of Council, ex officio). (b) Standing Dental Advisory Committee--Mr. J. F. A. Smyth. (c) Standing Mental Health Advisory Committee--Dr. Scott. (d) Standing Nursing Advisory Committee--Dr. Dorothy Egan. (e) Standing Tuberculosis Advisory Committee--Dr. Williams. (2) Court of Governors, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine-Dr. Chalke. (3) National Old Peoples Welfare Council--Drs. Hughes and Irvine. (4) Central Medical Recruitment Committee--Dr. F. G. Brown. (5) United Kingdon Committee of W.H.O.--Professor Fraser Brockington. (6) General Medical Services Committee of B.MoA.--Dr. Cha!ke with Dr. Harding as deputy (already nominated by the Public Health Committee, B.M.A.). (7) Executive Committee, Central Council for the Care of Cripples--Dr. Irene Green. (8) R. S. H. Congress, 1960--the president and medical secretary. (9) The Churches Council of Healing--Dr. Townsend. (10) Regional Hospital Boards--Noted and endorsed by Council :--North Western Branch Drs. J. G. Hailwood and J. W. Lobban--Liverpool, R.H.B. Drs. C. Metcalfe Brown and A. J. Simpson--Manchester, R.H,Bo Midland Branch Dr. J. F. Galloway--Birmingham, R.H.B.
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West Of England Branch Drs. J. D a v i d s p n a n d T. P e i r s o n - - S o u t h W e s t e r n , R . H . B .
Yorkshire Branch Drs. J . D o u g l a s a n d R. W a t s o n - - L e e d s , R . H . B .
Other Business M e n t a l H e a l t h R e v i e w T r i b u n a l s . Resolved : to refer the q u e s t i o n o f m e m b e r s h i p o f m e d i c a l officers o f heaRh o n M e n t a l H e a l t h R e v i e w T r i b u n a l s to the G e n e r a l P u r p o s e s C o m m i t t e e at a n e m e r g e n c y m e e t i n g to be held at 1.30 p.m. on 23rd O c t o b e r , w i t h p o w e r to act.
Termination T h e r e being n o o t h e r business, the c h a i r m a n t h a n k e d m e m b e r s for t h e i r attend a n c e a n d closed the m e e t i n g at 12.45 p.m.
Branch and Group Reports Services Group REVIEW
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The annual cocktail p a r t y of the G r o u p was held at the Hotel St. George, Harrogate, on 28th April. The function was a most successful one, upwards of 80 members and their guests attending. The annual general meeting of the G r o u p was held on board the troopship Nevasa in Southampton Docks, on 2nd June. Dr. J. Craig Lindsay, medical officer of health, Aldershot, was elected president for the year 1959-60. This meeting was organised by the kind invitation of the British India Steam Navigation Company who entertained mem• bets to lunch on the ship. In the morning a tour of the ship's hospital, troops' quarters, cabins and galley was made. A n interesting talk on "Port Health" was given by Dr. W. P. Catgill, deputy port medical officer, Southampton. It is hoped to publish a summary of his address in a forthcoming issue o f P u B L I C H E A L T H. Thanks were due to the staff of the British India Steam Navigation Company and to Lieut.-Colonel E. D. H. Williams, R.A.M.C., A.D.M.S. Embarkation, for the hospitality provided and the excellence of the organisation, both of which were much appreciated.
1958/9 Under the presidency of Major-General P. J. Capon, Q.a.P., the Services G r o u p has had a highly successful year. A t the first meeting, on 20th N o v e m b e r , a paper, entitled "The Third Part", was read by T, Lloyd, Esq., T.D., associate m e m b e r . This paper was published in the February number of P U B L I C H E A L T H . •The presidential address, entitled "Rations throughout the Ages" was delivered at B.M.A. House on l l t h December. This address proved of much interest and will appear in a forthcoming number of P u n L I C H E A L T •. Many fascinating exhibits were shown. A t the conclusion of the m e e t i n g s cocktail party was held for members with their ladies and guests. The annual dinner of the G r o u p was held on 23rd January at the Junior A r m y and Navy Club, when the president occupied the chair. Fifty members and guests were present, including the president of the Society and the directors-general of the Navy and Army. Speeches were brief and entertaining. The health of the G r o u p was proposed by Dr. J. A. Stirling with a reply by Midland Branch Dr. W. S. Parker, Major-General Capon RADIOACTIVE WASTES proposed the health of the guests, and Surg. The fifth meeting of the session was held Vice-Admiral Sir Cyril May replied. at Lancaster Street Welfare Centre, BirmingA meeting was held at the Royal Army ham, o n 12th M a r c h , with Dr. T. Ross Medical College, Millbank, on 20th Febru- (president-elect) in the chair. After routine ary. Major J. M. Adam, R.A.M.C., delivered business the chairman introduced Mr. R. H. a most interesting address entitled "Films B u R N S, Industrial Chemistry Group, and Stills from the Antarctic", illustrated by Atomic Energy R e s e a r c h Establishment, a film and lantern stides. Before the con- Harwell, who spoke on "The Disposal of clusion of the meeting members visited the Radioactive Wastes". museum and saw a d i s p l a y of exhibits on Mr. Burns said that with the growing use antarctic clothing and rations, and tubercu- of radionuclides in industry and the medical losis control in Gurkhas. fields the disposal of radioactive wastes