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Health services. Grant restrictions to be removed
PUBLICHEALTH.
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Institution of Municipal and County Engineers have advised their members not to apply f o r the vacant post. Perhaps the Ministry Of Health will intervene on behalf of the medical officer of health ; in any case some official assistance should be given. In the meantime every self respecting local Government officer will avoid Cambridge. HEALTH SERVICES. G R A N T R E S T R I C T I O N S TO BE R E M O V E D . It is officially announced that the Government have considered the position in regard to the public health services Maternity and Child Welfare ; Tuberculosis ; Venereal Diseases ; Welfare of the Blind; and Port Sanitation which are directly aided by grants from the Exchequer, and have decided that the time has arrived for removing the present restrictions on grants for the development of these services. The Minister has accordingly issued a circular to local authorities informing them that he will be prepared, with the approval of Parliament, to make grants on the prescribed basis for such further development of these schemes as is considered advisable by the authorities and is within their existing powers, subject to the ordinary process of approval of particular proposals by the Ministry. R E G I S T R A R - G E N E R A L ' S FIGURES~ F O R 1923. The Registrar-General has now issued his provisional figures for the year. Death Rates per 1,000 population: England and Wales . . . . . . . . . 11"6 105 Great Towns ... 11"6 London . . . . . . . . . ...... 11"2 157 Smaller Towns . .... .. .. . . . . 10"6 infant Death Rates per 1,000 births : m England and Wales .......... 69 London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 105 Great Towns ......... 73 157 Smaller Towns ......... 68 Birth Rates per 1,000 population: England and Wales ......... 19"7 I~ondon ....... .. . . . 20"2 105 Great Towns .......... 20"4 It is not anticipated that_ the RegistrarGeneral's figures will require substantial modification. The birth-rate is the lowest recorded
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except during the~war years ;.while th e death-rate, and infantile m01:tality rate are the lowest on record. A B E R D E E N M.O.H. The Public Health" Committee of Aberdeen have recommended that Professor Matthew Hay should receive a retiring allowance of £550 per annum from the Town Council. It was also recommended that he should be succeeded b y Dr. John Parlane Kinloch, at present Deputy Medical Officer of Health. at a salary of ~850 per annum With permission to hold the part-time lectureship at Aberdeen University at a salary of ab0ut £300 per annum. Dr. Kinloch is also to receive an honorarium of 400 guineas for his services as Acting Medical Officer of Health during Dr. H a y ' s leave of absence. T U B E R C U L O S I S C O N F E R E N C E AT CAMBRIDGE. The Tuberculosis Society have invited members of the Tuberculosis Group of the Society M.O.H.. and other members who may be interested, oto their annual Provincial Meeting which will be held at Cambridge (Pathological Lecture "Iheatre), on April 10th-12th next. Programme : ~ Thursday, April 10th, 2.30. (1) Dr. Louis C o b b e t t , " A Comparison of Tuberculosis in Man and Animals. v (2) Dr. E. W a r d , " Experiences with Diaplyte Vaccines. ' ' Friday Morning, 9.30. (3) Dr. R. C. Watson, of the National Tuberculosis Association of America, " Tuberculosis W o r k in America." (4) Dr. Stanley GriNth, " L u p u s . "
Friday Afternoon. (5) M~r. G. R. Girdlestone, of Oxford, " T h e Presel~t Day Treatment of Tuberculosis of Bones and Joints."
Salurday Morning. (6) A Visit to Papworth; 9.30 a.m. It is expected that cheap raiiway tickets will be available. Arrangements are also being made for acc0mmodation of a limited number of- medical men at CIare College at a n inclusive charge of 20s. a day, Members i n ColIege will mess together. ThoSe who wish to avail themselves of these faci]Kies should: communicate without delay vcith Dr. E. W a r d ; T0rquay Road, Pa!gnt0n:
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Institution of Municipal and County Engineers have advised their members not to apply f o r the vacant post. Perhaps the Ministry Of Health will intervene on behalf of the medical officer of health ; in any case some official assistance should be given. In the meantime every self respecting local Government officer will avoid Cambridge. HEALTH SERVICES. G R A N T R E S T R I C T I O N S TO BE R E M O V E D . It is officially announced that the Government have considered the position in regard to the public health services Maternity and Child Welfare ; Tuberculosis ; Venereal Diseases ; Welfare of the Blind; and Port Sanitation which are directly aided by grants from the Exchequer, and have decided that the time has arrived for removing the present restrictions on grants for the development of these services. The Minister has accordingly issued a circular to local authorities informing them that he will be prepared, with the approval of Parliament, to make grants on the prescribed basis for such further development of these schemes as is considered advisable by the authorities and is within their existing powers, subject to the ordinary process of approval of particular proposals by the Ministry. R E G I S T R A R - G E N E R A L ' S FIGURES~ F O R 1923. The Registrar-General has now issued his provisional figures for the year. Death Rates per 1,000 population: England and Wales . . . . . . . . . 11"6 105 Great Towns ... 11"6 London . . . . . . . . . ...... 11"2 157 Smaller Towns . .... .. .. . . . . 10"6 infant Death Rates per 1,000 births : m England and Wales .......... 69 London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 105 Great Towns ......... 73 157 Smaller Towns ......... 68 Birth Rates per 1,000 population: England and Wales ......... 19"7 I~ondon ....... .. . . . 20"2 105 Great Towns .......... 20"4 It is not anticipated that_ the RegistrarGeneral's figures will require substantial modification. The birth-rate is the lowest recorded
MA.RCH,
except during the~war years ;.while th e death-rate, and infantile m01:tality rate are the lowest on record. A B E R D E E N M.O.H. The Public Health" Committee of Aberdeen have recommended that Professor Matthew Hay should receive a retiring allowance of £550 per annum from the Town Council. It was also recommended that he should be succeeded b y Dr. John Parlane Kinloch, at present Deputy Medical Officer of Health. at a salary of ~850 per annum With permission to hold the part-time lectureship at Aberdeen University at a salary of ab0ut £300 per annum. Dr. Kinloch is also to receive an honorarium of 400 guineas for his services as Acting Medical Officer of Health during Dr. H a y ' s leave of absence. T U B E R C U L O S I S C O N F E R E N C E AT CAMBRIDGE. The Tuberculosis Society have invited members of the Tuberculosis Group of the Society M.O.H.. and other members who may be interested, oto their annual Provincial Meeting which will be held at Cambridge (Pathological Lecture "Iheatre), on April 10th-12th next. Programme : ~ Thursday, April 10th, 2.30. (1) Dr. Louis C o b b e t t , " A Comparison of Tuberculosis in Man and Animals. v (2) Dr. E. W a r d , " Experiences with Diaplyte Vaccines. ' ' Friday Morning, 9.30. (3) Dr. R. C. Watson, of the National Tuberculosis Association of America, " Tuberculosis W o r k in America." (4) Dr. Stanley GriNth, " L u p u s . "
Friday Afternoon. (5) M~r. G. R. Girdlestone, of Oxford, " T h e Presel~t Day Treatment of Tuberculosis of Bones and Joints."
Salurday Morning. (6) A Visit to Papworth; 9.30 a.m. It is expected that cheap raiiway tickets will be available. Arrangements are also being made for acc0mmodation of a limited number of- medical men at CIare College at a n inclusive charge of 20s. a day, Members i n ColIege will mess together. ThoSe who wish to avail themselves of these faci]Kies should: communicate without delay vcith Dr. E. W a r d ; T0rquay Road, Pa!gnt0n: