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justified
further work, and
a new
and
more
portable model
is
Provisional Council for Mental Health During the autumn the council is holding five courses of ten weekly lectures on the psychology of frustration and fulfilment in adult life. The courses will take place at Sheffield on Mondays at 6.30 rM, beginning on Oct. 1 ; at Leeds on Tuesdays at 6.30 PM, beginning on Oct. 2 ; at Bradford on Wednesdays at 7 PM, beginning on Oct. 3 ; at Manchester on Thursdays
being made, but Sir Ian Fraser stresses that this work is in its early stages and blind people must not expect any help from these devices in the
.
near
future.
--
University of Cambridge On Aug. 3 the following degrees
were
conferred :
at 6.30 rM,
MD.—W. R. Billington, C. M. Fletcher, M. I. A. Hunter, R. A. Shooter, K. W. Donald (by proxy). MB, B Chir.-N. K. Connolly, W. P. D. Ross, J. P. D. Mounsey, C. J. H. Paget, F. S. Sinker, R. H. Whitworth. 0. G. Attenborough, R. E. B. Spencer, A. R. C. Butson, P. M. Jeavons, B. W. Pay. I. P. Williams. I. D. P.Wootton, A. R. Buckley, I. S. Hodgson-Jones, D. A. Pyke, M. G. Thorne, R. G. M. Longridge, William Waugh, A. M. H. Bennett, R. E. Church, J. M. Drew, J. W. B. Forshaw, J. B. Lawson, C. M. Monro, V. R. Pickles. David Wilkes, J. H. F. Wood, C. H. Kinder, A. J. Underwood-Whitney, J. M. Walshe, J. C. Sloper, James Crichton, A. G. Dingley, R. B. Wilson, J. A. Dew, P. F. Boreham, H. R. Mallows, J. R. Smythies, David Wilson, M. F. Bethell, R. A. Green, N. B. Malleson, J. R. Moffatt, K. M. N’lttall, 0. L. Wade, S. P. Wrightson, J. F. Fisher, A. D. Beard, Emeric Halász (by proxy) ; N. T. Welford, I. M. P. Dawson, D. G. Abrahams, G. R. E. Naylor, K. E. E. Read, D. A. W. Edwards, D. W. S. Sheldon (in person). -
University of London
The clinic is
Liverpool
on
Fridays
at
moving from its war-time premises at Westfield
WEEK ENDED AUG. 4
Notifications.—The following cases of infectious disease notified during the week : smallpox, 0 ; scarlet fever, 1232 ; whooping-cough, 1072 ; diphtheria, 360 ; paratyphoid, 3 ; typhoid, 7 ; measles (excluding rubella), 2190 ; pneumonia (primary or influenzal), 234 ; pucrperal pyrexia, 145 ; cerebrospinal fever, 39 ; poliomyelitis, 21 ; polio-encephalitis, 3 ; encephalitis lethargica, 0 ; dysentery, 324 ; ophthalmia neonatorum, 74. No case of cholera was notified during the week. There was were
°
1
Liverpool
case
of typhus at
Uckfield, Sussex.
The number of service and civilian sick in the Infectious Hospitals of the London County Council on Aug. 1 was 912. During the previous week the following cases were admitted : scarlet fever, 51 ; diphtheria 20 ;measles, 19 - whooping-cough, 421. Birmingham reported 7 deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis.
At recent examinations the following were successful: MD.—I. Ansell, H. Dakin. Bentley Phillips, G. O. Thomas, .
P. H. Whitaker. Ch M.-L. McK. Crooks. Final Ecamination for MB, Ch B.-Beryl G. Anscombe, G. Ansell, K. W. Baruch, B. Dover, Monica Drinkel, J. W. L. Edwards, P. Foster, B. R. Frisby, S. Gillis, L. Grimths, B. B. Harrison, D. C. R. Jones, J. T. W. Jones, P. R. B. Jones, R. V. Kinnish, M. Kirwan, Joyce R. Lewis, J. B. Roberts, Corris Venables,-H. Wickham, J. R. E. Wilson.
Deaths.-In 126 great towns there were no deaths from enteric fever, scarlet fever, or measles, 5 (2) from whooping-cough, 8 (0) from diphtheria, 53 (8) from diarrhoea and enteritis under two years, and 5 (0) from influenza. The figures in parentheses are those for London itself. The number of stillbirths notified during the week was 200 (corresponding to a rate of 29 per thousand total births), including 11 in London.
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University of Glasgow Dr. L. J. Davis, senior lecturer in the department of i-nedicine in the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed to the Muirhead chair of medicine in the University of Glasgow. Dr. Davis graduated MB at the University of Edinburgh in 1924 after serving during the last war in the Naval Auxiliary Service as a He held the directorship of the government surgeon lieutenant. medical laboratory at Bulawayo and the chair of pathology in the University of Hong Kong before he returned to Edinburghto take up his present appointment. He is also physician to the University teaching unit in the Edinburgh municipal hospitals. Dr. Davis took his MD with commendation in 1930 and was elected to the fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London this year. His published work includes papers on refractory and hsemolytic anamias.
Appointments Colonial Service.-The following appointments
Return to Practice The Central Medical War Committee announces that the following have resumed civilian practice : Mr. J. C. AINSWORTH-DAVIES, FRCS, 48, Wimpole Street, Wl. Dr. ERNEST BULMER, FRCp, 3, Arthur Road, Edgbaston, Birrning,
.LNeweastle-on-Tyne.
at
INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN ENGLAND AND WALES
The title of reader in bacteriology in the University has been conferred on Dr. J. C. Cruickshank in respect of his post at the London School of Hygiene.
ham. Dr. W. D. JEANS. 17, University Road, Leicester. Dr. J. R. REES, FRCP, 116, Bickenhall Mansions, W1. Dr. G. DE M. RUDOLF, Sea Walls, Clevedon, Somerset. Mr. J. SHERNE, FRCB, 43, Park Square, Leeds, 1. Mr. F. A. R. STAMMERS, FRCS, 89, Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 15. Mr. R. SCOTT STEVENSON, FRCSE, 31, Harley Street, Wl. Dr. C. P. SYMONDS, FRCP. 87, Harley Street, Wl. Dr. SYDNEY TIBBLES, 2, Harley Street, Wi. Mr. W. E. TucEER. FRCS, 21. Grosvenor Square, Wl. Mr. A. HEDLEY WHYTE, FRCS, Moorfield House, Upper Claremont,
Oct. 4 ;
College on Aug. 27 to 2-4, Beaumont Street, London, Wl (formerly the Duchess Nursing Home). The clinic will be closed from Aug. 23 to Sept. 10. Its pre-war premises in Malet Place, WCI, were destroyed by enemy action in 1941, and the new building is to be its permanent post-war home.
deficiencies.
of
on
Tavistock Clinic
Dr. John Yudkin has been appointed to the university chair of physiology at King’s College of Household and Social Science in succession to Prof. V. H. Mottram. Dr. Yudkin took his B Sc at the University of London in 1929 and his BA at the University of Cambridge two years later. In 1935 he obtained his Ph D Camb., and after graduating in medicine in 1938 he became clinical assistant to medical outpatients at the London Hospital. He is also a fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry. He has held the medical research scholarship of the Grocers’ Company and the Benn W. Levy biochemical research studentship. In 1934 he was appointed supervisor in biochemistry and physiology at Christ’s’College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. While working at the Dunn NTutritional Laboratories, with a Halley Stewart research fellowship, he has published papers on the dehydrogenases of Bacterium coli and on the assessment of nutritional status. In 1943 Dr. Yudkin took his MD, and in the same year he joined the RAMC and is now serving in West Africa, where he has devised a method of estimating the concentration of mcpacrine in the urine, and continues his investigations into nutritional
University
beginning
5.30 rM, beginning on Oct. 5. The lecturers will include Dr. Edward Glover, Dr. Lois Munro, Dr. R. G. Gordon, Dr. Noel Harris, Dr. Winifred Rushforth, Dr. J. A. Hadfield, and Dr.. H. Crichton-Miller. Tickets may be had from the secretary of the public relations department of the council, 39, Queen Anne Street, London, Wl. Ten weekly lectures on, human relationships in the modern world will also be held at Bristol on Fridays at 6.30 PM, beginning on Oct. 12. The lecturers will include Dr. W. S. Maclay, Dr. Joyce Partridge, Dr. Emanuel Miller, Dr. Frank. Bodman, Dr. Tom Garland,,Dr. Hadfield, and Lieut-Colonel R. F. Barbour. Tickets may be had from the regional representative of the council, 2, Elton House, Rodney Place, Bristol, 8.
-
are
announced:
BROWN, J. S., MD EDIN., DTM andn, DMRE, specialist in radiology, Uganda. COCHRANE, E., MD GLASG.: DMS, Aden. COWAN, D. K., LRCPE, LDS : MO. Nigeria. DUNCAN, L. A., MRCS: MO, St. Helena. EVANS, H. S.,MRC8 : ADMS, Fiji. FORREST, S., bTB ABERD.: DDMS, Tanganyika. HoLnTris, G., MB DURH., MRCO& : specialist in midwifery and gynœcology, Uganda. MCKENZIE, A., MB LOND., DTM and H: senior MO, Tanganyika. MACLEAN, G., MB GLASG., nTM : DMS, Trinidad. REID, J. R., MB : MO, Fiji. RoBi.Nso-N, P. B., MB DUBL., DTM, nra : DDMS, Uganda. SLADEN, F. J., MRCS, DTM and H : Senior MO, Falkland Islands. SNEATH, P. A. T., MD: DMS, Tanganyika. STEENSON, K. R., MB : MO (grade I), Fiji. TATE, JOYCE K., NIB ABERD.: asst. MO, Jamaica. WILLIAMSON, J., MB EDIN. : Senior MO, Tanganyika. YOUNG, W. A., BM OXFD, DTM & H : senior specialist in venereal diseases, Tanganyika.
justified
further work, and
a new
and
more
portable model
is
Provisional Council for Mental Health During the autumn the council is holding five courses of ten weekly lectures on the psychology of frustration and fulfilment in adult life. The courses will take place at Sheffield on Mondays at 6.30 rM, beginning on Oct. 1 ; at Leeds on Tuesdays at 6.30 PM, beginning on Oct. 2 ; at Bradford on Wednesdays at 7 PM, beginning on Oct. 3 ; at Manchester on Thursdays
being made, but Sir Ian Fraser stresses that this work is in its early stages and blind people must not expect any help from these devices in the
.
near
future.
--
University of Cambridge On Aug. 3 the following degrees
were
conferred :
at 6.30 rM,
MD.—W. R. Billington, C. M. Fletcher, M. I. A. Hunter, R. A. Shooter, K. W. Donald (by proxy). MB, B Chir.-N. K. Connolly, W. P. D. Ross, J. P. D. Mounsey, C. J. H. Paget, F. S. Sinker, R. H. Whitworth. 0. G. Attenborough, R. E. B. Spencer, A. R. C. Butson, P. M. Jeavons, B. W. Pay. I. P. Williams. I. D. P.Wootton, A. R. Buckley, I. S. Hodgson-Jones, D. A. Pyke, M. G. Thorne, R. G. M. Longridge, William Waugh, A. M. H. Bennett, R. E. Church, J. M. Drew, J. W. B. Forshaw, J. B. Lawson, C. M. Monro, V. R. Pickles. David Wilkes, J. H. F. Wood, C. H. Kinder, A. J. Underwood-Whitney, J. M. Walshe, J. C. Sloper, James Crichton, A. G. Dingley, R. B. Wilson, J. A. Dew, P. F. Boreham, H. R. Mallows, J. R. Smythies, David Wilson, M. F. Bethell, R. A. Green, N. B. Malleson, J. R. Moffatt, K. M. N’lttall, 0. L. Wade, S. P. Wrightson, J. F. Fisher, A. D. Beard, Emeric Halász (by proxy) ; N. T. Welford, I. M. P. Dawson, D. G. Abrahams, G. R. E. Naylor, K. E. E. Read, D. A. W. Edwards, D. W. S. Sheldon (in person). -
University of London
The clinic is
Liverpool
on
Fridays
at
moving from its war-time premises at Westfield
WEEK ENDED AUG. 4
Notifications.—The following cases of infectious disease notified during the week : smallpox, 0 ; scarlet fever, 1232 ; whooping-cough, 1072 ; diphtheria, 360 ; paratyphoid, 3 ; typhoid, 7 ; measles (excluding rubella), 2190 ; pneumonia (primary or influenzal), 234 ; pucrperal pyrexia, 145 ; cerebrospinal fever, 39 ; poliomyelitis, 21 ; polio-encephalitis, 3 ; encephalitis lethargica, 0 ; dysentery, 324 ; ophthalmia neonatorum, 74. No case of cholera was notified during the week. There was were
°
1
Liverpool
case
of typhus at
Uckfield, Sussex.
The number of service and civilian sick in the Infectious Hospitals of the London County Council on Aug. 1 was 912. During the previous week the following cases were admitted : scarlet fever, 51 ; diphtheria 20 ;measles, 19 - whooping-cough, 421. Birmingham reported 7 deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis.
At recent examinations the following were successful: MD.—I. Ansell, H. Dakin. Bentley Phillips, G. O. Thomas, .
P. H. Whitaker. Ch M.-L. McK. Crooks. Final Ecamination for MB, Ch B.-Beryl G. Anscombe, G. Ansell, K. W. Baruch, B. Dover, Monica Drinkel, J. W. L. Edwards, P. Foster, B. R. Frisby, S. Gillis, L. Grimths, B. B. Harrison, D. C. R. Jones, J. T. W. Jones, P. R. B. Jones, R. V. Kinnish, M. Kirwan, Joyce R. Lewis, J. B. Roberts, Corris Venables,-H. Wickham, J. R. E. Wilson.
Deaths.-In 126 great towns there were no deaths from enteric fever, scarlet fever, or measles, 5 (2) from whooping-cough, 8 (0) from diphtheria, 53 (8) from diarrhoea and enteritis under two years, and 5 (0) from influenza. The figures in parentheses are those for London itself. The number of stillbirths notified during the week was 200 (corresponding to a rate of 29 per thousand total births), including 11 in London.
’
University of Glasgow Dr. L. J. Davis, senior lecturer in the department of i-nedicine in the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed to the Muirhead chair of medicine in the University of Glasgow. Dr. Davis graduated MB at the University of Edinburgh in 1924 after serving during the last war in the Naval Auxiliary Service as a He held the directorship of the government surgeon lieutenant. medical laboratory at Bulawayo and the chair of pathology in the University of Hong Kong before he returned to Edinburghto take up his present appointment. He is also physician to the University teaching unit in the Edinburgh municipal hospitals. Dr. Davis took his MD with commendation in 1930 and was elected to the fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London this year. His published work includes papers on refractory and hsemolytic anamias.
Appointments Colonial Service.-The following appointments
Return to Practice The Central Medical War Committee announces that the following have resumed civilian practice : Mr. J. C. AINSWORTH-DAVIES, FRCS, 48, Wimpole Street, Wl. Dr. ERNEST BULMER, FRCp, 3, Arthur Road, Edgbaston, Birrning,
.LNeweastle-on-Tyne.
at
INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN ENGLAND AND WALES
The title of reader in bacteriology in the University has been conferred on Dr. J. C. Cruickshank in respect of his post at the London School of Hygiene.
ham. Dr. W. D. JEANS. 17, University Road, Leicester. Dr. J. R. REES, FRCP, 116, Bickenhall Mansions, W1. Dr. G. DE M. RUDOLF, Sea Walls, Clevedon, Somerset. Mr. J. SHERNE, FRCB, 43, Park Square, Leeds, 1. Mr. F. A. R. STAMMERS, FRCS, 89, Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 15. Mr. R. SCOTT STEVENSON, FRCSE, 31, Harley Street, Wl. Dr. C. P. SYMONDS, FRCP. 87, Harley Street, Wl. Dr. SYDNEY TIBBLES, 2, Harley Street, Wi. Mr. W. E. TucEER. FRCS, 21. Grosvenor Square, Wl. Mr. A. HEDLEY WHYTE, FRCS, Moorfield House, Upper Claremont,
Oct. 4 ;
College on Aug. 27 to 2-4, Beaumont Street, London, Wl (formerly the Duchess Nursing Home). The clinic will be closed from Aug. 23 to Sept. 10. Its pre-war premises in Malet Place, WCI, were destroyed by enemy action in 1941, and the new building is to be its permanent post-war home.
deficiencies.
of
on
Tavistock Clinic
Dr. John Yudkin has been appointed to the university chair of physiology at King’s College of Household and Social Science in succession to Prof. V. H. Mottram. Dr. Yudkin took his B Sc at the University of London in 1929 and his BA at the University of Cambridge two years later. In 1935 he obtained his Ph D Camb., and after graduating in medicine in 1938 he became clinical assistant to medical outpatients at the London Hospital. He is also a fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry. He has held the medical research scholarship of the Grocers’ Company and the Benn W. Levy biochemical research studentship. In 1934 he was appointed supervisor in biochemistry and physiology at Christ’s’College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. While working at the Dunn NTutritional Laboratories, with a Halley Stewart research fellowship, he has published papers on the dehydrogenases of Bacterium coli and on the assessment of nutritional status. In 1943 Dr. Yudkin took his MD, and in the same year he joined the RAMC and is now serving in West Africa, where he has devised a method of estimating the concentration of mcpacrine in the urine, and continues his investigations into nutritional
University
beginning
5.30 rM, beginning on Oct. 5. The lecturers will include Dr. Edward Glover, Dr. Lois Munro, Dr. R. G. Gordon, Dr. Noel Harris, Dr. Winifred Rushforth, Dr. J. A. Hadfield, and Dr.. H. Crichton-Miller. Tickets may be had from the secretary of the public relations department of the council, 39, Queen Anne Street, London, Wl. Ten weekly lectures on, human relationships in the modern world will also be held at Bristol on Fridays at 6.30 PM, beginning on Oct. 12. The lecturers will include Dr. W. S. Maclay, Dr. Joyce Partridge, Dr. Emanuel Miller, Dr. Frank. Bodman, Dr. Tom Garland,,Dr. Hadfield, and Lieut-Colonel R. F. Barbour. Tickets may be had from the regional representative of the council, 2, Elton House, Rodney Place, Bristol, 8.
-
are
announced:
BROWN, J. S., MD EDIN., DTM andn, DMRE, specialist in radiology, Uganda. COCHRANE, E., MD GLASG.: DMS, Aden. COWAN, D. K., LRCPE, LDS : MO. Nigeria. DUNCAN, L. A., MRCS: MO, St. Helena. EVANS, H. S.,MRC8 : ADMS, Fiji. FORREST, S., bTB ABERD.: DDMS, Tanganyika. HoLnTris, G., MB DURH., MRCO& : specialist in midwifery and gynœcology, Uganda. MCKENZIE, A., MB LOND., DTM and H: senior MO, Tanganyika. MACLEAN, G., MB GLASG., nTM : DMS, Trinidad. REID, J. R., MB : MO, Fiji. RoBi.Nso-N, P. B., MB DUBL., DTM, nra : DDMS, Uganda. SLADEN, F. J., MRCS, DTM and H : Senior MO, Falkland Islands. SNEATH, P. A. T., MD: DMS, Tanganyika. STEENSON, K. R., MB : MO (grade I), Fiji. TATE, JOYCE K., NIB ABERD.: asst. MO, Jamaica. WILLIAMSON, J., MB EDIN. : Senior MO, Tanganyika. YOUNG, W. A., BM OXFD, DTM & H : senior specialist in venereal diseases, Tanganyika.