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102 with corn oil might possibly be due to the abundance of essential fatty acids in this kind of fat. As much as 57 per cent of corn oil consists of linoleic acid" ; and, we have recently eliminated margarine from the diet." "
(Professor Yudkin please note.) H. M. SINCLAIR.
Parliament Royal
Assent
THE Clean Air, Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions), and Family Allowances and National Insurance Bills have received the Royal Assent.
Death On Lords
Penalty (Abolition)
Bill
July 10, after a rejected this Bill
two-day debate, the House of by 238 votes to 95. QUESTION TIME
Doctors’ Claims Lieut.-Colonel MARCUS LIPTON asked the Minister of Health what claims for increased pay for doctors he had received from the British Medical Association and other bodies ; and what action he was taking.—Mr. R. H. TURTON replied: A memorandum outlining a claim fcr increased remuneration,for general practitioners and hospital staff has been submitted. I am . not yet in a position to make any statement about it. Lieut.Colonel LIPTON: Will the Minister, to avoid trouble over this Is the serious claim, come to a decision without delay ? right hon. Gentleman to use the argument that the general practitioner, with an average income of E2300 a year, is already getting more pay than the right hon. Gentleman’s parliamentary secretary, who has the whole service to look after ?—Mr. TURTON: I think it would be ill-mannered and, indeed, unethical for me to answer that supplementary question before I had informed the medical profession about it.
Neglected Persons In answer to a question, Mr. TURTON said that in response to inquiries made in February and March of this year by the Board of Control, 5732 mentally defective patients were reported as having been found neglected by a judicial authority and dealt with under the Mental Deficiency Acts while in the About 2000 cases had been care of public or charitable bodies. reviewed to date. Mr. ARTHUR BLENKINSOP: Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that this is a serious position in which it appears that detention has in fact been illegal ? If on review these cases are to be released, is any provision to be made of alternative accommodation for them ?—Mr. TURTON: Whether they were properly found neglected is a legal matter in which I cannot interfere. They have been brought to me or to my predecessors on justices’ orders as found neglected, and it is my duty to take care of them. I am making a review of the cases, especially those out on licence. Of the 536 licensed cases, 330 have been discharged to date. Board of Control Dr. DOXALD JOHNSON asked the Minister if he was aware of the confusion in the public mind created by the fact that the Board of Control, previously located independently, had now an identical address with the Ministry of Health ; and if he would arrange for adequate recognition of the separate existence of the board as an independent body.Mr. TuRTox : I think that the separate existence of the board It is conas an independent body is widely recognised. venient for administration that the Ministry and the board should be in the same building. Dr. JOHNSON: May I; none the less, ask my right hon. Friend if he can make it quite clear that the functions of the Board of Control are to protect the liberty of the subject, and whether he is aware that, admirably intentioned though the board may be. it has in fact given the impression in recent times that it is both lethargic and inefficient in dealing with matters related to the individual and in replying to individual communications addressed to it ? —Mr. TURTON: I can assure my hon. Friend that proximity to me does not induce lethargy or inefficiency. Dr. JOHNSON asked the Minister if he was aware that the telephone number of the board was not in the London Telephone Directory ; and if he would make arrangements for the appropriate insertion to be made.--Miss PATRICIA
HORNSBY-SMITH: Yes, Sir. Dr. JOHNSON: May I thani; - my hon. Friend for removing at least one obstacle to the normal access to the board. Schools for Maladjusted Children Mr. J. E. MACCOLL asked the Minister of Education whether he was aware that in London a child ascertained to be mal. adjusted had to wait about six months for placing in at. appropriate school; and whether he would take immediate steps to secure the provision of more places in schools for maladjusted - children.—Mr. DENNIS VOSPER, parliamentary secretary to the Ministry, replied : The average waiting perio4 for London children found to need treatment for maladjust. ment is four months. Some senior boys may have to wait longer. The L.C.C. is opening another day-school in Sept. ember and will provide further boarding-places early next year. Mr. MAcCOLL: Can the hon. Gentleman say how long the wait is to be before he is really going to do something about : Is he aware that in the meantime many of these this ? children are not only making themselves miserable but are = making miserable everybody else in the schools in which they s are ; and will he bear in mind how long the committee was in making its report, and that it is absurd for him to continue putting off this question time after time ?-Mr. VosPER: I L appreciate the importance of this matter, and the London ’ County Council has, I think, three other schools in mind. There has been an improvement compared with 1951, when the waiting period was six to twelve months. Unfit for National Service In a written answer Mr. IAIN MACLEOD, Minister of Labour and National Service, said that the proportions of National Service men discharged on medical grounds shortly after entry into the Army and R.A.F. are 7 and 13 per 1000
respectively.
Appointments LEWIS, T. D., M.B. Lond., D.P.H.: school M.o., Pembrokeshire.
deputy
M.o.H.
and
principal
E. HAZEL, M.B. Durh., D.P.H., D.C.H.: senior M.o.. Wiltshire. The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London : ARNOLD, RACHEL, M., M.B. Mane., D.c.H. : asst. resident M.o.
WILLIAMS, .
(Ta.dworth). ANN M., M.B. Brist., D.C.H., D.A. : junior resident anæsthetist (Tadworth). HELEY, MARGARET M., M.B. Lond., D.OBST. : house-surgeon. PULLON, D. H. H., M.B. N.Z., M.R.c.r.E., D.C.H. : house-physician. WOODMANSEY, A. C., M.D. Leeds, M.R.C.P., D.P.M., D.C.H. : parttime M.O. in the department of psychological medicine. WRIGLEY, F. R. H., M.B. Lond., D.OBST.: resident anaesthetist HAINES,
(Tadworth).
Diary of JULY
Tuesday,
17th
the Week
15
To
21
-
ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.1 8 P.M. Medicine. Dr. H. L. Bockus (Pennsylvania.) : Functional Disorders of the Cxastro-intestinal Tract. BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF PÆDIATRIC SURGEONS 9.30 A.M. (Combined meeting in London urith the surgical section of the American Academy of Pœdiatrics.) Dr. W. T. Mustard (Toronto), Mr. D. J. Waterston, Dr. R. E. Bonham-Carter, Dr. R. Edwards: Cardiac Surgery in Infancy. (Opening of
three-day meeting.) INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH, The Hospital for Sick Children. threat Orniond Street, W.C.1 Dr. W. T. Mustard (Toronto) : Surgical Correction of 5 P.M. Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage. (Simpson Smith lecture.)
Wednesday, 18th POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON, Ducane Road, W.12 2 P.M. Dr. R. W. Riddell : Mycology.
Thursday, 19th POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON 2 P.M. Dr. Riddcll : Mycology. INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY 5 P.M. (Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill. S.E.5.) Prof. K. A. C. Metabolism of Human Elliott (McGrill University) : (’erebral Tissues. ’
Friday,
20th
RoYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields W.C.2 B. W. Fickling : Oral Surgery Involving the Maxillary
4 P.M. Sinus. Mr.
INSTITUTE
(Tomes lecture.)
CHILD HEALTH 5 P.M. Dr. Sidney Farber (Boston) : Progress in the Chemo therapy of Disseminated Cancer in Children. OF
(Professor Yudkin please note.) H. M. SINCLAIR.
Parliament Royal
Assent
THE Clean Air, Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions), and Family Allowances and National Insurance Bills have received the Royal Assent.
Death On Lords
Penalty (Abolition)
Bill
July 10, after a rejected this Bill
two-day debate, the House of by 238 votes to 95. QUESTION TIME
Doctors’ Claims Lieut.-Colonel MARCUS LIPTON asked the Minister of Health what claims for increased pay for doctors he had received from the British Medical Association and other bodies ; and what action he was taking.—Mr. R. H. TURTON replied: A memorandum outlining a claim fcr increased remuneration,for general practitioners and hospital staff has been submitted. I am . not yet in a position to make any statement about it. Lieut.Colonel LIPTON: Will the Minister, to avoid trouble over this Is the serious claim, come to a decision without delay ? right hon. Gentleman to use the argument that the general practitioner, with an average income of E2300 a year, is already getting more pay than the right hon. Gentleman’s parliamentary secretary, who has the whole service to look after ?—Mr. TURTON: I think it would be ill-mannered and, indeed, unethical for me to answer that supplementary question before I had informed the medical profession about it.
Neglected Persons In answer to a question, Mr. TURTON said that in response to inquiries made in February and March of this year by the Board of Control, 5732 mentally defective patients were reported as having been found neglected by a judicial authority and dealt with under the Mental Deficiency Acts while in the About 2000 cases had been care of public or charitable bodies. reviewed to date. Mr. ARTHUR BLENKINSOP: Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that this is a serious position in which it appears that detention has in fact been illegal ? If on review these cases are to be released, is any provision to be made of alternative accommodation for them ?—Mr. TURTON: Whether they were properly found neglected is a legal matter in which I cannot interfere. They have been brought to me or to my predecessors on justices’ orders as found neglected, and it is my duty to take care of them. I am making a review of the cases, especially those out on licence. Of the 536 licensed cases, 330 have been discharged to date. Board of Control Dr. DOXALD JOHNSON asked the Minister if he was aware of the confusion in the public mind created by the fact that the Board of Control, previously located independently, had now an identical address with the Ministry of Health ; and if he would arrange for adequate recognition of the separate existence of the board as an independent body.Mr. TuRTox : I think that the separate existence of the board It is conas an independent body is widely recognised. venient for administration that the Ministry and the board should be in the same building. Dr. JOHNSON: May I; none the less, ask my right hon. Friend if he can make it quite clear that the functions of the Board of Control are to protect the liberty of the subject, and whether he is aware that, admirably intentioned though the board may be. it has in fact given the impression in recent times that it is both lethargic and inefficient in dealing with matters related to the individual and in replying to individual communications addressed to it ? —Mr. TURTON: I can assure my hon. Friend that proximity to me does not induce lethargy or inefficiency. Dr. JOHNSON asked the Minister if he was aware that the telephone number of the board was not in the London Telephone Directory ; and if he would make arrangements for the appropriate insertion to be made.--Miss PATRICIA
HORNSBY-SMITH: Yes, Sir. Dr. JOHNSON: May I thani; - my hon. Friend for removing at least one obstacle to the normal access to the board. Schools for Maladjusted Children Mr. J. E. MACCOLL asked the Minister of Education whether he was aware that in London a child ascertained to be mal. adjusted had to wait about six months for placing in at. appropriate school; and whether he would take immediate steps to secure the provision of more places in schools for maladjusted - children.—Mr. DENNIS VOSPER, parliamentary secretary to the Ministry, replied : The average waiting perio4 for London children found to need treatment for maladjust. ment is four months. Some senior boys may have to wait longer. The L.C.C. is opening another day-school in Sept. ember and will provide further boarding-places early next year. Mr. MAcCOLL: Can the hon. Gentleman say how long the wait is to be before he is really going to do something about : Is he aware that in the meantime many of these this ? children are not only making themselves miserable but are = making miserable everybody else in the schools in which they s are ; and will he bear in mind how long the committee was in making its report, and that it is absurd for him to continue putting off this question time after time ?-Mr. VosPER: I L appreciate the importance of this matter, and the London ’ County Council has, I think, three other schools in mind. There has been an improvement compared with 1951, when the waiting period was six to twelve months. Unfit for National Service In a written answer Mr. IAIN MACLEOD, Minister of Labour and National Service, said that the proportions of National Service men discharged on medical grounds shortly after entry into the Army and R.A.F. are 7 and 13 per 1000
respectively.
Appointments LEWIS, T. D., M.B. Lond., D.P.H.: school M.o., Pembrokeshire.
deputy
M.o.H.
and
principal
E. HAZEL, M.B. Durh., D.P.H., D.C.H.: senior M.o.. Wiltshire. The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London : ARNOLD, RACHEL, M., M.B. Mane., D.c.H. : asst. resident M.o.
WILLIAMS, .
(Ta.dworth). ANN M., M.B. Brist., D.C.H., D.A. : junior resident anæsthetist (Tadworth). HELEY, MARGARET M., M.B. Lond., D.OBST. : house-surgeon. PULLON, D. H. H., M.B. N.Z., M.R.c.r.E., D.C.H. : house-physician. WOODMANSEY, A. C., M.D. Leeds, M.R.C.P., D.P.M., D.C.H. : parttime M.O. in the department of psychological medicine. WRIGLEY, F. R. H., M.B. Lond., D.OBST.: resident anaesthetist HAINES,
(Tadworth).
Diary of JULY
Tuesday,
17th
the Week
15
To
21
-
ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.1 8 P.M. Medicine. Dr. H. L. Bockus (Pennsylvania.) : Functional Disorders of the Cxastro-intestinal Tract. BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF PÆDIATRIC SURGEONS 9.30 A.M. (Combined meeting in London urith the surgical section of the American Academy of Pœdiatrics.) Dr. W. T. Mustard (Toronto), Mr. D. J. Waterston, Dr. R. E. Bonham-Carter, Dr. R. Edwards: Cardiac Surgery in Infancy. (Opening of
three-day meeting.) INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH, The Hospital for Sick Children. threat Orniond Street, W.C.1 Dr. W. T. Mustard (Toronto) : Surgical Correction of 5 P.M. Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage. (Simpson Smith lecture.)
Wednesday, 18th POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON, Ducane Road, W.12 2 P.M. Dr. R. W. Riddell : Mycology.
Thursday, 19th POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON 2 P.M. Dr. Riddcll : Mycology. INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY 5 P.M. (Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill. S.E.5.) Prof. K. A. C. Metabolism of Human Elliott (McGrill University) : (’erebral Tissues. ’
Friday,
20th
RoYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields W.C.2 B. W. Fickling : Oral Surgery Involving the Maxillary
4 P.M. Sinus. Mr.
INSTITUTE
(Tomes lecture.)
CHILD HEALTH 5 P.M. Dr. Sidney Farber (Boston) : Progress in the Chemo therapy of Disseminated Cancer in Children. OF