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rather than to the giving of vitamin C, however necessary this may be. " The preparation must be applied to the interdental spaces by soaking pledgets of cotton-wool in the solution and probing them into these spaces where
This suggests personal daily supervision by
possible."
a
dental officer and I am sure that therein lies the secret of their success. The solution applied is probably of little importance although I still pin my faith to the easily seen erentian violet. CLIFFORD G. PARSONS. Lichfield, Staffs. SUPERFLUOUS
the words "
PREPOSITIONS
try " and " test "
In crime stories I
gone
on receiving some new information to send one of his subordinates to " check-up on it." It would be beneath him to tell his subordinate merely to " check " the information. We used to refuse to " stand " or " tolerate " an injustice ; now we refuse to " stand for " it (this intrusive and unnecessary " for " finds no authority in the Oxford English Dictionary, or justification in Wright’s Dialect Dictionary). If my present grievance cannot be met I suppose I must face up to it. REGINALD LAWRENCE. Wakefield.
HORDER, Joint Chairman, Hospitals and Medical Services Committee.
’
POSTURE DURING SLEEP SIR,-It may be of interest to mention some facts brought out by the experiments in bronchospirometry conducted by Bjorkman. He tested several persons, in different postures, and found that-in direct opposition to views previously held-the uppermost lung did a lesser share of the work than the lower, compressed lung. Results obtained during these investigations may be read in an article by H. C. Jacobaeus (Brit. J. Tuber. 1936, 30,
114).
"STATUS OF WAAF DOCTORS" SIR,—On Jan. 31 (p. 156) you -published a, paragraph under this heading completely at variance with the truth which is that :1. Women medical officers working with the RAF medical service are not and never have been in the WAAF. 2. Women medical officers have always attended men as well as women in the Air Force. 3. Women medical officers have not been granted equa status with their male colleagues in the RAF. 4. A woman medical officer if appointed as SMO of a station could not carry out her duties efficiently with her present status.
-
-
Kelling Sanatorium, Norfolk.
B. G. RIGDEN.
INFECTION- OF FOODSTUFFS one matter in connexion with the outbreak of paratyphoid fever so fully and ably reported upon in your issue of Jan. 31 on which further information would I think be appreciated by those concerned with public-health administration. For many years efforts have been made, with more or less success, to secure that in all premises where food is prepared hand-washing facilities shall be provided as near as possible to w.c. accommodation, and that the importance of hand washing immediately after the use of the w.c. shall be impressed on all workers by suitably placed notices. May we ask what were the arrangements regarding these matters at the firm in question, and what was the practice of the carrier who was responsible for the outbreak ? MAITLAND RADFORD. Potters Bar.
SiR,-There is
CHINA
surgeons, three physicians, a radiographer, a storekeeper and accountant, a matron, and 14 nurses. Doctors and nurses, especially any who have knowledge of the Chinese language, are required and should communicate as soon as possible.with Dr. Gordon Thompson, 14, Grosvenor Crescent, London S.W.I. Their letters should be marked " China."
out of conversational
expect the chief of police
**Under" tryout" the Concise Oxford Dictionary gives " put to the test, test thoroughly."—ED. L.
IN
for a hospital of 200 beds to work in close cooperation with the Chinese Red Cross, and to be located in some place accessible to the motor road system of Free China. The Chinese Ambassador was approached and cabled his government in Chungking which replied gratefully accepting the offer. Dr. H. Gordon Thompson, secretary of the British Fund for the relief of distress in China, is acting as secretary in this section of our work. The scheme envisages a British staff of an administrator,, four
SIR,-I have been distressed lately by meeting in THE LANCET, not only in the original articles but even in the editorial comments, the expression " try out." Have
currency ?
HOSPITAL
S SIR,-After consultation with representatives of the British Government, the war organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John decided to offer to send out to China the personnel and full equipment
As a woman medical officer I am greatly concerned at the recent Air Ministry order which has confirmed we are virtually without rank. We are not allowed to be addressed by our rank title and we hold our " relative rank " solely with regard to other women medical and dental officers. While writing this protest I would like to add that the generous loyalty of our male colleagues has enabled us to carry out our duties without the lack of status becoming- annarent. WOMAN MEDICAL OFFICER.
Obituary
CHARLES ARTHUR MOYNIHAN M.R.C.S. ; CAPTAIN R.A.M.C. Charles Moynihan, who was killed in Malaya Captain at the age of 28, was born in Santa Cruz, in December, RELAPSING FEVER the second son of Mrs. D. M. Moynihan and the late Mr. SIR,—The discovery recently in a London hospital, by H. J. Moynihan of Gloucester Dr. Stannus, of a refugee from the continent suffering Place, London. He was edufrom relapsing fever (Lancet, Jan. 24, p. 103) is a fresh cated at University College instance of the possibilities of transmission of disease by School, King’s College and the aircraft. Good fortune took the man to someone with Westminster Hospital where he African experience. As to Ornithodoros tholosani being took his M.R.C.S. in 1937. He a vector of the spirochsete in Persia, it may well be so ; had already made up his mind but Dr.’C. M. Wenyon tells me that the latest reference to join the R.A.M.C., but first (Donuschevsky, Latuishev Rev. appl. Ent. 1927, 15, 216)he was eager to do some postis not conclusive. It is certain, however, that the body graduate work in his chosen louse is a. vector in epidemics there, generally with specialty and within a few days typhus fever and in times of famine. This was so when of qualifying he had obtained a British troops were last in Persia-that is to say, during house-appointment at St. Paul’s and after the war of 1914-18. Hospital, Endell Street, where Perhaps another famous. vector problem may be he had opportunity to study the pathology and blood settled now. Will some enterprising medical officer reactions of disease. He was a sensitive man and a succeed where others have failed and learn if " Mianeh fellow resident recalls sympathetically his anguish at fever " really exists and if so whether it is a relapsing the horrors of the Spanish civil war in which many of tick-borne disease conveyed by Argas persicus, the his personal friends were involved. Moynihan entered " " aha,rib gez (the stranger-biter)? the R.A.M.C. in 1937, was promoted captain a year A. R. NELIGAN. Droitwich. later, and when he died was acting major. .
rather than to the giving of vitamin C, however necessary this may be. " The preparation must be applied to the interdental spaces by soaking pledgets of cotton-wool in the solution and probing them into these spaces where
This suggests personal daily supervision by
possible."
a
dental officer and I am sure that therein lies the secret of their success. The solution applied is probably of little importance although I still pin my faith to the easily seen erentian violet. CLIFFORD G. PARSONS. Lichfield, Staffs. SUPERFLUOUS
the words "
PREPOSITIONS
try " and " test "
In crime stories I
gone
on receiving some new information to send one of his subordinates to " check-up on it." It would be beneath him to tell his subordinate merely to " check " the information. We used to refuse to " stand " or " tolerate " an injustice ; now we refuse to " stand for " it (this intrusive and unnecessary " for " finds no authority in the Oxford English Dictionary, or justification in Wright’s Dialect Dictionary). If my present grievance cannot be met I suppose I must face up to it. REGINALD LAWRENCE. Wakefield.
HORDER, Joint Chairman, Hospitals and Medical Services Committee.
’
POSTURE DURING SLEEP SIR,-It may be of interest to mention some facts brought out by the experiments in bronchospirometry conducted by Bjorkman. He tested several persons, in different postures, and found that-in direct opposition to views previously held-the uppermost lung did a lesser share of the work than the lower, compressed lung. Results obtained during these investigations may be read in an article by H. C. Jacobaeus (Brit. J. Tuber. 1936, 30,
114).
"STATUS OF WAAF DOCTORS" SIR,—On Jan. 31 (p. 156) you -published a, paragraph under this heading completely at variance with the truth which is that :1. Women medical officers working with the RAF medical service are not and never have been in the WAAF. 2. Women medical officers have always attended men as well as women in the Air Force. 3. Women medical officers have not been granted equa status with their male colleagues in the RAF. 4. A woman medical officer if appointed as SMO of a station could not carry out her duties efficiently with her present status.
-
-
Kelling Sanatorium, Norfolk.
B. G. RIGDEN.
INFECTION- OF FOODSTUFFS one matter in connexion with the outbreak of paratyphoid fever so fully and ably reported upon in your issue of Jan. 31 on which further information would I think be appreciated by those concerned with public-health administration. For many years efforts have been made, with more or less success, to secure that in all premises where food is prepared hand-washing facilities shall be provided as near as possible to w.c. accommodation, and that the importance of hand washing immediately after the use of the w.c. shall be impressed on all workers by suitably placed notices. May we ask what were the arrangements regarding these matters at the firm in question, and what was the practice of the carrier who was responsible for the outbreak ? MAITLAND RADFORD. Potters Bar.
SiR,-There is
CHINA
surgeons, three physicians, a radiographer, a storekeeper and accountant, a matron, and 14 nurses. Doctors and nurses, especially any who have knowledge of the Chinese language, are required and should communicate as soon as possible.with Dr. Gordon Thompson, 14, Grosvenor Crescent, London S.W.I. Their letters should be marked " China."
out of conversational
expect the chief of police
**Under" tryout" the Concise Oxford Dictionary gives " put to the test, test thoroughly."—ED. L.
IN
for a hospital of 200 beds to work in close cooperation with the Chinese Red Cross, and to be located in some place accessible to the motor road system of Free China. The Chinese Ambassador was approached and cabled his government in Chungking which replied gratefully accepting the offer. Dr. H. Gordon Thompson, secretary of the British Fund for the relief of distress in China, is acting as secretary in this section of our work. The scheme envisages a British staff of an administrator,, four
SIR,-I have been distressed lately by meeting in THE LANCET, not only in the original articles but even in the editorial comments, the expression " try out." Have
currency ?
HOSPITAL
S SIR,-After consultation with representatives of the British Government, the war organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John decided to offer to send out to China the personnel and full equipment
As a woman medical officer I am greatly concerned at the recent Air Ministry order which has confirmed we are virtually without rank. We are not allowed to be addressed by our rank title and we hold our " relative rank " solely with regard to other women medical and dental officers. While writing this protest I would like to add that the generous loyalty of our male colleagues has enabled us to carry out our duties without the lack of status becoming- annarent. WOMAN MEDICAL OFFICER.
Obituary
CHARLES ARTHUR MOYNIHAN M.R.C.S. ; CAPTAIN R.A.M.C. Charles Moynihan, who was killed in Malaya Captain at the age of 28, was born in Santa Cruz, in December, RELAPSING FEVER the second son of Mrs. D. M. Moynihan and the late Mr. SIR,—The discovery recently in a London hospital, by H. J. Moynihan of Gloucester Dr. Stannus, of a refugee from the continent suffering Place, London. He was edufrom relapsing fever (Lancet, Jan. 24, p. 103) is a fresh cated at University College instance of the possibilities of transmission of disease by School, King’s College and the aircraft. Good fortune took the man to someone with Westminster Hospital where he African experience. As to Ornithodoros tholosani being took his M.R.C.S. in 1937. He a vector of the spirochsete in Persia, it may well be so ; had already made up his mind but Dr.’C. M. Wenyon tells me that the latest reference to join the R.A.M.C., but first (Donuschevsky, Latuishev Rev. appl. Ent. 1927, 15, 216)he was eager to do some postis not conclusive. It is certain, however, that the body graduate work in his chosen louse is a. vector in epidemics there, generally with specialty and within a few days typhus fever and in times of famine. This was so when of qualifying he had obtained a British troops were last in Persia-that is to say, during house-appointment at St. Paul’s and after the war of 1914-18. Hospital, Endell Street, where Perhaps another famous. vector problem may be he had opportunity to study the pathology and blood settled now. Will some enterprising medical officer reactions of disease. He was a sensitive man and a succeed where others have failed and learn if " Mianeh fellow resident recalls sympathetically his anguish at fever " really exists and if so whether it is a relapsing the horrors of the Spanish civil war in which many of tick-borne disease conveyed by Argas persicus, the his personal friends were involved. Moynihan entered " " aha,rib gez (the stranger-biter)? the R.A.M.C. in 1937, was promoted captain a year A. R. NELIGAN. Droitwich. later, and when he died was acting major. .