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disease afforded by modern methods of transit. Dr. W. A. Sawyer, who represented the Foundation. told of the results of applying " mouse protection " tests for immunity to the existence of latent infection in a population, and of the promise of the new protective vaccine. The President having reported the views of the yellow fever commission of the Office International, the delegates agreed on a policy which would permit the tests to be applied, not only where infection now exists, but in territories where so far there has been no reason to assume its presence. The risk of rapid carriage of infection over long distances needs watchfulness, only possible by agreement between the territories in which trunk line aerodromes a,re established. The conference unanimously recommended the early adoption by all African governments of the recent international sanitary convention for aerial navigation. The risk of modern, communications is not limited to aircraft ; new motorroads and rail must also be taken into account. Finally, the well-tried and successful methods of dealing with ’yellow fever in West Africa, as explained by the delegates for Nigeria and the Gold Coast, were endorsed by the conference. As a severe type of amall-pox is imported now and then from India at East African and South African ports, consideration was given to strengthening the defence by systematising the vaccination of passengers before leaving India. Other matters reviewed at the conference included (1) a survey of the incidence and spread of human and rodent plague in South Africa, and the increase of plague among wild rodents ; (2) the principles and practice followed in different African territories in the treatment and prevention of leprosy ; and (3) the necessity of defining the extent of the action which should be taken by the port authorities on the arrival of a ship from a port in a foreign country where an acute epidemic of dengue fever is prevalent. An official report of the conference will be issued by the Health Organisation of the League of Nations.
infection from the animals which died of acute tuberculosis. A further communication is to be made to the Record when the surviving’ animals have been
slaughtered.
"FOR OUR KITH AND KIN"
WE
are
to learn that Sir Thomas Barlow’s Christmas gifts to the beneficiaries of
happy
appeal for the Royal
Medical Benevolent Fund, endorsed
on
p. 1282 of our own columns, met with ready response. On Dec. 22nd the hon. treasurer of the Fund had the satisfaction of distributing £590: 30s. to each of 203 annuitants and 30s. to each of 191 grantees. Every penny subscribed has been distributed. This is, we are told, the first year in which it has been possible to distribute on anything like this scale. The appeal has been helped by the suggestion to read it at various medical meetings and make collections then and there. Many of the half-crowns put in the plate would never have been sent through the post.,
CORRIGENDA B.P. 1932 THE General Medical Council has issued
a
list of
corrigenda in the first issue of the British Pharmacopoaia, 1932. Most of these are of a trivial or obvious character, but a few might mislead even the accomplished pharmacist. Copies of the list printed on paper 6 by 9 in. for insertion in the volume can be obtained on application to the Registrar of the Council at 44,
Hallam-street, London,
addressed panied by to keep the sheet flat. an
envelope
W. 1, accomof sufficient size
____
has nominated Sir Amherst into the administration and constitution of the Newcastle College of Medicine.
Lord
Londonderry
Selby-Bigge
to make
inquiry
WE have to record the death of Dr. Alexander Mitchell Stalker, for 25 years professor of medicine A TEST OF THE SPAHLINGER BOVINE VACCINE in the University of St. Andrews, at the age of 79. IN our issue of Feb. 6th, 1932 (p. 309), Mr. Henry Spahlinger described his method of preparation of antigens for the preventive immunisation of cattle Sir Gowland Hopkins on Dec. 17th unveiled against tuberculosis. The recent test under the a plaque at King’s College in memory of W. D. direction of the Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Halliburton, professor of physiology there from 1890 Ireland has, he tells us, been made with the bovine till 1923. Prof. R. J. S. McDowall, who succeeded vaccine prepared according to that formula. A him in the chair, spoke of the great services Halliburton report of the test by three veterinary surgeons (Mr. had rendered to the College at a time when it was H. G. Lamont, Mr. W. R. Kerr, and Mr. P. L. Shanks) actually struggling for its existence. When he attached to the Animal Diseases Division of the arrived the laboratory was in small and badly lit Ministry, appears in the Veterinary Record for rooms where Ferrier and Lister had worked ; yet Dec. 17th (p. 1471). The facts there stated are he made it the Mecca of young physiologists. Sir briefly these : on Dec. 2nd, 1931, eleven calves were Gowland said that Halliburton never became a narrow vaccinated with this " new " vaccine, three of them specialist; he was a sound and learned physiologist intravenously, three subcutaneously, and three intra- capable always of appreciating and appraising every muscularly ; in the remaining two the same vaccine line of progress in his science, and all he did was plus olive oil was injected subcutaneously. On animated by the love of work as service. The plaque June 6th, 1932, a test dose, containing seven different bears the inscription: " William Dobinson Hallistrains of bovine tubercle bacilli isolated in the burton. 1860-1931. Physiologist and biochemist. Ministry’s Division, was injected into the jugular Professor, Fellow, and benefactor of King’s College. veins of each of these animals and of seven controls. Designed and founded this laboratory which bears his On Dec. 1st last, that is to say, six months after n.91me." receiving the test dose, all eleven vaccinated animals were clinically healthy ; while of the controls two were alive and apparently healthy, the remaining five RADIOLOGICAL APPARATUS AT EXMOUTH.—The had died within about two months of receiving the general committee of Exmouth Hospital has accepted test dose. All the animals were maintained on the an offer by Miss Lillian Sheldon to present a new X ray at a cost of 2600. The department is to be same pasture, had access to the same water-troughs apparatus after the late Dr. J. W. Hodgson, who introduced and shed, and were exposed to the same risk of natural. named radiology in Exmouth in the early days of the science.
disease afforded by modern methods of transit. Dr. W. A. Sawyer, who represented the Foundation. told of the results of applying " mouse protection " tests for immunity to the existence of latent infection in a population, and of the promise of the new protective vaccine. The President having reported the views of the yellow fever commission of the Office International, the delegates agreed on a policy which would permit the tests to be applied, not only where infection now exists, but in territories where so far there has been no reason to assume its presence. The risk of rapid carriage of infection over long distances needs watchfulness, only possible by agreement between the territories in which trunk line aerodromes a,re established. The conference unanimously recommended the early adoption by all African governments of the recent international sanitary convention for aerial navigation. The risk of modern, communications is not limited to aircraft ; new motorroads and rail must also be taken into account. Finally, the well-tried and successful methods of dealing with ’yellow fever in West Africa, as explained by the delegates for Nigeria and the Gold Coast, were endorsed by the conference. As a severe type of amall-pox is imported now and then from India at East African and South African ports, consideration was given to strengthening the defence by systematising the vaccination of passengers before leaving India. Other matters reviewed at the conference included (1) a survey of the incidence and spread of human and rodent plague in South Africa, and the increase of plague among wild rodents ; (2) the principles and practice followed in different African territories in the treatment and prevention of leprosy ; and (3) the necessity of defining the extent of the action which should be taken by the port authorities on the arrival of a ship from a port in a foreign country where an acute epidemic of dengue fever is prevalent. An official report of the conference will be issued by the Health Organisation of the League of Nations.
infection from the animals which died of acute tuberculosis. A further communication is to be made to the Record when the surviving’ animals have been
slaughtered.
"FOR OUR KITH AND KIN"
WE
are
to learn that Sir Thomas Barlow’s Christmas gifts to the beneficiaries of
happy
appeal for the Royal
Medical Benevolent Fund, endorsed
on
p. 1282 of our own columns, met with ready response. On Dec. 22nd the hon. treasurer of the Fund had the satisfaction of distributing £590: 30s. to each of 203 annuitants and 30s. to each of 191 grantees. Every penny subscribed has been distributed. This is, we are told, the first year in which it has been possible to distribute on anything like this scale. The appeal has been helped by the suggestion to read it at various medical meetings and make collections then and there. Many of the half-crowns put in the plate would never have been sent through the post.,
CORRIGENDA B.P. 1932 THE General Medical Council has issued
a
list of
corrigenda in the first issue of the British Pharmacopoaia, 1932. Most of these are of a trivial or obvious character, but a few might mislead even the accomplished pharmacist. Copies of the list printed on paper 6 by 9 in. for insertion in the volume can be obtained on application to the Registrar of the Council at 44,
Hallam-street, London,
addressed panied by to keep the sheet flat. an
envelope
W. 1, accomof sufficient size
____
has nominated Sir Amherst into the administration and constitution of the Newcastle College of Medicine.
Lord
Londonderry
Selby-Bigge
to make
inquiry
WE have to record the death of Dr. Alexander Mitchell Stalker, for 25 years professor of medicine A TEST OF THE SPAHLINGER BOVINE VACCINE in the University of St. Andrews, at the age of 79. IN our issue of Feb. 6th, 1932 (p. 309), Mr. Henry Spahlinger described his method of preparation of antigens for the preventive immunisation of cattle Sir Gowland Hopkins on Dec. 17th unveiled against tuberculosis. The recent test under the a plaque at King’s College in memory of W. D. direction of the Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Halliburton, professor of physiology there from 1890 Ireland has, he tells us, been made with the bovine till 1923. Prof. R. J. S. McDowall, who succeeded vaccine prepared according to that formula. A him in the chair, spoke of the great services Halliburton report of the test by three veterinary surgeons (Mr. had rendered to the College at a time when it was H. G. Lamont, Mr. W. R. Kerr, and Mr. P. L. Shanks) actually struggling for its existence. When he attached to the Animal Diseases Division of the arrived the laboratory was in small and badly lit Ministry, appears in the Veterinary Record for rooms where Ferrier and Lister had worked ; yet Dec. 17th (p. 1471). The facts there stated are he made it the Mecca of young physiologists. Sir briefly these : on Dec. 2nd, 1931, eleven calves were Gowland said that Halliburton never became a narrow vaccinated with this " new " vaccine, three of them specialist; he was a sound and learned physiologist intravenously, three subcutaneously, and three intra- capable always of appreciating and appraising every muscularly ; in the remaining two the same vaccine line of progress in his science, and all he did was plus olive oil was injected subcutaneously. On animated by the love of work as service. The plaque June 6th, 1932, a test dose, containing seven different bears the inscription: " William Dobinson Hallistrains of bovine tubercle bacilli isolated in the burton. 1860-1931. Physiologist and biochemist. Ministry’s Division, was injected into the jugular Professor, Fellow, and benefactor of King’s College. veins of each of these animals and of seven controls. Designed and founded this laboratory which bears his On Dec. 1st last, that is to say, six months after n.91me." receiving the test dose, all eleven vaccinated animals were clinically healthy ; while of the controls two were alive and apparently healthy, the remaining five RADIOLOGICAL APPARATUS AT EXMOUTH.—The had died within about two months of receiving the general committee of Exmouth Hospital has accepted test dose. All the animals were maintained on the an offer by Miss Lillian Sheldon to present a new X ray at a cost of 2600. The department is to be same pasture, had access to the same water-troughs apparatus after the late Dr. J. W. Hodgson, who introduced and shed, and were exposed to the same risk of natural. named radiology in Exmouth in the early days of the science.