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724 Tuberculosis Association It is hoped to hold the provincial
meeting in Oxford from midday Thursday, July 2 to midday Saturday, July 4. Accommodation for men has been arranged in New College (max. number 90) and for ladies in Somerville (max. number 15). There is no restriction on the number who may attend if they can find their own accommodation. Applications to the hon. secretary, 135, Harley Street, W.1, not later than June 13. In the course of the conference, the annual general meeting will be held. at which some council members will be elected for the ensuing year. The complete agenda will be circulated later. The subjects will probably include the closed suction drainage of tuberculous cavities and a radiological and pathological demonstration. -Children’s Nutrition Council At
a
conference of’the
Edinburgh branch of the council held
May 30, Sir Robert Greig, the president, said that after the war Europe would be -starving and international action
on
would be necessary to bring it back to an ordinary state of It was therefore important to impress upon townspeople an interest in agriculture and not to let them imagine that milk descended from the skies or came out of tins. Dr. G. J. I. Linklater, school medical officer, said that over six years ago the education committee had been concerned about the feeding of children and had made plans which were stopped by the onset of the war and the temporary closing of the schools. The re-establishment of school feeding has been subject to many complications, chiefly lack of adequate premises and difficulty in obtaining equipment of a laboursaving type. Transport too has been difficult. They had experimented with a weekly menu planned by a dietitian in accordance with the dietary suggested by the Scottish Education Department, and after modifying it at the cooking centre they found they could not get the rations, since these were not to be had in the market for that week. Accordingly day-to-day improvisations were made. It was disappointing that, whereas 35,000 Edinburgh children had the extra milk during the last school session, only 9000 came for it during the holidays.
nutrition.
Appointments BIRD, J. G., M.D. DUBi.. : asst. physician to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. DAVIES, J. V., M.B. Loxu.. M.R.C.P.: resident asst. physician at the British Postgraduate Medical School. HARBISON, B. L., M.B. SYDNEY, F.R.C.S.E.: RSO at Hexham Hospital, Northumberland. JAMISON, C. E., M.B. BELF.: temp. first asst. MO at Forest Gate Hospital, E.7. MILNER, K. 0., M.D. LEEDS. D.p.M. : deputy medical superintendent of Rampton State Institution for mental defectives, Retford.
O’DONNELL, welfare)
MARY J., M.B. N.u.i. : for Berkshire.
asst. MO
(maternity and child
Births, Marriages and Deaths BIRTHS co. Kerry,
HORGAN.—On May 25, at Tralee,
Horgan,
F.R.C.S.-a
-
the wife of Mr. M.
J.
daughter.
MILLIN.—On June 6, at Chelsea Hospital for Women, the wife of Mr. T. J. Millin, F.R.C.S.—a daughter. MOLE.—On May 31, at Oxford, the wife of Dr. R. H. Mole—a
daughter. MOLESWORTH.—On June 5, at Blackpool, the wife of Dr. B. D. Molesworth-a daughter. SCOTT.—On May 30, at Midhurst, the wife of Dr. J. A. E. Scott-a
daughter.
-
WRIGLEY.—On June 3, the wife of Dr. C. H. Wrigley of Winchester -a son.
MARRIGES BRICE—PRYKE.—On May 26, at Belfast, Surgeon Lieutenant F. J. BRICE, R.N.V.R., to Doreen Nyren Pryke. CAMPBELL—GRAY.—On June 6, at Ingatestone, Captain J. W. Campbell, M.B., R.A.M.C., to Mary Elizabeth Gray. GRAY-WALKER.-In Szechwan, China, Max Western Gray, M.R.c.s., to Irene E. Walker.
DEATHS BROOK.—On May 27, at Accrington, Sydney Wilkinson Brook, M.B. MANC. AND LOND., aged 71. BUSH.—On May 6, at Hove, Frank Parkinson Bush, L.S.A., late of Norwich. KERR LovE.—On May 31, at West Kilbride, James Kerr Love, M.D., LL.D. GLASG., F.R.F.P.S., aged 84. PAGE.-On June 2, at Hurlingham Court, Fulham, Harry Marmaduke Page, F.R.C.S D.P.H., aged 81. WARNOCK.—On June 4, at Richmond, Surrey, John Warnock, c.M.G., M.D., B.sc. EDIN., director lunacy division, Ministry of Interior, Egypt, 1914-23. WOLFE.—On May 31, at Sidmouth, John Henry Wolfe, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., late of Hanwell. ,
RESEARCH IN PHARMACEUTICS College of the Pharmaceutical Society has pursued many of the lines of research which were in progress last year. A convenient biological method of assessing vitamin Bl has been sought, and vitamins A, B2, D and E have also been studied ; the bacteriostatic action of acridine derivatives is still being investigated and studies are being made of synthetic con-ipounds with corticosterone-like activity, and of synthetic oestrogens and methods of preparing stilbene derivatives. The department of pharmacology has studied adrenergic transmission, the cortical hormone biological assay of digitalis, delay of blood coagulation by’Perspex,’ the standardisation of heparin, blood histamine levels after adrenalectomy, and the effect of subcutaneous implantation and thyroxine tablets. Routine tests have been made on samples of drugs and pituitary extract. It is noteworthy that determinations of the vitamin-D content of samples of margarine, made on behalf of the Ministry of Food, have consistently given values which came up to expectation. Results of research in the department of pharmacognosy have been contributed to the British Pharmacopoeia and Pharmaceutical Codex. THE
LIVING IN CITIES How many citizens know what their city really looks like ? A cathedral, a castle and a few streets of welldesigned buildings linger pleasantly in the mind’s eye, but the rest is formless chaos : consider all that has been perpetrated in bricks, mortar and concrete in the twenty years between two wars. The population shifts caused by evacuation have produced serious overcrowding in country houses. Meanwhile the gratuitous demolitions and excavations by Blitz & Co. have ensured that postwar development will present us not- only with tasks but also with opportunities. What are we going to do about them ? The problem is discussed in nice perspective by Ralph Tubbs (" Living in Cities." Penguin Books. Is.) Here with little text, and with telling photographs the story of the growth of cities is described, and the future considered. Architects and planners have shown that they have the technical knowledge, ability and vision to build a new world. If they are not given full scope it will be because profits in land and buildings are put before public needs. The " story has been told in a rather different way in Your Inheritance" (Architectural Press. Is.), another pictorial essay. Here the development of one plot of land is traced down the centuries. The successive changes, for good or evil, of open field, enclosure, planting, landscaping, factory culture, and suburbanisation are shown, leading up to the present destruction. What can be done in a few years by planned development in a country where the land belongs to the community and no questions of rent, profit or compensation interfere is described and illustrated in an article on the reconstruction of Moscow by Arthur Ling (Anglo-Soviet Journal, 1942, 3, 91). At 2 p.m. on June 17 Mr. E. J. King, Ph.D., will lecture at the British Postgraduate Medical School on acidosis and
alkalosis. h’ACULTY OF SCIENCE.At 7 p.m. on June 18, at the London School of Hygiene, Keppel Street, W.C.1, a discussion will be held on a paper on the meaning of race read by Mr. G. M. Morant, D.Sc., at the symposium of the faculty at Easter. Copies of Dr. Morant’s paper will be sent to all applicants for tickets, price 2s., from the secretary of the faculty, Marx House, Clerkenwell Green, E. C. 1.
Solution of last week’s
Crossword :, At
Surgical
Consultations
The fact that goods made of raw materials in short to war conditions are advertised in this paper should not be taken as an indication that they are necessarily available for export.
supply owing
meeting in Oxford from midday Thursday, July 2 to midday Saturday, July 4. Accommodation for men has been arranged in New College (max. number 90) and for ladies in Somerville (max. number 15). There is no restriction on the number who may attend if they can find their own accommodation. Applications to the hon. secretary, 135, Harley Street, W.1, not later than June 13. In the course of the conference, the annual general meeting will be held. at which some council members will be elected for the ensuing year. The complete agenda will be circulated later. The subjects will probably include the closed suction drainage of tuberculous cavities and a radiological and pathological demonstration. -Children’s Nutrition Council At
a
conference of’the
Edinburgh branch of the council held
May 30, Sir Robert Greig, the president, said that after the war Europe would be -starving and international action
on
would be necessary to bring it back to an ordinary state of It was therefore important to impress upon townspeople an interest in agriculture and not to let them imagine that milk descended from the skies or came out of tins. Dr. G. J. I. Linklater, school medical officer, said that over six years ago the education committee had been concerned about the feeding of children and had made plans which were stopped by the onset of the war and the temporary closing of the schools. The re-establishment of school feeding has been subject to many complications, chiefly lack of adequate premises and difficulty in obtaining equipment of a laboursaving type. Transport too has been difficult. They had experimented with a weekly menu planned by a dietitian in accordance with the dietary suggested by the Scottish Education Department, and after modifying it at the cooking centre they found they could not get the rations, since these were not to be had in the market for that week. Accordingly day-to-day improvisations were made. It was disappointing that, whereas 35,000 Edinburgh children had the extra milk during the last school session, only 9000 came for it during the holidays.
nutrition.
Appointments BIRD, J. G., M.D. DUBi.. : asst. physician to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. DAVIES, J. V., M.B. Loxu.. M.R.C.P.: resident asst. physician at the British Postgraduate Medical School. HARBISON, B. L., M.B. SYDNEY, F.R.C.S.E.: RSO at Hexham Hospital, Northumberland. JAMISON, C. E., M.B. BELF.: temp. first asst. MO at Forest Gate Hospital, E.7. MILNER, K. 0., M.D. LEEDS. D.p.M. : deputy medical superintendent of Rampton State Institution for mental defectives, Retford.
O’DONNELL, welfare)
MARY J., M.B. N.u.i. : for Berkshire.
asst. MO
(maternity and child
Births, Marriages and Deaths BIRTHS co. Kerry,
HORGAN.—On May 25, at Tralee,
Horgan,
F.R.C.S.-a
-
the wife of Mr. M.
J.
daughter.
MILLIN.—On June 6, at Chelsea Hospital for Women, the wife of Mr. T. J. Millin, F.R.C.S.—a daughter. MOLE.—On May 31, at Oxford, the wife of Dr. R. H. Mole—a
daughter. MOLESWORTH.—On June 5, at Blackpool, the wife of Dr. B. D. Molesworth-a daughter. SCOTT.—On May 30, at Midhurst, the wife of Dr. J. A. E. Scott-a
daughter.
-
WRIGLEY.—On June 3, the wife of Dr. C. H. Wrigley of Winchester -a son.
MARRIGES BRICE—PRYKE.—On May 26, at Belfast, Surgeon Lieutenant F. J. BRICE, R.N.V.R., to Doreen Nyren Pryke. CAMPBELL—GRAY.—On June 6, at Ingatestone, Captain J. W. Campbell, M.B., R.A.M.C., to Mary Elizabeth Gray. GRAY-WALKER.-In Szechwan, China, Max Western Gray, M.R.c.s., to Irene E. Walker.
DEATHS BROOK.—On May 27, at Accrington, Sydney Wilkinson Brook, M.B. MANC. AND LOND., aged 71. BUSH.—On May 6, at Hove, Frank Parkinson Bush, L.S.A., late of Norwich. KERR LovE.—On May 31, at West Kilbride, James Kerr Love, M.D., LL.D. GLASG., F.R.F.P.S., aged 84. PAGE.-On June 2, at Hurlingham Court, Fulham, Harry Marmaduke Page, F.R.C.S D.P.H., aged 81. WARNOCK.—On June 4, at Richmond, Surrey, John Warnock, c.M.G., M.D., B.sc. EDIN., director lunacy division, Ministry of Interior, Egypt, 1914-23. WOLFE.—On May 31, at Sidmouth, John Henry Wolfe, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., late of Hanwell. ,
RESEARCH IN PHARMACEUTICS College of the Pharmaceutical Society has pursued many of the lines of research which were in progress last year. A convenient biological method of assessing vitamin Bl has been sought, and vitamins A, B2, D and E have also been studied ; the bacteriostatic action of acridine derivatives is still being investigated and studies are being made of synthetic con-ipounds with corticosterone-like activity, and of synthetic oestrogens and methods of preparing stilbene derivatives. The department of pharmacology has studied adrenergic transmission, the cortical hormone biological assay of digitalis, delay of blood coagulation by’Perspex,’ the standardisation of heparin, blood histamine levels after adrenalectomy, and the effect of subcutaneous implantation and thyroxine tablets. Routine tests have been made on samples of drugs and pituitary extract. It is noteworthy that determinations of the vitamin-D content of samples of margarine, made on behalf of the Ministry of Food, have consistently given values which came up to expectation. Results of research in the department of pharmacognosy have been contributed to the British Pharmacopoeia and Pharmaceutical Codex. THE
LIVING IN CITIES How many citizens know what their city really looks like ? A cathedral, a castle and a few streets of welldesigned buildings linger pleasantly in the mind’s eye, but the rest is formless chaos : consider all that has been perpetrated in bricks, mortar and concrete in the twenty years between two wars. The population shifts caused by evacuation have produced serious overcrowding in country houses. Meanwhile the gratuitous demolitions and excavations by Blitz & Co. have ensured that postwar development will present us not- only with tasks but also with opportunities. What are we going to do about them ? The problem is discussed in nice perspective by Ralph Tubbs (" Living in Cities." Penguin Books. Is.) Here with little text, and with telling photographs the story of the growth of cities is described, and the future considered. Architects and planners have shown that they have the technical knowledge, ability and vision to build a new world. If they are not given full scope it will be because profits in land and buildings are put before public needs. The " story has been told in a rather different way in Your Inheritance" (Architectural Press. Is.), another pictorial essay. Here the development of one plot of land is traced down the centuries. The successive changes, for good or evil, of open field, enclosure, planting, landscaping, factory culture, and suburbanisation are shown, leading up to the present destruction. What can be done in a few years by planned development in a country where the land belongs to the community and no questions of rent, profit or compensation interfere is described and illustrated in an article on the reconstruction of Moscow by Arthur Ling (Anglo-Soviet Journal, 1942, 3, 91). At 2 p.m. on June 17 Mr. E. J. King, Ph.D., will lecture at the British Postgraduate Medical School on acidosis and
alkalosis. h’ACULTY OF SCIENCE.At 7 p.m. on June 18, at the London School of Hygiene, Keppel Street, W.C.1, a discussion will be held on a paper on the meaning of race read by Mr. G. M. Morant, D.Sc., at the symposium of the faculty at Easter. Copies of Dr. Morant’s paper will be sent to all applicants for tickets, price 2s., from the secretary of the faculty, Marx House, Clerkenwell Green, E. C. 1.
Solution of last week’s
Crossword :, At
Surgical
Consultations
The fact that goods made of raw materials in short to war conditions are advertised in this paper should not be taken as an indication that they are necessarily available for export.
supply owing