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olonies, one of which produced tuberculosis which in These grants in many cases amount to 252 10s. a time healed, while the other produced progressive year to each orphan. The amount of the annual disease terminating in the death of the guinea-pig. subscription is small compared with the benefits Petroff’s work was confirmed last year in the New that may derived by unprovided dependents of a York public health laboratories by M. J. King and deceased member. For a member who at the time W. H. Park, although the Pasteur Institute, using his of his election is under 40 years of age it is two technique, failed to obtain virulent bacilli either by guineas ; there are special terms for life membership.
culture or passage. Whatever may be the truth Relief is granted to the necessitous widows and about the immunising value of B C G vaccine-Dr. orphans of deceased members of three years’ standing, ’Stanley Griffith is engaged on investigating it at the and of life members. Membership is open to any Cambridge field laboratories-the Lubeck incident registered medical practitioner who at the time of brings to mind the all too obvious fact that the use of his election is resident within a 20 -mile radius of Charing live vaccines has its dangers and limitations. It was long Cross. Particulars may be obtained from the secretary - believed that the use of living but attenuated virus was of the Society at 11, Chandos-street, London, W.I. the production of a good prophylactic essential tobut as Prof. J. McIntosh pointed out in a immunity, cpresidential address four years ago1- this belief broke RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN TUBERCULOSIS. down after the experience of Haffkine with his plague FELLOWSHIPS for research in tuberculosis are being vaccine and Wright with his typhoid vaccine ; since - then the general trend of medical progress has been to provided from a fund established in memory of first award will be drop the use of living virus for the dead virus or for Dorothy Temple Cross, and the Council in July for The injection of virus capable made by the Medical Research some of its products. of multiplication in the injected body is far from the academic year beginning on Oct. 1st. The ideal, for when multiplication occurs there is no object of the Fellowships, as defined in the trust of estimating the dose to which tht, deed, is to give special opportunities for study and " to to devote themselves research and in has been indiintending persons subjected, susceptiblepatient viduals this may lead to unforeseen results. The to the advancement by teaching or research of reintroduction of the use of an attenuated living curative or preventive treatment of tuberculosis in - virus in tuberculosis was described by Prof. McIntosh all or any of its forms." Candidates must be British as a retrograde step. Who knows, be said, for how subjects and must hold suitable medical, veterinary, or long an attenuated bacillus can lie dormant and then scientific qualifications. They must also be able to - assume its former virulence ? produce evidence of their ability to make good use of the opportunities offered. The Fellowships will preferably be awarded to candidates who wish to conduct their studies or inquiries outside Great SOCIETY FOR RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND
possibility
ORPHANS OF MEDICAL MEN.
Britain. They will, as a rule, be awarded for one year, but in special cases may be renewed. Their value will depend upon the standing and qualifications of the candidate, but will not be less than ;&bgr;300 per annum, with travelling expenses in addition. It is also hoped to award one senior Fellowship of considerably greater value, and with good prospect of renewal for a further period, to a well-qualified candidate wishing to undertake intensive investigation into some special problem of tuberculosis whether under a temperate or a tropical climate. Application must be made not later than June 30th, and further particulars are obtainable from the Secretary of the Medical Research Council, 38, Old ’Queen-street,
AT the annual general meeting of this Society, -held on Wednesday, with the President, Mr. V. -Warren Low, occupying the chair, the report for 1929 was presented. Five members have died, six resigned, and six new members were elected during, - the past year, making a total membership of made up of one honorary, 162 life, and 121 ordinary members. At the end of the year there were 49 widows and 12 orphans in receipt of grants ; during: the year four widows and seven orphans came on the funds and four widows died. The benefits; offered by membership are well illustrated by the) London, S.W.I. I grants received by these four widows.
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the funds in 1904, her husband paid in .831 10s. and his widow received in grants 82200. Another who came on the funds in 1918 received in grants .8750, her husband having paid 252 10s. Another came on the funds in 1915 and received :81050, her husband having paid 235 14s., and the last widow who came on the funds in 1925 received .8300, her husband having paid 831 10s. One
came
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subscriptions
invested funds of the Society amount to B140,700. The income received from investments was 24244, income-tax returned .8764, interest on B255 was received from deposit account B51 ; subscriptions, and donations amounted to 2108. One legacy was received of .8140. 25252 10s. was distributed in grants, and working expenses were
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330.
The smallness of the membership is a matter of to the directors, and they desire to bring to the notice of the newly qualified and also the newly married members of the medical profession the
concern
by joining the and benevolent. Should a member die and leave his widow with an income not exceeding .8125 per annum, she would, on the present scale, receive from the Society a yearly grant of between 275 and 290, and any children under the age of 16 would receive a yearly grant of 260 each. Over the age of 16 special grants may be made to orphans to enable them to continue their education or start in some profession. advantages that may be gained Society, which is both provident
1 THE LANCET, 1926, ii., 889.
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A SCHOOLBOY’S SUICIDE.
Two letters have recently appeared in the press the relation between which is not obvious at first sight. In the one Sir Farquhar Buzzard pleaded for the treatment of the sufferer from " nerves," a minor mental disorder for which treatment is not readily available. In the other the father of a boy who had committed suicide repudiated the suggestion that the lad was a coward. The need for this plea arose from an assumption that the cause of suicide was fear of fagging at school, and the headmaster of the school was likewise compelled to defend himself from the emotional storm aroused by the publicity given to that assumption. The storm was connected with an old controversy about fagging at public schools that need not concern us here ; the belief that any boy could have a direct and rational fear of the discipline of presentday fagging so great as to lead to suicide is closely related to the neglect of minor mental disorders which prompted the letter of Sir Farquhar Buzzard. Doubtful points concerning physical disease are in little danger of neglect at inquests ; expert assistance is promptly called for, especially if responsibility, direct or indirect, is likely to be fixed upon anyone. But in the much more difficult problems of behaviour the psychologist is seldom asked for an opinion. In its characteristics this case does not stand alone.
Suicides that are apparently inexplicable are common, and sometimes the victim’s friends describe his overconscientiousness, his devotion to work and duty, his
olonies, one of which produced tuberculosis which in These grants in many cases amount to 252 10s. a time healed, while the other produced progressive year to each orphan. The amount of the annual disease terminating in the death of the guinea-pig. subscription is small compared with the benefits Petroff’s work was confirmed last year in the New that may derived by unprovided dependents of a York public health laboratories by M. J. King and deceased member. For a member who at the time W. H. Park, although the Pasteur Institute, using his of his election is under 40 years of age it is two technique, failed to obtain virulent bacilli either by guineas ; there are special terms for life membership.
culture or passage. Whatever may be the truth Relief is granted to the necessitous widows and about the immunising value of B C G vaccine-Dr. orphans of deceased members of three years’ standing, ’Stanley Griffith is engaged on investigating it at the and of life members. Membership is open to any Cambridge field laboratories-the Lubeck incident registered medical practitioner who at the time of brings to mind the all too obvious fact that the use of his election is resident within a 20 -mile radius of Charing live vaccines has its dangers and limitations. It was long Cross. Particulars may be obtained from the secretary - believed that the use of living but attenuated virus was of the Society at 11, Chandos-street, London, W.I. the production of a good prophylactic essential tobut as Prof. J. McIntosh pointed out in a immunity, cpresidential address four years ago1- this belief broke RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN TUBERCULOSIS. down after the experience of Haffkine with his plague FELLOWSHIPS for research in tuberculosis are being vaccine and Wright with his typhoid vaccine ; since - then the general trend of medical progress has been to provided from a fund established in memory of first award will be drop the use of living virus for the dead virus or for Dorothy Temple Cross, and the Council in July for The injection of virus capable made by the Medical Research some of its products. of multiplication in the injected body is far from the academic year beginning on Oct. 1st. The ideal, for when multiplication occurs there is no object of the Fellowships, as defined in the trust of estimating the dose to which tht, deed, is to give special opportunities for study and " to to devote themselves research and in has been indiintending persons subjected, susceptiblepatient viduals this may lead to unforeseen results. The to the advancement by teaching or research of reintroduction of the use of an attenuated living curative or preventive treatment of tuberculosis in - virus in tuberculosis was described by Prof. McIntosh all or any of its forms." Candidates must be British as a retrograde step. Who knows, be said, for how subjects and must hold suitable medical, veterinary, or long an attenuated bacillus can lie dormant and then scientific qualifications. They must also be able to - assume its former virulence ? produce evidence of their ability to make good use of the opportunities offered. The Fellowships will preferably be awarded to candidates who wish to conduct their studies or inquiries outside Great SOCIETY FOR RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND
possibility
ORPHANS OF MEDICAL MEN.
Britain. They will, as a rule, be awarded for one year, but in special cases may be renewed. Their value will depend upon the standing and qualifications of the candidate, but will not be less than ;&bgr;300 per annum, with travelling expenses in addition. It is also hoped to award one senior Fellowship of considerably greater value, and with good prospect of renewal for a further period, to a well-qualified candidate wishing to undertake intensive investigation into some special problem of tuberculosis whether under a temperate or a tropical climate. Application must be made not later than June 30th, and further particulars are obtainable from the Secretary of the Medical Research Council, 38, Old ’Queen-street,
AT the annual general meeting of this Society, -held on Wednesday, with the President, Mr. V. -Warren Low, occupying the chair, the report for 1929 was presented. Five members have died, six resigned, and six new members were elected during, - the past year, making a total membership of made up of one honorary, 162 life, and 121 ordinary members. At the end of the year there were 49 widows and 12 orphans in receipt of grants ; during: the year four widows and seven orphans came on the funds and four widows died. The benefits; offered by membership are well illustrated by the) London, S.W.I. I grants received by these four widows.
284, ,
-
’
,
the funds in 1904, her husband paid in .831 10s. and his widow received in grants 82200. Another who came on the funds in 1918 received in grants .8750, her husband having paid 252 10s. Another came on the funds in 1915 and received :81050, her husband having paid 235 14s., and the last widow who came on the funds in 1925 received .8300, her husband having paid 831 10s. One
came
nn
subscriptions
invested funds of the Society amount to B140,700. The income received from investments was 24244, income-tax returned .8764, interest on B255 was received from deposit account B51 ; subscriptions, and donations amounted to 2108. One legacy was received of .8140. 25252 10s. was distributed in grants, and working expenses were
The
330.
The smallness of the membership is a matter of to the directors, and they desire to bring to the notice of the newly qualified and also the newly married members of the medical profession the
concern
by joining the and benevolent. Should a member die and leave his widow with an income not exceeding .8125 per annum, she would, on the present scale, receive from the Society a yearly grant of between 275 and 290, and any children under the age of 16 would receive a yearly grant of 260 each. Over the age of 16 special grants may be made to orphans to enable them to continue their education or start in some profession. advantages that may be gained Society, which is both provident
1 THE LANCET, 1926, ii., 889.
____
A SCHOOLBOY’S SUICIDE.
Two letters have recently appeared in the press the relation between which is not obvious at first sight. In the one Sir Farquhar Buzzard pleaded for the treatment of the sufferer from " nerves," a minor mental disorder for which treatment is not readily available. In the other the father of a boy who had committed suicide repudiated the suggestion that the lad was a coward. The need for this plea arose from an assumption that the cause of suicide was fear of fagging at school, and the headmaster of the school was likewise compelled to defend himself from the emotional storm aroused by the publicity given to that assumption. The storm was connected with an old controversy about fagging at public schools that need not concern us here ; the belief that any boy could have a direct and rational fear of the discipline of presentday fagging so great as to lead to suicide is closely related to the neglect of minor mental disorders which prompted the letter of Sir Farquhar Buzzard. Doubtful points concerning physical disease are in little danger of neglect at inquests ; expert assistance is promptly called for, especially if responsibility, direct or indirect, is likely to be fixed upon anyone. But in the much more difficult problems of behaviour the psychologist is seldom asked for an opinion. In its characteristics this case does not stand alone.
Suicides that are apparently inexplicable are common, and sometimes the victim’s friends describe his overconscientiousness, his devotion to work and duty, his