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THE BIRTHDAY HONOURS
1358 TREATMENT OF SCABIES To the Editor
of
THE
THE BIRTHDAY HONOURS
LANCET
THE list of honours conferred by the King on his the use of sulphur in 70th birthday contains the following names of members scabies may have some weight in civilian practice, of the medical and dental professions :— if more methods prove practhough even here, rapid Baronet will the societies consider that the ticable, approved a does not a of mite in the skin create sickness Sir presence Henry Jackson, M.B., M.P. For services in connexion with transport. too will there be disability. Among private patients some for whom the time factor is very important. Order of Merit The problem however is much more serious in the Sir F. Gowland Hopkins, F.R.C.P., P.R.S. Army, where one indication of military efficiency is Professor of biochemistry in the University of the absence of preventable disease. It is to the Cambridge. G.C.V.O. Army we naturally look for any advance in disservices of as it can the command Sir E. F.R.C.P. infestation, experts Cooper Perry, in the effects of gases and vapours. To discover the Consulting physician to Guy’s Hospital. most suitable pesticide for the acarus does not appear G.B.E. The common a difficult task, at least in theory. Sir George Newman, K.C.B., F.R.C.P. spider ought, in default of the mite, to make a good Lately chief medical officer, Ministry of Health and corpus vile on which to test the lethal agent. As a Board of Education. dilute sulphur ointment kills (or is it only a repellent ?) K.C.B. the parasite, we may conclude that a chemical rapidly Lieut.-General James Andrew Hartigan, C.B., C.M.G.. fatal to the intruder but innocuous to the host can be M.B. D.S.O., found. The crux appears to be the eggs and female Director-general of Army Medical Services. in the burrows. Local reduction of the air pressure K.C.V.O. by rupturing these, as in the treatment of books in Lancelot Edward Barrington-Ward, F.R.C.S. a closed chamber, might solve this difficulty, should Surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great such arise. A more scientific outlook on scabies would Ormond-street, and the Royal Northern Hospital. develop if the word were dropped from the Nomen- A. James Walton, F.R.C.S. clature of Diseases and classified under such a term to H.M. Household ; surgeon to the London Surgeon as dermatitis infestata. The use of ointments for Hospital. prolonged periods in skin parasites has had a long K.B.E. day, and the time has come when experience gained Air Vice-Marshal John McIntyre, C.B., M.C., M.B. in the treatment of infestations outside the human Late director of medical services, Royal Air Force. race should receive a fair trial. D.B.E. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, Mrs. Annie Jean Connor, M.D. R. M. FRASER. Knock, Belfast, June 3rd. For work on maternal and child welfare in Australia. Miss Constance Elizabeth D’Arcy, M.B. THE INDIAN EARTHQUAKE For work on maternal and child welfare in Australia. To the Editor of THE LANCET Knights Bachelor biR,—the earthquake in Baluchistan is a disaster Arthur John Hall, F.R.C.P. Emeritus professor of medicine in the University of of the first magnitude. It is inevitable that with a Sheffield. death-roll running into tens of thousands large Walter Burford Johnson, C.M.G., F.R.C.S. numbers of children have been injured and orphaned Director of medical and sanitary services, Nigeria. and thrown into want and misery. On behalf of the Save the Children Fund, which during 16 years Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, F.R.C.P., F.R.S. has disbursed over 2,500,000 for the rescue of Pathologist on the staff of the Medical Research Council. children at home and abroad in times of distress and disaster, I am appealing for help for these children. Harry Cuthbertson Moxham, D.D.S. Federal president of the Dental Association, Common. Donations received by the hon. treasurer, Mr. H. D. wealth of Australia. at Watson, C.LE., C.B.E., 40, Gordon-square, London, John be for can used their immediate relief. Vigers Worthington, M.R.C.S., M.P. W.C.1, Parliamentary private secretary to the Prime Minister. I am, Sir, yours faithfully,
SIR,-Dr. Ingram’s defence of
C.B.
NOEL-BUXTON. June 4th, 1935.
President, the Save the Children Fund.
R. B.
Major-General
(Military) Ainsworth, D.S.O., O.B.E.,
M.R.C.S. DISTRESS AND HEALTH.-An annotation of this title in our issue of May 4th drew a letter of protest from Dr. John Marrack (vide THE LANCET, May 18th, p. 1189). His criticism was to the effect that in our note upon economic circumstances in relation to the health of the community in Sunderland and certain districts of Durham (H.M. Stationery Office. 1935. Cmd. 4886. Pp. 52. 9d.) we had not done justice to In a further communication the White Paper. Dr. Marrack says that the quotation of figures in his previous communication was not correct, but holds that as a correction of the figures would strengthen his arguments his criticism stands good. This is a position which must remain, as Government Departments are unable to enter into public discussions.
Commandant and director of studies, Medical College.
Major-General
Royal Army
C. W. F. Melville,
director of medical mand, India.
Deputy
Major-General T.
F.R.C.S.E., I.M.S. services, Eastern Com-
G. F. Paterson, D.S.O.,
M.B., I.M.S.
Deputy director of medical services, Northern Command, India.
Major-General
J. W. West, C.M.G.,
Professor of
military
surgery,
C.B.E., l4LCh.
Royal Army
Medical
College. C.B.
Lionel Danvers
(Civil)
Bailey, M.C., M.R.C.S., K.H.P.
Colonel, Army Medical Services, T.A.; Superintendent
of
the
Geor2,e’s Hospital.
physiotherapy department,
St.
1359 Rear-Admiral M.R.C.S.
S.
J.
Surgeon
Dudding,
O.B.E.,
Civil surgeon, Aden.
Formerly director of medical studies, Royal Naval Medical College. C.M.G.
M.B.E.
George Ferguson, For work
David Duff, M.D. services, Gold Coast.
For work
C.I.E.
Lieut.-Colonel Bernard
Higham, M.B.,
I.M.S.
to the Government of
analyst
Bombay.
Lieut.-Colonel Robert Knowles, M.R.C.S., I.M.S. Professor of protozoology and secretary of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine ; late editor of the
on
Gordon, M.B. maternal and child welfare in New
Zealand. Khong Kam Tak, M.B. Medical Superintendent,
Hospital of Maternity Association, Ipoh, F.M.S.
Mrs. Helena Muriel For work
Pudney,
Chinese
M.B.
child welfare in
on
Perak
Nigeria.
Lieut. John
Indian Medical Gazette.
Auty Rogers, M.R.C.S. Assistant to the Surgeon to the Viceroy of Miss Wenefride Thompson, M.R.C.S. of St. Luke’s Hospital, Chabria, Assam.
C.V.O.
Charles Gordon Moore, M.B. Physician in ordinary to Princess Beatrice. C.B.E.
M.D.
tuberculosis in Canada.
on
Mrs. Doris Clifton
Director of medical
Chemical
Dadabhoy Dinshaw Variava, F.R.C.S.E.
Kaisar-i-Hind Medal
(Military) Miss
Colonel Wallace Benson, D.S.O., M.B. Assistant director of medical services, London. C.B.E.
India.
Emily Gertrude Stuart,
M.B.
of Church of England Zenana Mission Quetta, Baluchistan.
(Civil)
Society Hospital,
Miss Elizabeth Bolton, M.D. Senior surgeon to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson dean of the London School of Medicine for Women.
FORTHCOMING CONGRESSES
Hospital;
The Hon. A. E. Colvin, M.C., M.B. Chairman of the New South Wales
Hospital
Com.
mission.
Cecil Evelyn Cook, M.D. Chief Protector of Australia.
Hamilton William
George
Dyke,
Marshall
Northern
Territory,
M.B.
officer, Bechuanaland.
medical
Principal
aborigines,
Findlay, O.B.E., M.D., Sc.D. staff, Wellcome Research Insti-
Member of scientific tution, London.
Keegan, M.D. Superintendent, General Hospital, Robert Edward McKechnie, M.D.
Newfoundland.
Chancellor of the
University of British Columbia. Smith, O.B.E., F.R.C.S.E. Senior surgeon, General Hospital, Singapore. Michael Herbert Watt, M.D.
July 3rd.. July
O.B.E.
health, New Zealand.
(Military)
Beveridge, M.C., M.B.,
R.A.M.C.
officer, anti-gas wing, Small Arms School, Winterbourne Gunner. Major A. G. Harsant, F.R.C.S., R.A.M.C.
July
mouth.
Reunion
July 22nd-27th..International Congress on..Brussels. July
Surgical specialist, Egypt.
Wing-Commander T. C. Morton, M.R.C.P., Surgeon Captain C. F. 0. Sankey, M.B.
R.A.F.
(Civil) James Frederick Corson, M.B.E., M.D. Medical officer, Tanganyika Territory. George Hugh Culverwell, M.D. O.B.E.
Allan
Major
of
inspector M.D.
public services
as a
practising physician in Canada.
F. A. Gunasekera, M.R.C.S.
Second-in-command, Ceylon, Medical Corps.
Henry Saumarez Hensman, M.R.C.S. Superintendent,
Government Mental
Hospital, Madras.
Miss Helen Mary Mayo, M.B. For work Australia. .
on
July July
maternal and child welfare in South
Frederick Victor Nanka-Bruce, M.B. For public services in the Gold Coast.
Accidents and Industrial Diseases 23rd-27th.. International Congress on..London. Life Assurance Medicine Thalasso-..San 2 7th-30th..International Sebastian. therapy Congress 29thInternational Neurological.. London. Aug. 2nd.. Congress 8th-11th..Gas t r 0 -E n t e r o 1 o g y..Brussels. I
Aug.
Congress Aug.
9th-17th.. International
Physiological.. Leningrad &
Congress
reformatory and industrial
Home Office.
Roy Dafoe,
For
3rd-5th
July 20th-21st ..European Mental Hygiene.. Brussels.
of
Late medical
schools,
Ist-3rd
International Congress on..Brussels. Physical Education and Child..London Maternity Welfare Conference
officer, Women’s Medical Service for
Director-general
Medical
de..Brussels.
Journees
..Royal Medico-Psycho-..London. logical Association July 3rd-6th ..Oxford Ophthalmological.. Oxford. Congress July 13th-14th.. British Association of.. Birmingham. Radiologists July 15th-20th.. Royal Sanitary Institute.. Bourne.
Miss Millicent Vere Webb, F.C.O.G.
J.
Pharmacy Medicales July 3rd..Bruxelles
June 29thJune 30th-
Charles Johnston
Major A.
June 27th—29th.. National Association for.. Southport. the of Prevention Tuberculosis June 27thInternational Congress for..Brussels. July 3rd.. Military Medicine and
_
Laurence Edward
Chief medical India.
MEETINGS which have been arranged for the second half of this year include the following :-
Moscow.
Aug. 25th-30th..All-Russia Congress of.. Odessa. Physiotherapy Norwich. Sept. 4th ..British Association Sept. 13th-22nd..Dermatological Congress Budapest. Sept. 11th-13th.. British Medical Association.. Melbourne. Sept. 12th-19th..Tomarkin Foundation..Brussels Post-Graduate Course
Sept. 23rd-29th..International Congress of..Madrid. the History of Medicine Oct. Dec.
12th-17th..International Society Medical Hyclrology ..International Society 30thJan. 4th Surgery "
of..Brussels.
of..Cairo.
of
THE
THE BIRTHDAY HONOURS
LANCET
THE list of honours conferred by the King on his the use of sulphur in 70th birthday contains the following names of members scabies may have some weight in civilian practice, of the medical and dental professions :— if more methods prove practhough even here, rapid Baronet will the societies consider that the ticable, approved a does not a of mite in the skin create sickness Sir presence Henry Jackson, M.B., M.P. For services in connexion with transport. too will there be disability. Among private patients some for whom the time factor is very important. Order of Merit The problem however is much more serious in the Sir F. Gowland Hopkins, F.R.C.P., P.R.S. Army, where one indication of military efficiency is Professor of biochemistry in the University of the absence of preventable disease. It is to the Cambridge. G.C.V.O. Army we naturally look for any advance in disservices of as it can the command Sir E. F.R.C.P. infestation, experts Cooper Perry, in the effects of gases and vapours. To discover the Consulting physician to Guy’s Hospital. most suitable pesticide for the acarus does not appear G.B.E. The common a difficult task, at least in theory. Sir George Newman, K.C.B., F.R.C.P. spider ought, in default of the mite, to make a good Lately chief medical officer, Ministry of Health and corpus vile on which to test the lethal agent. As a Board of Education. dilute sulphur ointment kills (or is it only a repellent ?) K.C.B. the parasite, we may conclude that a chemical rapidly Lieut.-General James Andrew Hartigan, C.B., C.M.G.. fatal to the intruder but innocuous to the host can be M.B. D.S.O., found. The crux appears to be the eggs and female Director-general of Army Medical Services. in the burrows. Local reduction of the air pressure K.C.V.O. by rupturing these, as in the treatment of books in Lancelot Edward Barrington-Ward, F.R.C.S. a closed chamber, might solve this difficulty, should Surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great such arise. A more scientific outlook on scabies would Ormond-street, and the Royal Northern Hospital. develop if the word were dropped from the Nomen- A. James Walton, F.R.C.S. clature of Diseases and classified under such a term to H.M. Household ; surgeon to the London Surgeon as dermatitis infestata. The use of ointments for Hospital. prolonged periods in skin parasites has had a long K.B.E. day, and the time has come when experience gained Air Vice-Marshal John McIntyre, C.B., M.C., M.B. in the treatment of infestations outside the human Late director of medical services, Royal Air Force. race should receive a fair trial. D.B.E. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, Mrs. Annie Jean Connor, M.D. R. M. FRASER. Knock, Belfast, June 3rd. For work on maternal and child welfare in Australia. Miss Constance Elizabeth D’Arcy, M.B. THE INDIAN EARTHQUAKE For work on maternal and child welfare in Australia. To the Editor of THE LANCET Knights Bachelor biR,—the earthquake in Baluchistan is a disaster Arthur John Hall, F.R.C.P. Emeritus professor of medicine in the University of of the first magnitude. It is inevitable that with a Sheffield. death-roll running into tens of thousands large Walter Burford Johnson, C.M.G., F.R.C.S. numbers of children have been injured and orphaned Director of medical and sanitary services, Nigeria. and thrown into want and misery. On behalf of the Save the Children Fund, which during 16 years Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, F.R.C.P., F.R.S. has disbursed over 2,500,000 for the rescue of Pathologist on the staff of the Medical Research Council. children at home and abroad in times of distress and disaster, I am appealing for help for these children. Harry Cuthbertson Moxham, D.D.S. Federal president of the Dental Association, Common. Donations received by the hon. treasurer, Mr. H. D. wealth of Australia. at Watson, C.LE., C.B.E., 40, Gordon-square, London, John be for can used their immediate relief. Vigers Worthington, M.R.C.S., M.P. W.C.1, Parliamentary private secretary to the Prime Minister. I am, Sir, yours faithfully,
SIR,-Dr. Ingram’s defence of
C.B.
NOEL-BUXTON. June 4th, 1935.
President, the Save the Children Fund.
R. B.
Major-General
(Military) Ainsworth, D.S.O., O.B.E.,
M.R.C.S. DISTRESS AND HEALTH.-An annotation of this title in our issue of May 4th drew a letter of protest from Dr. John Marrack (vide THE LANCET, May 18th, p. 1189). His criticism was to the effect that in our note upon economic circumstances in relation to the health of the community in Sunderland and certain districts of Durham (H.M. Stationery Office. 1935. Cmd. 4886. Pp. 52. 9d.) we had not done justice to In a further communication the White Paper. Dr. Marrack says that the quotation of figures in his previous communication was not correct, but holds that as a correction of the figures would strengthen his arguments his criticism stands good. This is a position which must remain, as Government Departments are unable to enter into public discussions.
Commandant and director of studies, Medical College.
Major-General
Royal Army
C. W. F. Melville,
director of medical mand, India.
Deputy
Major-General T.
F.R.C.S.E., I.M.S. services, Eastern Com-
G. F. Paterson, D.S.O.,
M.B., I.M.S.
Deputy director of medical services, Northern Command, India.
Major-General
J. W. West, C.M.G.,
Professor of
military
surgery,
C.B.E., l4LCh.
Royal Army
Medical
College. C.B.
Lionel Danvers
(Civil)
Bailey, M.C., M.R.C.S., K.H.P.
Colonel, Army Medical Services, T.A.; Superintendent
of
the
Geor2,e’s Hospital.
physiotherapy department,
St.
1359 Rear-Admiral M.R.C.S.
S.
J.
Surgeon
Dudding,
O.B.E.,
Civil surgeon, Aden.
Formerly director of medical studies, Royal Naval Medical College. C.M.G.
M.B.E.
George Ferguson, For work
David Duff, M.D. services, Gold Coast.
For work
C.I.E.
Lieut.-Colonel Bernard
Higham, M.B.,
I.M.S.
to the Government of
analyst
Bombay.
Lieut.-Colonel Robert Knowles, M.R.C.S., I.M.S. Professor of protozoology and secretary of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine ; late editor of the
on
Gordon, M.B. maternal and child welfare in New
Zealand. Khong Kam Tak, M.B. Medical Superintendent,
Hospital of Maternity Association, Ipoh, F.M.S.
Mrs. Helena Muriel For work
Pudney,
Chinese
M.B.
child welfare in
on
Perak
Nigeria.
Lieut. John
Indian Medical Gazette.
Auty Rogers, M.R.C.S. Assistant to the Surgeon to the Viceroy of Miss Wenefride Thompson, M.R.C.S. of St. Luke’s Hospital, Chabria, Assam.
C.V.O.
Charles Gordon Moore, M.B. Physician in ordinary to Princess Beatrice. C.B.E.
M.D.
tuberculosis in Canada.
on
Mrs. Doris Clifton
Director of medical
Chemical
Dadabhoy Dinshaw Variava, F.R.C.S.E.
Kaisar-i-Hind Medal
(Military) Miss
Colonel Wallace Benson, D.S.O., M.B. Assistant director of medical services, London. C.B.E.
India.
Emily Gertrude Stuart,
M.B.
of Church of England Zenana Mission Quetta, Baluchistan.
(Civil)
Society Hospital,
Miss Elizabeth Bolton, M.D. Senior surgeon to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson dean of the London School of Medicine for Women.
FORTHCOMING CONGRESSES
Hospital;
The Hon. A. E. Colvin, M.C., M.B. Chairman of the New South Wales
Hospital
Com.
mission.
Cecil Evelyn Cook, M.D. Chief Protector of Australia.
Hamilton William
George
Dyke,
Marshall
Northern
Territory,
M.B.
officer, Bechuanaland.
medical
Principal
aborigines,
Findlay, O.B.E., M.D., Sc.D. staff, Wellcome Research Insti-
Member of scientific tution, London.
Keegan, M.D. Superintendent, General Hospital, Robert Edward McKechnie, M.D.
Newfoundland.
Chancellor of the
University of British Columbia. Smith, O.B.E., F.R.C.S.E. Senior surgeon, General Hospital, Singapore. Michael Herbert Watt, M.D.
July 3rd.. July
O.B.E.
health, New Zealand.
(Military)
Beveridge, M.C., M.B.,
R.A.M.C.
officer, anti-gas wing, Small Arms School, Winterbourne Gunner. Major A. G. Harsant, F.R.C.S., R.A.M.C.
July
mouth.
Reunion
July 22nd-27th..International Congress on..Brussels. July
Surgical specialist, Egypt.
Wing-Commander T. C. Morton, M.R.C.P., Surgeon Captain C. F. 0. Sankey, M.B.
R.A.F.
(Civil) James Frederick Corson, M.B.E., M.D. Medical officer, Tanganyika Territory. George Hugh Culverwell, M.D. O.B.E.
Allan
Major
of
inspector M.D.
public services
as a
practising physician in Canada.
F. A. Gunasekera, M.R.C.S.
Second-in-command, Ceylon, Medical Corps.
Henry Saumarez Hensman, M.R.C.S. Superintendent,
Government Mental
Hospital, Madras.
Miss Helen Mary Mayo, M.B. For work Australia. .
on
July July
maternal and child welfare in South
Frederick Victor Nanka-Bruce, M.B. For public services in the Gold Coast.
Accidents and Industrial Diseases 23rd-27th.. International Congress on..London. Life Assurance Medicine Thalasso-..San 2 7th-30th..International Sebastian. therapy Congress 29thInternational Neurological.. London. Aug. 2nd.. Congress 8th-11th..Gas t r 0 -E n t e r o 1 o g y..Brussels. I
Aug.
Congress Aug.
9th-17th.. International
Physiological.. Leningrad &
Congress
reformatory and industrial
Home Office.
Roy Dafoe,
For
3rd-5th
July 20th-21st ..European Mental Hygiene.. Brussels.
of
Late medical
schools,
Ist-3rd
International Congress on..Brussels. Physical Education and Child..London Maternity Welfare Conference
officer, Women’s Medical Service for
Director-general
Medical
de..Brussels.
Journees
..Royal Medico-Psycho-..London. logical Association July 3rd-6th ..Oxford Ophthalmological.. Oxford. Congress July 13th-14th.. British Association of.. Birmingham. Radiologists July 15th-20th.. Royal Sanitary Institute.. Bourne.
Miss Millicent Vere Webb, F.C.O.G.
J.
Pharmacy Medicales July 3rd..Bruxelles
June 29thJune 30th-
Charles Johnston
Major A.
June 27th—29th.. National Association for.. Southport. the of Prevention Tuberculosis June 27thInternational Congress for..Brussels. July 3rd.. Military Medicine and
_
Laurence Edward
Chief medical India.
MEETINGS which have been arranged for the second half of this year include the following :-
Moscow.
Aug. 25th-30th..All-Russia Congress of.. Odessa. Physiotherapy Norwich. Sept. 4th ..British Association Sept. 13th-22nd..Dermatological Congress Budapest. Sept. 11th-13th.. British Medical Association.. Melbourne. Sept. 12th-19th..Tomarkin Foundation..Brussels Post-Graduate Course
Sept. 23rd-29th..International Congress of..Madrid. the History of Medicine Oct. Dec.
12th-17th..International Society Medical Hyclrology ..International Society 30thJan. 4th Surgery "
of..Brussels.
of..Cairo.