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1245 The Dental Board has achieved success in these out that in that event the Dental Board could the never hope to win any case on appeal to High matters by persuasion rather than by compulsion. Court. He pictures himself under cross-examina- But it must not be thought that there is no legal tion as an official witness on the appeal of a dentist power to enforce the standard. As the chairman whose name has been struck off the register for has lately explained, the judicial definition of advertising his premises at a corner site on Picca- infamous and disgraceful conduct in a professional dilly Circus with the locally familiar type of respect will cover conduct by a practitioner in the flashing or revolving coloured electric lights. He pursuit of his profession " which will be reasonably might have to admit in the witness-box that he regarded as disgraceful or dishonourable by his regarded an illuminated box sign in Harley-street professional brethren of good repute and com-

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Those words, framed by Lord Justice as even more flagrant and disgraceful in a profes- petency." sional sense ; and yet such a box sign would, if the LOPES and cited with approval by the Master of uniform standardisation were adopted which some the Rolls in Allinson’s case in 1894, are as applicable to the dental as to the medical practitioner. now desire, be legitimate.

ANNOTATIONS disability of deafness debars scholars leaving the NURSING. schools from proceeding to institutions primary Lord Crawford and Halcarres has consented to could receive a higher training; in this they where preside over THE LANCET Commission on the position way valuable material is lost to the nation, while of nursing. The terms of reference of the Commission many persons quite capable of being not only selfare to inquire into the reasons for the shortage of supporting but useful citizens are driven into positions candidates, trained and untrained, for nursing the of helplessness. Lord Charnwood read to the meeting sick in general and special hospitals throughout ,the a letter from Sir Charles Trevelyan, President of the country, and to offer suggestions for making the Board of Education, agreeing to the suggestion that service more attractive to women suitable for this there is a definite need of secondary schools for the necessary work. The members of the Commission are : deaf, which institutions had yielded good results The Earl of CRAWFORD and BALCARRES, P.C., K.T., F.R.S. in the United States. Speaking to this authoriProf. HENRY CLAY, M.A., D.Sc., late Professor of Social tative text, Lord Charnwood placed before the Economics in the University of Manchester. Miss R. E. DARBYSHIRE, R.R.C., Matron, University meeting a scheme for promoting the higher education College Hospital. of the deaf by providing a school at which deaf Miss L. CLARK, M.B.E., R.R.C., Matron, Whipps Cross children, after reaching’ the age of 16, would be Hospital. Dr. ROBERT HUTCHISON, F.R.C.P., Physician to the assisted to study along particular lines especially The scheme was London Hospital and to the Hospital for Sick Children, fitted to meet their capabilities. Great Ormond-street. drawn up by a committee of the National Institute, Prof. F. R. FRASER, M.D., F.R.C.P., Professor of Medicine in the University of London, Physician to St. Bartholomew’s and was placed before the meeting with a recommendation that an appeal should be made for £20,000, Hospital. Mr. A. LISTER HARRISON, J.P., Chairman, Committee of which would be required at the outset. Lord Management, Metropolitan Hospital. that more than double that Charnwood allowed Miss M. D. BROCK, D.Litt., Headmistress, the Mary sum would be required before the plans could be Datchelor Girls’ School. Mrs. OLIVER STRACHEY, Chairman, Employments Com- realised, but he could have left no doubt in the mind mittee, London Society for Women’s Service. of the audience that the demand for public assistance Miss EDITH THOMPSON, C.B.E., Member of Council, was justified. Money we know is scarce, and forcible of Bedford College, University London. Sir SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D., F.R.C.P., the Editor of THE appeals reach daily those who are in a position to LANCET, with Dr. M. H. KETTLE, an assistant editor, as help good work; but alike from the public and the honorary secretary. medical point of view a plan for the securing of the Any organisation or individual wishing to provide higher education of the deaf should be given every evidence for the Commission to consider, or to make chance of early success. The careful training of the proposals relating to the improvement of conditions deaf would make self-supporting many who are now of service of the nursing profession, is asked to com- burdens on others, and would relieve the deadly municate with the hon. secretary at THE LANCET isolation of the plight of the deaf. Further, among the deaf population, given a proper chance of selfOffices, 7, Adam-street, Adelphi, London, W.C. expression, there would certainly be found, he reiterated, many whose work was valuable to society. This is a point which perpetually escapes the public THE EDUCATION OF THE DEAF. A PRACTICAL step forward in the higher education attention, while it constitutes a most practical of the deaf was taken at the recent meeting of the argument for public appeal. National Institute for the Deaf held at University College, London, and presided over by Lord CONSTITUTION IN GRAVES’S DISEASE. Charnwood. There were present at the meeting educational authorities and special representatives of MANY observers have pointed out that periodic schools, and members of bodies such as welfare variation of signs and symptoms is common in societies generally and the societies associated with Graves’s disease, and have reported difficulties in the National Institute in different counties, while diagnosis to which exacerbations and remissions give delegates from county councils also attended. Lord rise. E. Moschcowitz1 has carried these observations Charnwood laid before the meeting a scheme designed further by studying the temperamental peculiarities to fill an admitted gap in our system of national 1 Arch. Internal Med., October, 1930, p. 610. education, seeing that at the present moment the THE COMMISSION ON

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