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THE LONDON HOSPITAL RESEARCH BUILDING
928 withdrawal should be total and not phased was defeated ; and the conference supported the view that in the event of progressive withdrawal no practitioner should be asked to resign unless 80% of resignatiolls had been collected from the area, in which he had been included. The special representative meeting of the B.M.A. held last Wednesday will be reported in our next issue. Central Consultants and Specialists Committee At its meeting on Tuesday the committee decided to recommend cooperation with the Royal Commission.
THE LONDON HOSPITAL RESEARCH
BUILDING FROM its endowment funds the London
Hospital has research building in Ashfield Street, Whitechapel, which will accommodate the research units of the hospital and thus make space in the main hospital for clinical laboratories. The new building, which was officially opened last Wednesday, contains : spent E200,000
on
a
new
The Hospital Physics Unit Chief Physicist : L. A. W.
KEMP,
PH.D.
Hospital Physics Laboratory came into being eight years was concerned almost entirely with radiotherapy physics. In 1951 it became responsible to a special physics subcommittee, and was made accessible to all departments. Since that time, it has done work for many departments, including the medical unit and the cancer research, dental, cardiac, eleetro-encephalographic, ophthalmic, and diagnostic X-ray departments, as well as several In of the research groups working in the medical college. the field of radiation physics it has come to be known for its specialisation in precision dosimetry. The London in 1943 but for
The Hospital Instrument Workshop Chief Technician : E. PENFOLD. This
workshop has grown instrument-making
meet the
out of the initial
steps taken
to
needs of the
physics laboratory. In 1951 a full-time instrument-maker was appointed, but the needs of the laboratory grew rapidly, and it was found that an increasing number of other research departments also required access to first-class instrument-makers. The building of the new research block has therefore been made the occasion for creating the research instrument workshop. administratively separate from the physics laboratory and staffed by five instrument-makers (with a storekeeper), provided with 5 lathes, 2 milling-machines, 4 power clrills, and a surface grinder, together with a guillotine, bending machine, various presses, and welding and spraying equipment. The workshop is also equipped, to fl more modest degree. for
electronic work.
Department for Research in Industrial Medicine Director: DONALD HUNTER, F.R.C.P. This department (Medical Research (’ouncil) was formed in June, 1943, and its staff includes physicians, chemists, physicists, and technicians. Its aim is to study diseases of occupation and their prevention. These include (1) acute and chronic poisoning by metals and chemical substances, (2) industrial cancer, and (3) the effects of physical agents such as vibratory tools. Field studies are undertaken anywhere in Great Britain and have been made. for example, into fluorosis in an aluminium foundry at .Fort William, silicosis among Cornish tin-miners, and chronic cadmium
poisoning In
the
on
Merseyside. building
there are organic and inorganic laboratory for radioactive isotopes, a physics laboratory, and a histology laboratory. In the animal-house a dosing-chamber has been built by the staff of the department in which animals can be treated with dust and fume under controlled conditions resembling those new
chemistry laboratories,
of
a
factory.
Reference Laboratories. The amalgamation of the two laboratories has made it possible to achieve a much greater output of work without any increase in staff, which consists of the director, two serologists. eleven technicians, and the usual ancillarv personnel. Social Medicine Research Unit Director: J. N. MORRIS, tv.ti.c.r.
This unit of the .Medical Research Council was founded in 1948. and transferred to The London in January, 1956. It has a staff of about twelve—medical, statistical, sociological, and clerical. In addition, it enjoys much help from the staff of the hospital and from others. Depending on the nature of the problem, studies are made on a national or local scale, and though the unit’s principal method is that of the field survey, clinical and other methods are used as required. At present it is completing studies on infant mortality; is actively engaged on several inquiries into the causes of coronary thrombosis in middle-aged men; and is planning to move into the field of mental disease and the relations of social to hereditary factors. Studies are also being made of the working of various parts of the health and social services. The advances in the treatment of mental disease mean that many patients are discharged home after a relatively short stay in hospital. and the unit is trying also to assess the needs of such patients in the hope of helping to reduce the considerable relapse and readmission rates. In another inquiry the results of teaching and non-teaching hospitals in dealing with certain emergencies ’ are being compared. An intensive study has also been started of the problems of The London "
Hospital
itself.
The Dental Research Laboratories The new dental research department, which consists of four compactly designed laboratories and a small photographic darkroom, will provide much-needed space for the expansion of research already being carried out on dental disease by members of the staffs of the dental department and dental school. An experimental study of the influence of defective nutrition on the incidence of dental decay is being undertaken by the department of’ children’s dentistry. Cancer Research
Department
Director: M. H. SALAMAN.
M.D.
This department was founded in 1930, and transferred to the Medical College in 1948. It is largely maintained by a block grant from the British Empire Cancer Campaign. It consists, at present, of six graduate and six technical staff. Members of the department have worked for the most part in two fields (1) chemical carcinogenesis, and (2 the action of tumours on the enzymes of the host. Its new, compact, and well-equipped laboratories will, it is hoped, enable the department to extend its work.
Department of Experimental Surgery Director : Prof. VICTOR W. Dix, F.B.c.s. has been designed in two parts in order for work with radioactive isotopes to be done safely. The part at present allotted to isotope work consists of a large laboratory, a small animal-room, and a dogroom, and these rooms are completely isolated from the rest of the department. The space allotted to ordinary experimental surgery consists of an operating-theatre, two laboratories, a dog-room, two small animal-rooms, and a larger room which is to be used for X-ray work and also as an additional operating-theatre. It is hoped that it will be possible to do every sort of experimental work in the department except possibly surgical experiments in which long-term survival is necessary. Later it may be possible to make arrangements to keep animals elsewhere for such experiments. This
department possible
to make it
a
,
Venereal Diseases Laboratory Director : 1. N. ORPWOOD PRICE, M.R.C.H. This laboratory (Medical Research Council) is a conjoint laboratory established in 1956 by fusion of the London Hospital Whitechapel Clinic and the M.ILC’. Venereal Diseases
CLINICAL GENETICS RESEARCH UNIT THE Medical Research Council have established this new research unit, under the directorship of Dr. J. A. Fraser Roberts, at the Institute of Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, W.C.I. The research to be undertaken will include the investigation of congenital malformations and hereditary abnormalities and diseases and studies of the role of inheritance in common diseases.
THE LONDON HOSPITAL RESEARCH
BUILDING FROM its endowment funds the London
Hospital has research building in Ashfield Street, Whitechapel, which will accommodate the research units of the hospital and thus make space in the main hospital for clinical laboratories. The new building, which was officially opened last Wednesday, contains : spent E200,000
on
a
new
The Hospital Physics Unit Chief Physicist : L. A. W.
KEMP,
PH.D.
Hospital Physics Laboratory came into being eight years was concerned almost entirely with radiotherapy physics. In 1951 it became responsible to a special physics subcommittee, and was made accessible to all departments. Since that time, it has done work for many departments, including the medical unit and the cancer research, dental, cardiac, eleetro-encephalographic, ophthalmic, and diagnostic X-ray departments, as well as several In of the research groups working in the medical college. the field of radiation physics it has come to be known for its specialisation in precision dosimetry. The London in 1943 but for
The Hospital Instrument Workshop Chief Technician : E. PENFOLD. This
workshop has grown instrument-making
meet the
out of the initial
steps taken
to
needs of the
physics laboratory. In 1951 a full-time instrument-maker was appointed, but the needs of the laboratory grew rapidly, and it was found that an increasing number of other research departments also required access to first-class instrument-makers. The building of the new research block has therefore been made the occasion for creating the research instrument workshop. administratively separate from the physics laboratory and staffed by five instrument-makers (with a storekeeper), provided with 5 lathes, 2 milling-machines, 4 power clrills, and a surface grinder, together with a guillotine, bending machine, various presses, and welding and spraying equipment. The workshop is also equipped, to fl more modest degree. for
electronic work.
Department for Research in Industrial Medicine Director: DONALD HUNTER, F.R.C.P. This department (Medical Research (’ouncil) was formed in June, 1943, and its staff includes physicians, chemists, physicists, and technicians. Its aim is to study diseases of occupation and their prevention. These include (1) acute and chronic poisoning by metals and chemical substances, (2) industrial cancer, and (3) the effects of physical agents such as vibratory tools. Field studies are undertaken anywhere in Great Britain and have been made. for example, into fluorosis in an aluminium foundry at .Fort William, silicosis among Cornish tin-miners, and chronic cadmium
poisoning In
the
on
Merseyside. building
there are organic and inorganic laboratory for radioactive isotopes, a physics laboratory, and a histology laboratory. In the animal-house a dosing-chamber has been built by the staff of the department in which animals can be treated with dust and fume under controlled conditions resembling those new
chemistry laboratories,
of
a
factory.
Reference Laboratories. The amalgamation of the two laboratories has made it possible to achieve a much greater output of work without any increase in staff, which consists of the director, two serologists. eleven technicians, and the usual ancillarv personnel. Social Medicine Research Unit Director: J. N. MORRIS, tv.ti.c.r.
This unit of the .Medical Research Council was founded in 1948. and transferred to The London in January, 1956. It has a staff of about twelve—medical, statistical, sociological, and clerical. In addition, it enjoys much help from the staff of the hospital and from others. Depending on the nature of the problem, studies are made on a national or local scale, and though the unit’s principal method is that of the field survey, clinical and other methods are used as required. At present it is completing studies on infant mortality; is actively engaged on several inquiries into the causes of coronary thrombosis in middle-aged men; and is planning to move into the field of mental disease and the relations of social to hereditary factors. Studies are also being made of the working of various parts of the health and social services. The advances in the treatment of mental disease mean that many patients are discharged home after a relatively short stay in hospital. and the unit is trying also to assess the needs of such patients in the hope of helping to reduce the considerable relapse and readmission rates. In another inquiry the results of teaching and non-teaching hospitals in dealing with certain emergencies ’ are being compared. An intensive study has also been started of the problems of The London "
Hospital
itself.
The Dental Research Laboratories The new dental research department, which consists of four compactly designed laboratories and a small photographic darkroom, will provide much-needed space for the expansion of research already being carried out on dental disease by members of the staffs of the dental department and dental school. An experimental study of the influence of defective nutrition on the incidence of dental decay is being undertaken by the department of’ children’s dentistry. Cancer Research
Department
Director: M. H. SALAMAN.
M.D.
This department was founded in 1930, and transferred to the Medical College in 1948. It is largely maintained by a block grant from the British Empire Cancer Campaign. It consists, at present, of six graduate and six technical staff. Members of the department have worked for the most part in two fields (1) chemical carcinogenesis, and (2 the action of tumours on the enzymes of the host. Its new, compact, and well-equipped laboratories will, it is hoped, enable the department to extend its work.
Department of Experimental Surgery Director : Prof. VICTOR W. Dix, F.B.c.s. has been designed in two parts in order for work with radioactive isotopes to be done safely. The part at present allotted to isotope work consists of a large laboratory, a small animal-room, and a dogroom, and these rooms are completely isolated from the rest of the department. The space allotted to ordinary experimental surgery consists of an operating-theatre, two laboratories, a dog-room, two small animal-rooms, and a larger room which is to be used for X-ray work and also as an additional operating-theatre. It is hoped that it will be possible to do every sort of experimental work in the department except possibly surgical experiments in which long-term survival is necessary. Later it may be possible to make arrangements to keep animals elsewhere for such experiments. This
department possible
to make it
a
,
Venereal Diseases Laboratory Director : 1. N. ORPWOOD PRICE, M.R.C.H. This laboratory (Medical Research Council) is a conjoint laboratory established in 1956 by fusion of the London Hospital Whitechapel Clinic and the M.ILC’. Venereal Diseases
CLINICAL GENETICS RESEARCH UNIT THE Medical Research Council have established this new research unit, under the directorship of Dr. J. A. Fraser Roberts, at the Institute of Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, W.C.I. The research to be undertaken will include the investigation of congenital malformations and hereditary abnormalities and diseases and studies of the role of inheritance in common diseases.