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The midwife's dictionary
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The Literature of Preventive Medicine. and Dagenham, B y TERENCE London: Becontree Social Survey Committee, care of Samuel Sidders & Son, Ltd., U5, Salusbury Road, . N.\V.6. 19a4. pp.420. Price lOs. 6d. net. One of the several sub-titles to tliis volume, which is actuall y a report made for the Pilgrim Trust or a social survey of the places named, is "The Story of the Growth of a Housing Estate." As a report or a social survey it is excellently done j as a story it is most attractively told by ~J r , T er ence Young. who made the survey and submitted the report. In an introdu~tion to the volume, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Chairman of the Pilgrim Trust, warmly approves of the survey and the way it has been carried out, and draws certain conclusions from it. I Ie has also a hope to express that man~' who haw' had opportunities of knowing and studying housing as carried out by local aurhorities will erho : I I I rannot help hoping that t he restriction of " housing' to the provision of houses alone may he reconsidered. To provide no halls or other buildings in which people can meet seems a serious mistake, whatever be the reason in law or policy." Though apparently he worked largely alone, the author of the survey spent something like two years in the area and on the work. The volume shows that he could have wasted little time. l Ie appears to have missed nothing, and as a result has provided a volume that may serve as a model for other "surveyors," and that constitutes a contribution to the understanding and discussion of urgent social questions certain to prove of extreme value to the growing army of persons and bodies concerned to find an answer to such questions.
Beeontree
YOl':"G.
• The Midwife's Dictionary. Revised by GLADYS B. CARTER, Organising Secretary and Education Officer, 1\1 idwives' Institute; formerlv J nspector of Midwives, Manchester: London: Faber & Faber, Ltd., 1934. pp.390. Price 3s . Gd. net. This dictionary and encyclopa-dia has been tested in a variety of ways, amongst others by luoking up particular words and phrases and by seeing whether. o~ not the method of indicating pronunciatIOn actually helps to
secure correctness. All the tests applied were passed quite sat isfactorily. Without hesitation, therefore, "The Midwife's Dictionary " is recommended to I hose for whom it has been prepared, and is commended because of its handiness in regard 10 s ize, its arrangem ent and its price.
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.\n Introduction to the Biochemistry of Nitrogen Conservation. By GtLBERT J. FOWLER, n.sc., F.I.C .• Professor (retired) of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science. Bangalore, etc. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1934. pp. 280. Price 12s. Gd, net. Dr. Gilbert Fowler claims that the main objective of his scientific and professional life's work has been the soluti on of the problem of the sat isfact orv utilisation of nitrogenous waste material. In this volume, which is based partly on his former work , An lniroduction /0 Bacteriological and Enzyme Chemistry. and a course of lectures d elivered in Patna University, he has provided what is in effect a monograph on his specialist subject. As such it is probabl y one of the most complete yet produced, and in it he provides copious evidence of the need for nitrogen conservation, quoting many most interesting instances of the utilisation to advantage of nitrogenous waste materials. Th e monograph undouhtedly possesses very real value. 'fhe Anti-Slum Campaign. SDlON,
Lord
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By SIR E. D.
:It.INST.C.r:.,
lILI.MEcn.E.,
l\layor of Manchester , 1921-2 i Chairman, Manchester Housing Committee, 1919-24; Parliamentary Secretary to the l\Iinistry of Health, 1929 . London: Longmans, Green & Co ., 1933. pp .206. Price 2s. Gd. net. Sir E. D. Simon is probably one of the foremost authorities on local government, and amongst the subjects to which he has devoted attenti on slum clearance and housing bulk largest . .\ ny th ing he writes on these questions, and no matter the aspect with which he deals, must command respect. In this volume he discusses slums and slum clearance with knowledge and insight, and although he offers criticism of various schemes suggested, has valuable hints to offer with regard to the solution of the problem of how to get rid of
1!>:l4.
51
The Literature of Preventive Medicine. and Dagenham, B y TERENCE London: Becontree Social Survey Committee, care of Samuel Sidders & Son, Ltd., U5, Salusbury Road, . N.\V.6. 19a4. pp.420. Price lOs. 6d. net. One of the several sub-titles to tliis volume, which is actuall y a report made for the Pilgrim Trust or a social survey of the places named, is "The Story of the Growth of a Housing Estate." As a report or a social survey it is excellently done j as a story it is most attractively told by ~J r , T er ence Young. who made the survey and submitted the report. In an introdu~tion to the volume, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Chairman of the Pilgrim Trust, warmly approves of the survey and the way it has been carried out, and draws certain conclusions from it. I Ie has also a hope to express that man~' who haw' had opportunities of knowing and studying housing as carried out by local aurhorities will erho : I I I rannot help hoping that t he restriction of " housing' to the provision of houses alone may he reconsidered. To provide no halls or other buildings in which people can meet seems a serious mistake, whatever be the reason in law or policy." Though apparently he worked largely alone, the author of the survey spent something like two years in the area and on the work. The volume shows that he could have wasted little time. l Ie appears to have missed nothing, and as a result has provided a volume that may serve as a model for other "surveyors," and that constitutes a contribution to the understanding and discussion of urgent social questions certain to prove of extreme value to the growing army of persons and bodies concerned to find an answer to such questions.
Beeontree
YOl':"G.
• The Midwife's Dictionary. Revised by GLADYS B. CARTER, Organising Secretary and Education Officer, 1\1 idwives' Institute; formerlv J nspector of Midwives, Manchester: London: Faber & Faber, Ltd., 1934. pp.390. Price 3s . Gd. net. This dictionary and encyclopa-dia has been tested in a variety of ways, amongst others by luoking up particular words and phrases and by seeing whether. o~ not the method of indicating pronunciatIOn actually helps to
secure correctness. All the tests applied were passed quite sat isfactorily. Without hesitation, therefore, "The Midwife's Dictionary " is recommended to I hose for whom it has been prepared, and is commended because of its handiness in regard 10 s ize, its arrangem ent and its price.
...
.\n Introduction to the Biochemistry of Nitrogen Conservation. By GtLBERT J. FOWLER, n.sc., F.I.C .• Professor (retired) of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science. Bangalore, etc. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1934. pp. 280. Price 12s. Gd, net. Dr. Gilbert Fowler claims that the main objective of his scientific and professional life's work has been the soluti on of the problem of the sat isfact orv utilisation of nitrogenous waste material. In this volume, which is based partly on his former work , An lniroduction /0 Bacteriological and Enzyme Chemistry. and a course of lectures d elivered in Patna University, he has provided what is in effect a monograph on his specialist subject. As such it is probabl y one of the most complete yet produced, and in it he provides copious evidence of the need for nitrogen conservation, quoting many most interesting instances of the utilisation to advantage of nitrogenous waste materials. Th e monograph undouhtedly possesses very real value. 'fhe Anti-Slum Campaign. SDlON,
Lord
~r.A.,
By SIR E. D.
:It.INST.C.r:.,
lILI.MEcn.E.,
l\layor of Manchester , 1921-2 i Chairman, Manchester Housing Committee, 1919-24; Parliamentary Secretary to the l\Iinistry of Health, 1929 . London: Longmans, Green & Co ., 1933. pp .206. Price 2s. Gd. net. Sir E. D. Simon is probably one of the foremost authorities on local government, and amongst the subjects to which he has devoted attenti on slum clearance and housing bulk largest . .\ ny th ing he writes on these questions, and no matter the aspect with which he deals, must command respect. In this volume he discusses slums and slum clearance with knowledge and insight, and although he offers criticism of various schemes suggested, has valuable hints to offer with regard to the solution of the problem of how to get rid of