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PUBLIC
HEALTH THE JOURNAL OF
THE N o . 9.
SOCIETY
OF
MEDICAL
HEALTH JUNE,
Contents
Editorial
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T h e President-Elect ......... ... T h e Medical Research Council and Preventive Medicine ... T h e Years that the Locusts have Eaten . . . . . . T h e F u t u r e of Health Education . . . . . . . . . T h e Health of Scotland in 1938 . . . . . . . . . Hospital Problems in L o n d o n ......... T h e Bacteriological Examination of Water Supplies Neo-Natal Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . Appendicitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Obituary Marguerite Kettle, M.R.C.S. . . Sir Robert Bolam, O.B.E., M.D. . H a r r y G o r d o n - S m i t h , M.B. . . R. P. Williams, M.D. . . . . . Alan Carling, B.M. . . . . . . .
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Special Articles The
Changing Relations between the Medical Officer of Health and the Medical Profession. By R. M. F. Picken, Mm., D.r.H. Medicine and the Public Health. By 1~i"H. M~ Miltigan, M.D., D.P.H. . . . T h e Education of Deaf Children'. I3y J. i~ Mitchell, M.C., M.B., D.P.H. . . . . . . . . . Conversion of a Passenger O m n i b u s as a Mobile First-Aid Unit. By H. C. Maurice-Williams, M.R.C.S.,
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T h e N e w - B o r n Child. M.D.j
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By K e n n e t h Tallerman, ..
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Correspondence W a s s e r m a n n T e s t s at Pre-Natal Clinics (Violet Russell) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
News and Summaries M.R.C. Committee on Research in Preventive Medicine ...... ......... Ministry of Health Publications . . . ... . . . Recent Appointments in the Public Health Service T h e Tuberculosis Service in T i m e of W a r ...
Society of Medical onleers of Health Notices and Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . Council Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ordinary Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Branch and G r o u p Meetings .........
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Vol. L I I .
Subscription 81s. 6d. per annum, post free, in advance. Single copies 2s. 6d. post free. "Public Health" is the O~idaI Organ of the Society of Medical O~cers of Health and a suitable medium for the advertisement of o~cial appointments vacant in the health service. Space is also available for a certain number of approved commercial advertisements. Application should be made to the Executive Secretary of the Society, at Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, W.C.1. Telephone : Euston 3923. Telegrams:Epidauros, Westcent.
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Editorial The President-Elect We offer hearty congratulations to Dr. F. T. H. Wood on his election to be President for the session t939-40, and to the Society on its choice of chief officer. Apart from his personal qualifications, Dr. Wood has more than earned this high recognition at the hands of his colleagues. As Hon. Treasurer and President of the NorthWestern Branch, as a member of the Council, as Chairman first of the Journal Committee and latterly of the General Purposes Committee, and for the past four years as a public health service representative on the Council of the British Medical Association, he has given unstintingly of his time and energy to the advancement of the public health service and of preventive medicine. We wish him a very successful year of office. One point has struck us. Dr. Wood is no less than the fourth successive Englishman to be elected President of the Society. Is this a national revival ?
The Medical Research Council and Preventive Medicine
The announcement that the Medical Research Council has appointed a Preventive Medicine Committee (see page 289) will be welcomed by all 261 members of the public health service. In the past 266 the Council has rather concentrated on assisting research work within the field of the medical 271 sciences and has done little to foster the application of the findings of research to practical public health 274 problems. Now it would appear that we may look forward to an extension of the Council's activities 275 that should be particularly helpful to local authorities and their medical officers of health. For the first time a committee of the Medical Research 288 Council contains among its members a preponderance of those engaged in administrative medicine, 289 together with a wholesome leavening of clinicians, 29o laboratory workers and statisticians. Such a 29o corn aittee will be in a position to advise whether, •288 from an administrative point of view, a particular piece of research work is ready for practical field 276 trial, and how and where such a trial should be 277 284 conducted, as well as to indicate those public health 285 problems which call for further scientific investi289 gation.
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HEALTH THE JOURNAL OF
THE N o . 9.
SOCIETY
OF
MEDICAL
HEALTH JUNE,
Contents
Editorial
P~GE
T h e President-Elect ......... ... T h e Medical Research Council and Preventive Medicine ... T h e Years that the Locusts have Eaten . . . . . . T h e F u t u r e of Health Education . . . . . . . . . T h e Health of Scotland in 1938 . . . . . . . . . Hospital Problems in L o n d o n ......... T h e Bacteriological Examination of Water Supplies Neo-Natal Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . Appendicitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
253 253 254 255 256 258 259 259 260
Obituary Marguerite Kettle, M.R.C.S. . . Sir Robert Bolam, O.B.E., M.D. . H a r r y G o r d o n - S m i t h , M.B. . . R. P. Williams, M.D. . . . . . Alan Carling, B.M. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.
.
.
.
.
.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Special Articles The
Changing Relations between the Medical Officer of Health and the Medical Profession. By R. M. F. Picken, Mm., D.r.H. Medicine and the Public Health. By 1~i"H. M~ Miltigan, M.D., D.P.H. . . . T h e Education of Deaf Children'. I3y J. i~ Mitchell, M.C., M.B., D.P.H. . . . . . . . . . Conversion of a Passenger O m n i b u s as a Mobile First-Aid Unit. By H. C. Maurice-Williams, M.R.C.S.,
D.P.H .
.
.
.
T h e N e w - B o r n Child. M.D.j
F.R.C.P.
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.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
By K e n n e t h Tallerman, ..
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.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Correspondence W a s s e r m a n n T e s t s at Pre-Natal Clinics (Violet Russell) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
News and Summaries M.R.C. Committee on Research in Preventive Medicine ...... ......... Ministry of Health Publications . . . ... . . . Recent Appointments in the Public Health Service T h e Tuberculosis Service in T i m e of W a r ...
Society of Medical onleers of Health Notices and Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . Council Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ordinary Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Branch and G r o u p Meetings .........
Reviews
OF
Vol. L I I .
Subscription 81s. 6d. per annum, post free, in advance. Single copies 2s. 6d. post free. "Public Health" is the O~idaI Organ of the Society of Medical O~cers of Health and a suitable medium for the advertisement of o~cial appointments vacant in the health service. Space is also available for a certain number of approved commercial advertisements. Application should be made to the Executive Secretary of the Society, at Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, W.C.1. Telephone : Euston 3923. Telegrams:Epidauros, Westcent.
M.C.j
OFFICERS
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260 265 265 265 265
1939
Editorial The President-Elect We offer hearty congratulations to Dr. F. T. H. Wood on his election to be President for the session t939-40, and to the Society on its choice of chief officer. Apart from his personal qualifications, Dr. Wood has more than earned this high recognition at the hands of his colleagues. As Hon. Treasurer and President of the NorthWestern Branch, as a member of the Council, as Chairman first of the Journal Committee and latterly of the General Purposes Committee, and for the past four years as a public health service representative on the Council of the British Medical Association, he has given unstintingly of his time and energy to the advancement of the public health service and of preventive medicine. We wish him a very successful year of office. One point has struck us. Dr. Wood is no less than the fourth successive Englishman to be elected President of the Society. Is this a national revival ?
The Medical Research Council and Preventive Medicine
The announcement that the Medical Research Council has appointed a Preventive Medicine Committee (see page 289) will be welcomed by all 261 members of the public health service. In the past 266 the Council has rather concentrated on assisting research work within the field of the medical 271 sciences and has done little to foster the application of the findings of research to practical public health 274 problems. Now it would appear that we may look forward to an extension of the Council's activities 275 that should be particularly helpful to local authorities and their medical officers of health. For the first time a committee of the Medical Research 288 Council contains among its members a preponderance of those engaged in administrative medicine, 289 together with a wholesome leavening of clinicians, 29o laboratory workers and statisticians. Such a 29o corn aittee will be in a position to advise whether, •288 from an administrative point of view, a particular piece of research work is ready for practical field 276 trial, and how and where such a trial should be 277 284 conducted, as well as to indicate those public health 285 problems which call for further scientific investi289 gation.
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