THE QUETTA EARTHQUAKE

1211 Central Housing Advisory Committee Under the Housing Act, 1935 the Minister of Health has appointed a committee to advise him on questions of housing. He will himself be chairman, and the members will he Lord Balfour of ,Burleigh, Sir Harold Bellman. Mr. G. M. Burt, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, Mrs. M. M. Dollar, J.P., the Earl of Dudley, Sir Francis Fremantle, M.D., M.P., Miss Megan Lloyd George, M.P., Mr. George Hicks, Mr. A. L. Hobhouse, J.P., Mr.L. H. Keay, F.R.I.B.A., the Countess of Limerick, Mr. 0. Ling, J.P., Sir Miles Mitchell, J.P., Mr. C. J. Newman, Mr. E. G. .Rowlinson, J.P., Sir Isidore Salmon, M.P., the Rev. E. St. G. Schomberg, Mr. L. Silkin, L.C.C., Mr. J. A. Simpson, Sir Raymond Unwin, F.R.I.B.A., Mr. J. A. F. Watson, Sir Seymour Williams, Dr. J. Greenwood Wilson, and the Bishop of Winchester. The secretary is Mr. H. H. George, to whom communications may be addressed at the Ministry of Health. Battersea General Hospital On Nov. 19th, in the Chancery Division, an alteration of the objects of this hospital was made by eliminating from them clauses relating to vivisection, as a result of which serums and antitoxins can now be used. For the last three years the hospital has had a large deficiency, but it will now be eligible for assistance from the King Edward Hospital Fund.

THE QUETTA EARTHQUAKE LIST OF AWARDS

AMONG honours conferred for services rendered in connexion with the recent earthquake in Baluchistan are the following :C.LE. Lieut.-Colonel Samuel George Steele Haughton, M.D. Dub., O.B.E., I.M.S. Officiating A.D.M.S., Zhob (Independent) Brigade Area, Western Command. O.B.E.

Lieut.-Colonel Vaman Eng., LM.S.

(Civil) Raghunath Mirajkar, F.R.C.S.

Operative Surgery, King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Punjab.

Professor of

O.B.E.

(Military)

Lieut.-Colonel Jacob William F.R.C.S. Edin., I.M.S. Officer commanding Corps, Quetta.

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Vanreenen,

M.B.,

Company, Indian Hospital

Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal Mrs. Constance Ellice May Berridge, M.B. Glasg. Lady Divisional Superintendent, Moghalpura Nursing

Division, North-Western Railway Corps.

Major James Civil

Ernest Gray, M.B.

Belf., LM.S. Surgeon, Karachi, Bombay. Kaisar-i-Hind Silver Medal

Miss Ruth Hooton, M.B. Leeds. Of the Church of

England Zenana Missionary Society. Miss Nora Proctor Sims, M.R.C.S. Of the Women’s Medical

Henry Bowlby

Service, India.

Tristram Holland, M.B. Edin.

Of the Church

Missionary Society. Arthur Durnford Iliff, M.R.C.S. Of the Church Missionary Society.

Captain

Bertrand

Temple-Raston, L.M.S.S.A., I.M.S.

Civil Surcfemi. Dftra. CHia.i Khan. Pmnah.

Medical Diary SOCIETIES ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole-street, W. MONDAY, Nov. 25th. Odontology. 8 P.m. Mr. J. Draper Cambrook : Snake Venom. Mr. F. N. Doubleday : Two Unusual Cases of Impacted Lower Third Molars. Paper : Dr. T. H. Roper-Hall : The Barbiturates: their Chemistry, Action, and Toxicology. Dr. 8.30 P.m. Tropical Diseases and Parasitology. Magarinos Torres : Further Studies on the Pathology

of Alastrim and their Significance in the Variolaalastrim Problem. (Lloyd Roberts lecture). TUESDAY. 5 P.M. Medicine. Sir Edmund Spriggs : The Causes and Treatment of Obesity. Followed by Dr. H. Gardiner-Hill and Dr. Donald Hunter. WEDNESDAY. Comparative 111edicine. 5 P.iNji. (Lister Institute, Chelsea Bridge-road, S.W.). A. S. McFarlane : 1. Spinningtop Centrifuge and Speed-recording Mechanism. C. L. Oakley: 2. Extensive Tuberculosis in a Fowl. 3. Cerebral Tumours in Fowls. 4. Embryonic Tumours of the Kidney in Fowls. V. Korenchevsky : Changes in the Sexual Organs of Spayed Female Rats Treated with Male Sexual Hormone. J. R. M. Innes : " Swayback " : a Demyelinating Disease of Young Lambs. J. T. Edwards : Transmission of Human Acute Coryza to H. Burrows : of Pyelitis Hedgehogs. Pregnancy considered in the Light of Conditions Occurring in Mice after the Prolonged Administration of (Estrone. D. W. Henderson: Passive Immunisation against Experimental Vibrion Septique Infection. THURSDAY. Urology. 8.30 P.M. Mr. E. W. Riches : 1. Urethrogram Mr. James Carver : of Prostatic Diverticulum. 2. Calculi in a Vesical Diverticulum in a Woman. 3. New Growth of Kidney with Ulceration of Bowel. 4. Congenital Maldevelopment of Kidney. 5. Large Pelvic Cyst producing Acute Retention of Urine in a man of 65. Mr. Malcolm Baillie : 6. Sections of Epididymomata. Mr. A. E. Roche: 7. Heematonephrosis and Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis. Mr. 8-10. Urethral Calculi. H. P. Winsbury-White: Mr. T. E. Hammond : 11. Adenoma of the Kidney. Mr. Hamilton Bailey: 12. Total Cystectomy by Hinman’s Method. 13-14. Plastic Operation for Pelvic Hydronephrosis. Mr. R. H. 0. B. Robinson : 15. Radiograms Illustrating Double Ureter and Renal Pelvis. Mr. Reginald Payne : 16-18. Kidney in (a) Periarteritis Nodosa. (b) Aplastic Ansemia. (c) Lymphatic Leukaemia. 19. Phleboliths from Prostatic Plexus of Veins. FRIDAY. 8 P.M. Obstetrics and Gyncecology. Dr. D. Coutts : Foetus Removed from Mother’s Thigh after Rupture of Uterus. Dr. Arthur M. Hill: Post-abortal and Puerperal Gas-gangrene, report of thirty cases. Dame Louise McIlroy : Atresia of the Vagina : Operation followed by Pregnancy and Ceesarean Section. Dr. Ida Hirschmann : Derangement of Cyanide Metabolism-the Cause of Pregnancy Toxsemia. - MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 11, Chandos-street, W. MONDAY, Nov. 25th.-8.30 P.M., Dr. R. D. Lawrence and Dr. George Graham : The Use and Abuse of Insulin. MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY. THURSDAY, Nov. 28th.-8.30 P.M. (Manson House, 26, Portland-place, W.), Dr. F. J. McCann : Some Medicolegal Problems in connection with Pregnancy and Parturition. ST. JOHN’S HOSPITAL DERMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 49, Leicester-square, W.C. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27th.-4.15 P.M., Clinical Cases. 5 P.M., Dr. L. Forman : Rosaceous Tuberculide. SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH, 1, Thorn haugh-street, W.C. Fever Group. FRIDAY, Nov. 29th.-I P.M., Dr. E. H. R. Harries : Fever Hospital Practice in Restrospect and Prospect (presidential address). .

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LECTURES, ADDRESSES, DEMONSTRATIONS, &C. FELLOWSHIP OF MEDICINE AND POST-GRADUATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 1, Wimpole-street, W. MONDAY, Nov. 25th, to SATURDAY, Nov. 30th.-INFANTS HOSPITAL, Vincent-square, S.W. Mon., Wednes., and Fri., 8 P.M., course in anatomy and physiology for the F.R.C.S. (primary).-LoNDON LOCK HOSPITAL, 91, Dean-street, W. Afternoon course in venereal disease.-INFANTS HOSPITAL, Vincent-square, S.W., afternoon course in diseases of infants.-ST. MARE’S HOSPITAL, City-road, E.C. All-day course in proctology.-HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE SKIN, BlackAfternoon course in dermatology.friars, S.E. Sat. and Sun., course BROMPTON HOSPITAL, S.W. in chest diseases.-Courses are open only to members of the fellowship. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn-road, W.C. FRIDAY, Nov. 29th.-9.45 A.M., Mr. Norbury : Treatment of Carcinoma of the Rectum. 11.30 A.M., Dr. Rorke : Some Cases of Venereal Disease, and their Treatment. 2 Miss Barry : Treatment of Varicose Veins and