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567 Irish Towns.-The 174 deaths in Dublin corresponded to an I annual rate of 21’9, or 5’4 per 1000 above that recorded in the previous week, and included 3 each from whooping- cough. and infantile diarrhooa, and 1 from Correspondence. measles. diphtheria,The 173 deaths in Belfast were eaual to a rate of 21’8 per 1000, and included 4 from scarlet fever, 3 from " Auàialtoram partem." whooping-cough, 2 from measles, and 1 each from enteric and infantile diarrhoea. fever, diphtheria, MACKENZIE DAVIDSON MEMORIAL THE FUND. Services. l’o the Editor of THE LANCET. The SIR,-In surveying the (levastation of five years of ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. war, the nation is beginning to realise that some com- be found in the stimulus which Lieut-Col. L. Addams-Williams retires on retired pay. pensation may great Major and Bt. Lieut.-Col. R. A. Bryden relinquishes science has received. In no branch of science has this the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on ceasing to been more marked than in the field of radiology. In command a Medical Unit. the diagnosis of disease and in the localisation of foreign Major R. C. Sidgwick relinquishes the acting rank of bodies and bone injuries, radiology has played a vital Lieutenant-Colonel. part in the war and has given invaluable aid to the Major V. G. Johnson is placed temporarily on the half-pay thousands of medical oflicers in the Forces. list on account of ill-health. serving Major J. C. Davies (Major, 4th R.W. Fus., T.F.) Remarkable as has been the development of radiology Temp. there is for full relinquishes his temporary commission on ceasing to be during the war, need watchfulness lest employed with the Field Ambulances of the 43rd Division. advantage be not taken of this stimulus and a period of C. S. Stolterfoth and S. F. Cheesman, late temporary reaction set in. There is pressing need of unremitting Captains, to be temporary Captain. research. For this is required the provision of the best Officers their commissions relinquishing :-Temporary equipment possible, and also a more thorough and Captains granted the rank of Major : H. R. Hepburn, H. H. scheme of The of Dunmere, B. Knowles, J. A. Paterson. Temporary Captains systematic teaching, University retaining the rank of Captain: C. D. Walker, L. R. Pickett, Cambridge is alive to these requirements, and a A. F. Palmer, W. J. Moloney, F. J. Pierce, E. W. Hall, L. J. diploma in radiology and electrology at the University O’Donovan, S. E. Holder, L. Gameson, M. Dobbs, D. H. has been established. It is felt that the success of the Vickery, J. F. Wolfe, T. F. Shackleton, J. L. Smith, W. H. step will be greatly assured if similar facilities are Stott, J. Scott, F. E. McGee, E. G. D. Milsom, G. M. Elliott, provided in London. J. S. Byrne, E. H. Eastwood, N. Elrington. Temp. Lieut. The death of Sir James Mackenzie Davidson in the D. I. the rank of McNaughton (retains Lieutenant). prime of life has deprived radiology of one of its most SPECIAL RESERVE OF OFFICERS. distinguished exponents, whose name is specially asso- Captains relinquishing their commissions :-D. C. ciated with the development of radiographic technique, Macdonald (granted the rank of Major), W. A. Hawes and that of and the rank of particularly stereoscopic radiography, (retains Captain). with the introduction in this of the method of TERRITORIAL FORCE. country the localisation of bodies to which so many 1st Southern General F. W. foreign Hospital: Lieut.-Col. Ellis thousands of wounded men owe a debt of is restored to the establishment. deep gratitude. Mackenzie Davidson’s reputation was international. In ROYAL AIR FORCE. this country he was rightly regarded as the head of his Medical Branch.-Lieut. A. G. Hewer to be Captain. profession, and throughout his career he was unsparing in his efforts to raise the status of radiology among the DEATHS IN THE SERVICES. sciences. He was especially insistent on the funda- mental of to in Lieut.-Col. John Connel value physics radiology, particularly Henry Whipple, Brigade Surgeon, to methods of measurement and the A.M.S., retired, whose death in London on Feb. 20th ia regard designing announced, was born on Dec. 31st, 1840. Entering St. George’s of equipment, subjects in which he was deeply Hospital in 1858, he was a contemporary of the late Mr. interested up to the time of his death. Many in his Pickering Pick and Dr. George Bernard Brodie. Col. Whipple own branch of the profession and a number of his took the M.R.C.S. Eng. in 1863 and the M.D. St. Andrews in friends and former patients, wishing to keep his 1862. He entered the Medical Service as assistant Army memory green, have suggested that an appeal for funds was to the surgeon, staff, Sept. 30th, 1864 ; appointed should be made to found a Mackenzie Davidson Chair 21st Foot, May 16th, 1865 ; to the Coldstream Guards, of at some Had Mackenzie Oct. 14th, 1868. His designation was altered to surgeon Radiology University. under Royal Warrant, March lst, 1873. He was promoted Davidson lived he would have been among the first surgeon-major, Grenadier Guardians, June 21st, 1885, and actively and generously to support the foundation of an he retired from the Service with the rank of brigade- institute for teaching and research in radiology, of surgeon, August 19th, 1885. His designation of surgeon- which he was one of the earliest pioneers. If funds was altered to major surgeon-lieutenant-colonel, Sept. 30th, permit, it is hoped to found such an institute, to which 1894, under London Gazette notification of Oct. 17th, 1893. the chair could be and of which the He served in Egypt, 1882, being present at Tel-el-Mahuta and possibly attached, Tel-el-Kebir, for which he had the medal with clasp and the personnel and equipment would be beyond reproach. Khedive’s Star. The benefit accruing to the British School of Radiology would be incalculable. Till quite recently radiology has been regarded as a SPECIAL NEUROLOGICAL BOARD : PRESENTATION medical but research has To DR. W. A. BREND.-At a dinner held in the Great Central purely subject, experimental shown that X be com- Hotel on Feb. 28th, Dr. Muirhead Martin in the chair, Dr. rays may profitably employed a A new W. A. Brend was the recipient of a presentation consisting mercially in number of industries. subject, of an inscribed album, a silver rose-bowl, and a complete radiometallography, has, for example, come into being, edition of Pepys’s Diary, from over 60 past and present which offers great possibilities for examining the members of the Special Neurological Board and Clinic, internal structure of metals and other materials. In Lancaster Gate. In making the presentation the chairman this - connexion radiology has already been turned to expressed the personal regard of the staff for Dr. Brend and account the steel the their admiration of his work the term of his by manufacturer, metallurgist, during presi- the the manufacturer of the dency of the Board, now brought to a close by his appoint- engineer, explosives, ment as Neurological D.C.M.S. for the London region. Dr. aircraft constructor, the glass manufacturer, &c. The Brend, in reply, referred to the difficulties overcome before future of radiology will therefore lie, not only in the the Board attained its present influential position, and com- fight against disease and suffering, but also in the mented on the growing importance of its treatment branch increase of commercial and industrial efficiency. But and clinic in the of Dr. H. E. development psychotherapy. these new branches of radiology need much investiga- who succeeds to the of was also a Davison, post President, work before can come into their guest, and the other speakers were Drs. Charlton Briscoe, tory they fully own, P. Bousfield, Danvers-Atkinson, Duncan, David Forsyth, and a Chair of Radiology associated with an X ray Liting Gordon, and Travers-Smith. Mr. Cortlandt MacMahon Institute should play a worthy part in such development. with song, and Dr. Bowen with legerdemain, contributed to It is in the belief that the scientific study and the programme of the entertainment. teaching of radiology will materially add to the well- 568 being of the human race that the Committee venture quarter of a century experienced the greatest difficulty to put forward this appeal for public support. Cheques in collecting data, on the subject. The same suggestion d should be made payable to the London Joint City and was put forward in my Prevention of Disease and Midland Bank, crossed "& Co." and marked "The Inefficiency, with Special Reference to Indian Frontier Mackenzie Davidson Memorial Fund," and sent to Dr. Warfare," second-edition, 1911. The records from which Robert Knox, 38, Harley-street, W. 1. such a history could he compiled are scattered in a host We are, Sir, yours faithfully, of files in various departments in Simla and in the old A. BONAR LAW. CHRISTOPHER ADDISON. files stored in Calcutta. Some useful information on STANLEY BALDWIN. HARCOURT. the subject is also to be found in that (lulightful and J. J. THOMSON. BERTRAND DAWSON. charmingly written work, ’’History of the Indian Medical CLIFFORD ALLBUTT. W. D. COOLIDGE. Service," two volumes, by Lieutenant-Colonel D. G. HUMPHRY D. ROLLESTON. W. WATSON CHEYNE. Crawford, 1.M.S. (Thacker, Spink, and Co., Calcutta). For ALEXANDER OGSTON. FREDERICK W. MOTT. the compilation of such a history 1 would suggest that ROBERT HADFIEED. ANDERSON CRITCHETT. a senior major or junior lieutenant-colonel of the I.M.S.