BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 27 769 each occasion. He gave these in a wrinen In the afternoon Dr G H Hall will speak answer on 9 December. on "Life expectancy 1876-1976" in the APPOINTMENTS Br Med J: first published as 10.1136/bmj.4.5999.769-a on 27 December 1975. Downloaded from symposium "Independence in old age." He will be followed by Mr W J C C Rich BIRMINGHAM AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY (TEACHING)- Nurses and midwives Miss E M Eagling (consultant ophthalmologist). O, (Failing sight in the elderly); Dr D B Shaw 1 19 9 (13-2) (Heart failure); Dr G E Langley (Mental 23 May 1974 27-2 (a) 1 April 1974 11-3 problems); and Dr H M White (Maintaining BMA NOTICES 1 . 78 independence). 1 . 8-5 1 8-5 On Saturday morning, 10 April, "Hazards Diary of Central Meetings Professions supplementary to medicine of living in a rural community" is the title of the symposium with the following con- JANUARY 1 April 1975 21-64 (16-39) 6 Tues Scottish Committee for Hospital Medical 23 May 1974 38-0 (a) tributors: Dr J T Smyth (Farmer's lung); Services (7 Drumsheugh Gardens, 1 April 1974 7-62 Dr R Snowdon ("A tumble in the hay"); Edinburgh EH3 7QP), 10.45 am. 1 April 1973. 7-63 7 Wed Council, 10 am. 1 April 1972. 8-0 Mr D Wellstead (Safety in agriculture); Dr 8 Thurs General Purposes Subcommittee (GMS), 1 April 1971 9.5 B Moore (Water supplies in a rural com- 10.30 am. 8 Thurs Working Party on Services for the Ancillary staff munity); and Dr J Lyons (Tourism, a Health Elderly (Board of Science and Educa- Men Women Service hazard). tion), 10.30 am. % o, 9 Fri Scottish Committee for Community 7 .. - 2-95 (b) The chairman of the three symposia will Medicine (7 Drumsheugh Gardens, 13 .. 34-65 (12-44) 36 04 (12-86) be Sir John Peel, Dr W B Wright, and Edinburgh EH3 7 QP), 10.45 am. 1 February 1974 . . - 4-18 (b) D Mattingley 11 Sun Welsh Committee for Hospital Medical 13 .. 12-07 11-74 Professor respectively. Services (Hotel Metropole, Llandrindod 7 2 05 2-91 The area health authority, the university, Wells), 2 pm. 1 April 1973 .. - 4-68 (b) 14 Wed Welsh Committee for Community 14 .. 11-44 11-78 the city, and the Exeter Division of the Medicine (Hotel Metropole, Llandrin- 1 - 4-95 (b) BMA will be joint hosts at an after dinner dod Wells), 2.30 pm. 13 .. 7-64 8-33 15 Thurs Executive Subcommittee (CCI{MS), 1 .. - 5.33 (b) reception on 8 April and on 9 April the 10 am. 13 .. 18-18 19 91 Dartington String Quartet will give a concert 15 Thurs General Medical Services Committee, Medical laboratory technicians in Exeter Cathedral and the Hastings Wine 10 am. 1 April 1975 . . 36-0 (25 4) Club will be arranging a wine tasting. 1 January 1974 . .. 8-1 The full programme will be published 7 November 1973 16-7 Corrections 1 April 1973 .. 7-6 soon in the BA17. 1 April 1972 . .. 7-4 Prazosin in treatment of hypertension 1 .. . 12 7 100 years old We regret that two printing errors occurred in the Administrative and clerical letter from Drs K Rasmussen and H A Jensen 1 April 1975 . . 33 2 (c) (18 4) On 11 Decemjber Dr Aaron H Levy cele- (8 November, p 346). In the first lines of the first 1 April 1975 . .. 80 brated his hundredth birthday. Born in and second paragraphs the words "hypertension" 7 November 1973 12-3 and "hypertensive" should both read "hypo- 1 April 1973 . .. 7-8 Canada, he graduated in medicine at McGill 1 April 1972 . .. 7-8 University in 1899 and the following year tensive". 1 April 1971 .. 9.7 took the PhD of Rostock University, Hospital medical staff Lithuania. In 1902 he qualified again with Raymond Horton-Smith Prize 1 April 1975 31-5 (27 5) the Conjoint diploma at Barts and in 1909 The Raymond Horton-Smith prize 1974-5 was 1 April 1974. 9-6 became FRCS. He had a distinguished awarded to Dr John Yudkin, not Professor John 1 April 1973 6-5 Yudkin (6 December, p 586). 1 April 1972 .10-0 career in ophthalmology, being surgeon to 1 April 1971 4-5 (d) the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital in 1 . 14-0 (d) Royal College of Radiologists 1 .. . 27-5 1911 and later the first of a line of consultant ophthalmic surgeons who served the London We regret that the following were included in the Jewish Hospital and the Jewish Blind October Final Fellowship Examination as success- http://www.bmj.com/ Notes: Society. He is the oldest surviving member ful candidates, instead of the first examination: (1) Threshold allowances totalling £229 per annum E C Bannan, P K Chatterji, M A El Sharif, P J were paid in stages during the months May 1974 to of the Jewish Board of Deputies and was Freyne, A K Handa, J A R Johnston, L C John- November/December 1974 and are included in the next president of the Jewish Health Organisation. following settlement. Figures in brackets show the ston, A N Khan, M D McLean, A J Molyneux, actual percentage pay increase at the dates shown Dr Levy served in both world wars, in the P R Moorhouse, M de L O'Neill, I M Orakwe, additional to the threshold allowances already in payment. first as a captain RAMC and in the second Suzanne M Pablot, B N Patel, S Trakadas, (2) The percentages given are the average of all grades within each staff group. in the Emergency Medical Service. We offer Marion W Walker, N J P Walker, Elizabeth J N (3) There are wide variations in the salaries of staff him our congratulations and best wishes on Woodcock, A S Al-Niaimi, J M Bozzino, M H Elia, within groups, eg within nurses and midwives field D J Fairlamb, T Habeshaw, P J Howell, P G the range from the most junior to the most senior was his centenary. ,C525 pa to £2844 pa in 1970 and £1560 to £9276 in Hughes, Susan E Keeton, V K Sethi, M P J W on 26 September 2021 by guest. Protected copyright. 1975. Sokal, Elisabeth C Whipp, J R Yarnold. (4) Increases marked (a) to (d) are: (a) Resulting from Halsbury Reports. COMING EVENTS (b) Equal pay instalments for women workers. (c) Approximately one fifth of this increase was Royal College of Physicians of London- Notice to authors deferred until 1 . (d) For senior grades only. Teach-in, 6 January, London. For details see When original articles and letters for publication advertisement at p v. are not submitted exclusively to the British Medical Pharmaceutical Society-Meeting 'Contact journal this must be stated. For detailed instruc- lenses and contact lens solutions," 14 January, 7 pm. tions to authors see page 6 of the issue dated Details from the Society, 17 Bloomsbury Square, 4 . London WC1A 2NN. Correspondence on editorial business should be MEDICAL NEWS Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery addressed to the Editor, British Medical Journal, -"Basic sciences of the musculo-skeletal system," BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H January-March. Copies and details of the pro- 9JR. Telephone: 01-387 4499. Telegrams: Clinical meeting, Exeter, gramme are now available from the Nuffield Aitiology, London WC1. Communications will not Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oxford be acknowledged unless a stamped addressed The University of Exeter will be the venue University, Oxford. postcard is enclosed. for the BMA annual clinical meeting from Authors wanting reprints of their articles should 8 to 10 April 1976. notify the Publishing Manager, BMA House, The speakers in the first symposium- UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES Tavistock Square, WC1H 9JR, on receipt ofproofs. "Killing diseases of childhood today"-on DUBLIN the morning of 9 April will be Dr F S W MD- D A P D'Auria, W B Sproule. (© British Medical Journal 1975 Brimblecombe (The delivery of health care ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication to children); Sir John Stallworthy (Perinatal IRELAND may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, problems); Dr M A Voyce (Infections in On 19 November the following were admitted to fellowship of the college: S Z Beidas, P J Boland, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, childhood); Professor Barry O'Donnell D B M Ewart, A K Foudah, M Gunesee, A A electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording (Accidents in childhood); Dr Patricia Morris Hamad-Abusin, D A Laosebikan, Lim Aik Foo, without the of the D M Murphy, D 0 Ogunjumo, J F O'Leary, S N or otherwise, prior permission Jones (Malignant disease in childhood). Tadros. British Medical,Journal.