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DEC. 26, 1953 MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT IBRiTiSH 1437 MEDICAL JOURN~AL since the National Health Service started, I am glad to say that in August the estimated cost fell to about lid. less Universities and Colleges than in August 1952. This was maintained in September and there was a further reduction to 2d. in October. I am glad to have this opportunity to thank the joint committee UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM on prescribing for their valuable work in classifying prepar- Dr. H. F. Humphreys has been appointed a governor of the Uni- versity College of North Staffordshire for three years. ations, and the General Medical Services Committee of the Enid Charles, Ph.D., Reader in Demography and Vital British Medical Association and the whole body of general Statistics in the University, has accepted an invitation from the practitioners for their co-operation in producing this World Health Organization to advise the University of Malaya encouraging result. on the setting up of a department of demography and medical Mr. LONGDEN asked whether this satisfactory result fol- statistics, and has been granted leave of absence for one year lowed on the advice given to general practitioners about from August 1, 1953. prescribing drugs of doubtful therapeutic value. Mr. Dr. W. T. Cooke, Reader and First Assistant in Medicine, has been granted leave of absence for the first quarter of 1954 MACLEOD said it seemed almost certain that the two were to visit gastro-intestinal and metabolic clinics in the U.S.A. linked, because the letter was sent out by the Chief Medical The Rockefeller Foundation has made a grant of £28,800 to Officer on July 18 and the first noticeable drop was in the Professor J. J. Elkes for research in psychiatry and in the bio- month following. Asked by Dr. EDITH SUMMERSKILL chemistry and pharmacology of the nervous system. The grant whether he would consider giving instructions to doctors not will cover the five-year period beginning in July, 1953, and will to prescribe certain drugs if there was an equivalent in the be spent mainly on salaries, technical assistance, and supplies. National Formulary, Mr. MACLEOD thought this would be Professor A. B. MacGregor has been appointed Director of too big an interference with the ordinary discretion of Dental Studies and Professor J. Osborne Deputy Director and Tutor. doctors. Dr. David Mendel resigned the appointment of National Coal Mr. RICHARD ADAMS asked how far limitations were Board Fellow in the Department of Medicine on May 31, 1953. placed on prescriptions under the National Health Service The title of University Research Fellow has been conferred in cases of tuberculosis, and in particular on the prescrip- upon Dr. G. Holti, research worker in the Medical Research tion of cod-liver oil and malt. Miss PAT HORNSBY-SMITH, Council's unit for research on the experimental pathology of the Parliamentary Secretary, said that a general practitioner skin, during the tenure of his present post. drug or Dr. K. Valteris, Research Fellow in Pathology, has been might prescribe any generally available medicine seconded to the service of the Regional Hospital Board for work which he considered necessary for the treatment of tuber- at Dudley Road Hospital. culosis. Cod-liver oil and malt might be prescribed when in the Department of Pathology it could properly be regarded as a drug for the treatment UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS of a patient. At a meeting of the Council of the University on October 21 it was agreed to confer the title of Emeritus Professor on Professor Health in West Africa R. D. Passey on his retirement from the Chair of Experimental Pathology. Mr. RONALD RUSSELL asked the Secretary of State for the Dr. Andrew Bogdan has been appointed Senior Registrar and Colonies on December 16 what improvement had been Tutor in Paediatrics for one year in the first instance from made in the health of the people of the West African November 1, 1953, and Dr. I. S. Bruce Lecturer in the Depart- Colonies, Protectorates, and Trusteeship Territories in recent ment of Anaesthetics from November 15, 1953. years. Mr. OLIVER LYrTELTON informed him that there had been ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON a general improvement in the health of the peoples of these At a quarterly comitia of the College held on October 29, with the President, Sir Russell Brain, in the chair, Dr. T. Jenner territories. For example, the use of new drugs in certain Hoskin, Dr. B. E. Schlesinger, Dr. A. M. Cooke, and Dr. J. C. areas had drastically reduced the incidence of leprosy. In Hoyle were elected Councillors of the College; Dr. J. Forest Nigeria mobile teams had been set up to deal speedily with Smith was elected representative on the Committee of Manage- outbreaks of epidemic diseases, and a large pilot scheme ment; Sir Russell Brain, Sir Harold Boldero, Dr. W. G. Barnard, was in being to combat yaws. Trypanosomiasis had ceased Sir Allen Daley, and Dr. A. M. Cooke were re-elected members to be a public health problem in the Gold Coast. In the of the Standing Joint Committee of the three Royal Colleges; Northern region of Nigeria a considerable area had also Dr. C. E. Newman was appointed representative on the Examina- been cleared of the tsetse fly. tion and Tuition Advisory Board of the Association of Medical Records Officers; and Professor A. A. Moncrieff was appointed representative at the Annual Conference on Maternity and Child Welfare for 1954. Artificial Limb Repairs The Registrar announced that Dr. J. A. Smiley had been ap- Mr. IAIN MACLEOD, answering questions by Mr. JAMES pointed Milroy Lecturer for 1955, and that his subject would be SIMMONS on December 17, stated that the average time "-Personal Factors in Accident Proneness." The following candidates, having satisfied the Censors' Board, taken for repairs to artificial arms during January-July, were elected Members of the College: Y. K. W. Aboul-Dahab, 1953, was 50 days, and during August-November, 1953, 70 M.B., Mary H. Aitken, M.B., Mary Bateman, M.D., D. B. davs. Similarly, the average time for repairs to artificial Benazon, M.B., R. A. Bruce, B.M., W. Brumfitt, M.B., J. P. legs had been 30 days and 35 days. Mr. SIMMONS said it Caley, M.B., Rosemary A. Cooper, M.B., R. F. A. Dean, was apparent that since the Ministry of Pensions had ceased L.R.C.P., A. E. Dormer, M.B., C. P. V. Evans, M.B., J. H. to have responsibility for these repairs there had been a Fvans, M.B., H. Foster, M.B., Major, R.A.M.C., L. Friedlander, longer time lag, and asked the Minister to see that Roehamp- M.B.. J. F. Hale. B.M.. D. R. Hay, M.B., F. E. Higgins, M.B., ton was not penalized by the change in administration. A. W. Johnston, M.B., E. N. M. Johnston, M.B., Lilian F. Jones, do his M.B., H. P. Lambert. M.B., G. Larkins, M.B., J. C. Leonard, Mr. MACLEOD said that he would certainly best, M.D., A. Z. Abd-El Massieh, M.B., B. F. Robinson, M.B., but it was quite unworthy to suggest that a firm which A. Sachs, M.D.. Brigadier. R.A.M.C., A. W. Steinbeck, M.B., was providing artificial limbs for ex-Service men was going L. V. Sthyr, M.D., J. D. Stride, L.R.C.P., Surrieon Lieutenant- to alter its skill and time of delivery purely because there Commander, R.N., J. H. Tyrer, M.D., B. W. Webb. M.D. had been a departmental change. Mr. SIMMONS said that Licences to practise were conferred upon the following 106 he made no imputation against the firm, but against the candidates (including 20 women) who had nassed the final ex- change in administration. amination in Medicine. Surmery. and Midwifery of the Conjoint Board and who have complied with the by-laws of the College: Major LEGGE-BOURKE asked if the Minister could give J. Anderson, M. E. Anfilogoff, Christine M. Armstrong, B. S. an absolute assurance that the fact that the two Ministries Beardsworth, P. J. Bell, J. A. Bevan, C. Bishop, R. J. Blow, had merged had no relevance whatever to the increased C. W. W. Brown, L. F. Brunt, J. D. Campling, Patricia M. time involved in repairs. Carnenter, J. A. A. S. Chamberlain-Webber, H. J. Clarke, A. Mr. MACLEOD: None at all. Clark-Jones, W. E. Clifford-Jones, J. T. Coals, R. J. C. Cobbold, 1438 DEC. 26, 1953 UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES BRD!C.JOuxit C. W. M. Cooper, Violet G. Cousins, Shirley A. Crockatt, J. Fatima S. Ahmed, J. A. S. Amos, R. P. Bradshaw, T. M. W. Crook, I. D. Davies, W. C. Davies, Jose A. Day, J. D. Devitt, D'Arcy, M. W. Dhurandhar, J. M. Dube, J. R. Eley, J. I. T. Eva M. Dilling, M. S. G. Douglas, D. R. Elam, J. I. Evans, Glover, G. H. V. Keshani, H. D. Madsen, T. C. H. Mathews, R. P. Field, C. V. Foll, Gillian France, P. J. Frost, T. Gibson, L. Mortimer, G. A. Real, S. Rehman, A. D. Ross, J. G. Slater, Goldie, Rosemary A. Grange, A. N. Green, J. M. Green, F. V. S. G. Talpade, Margrit Zuber, S. Rao, Majuree Sundaravej. Griffiths, S. T. Gunewardene, Dorothy J. Harden, Margaret M. DIPLOMA IN CHILD HEALTH.-C. A. L. Abrams, A. Ahmad, Heley, E. J. Hill, H. Holden, W. J. Jackson, Elsie Jaques, I. R. R N. Akel, A. Allibone, Kooki N. Bharucha, H.