NOV. 4, 1922] COUNCIL DINNER. [ TH BRITIs 887 witlh the class which they include, cannot but be a diffi- cult matter, and thle outcome will be watched with some anxiety. Meantime thle prudent slhould make certain that they and their children and dependants are secured against COUNCIL DINNER. tlle infection by immediate vaccination. Why the public vaccinator did not take care that he himself was protected T1HE Britislh Medical Association made a - departure on is the most puzzling thling in the whole outbreak. October 25tlh by the inauguration of a Council dinner, wlhicl it is intended slhall be an annual event. It is designed for recognition of the Past President and any otlher retiring officer at the end of Ills term and to bring together, in converse witlh HUXLEY LECTURE. thle Council, Ministers, tlle heads of learned societies, and OWING to the indisposition of Sir Arthur Keith, F.R.S., tlle otlhers with wlhom thle Association is in touch. Huxley lecture whichl was to have been delivered at Clharing The dinner took place at the Grand Hotel under the clhair- Cross Hospital Medical School on Wednesday next, November manship of Dr. R. A. BOLAM, Clhairman of the Council, wIo 8th, lhas been postponed. explained that, owing to the political crisis, several Ministers (who hiad accepted invitations) and a number of members of Parliament lhad otlher more pressinig engagements and had THE new x-ray department of the Manchester Royal In. sent letters of regret.. filrmary will be formally opened on Friday, November 18th, The following guests of the Association were present: at 2.30 p.m., by Sir Humphry Rolleston, who, with the Professor David Drummond, C.B.E., D.C.L., retirilng President; members of the Electro-Pathological Section of the Royal Right Hon. E. Shortt, K.C., M.P.; Sir Humphry lRollestoni, K.C.B.. Society of Medicine and the Rontgen Society, will be visiting President, Royal College of Physicians of Londoin; Sir Anthony Bowlby, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., President, Royal College of Surg,eons Manchester. of England; Sir William, Hale-White, K.B.E., President, and Six J. Y. W. MacAlister, Secretary, Royal Society of Medicinie; Sur. geon-General W. B. Slaughter, Master of the Apothecaries' Society; Lady Barrett, C.B.E., President, Medical Women's Federation; THE GENERAL ELECTION. Sir Arthur Robinson, K.C.B., Fir6t Secretary, Ministry of Health; Sir George Newman, K.C.B., Chief Medical Officer, Ministry THE position of parties at the approacliing General Election of Healtl; Right Hon. Sir Henry Craik, K.C.B., LL.D., M.P. is confused. The Conservative Party (C.), also spoken of as Sir Philip Magnus, Bt., M.P.; Dr. W. J. Howartlh, Past President, Society of Mledical Officers of Health; Dr. J. G. Fitzgerald, Unionist (U.), and the Labour Party (Lab.) have been before Cbairman of Council, Irish Medical Schools' anid Graduates' the constituencies for a good many years, and their position Association; Dr. C. Hubert- Bond, Commissioner, Board of fairly well defined. In addition there is the Liberal Party, Conitrol; Air Commodore D. Munro, C. [.E., Director, R.A.F.M.S.; is Lieut.-Colonel Nathan Raw, C.M.G., M.P.; Sir S. Squire wllich seems to be divided into two wings, one led by Mr. Sprigge, Editor of the Lanicet; Sir William Gyn-Jones, Secretary, Asquith (L.) and the other by Mr. Lloyd George, wlichl is Pharmaceutical Society. Party (N.L.). known as the National Liberal Sir WILLIAM MACEWPN, Presiden-t of the Association, in The following is a list of medical candidates so far as we giving the toast, " Thie Comninon Healtll," said that wlhen he are at present able to ascertain. We shall be glad to receive wired acceptance of the duty the telegraph clerk interpreted additions and corrections. the words in hiis handwriting as "Thle Common Wealtl." Th'lat man was a philosopher, for wealthl was to a large extent *Dr. C. Addison (L.), Shoreditch a miiatter of health. Many persons very wealthy, in the Dr. R. Ambrose (Ind. Lab.), Whitechapel ortdinary acceptance- of tlhe were not Dr. H. Wausey Bayly (Ind. U.), Sutton, Plymouth term, healtlhy. Gold Dr. H. B. Bates (U.), Newton, Lancs. of ten produced decadenice. He understood thlat the per- Dr. Ethel Bentham (Lab.), lslington East iinanent secretary to the Miniistry of Healtlh would respond Sir George Berry (U.), University of Edinburgh to the toast, and he assurimed that the responsibilities of this Dr. H. B. Brackenbury (L.), Walthamstow East Department embraced everythling. Our old world (whiclh was Dr. W. A. Chapple (L.), Dumfries a kiind wlen it went Sir John Collie (N.L.), Partick of aeroplane), gyrating.through space, *Dr. W. E. Elliot (U.), Lanark p)icked up dust storms that astronomers said were got from *Dr. F. E. Fremantle (U.), St. Albans sanid, and, although these particles were so finely divided Dr. L. Hadeni Guest (Lab.), Southwark North tllat there was not an instrument sufficiently intricate to Mr. Somerville Hastirngs, M.S. (Lab.), Epsom -detect them, yet the Ministry of Healtlh must have prescience - Dr. C.-W.-Hayward (L.), Kensington North Dr. Sidney C. LI.wrence (C.); Combined English Universit es to foretell what would come from tlhem. So also as to those Dr. H. D. Levick (N.L.), Middlesbrough- little canisters containing chemical substances -labelled "wild Sir William Milligan (L.), Salford West duck"; from tlhem they were expected to trace botulism. He *Major J. E. Molson (U.), Gatinsborough did not4 lnow vlere in-vestigatioon was going to stop. They Dr. R' 0. Moon (L.), Wimbledon all ouglht, lhowever, to look to several matters about whiclh Dr. H B. Morgan (Lab.), Camberwell North-West *Dr. D. Murray (L.), Western Isles they lhad common concern. The Association liad especially Sir Sydney Russell-Wells (U.), University of London to consider two very prevalent diseases regarding whicih Dr' V. H. Rutherford (Lab.), Sunderland certain tlleories had been formu'lated and put before tlhe Dr. A. Salter (Lab.), Bermoindsey public, and a very great deal would be done if tlley could Dr. R. W. Simpson (L.), Newcastle-upon-Tyne North be got rid of. One was syplhilis; the other tuberculosis. Dr. George E. Spero (L.), Leicester West Dr. E. H. Stancomb (Ind.), Southampton As to the first named, it it were not stopped, a crime was Dr. D. F. Todd (U.), Chester-le-Street, Durham committed against posterity. The question was sometimes Dr. T. Watts (U.), Withington asked, "Whlere to draw the line?" He drew no line: tlle *Sir William Whitla (UJ.), Queen's University, Belfast disease must be got rid of by whatever means were necessary. Dr. J. H. Williams (Lab.), Llanelly Tuberculosis was not so easily dealt with. But tlle profession Dr. R. M. Wilson (L.), Saffron Walden lhad a great responsibility. If the British Medical Association *Represented the constituency in the last Parliament. withl its 25,000 members made up its mind as to the means it would carry great weiglht. He wondered 'wlether the Among the new candidates Dr. H. B. Brackenbury medical profession lhad not hlitlherto just relied upon polemical (Walthamstow East) and Sir Sydney Russell-Wells (University discussions instead of pushing matters to logical conclusions of London) lhave been approved by the British Medical and then pressing them upon tlle Government and the Association. Among the old members wlho are standing officials who had to carry them out. Much of this disease, it was Universities), Sir said, came from cows through milk, and about 50 per cenit. of again are Sir Henry Craik (Scottish in William Whitla (Queen's University, Belfast), Dr. Walter tlle tuberculosis children was bovine. If so, how did it comuo Albans); from tle cow? Surely it must be through the milk. Tubercle Elliot (Lanarlk), and Dr. F. E. Fremantle (St. was incubated in byres as directly as in an incubating all of them have done yeoman service in the House of chamber. Thle best temperature in which to keep COWs, Commons for the profession, and have frequently given it was said, was 70°F., and in byres were found the thlrce assistance to the British Medical Association in representing other conditions- in which tubercle easily propagated itself- the views of the profession to Parliament. namely, darknless, dirt, and damp. From such places, in such] Nov. I922] THE BRITIga 888 4, COUNCIL DINNER. I MUDICAL JOURNAL = conditions, came milk given to children. Surely, if 25,000 Then came the chemistry and physics people, who might put medical men acted in concert some action might be up a better barrier, and sometimes succeeded. After the next taken to end that form of tuberculous disease. And if obstacle-anatomy-came a greater, physiology. For whereas they got rid of 50 per cent. of tlle disease that way anatomy was a fairly accurate science, and the femoral artery they ought to be able to get rid of a good deal that of to-day was very much wlhere it was a hundred years came by transmission from one person to another. Sir ago, the physiology of to-day was quite a different thing. William Macewen went on to remark that thle British Twenty or thiirty years ago they thought they knew some- were a strange people. They taxed the air they breathed. tlhing about the processes of digestion and the action of Formerly they used to tax tlle liaht whichl came into the the heart and respiration, but it now appeared that they lhouses througIh the Windows. Now, in effect, the cubic did not. So there was reason to pity the poor candidate. capacity of houses was tAxed.