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* R. F. Warnock, * M. F. R. Waters, * 0. H. Watkins, * JohnWatson-Farrar, * J. S. H. Whitehead, * Eric Wilkes, * E. A. Wilson,’.David Wise, * R. E. Wolfendale.

* By proxy.

Renal AssociationAt a meeting of this society to be held at 4.30 P.M. on

Friday, Sept. 19, at the Ciba Foundation, 41, Portland Place,London, W.1, Prof. J. G. G. Borst (Amsterdam) will speak onElectrolyte and Water Balance with Relation to the Kidney.Invitations may be had from Mr. John Sophian, 66, HarleyStreet, W.I.

Ability of the Disabled to WorkThis topic has been chosen as the theme of the residential

course which the British Council for Rehabilitation is to hold,with the University of Bristol, at Manor Hall, Lower CliftonHill, Bristol, 8, from Sept. 9 to 11. Further particulars maybe had from the secretary of the council, Tavistock House(South), Tavistock Square, London, W.C.I.

Central Midwives Board for ScotlandThe board is to be reconstituted on March 1, 1953, in

accordance with the recommendations in the report of theMidwives Working Party in 1949. The new board, like theold, will consist of 16 members, but 7 instead of 4 will bepractising midwives. The Secretary of State for Scotland willappoint 3, and midwives practising in Scotland will elect theremaining 4. This will be the first time that midwives haveelected members to their governing body. The other 9 mem-bers will be representative of medical bodies, local authorities,the universities, and the hospital services.

Singapore Paediatric SocietyThis society has been formed to advance the knowledge

and practice of paediatrics and to promote child health inMalaya. It is open to all doctors registered in the Colony ofSingapore or in the Federation of Malaya. The followingoffice-bearers have been elected : president, Dr. G. Haridas ;vice-president, Prof. E. S. Monterio ; hon. treasurer, Dr.William Heng ; hon. secretary, Dr. G. Keys Smith (St.Andrew’s Mission Hospital for Children, Singapore) ; membersof the executive committee, Prof. J. A. P. Cameron ; Dr. TanJiak Hoon, Dr. W. B. Young, and Dr. Wong Kin Yip.Ministry of Health Circulars

Consultant in Adgninistrative Charge (R.H.B.[52]93).-Wherethere is more than one consultant on the staff of a specialhospital department the Ministry considers it advisable thatone should be given administrative responsibility for the

organisation of the auxiliary professional and technical staffand for the care and custody of apparatus and equipment.The appointment would not confer any authority over theclinical freedom of other consultants, nor carry any additionalremuneration.

" Private " Work in Hospital Pathological Laboratories

(R.H.B.[52]92).-This memorandum sets out the types of workwhich come under this designation.W.H.O. Regional Committee for AfricaThe first meeting of this committee to be held in Africa

opened on July 31 in Monrovia, Liberia, under the chairman-ship of Prof. Francisco Cambournac, of the Institute of

Tropical Medicine, Lisbon. Presenting his report to the dele-gates of eight member States, Dr. François Daubenton,director of the regional office, said that it was hoped to movethe regional administration from Geneva to Brazzaville inSeptember. He added : "This is not a land in which tointroduce preconceived ideas. Here the people have developedalong their own lines and will further develop, perhaps forhistorical reasons, in another direction from the rest of theworld-and they have the right to do so. The international

specialist agencies must give them all the facilities possibleand applicable, but the people of this sympathetic, vast

country have the right to develop their own philosophy.Only in this way will they be happy. Physical well-being may,perhaps, be prescribed or even introduced, but mental andsocial well-being can only be achieved with the understandingand coöperation of the people themselves, not by imposingforeign ideas. To assist in the attainment of the well-being ofAfricans remains the aim and duty of the W.H.O. RegionalOffice for Africa.’’At the close of the meeting Professor Cambournac was

appointed regional director in succession to Dr. Daubentonwho will reach retiring age next vear. Professor Cambournacwill take up his appointment in January, 1954.

State University of IowaDr. R. S. Duff has been appointed research

professor of internal medicine in the university college’.-’

medicine and university hospital, Iowa City, U.S.A.Dr. Duff graduated M.B. with commendation in the Univer.

of Glasgow in 1943. He was elected F.R.F.P.S. in 1947 and he the M.R.c.p. the following year. He has held a research fellow.in applied physiology at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London.

University of OtagoMr. M. F. A. Woodruff, assistant surgeon to Aberds.

Royal Infirmary and the Royal Aberdeen Hospital for ;-:Children, and senior lecturer in surgery in the University ;Aberdeen, has been appointed to the chair of surgery :.

succession to Prof. F. Gordon Bell, who is retiring at the enof this year.Mr. Woodruff, who is 41, studied at the University of Melboury-

where his father held the chair of bacteriology. He graduated 6M electrical engineering and then in medicine in 1937. After appoinments at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Queen’s College, and it.university, he graduated M.D. in 1940 and M.S. in 1941. Witht to.rank of captain in the A.R.A.M.C. he served in Malaya and he taken prisoner in 1942. During his imprisonment he deficiency diseases and his investigations have recentli- .published as a Medical Research Council report. In 1946 he joinedthe surgical professorial unit in Sheffield, and with a World HealtdOrganisation travelling fellowship he later visited the U.S.A. andCanada. In 1948 he took up his present appointments in aberdecHe is also an associate examiner in surgery to the University London, and in 1951 he gave a Hunterian lecture to the Roya;College of Surgeons of England.

CORRIGENDUM : Pancreaticogastrostomy.-In the article byProf. R. Ingebrigtsen and Prof. E. Langfeldt (Aug. 9, p. 270,the last two sentences in section (1) under the headin;:" Methods" should read : " Trypsin gives no turbidity witheither of the two solutions. Erepsin gives turbidity withserum-protein, but none with peptone."

On Aug. 18 the staff of Broadmoor Institution presented a silverstatuette to Dr. J. S. Hopwood, the retiring superintendent.

AppointmentsFARQUHAR, J. V. L., M.R.C.S., D.P.H. : asst. senior M.O., Liverpor.

Regional Hospital Board’s headquarters staff.HOUSTON, J. C., M.D. Lond., M.R.o.p. : honorary asst. physicicn.

Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth, London.HUDSON, J. R., M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S., D.o.M.s. : honorary ophthalm.

surgeon, Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth, London.McARTHUR, J. B. H., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.P. : consultant physician,

St. Helens area, Liverpool Regional Hospital Board.O’GRADTr, T. P., M.B. N.U.I., D.P.H.: divisional M.O., health division

no. 13 (Heywood), Lancashire County Council.STRANG, C., M.D. Durh., M.R.c.p. : asst. consultant physician.

Newcastle upon Tyne and Wansbeok hospital groups.WiLSON, R. N., M.B. Durh., D.P.H.: M.O., Stanton Ironworks Co.

Ltd., near Nottingham.Sheflield Regional Hospital Board:BARCLAY, R. C.,M.A. Camb., F.R.c.s. : consultant thoracic surgeo.

Nottingham City Hospital and associated sanatoria.FRASER, W. D., M.B. Glasg., F.F.R. : senior radiotherapist, tt"

Hogarth radiotherapeutic centre, Nottingham tieiier4Hospital.

WALLS, H. E. C., M.B. N.U.I., D.M.R.T.: senior asst. radiotherapis.radiotherapy centre, Leicester Royal Infirmary.

The Term and Conditions of Service of Hospital Medical Dental Staff apply to all -2V.H.S. hospital posts we advertise, .otherwise stated. Canvassing disqualifies, but candidates may normal.visit the hospital by appointment.

Births, Marriages, and DeathsBIRTHS

CAMPBELL.-On Aug. 8, at the Norfolk and Norwich Hopital.Norwich, to Elizabeth (née Morris), wife of Dr. J. A. .- a daughter.

GRIFFITHS.-On July 23, to Vivienne, wife of Dr. F. E. D. .of Kenilworth—a son.

LONGMORE.-On Aug. 17, at Shrewsbury, to Virginia (née .wife of Dr. John B. Longmore-a daughter.

MARRIAGESPEARCE—WOOD.—On July 26, at Oxford, John Kingsley .

B.M., to Gwendolen Wood.

DEATHSBROOKS.—On Aug. 15, at the Royal Sussex County .

Gertrude Brooks, ::’o1.B. Lond., of Paygate, Woodmancote,Henfield, aged 77.

HORTON.-On Aug. 13, at South Elmsall, Horatio Nelson Home.M.D. Lond.

MARSH.—On Aug. 9, at Saltash, Cornwall, Ernest Louis .M.B. Glasg., of Shanghai.

WALKER.—On July 1, Herbert Walker, o.B.E., M.C., lieut.-colonel, R.A.M.c. retd.