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had asked the Health Education Council to concentrate itsactivities this year in the first place on an anti-smokingcampaign, which had begun on the hoardings and wouldlast for three months.

Pharmaceutical Price-regulation SchemeMr. RICHARD CROSSMAN, Secretary of State for Social

Services, said that a revised voluntary price-regulationscheme would replace the present system on Nov. 17. Itwas expected to run for a minimum of three years.The scope for direct negotiation at the option of the Department

had been extended to cover the price of all National HealthService medicines, whereas under the present scheme the pricesof new products had generally enjoyed a period of freedom fromcontrol and, in certain other cases, maximum prices had beendetermined solely by reference to objective price tests. In future,negotiations would in all cases be based primarily on considerationof the overall financial results in each company’s home sales ofN.H.S. medicines. Under the new scheme, companies wouldsupply the Department with annual financial returns. Individual

product costs would not be required but the returns would providefor a much more detailed analysis of overall costs than had beforebeen available to the Department.

In the course of negotiation, companies might be called uponto satisfy the Department on such matters as levels of sales-promotion expenditure. In certain circumstances the Departmentmight also apply supplementary price tests: either comparisonwith prices in similar overseas markets or comparison with pricesof other closely comparable products in the home market.

AppointmentsBINNS, J. K., M.B. Edin., M.R.C.P.E., D.P.M. : consultant psychiatrist and

physician-superintendent, Leverndale Hospital, Glasgow.DONALD, J. R., M.B. Glasg., F.F.A. R.c.s.: consultant anaesthetist, Institute

of Neurological Sciences and Western Infirmary, Glasgow.McBRIDE, J. V., M.B. Glasg., F.R.C.S.E. : consultant surgeon, Dumfries

and Galloway Royal Infirmary.MCHUGH, GEORGE, M.B. Glasg., D.T.M. & H., D.P.H., D.I.H.: senior M.O.,

Leicester County Council, district M.o., Melton Mowbray Urban,and Melton and Belvoir Rural District Council.

MAKINTOSH, C. E., M.B. Edin., F.R.C.S.E., F.F.R. ; consultant radiologist,Royal Free Hospital.

MONCRIEFF, M. W., B.M. Oxon., M.R.C.P., D.OBST.: consultant paedia-trician, Derby area.

MUNRO, D. D., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.P., D.OBST.: consultant dermatologist,Royal Masonic Hospital.

PORTER, R. W., M.B. Edin., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.E., D.OBST.: consultant ortho-poedic surgeon, Doncaster hospital group.

STRUTHERS, JEAN 0., M.D. Glasg. M.R.C.O.G. : consultant obstetrician andgyneecologist, Renfrewshire area.

WEIR, J. G., M.A., M.D. Aberd., D.P.M. : consultant psychiatrist, RoyalMasonic Hospital.

South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board:BRETT, E. M. P., D.M. Oxon., M.R.C.P. : consultant paediatrician, St.

Helier and Fountain and Carshalton hospital groups.DAVENPORT, T. J., M.B. Cantab., F.R.c.s.: consultant urologist, North

West Surrey hospital group.HOLLIS, D. A., M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.C.S., D.OBST., consultant anaesthe-

tist, Redhill and Netherne hospital group.SACKER, L. S., M.D. Lond., M.R.C.PATH. : consultant pathologist, Chelsea

and Kensington hospital group.

Newcastle Regional Hospital Board:BERGMANN, KLAUS, M.B. Sheff., D.P.M. : consultant in mental illness,

Newcastle upon Tyne hospital group.CHAZAN, B. I., M.B. Glasg., M.R.C.P. : consultant in general medicine,

Sunderland area.DAY, K. A., M.B. Brist., D.P.M. : consultant in mental subnormality,

Northgate and district and Morpeth hospital groups.FOTHERGILL, W. T., M.B. Durh., F.F.A. R.c.s.: consultant anaesthetist,

Gateshead and district hospital groups.LEYBURN, PETER, M.B. Durh., M.R.C.P.E., D.P.M. : consultant in mental

illness, St. Nicholas, Gosforth, and Newcastle upon Tyne hospitalgroups.

MASKERY, P. J. K., M.B. Durh., M.R.C.O.G. : consultant obstetrician andgynaecologist. North West Durham hospital group.

RANGECROFT, R. G., M.B. Edin., M.R.C.O.G.: consultant obstetrician andgynaecologist. East Cumberland hospital group.

RICHARDSON, JOHN, M.B. Durh., F.R.C.S. : consultant ophthalmologist,Sunderland area and Durham hospital group.

STABLER, R. J., B.M. Oxon., F.F.R.: consultant radiologist, Gatesheadand district hospital groups.

STEPHENS, D. A., M.B. Birm., D.P.M. : consultant in mental illness,St. George’s and Morpeth hospital groups.

Notes and News

CHRISTMAS

As the evenings draw in and our thoughts turn to openfires and crumpets, the first problem of Christmas arrives.What shall we do about cards this year ? For those whoare not given to making their own, a welcome solution isthe cards produced by charities. These are now sold bymost charities, together with gift tags and even smallpresents, all at reasonable prices. The ones which wehave received in the office this year are more attractiveand varied than ever.

Action for the Crippled Child (Vincent House, VincentSquare, London S.W.1) has a large selection of both cards andgifts; two particularly individualistic and striking cards comefrom the Grenfell Association (P.O. Box 349, Hope House,45 Great Peter Street, London S.W.1) and the Migraine Trust(23 Queen Square, London W.C.1); the National MarriageGuidance Council (58 Queen Anne Street, London W1MOBT) has, as one of its cards, an unusual fifteenth-centurywoodcut; and the Greater London Fund for the Blind (2Wyndham Place, London W.1) also offer bulbs for sale. Manyother very pretty cards are produced by the Muscular DystrophyGroup of Great Lritain (26 Borough High Street, LondonS.E.1), the Cystic Fibrosis Children’s Fund (Cystic FibrosisResearch Trust, Stuart House, 1 Tudor Street, London E.C.4),the British Rheumatism and Arthritis Association (1 Devon-shire Place, London WIN 2BD), the Invalid Children’s AidAssociation (126 Buckingham Palace Road, London S.W.1),and the Chest and Heart Association (Tavistock House, Tavis-tock Square, London W.C.1). Cards can be ordered from indi-vidual charities or can be bought at many shops, a list of whichmay be had from the 1959 Group of Charities, 104 Judd Street,London W.c.!.

University of LondonThe title of professor of endocrine physiology has been

conferred on Dr. Julius Lee in respect of his post at CharingCross Hospital Medical School.

Dr. Lee, who is 50 years old, was educated at UniversityCollege School and WestminsterMedical School. After graduatingM.B. in 1943, he held resident

appointments at the West Middle-sex Hospital, finally becomingregistrar in the medical unitthere. In 1948 hetooktheM.R.c.P.,and he was appointed assistant lec-turer at Charing Cross HospitalMedical School. He was promotedlecturer in 1950, senior lecturer in1954, and reader in physiology in1964. He is an honorary con-sultant physician (endocrinology)to Charing Cross Hospital. In1961 he took the M.D. and this year

was awarded the degree of D.sc. His main research interests arein the role of neurohypophyseal hormones in water balance inman and the secretion of these hormones by neoplasms.

Dr. W. L. Barton, senior lecturer at the London Schoolof Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has been appointed tothe readership in tropical hygiene tenable at that school.The title of reader in physiology has been conferred on

Dr. Helen Duke in respect of her post at the MiddlesexHospital Medical School.

University of LiverpoolThe Social Science Research Council has made a grant

of El 5,870 for a survey and analysis of population move-ments in tropical Africa, to be directed by Dr. R. M.Prothero.