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abling patients to choose their clothes. The clothing depart-ment is at Hulton Hospital and moving it to the General Hos-pital would entail financial as well as practical difficulties. Oneway Mr Hinchcliffe suggests of overcoming them would be tocompile a clothing catalogue for circulation to patients.

Although the working paper avoids drawing any dogmaticconclusions from the study, the author admits to a reaction of"quiet delight". The fact that Bolton’s clothing service catersfor all of the Area’s long-stay patients means that it complieswith the 1972 recommendations of the Department of Healthand Social Security, and it is a fuller service than is providedby other area health authorities.

LANCET CONTRIBUTIONS FROM NORTH AMERICA

THE North American edition of The Lancet is published byLittle, Brown and Company, of Boston, but contributorsshould not submit to Boston articles or letters offered for pub-lication. All submissions should be sent to the Editor at 7Adam Street, London WC2N 6AD. May we also remind con-tributors that we often receive articles and letters from NorthAmerica by surface mail when it was clearly the sender’s inten-tion that his message be dispatched by air?

BETTER PERINATAL HEALTH

IN November, December, and January The Lancet pub-lished thirteen linked articles examining the medical and socialinfluences on perinatal health and how they can be, and arebeing, modified in various countries rich and poor. The articleshave now been assembled in a booklet which can be had, for2.30 or$6.00 U.S. (to be sent with orders), from the Lancetoffice in London. For those far afield, the booklet will be sentby air.

University of SheffieldMr F. Sharp, formerly senior lecturer in the University of

Glasgow, has been appointed to the second chair of obstetricsand gynaecology.

The Royal SocietyThe Royal Medals for 1980 have been awarded to Sir Denys

Wilkinson, vice-chancellor of the University of Sussex, Prof.Henry Harris, regius professor of medicine at the University ofOxford, and Dr John Paul Wild, chairman of the Common-wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Aus-tralia.

A national art competition, jointly sponsored by the British

Migraine Association and W. B. Pharmaceuticals Ltd, is beingheld to encourage migraine sufferers to illustrate their impressions ofany of the six forms of visual disturbance which normally precedemigraine attacks. Prizes totalling ,E800 will be awarded, includingtwelve prizes for children aged from 5 to 16. Further details can beobtained from the British Migraine Association, 178A High Road,Byfleet, Weybridge, Surrey KT14 7ED.

The Aidis Trust, which sponsors electronic equipment and aids fordisabled and elderly people, is holding a concert at the Royal AlbertHall on Sept. 30. The concert is in memory of Gina Bachauer, the dis-tinguished pianist who died last year, and a limited number of ticketswill be available to those concerned with the care of the disabled.Further information may be had from the chairman of the trust, MrA. G. Jefcoate, Vellore, Honeysuckle Gardens, Shillingstone, Bland-ford Forum, Dorset DT11 OTJ.

Van den Berghs and Jurgens Ltd are offering a prize of ,(1000for the best nutrition feature published or broadcast during 1980.Further details may be had from the Nutrition Education Service, Vanden Berghs and Jurgens Ltd, Sussex House, Burgess Hill, West SussexRH15 9AW.

Dr F. J. Darby has been appointed Chief Medical Adviser (SocialSecurity), Department of Health and Social Security, in succession tothe late Dr G. 0. Mayne.

The Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University ofLondon is to hold a refresher course for general practitioners onModern Management of Obstetric and Gynaecological Problemsin Hospital and General Practice at Hammersmith Hospital, Lon-don, on Oct. 29-31. Information may be had from the SymposiumSecretary, Institute of Obstetrics and Gyna;cology, Queen Charlotte’sHospital, Goldhawk Road, London W6 OXG.

The Association for Clinical Research in the Pharmaceutical In-

dustry is holding a symposium on Antibiotics at the PharmaceuticalSociety’s headquarters, London, on Oct. 22. Further details may behad from Mr I. M. Oliver, Meeting Secretary, Clinical Research

Department, I.C.I. Pharmaceuticals Division, Alderley Park, Maccles-field, Cheshire.

A symposium on the Groin is to be held at the Ashton PostgraduateMedical Centre on Oct. 29. Further information may be had from theSecretary, Ashton Postgraduate Medical Centre; Tameside GeneralHospital, Fountain Street, Ashton-under-Lyne.

Correction

Legionnaires’ Disease in a Transplant Unit: Isolation of the Causa-tive Agent from Shower Baths.-In table m of this article by Dr Tobinand his co-workers (July 19, p. 118) the words "Strains" and "Sera"should be transposed.

SIR ALAN DRURY, F.R.S., director of the Lister Institute from1943 to 1952, died on Aug. 2 at the age of 90.

International Diary

Symposium on Current Optimum Strategies for ClinicalCancer Chemotherapy: New York, Oct. 22-24 (Director, Page andWilliam Black Postgraduate School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Schoolof Medicine, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, New York 10029).

Meeting of the International Association for the Study of theLiver: Chicago, Nov. 9-10 (Prof. J-P. Benhamou, Unite deRecherches de Physiopathologie h6pat;.que, Hopital Beaujon, F-92118Clichy).

7th European congress on Perinatal Medicine: Madrid, Nov.14-17 (Prof. de la Fuente, Maternidad de la Ciudad, Av. Generalis-simo 177, Madrid 34).

XXIIIe congres internationale de Medecine et de PharmacieMilitaires: Santiago, Dec. 1-6 (Direccion de Sanidad del Ejercito,San Ignacio 242, Correo 21, R.C.H.-Santiago, Chili).

1981

Course on Current Thinking in the Management of Ocular andAdnexal Tumours: San Francisco, Feb. 4-6 (Extended Programmesin Medical Education, Room 569-U, University of California, SanFrancisco, California 94143).

14th annual course on Recent Advances in Neurology: San Fran-cisco, Feb. 11-13 (Extended Programmes in Medical Education,Room 569-U, University of California, San Francisco, California94143).2nd conference on Airline and Tropical Medicine: Lome, Togo,

Feb. 23-28 (Secretariat des Entretiens de Lome, Bloc Medical U.T.A.,50 Rue Arago, 92806 Puteaux, France).

American Heart Association postgraduate course on Bedside

Approach to Cardiac Diagnosis: Keystone, Colorado, Feb. 25-28(Dr Phillip S. Wolf, Cardiac Consultants, P.C., 4545 East 9th Avenue,Suite 600, Denver, Colorado 80222).

Course on Recent Advances in Clinical Nutrition: San Diego,March 18-20 (Dr Joseph Stokes III, c/o Office of Continuing Educa-tion, M-017, U.C.S.D. School of Medicine, La Jolla, California92093).Programme on Nutrition for the Primary Care Physician : San

Francisco, April 11-12 (Extended Programmes in Medical Education,Room 569-U, University of California, San Francisco, California94143).