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Notes and News

POST-SUBSIDY FLOUR

THE National Association of British and Irish Millers hasannounced that after Sept. 29, when the bread subsidy ends,the following new types of flour will be available to bakers :A new white-bread flour, similar in quality to pre-war, and

enriched with the prescribed nutrients. This will be the basic gradeand should be sold at the same price as " National " fiour.A superfine white-bread flour, also enriched and selling at a

premium above the basic grade.A softer type of white-bread flour selling at a discount below the

basic grade. This is a flour which some bakers may require forspecial purposes and for mixing in with stronger bread-flours.A high extraction " off-white " flour, deriving its nutrients solely

from the milling process.

The existing brown, wheatmeal and wholemeal specialtytypes of flour sold to bakers will be unaffected.The association states that the four types of flour will

" achieve the nutritional level " of vitamin BI, nicotinamide,iron, and calcium laid down in the new Flour (Composition)Regulations, 1956, under the Food and Drugs Act.l

T.U.C. AND SMOKING

AT the Trades Union Congress in Brighton last week amotion from the Medical Practitioners’ Union was proposedby Dr. Arnold Elliott, calling on the Government " to take allreasonable steps to discourage young people from smoking "in view of the accumulation of evidence that smoking is oneof the principal causes of the five-fold increase in the numberof deaths from lung cancer during the past 15 years. Themotion was supported by the Association of Scientific Workers,but the congress voted in favour of an amendment, proposedby the Tobacco Workers’ Union, which noted the increase inthe number of deaths, but ended as follows : .

" and recognizing that eminent medical authorities have so farfailed to agree about its possible causes, calls on the Government togive all possible assistance in the furtherance of research into thisdread disease."

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University of LondonOn Thursday, Nov. 1, at 5 P.M., at the Royal Society of

Medicine, 1, Wimpole Street, W.1, Prof. Georges Portmann,of the University of Bordeaux, will deliver the Semon lecture.Professor Portmann is to speak on the physiology of

phonation.

University of BirminghamOn Monday, Oct. 1, at 3 P.M., at Queen Elizabeth Hospital,

Dr. Walter Bauer, Jackson professor of clinical medicine inthe Harvard Medical School, will deliver the inaugural addressof the session.

Royal College of Physicians of LondonOn St. Luke’s Day, Thursday, Oct. 18, at 3 P.M., at the

college, Pall Mall East, S.W.l, Dr. J. Crighton Bramwell willdeliver the Harveian Oration. His subject will be Practice,Teaching, and Research.

Royal College of Physicians of EdinburghOn Thursday, Oct. 11, Prof. W. J. Tulloch will speak on

medicine as an aspect of general biology. On Friday, Nov. 9,Dr. W. Ferguson Anderson will deliver the John Mathesonlecture, when his subject will be the care of the elderly sickin general practice. On Tuesday, Nov. 27, the Sydney WatsonSmith lecture will be given by Dr. John McMichael, who willspeak on valvular incompetence and heart-failure. All thelectures begin at 5 P.M.

Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of GlasgowAt a meeting of the faculty on Sept. 3, with Prof. Stanley

Graham, the president, in the chair, the following wereadmitted fellows of faculty :

Gerard Church, I. W. W. Fingland, Damodaram Harirajan,Kailash -Nath Kanwar, J. B. McGuinness, Penmetcha VenkataNarasimha Raju, Niranjan Lall Sharma.

Welsh National School of MedicineThis school is celebrating on Oct. 12 and 13 the 25th

anniversary of the granting of its charter. A dinner is to beheld on the 12th, and invitations have been sent to all oldstudents who can be traced. Anvone who has not yet receivedan invitation should «-rite to the secretary of the school,34, Newport Road. Cardiff.

1. See Lancet, Aug. 11, 1956, p. 301.

Royal Free School of MedicineSir Francis Walshe, F.R.s., will deliver the inaugur

to this school on Friday, Oct. 5, at 3 P.M. at the SenaLondon, W.C.I.

Westminster Medical SchoolOn Monday, Oct. 8, at 3 P.M., Viscount Chandos w

the inaugural address to this school at Church HouSmith Street, S.W.I.

Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and HygiThe opening meeting of the session will be held a

land Place, London, W. 1, on Wednesday, Oct. 10, atwhen Dr. H. A. Reid will read a paper on Sea-snake

King’s College Hospital Medical SchoolOn Friday, Sept. 28, Lord Justice Denning wil

inaugural address at this school, Denmark HillS.E.5, at 3 P.M.

Society of Apothecaries of LondonLiverymen are summoned to meet at Guildhall on

Sept. 29 (not Sept. 28 as announced in our issue of 10.30 A.M., to elect a lord mayor of the city.Biochemical SocietyA meeting of this society will be held at the

Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, Londoon Friday, Oct. 12, at 2 P.M.

British Postgraduate Medical FederationSir John Cockcroft, D.sc., F.R.S., will give the

lecture of the 1956-57 series on the Scientific Basis oat 5.30 P.M. on Thursday, Oct. 11, at the SenaUniversity of London, Malet Street, W.C.I. He is tthe Biological Significance of Atomic Energy.London County Medical SocietyAt a meeting of this society to be held at Cou

Westminster Bridge, S.E.1, on Thursday, Oct. 4, aSir Clement Price Thomas will speak on CarcinoLung. Members of the Association of IndustriOfficers, the Middlesex County Medical SocietyLondon divisions of the British Medical Associinvited.

Institute of Diseases of the Chest, LondonClinical demonstrations will be given by Dr. E.

at the institute (in the grounds of the BromptonFulham Road, S.W.3) on Fridays from Oct. 5 tOpen lectures by Mr. N. R. Barrett, Dr. N. LloDr. N. S. Plummer, Mr. J. R. Belcher, Mr. W. Dr. 1. S. Longmuir, Dr. N. C. Oswald, Mr. T. HolmDr. W. E. Lloyd, and Dr. A. 1. G. McLaughlin wion Wednesdays, from Oct. 3 to Dec. 5. All thwill be held at 5 P.M. and will be open to doctors wit

International Society for the Study of BioclimThe purpose of this society, which was founded

1956, is to unite into one international group all thosein the influence of climate on air, water, soil, plantand man, in the hope of discovering the factor, responsible for this influence. The first meetingfrom Aug. 29 to 31 at UNESCO House in Paris, F. Sargent (U.S.A.) was elected president. Eighteecountries were represented. It is proposed to holmeeting in the autumn of 1957 in Vienna. Further imay be had from Dr. S. W. Tromp, HofbrouckeOegstgeest (Leyden), Holland.

CORRIGENDUM : Antibiotics in Preserzution Our note of June 23 (p. 1009) implied that salt was wfor checking bacterial spoilage of nsh while storfishing vessel. In fact, it is seldom used and ice is thmethod of preserving at sea. The chlortetraincorporated in ice, not in salt.

Sir Robert Macintosh and Prof. Ian Aird are to visiOctober to lecture to specialist audiences. The visiarranged by the British Council at the request of the Po)of health.Bayer Products Ltd. have published a pamphlet

tablet markings adopted by the company. The pampfor each different tablet, the markings on the upper freverse face, the diameter, the shape, and the colour. be had from the company, Xeville House, Eden Streeton-Thames, Surrey.