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Notes and News

NEW INSTITUTE OF COMPARATIVE MEDICINE

THE Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine was

officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh, president of theZoological Society of London, on April 29. The Institute

occupies most of a new building east of the main entrance tothe London Zoo. Its construction was paid for by a gift of£140,000 from the Nuffield Foundation and by money fromthe Zoological Society of London.

Front of the Institute.

In addition to rooms and administrative offices there an

24,000 sq. ft. of laboratory space, including an operating-theatre and a well-equipped X-ray suite. An appeal has beerlaunched for E300,000 to equip the laboratories, and E200,00Chas been raised so far.The director, Dr. L. G. Goodwin, and his team hope tc

extend our knowledge of human diseases by the comparativestudy of those diseases which are common to man and animals:at the same time the health of the animals in the Society’scollection will benefit. Work has already been in progress forsome time on the first main project-a study of diseases of theheart and arteries. Other projects include a study of the factorscontrolling blood-clotting and an examination of the immunityproduced by infections with malaria parasites and worms inman and animals.

DENTAL SCHOOLS AND THE FUTURE

IN opening the new dental school at Birmingham on April 30,Mr. Kenneth Robinson, the Minister of Health, said that itwas planned to increase the annual intake to the dental teachingschools of England and Wales from about 500 in 1959 to over650 by the end of this year, and ultimately to over 750. TheBirmingham dental school was part of a programme whichincluded the rebuilding or modernisation of all dental schoolsin England, and the construction of an entirely new school totake 50 students a year at Cardiff. So far, University CollegeHospital’s school had been rebuilt, Bristol had been expandedand modernised, Sheffield’s modernisation was nearing com-pletion, and new enlarged schools at King’s College Hospital,London, and the London Hospital would be finished by earlysummer. Cardiff would admit its first dental students thisautumn. The plans for Liverpool had been approved, and heexpected building to start shortly; while Manchester’s planswere now under consideration.Mr. Robinson went on to say that in his view the responsi-

bilities of dental schools went far bevond more instruction.They should establish and explain the social purpose of theirwork to their students. Newly qualified dentists should beawdrc that they cuuld not all expect to spend the remainder oftheir ves doing resarch, or teaching, or only carrying out

complex technical or surgical processes on teeth. The majoritywould spend most of their time fulfilling the primary functionof preserving and safeguarding their patients’ natural teeth.This meant that the dentist would be mainly doing a fairlylimited range of operations, and failure to realise this couldresult in disenchantment and unhappiness for the young dentist.But dentistry was an essential and valuable part of our HealthServices and it was important that

" a dental school should getits true value over to its students and should produce peoplewho will be happy spending their lives doing this sort of work’’.

WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY

Dr. Monawar Khan Afridi, of Pakistan, was to open the18th World Health Assembly in Geneva last Tuesday. The

Assembly is expected to last three weeks. It will consider theDirector-General’s annual report, review current activities,decide on a budget for 1966, and formulate future policy. Aneffective working budget of 42,442,000 has been recommended.The topics for discussion include proposals for an internationalagency for research on cancer, and for the establishment of aworld health research centre.’ A prize is to be awarded for

outstanding work on mental subnormality.

University of LondonThe title of professor of prosthetic dentistry has been

conferred on Mr. S. F. Fish, and the title of reader in bacteri-ology on Dr. C. S. Cummins in respect of their posts at theLondon Hospital Medical College.

University of Newcastle upon TyneThe Children’s Research Fund, Liverpool, has awarded a

grant of E3650 per annum for three years to the department ofchild health for the support of research into hæmolytic diseaseof the newborn and hyperbilirubinaemia of prematurity, whichis being carried out by Dr. William Walker. The MedicalResearch Council has awarded a grant of E6030 to the depart-ment of pharmacology to enable Prof. J. W. Thompson to

make a study of the chemical substances included in the

transmission of nerve impulses in the sympathetic nervous

system. The University Grants Committee has made a grantto the department of E87.237 for the purchase of scientificequipment.

University of GlasgowOn March 24 the degree of M.D. was conferred on D. J. D.

Stevenson.

University of Western AustraliaDr. Ian Oswald has been appointed to the newly established

chair of psychological medicine, which he will hold tillDecember. 1967, while retaining a senior lectureship at

Edinburgh University.Dr. Oswald, who is 35 years of age, was educated at Herbert Strutt

School, Belper, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, wherehe obtained first-class honours in part II psychology tripos, and thenqualified in medicine in 1953. After holding house-appointments inLondon and Bristol and serving in the R.A.F., he was elected to aBeit fellowship at the Institute of Experimental Psychology in theUniversity of Oxford. He became lecturer in psychological medicineat the University of Edinburgh in 1959. In 1963 he was awarded theGaskell gold medal of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association,and in the same year he received the D.sc. degree of EdinburghUniversity. He has published papers on human sleep, and variouspsychological and psychiatric topics. His book Sleepirtg and WakingPhysiology and Psychology was published m 1962.

Royal College of Obstetricians and GynaecologistsMr. Robert Gadd will deliver the William Blair-Bell lecture

for 1965 on Friday, May 28, at 5 P.Ai. in the College. His

subject will be the volume of the liquor amnii in normal andabnormal pregnancies. Admission will be by ticket only, andthese may be had from the secretary, 27, Sussex Place, Regent’sPark, N.W.I.

1 See Lancet, Feb 13, 1965, p. 393.

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Royal College of Physicians of LondonAt a comitia of the College on April 29, with Sir Charles

Dodds, the president, in the chair, the following were electedto the fellowship:

J. A. JAMES, Bristol; A. D. ABDULLAH, London; B. A. YOUNG,London; Colonel MAHANKALI SEETHARAMA RAO, London; ABDELAziz SAMI, Cairo; R. P. KEMP, Liverpool; A. B. RAPER, Bristol;CHARU CHANDRA SAHA, Calcutta; E. H. KITCHING, Manchester;W. G. BRANDER, Salisbury, Rhodesia; J. D. HARDY, Truro; R. F.JARRETT, Gloucester; R. B. PERKINS, Sydney, Australia; R. P. K.CoE, Isleworth; R. B. MAGILL, Belfast; C. L. DAVIDSON, Bradford;K. W. CROSS, London; MATTHEW STEEL, Grimsby; J. V. S. A. DAVIES,WOLVERHAMPTON; M. G. C. ASHBY, London; J. S. PIPPARD, London;K. 0. RAWLINGS, London; A. W. W. B. WOODS, Epsom; R. G.MooRE, Portsmouth; J. A. BLACK, Sheffield; V. C. MEDVEI, London;B. E. TOMLINSON, Durham; A. E. JONES, London; R. McL. ToDD,Liverpool; P. K. ROBINSON, Eastleigh; S. H. LLEWELLYN SMITH,London; T. R. E. PILKINGTON, London; J. V. ZAMMIT-MAEMPEL,Sliema, Malta; N. R. BUTLER, London; HUGO DROLLER, Leeds;J. A. L. GILBERT, Edmonton, Canada; P. D. C. KINMONT, Derby;D. R. LAURENCE, London; R. G. EvANS, Nottingham; AMAR JITSINGH, Patiala, India; K. J. GRICE, Melbourne, Australia; JOHNSIMPSON, Workington; J. B. STANTON, Edinburgh; M. H. K. HAGGIE,Folkestone; CHRISTOPHER STRANG, Newcastle upon Tyne; MICHAELFEIWEL, London; J. D. KIDD, Reading; G. B. SHAW, Glasgow;B. H. SMITH, Buffalo, U.S.A.; H. F. WEST, Sheffield ; J. C. S.

PATERSON, New Orleans, U.S.A.; J. L. ADAMS, Wellington, NewZealand; D. G. ADAMSON, Dundee; DONALD LoNGSON, Manchester;A. S. MASON, London; SHANTILAL CHHAGANLAL SHETH, Bombay,India; T. M. CHALMERS, Cambridge; JAMES ISBISTER, Sydney,Australia; H. R. JOLLY, London; J. A. KEELING, Wellington, NewZealand; WILFRED SIRCUS, Edinburgh; ERIC WADDINGTON, Cardiff;E. R. BICKERSTAFF, Birmingham ; J. D. BLAINEY, Birmingham;F. G. J. HAYHOE, Cambridge; C. L. JOINER, London; R. V. GIBSON,London; D. A. J. TYRRELL, Salisbury; J. J. FLEMINGER, London;P. C. HARRIS, Birmingham; E. M. BACKETT, Aberdeen; H. G.

MATHER, Bristol; W. V. WADSWORTH, Cheadle; S. G. OWEN,Newcastle upon Tyne; W. I. CRANSTON, London; FRANK HAWKING,London; K. L. STUART, St. Andrew, Jamaica; A. E. A. READ, Bristol;J. M. BISHOP, Birmingham; A. T. RICHARDSON, London; Major-General ALBERT SACHS, R.A.M.C. retd.; P. J. D. HEAF, London;A. M. DAWSON, London; HONOR M. V. SMITH, Oxford; D. D. REID,London; R. E. STEINER, London; E. ASHWORTH UNDERWOOD,London; M. A. PARTRIDGE, London; A. L. COCHRANE, Cardiff;GUNNAR BIÖRCK, Sweden; Sir RUSSELL BROCK, London; E. T. C.SPOONER, London; G. W. THORN, Buffalo, U.S.A.

The Conway Evans prize was presented to Prof. Walter

Morgan, F.R.S.Licences to practise were conferred on the following who

have passed the final examination of the Conjoint Board:J. T. Anderson, Janet M. Archer, P. J. Armon, Judith F. A. Arrowsmith,

A. T. R. Axon, D. B. Bamber, B. M. Barker, Ann L. Barnett, J. H. Barretto,T. V. Barrow, P. J. C. Baxter, J. P. H. Beaney, Janet E. Bedford Turner.M. E. Benaim, Victoria Bernstein, Sadrudin Bhanji, R. A. Bradbrook,J. F. Bridgman, J. M. Bridson, B. J. Britton, Valerie Brook, Colin Brown,Mary E. A. Brown, C. J. Bruton, Elizabeth A. Bunting, Gail C. Butter,R. I. Button, Hugh Cannell, R. H. Cawood, Joseph Jo Kau Chan, PeloongChin, Wendy Cline, P. M. Coats, Miranda M. Cobb, Waaji OlugbemiroCoker, Anne B. Cole, J. F. Colin, T. J. C. Cooke, G. H. Cooper, Sandra D.Cotterell, Susan Cotton, Jacqueline T. L. Coulter, S. J. Cox, S. P. Cox,P. M. Crowle, K. H. Crumplin, S. D. Culling, Mignonne A. M. Daniel,A. J. Darby, Caryl W. Darby, S. G. Darke, D. E. Davies, N. J. T. Davies,J. H. H. Davy, Ralph Senaka Deraniyagala, Rashmikant Jashbhai Desai,David Diggens, P. N. Dilly, R. R. J. Dinley, C. M. Dring, Mary Ducrow,T. P. Dutt, D. M. Easton, L. D. Edwards, R. S. Elkeles, C. J. Ellis, D. H.Evans, R. L. Evans, Adebayo Adernire Fajemisn, G. F. Falconer, J. D.

Falkner, A. S. Falla, E. F. Farkouh, P. J. Fell, G. J. Field, A. P. H. Fielding,Valerie A. Findlay, F. W. Fisher, C. J. Fontaine, A. T. Foxton, N. C. Gage,C. F. George, Anne Gerken, E. D. Gilby, D. N. Glass, R. W. Grant,Margaret W. Green, W. E. R. Green, P. D. V. Gwinner, D. B. Hamer,A. J. Handley, F. J. R. Hardy, A. M. Hawks, S. S. Herman, N. C. Herrick,Louis Herzberg, B. L. Hinves, Linda M. Holland, W. R. Holton, D. C.P. Hopkins, M. J. Howard, Geraldine Howlett, P. J. B. Hubner, M. F.Hudson, Rosemary W. Hunt, B. E. B. Hyne, Katherine E. U. James, C. P.

Jardine Brown, Ann S. Jones, J. K. Jones, Sonia E. Jones, A. P. J. Judge,Zinta Kaps, M. J. Kendall, Angela M. Kennedy, Juliet S. Kennedy,Sally A. le B. Kidd, Aleksander Kuczynski, J. B. G. Kurr, R. D. Latimer,Leon Levinsky, Rita M. Linggood, R. H. Lloyd-Mostyn, Geoffrey Long,A. J. Lyons, D. G. MacDonald, Robert MacGibbon, N. N. S. Mackay,D. J. Mackenzie Crooks, D. J. McG. McNie, J. C. St. A. Malcolm, C. D.Margerrison, Carol R. Martin, M. R. R. Martin, I. C. C. Matheson, T. R.Mitchell, B. D. A. Morris, Anthony Murphy, Katherine M. Newbold,Wing Chuen Ng, J. M. V. Nicoll, W. M. A. Nobbs, Soraya Nouri-Moghad-dam, A. C. Nwaboku, Richard Odam, R. T. Orchard, Caroline M. Parks,C. A. Parsons, Dorothy A. Payne, Margaret C. Payne, Suzanne E. E. Peet,

Margaret R. Pendray, Anne E. Perry, C. R. Phipps, D. C. R. Pitcher,Colin Powell, J. R. Pyne, B. A. N. Read, M. E. Rimmer, A. M. Roberts,G. M. Roberts, L. H. Roberts, D. G. Robins, P. B. Robinson, Nina L. Roth,C. M. S. Royston, Jean E. Rutter, R. A. Seagger, Mohsen Shahmanesh,J. S. Shilling, Anne E. P. Shillito, T. E. Sicks, R. J. Siggers, Philip Simms,Daphne M. Smith, A. 0. Somorin, Benjamin Spears, Derek Steinberg,R. J. Stevens, J. 0. Stewart, G. E. Stollard, Christine J. Stone, RosemarySummers, J. R. Swain, D. R. Swinson, M. J. Sworn, Jonathan Tarlow,Jeffrey Tarrant, C. G. Taylor, D. M. Thomas, G. E. 1 homas, Janet B.Thomas, P. G. Thomas, M. J. K. Tibble, P. J. Todd, A. 0. Towobola,W. M. G. Tunbridge, Luie A. Udal, J. C. E. Underwood, R. C. Vane-Tempest, Susan M. Walker, Peter Wallis, J. M. Watermeyer, T. A. Water-worth, Ann A. Watkins, Mary E. A. B. Watts-Tobin, J. R. Webster, R. J.West, Anthony White, P. N. G. White, Mark Whittaker, Sunitha NimalWickramasinghe, J. M. Wilkinson, R. D. Wilkinson, A. T. D. Williams,Carol M. E. Williams, Christine P. Williams, M. K. Wolverson, Yat-KwongWong, Derek Woodford, C. W. Wynes.D.C.H.-G. R. Crowe.D.M.R.D.-Samuel Axelrod.

Faculty of RadiologistsSir Stanford Cade will deliver a Crookshank lecture at the

Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London,W.C.2, on Friday, May 21, at 4.30 P.M. His subject will beIatrogenics.

Royal Institute of Public Health and HygieneDr. J. T. Robinson will give a Blackham lecture on rehabilita-

tion of the emotionally disabled at 5.30 P.M. on Wednesday,May 12, at 1, Wimpole Street, W.1.

Medical Research Council

Mr. Arthur Blenkinsop, M.P., has been appointed a memberof the Council. He was parliamentary secretary to the Ministryof Pensions from 1946 to 1949 and to the Ministry of Healthfrom 1949 to 1951.

Royal AppointmentsMr. A. J. B. Goldsmith has been appointed surgeon-oculist

to the Queen in succession to Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, who hasresigned and is now to be an extra surgeon-oculist. Mr. S. J. H.Miller succeeds Mr. Goldsmith as surgeon-oculist to the

Household.

Association of Physicians of East AfricaThe annual conference of this association is to be held at the

Aga Khan Platinum Jubilee Hospital, Nairobi, from June 23to 26. The hon. secretary is Dr. A. T. T. Forrester, P.O. Box30024, Nairobi, Kenya.

Psychiatric Course at LiverpoolA psychiatric weekend residential study course is to be held

at Burton Manor, Wirral, Cheshire, from May 21 to 23, underthe auspices of the Liverpool Psychiatric Day Hospital. The

speakers will includo Dr. Herman B. Snow (New York),Dr. Benjamin Simon (Boston, Massachusetts), and Dr. A.

Dixon Weatherhead (Cleveland Clinic, Ohio). Further details

may be had from Dr. G. P. Egan, 10, Croxteth Road,Liverpool, 8.

Social Security Agreement with GuernseyThe Minister of Pensions and National Insurance has

announced the conclusion of an agreement which will link upthe new scheme of social insurance in Guernsey with the

schemes of National Insurance and industrial injuries insuranceof Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and the Isle of Man. Theagreement deals mainly with the payment of contributions andsickness and unemployment benefits. It does not cover retire-ment pensions or widow’s benefit. It is hoped to conclude afurther agreement covering these two benefits shortly.

Dr. Joan M. Horder has been elected a fellow of New Hall,Cambridge, on her appointment as lecturer in pathology.

CORRIGENDA: Medicare v. Eldercare.-The headquarters of thePhysicians Forum Inc., which is mentioned in this article (March 6,p. 542), is not in Boston. The correct address is 510, MadisonAvenue, New York 22, N.Y., U.S.A.

E.C.G. Changes Associated with Cerebrovascular Accidents.-In theletter from Dr. M. S. Pathy (April 24, p. 918) the penultimate lineshould have read: "... only 75 patients presented ..."