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include piped water within a reasonable distance of all homesand a water service in 50% of dwellings, with quality up to theW.H.O.’s international standard for drinking-water. But, theChronicle concludes, "... the gap between stated objectives,modest as they are, and actual conditions is widening ratherthan closing ... the experience of the governments and agenciesconcerned indicates that today more people are in need of anadequate water supply than four years ago

University of LeedsDr. D. Gordon McDowall, senior lecturer and head of the

university department of anxsthesia at the Western Infirmary,Glasgow, has been appointed professor and head of thedepartment of anaesthesia, Leeds.

Dr. McDowall, who is 35 years of age, was educated at EdinburghAcademy and University of Edinburgh, graduating M.B. in 1957. Heheld house-appointments at the Royal Infirmary and the EasternGeneral Hospital, Edinburgh, and then served for three years in theMedical Branch of the R.A.F. In 1961 he was appointed registrar atthe Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, before becoming I.C.I. researchfellow in anaesthesia at the hyperbaric oxygen unit, Western Infirmary,Glasgow. After holding a university lectureship at the RoyalInfirmary, Glasgow, he was promoted senior lecturer there in 1965,and, since March last year, has held his present post at the WesternInfirmary. In 1962 he was elected F.F.A. R.c.s. and in 1967 he

graduated M.D. with commendation. He has received research prizesfrom the Association of Anaesthetists and the Scottish Society ofAnsesthetists. His published work includes articles on the physiologyand pharmacology of the cerebral circulation and on hyperbaricoxygen.

Responsibilities and Functions of ConsultantsThe Minister of Health in conjunction with the Secretary of

State for Scotland has set up a working group to consider theresponsibilities and functions of the consultant grade. Thechairman of the working group is Sir George Godber, chiefmedical officer at the Ministry of Health; and the members ofthe group, drawn from the consultant and junior hospitalgrades and doctors concerned with administration of the

service, are as follows:Dr. J. R. Bennett, Dr. Katharine Bradley, Dr. J. H. F. Brotherston,

Dr. A. A. Driver, Mr. Michael Freeman, Mr. N. G. C. Hendry,Dr. W. P. U. Kennedy, Mr. Walpole Lewin, Sir John Richardson,and Dr. H. Yellowlees.

The joint secretaries are Dr. Ian Field and Mr. M. R. P.Gregson.The Ministers have asked for a report by the end of the year.

The report will be discussed through the usual channels withrepresentatives of the medical and dental professions.ResuscitationA symposium on this theme is to be held at the Royal College

of Surgeons of England on Sept. 10 at 9.30 A.M. Discussionwill be based on two pilot schemes: the mobile intensive-care(cardiac) unit at Belfast, and the general practitioners’ imme-diate intensive-care unit (traffic casualties) at Darlington.Tickets may be had from " Symposium ", St. John Ambulance,1 Grosvenor Crescent, London S.W.I.

Royal Free HospitalProf. H. Sarles (Marseilles) is to speak on chronic pan-

creatitis on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 5.15 P.M., at the depart-ment of medicine of the hospital, Gray’s Inn Road, LondonW.C.I.

Leucaemia Research FundProf. Georges Mathe (Institut de Cancérologie et d’Im-

munogenetique, Paris) is to lecture on therapeutic strategy inacute leukaemia on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 5.30 P.M., at theInstitute of Child Health. Tickets may be had from the

secretary of the medical advisory panel of the Fund at theinstitute, Great Ormond Street, London W.C.I.

University College Hospital Medical School, LondonDr. E. E. Pochin is to deliver a Sydney Ringer lecture at this

school on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 4.30 P.M. His subject will bethyroid adenocarcinoma-a functioning tumour.

Pamphlets and Reports

Ballistocardiography and Circulatory Function. To theproceedings of its 12th annual meeting the BallistocardiographicResearch Society appends a brief account of the first decade of itslife, its members, and their research projects. Published simultane-ously as Bibliotheca Cardiologica no. 20. (Basle and New York:Karger. London: Academic Press. Sw. fr./DM 39;$9.35; 78s.)

Circulation in Skeletal Muscle. Proceedings of an InternationalSymposium held at Smolenice, Czechoslovakia, in 1966. (Oxford:Pergamon. E6.)

Perspectives in Ophthalmology. This volume contains the1967 postgraduate teaching course organised at the Rotterdam EyeHospital to mark the 75th anniversary of the Netherlands Ophthal-mological Society. (Amsterdam: Excerpta Medica. E6 14s.)

Proceedings of a Symposium on the Disabled Young Adult.The National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases sponsoredthis symposium, held in London in November, 1967. (Obtainablefrom the Fund, Vincent House, Vincent Square, London S.W.I.43s. 10d., including postage.)

Lymph and the Lymphatic System. The proceedings of aconference held in New Orleans in December, 1965. (Springfield,Illinois: Thomas.$18.50.)

Recent Retardation of Mortality Trends in Japan. Thisreport, prepared for the National Center for Health Statistics by agroup of workers from the Institute of Public Health and the Ministryof Health and Welfare, Tokio, shows that the slowing down in thetrend to lower mortality-rates which has been noted in the U.S.A. andEurope is shared by Japan. The data relate to 1947-63, the turning-point being around 1955. (U.S. Government Printing Office.$0.35.)

Recent Developments in Affective Disorders. Based on a seriesof lectures organised by the Royal Medico-Psychological Association,this collection is the second in a series of British Journal of Psychiatryspecial publications. (Obtainable from Headley Brothers Ltd.,Ashford, Kent. 25s.;$3.50.)

Microsurgery of the Eye. lst symposium of the OphthalmicMicrosurgery Study Group held in August, 1966, in connection withthe XXth International Congress of Ophthalmology in Munich.(Basle and New York: Karger. London: Academic Press. Sw. fr./DM 54;$12.95; E5 8s.)

Directory of Collections and List of Species Maintained inNew Zealand 1968. Revision of the directories and lists of theCommonwealth collections of microorganisms is now in the hands ofnational committees, which have undertaken to prepare new listsindependently at intervals of, at the most, ten years. (H.M. StationeryOffice. 3s.)

Sample Census 1966, England and Wales: workplace andtransport tables, part 1. (H.M. Stationery Office. 85s.)

Medium Chain Triglycerides. The transaction of a symposiumheld in the University of Pennsylvania in March, 1967. (London:Oxford University Press. Philadelphia: University of PennsylvaniaPress. E5 19s.)

The Prevention of Damaging Stress in Children. The reportof U.K. study group no. 1 to the World Federation for MentalHealth, and to coincide with the 7th International Congress onMental Health, held in London in August. (London: Churchill. 20s.)

The Interferons. An international symposium on this topic washeld in Siena in June, 1967. (London and New York: AcademicPress. E5 16s. 8d.)

Animal Health Yearbook. (Obtainable from H.M. StationeryOffice, from Columbia University Press, Irvington on Hudson,N.Y. 10533, and other F.A.O. sales agents. 32s.,$4.)