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Hospital Advisory ServiceEarlier this year Mr. Richard Crossman, Secretary of

State for Social Services, announced that a HospitalAdvisory Service would be set up. Dr. A. A. Baker will takeup his appointment as the first director of this service onNov. 1.

Dr. Baker, who is 47, studied medicine at St. Mary’s HospitalMedical School, graduating M.B. in 1944. He took the D.P.M. in1946 and the M.D. six years later. He was senior hospital medicalofficer at St. Ebba’s Hospital, Epsom, and between 1947 and 1949he was a specialist in psychological medicine in the Royal ArmyMedical Corps. He has lately been on secondment to the Depart-ment of Health and Social Services from Banstead Hospital wherehe is medical administrator and consultant.

General Practice Finance CorporationDuring the financial year, which ended March 31, 1969,

400 loans, amounting to f.:2,323,000, were approved by theCorporation for National Health Service general practi-tioners to purchase and modernise their surgery premises.Since the Corporation began to accept applications in 1967,685 loans, amounting to E3,773,000 have been made. Thesefacts are given in the Corporation’s third annual report.

M.R.C. Biophysics UnitThe Medical Research Council Biophysics Research Unit

will be closed in September, 1972, when Sir John Randall,F.R.S., retires from the directorship of the unit and from thechair of biophysics at King’s College, London. Two newresearch units, under the direction of Prof. M. H. F.

Wilkins, F.R.S., and Prof. Jean Hanson, F.R.S., will be set up.Future M.R.C. support for the biophysics department atKing’s College will be considered on the appointment of asuccessor to Sir John as professor of biophysics.

CORRIGENDUM: A Shifting Curve.-A leader in the issue ofOct. 11 (p. 785) contains a sentence in the sixth paragraph inwhich " left " and " right should be transposed. It shouldhave begun " A parallel displacement to the left..." "

Diary of the Week

OCT. 26 TO NOV. 1

Monday, 27thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields,

London W.C.25 P.M. Mr. Ian McColl: Pathology and Treatment of Polyps of the

Colon and Rectum. (Erasmus Wilson demonstration.)ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, Ducane Road, London W.124 P.M. Dr. J. B. L. Howell: Aspects of Pulmonary Physiology.

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of theSkin, Lisle Street, London W.C.2

4.30 P.M. Dr. A. Jarrett: Process of Keratinisation.MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY

8.30 P.M. (Medical School.) Medicine. Dr. John Owens: Manage-ment of Drug Addiction.

Tuesday, 28thBRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION

5.30 P.M. (Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, LondonW.C.I.) Dr. E. R. Huehns: Biochemical Basis of Compensa-tion in Hasmolytic Anaemias.

INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY, Hammersmith Hospital,Ducane Road, London W.12

3 P.M. Dr. Aviva Wiseman: Modern Trends in Contraception.KINGS COLLEGE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, Denmark Hill, London

S.E.55.30 P.M. Dr. S. J. Wyard: Possible Application of Electron Spin

Resonance to Diagnosis.LONDON MEDICAL GROUP

5.45 P.M. (Guy’s Hospital Medical School, S.E.I.) Dr. JacobusDominian: Marital Breakdown.

Wednesday, 29thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND

4 P.M. Prof. G. W. Causey: Cell Structure. (Arnott demonstration.)ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL

2 P.M. Dr. R. Pitt-Rivers: Biochemistry and Physiology of theThyroid Gland.

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY4.30 P.M. Dr. Z. L. Szur: Radiotherapy of Benign Skin Diseases.

INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton Hospital, LondonS.W.3

5 P.M. Dr. K. M. Citron: New Drugs in Tuberculosis.INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, National Hospital, Queen Square, London

W.C.16 P.M. Dr. Henry Plotkin: Unilateral Cortical Lesions in the Study

of Neural Mechanisms of Learning.7 P.M. Dr. Freda Newcombe: Spatial Disorientation-Effects of

Right and Left Posterior Cerebral Lesions. (Sandoz Founda-tion lectures.)

INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, LondonS.E.5

5.30 P.M. Dr. L. A. Hersov: Refusal to Go to School.INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY, 10 Henrietta Street, London W.C.2

5 P.M. Dr. C. S. Ogg: Calcium and the Kidney.UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

5 P.M. (Nuffield Department of Medicine Lecture Theatre, Rad-cliffe Infirmary.) Dr. W. P. Leary: Destruction of Angio.tensin-Variations Induced by Diet and ExperimentalHypertension.

Thursday, 30thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND

5 P.M. Mr. R. Theodore Back: Halls of the Barbers, Barber-Sur-geons, and Surgeons of London. (Thomas Vicary lecture.)

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON5.30 P.M. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,

Keppel Street, Gower Street, W.C.1.) Mr. R. Huws Jones:The Doctor and the Social Services. (Second of three HeathClark lectures.)

BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION5.30 P.M. (Institute of Child Health.) Dr. G. Hamilton Fairley:

Immunity in Human Malignant Disease.LONDON HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE

4.15 P.M. (College Hall, Ashfield Street, E.1.) Mr. Ambrose King:Failure to Control Venereal Disease. (Schorstein lecture.)

WESTMINSTER MEDICAL SCHOOL, Westminster Hospital, London S.W.15.15 P.M. Prof. lain Gillespie: Review of Upper Gastrointestinal

Hormones.LONDON MEDICAL GROUP

5.45 P.M. (St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, Praed Street, W.2.)Dr. M. H. B. Joyce: Concept of Guilt in Religion andPsychiatry.

HONYMAN GILLESPIE LECTURES, 19695 P.M. (Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.) Prof. J. Milic-Emili

(Montreal): Airway Closure, a Common Cause of ImpairedGas Exchange with the Lungs.

UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE5 P.M. (Physiology Department.) Mr. John Shepherd: James Young

Simpson and his Contributions to Surgery.

Friday, 31stROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL

11 A.M. Dr. E. G. J. Olson: Experimental and Histological Aspectsof Pulmonary Embolism.

2 P.M. Prof. D. J. du Plessis (Johannesburg): Pyloric Canal in Healthand Disease.

4 P.M. Dr. D. N. S. Kerr: Renal Bone Disease and Myopathy.

Appointments

GREENHILL, M. D., M.B. Glasg., D.M.R.D.: consultant radiologist,Southern Ayrshire hospitals.

HILL, ANNE S., M.B. Cantab., M.R.C.P.E., M.R.C.PATH., M.R.C.O.G.: COri-sultant in morbid anatomy, Jessop Hospital for Women, Sheffield.

McGARRY, J. A., M.B. Glasg., M.R.C.O.G.: consultant obstetrician andgynaecologist. Southern General Hospital, Glasgow.

MCINTYRE, JANIE M., M.B. Glasg., F.F.A. R.C.S., D.OBST.: consultantanaesthetist. Southern General Hospital and associated hospitals,Glasgow.

THURSZ, A. D., M.B. Cantab., M.R.C.O.G., F.R.C.S.B., D.OBST.: consultantobstetrician and gynxcologist, Dunbartonshire obstetric service.

Manchester Regional Hospital Board:CAMPBELL, F. N., M.B. Edin., F.F.A. R.C.S. : consultant anaesthetist,

Oldham and district hospital group.DAVIES, R. P., M.D., B.SC. Manc., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.E. : consultant

surgeon, Wythenshawe and North Cheshire hospital group.GOETZEE, A. E., M.D., M.CH.ORTH. L’pool, F.R.C.S.E. : consultant

traumatic and orthopaedic surgeon, Burnley and district hospitalgroup.

MCINTYRE, DONALD, M.B. Edin.,F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.E. : consultant urologist,Salford, North Manchester, and South Manchester hospitalgroups.

WALLBANK, W. A., M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.C.S.: consultant anaesthetist.South Manchester hospital group.