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Intermediate Medical Certificates for InpatientsIt has been arranged that, to relieve the pressure on

hospital medical staffs, these certificates may be signed bylay officers.

Blackcurrant SyrupThe Ministry of Food has made arrangements, similar to

those for last year, to provide blackcurrant syrup and puréefor sale through retail chemists for children up to the age of 18,invalids, and persons in need of additional vitamin C.

Royal Statistical SocietyAt a meeting of the research section to be held on Tuesday,

Nov. 2, at 5.15 P.M., at the E.L.M.A. Lighting Service Bureau,2, Savoy Hill, London, W.C.2, Prof. J. B. S. Haldane, F.R.S.,will open a discussion on Statistical Problems Arising inGenetics.

W.H.O. Office in South-east Asia

At a conference in New Delhi early this month, representa-tives of India, Ceylon, Thailand, Burma, and Afghanistan-the five countries designated to form the South-east Asiaregional committee of the World Health Organisation-recommended New Delhi as the site of the regional office.

Contamination of Food by MetalsThe Food Standards Committee, appointed by the Minister

- of Food in January, has set up a subcommittee to inquireinto the metallic contamination of foods. The membersinclude : Prof. G. R. Cameron, F.R.S., Prof. S. J. Cowell,Dr. J. M. Johnston, Dr. W. P. Kennedy, and Dr. G. RocheLynch.

Priority for Children’s TeethIn a statement issued on Oct. 18 the British Dental Associa-

tion urges the Government to provide dental treatment forchildren even at the expense of the rest of the population.At present the heavy demands on the general dental service-including the repair and renewal of elderly and middle-ageddentitions-make it impossible to maintain recruitment towhat should be the priority service. The association further

points out that school dental officers are being offered salariesbelow the level recommended by the Spens Committee, andadds the warning : " Unless the Ministry of Health and theMinistry of Education take a responsible and constructiveinterest without delay, there is the gravest danger of theexisting skeleton priority dental service for our childrencrumbling away into dust."The Dental Service Association further add that the

shortage can only be met by using all the dental resources ofthe country, and suggest that " if the Denture RepairServics were brought into the scheme, much of the wrkwhich is now unnecessarily engaging the energy of dentistscould be taken off their hai.ds."

Births, Marriages, and DeathsBIRTHS

BARRAS.—On Oct 1, in Malta, the wife of Dr. 13. W. Barras-a son.BULSTRODE.—On Oct. 19, at Hartfield, Sussex, the wife of Dr. J. C.

Bulstrode-a daughter.ELEK.—On Oct. 1, the wife of Dr. Stephen Elek-a daughter.GARVIE.—On Oct. 13, at Woking, the wife c4t Dr. J. M. Garvie--

a son.LAMBLEY.—On Oct. 15, at Nothampton, the wife of Mr. D. G.

Lambley, F.R.c.s.-a son.LEWIN.—On Oct. 15, at Oxford, the wife of Mr. Walpole Lewin,

F.R.C.S.—a daughter.PARRY.-On Oct. 21, at Cardiff, the wife of Mr. J. N. M. Parry,

F.R.C.S.—a daughter.SEWARD.—On Oct. 21, in London, the wife of Dr. E. C. Seward-

a daughter.SUGARS.—On Sept. 29, the wife of Dr. J. C. Sugars—a daughter.WRIGHT.—On Oct. _18, in London, the wife of Dr. E. G. Wright-

a son.

MARRIAGESCHILDS—FORBES.—On Oct. 16, at Frimley, John Michael Childs,

M.B., to Elizabeth Sheila Forbes.KNOWLSON—WILSON.—On Oct. 5, at Oxwich, Gower, George

Akenhead Knowlson, M.A., to Lydia Annie Wilson, M.D.

DEATHSGOVAN.—On Oct. 17, at Cockermouth, Cumberland, George Govan,

M.B. Edin., aged 84.INNES.—On Oct. 16, Edward John Innes, M.B. Lond., Flight-

lieutenant, R.A.F., aged 26.

Diary of the WeekOCT. 31 TO NOV. 6

Monday, 1 stROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C,.2

3.45 P.M. Prof. F. Wood Jones, F.R.S.: Muscles of the BodyWall.

5 P.M. Dr. Cuthbert Dukes : Surgical Pathology of IntestinalTumours.

SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES, Black Friars Lane, E.C.45 P.M. Dr. Eliot Slater : Constitutional Factors in Psychological .

Medicine.

INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330, Gray’s Inn Road,W.C.2

2.30 P.M. Miss D. J. Collier: Facial Paralysis from theOtological Standpoint.

Tuesday, 2ndROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, Pall Mall East, S.W.15 P.M. Dr. Geoffrey Marshall : Tuberculosis of the Bronchi.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS3.45 P.M. Prof. D. V. Davies : Middle Cranial Fossae.5 P.M. Dr. Dukes : Surgical Pathology of Intestinal Tumours.

SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES5 P.M. Dr. Peter Bishop : Use of Sex Hormones in Therapeutics.

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, 5, Lisle Street, W.C.25 P.M. Dr. 1. Muende : Histopathology of the Skin.

CHADWICK LECTURE2.30 P.M. (Westminster Hospital medical school, Horseforryy

Road, S.W.I.) Dr. W. E. B. Lloyd: Prevention ofTuberculosis with Special Reference to Environment.

EDINBURGH POST-GRADUATE BOARD FOR MEDICINE5 P.M. (Royal Infirmary.’) Prof. J. W. MeNee: Cirrhosis of the

Liver.

Wednesday, 3rdROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

5 P.M. Prof. Ronald Hare : Staphylococci.LONDON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY

3 P.M. (Lambeth Hospital, Brook Drive, S.E.ll.) Clinicalmeeting.

UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL5 P.M. (Arts Theatre.) Prof. Edward Churchill (Harvard):

Wounds of the Chest-a Study of the Evolution of Methodin Surgery.

Thursday, 4thROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

5 P.M. Sir John Parkinson : Aortic Stenosis.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS3.45 P.M. Prof. H. A. Harris : Nerve-supply of the Limbs.5 P.M. Professor Hare : Staphylococci.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON5 P.M. (1, Wimpole Street, W.1.) Mr. G. Ewart Martin:

Broncho-oesophagology in Great Britain. (Semon lecture.)INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY

5 P.M. Dr. G. B. Mitchell-Heggs : Complications in Eczema.INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY

2.30 P.M. Mr. J. Angell James: Diseases of the Antrum ofDental Origin.

LONDON JEWISH HOSPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY . ’3 P.M. (London Jewish Hospital, Stepney Green, E.1.) Mr. H. A.

Levy : Æsthetics of Vision. (Presidential address.)HONYMAN GILLESPIE LECTURE

5 P.M. (Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.) Mr. Robert Mailer :Carcinoma of Rectum.

Friday, 5thROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

5 P.M. Dr. W. G. Oakley : Complications of Diabetes and theirTreatment.

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ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS3.45 P.M. Professor Harris : Clinical Anatomy of the Abdomen.5 P.M. Dr. R. J. Ludford : Cytopathology of Cancer.

SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES5 P.M. Prof. E. D. Dodds, F.R.S. : Endocrinology and its Relation

to Diagnosis and Treatment.LONDON CHEST HOSPITAL, Victoria Park, E.2

5 P.M. Mr. V. C. Thompson : Surgery of the (Esophagus. -

On Oct. 5, at the Rikshospital in Oslo, Prof. F. G. Young,of University College, London, delivered the third Jacobaeuslecture, founded in memory of Prof. H. C. Jacobaeus, ofSweden, who died in 1937. He spoke on the Relation of thePituitary Gland to Diabetes Mellitus.

.Mr. A. G. Timbrell Fisher has been elected to the fellowshipof the American College of Surgeons.

CORRIGENDUM : Œstrogens ii-6 Diabetes.=Ref. 3 on p. 669should read Biskind, M. S., Schreier, H. Exp.,Med. Surg.1945, 3, 299.