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134 treatment of tuberculous discharged men.-Dr. ADDISON replied: I have ro recent information as to the total II number of demobilised soldiers suffering from tuberculosis in the particular area referred to in the question, but I may say that the number of such cases in residential institutions on July lst was 183, and the number on the waiting list was 24. The proposal to provide a colony for the concurrent training and treatment of tuberculous men in this area was first brought to the notice of my Department at the end of May when that particular subject of colony treatment had already been specially referred to the Departmental Committee set up by the Minister of Pensions and myself. Their report will, it is hoped, be issued very shortly, and I.wil then see that suitable steps are taken as soon as possible. Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK: Will adequate and imme- diate steps be taken to carry out the recommendations of the Committee ?-Dr. ADDISON : I must see what the recommendations are first. FRIDAY, JULY 11TH. Income Li77tit under the National Insurance Acts. The report of the resolution declaring it expedient to raise the remuneration for exception from insurance under the National Insurance Acts from £160 to 1250 a year was agreed to. MONDAY, JULY 14TH. Scottish Board of Health. Mr. MACQUISTEN asked the Secretary for Scotland if he would state when the Scottish Board of Health was to be constituted in terms of the Act; whether, though uncon- stituted, it had been acting since July 1st; and whether he would give an assurance that nothing should be done by the Board as at present constituted except routine administra- tion work, and delay all questions of appointments and arrangements for administrative duties until the Board was properly constituted.-Mr. MUNRO replied: I am advised that the Board was duly constituted under Section 1 of the statute, with powers duly exercisable as from July Isc. Its personnel is now complete. Meanwhile only duties of the routine kind referred to by my honourable and learned friend have been discharged. Tuberculosis Treatanent. Mr. FOREMAN asked the Minister of Health if he could inform the House of the number of persons in the County of London suffering from tuberculosis known to the authorities to require sanatorium treatment and for whom no accom- modation was available, and to see whether steps could be taken to utilise as sanatoriums auxiliary or other war hos- pitals no longer required for war casualties.-Major ASTOR (Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health) replied : The figures necessarily vary from week to week. There are approximately, as far as the County of London is concerned, some 1700 persons, including children, in residential sana- toriums 500, of whom more than half are children, await- ing entrance. All possible steps are being taken since the diminution of the difficulties occasioned by war conditions to increase the accommodation, including the adaptation of buildings that were provided for war purposes as far as these can be made suitable. Dr. DELVIN asked the Pensions Minister whether his attention had been called to the treatment of discharged soldiers suffering from tuberculosis ; whether he was aware that these men were unable to procure employment because of the disease they suffered from, as no employer wanted consumptive workmen; and whether he would arrange that these men were therefore allowed the full 100 per cent. disablement pension to help them to exist during the few years they might expect to live.-Sir J. CRAIG (Parliamentary Secretary to the Pensions Ministry) replied : The question of tuberculosis as affecting dis- charged soldiers has recently been considered in all its aspects by an inter-Departmental Committee. Their report is expected within the next fortnight and will be immediately taken into consideration. Artz.ficial Li)jzbs. Sir DONALD l1ACLEAN asked the Pensions Minister whether he would consider the advisability of publishing from time to time in the daily press photographs or sketches of the latest improvements in artificial limbs, so that men disabled in the war might have the latest information for the pur- pose of enabling them to minimise, as far as possible, the effects of their disability.-Sir J. CRAIG replied: My right honourable friend is obliged to the right honourable Member for his suggestion, and will consider how far it iE practicable. Arrangements are being made to exhibit at repair depots the various artificial limbs available, so as tc give a choice of limbs within limits approved by the surgeons to the disabled men. Sir D. MACLEKN Will the honourable gentleman let me have a letter, or will he publish a list of these repair depôts. so that disabled men can have an opportunity of knowing where they can go for their information ?-Sir J. CRAIG : My right honourable friend is much obliged to the right honour- able gentleman for his suggestion, which is quite valuable. In connexion with this and other schemes I am sure he will be only too glad to give the information. Ad 7toc Dental CtOMt/ttMec. Mr. SEDDON asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the ad hoc Committee recommended by the Departmental Committee on Dentistry had been selected ; and whether all existing societies of dental practi- tioners would be included in the selection.-Mr. 8HORTT replied : No consideration has yet been given to the forma- tion of the ad hoc Committee referred to in the honourable Member’s question. This is a matter that must obviously be postponed until the legislation that will be necessary to give effect to the recommendations of the Dentists Act Committee is in a fair way of accomplishment. Appointments. Successful applicants for vacancies, Secretaries oj Public Institutions. and others possessing infornzation suitable for this clonmn. are iitvited to forward to THR LANCET Office, directed t,,) the Sub- Fditor, not later than 9 o’clock on the Thxcrsrla,y nto?-?tiitg of each week. such irztorxnatioxz for gi-aticit(,zis publication. BAXTER, C. B., F.R.C.S. Edin., has been appointed Honorary Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Belksbire Hospital. S.! FORSYTH, J. A CAIRNS, M.Sc., M.B., F.R.O.S. Surgeon to the Freiib-h Hospital, London. LAE.E.NoRMA’fr C., M.D., M.S., D.Se., F.R.C.S., Assistant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital. LEWM. THOMAS, M.D., F.R.C.P., D.Se., F.R.S., Honorary Consulting Pbyoician to the Ministry of Pensions- Lyoss. W. C., M.B. Edin., D.P.H.. Assistant Medical Officer (Venereal ’, Diseases. &c.), County Borough ef South Shields. Maxrirl, Dou&LAS, M.B.’EJin , D.T.M., D P.H., Assistant Medical Officer (Tuberculosis), County Borough of South Shields. MATHIESON, D. MORLEY, V D Edin., Ch.B., D.P.H., Medical Officer of’ Healtb. County Borough of Birkenhead. OATES G. E.. M.D., B S. Lond., D.P.H , Medical Officer of Health to’ the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green. SriLgs, Sir HAROLD J., to the Chair of Clinical Surgery in the Uni- versity of Edinburgh. WEAR. A. W., M.B. Durh., D.P.H., B.Hy., Assistant Medical Officer (Diseases of Children), County Borough of South Shields. WHITE, H. V., M.D. Manch., Honorary Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Salford Roval Hospital. French Hospital, Shaftesbury-avenue.—MoCujRE, J. CAMPBELL, M.D., Physician to In-patients; FORSYTH, J. CAIRNS. F.R.C.S., Surgeon to In-patients; CROOKSHANK, F. G., M.D., Physician to Out- patients ; BpnssY. JEAN, M.D., Physician to Out-patients ; RowF, ROBERT M , F.R.C.S., Surgeon to Out-patients; McHour,. JAMES, F.R.C.S., Ophthalmic Surgeon to Out-patients; BRAUN, JEAN, M.D., Physician to Out-patients (Genito-urinary Diseases) ; HERNAMAN-JoHNSON, F., M.D., Radiologist. Certifying Surgeons under the Factory and Workshop Acts: KNOIVLIS, K. 0, M.D. Liverp. (Birkenhead); ROBERTSON, A., L.R.C.P., L R.C.S. Edin. (Dumbarton). Vacancies. For further inforiization refer to the advertiserrzent colitmnq. Birminghant General Hospital.-Res. M.O. £155. Asst. P. £50. Surgical Registrar. £ 200. Biriningha?)z, Selly Oak Infirmary and ilouse.-Asst. M O. £275. BuLinybroke Hospital Wandsworth Gornmon. S.W.-H.S. £150. Boitrtiento,itth, Royal Vctoria and West Hants Hospital, Boscombe Branch.-Res. M.O..E250. Also Second Res. M.O. £200. Brighton, Hove, and Preston Dispensary -Res. M.O. :2200. Brighton, Sussex Throat and Ear Hospital, Ch7.trch-strect.-Isst. Hon. S. Bury County Borovgh.-Asst. M.O.H., Asst. Sch. M.0.. and Asst. Tubetc. O. £500. Bury St. KdmMM<!’s, West Sztffolk Ge)teral -flosl)ita7.-Res. H.S..E175. Cairo, Egyptian Goverrzrrzent School of Medieirae.-Profe<sors and Lecturers. BE.1000 and £E.600. Also Radiologist and Lect. in Radiology, BE.500, Anaesthetist and Leet. in Anaestheties, £g.500, and Registrar and Tutor, £E.600. Canterbury, Kent and Canterbury Hospital.-Juri. Res. M.O. £ 150. Capetown Free Dispertsary.-M.O. £500. Coventry and Warwit,,k,4hire Hospital.-Hou. Surg. Staff. Devortport, Royal Albert Hospital.-Res. H.S. *200. Dorchester, Dorset Courztzy Coxcneit.-Asst. M.O. £400. Dundee Corporation -Asst. Tubere. 0. and Asst. M.O. £300. EcelesallBierlow Union.-Res. M.a..2600. Ed2rzburgh City.-Clin. M.O. unrlerVenereal Diseases Scheme. JB750. Elizabeilt Garrett Andersort Hospital, Eitstoit-rc, ad. -Female Senior Asst. JE200 Exeter, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.-Sen. H.S. 2250. Gravesend Hospital.-H.S. £200. Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway, London.-Oph. S. Hospitalfor Corzsumption and Diseases of the Cheqt, Bro-mpton.-H.P. Isleworth Infirmary.-Sec. Asst. to Med. Supt. £300. h’harto2zrrz, Wellcome Trnpical Researcla Laborator2es. Assistant Bacteriologist..EE.600. Leeds University.-Lect. in Experi. Phys. £500. Demonstr. in Phys. EZ50. Demonstr. in Hist..E250. Letcssier Royal Infirntary.-T as o Hon. Asst. P. and one Hon. Asst. S.
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treatment of tuberculous discharged men.-Dr. ADDISON replied: I have ro recent information as to the total IInumber of demobilised soldiers suffering from tuberculosisin the particular area referred to in the question, but I maysay that the number of such cases in residential institutionson July lst was 183, and the number on the waiting list was 24.The proposal to provide a colony for the concurrent trainingand treatment of tuberculous men in this area was first broughtto the notice of my Department at the end of May when thatparticular subject of colony treatment had already beenspecially referred to the Departmental Committee set upby the Minister of Pensions and myself. Their report will,it is hoped, be issued very shortly, and I.wil then see thatsuitable steps are taken as soon as possible.Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK: Will adequate and imme-
diate steps be taken to carry out the recommendations of the Committee ?-Dr. ADDISON : I must see what therecommendations are first.
FRIDAY, JULY 11TH.Income Li77tit under the National Insurance Acts.
The report of the resolution declaring it expedient to raisethe remuneration for exception from insurance under theNational Insurance Acts from £160 to 1250 a year wasagreed to.
MONDAY, JULY 14TH.Scottish Board of Health.
Mr. MACQUISTEN asked the Secretary for Scotland if hewould state when the Scottish Board of Health was to beconstituted in terms of the Act; whether, though uncon-stituted, it had been acting since July 1st; and whether hewould give an assurance that nothing should be done by theBoard as at present constituted except routine administra-tion work, and delay all questions of appointments andarrangements for administrative duties until the Board wasproperly constituted.-Mr. MUNRO replied: I am advisedthat the Board was duly constituted under Section 1 of thestatute, with powers duly exercisable as from July Isc. Itspersonnel is now complete. Meanwhile only duties of theroutine kind referred to by my honourable and learnedfriend have been discharged.
Tuberculosis Treatanent.Mr. FOREMAN asked the Minister of Health if he could
inform the House of the number of persons in the County ofLondon suffering from tuberculosis known to the authoritiesto require sanatorium treatment and for whom no accom-modation was available, and to see whether steps could betaken to utilise as sanatoriums auxiliary or other war hos-pitals no longer required for war casualties.-Major ASTOR(Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health) replied :The figures necessarily vary from week to week. There areapproximately, as far as the County of London is concerned,some 1700 persons, including children, in residential sana-toriums 500, of whom more than half are children, await-ing entrance. All possible steps are being taken since thediminution of the difficulties occasioned by war conditions toincrease the accommodation, including the adaptation ofbuildings that were provided for war purposes as far as thesecan be made suitable.
Dr. DELVIN asked the Pensions Minister whether hisattention had been called to the treatment of dischargedsoldiers suffering from tuberculosis ; whether he was awarethat these men were unable to procure employmentbecause of the disease they suffered from, as no employerwanted consumptive workmen; and whether he wouldarrange that these men were therefore allowed the full100 per cent. disablement pension to help them to existduring the few years they might expect to live.-Sir J.CRAIG (Parliamentary Secretary to the Pensions Ministry)replied : The question of tuberculosis as affecting dis-charged soldiers has recently been considered in all itsaspects by an inter-Departmental Committee. Theirreport is expected within the next fortnight and will beimmediately taken into consideration.
Artz.ficial Li)jzbs.Sir DONALD l1ACLEAN asked the Pensions Minister whether
he would consider the advisability of publishing from timeto time in the daily press photographs or sketches of thelatest improvements in artificial limbs, so that men disabledin the war might have the latest information for the pur-pose of enabling them to minimise, as far as possible, theeffects of their disability.-Sir J. CRAIG replied: My righthonourable friend is obliged to the right honourableMember for his suggestion, and will consider how far it iEpracticable. Arrangements are being made to exhibit atrepair depots the various artificial limbs available, so as tcgive a choice of limbs within limits approved by thesurgeons to the disabled men.
Sir D. MACLEKN Will the honourable gentleman let mehave a letter, or will he publish a list of these repair depôts.so that disabled men can have an opportunity of knowing
where they can go for their information ?-Sir J. CRAIG : My
right honourable friend is much obliged to the right honour-able gentleman for his suggestion, which is quite valuable.In connexion with this and other schemes I am sure he willbe only too glad to give the information.
Ad 7toc Dental CtOMt/ttMec.Mr. SEDDON asked the Secretary of State for the Home
Department whether the ad hoc Committee recommendedby the Departmental Committee on Dentistry had beenselected ; and whether all existing societies of dental practi-tioners would be included in the selection.-Mr. 8HORTTreplied : No consideration has yet been given to the forma-tion of the ad hoc Committee referred to in the honourableMember’s question. This is a matter that must obviouslybe postponed until the legislation that will be necessary togive effect to the recommendations of the Dentists ActCommittee is in a fair way of accomplishment.
Appointments.Successful applicants for vacancies, Secretaries oj Public Institutions.
and others possessing infornzation suitable for this clonmn. areiitvited to forward to THR LANCET Office, directed t,,) the Sub-Fditor, not later than 9 o’clock on the Thxcrsrla,y nto?-?tiitg of eachweek. such irztorxnatioxz for gi-aticit(,zis publication.
BAXTER, C. B., F.R.C.S. Edin., has been appointed Honorary AssistantSurgeon to the Royal Belksbire Hospital. S.!
FORSYTH, J. A CAIRNS, M.Sc., M.B., F.R.O.S. Surgeon to the Freiib-hHospital, London.
LAE.E.NoRMA’fr C., M.D., M.S., D.Se., F.R.C.S., Assistant Surgeon toCharing Cross Hospital.
LEWM. THOMAS, M.D., F.R.C.P., D.Se., F.R.S., Honorary ConsultingPbyoician to the Ministry of Pensions-
Lyoss. W. C., M.B. Edin., D.P.H.. Assistant Medical Officer (Venereal’, Diseases. &c.), County Borough ef South Shields.Maxrirl, Dou&LAS, M.B.’EJin , D.T.M., D P.H., Assistant Medical
Officer (Tuberculosis), County Borough of South Shields.MATHIESON, D. MORLEY, V D Edin., Ch.B., D.P.H., Medical Officer of’Healtb. County Borough of Birkenhead.
OATES G. E.. M.D., B S. Lond., D.P.H , Medical Officer of Health to’the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
SriLgs, Sir HAROLD J., to the Chair of Clinical Surgery in the Uni-versity of Edinburgh.
WEAR. A. W., M.B. Durh., D.P.H., B.Hy., Assistant Medical Officer(Diseases of Children), County Borough of South Shields.
WHITE, H. V., M.D. Manch., Honorary Ophthalmic Surgeon to theSalford Roval Hospital.
French Hospital, Shaftesbury-avenue.—MoCujRE, J. CAMPBELL, M.D.,Physician to In-patients; FORSYTH, J. CAIRNS. F.R.C.S., Surgeonto In-patients; CROOKSHANK, F. G., M.D., Physician to Out-patients ; BpnssY. JEAN, M.D., Physician to Out-patients ; RowF,ROBERT M , F.R.C.S., Surgeon to Out-patients; McHour,. JAMES,F.R.C.S., Ophthalmic Surgeon to Out-patients; BRAUN, JEAN,M.D., Physician to Out-patients (Genito-urinary Diseases) ;HERNAMAN-JoHNSON, F., M.D., Radiologist.
Certifying Surgeons under the Factory and Workshop Acts:KNOIVLIS, K. 0, M.D. Liverp. (Birkenhead); ROBERTSON, A.,L.R.C.P., L R.C.S. Edin. (Dumbarton).
Vacancies.For further inforiization refer to the advertiserrzent colitmnq.Birminghant General Hospital.-Res. M.O. £155. Asst. P. £50.
Surgical Registrar. £ 200.Biriningha?)z, Selly Oak Infirmary and ilouse.-Asst. M O. £275.BuLinybroke Hospital Wandsworth Gornmon. S.W.-H.S. £150.Boitrtiento,itth, Royal Vctoria and West Hants Hospital, Boscombe
Branch.-Res. M.O..E250. Also Second Res. M.O. £200.Brighton, Hove, and Preston Dispensary -Res. M.O. :2200.Brighton, Sussex Throat and Ear Hospital, Ch7.trch-strect.-Isst. Hon. S.Bury County Borovgh.-Asst. M.O.H., Asst. Sch. M.0.. and Asst.
Tubetc. O. £500.Bury St. KdmMM<!’s, West Sztffolk Ge)teral -flosl)ita7.-Res. H.S..E175.Cairo, Egyptian Goverrzrrzent School of Medieirae.-Profe<sors and
Lecturers. BE.1000 and £E.600. Also Radiologist and Lect. in
Radiology, BE.500, Anaesthetist and Leet. in Anaestheties, £g.500,and Registrar and Tutor, £E.600.
Canterbury, Kent and Canterbury Hospital.-Juri. Res. M.O. £ 150.Capetown Free Dispertsary.-M.O. £500.Coventry and Warwit,,k,4hire Hospital.-Hou. Surg. Staff.Devortport, Royal Albert Hospital.-Res. H.S. *200.Dorchester, Dorset Courztzy Coxcneit.-Asst. M.O. £400.Dundee Corporation -Asst. Tubere. 0. and Asst. M.O. £300.EcelesallBierlow Union.-Res. M.a..2600.Ed2rzburgh City.-Clin. M.O. unrlerVenereal Diseases Scheme. JB750.Elizabeilt Garrett Andersort Hospital, Eitstoit-rc, ad. -Female Senior
Asst. JE200Exeter, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.-Sen. H.S. 2250.Gravesend Hospital.-H.S. £200.Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway, London.-Oph. S.Hospitalfor Corzsumption and Diseases of the Cheqt, Bro-mpton.-H.P.Isleworth Infirmary.-Sec. Asst. to Med. Supt. £300.h’harto2zrrz, Wellcome Trnpical Researcla Laborator2es. - Assistant
Bacteriologist..EE.600.Leeds University.-Lect. in Experi. Phys. £500. Demonstr. in Phys.
EZ50. Demonstr. in Hist..E250.Letcssier Royal Infirntary.-T as o Hon. Asst. P. and one Hon. Asst. S.
