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SHORTAGE OF MEDICAL MANPOWER IN

AMERICAN STATES

A REPORT shows that by 1975 there will be a serious short-age of doctors in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, andRhode Island.l Family doctors (general practitioners,general internists, and paediatricians) are already scarce,forming only a third of the profession; 80% of these areover 50 years of age. But specialists in the three States areincreasing in number, forming 37% of all physicians; 44%of these are over 50 years old, while 56% are under 50.There is a total of approximately 12,450 doctors for thearea, which has an estimated population of 7,070,000. Thethree States urgently need more doctors, distributed moreevenly among the branches of the profession.

University of CambridgeDr. I. M. Glynn has been appointed reader in membrane

physiology.

University of LondonSir Brian Windeyer has been elected vice-chancellor for

1970-71.The title of emeritus professor of pathology has been

conferred on Prof. W. H. McMenemey.

University of EdinburghDr. T. W. Manson has been appointed lecturer in general

practice, Dr. I. J. T. Parboosingh lecturer in obstetrics andgynxcology, and Mrs. B. Davis lecturer in orthopaedicsurgery.

University of GlasgowThe following degrees have been conferred in absentia:M.9D.-M. C. Macnaughton, J. D. Miller (with commendation).Ph.D.-J. O’D. McGee.

University of WalesThe honorary degree of LL.D. is to be conferred on

Dr. A. T. Jones, formerly provost of the Welsh NationalSchool of Medicine.

Royal College of Physicians of LondonAt a meeting of the college on April 30, with Sir Max

Rosenheim, president, in the chair, the following wereelected to the fellowship:

T. S. Rodgers, Julius Libman, T. S. Stone, Elchon Hinden, M. R.Thomas, J. R. M. Mackie, A. A. Cunningham, T. G. Armstrong, LouisCherniack, R. A. A. Pellew, Eli Davis, I. S. Buchanan, K. J. Mann, RalphSouthward, Arthur Guest, Hendrik Muller, Lalbhai Madhavlal Sanghvi,A. L. Wyman, J. D. Ball, M. 0. J. Gibson, Donald Wilson, D. L.Caldwell, J. E. O’N. Gillespie, I. R. S. Gordon, R. A. Moir, LawrenceNagley, R. E. Rewell, L. W. Smith, L. A. Hawkins, P. M. Inman,S. J. R. Macoun, D. P. Jones, Zina E. Moncrieff, J. G. Howlett, R. I.MacCallum, P. B. Newcomb, Maneck Phiroshaw Bhagat, T. A. Grimson,T. C. Highton, G. M. Little, Amiya Bhusan Mukerjee, E. G. SitaLumsden, Patience E. Davies, 0. W. Chapman, G. R. B. Newns, ManuelAnderson, E. F. B. Cadman, W. E. Mahon, H. McC. Giles, SusannaIsaacs, Mark Hewitt, J. P. Gemmell, A. M. Jellirfe, J. W. Lacey, G. R. E.Naylor, B. W. Powell, T. L. Reeves, F. E. Crawley, Richard Fletcher,J. N. Harris-Jones, Esther E. Simpson, James Carson, B. F. Gans,G. R. Handy, Margaret M. Henderson, Anne E. McCandless, Max Zoob,James Black, J. P. Donaghy, J. S. Frew, I. P. McL. MacDougall, A. J.Moon, Thomas Semple, 0. H. Warwick R. A. Craig, W. J. Hay, F. E.Joules, J. E. Royds, Thomas, Stapleton, R. S. Stevens, Malcolm Watt,C. B. I. Willey, M. W. W. Wood, C. G. Fagg, H. C. Hamilton, Mah-moud Ahmed Hassanein, Joseph Jacobs, D. N. Lawson, J. N. Milnes,Catherine A. Neill, B. F. Swynnerton, R. B. Wilson, B. F. Brearley,1. Published by the Tri-State Regional Medical Program, Room 400,

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P. E. Dipple, T. J. B. Geffen, J. C. Pease, D. G. B. Richards, J. K.,Wagstaff, R. L. Ward, D. B. Buckley, R. B. Coles, G. A. Newsholme.J. F. P. Quinton, F. F. D. Rosenthal, W. S. Suffern, P. N. Swift, L. AWilson, Fred Ziady, D. H. Garrow, Thomas Hanley, G. E. Honey,Solly Lopis, R. A. Shanks, A. C. Blandy, H. J. Boutourline-Young,L. C. Lum, J. K. Martin, J. L. Taylor, J. P. P. Bradshaw, Alice M. Bush,R. J. Calvert, Dewi Davies, G. F. Edwards, R. M. Forrester, H. J.Goldsmith, K. S. Holt, Mohammad Akhtar Khan, D. E. Meredith,L. D. Osler, I. G. Wickes, P. G. Arblaster, I. W. Caldwell, J. W. B.Forshaw, Brian McNicholl, E. G. McQueen, E. S. Clarke, J. E. McA.Glancy, A. J. Karlish, R. C. King, A. S. Turner, D. G. Vulliamy, T. B.Binns, J. M. Gardiner, R. M. Hardisty, H. E. M. Kay, N. A. Lewtas,F. G. Bolton, H.-J. B. Galbraith, J. T. Cahill, J. N. Montgomery, P. J. D.Snow, M. C. Joseph, G. S. Ratnavale, A. P. Waterson, Eirian Williams,G. A. Beck, Ronald Lwin, George Selby, D. E. Sharvill, R. H. Balme,P. B. Croft, E. T. Bassadone, M. I. M. Pines, K. B. Taylor, J. S. Jenkins,Roeinton Burjor Framji Khambatta, M. K. Towers, John Butler, W. G.Manderson, 0. P. Gray, G. A. Rose, Maurice Garretts, Noshir HormusjiWadia, Pathiyil Karthiyayani Krishnankutti, P. 0. Williams, D. G.Julian, L. H. Capel, T. B. Counihan, R. E. Gruchy, Adolf Polak, J. H.Ross, J. P. D. Thomas, A. S. Grimble, A. W. Steinbeck, B. W. Webb,L. A. G. Davidson, S. I. Cohen, E. D. R. Campbell, J. M. Hinton, J. N.Mickerson, J. I. S. Robertson, P. A. J. Ball, G. R. Tudhope, J. A.Weaver, Stephen Mattingly, J. N. Blau, J. B. Foster, C. W. H. Havard,J. D. H. Slater, P. G. F. Nixon, C. M. Oakley, G. F. Joplin, E. W. Jones,Harry Keen, K. R. Hill, J. J. Brown, M. R. P. Hall, John Richmond,Geoffrey Howitt, T. 0. 0. Ogunlesi, E. H. 0. Parry, Verna Wright,N. F. Jones, K. J. Zilkha, M. G. Gelder, G. M. Stern, J. M. Evanson,Reginald Hall, J. G. Humble, F. 0. MacCallum, W. P. D. Logan, 1. A. D.Bouchier, A. R. Blowers, Max Hamilton, Michael Shepherd, J. 0. F.Davies, D. L. Davies, A. G. Beam, C. E. G. Smith, Aron Holzel, D. A.Mitchison, Daniel Thomson, Sir Hedley J. B. Atkins, G. A. H. Buttle,Pierre Dorolle, Walsh McDermott, Vuliniiri Ramalingaswami, JulesStahl, Nanna Svartz.

The following were admitted as members:A. H. Crisp, J. A. Dudgeon, W. H. W. Inman, Vilo Jurkovic, C. S.

Leithead, R. R. Willcox, E. S. Williams.

Licences to practise were conferred on the following:R. M. Abbott, Mohammad Mukhtar Ahmad, P. R. Allen, C. J.

Andrews, David Armstrong, D. G. Aspin, P. G. Baddeley, K. W. Barber,I. R. Battye, C. R. B. Bayliss, Omer Mohamed Beleil, Sharada RamBhandary, Susan G. Bradley, R. L. Broadhead, P. M. Brown, C. H.Browne, A. M. Brownjohn, Diana J. Caldwell, Beatrice D. L. Chamber-lain, Wing Hon Chan, Margaret L. Clifford, M. P. Corbey, M. N. P.Comell, Michael Cullen, Claire M. B. Cunliffe, Bhabatosh Das, B. A. J.Davidson, Brian Dayawala, Ruth Dobson, Geoffrey J. Druce, Lesley R.Duckett, Patricia J. Eayrs, D. L. Edbrooke, Giines Nurettin Ege, P. J.Fenner, R. C. Fox, J. R. Fozard, Sandra R. Garai, Malay BhusonGhosh, R. L. Gower, D. N. Gowland, John Gray, R. M. Hall, A. S.Harding, Janet E. Hargreaves, J. G. Harvey, Diana G. Hayes, Patricia A.Heckles, J. D. Hill, Stephanie C. Hill, James Hinton, Peter Ping Ho,Vivien J. I. Holgate, Kay Hollingsworth, D. H. Horwell, Frances M.Howard, R. B. Hutcheson, J. S. Isaac, T. M. Jack, Graham Jackson, C.G. Jamieson, M. D. Jenkins, R. C. Johnson, N. K. Jones, R. N. Jones,Roberta M. E. Jones, S. W. Kadleigh, M. J. Kelly, P. W. Kemp, I. F.Kerr, M. G. Kerr Muir, Mohamed Abubaker La’ajam, D. N. W. Lake,Arnold Jaikaran Laljie, G. S. Lang, Margaret E. Leigh, C. B. Lessell,M. S. Lewis, B. D. Linaker, E. A. Lloyd, Diana M. Lowe, J. C. Lowry,Clare V. McCormick, R. E. McCune, J. D. MacGuire, Rajat Maitra,Satyabrata Maitra, Louise J. Malbon, R. P. Mandeville, S. P. Marr,M. A. Martin, Adil Salman Georges Mary, Jonathan Michael, MohamedAbouzeid Mohamed, M. C. Monk, Anne H. Murray, R. H. M. Nanka-Bruce, M. F. H. Nelki, G. C. K. Nkwazi, J. M. A. Northover, I. M.O’Brien, P. H. O’Reilly, Elisabeth W. Paice, N. V. J. Pairaudeau,Richard Pease, Diane M. Price, R. J. Prior, Jozef Ragaz, D. B. Rimmer,N. J. Ring, B. S. Robinson, J. N. Rosenberg, Ann E. Rowlands, P. A.Sackin, I. A. Saunders, J. R. Sauvey, C. S. Sellick, Barbara L. Skew,K. A. Smales, J. 0. Soul, H. W. Steer, D. G. Stubbing, M. G. St. J.Sutton, D. J. Sydenham, J. F. Talbot, Anne E. Tattersall, R. G. Tayton,P. M. Thompson, J. N. Thorley, M. 0. Thorner, Anna-Maria Tihanyi,Peter Tivy-Jones, R. S. Trompeter, M. S. Turner, A. G. Tyers, S. H.Vincent, M. P. Virapen, Nicholas Walker, A. R. G. Ward, Fiona B.Webster, A. C. White, N. S. Williams, R. G. Wright, Heather J. M.Wynburne, Philip Zachariah, Zdenek Zych, M. F. O’Dowd, WafikTawfik Elias.

Diplomas were granted as follows:D.A.-Babiba Hamid Ali Syed, Thakur Sukdeo Singh.D.C.H.-Isaac Abraha, Siham Addass, Shashi Prabha Aggarwal,

Chattar Singh Ahlawat, Syed Sabahuddin Ahmad, Anand Sheel Ahuja,Qusay Abas Al-Rahim, Karim Hamad Al-Rikabi, Mohamed FasihuddinAli Khan, P. A. Andersen, S. H. Annobil, Anek Aribarg, PararasanArulanantham, Madan Ramlal Bahl, Ghada Michael Bishouty, D. J.Bolitho, J. V. Brooke, Mary F. Brown, Dale Ann Bryan, Sheila A.Clark, S. J. Cohen, Penelope A. Cook, Marion R. Crouchman, Clare AlCunningham, Abdulsultan Akbar Datoo, J. M. Davies, Astrid Dunsis,D. M. Easton, P. D. Eisman, Christos Eliades, Abd el Moneim El Seed,R. H. Eve, Jayashree Arun Firodia, Jean C. Firth, Judith A. Fraser,S. S. Gerber, Rasheed Ghani, Alan Greenwood, Katherine E. Handler,P. R. Harris, Kathleen A. Huey, Helen E. Hughes, H. A. Hunt, Syed

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Mohammad Zafar Imam, R. J. G. Irons, P. C. Jackman, Abdul RahimMohammad Jalal, E. P. James, Rohantha Lakshman Jayakuru, Mahindade Silva Jayasinghe, Cathleen M. Jennings, Sarah Wadi Jijji, DivyaVinod Khiroya, Valerian Pius Kimati, Christopher Kirya, AravindSwamirao Kulkarni, Nadira Hatim Lakdawalla, Omprakash VishindasLalla, J. 0. Lawani, Chung-Hsiang Lee, Ping Wen Lee, Sujatha ManelLena, Sai Wing Michael Leung, Q. G. Livingstone, C. J. H. McLachlan,V. A. Madappuli, J. P. Malcolm, J. S. Martin, Jacqueline S. Maxmin,J. R. Maxwell, Henry Meadows, Arjun Dev Mehta, S. T. Meller,Mattampilli Divakara Menon. Margaret M. Miles, M. D. S. Mkono,J. S. Mortimer, Rasiklal Narshidas Morzaria, Sanat Kumar Nallainathan,Joyee Nobis, J. R. Norman, M. G. Nutting, Hong Geok Oon, Angela M.Owen-Smith, T. S. Parry, Nisha Subhash Parulekar, RameshchanderPatalay, S. J. Philiips, A. M. E. Pichanick, J. T. Quill, Abu Siddiq FallurRahman, Shubha Lakshmi Rao, Satindra Nath Ray, Mary A. Reece,A. D. Revel, David Roberts-Thomson, J. G. Rogers, J. F. Roper, R. J.Rowlatt, Joyce L. Rowley, Mohammad Saeed, G. B. Salmon, RosalindM. F. Sanderson, Sheila Santamaria, I. P. Q. Scott, MaduwegedaraJayasundara Mudiyanselage Senevirathne-Banda, Naresh Popatlal Shah,Bernard Singer, NarasLmha Reddy Soma, C. M. M. Stern, DavidStratton, Siong Lui Tan, G. J. A. Walker, Rosemary A. Weston Under-wood, J. A. R. Willis, P. W. M. Windsor, Susan E. Wood, Janet G. Yassa.D.M.R.D.-Joan K. Watters, John Cripps.

Royal College of PathologistsThe college is to move into its new premises at 2 Carlton

House Terrace, London S.W.1, on May 12.

Chadwick Prize

The Chadwick prize and medal are to be presented toWing Commander F. C. Hurrell.

New Chair of NeurologyThe National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases

has given f:l00,OOO to establish a chair of neurology at theInstitute of Psychiatry, University of London. Clinical faci-lities will be provided at King’s College Hospital.

Television in Medicine

This is to be the subject of the eighth meeting of theSouth East Forum for the use of Closed Circuit Television,which will be held on Thursday, May 14, at 2.30 P.M., at theBritish Medical Association Headquarters, Tavistock

Square, London W.C.1. A charge of 7s. 6d. will be made.Registration forms may be had from Mr. G. E. Thomas,secretary to the Forum, at the City University, St. JohnStreet, London E.C.1.

Supplies of L-dopaThe Department of Health and Social Security has told

doctors that supplies of L-dopa approved by the Committeeon Safety of Drugs are shortly to become available in signi-ficant quantities. At first there will be sufficient for only9000 to 10,000 patients, but in the late autumn a consider-able expansion of production is anticipated. Of some60,000 patients in England and Wales with Parkinson’sdisease between a third and two-thirds might be expectedto benefit from L-dopa; and, since those who do benefitshould not subsequently be deprived of the drug, there will,for a time, be a gap between supply and demand. Duringthis period L-dopa will be distributed on a quota system tohospitals only, the amount to depend on the population ofeach hospital region. Until such time as supplies sufficientfor all patients likely to benefit from L-dopa can be guaran-teed, the drug will not be available on form E.c.lO.

Andre Lichtwitze PrizeThis prize is awarded each year by the Institut National

de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale to an individual or ateam (French or foreign) for research on calcium and

phosphate metabolism in clinical or experimental biology,or in basic science. The prize is worth approximatelyf 440. Details of application, which should be made beforeJune 30, may be had from Mlle. Ladeveze at the institute,3 rue Leon Bonnat, Paris XVI.

Family Planning for Dominican RepublicThree mobile family-planning clinics are to be presented

to the Dominican Republic by the Ministry of OverseasDevelopment. The clinics, costing S15,000, are a gift forthe National Council for Population and the FamilyProgramme, and will provide family-planning services forthe rural population of the country, which forms two-thirdsof its inhabitants.

Hereditary Disorders of Sulphur MetabolismThis is the subject of a meeting to be held by the Society

for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism in Belfaston July 2-4. Details may be had from Dr. Nina A. J.Carson, Department of Child Health, Queen’s Universityof Belfast, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BJ.

British Society for Clinical CytologyThe annual scientific meeting of the society will be held in

Manchester on June 22-24. The two main topics are to bebasic cytology and population screening. Details may behad from the secretary, Dr. 0. A. N. Husain, Departmentof Cytology, Group Laboratory, St. Stephen’s Hospital,Fulham Road, London S.W.10.

Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Dick Caldwell has been appointedexecutive director of the Medical Council on Alcoholism Ltd.

CORRIGENDUM: Markers for Chronic Pyelonephritis.-In ourleader (April 11, p. 758) we wrongly said that some of the renal-biopsy material examined by Aoki et al. had been obtained duringoperations on the gastrointestinal tract. The operations were onthe genitourinary tract.

AppointmentsCAMM, P. R., M.B. Lond., F.F.R., D.M.R.D.: consultant radiologist, West

Dorset H.M.C.DATTA GUPTA, K. K., M.B. Calcutta, F.R.C.S.E., D.L.O.: consultant E.N.T.

surgeon, Lincoln and Grantham H.M.c.s and Gainsborough area.LiNDUP, RHONA, M.B. Lond., F.F.R., D.M.R.T.: consultant radiotherapist,

Royal Free Hospital, London.MALLETT, K. J. H., M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.E., D.L.O. : consultant

E.N.T. surgeon, Lincoln and Grimsby H.M.c.s.SALSBURY, A. J., M.D. Cantab.: consultant haematologist, Brompton

Hospital, London.SUTHERLAND, I. B., M.B. Edin., D.P.H.: senior administrative officer,

South Western R.H.B.VANYA, M. M., M.D. Zagreb, D.P.M.: consultant psychiatrist, Mansfield

area, and Saxondale Hospital, Radcliffe-on-Trent.WILLIAMS, R. P., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.P. : consultant geriatrician, Northern

General Hospital, Sheffield.

Northern Ireland Hospitals AuthorityBALMER, J. P., M.D., B.sc. Belf., F.F.R., D.M.R.D.: consultant radio-

logist, South Belfast H.M.c.BROWN, J. N., M.B. Belf., F.F.R., D.M.R.D.: consultant radiologist,

Coleraine and Portrush/North Antrim H.M.C.S.BURROWS, B. D., M.B. Belf., F.F.R., D.M.R.T.: consultant radiotherapist,

Northern Ireland Fever H.M.c.CURRY, R. C., M.B. Cantab., F.R.c.s.: consultant in general surgery and

vascular surgery, South Belfast H.M.c.HOLLAND, E. L., M.B. Dubl., M.R.C.O.G.: consultant obstetrician and

gynaecologist. South Down H.M.C.KINLEY, J. G., M.B. Belf., F.R.C.S.E.; consultant in general surgery,

East Antrim H.M.c.KNOX, J. W. D., M.B. Belf., F.F.A. R.C.S.: consultant anaesthetist,

Mid-Antrim H.M.c.LAIRD, J. D., M.B. Belf., F.F.R., D.M.R.D.: consultant radiologist,

Londonderry H.M.c.LOAN, W. B., M.D. Belf., F.F.A. R.c.s.: consultant anaesthetist. South

Belfast H.M.c.LOWRY, R. C., M.B., B.sc. Belf., M.R.C.P.: consultant in general

medicine. South Belfast H.M.c.LYTTLE, J. A., M.D. Belf., M.R.C.P.: consultant neurologist, Belfast and

South Belfast H.M.c.s.MACCALLUM, W. A. G., M.B. Belf., M.R.C.P.I., D.P.M. : consultant

psychiatrist, Purdysburn H.M.c.MAYNE, D. G., M.B. Belf., M.R.C.P., D.P.M. : consultant psychiatrist,

St. Luke’s H.M.c.PULVERTAFT, C. N., M.D. Cantab., F.F.R., D.M.R.E. : consultant radio-

logist, Western and Fermanagh H.M.C.S.