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Sir ARNOLD WALKER, who was chairman of the CentralMidwives Board from 1946 to 1967, died on Sept. 14.

Prof. MARIANo R. CASTEX, who held the chair of internalmedicine at the University of Buenos Aires for nearly thirtyyears, died on July 30 at the age of 82. He was rector of thatuniversity, an honorary president of the National Academy ofMedicine, and a founder member of the International Societyof Internal Medicine.

Dr. RUDOLF SCHINDLER, who died in Munich on Sept. 7aged 80, received his medical degree in Berlin in 1912 andlived in the U.S.A. from 1934 to 1965, when he returned toGermany. He invented a rigid gastroscope in 1922 and aflexible one in 1932.

Dr. PAUL SANGER died in Houston on Sept. 9, aged 62. Hereceived his M.D. from Vanderbilt and was chief of thoracicand cardiovascular surgery at Charlotte Memorial Hospital.He invented the orlon arterial graft and was a member of thePresident’s Commission on Heart-disease, Cancer, and Stroke.

Dr. KENNETH M. DAY died on Sept. 9, aged 72. He receivedhis M.D. from Johns Hopkins and, himself partly deaf,specialised in ear surgery and devised a successful operationfor Meniere’s disease.

Appointments

BARNES, ROY, M.A. Cantab., D.P.H.: deputy county M.o.H. and deputyprincipal school M.o., Gloucestershire.

BRENNEN, R. G., M.B. Belf., D.P.H. : M.O.H., South-West Kent joint health area,BURN-MURDOCH, KATHARINE A., M.B. Edin., F.F.A. R.C.S.: consultant anxs-

thetist, West Fife.DAVIDSON, W. G., M.D. St. And., D.P.H., D.I.H., D.T.M. & H.: provincial

epidemiologist and director, communicable disease control, departmentof public health, Saskatchewan, Canada.

ESPIR, M. L. E., M.B. Cantab., M.R.C.P. : consultant neurologist, DerbyshireRoyal Infirmary.

HARRIES, SARA J., M.B. Brist.: senior M.o., Derbyshire.LAMB, J. T., M.B. Edin., F.F.R.: consultant radiologist, United Leeds Hos-

pitals and Leeds R.H.B.MUNRO, J. F., M.B. Edin., M.R.C.P.E. : consultant physician, Eastern General

Hospital, Edinburgh.ROBERTS, A. PATRICIA, M.B. Lond., M.R.C.O.G : consultant obstetrician and

gyniecologist, Thames hospital group.TUCKER, P. E., M.B. Lond., D.M.R.D.: consultant radiologist, Romford hos-

pital group.WALTER, NORA, M.B Belf., D.c.H.: principal M.o., Sutton.WATKINSON, GEOFFREY, M.D. Lond., F.R.C.P.: consultant physician, Knights-

wood Hospital and the Western Infirmary, Glasgow.

South Western Regional Hospital Board:BoYD, D. W., B.M Oxon., M.R.C.P. : consultant in general medicine, Devon

and Exeter clinical area, North Devon.CELESTIN, L. R., M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.E. : consultant general surgeon,

Bristol clinical area.COLLIE, J. A., M.B. Cape Town, F.F.A. R.C.S., D.OBST.: consultant anves-

thetist, Plymouth clinical area.EvisON, GORDON, M.B. Manc., F.F.R. : consultant radiologist, Bath clinical

area.

HARRISON, KATHLEEN J., M.D. Brist., M.C.PATH., D.OBST., D.C.H.: consultantpathologist, Bristol clinical area.

HEWER, R. L., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.P. : consultant neurologist, Bristol clinicalarea.

HYLAND, JOHN, M.B. Dubl., F.F.A. R.C.S. : consultant anaesthetist, WestCornwall clinical area.

NORMAN, P. F., M.B. Manc., F.F.R.: consultant neuroradiologist, Plymouthclinical area.

PARSONS, J. B., M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.C.S. : consultant anaesthetist, Weston-super-Mare.

PIGOTT, R. W., M.B. Dubl., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.I. : consultant plastic surgeon,based on Frenchay Hospital.

PROUT, B. J., M.D., PH.D. Lond., M.R.C.P. : consultant in general medicine,West Cornwall clinical area.

REDMAN, L. R., M.B. Dubl., F.F.A. R.C.S., D.OBST.: consultant anaathetist,Bath clinical area.

ROBY JONES, CHRISTOPHER, M.B. L’pool, M.R.C.P. : consultant geriatrician,Devon and Exeter clinical area, North Devon.

SHORT, D. H., M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.c.s.: consultant anaesthetist, Bristolclinical area.

SIMB, D. A., M.B. Edin., D.P.M. : consultant psychiatrist, Devon andExeter clinical area.

TANSER, A. R., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.P. : consultant physician (diseases of thechest), Bath clinical area.

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DRUG DEPENDENCE: AGENCIES AND PUBLICATIONS

OF HELP IN EDUCATION

THE following list, which is representative rather thanexhaustive, sets out some of the sources of guidance open tothose seeking to receive and give instruction on the abuse ofdrugs. Besides national organisation there are a growingnumber of local associations concerned with drug educationand prevention of addiction.

AGENCIES

Association for the Prevention of Addiction (formerly Associationfor the Parents of Addicts), 24 Cranbourne Street, London W.1(01-836-3781), is an activist organisation concerned with educationand urging the need for more and better treatment and rehabilitationfacilities. Lectures can be arranged, educational material is available,and A.P.A. is willing to foster the setting-up of local branches.

Central Council for Health Education, Tavistock House North,Tavistock Square, London W.C.1 (01-387-3341), has a lecturerwilling to give talks on drug education and organise discussions. TheCouncil is more interested in working through contacts with healthdepartments, teachers’ training colleges, and parent-teacher associa-tions than in directly addressing groups of pupils.

Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence, Chandos House,2 Queen Anne Street, London W.1 (01-580-2518). The hon.director is Mr. Frank Logan. The aims of the Institute are to

collect, collate, interpret, and disseminate the results of researchwork, to promote research, to establish a reference library, to providefacilities for meetings, and to provide objective information,especially to those who help to form public opinion.

Narcotics Anonymous (Rev. Douglas C. Hatchard, Flat D,Regency Court, 37 Albert Square, London S.W.8) (01-735-9911) is avoluntary organisation which was set up in November, 1965. Itdeals with all types of addiction and aims to set up rehabilitationcentres. Meanwhile, it is able to offer support in individual cases.

The National Association for Mental Health, 39 Queen AnneStreet, London W.I. (01-935-1272). The N.A.M.H. bookshopoffers a good selection of books and pamphlets on the drug problem.

PUBLICATIONS

General AccountsThe following are suitable for the teacher and for any lecturer who

wants to do a bit of reading-up.Shorter

Drug Addiction. Office of Health Economics, 162 Regent Street,London W.I. 1967. 2s. 6d., post free.Drug Dependence. Dr. Antony J. Wood, Health Department,

Tower Hill, Bristol 2. Revised edition 1968. 2s. 6d. A succinctand comprehensive summary.

LongerAspects of Drug Addiction. Martin Silberman, Royal London

Prisoners’ Aid Society, 56 Stamford Street, London S.W.I. 1967.7s. 6d.

Drugs. Peter Laurie. Penguin. April, 1967. 5s.The Drug Scene in Great Britain. Dr. Max Glatt, Prof. David

Pittman, Dr. Duff Gillespie, and Mr. Donald R. Hills. London:Edward Arnold. 1967. 15s.

Legal AspectsDrugs and Civil Liberties. National Council for Civil Liberties,

4 Camden High Street, London N.W.I. 5s. A summary of

existing drug laws and recommendations for reform.

Drugs and the Police. Detective-Superintendent Terence Jones.London: Butterworths. 1968. 10s. A good summary of thecontribution of the police to problems of drug-addiction prevention.Publications for Young PeopleAbout Drugs. Dr. J. D. Wright, senior medical officer, Health

Department, 59 Waterloo Road, Wolverhampton. 9d. each or

E3 1 Os. per 100. 1968. A particularly nicely presented " pop "account.

Drugs and Young People: their Use and Abuse. Rev. KennethLeech and Brenda Jordan. Oxford: The Religious Education Press(member of Pergamon Press). 10s. 6d. 1967. An intelligentaccount for teenagers, which will also interest many adults.For Parents

Advice to Parents: Hints upon Drug Abuse. Dr. Dale Beckett, con-sultant psychiatrist, Cane Hill Hospital. An information sheet pre-pared by the Association for the Prevention of Addiction, from whichcopies may be obtained at ld. each or 10d. per dozen, postage extra.

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SHOWERS AT SCHOOL

AN impression that many girls disliked taking showers and,that this dislike had led to absence from school and, perhaps,difficulties in adjustment for children unused to this practice,has been confirmed in a survey of thirteen-year-olds at a com-prehensive school at Gosport.1 Girls and boys showeredseparately, 70 at a time, after physical education and beforeand after swimming: the shower-rooms were, at times, verycrowded. Boys and girls differed widely in their attitudes toshowers. Of 117 girls, over a third did not like them, and allbut 2 would prefer to shower alone (33) or with just one or twofriends (82): only 1 of 104 boys did not like showers, and 36preferred to be with many others. However, boys and girlsagreed that showers were important or helpful for personalhygiene. Dr. Wallis interprets these findings as a reaction,"

at an age where the search for identity is very important ",against the depersonalising experience of

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being in a crowdedmass of naked humanity ", but offers little justification for thisconclusion. It may be, as she suggests, that adults would reactto mass showering in exactly the same way.

University of LondonThe title of professor of environmental medicine has been

conferred on Dr. P. J. Lawther in respect of his post at St.Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College.

Dr. Lawther, who is 47 years of age, was educated at King’sCollege, London. In the 1939-45 war he was engaged in the chemicalindustry, after which he read medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hos-pital, from which he qualified M.B. in 1950. After holding junior postson the medical professorial unit at Barts he became associate chiefassistant to the unit. Since 1955 he has directed the M.R.C. AirPollution Research Unit, which is accommodated at Barts, and he isconsultant physician in environmental medicine to the hospital. Heis also director of the W.H.O. International Reference Centre on AirPollution. He took the M.R.c.P. in 1954 and was elected a fellow ofthe college in 1963. His published work has been principally con-cerned with atmospheric pollution and its effects of health, in relationespecially to the aetiology of chronic bronchitis and of lung cancer.

The title of reader in biochemistry has been conferred onDr. B. Gowerk in respect of his post at Guy’s Hospital MedicalSchool, and the title of reader in biomedical engineering onDr. J. T. Scales in respect of his post at the Institute of

Orthopaedics.Prof. P. C. C. Garnham, F.R.S., is to give the Heath Clark

lectures at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,Keppel Street, Gower Street, London W.C.1, on Dec. 3, 5, 9,and 10 at 5.30 P.M. He will speak on progress in parasitology.

Royal College of Surgeons of EnglandThe annual meeting of fellows and members of the college

is to be held at the University of East Anglia on Sept. 27 and28. Lord Brock is to give an Astley Cooper oration entitledAstley Cooper, a link between Hunter and Lister; and SirHedley Atkins, P.R.C.S., is to receive the honorary degree ofD.sc. Details of the programme of symposia may be had fromMr. W. F. Davis, public relations officer of the college, Lin-coln’s Inn Fields, London W.C.2.

King’s College Hospital Medical SchoolDr. J. L. Turk is to lecture at the school, Denmark Hill,

London S.E.5, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 5.30 P.M. His subjectwill be cell-mediated immune response.

Royal College of General PractitionersLord Amulree is to give a James Mackenzie lecture on the

future of medicine on Saturday, Nov. 16, at 11.30 A.M., at theBritish Medical Association House, Tavistock Square, LondonW.C.l. This will be followed at 2 P.M. by the annual generalmeeting. A symposium on the evaluation of the quality ofmedical care in Britain will be held on Sunday, Nov. 17, at9 A.M., at the Wellcome Building, 183 Euston Road, LondonN.W.1.

1. Wallis, E. M. Med. Offr, 1968, 120, 140.

Royal Free HospitalDr. J. G. Rankin (Melbourne) is to lecture on alcohol and

the liver on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 5.15 P.M., at the depart-ment of medicine of the hospital, Gray’s Inn Road, LondonW.C.1.

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The 1969 Nuffield Travelling fellowship in general practice forNew Zealand has been awarded to Dr. J. G. Richards (Auckland).

Pamphlets and Reports

A Guide to the Abortion Act 1967. The Abortion Law ReformAssociation has sent a copy of this guide to all general practitioners,and to obstetricians and gynaecologists and other hospital and admin-istrative staff. (Obtainable from the Association, 48 Sherrard Road,London E.7. 3s. 6d.)

Encyclopaedia of Cybernetics. This rapidly developing sciencefinds particular application in biological-control theory and in neuro-physiology. This book is a translation of the Lexikon der Kybernetik,first published in 1964. (Manchester: Manchester University Press.50s.)

The Treatment of Mental Disorders in the Community. Theproceedings of a symposium held in London in November, 1967.(London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cassell. 16s.)

Pain. The proceedings of an international symposium held inParis in April, 1967. (London and New York: Academic Press.t6 6s.)

Infant Loss in the Netherlands. Trends in infant and perinatalmortality up to 1965 are here reviewed by Dr. J. H. de Haas-Posthumaand Dr. J. H. de Haas of the Netherlands Institute for PreventiveMedicine. (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.,20402.$0.50.)

Directory of High-Energy Radiotherapy Centres. (H.M.Stationery Office and other International Atomic Energy Agencysales agents. 29s. 2d.;$3.50).

Toxicity of Anesthetics. Proceedings of a research symposiumheld in Seattle in May, 1967. (Edinburgh: Livingstone. Baltimore:Williams & Wilkins. f,7 7s. 6d.)

Acute Respiratory Diseases. A symposium organised by theCollege of Pathologists in London in February, 1968, and publishedas supplement no. 2 to vol. xxi of the Journal of Clinical Pathology.(Obtainable from the Journal, B.M.A. House, Tavistock Square,London W.C.I. 30s.)

Transactions of the American Society for Artificial InternalOrgans : vol. xiv. The 1968 meeting of this Society was held inPhiladelphia in April. (Obtainable from Dr. George E. Schreiner,Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital, Washing-ton, D.C. 20007.$12.)

Aspects of Resuscitation. The Proceedings of the SecondInternational Symposium on Emergency Resuscitation held inOslo in 1967 and published as supplement xxix to Acta Anæsthesio-logica Scandinavica. (Aarhus : Universitetsforlaget I Aarhus. Dan. kr.75;$10.)

Data Acquisition and Processing in Biology and Medicine:vol. v. The Proceedings of the 1966 Rochester Conference. (Oxford:Pergamon. E6 6s.)

Medical Social Work in Action. This report, no. 26 of a seriesof Occasional Papers on Social Administration, has been prepared byZofia Butrym, lecturer in social work at the London School ofEconomics and Political Science. It is an analysis of the records of607 patients seen by social workers at the Hammersmith Hospitalover a two-month period. (London: Bell. 28s.)