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had experience in paediatrics as an intern in Montreal andhad, indeed, done some practice from his father’s house, andhis mind was made up to make his career in this specialtywhen he came to England-and how brilliantly he succeeded.

" During the first fifteen years of his life in London hetravelled everywhere by public transport, and it was not untilthe beginning of the war that he was compelled to get a car tocope with the increased travelling necessitated by the evacua-tion of children from London and by his responsibility forthe supervision of the children in the homes of the NationalInstitute for the Blind, whose medical consultant he hadbecome. This work involved him in long car journeys and hehad a second-hand Daimler with fluid fly-wheel adapted forhis use, so that it could be completely controlled by hand. Itwas an astonishing sight to see him manipulate himself intohis car. He would stand, holding the open door, while hedeposited his crutches beside the driving-seat and then care-fully install himself alongside them.

" During his early years as a consultant he lived in a flat inthe precincts of St. Paul’s Cathedral, but later he bought ahouse in Barnet where he became a keen gardener, his specialhobby being his greenhouse where he could work erect, forthe kneeling posture of most gardeners was impossible for him.

" It was a particular irony of fate that his last illness, likethat of his childhood, should involve him in spontaneousfractures from bone metastases. But he bore this last inflictionwith the fortitude and cheerfulness which had characterisedhis life. Friends, colleagues, old students, and house-officerspay tribute to a life spent selflessly in the service of the weakand helpless against odds with which few could have contended."

PROF. E. J. KINGD. W. M. writes:" One of E. J. King’s most endearing characteristics was his

complete absence of scientific snobbery. He was as willingalways to hear and weigh the views of his most junior colleaguesas those of the most illustrious worker or visitor in his depart-

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ment. Many scientists here and abroad must be grateful to himfor the confidence he thus inspired in them during their firststeps in research."

Dr. JOHN B. GRANT

J. R. R., who, as the observer for an internationalmental health organisation, often met Dr. Grant at theannual assemblies of the World Health Organisation,writes:

" I have a vivid memory of the first time I ever saw John.Standing in the corridor with a crowd of people which wasjust coming out of one of the committee rooms in the Palaisdes Nations, there was the spare figure of someone who

obviously had seen service in tropical countries. I noticed with

great interest that as he -passed through this crowd of repre-sentatives of so many countries of the world, all the older

public-health men, and a great many of the younger delegatesalso, knew him, smiled broadly, and waved, or spoke to him;and it was a fact that he knew practically all of them. This

was, of course, largely because he had worked with many ofthem in some capacity or other, but primarily because he likedpeople, and they in return liked him-one might say, lovedhim, as a human being as well as a great source of knowledge.When I got to know him, shortly after that, I too found himof the greatest support and help. He fully realised the some-what difficult task that I had at times of trying to improvethe understanding of mental-health principles in connectionwith the wider problems of public health, and he gave me goodadvice and considerable support. It has been to my greatregret that for the last few years I have not had the chance of

meeting him, but, like many other people, I can pay tribute tohis great qualities, and particularly the human qualities, whichhe possessed. We need many more people of his calibre andcharacter."

Notes and News

MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH FUND

SPEAKING at the annual general meeting of the MentalHealth Research Fund in London on Nov. 6, Prof. ERWINSTENGEL, professor of psychiatry at Sheffield, pointed out someof the ways in which research had increased our knowledge ofsuicide. Like accidents, suicides were hard to reduce by plannedaction. It had long been known that suicide was commoner inthe single than the married, and urban than in rural areas, butespecially topical was the finding that suicide was commoner inareas of prosperity, especially where the prosperity was pre-carious. Professor Stengel’s own studies, carried out with thehelp of the Mental Health Research Fund, had shown a strikingincrease in suicide in a community where local industry haddeclined and the young people were moving away. Suicide wasan index of the social, as well as the mental, health of a com-munity ; and research-workers must be careful in talking ofsuch studies, because Town Halls were intensely sensitive toevidence of high suicide-rates in their boroughs.Though most suicidal people had vulnerable and abnormal

personalities, only about a third of those who killed themselveswere psychiatric patients. Professor Stengel drew a distinctionbetween those who attempted and those who succeeded. Theattempt that failed was not just to be regarded as an inferiorversion of fatal suicide: the two groups of people differedgreatly. Successful suicides included more men (though theproportion of women was increasing), they were older, andmore often mentally ill. The majority of those who killedthemselves succeeded at the first attempt; while only 1 in 10of those who attempted the act died from that cause, eventhough attempts were characteristically repetitive. However,this group is at much greater risk than the population at large.Suicide attempts were often hushed up, especially in the highersocial classes, but there were at least 30,000 in this countryevery year, and perhaps half-a-million people in the UnitedKingdom who had attempted suicide in the past and weretherefore highly vulnerable.

Suicide had an aggressive component and it was good thatsociety’s aggressive response-the law against suicide-hadbeen repealed. The Ministry of Health had rightly declaredthat those who recover from suicide attempts should be seen

by a psychiatrist, but Professor Stengel doubted whether thepresent shortage of psychiatrists permitted this. Other meansof combating suicide lay in removing the means, but studiesin Europe had shown that detoxicating domestic gas onlydisplaced the suicide attempt from gas to drowning. Strictercontrol of drugs in this country had little to offer. Suicidalconduct must be fought at its roots, and this meant moreresearch. Lay helpers, as in the Samaritan movement, had auseful role to play in suicide prevention, provided they didnot try to act as experts. In suicide prevention the fightagainst alcohol was as important as that against suicide; anumber of countries showed correspondingly high levels forboth alcoholism and suicide, and also for divorce.Mr. IAN HENDERSON said the Fund had committed more

money in the previous year than ever before-over E45,000-and all resources were now fully committed. Applications formoney were greater in number and certainly not lower inquality than previously, but worthwhile projects were beingturned down solely through lack of funds. It was the firsttime in ten years that such a situation had arisen, and itinvolved both acknowledged leaders of research and promisingresearchers of the younger generation. Mr. Henderson con-trasted the massive voluntary aid given to other fields ofmedicine with the vast problems of mental illness-nearly halfthe hospital beds in the country. It seemed that the words" mental health " had failed to arouse the public’s sympathy,and Mr. Henderson called for ideas on a new name for theFund. Perhaps, he said, the Fund would develop into a

number of related organisations, one dealing with schizo-

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phrenia, another devoted to depression, and so on. For as

things were, public demand for research was pitiably small.Newspapers carried vivid headlines almost daily devoted tothe sensational criminal and other behaviour of the mentallyill or retarded, but not one had called attention in a leader tothe totally inadequate research structure in this country.The Fund, however, on the credit side, could look with

hope at recent developments. The Brighton and Hove branchwas well established, and supported research on schizophreniaat St. Francis’ Hospital, Haywards Heath. The Scottishbranch had got off to a good start and energetic work wasunder way at Salford. More regional organisations, it was

hoped, might come into being. Plans were advancing for theestablishment of the first permanent senior research post tobe sponsored by the Fund; and the booklet on Depression andSuicide,! a successor to that on Schizophrenia, had been muchin demand. A textbook, Aspects of Psychiatric Research,covering progress in various fields during the last ten years,had just been published for the Fund by the Oxford UniversityPress.The annual report of the Fund 1 tells of well over E200,000

given in grants since the work began, and an expanding numberof publications resulting from them-some two dozen papersduring the last year. But, as Mr. Henderson observed:" We’ve spent every penny we’ve got," and the prospects fornew ideas, new projects, and new researchers looks grim indeed.

University of OxfordOn Nov. 1 the degree ofB.M. was conferred on M. C. 0. Bax

and Mary B. Murray.

University of CambridgeOn Nov. 3 the degree of M.B. was conferred on G. I. M.

McLellan (by proxy).

University of BirminghamProf. A. L. d’Abreu, at present professor of cardiac surgery,

has been appointed to the chair of surgery in succession toProf. F. A. R. Stammers.

Royal College of Physicians of EdinburghAt a meeting of the college on Nov. 6 with Dr. J. D. S.

Cameron, the president, in the chair, the following wereelected to the fellowship:Sailendra Nath Sen, R. C. M. Pearson, Hugo Droller, Har Bans

Lal, J. R. Clark, N. S. Gordon, V. H. Wilson, A. W. B. Edmunds,D. C. Haig, A. A. Williams, J. A. Ross, Erich Kahn, Constance C.Forsyth, D. 1. McCallum, J. M. Barber, R. D. T. Cape, J. 0. Craig,R. W. Crocket, Samuel Wayburne, R. J. Cuthbert, R. A. Burston,A. A. H. Gailey, Doddaballapur Lakshmi Narasinha Murti Rao,Abdel Aziz Amin El-Sherif, Pashupati Nath Laha, George Selby,P. J. O’Connor, Bernard Snell, R. S. McNeill, Alan Lyell, AbulHasan Siddiqui, Robert Orton, Balbir Singh Khaira, H. G. Morgan,A. W. Mcl. Smith, W. D. L. Fernando, Mustaq Hasan, R. S. Morton,Hamish Watson, T. T. S. Ingram, L. A. G. Davidson, Stanley Bell,E. D. Caldwell, A. G. Baikie, T. E. Anderson, M. F. H. Kelleher,W. M. Millar, Robert Cruickshank, G. R. Hargreaves, J. M. Stowers,E. Me. McGirr, C. W. Kidd.The following were elected to the membership:J. W. McLaren, Donald Emslie-Smith, Antoinette M. H. MacMahon,

Mohamed Hosam Eldin Maamoun, Shanti Indra, Manohar Rao, MehoobAhmad, R. V. Williams, Purnendu Sen, J. A. K. Meikle, Joan P. Wright,Harold Caplan, Jagadish Tripathy, Tara Prasanna Das, Raj Nath Bhat, R. A.Owen, J. Mcl. Williamson, J. D. Kinloch, Brenda Grant, P. D. Robertson,Halubai Narasimha Murthy, N. McK. Bennett, Jacoba Geefhuysen,Khaldoun Mahmoud Fadhel Janabi, Christian Oritsetimeyin Alele, PrafullaChandra Saliu, S. Gopalakrishnan, B. A. M. Smith, Hla Tun, BachooCavashaw Edibam, Elizabeth D. Hocking, Jack Insley, B. G. P. Macnamara,Sivasambu Anandaraja, Benjamin Wai-Biu Kwa, Jadunath Prasad Das,Abdul Padiyath Kochumoideen Ghafoor, Dhiresh Ranjan Nandy, AkhterAhmed, Madhab Chandra Ghosh, Ian Maxwell, D. D. Barwick, G. M.McAndrew, Padayatty Paul Joseph, Hoe Guan Lee, Kandil Shaker Shubair,J. E. Jebarajah Aiyathurai, J. G. Buchanan, Hiran Kumar Banerji, Moham-med Anis Sharf, Ghulam Mohivuddin Yasinmiya Faruki, Yen-Chow Tsao,Ochiabuto Christian Nwankwo, Dilip Mahalanabis, Sandip Kumar Lahiri,D. T. Baird, T. 1. Francis, Kalman Keczkes, Adeline Yen, A. S. Kuperman,Salil Kumar Panja.

1. Obtainable free from Mental Health Research Fund, 38, WigmoreStreet, London, W.1.

Royal College of Surgeons of EnglandAt a meeting of the council on Nov. 8, with Sir Arthur

Porritt, the president, in the chair, the John Hunter medaland triennial prize was presented to Prof. R. A. Willis, andthe Lady Cade medal to Squadron-Leader C. C. G. Rawll.Dr. E. M. Papper, of New York, was appointed Joseph Cloverlecturer for 1964.A diploma of fellowship was granted to George Meszaros,

and diplomas of membership and postgraduate diplomas weregranted to those named in the report of the comitia of theRoyal College of Physicians of London in our issue of Nov. 3(p. 943).

Royal College of Physicians of IrelandProf. Arvid Wallgren, of Stockholm, and Sir John Parkinson

have been elected honorary fellows of the college.At a meeting of the college on Nov. 2 with Dr. R. E. Steen,

the president, in the chair, the following were admitted to themembership:

Salahuddin Ahmad, M. J. Hannan, J. D. Jessop, E. P. Jones, B. J.O’Sullivan, J. A. H. Price.

British Medical Association

Occupational Health prize (;(50)-Entries for this prize areinvited, not later than Jan. 31, from members who are practising,whole or part time, in this specialty. Further particulars maybe had from the secretary of the Association, B.M.A. House,Tavistock Square, London, W.C.1.

Cecil Gordon Lecture

Mr. F. Le Gros Clark will give the Cecil Gordon lectureon Tuesday, Nov. 20, at 5 P.M., at the University New Build-ings, Teviot Place, Edinburgh. His subject will be humanageing as a problem in industrial medicine.

Medical Research Council

The Council is to set up a neuroendocrinology researchunit under the honorary direction of Prof. G. W. Harris in thedepartment of human anatomy, of the University of Oxford.The unit will be primarily engaged in studying the relationshipsbetween hormones and the brain.

Dr. C. N. D. Cruickshank, formerly assistant director of theUnit for Research on the Experimental Pathology of the Skinat the medical school of the University of Birmingham, hasbeen appointed director in succession to Prof. J. R. Squire.

James Smellie BursariesThese bursaries have been founded by Mrs. H. K. Smellie in

memory of her husband, the late Prof. J. M. Smellie, to givedoctors in training the opportunity of increased experiencein the art of personal doctoring and a more intimate acquaint-ance with the patient’s environment. Three bursaries are tobe awarded annually. Details for this year will be found in ouradvertisement columns.

Health Education in Developing CountriesThe British Society for International Health Education,

which has been formed to promote British aid for healtheducation in the developing countries, is to hold its first annualmeeting in the Drapers’ Hall, Throgmorton Street, London,E.C.2, on Monday, Dec. 3. Afterwards, at 6 P.M., Dr. BrockChisholm will address an open meeting on New Horizons inHealth. Sir John Wolfenden will take the chair. Invitationsto this meeting may be had from Miss Susan King-Hall, gen-eral secretary of the society, 33, Lanercost Road, London,S.W.2.

Medical Engineering BursariesThe Leverhulme Trust are to give annually for the next

five years four bursaries (each of El 000) to enable peopleengaged in medical or biological research to attend the post-graduate course in applications of engineering in medicine andbiology held by the department of electrical engineering ofImperial College. The bursaries will be available for thecourse beginning in October, 1963. Further particulars maybe had from the registrar of the college, London, S.W.7.

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The Common Market

A working committee set up last summer between Britain,the Six, and the European Economic Commission have recom-mended that some British social schemes, including theNational Health Service, should become part of the workingarrangements of the Common Market (Times, Nov. 10, 1962).

Ministry of HealthFrom Nov. 26 the main headquarters of the Ministry of

Health will be at Alexander Fleming House, Elephant andCastle, London, S.E.1 (HOP 5522). For the present the follow-ing branches will be at 14, Russell Square, W.C.1 (Museum6811): hospital service finance branch, hospital supply andequipment branches, international health, food, and nutritiondivision, and the statistics branch.

Society of Apothecaries of LondonFaculty of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy.-

Dr. W. S. C. Copeman will give the Sydenham lecture at thesociety’s Hall, Black Friars Lane, E.C.4, on Wednesday,Nov. 28, at 5.30 P.M. His subject will be the History of Gout.Entries are invited for the 1963 Maccabaean prize of 25guineas and bronze medal.

Applicants, who must be under 30 on March 15, 1963, are asked tosubmit before that date an essay of not more than 6000 words on any subjectconnected wth the history of medicine or pharmacy. Entry forms may behad from the hon. secretary of the faculty, Dr. F. N. L. Poynter, WellcomeHistorical Medical Library, Wellcome Building, Euston Road, N.W.I.

Northampton General HospitalOn Nov. 12 Sir George Godber opened at this hospital a

new radiotherapy department which will house all the previousradiotherapy services and a cobalt unit, and will have roomfor future developments.On the main floor there are two supervoltage treatment rooms,

conventional deep X-ray-therapy and superficial X-ray-therapyrooms, examination and planning rooms, operating-theatre for radiumwork, consulting suites, waiting space, and reception office. On theground floor there are radiobiological research laboratories, physicslaboratory, workshop, mould room, library, and staff recreationroom. The buildings and equipment have cost E120,000, much ofwhich was covered by a donation from the late Mrs. Alice Barrattand endowments from the Barratt family. The building was designedby Mr. W. J. Jobson, architect to the Oxford Regional HospitalBoard.

International Society of Geographical PathologyThis society is holding a conference in Milan from Sept. 19

to 21,1963, when the subjects will be leukaemia and amyloidosis.Particulars may be had from the secretary of the Britishnational committee, Prof. G. J. Cunningham, at the RoyalCollege of Surgeons, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, W.C.2.

British Association of Urological Surgeons Home andOverseas

The annual meeting of this association will be held in Leedsfrom July 4 to 6, and will include a discussion on the adrenalgland at which the opening speakers will be Prof. ThomasSymington, Mr. W. Barr Stirling, Prof. M. D. Milne, Prof.Victor Dix, and Mr. G. C. Tresidder.

Dr. A. White Franklin has edited the report of the conference on

specific developmental dyslexia called by the Invalid Children’sAid Association earlier this year. Copies (5s.) may be had fromthe Association, 4, Palace Gate, London, W.8.

On Saturday Dec. 1, at 11 A.M., at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow,Mr. P. H. Beales will speak on management of chronic otitismedia.

The Biochemical Society will meet at Westfield College, London,N.W.3., on Dec. 14 at 9.30 A.M. when there will be a colloquium onthe organic chemist’s approach to enzymology.

Copies of Careers in Biochemistry may be had from the BiochemicalSociety, 20 Park Crescent, London W.1 (2s. each, post free).The 1962-64 edition of United Kingdom Postgraduate Awards may

be had from the Association of Universities of the British Common-wealth, 36, Gordon Square, London, W.C.1 (5s., postage 6d.).Information about the more important awards tenable outside theUnited Kingdom is given in an appendix.

Diary of the Week

NOV. 18 To 24

Monday, 19thPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON, Ducane Road, W.12

4 P.M. Dr. R. M. Mason: Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis.INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, Queen Square, W.C.1

5.30 P.M. Dr. R. S. Allison: Differentiation of Focal and Diffuse CerebralLesions in Later Life.

HUNTERIAN SOCIETY8.30 P.M. (Apothecaries’ Hall, Black Friars Lane, Queen Victoria Street,

E.C.4.) Dr. Eustace Chesser and Mr. A. Dickson Wright (for),Rev. Dr. Donald Soper and Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas (against):That Scientific Progress Leads to Moral Laxity.

UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL5.15 P.M. (New Medical School.) Dr. J. M. Barnes: Toxic Chemicals as

Tools in Research.

Tuesday, 20thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.2

5 P.M. Dr. I. C. Roddie: Role of Vasoconstrictor and Vasodilator Nervesto Skin and Muscle in the Regulation of the Human Circulation.(Arris and Gale lecture.) _

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, Gower Street, W.C.I5.30 P.M. Prof. W. S. Feldberg: A New Pharmacological Approach to

the Brain. ’

BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION5.30 P.M. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel

Street, W.C.I.) Dr. Mary Barber: Synthetic Penicillins.MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH

8.30 P.M. (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 18, Nicolson Street,Edinburgh, 8.) Dr. J. C. J. L. Bath: 15~.tiology of Pneumonia inHospital Practice. Dr. I. H. Stokoe: Photographic Evaluation ina Therapeutic Trial of Vitamin A in Acne. Dr. E. G. Walsh:Sensory Factors in Postural Sway. Dr. E. V. Kuenssberg:Familial Incidence of Peptic Ulcer, Chronic Bronchitis, andMental Illness.

Wednesday, 21stPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON

2 P.M. Dr. R. I. S. Bayliss: Investigation of Endocrine Disorders.ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.1

11.15 A.M. History of Medicine (jubilee meeting). Sir Arthur MacNalty:Osler, the Medical Historian.

2.15 P.M. Dr. E. Ashworth Underwood, Sir Charles Dodds, Mr. W. R.LeFanu, Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys, Dr. A. P. Cawadias:Some Distinguished Members of the Section.

5 P.M. Dr. Douglas Guthrie, Lord Cohen, Sir Zachary Cope: Evaluationof the Work of the Section in Fifty Years.

8.15 P.M. General Practice. Prof. George Brownlee, Mr. D. H. Patey,Dr. P. M. Higgins, Prof. John McMichael: Therapeutic Habitsand Customs.

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, Lisle Street, W.C.25.30 P.M. Prof. C. D. Calnan: Allergic Reactions-Delayed.

INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton, S.W.35 P.M. Dr. E. H. Hudson: Spontaneous Pneumothorax.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn Road, W.C.15.15 P.M. (Department of medicine.) Prof. J. F. Brock (Cape Town):

Protein Malnutrition.WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL, Archway Wing, Archway Road, N.19 9

11.30 A.M. Prof A. C. Dornhorst: Dyspncea.HARVEIAN SOCIETY OF LONDON

8.15 P.M. ((11, Chandos Street, W.I.) Mr. Walpole Lewin, Mr. R. L.Moore, Mr. G. Grime, Mr. Peter Schurr: Head Injuries andTheir Prevention.

Thursday, 22ndBRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION

5.30 P.M. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). Dr. E. H.Belcher: Radioactive Tracer Methods in Clinical Medicine.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON5 P.M. Dr. J. S. McKinley-McKee: Mechanism of Enzyme-pyridine

Nucleotide Coenzyme Reactions.INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY

5.30 P.M. Dr. J. S. Pegum: Disorders of Hair Growth.ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL

5 P.M. (Wright-Fleming Institute.) Prof. Norman Morris: PlacentalDysfunction.

WEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY8.30 P.M. (West London Hospital, Hammersmith, W.6.) Dr. Walter

Hedgcock: Medicine and the Common Market.LONDON JEWISH HOSPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY

8.15 P.M. (11, Chandos Street, W.1.) Dr. K. A. Newton: Modern Trendsin Cancer Treatment.

HONYMAN GILLESPIE LECTURES5 P.M. (University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place, Edin-

burgh, 8.) Prof. John Bruce: Cancer of the Breast and its Manage-ment.

UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS5 P.M. (Queen’s College, Dundee.) Dr. C. N. D. Cruickshank: The Skin-

Normal and Abnormal Reactions in Relation to Disease.

Friday, 23rdPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON ·

10 A.M. Mr. John Swinney: Carcinoma of the Bladder.4 P.M. Dr. D. N. S. Kerr: Ascites in Patients with Liver Disease.

BRITISH TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION5 P.M. (Manson House, 26, Portland Place, W.1.) Dr. G. P. Maher-

Loughnan, Dr. Norman Macdonald: Hypnosis in the Sympto-matic Treatment of Asthma.

Births, Marriages, and DeathsDEATH

BARBER.-On Oct. 30, Alexander Howard Barber, M.A., M.B., M.R.C.P.,F.R.C.S., of Oldham.