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HUMAN FACTORS IN INDUSTRY

THE Department of Scientific and Industrial Research andthe Medical Research Council have jointly set up two com-mittees to work on human problems in industry. One will

study individual efficiency ; the chairman of this committeeis Sir Frederic Bartlett, F.R.s. ; its medical members areProf. Esther Killick and Prof. W. E. Le Gros Clark, F.R.S.;and the joint secretaries are Dr. Brandon Lush and Mr.Winston Rodgers. The second committee, which will dealwith human relations, has Mr. A. B. Waring as chairmanand Prof. T. Ferguson, Prof. A. J. Lewis, and Dr. A. T. M.Wilson as medical members ; the joint secretaries are Mr.J. R. Gass and Dr. Lush. _

BUYING FOREIGN BOOKS

LAST month a peripatetic correspondent described theformalities that had to be completed before he could pay fora book published in a foreign country.l UNESCO, we learn,has an international scheme by which the purchaser obtainswith his own currency dollar coupons which are cashed withUNESCO by publishers or booksellers in any of the countriesparticipating in the scheme. These coupons are intended toenable institutions and individuals to obtain publications inthe fields of education, science, and culture ; and they maybe used not only for books but also for subscriptions toperiodicals, for copies, and for membership subscriptions tolearned societies provided that the subscription is mainly ameans of obtaining the society’s publications. In the United

Kingdom applications for coupons should be sent to : UnescoBook Coupons, c/o Book Tokens Ltd., 14, BuckinghamPalace Gardens, London, S.W.I.

NEW GENETICS JOURNALTHE Journal de Génétique Humaine, the first journal in

French on this subject, began publication about six monthsago, edited by Prof. A. Franceschetti, of Geneva, Prof.L. Van Bogaert, of Antwerp, and Prof. Maurice Lamy, ofParis. It is to be issued four times a year. There are Englishand German summaries. An unfortunate system of paginationmars the production of at least the first two numbers, eachof which has individual pagination, with an indication of thevolume pagination on a gummed strip at the head of eachstrip. The publishers are Medecine et Hygiene, 15, Boulevarddes Philosophes, Geneva.

PROVINCIAL CONVALESCENT HOMES

THE British Hospitals Contributory Schemes Associationhave published a directory of convalescent homes in theprovinces. The first issue lists 20 independent homes withdetails such as almoners may require given in the form usedby the King’s Fund convalescent homes directory. Thetwo directories are thus complementary. The associationhave set a high standard, for, although they know of tentimes the number of homes, they have only published detailsof those which have been inspected ‘and approved by a respon-sible almoner. A further 28 homes belonging to contributoryschemes are listed but without details. Copies of the directorymay be had (Is. 6d., post free) from the association, RoyalLondon House, Queen Charlotte Street, Bristol, 1.

University of Manchester .

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At recent examinations the following were successful :D.P.M. Part I-r.-K. J. R. Ford, O. J. Slowik.

International College of SurgeonsThis college will hold meetings at the University of

Amsterdam on April 8, 9, and 10 ; at the University of Rome onJune 5, 6, and 7 ; and at the University of Vienna on June 11,12, and 13. Further information can be had from Dr. J. F.Brailsford, the secretary of the British Chapter of the college,20, Highfield Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 15.Board of ControlMr. H. R. Green, at present a commissioner of the board,

has been appointed a senior commissioner in succession toMr. C. F. Penton, who is retiring.Manson Medal

This year the council of the Royal Society of TropicalMedicine and Hygiene have awarded the Manson medal toProf. Jerome Rodhain, director of the Institute of TropicalMedicine, Antwerp, and the Chalmers medal to Mr. David J.Lewis, entomologist in the Sudan government service.

1 Lancet, March 14, 1953, p. 544.

Carlisle 24960The Carlisle Medical Bureau, which is to open on Wednes-

day, April 1, will enable a doctor who has to leave his houseor surgery unattended to inform the operator on duty of thearrangements for the time he will be away. When a patientreceives no reply from his doctor’s telephone he may thenring Carlisle 24960 for information and help. The bureau willbe staffed by operators of the fire and ambulance control.

CoREi&ENDTjM : Smoking and Lung Cancer.-In the debateon this subject, reported in our parliamentary columns lastweek (p. 645), Miss Patricia Hornsby-Smith said that researchinto exhaust gases of petrol and diesel engines had not

been abandoned as a possible source contributing to cancerof the lung.

Dr. Albert Sharman, as a vice-president of the InternatioiaalFertility Association, representing the United Kingdom, is attendingthe first World Fertility Congress which is to be held in New Yorkfrom May 26 to 31.

Births, Marriages, and DeathsBIRTHS

MATTHEWS.—On March 16, at St. Helier Hospital, Carshalton,to Diana, wife of Dr. H. W. Matthews--a daughter (FionaElizabeth Marguerite).

AppointmentsKNOWLES, R. R., M.B. Sydney : registrar in psychiatry, Bristol

mental hospitals.LUDLOW, JoycE, M.B.E., M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S.: asst. county M.O. in

the North East Kent area.

Diary of the WeekAPRIL 5 TO 11

Wednesday, 8th- ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.2

3.45 P.M. Prof. Lambert Rogers : Tumours of Central NervousSystem. (Arnott demonstration.)

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.14.30 P.M. Section of Physical Medicine. Group-Captain C. J. S.

O’Malley, Dr. A. C. Boyle, Dr. D. Kininmonth : PresentState of Physical Medicine in Countries of Europe.

ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL, St. George’s Circus, Southwark, S.E.15.30 P.M. Dr. A. A. Guild: Mechanism and Appearances of

Papilloedema.ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HYGIENE, 28, Portland

Place, W. 13.30 P.M. Dr. G. W. J. Bousfield: Case for Combined Diphtheria-

Pertussis Prophylaxis in Young Infants.MIDLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY

8.15 P.M. (Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, 18.) Clinicalmeeting.

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ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE,6 P.M. Sections of Neurology and Comparative Medicine. Some

Neurological Diseases of Man and Animals. Dr. E. WestonHurst, Dr. J. W. Trevan, Mr. H. B. Parry : DemyelinatingDisorders. i Dr. A. M. G. Campbell, Mr. T. W. F. Pay:Toxoplasmosis. ’.

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CpLLE&E, Millban]:, S.W.l5 P.M. Brigadier J.’S: K. Boyd, F.R.S.: Some Aspects of Chemo-

therapy in Tropical Medicine.ALFRED ADLER MEDIOAL SOCIETY’- -

8 P.M. (11, Charidos Street, W.I.) Dr. Walter Schindler : GroupPsychology.

Friday, 10thROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE

5.30 P.M. Section’ of Anæsthetics. Dr. W. W. Mushin, Dr. L.Rendell-Baker : Are Aneesthetic Records Worth Keeping !

ROYAL EYE, HOSPITAL4.30 P.M. Mr. A. J. Cameron : Ophthalmic Aspects of Hyper-

, tension and its Treatment.WHIPPS- CROSS HOSPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY, Whipps Cross Hospital,

E.118.30 P.M. Prof. S. P. Bedson, F.R.S.: Recent Trends in Virus

Research.

Saturday, llthSOUTH EAST METROPOLITAN REGIONAL TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY

10.30 A.M. (Benenden Sanatorium, Benenden, Kent.) Clinical- meeting. ’

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SOUTH WEST LARYNGOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION2.30 P.M. (Portsmouth Eye and Ear Hospital, Grove Road North,

Southsea, Hants.) Mr. Seymour Jones, Mr. Robert Morley :Clinical demonstration.

BIOCSHEMICAL SOCIETY9 A.M. (Faculty of Medicine, University of Brussels.) Scientific

papers.