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Inebriates ActsUnder these Acts the Home Secretary has appointed

Dr. H. K. Snell inspector of retreats.

St. Thomas’s Hospital Musical SocietyA meeting of this society will be held at St. Sepulchre’s

Church, Holborn, on Thursday, Feb. 8 at 8.15 P.M.

Price of Cortisone- ’

B.U.P. reports that in the U.S.A. the price of ’Cortisone,’which in August, 1949, was$200 per gramme, is now$35per gramme.

Gresham College ,

Prof. H. Hartridge, F.R.S., will deliver four-lectures at thecollege, Basinghall Street, London, E.C.2, at’5.30 P.M. dailyfrom Feb. 5 to 8. He will speak on the Cellular Structureof the Body.

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Pharmaceutical Society of Great BritainDr. W. A. Timmerman, director of the division of thera-

peutic substances of the World Health Organisation, will speakon the work of W.H.O. at 17, Bloomsbury Square, London,W.C.1, on Monday, Feb. 5, at 7.30 P.M.

Draft Standard for Hypodermic NeedlesThe British Standards Institution has issued a draft

standard for hypodermic surgical mounted needles for medicaland surgical practice. Comments on this draft should besent, before March 10, to the institution, 24, Victoria Street,London, S.W.I.

Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom CollegeThe foundation has available, from time to, time, pensions

and grants for doctors and their widows and spinster daughters.There are also scholarships, exhibitions, and grants for theirsons and daughters who. are of public-school age. Fullinformation and forms of application may be had from thesecretary’s office, Epsom College, Surrey.

Society of Registered Male Nurses ’

During the past year membership of this society hasincreased by some 600, including about 400 student members.A number of new branches have been formed, and at theannual general meeting on Jan. 24 it was agreed to set upcouncils in each of the National Health Service regions, witha national executive council. The policy of the society willbe decided at an annual delegate conference.

New Radiotherapy Department at PortsmouthSir Cecil Wakeley, P.R.C.S., opened the new radiotherapy

unit at St. Mary’s Hospital, Portsmouth, on Jan. 27. Tne

department, built at a modest cost, is an adaptation of a partof the hospital, and is a self-contained unit. It consists ofthree deep X-ray treatment rooms (220-250 kV.) and twosuperficial X-ray rooms (75-135 kV.), a radium room, anoutpatient clinic, a records and administration section, andwaiting-room. A population of approximately 600,000 inthe Portsmouth and Chichester group is served. Sir Cecil inhis speech emphasised the importance of this relatively newancillary service, and the advantage of close cooperationbetween radiotherapy and the general medical and surgicaldepartments. He praised the bright and spacious rooms andpointed out the beneficial effect on the patient’s morale.

Prof. R. J. S. McDowall, who holds the chair of physiologyat King’s College, London, has been awarded the medal of tueUniversity of Ghent.

Dr. D. E. Derry and Dr. R. W. Haines have been awardedthe Order of El Maaref (second class) in recognition of theirservices as professors of anatomy at the Fuad I University,Cairo.

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Dr. Margaret Tod is visiting Austria, sponsored by theBritish Council. She is giving a series of lectures on theradiotherapy of cancer.

Mr. C. Price Thomas, under the auspices of the BritishCouncil, is spending two weeks in Yugoslavia lecturing andgiving demonstrations on the surgical treatmentof tuberculosis.He is accompanied by Dr. Robert Machray and Mr. PeterJones.

Diary of the WeekFEB. 4 TO 10

Monday, 5th ,

INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, S.E.55.30 P.M. Dr. E. Stengel: Lecture-demonstration.

Tuesday, 6thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.2

5 P.M. Mr. W. J. Dempster : Homotransplantation of Tissues,with Particular Reference to Skin. (Arris and Gale lecture.)

BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION5.30 P.M. (London School of Hygiene, Keppel Street, W.C.I.)

Dr. Macdonald Critchley,. Language and Thought.INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St. John’s Hospital, Lisle Street, W.C.2

5 P.M. Dr. J. 0. Oliver : Reticulosis.ALFRED ADLER MEDICAL SOCIETY ,

8 P.M. (11, Chandos Street, W.1.) Dr. E. Weissmann: Aspectsof Adler’s Theory of Neurosis.

Wednesday, 7thUNIVERSITY OF LONDON

5.30 P.M. (School of Pharmacy, 17, Bloomsbury Square, W.C.I.)Mr. Lester Smith, D.so. : Isolation, Properties, and Func-tions of the Vitamins Bis. (First of two lectures.)

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY5 P.M. Dr. R. W. Riddell: Medical Mycology.

ROYAL FACULTY OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 242, St. VincentStreet, Glasgow

5 P.M. Mr. Alexander Slessor : Role of the Adrenal Cortical‘ Hormones in Diuresis.

NORTH-EAST LONDON CLINICAL SOCIETY8.15 P.M. (Prince of Wales’s General Hospital, N.15.) Dr. Brian

Russell: Dermatology, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.(Presidential address.)

Thursday, 8thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

3 P.M. Dr. S. P. Meadows : Ocular Aspects of Sellar and Supra-sellar Lesions.

5 P.M. Prof. B. W. Windeyer : The Place of Radiotherapy in theTreatment of Malignant Disease. (Hunterian lecture.)

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE, John Islip Street, S.W.15 P.M. Brigadier J. R. Rees, F.R.C.P. : The Significance of

Psychiatry.BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION

5.30 P.M. Dr. Russell Brain, P.R.C.P.: Mind and Matter.INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY

5 P.M. Dr. L. Forman : Diseases of the Mucous Membrane of theMouth.

HARVEIAN SOCIETY OF LONDON, 11, Chandos Street, W.18.15 P.M. Dr. J. B. Mennell, Mr. P. N. Cutner, Dr. Guy

Beauchamp : Scope of Manipulative Surgery.UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS

5 P.M. (Medical School, Small’s Wynd, Dundee.) Prof. R. A.Willis : Modes of Spread of Tumours.

Friday, 9thINSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, Judd Street, W.C.1

5.30 P.M. Mr. P. Jameson Evans : Films of (1) Hummelsdheim’sOperation, and (2) Extraction by Magnet of Intra-ocularForeign Body. ’

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH5 P.M. (Anatomy lecture-theatre, University New Buildings,

Teviot Place.) Prof. A. V. Hill, F.R.s. : Physical Analysisof Events in Muscular Contraction. (Sharpey Schaferlecture.)

Births, Marriages, and DeathsBIRTHS

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BRIMS.-On Jan. 25, at Bolton, Lanes, the wife of Dr. John Brims-, a daughter.CLARKE.-On Jan. 21, at Oxford, the wife of Dr. E. S. Clarke-a son.FELTON.-On Jan. 21, at Carahalton, the wife of Dr. W. F. Felton

—a daughter.MCALEER.—On Jan. 24, at Hornehurch, the wife of Dr. T. B.

McAleer—a son. ’

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MACFARLANE.-On Jan. 19, in London, the wife of Dr. I. L.Macfarlane—a daughter.

SMITH.-On Jan. 10, at Ipswich, to Dr. Katherine Smith (néeVajdová), wife of Dr. L. E. Smith-a daughter.

TURNER.-On Jan. 20, in London, the wife of Dr. John Turner-a son.

WILKS.—On Jan. 24, in London, the wife of Dr. D. W. Wilks-a son.WILSON.—On Jan. 21, at Woking, the wife of Dr. B. D. R. Wilson

—a son. ’

MARRIAGESBOND—FLETOHER.—On Jan. 20, in London, Kenneth Edgar

Bond, F.R.C.S., to Rosamond Wendy Fletcher.HURWOOD—BAKER.—On Jan. 23, at Crayford, David Sells Hurwood,

M.R.C.S., to Mary Baker.

DEATHSBLACKHAM.—On Jan. 23, Robert James Blackham, c.B., C.M.G.,

C.I.E., D.S.O., M.D. N.U.I., F.R.F.P.S., M.R.C.P., D.P.H., aged 82.FIELDING-OULD.—On Jan. 18, in London, Robert Fielding-Ould,

M.A., D.M. Oxfd, M.R.C.P. ,

MCLEISH.—On Jan. 20, in London, Roberta MoLeish, M.B. Glasg.,D.P.H.

SCUDAMORE.—On Jan. 22, at Bournemouth, --Charles EdwardScudamore, B.A. Camb., L.R.C.P., aged 92.

THOMPSON.—On Jan. 25, at Stockport, Cheshire, Charles HerbertThompson, M.B. Dubl.