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British Association of Physical MedicineAt the annual general meeting of the Association the following

were elected officers for 1962-63:

President, Dr. W. S. Tegner; immediate past president, Dr.Hugh Burt; vice-president, Dr. F. S. Cooksey; hon. treasurer, Dr.K. N. Lloyd; hon. secretary, Wing-Commander C. B. Wynn Parry;hon. editor, Dr. A. C. Boyle.National Childbirth Trust

On Tuesday, May 22, at 8.30 P.M., at Caxton Hall, Mr.Gavin Boyd will speak on the value of psychoprophylaxis ina large maternity hospital.International Chemotherapy MeetingThe third International Symposium of Chemotherapy,

together with the first general meeting of the InternationalSociety of Chemotherapy, is to be held from July 23 to 27,1963, in Stuttgart. Further particulars may be had from thesecretary general of the symposium, P.O. Box 3030, Stuttgart,Germany.International Congress of Nephrology

This congress, sponsored by the International NephrologicalSociety and the Czechoslovak Nephrological Society, is to beheld from Aug. 25 to 29, 1963, in Prague. Further particularsmay be had from the congress secretary, Institute for Cardio-vascular Research, Praha 4-Krc, Czechoslovakia.

Empire Rheumatism CouncilAt a dinner held in the Apothecaries’ Hall, London, on May 3,

to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Council’s founda-tion, the Duke of Gloucester, the president, on behalf of theexecutive committee, presented an inscribed silver Armadabowl to Dr. W. S. C. Copeman, the chairman.

Central Midwives Board

Mr. Arnold Walker has been re-elected chairman and Prof.A. A. Moncrieff deputy chairman of the board for the comingyear.

Campaign against Leprosy.-In this pamphlet Sir Arthur MacNaltybriefly reviews methods of controlling and treating this disease-from the leper’s bell and squint window of the Middle Ages to thesulphone drugs and plastic surgery of today. He also describes thecontribution made to this hopeful story by the British LeprosyRelief Association, of which he is a vice-president. A limited numberof copies are available from the Association, 8, Portman Street,London, W.I.

Hospital Building Note no. 9, which should be read in conjunctionwith Hospital Building Note no. 8 (physiotherapy department), dealswith the design of an occupational therapy department at eitherdistrict general hospitals or teaching hospitals. It contains a loose-leaf sheet, issued as an addendum to Hospital Building Note no. 2,which gives details about costs. Copies (Is. 3d.) may be had fromH.M. Stationery Office.

A committee meeting of the Society of Clinical Psychiatrists willbe held at Tavistock House North, Tavistock Square, London, W.C.1,on Wednesday, May 23, at 5.30 P.M.

A meeting of the British Society for Immunology will be held atthe School of Pharmacy, 29, Brunswick Square, London, W.C.1, onFriday and Saturday, May 25 and 26. Further particulars may behad from Dr. R. G. White, bacteriology department, LondonHospital, E.I.

On Wednesdays, May 16, 23, and 30, at 10.15 A.M., the departmentof medicine at the Postgraduate Medical School of London, DucaneRoad, W.12, will hold a staff round followed by a clinicopathologicalconference.

Postgraduate demonstrations in psychiatry and neurology will begiven at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London, S.W.1, at5.15 P.M. on Thursdays until June 28 (June 7 excluded).The Indian Medical Service dinner will be held at the East India

and Sports Club, St. James’s Square, London, S.W.1, on Friday,June 22. Tickets may be had from Dr. Philip H. Addison,27, Sudbury Court Drive, Harrow.

CORRIGENDUM : Low Blood-urea Levels.-In this annotation(April 21), the figures given refer to blood-urea-nitrogen, and not toblood-urea.

Diary of the WeekMAY 13 TO 19

Monday, 14thPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON, Ducane Road, W.124 P.M. Prof. H. E. de Wardener: Pyelonephritis.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, Gower Street, W.C.15 P.M. Dr. 1. M. Glynn: Sodium and Potassium Movements in Living

Cells. (Second of two lectures.)INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY

5 P.M. (British Institute of Radiology, 32, Welbeck Street, W.1.) Mr.Ian Muir: Reconstructive Surgery and Malignant Disease.

WRIGHT-FLEMING INSTITUTE, St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, W.25 P.M. Dr. J. L. Gowans: Role of Lymphocytes in Immunological

Reactions. (Second of four Almroth Wright lectures.)

Tuesday, 15thINSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, Lisle Street, W.C.2

5.30 P.M. Prof. C. D. Calnan: Cutaneous Reactions to Drugs.UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS

5 P.M. (Physiology Department, Queen’s College, Dundee.) Prof.Elliot V. Newman (Vanderbilt University, Nashville): MetabolicConsequences of Congestive Cardiac Failure.

Wednesday, 16thROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.l

5 P.M. Comparative Medicine and Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine.Dr. D. A. J. Tyrrell, Dr. A. P. Goffe, Mr. S. A. Keeble, Mr. L. A.Hemsley, Sir Christopher Andrewes: Living Vaccines for thePrevention of Respiratory Virus Diseases.

8.15 P.M. General Practice. Mr. Geoffrey Gorer: An AnthropologistConsiders Retirement.

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY5.30 P.M. Dr. 1. W. Whimster: Anomalies of Pigmentation.

INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton, S.W.35 P.M. Dr. R. W. Riddell: Bacteriology of Mycobacterial Disease.

Thursday, 17thPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON

4 P.M. Prof. G. M. Wilson: Diuretics.ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL

5 P.M. (Wright-Fleming Institute.) Mr. J. P. Erskine: Hydramnios.ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, 26, Portland Place,

W.17.30 P.M. Dr. R. B. Heisch: Feral Aspects of Rickettsial Infections in

Kenya.INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY, University of Glasgow

4.30 P.M. (Department of Physiology.) Dr. Karl Habel (Bethesda):Virus-induced Tumour Antigen and its Influence on Oncogenesis.(Pfizer lecture.)

UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS5 P.M. (Physiology Department, Queen’s College, Dundee.) Dr. Sophus

von Rosen (Malmö): Diagnoses and Treatment of CongenitalDislocation of the Hip Joint in the Newborn Child.

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN4.30 P.M. (University Medical Buildings, Foresterhill.) Dr. Alice

Stewart: Survey Approach to Problems of Childhood Cancer.

Friday, 18thPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON

10 A.M. Prof. R. E. 0. Williams: Prevention of Hospital Infection.ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE

8.15 P.M. Radiology. Dr. H. W. Davies: Abnormalities of the ForamenMagnum Region. (Presidential address.)

INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330, Gray’S Inn Road, W.C.13.30 P.M. Dr. I. Friedmann: Chemotherapy in Otolaryngology.

FACULTY OF RADIOLOGISTS4.30 P.M. (Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln’s Inn Fields,

W.C.2.) Sir George Pickering: Transient Cerebral and RetinalIschsemia. (Crookshank lecture.)

Saturday, 19thNORTH LONDON POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL INSTITUTE

10.30 A.M. (Prince of Wales’s General Hospital, Tottenham, N.15.) Mr.A. Dickson Wright: Surgery of the Biliary Tract. (First WilliamTanner lecture.)

AppointmentsFORREST, THOMAS, M.B. Glasg., F.F.A. R.c.s.: consultant anarsthetist, North

Liverpool and St. Helens hospital groups.KAMINSKI, JERZY, MED. DIPL. Warsaw: assistant physician in geriatrics

(S.H.M.O.), West Cumberland hospital group.LEPINE, ANNE D., M.R.C.S., D.P.H.: senior M.o. in child health, Devon.SPELLMAN, ANTHONY, M.B. Lond., D.P.M. : senior M.o., East Sussex.WALSH, W. P., M.B. Lpool, D.P.M. : consultant psychiatrist and deputy

medical superintendent, Winwick Hospital, Warrington.Birmingham Regional Hospital Board:MCQUADE, P. J., M.B. Cantab., F.F.A. R.c.s., D.A.: consultant anaesthetist,

Shrewsbury hospital group and Robert Jones and Agnes HuntOnhopsedic Hospital.

SMITH, V. H., M.B. Cantab., F.R.C.S. D.o.: consultant ophthalmologist.Birmingham (Selly Oak) and Birmingham (Dudley Road) hospitalgroups.

VEREKER, RICHARD, M.D. N.U.I., D.P.M. : consultant psychiatrist andmedical superintendent, Mid-Staffordshire mental hospital group.

WATSON, H. B., M.B. Birm., F.R.F.P.S., M.R.C.O.G. : consultant obstetricianand gynaecologist, Birmingham (Selly Oak) hospital group.

Births, Marriages, and DeathsDEATH

BAILLIE.-On Dec. 24, James Crawford Baillie, M.B. Lond., D.P.M., formermedical officer to the native administration department, Durban.