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over a wide area. She was elected to a similar appointment inthe Clwyd and Deeside area.

She was secretary and president of the North Wales branchof the Medical Women’s Federation, and a member of theInternational Federation of Medical Women. With them shetravelled to Canada and the United States, where she investi-gated the skin manifestations of general disease. She took a

special interest in the welfare of nurses, and was president of theCaernarvon and Anglesey branch of the Royal College ofNursing and of the Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital Nurses’Association.

D. 0. writes:" Dr. Lancaster gave much of her spare time to furthering the

interests of working women of many professions. She was alsoan accomplished needlewoman and especially enjoyed tapestrywork. In her few hours of leisure nothing pleased her morethan pottering about in her garden. She had a great capacityfor friendship and kept open house. I travelled with her to

many conferences, and she was a delightful companion and amost loyal and devoted friend."

1. Control of Rats and Mice. By R. A. DAVIS, M.C., D.I.C. Ministry ofAgriculture, Fisheries, and Food; Bulletin no. 181. H.M. StationeryOffice. Pp. 29. 4s.

Public Health

Rats and Mice

As a cause of human disease rats and mice are relativelyunimportant in Great Britain; but, as was shown in Suffolkearly in this century, there is no prima-facie reason whybubonic plague should not flourish here. On economic andaesthetic grounds more than a very few of either is likely to betoo many in the house, the farm, the granary, or the garden.The shortage of food in the late war called attention to thelosses due to vermin, and since then the natural history of ratsand mice has received the attention of some distinguishedzoologists. Their findings and the application of these to thepractical control of these destructive beasts is the subject of anew booklet issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries,and Food.l This can be recommended without reserve both tothe medical officer of health and to the weary practitioner whoseevenings are disturbed by the scuffling behind the wainscot.As an example of sound biological knowledge applied to apractical end, it is outstanding.

AppointmentsBROCK, B. H., M.B. Cantab., F.R.C.S. : consultant orthopaedic surgeon,

Salisbury and Winchester hospital groups.BROWN, J. A. H., M.D. Lond., D.T.M. & H.: consultant pathologist, Stoke-on-

Trent hospital group.CLARK, GWEN SMITHSON, M.B. Edin., D.P.H., D.OBST.: senior M.O.,

Worcestershire.EMANUEL, RICHARD, D.M. Oxon., M.R.C.P. : assistant director, Institute of

Cardiology, and honorary assistant physician, National Heart Hospital,London.

JENKINS, A. V., M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.C.S.: consultant anaesthetist, Birmingham,Selly Oak, and sanatoria hospital groups.

MACDoNALD, C. E., M.B. St. And., D.O.M.S. : assistant ophthalmologist,Greenock Eye Infirmary.

MITCHELL, P. C., M.c., T.D., M.B. Aberd., F.R.C.P.E. : consultant dermatologist,Cumberland and north Westmorland.

MONTGOMERY, J. B., M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.C.S.: consultant anxsthetist,United Manchester Hospitals.

NICHOLAS, P. O., M.B. Brist., D.C.H., D.P.H.: deputy M.O.H., Adwick-le-Street, Bentley-with-Arksey, and Tickhill.

Manchester Regional Hospital Board:GILLETT, ROGER, B.M. Oxon., D.PATH.: consultant pathologist, Salford

hospital group.HARRY, T. V. A., M.B. Manc., D.P.M. : assistant psychiatrist, Whittingham

Hospital.LINEEN, W. P., M.B. N.U.I.: senior casualty officer, Bolton Royal Infirmary.PARBHOO, A. H., L.R.C.P.I.: senior casualty officer, Blackburn Royal

Infirmary.SPOONER, JOSEPH, MED. DIP. Lwow: assistant psychiatrist, Brockhall

Hospital, Langho.Colonial Appointments:HADDOCK, D. R. W., M.D. Lpool, M.R.C.P. : specialist (medical),

Tanganyika.LOSONCZI, EMERIC, M.B.E., M.D. Naples, D.P.H., D.T.M. & H.: M.O.H.,

Jamaica.NICHOLSON, N. W., M.B. Lond., D.T.M. & H.: M.o., Tanganyika.RELvICH, A. L., M.D. Cracow, D.P.H., D.T.M. & H.: senior health officer,

W. Nigeria.SAMUEL, NORMAL, M.B. Cape Town, F.R.C.S. : M.o., Tristan da Cunha.

News

University of OxfordOn June 22 the degree of D.M. was conferred on Chrystal H.

Ashton.

University of CambridgeThe degree of B.CHIR. has been conferred on the following:P. W. Adams, D. R. Aubrey, Norma M. Bassett, P. G. Beauchamp,

R. J. E. Bellars, D. I. Bowen, J. E. Bowen, Jill B. Brown, Sarah E. Bundey,G. T. Bungay, J. K. Butler, D. W. Cairns, Sonia Channell, R. H. G. Charles,J. R. Chesterton, J. B. Cocking, N. K. Coni, C. K. Connolly, F. B. Cookson,A. G. L. Corkill, A. V. Cowan, A. G. 0. Crowther, R. J. Cryer, J. S. Cun-ningham, Christopher Dare, M. R. E. Dean, R. A. Durance, N. H. Dyer,G. M. Eames, A. M. Edwards, R. H. Eleady-Cole, D. E. Elgar, J. G. Evans,A. N. Fawcett, W. R. F. Ferguson, Hedi L. Firth, Hilary M. Fischer-Webb,J. A. Fixsen, 0. J. Follows, G. J. J. Fuzzey, J. R. C. Gardham, DavidGardner-Medwin, D. W. Gau, D. G. Gibson, C. M. T. Gleave, A. J.Gordon, W. D. Graham-Brown, F. R. Greenlees, George Hamber, I. W. F.Hanham, P. S. E. G. Harland, C. P. Heanley, E. M. Holt, R. L. Himsworth,R. J. Hope, W. N. Hutton, D. M. Hynes, A. E. Jephcott, E. W. L. Jones,T. G. Jones, A. P. Joseph, J. E. A. Knowles, H. H. M. Knox-Macaulay,Suan Yew Lee, John Lendrum, Gwendolen D. Loft, I. L. Mackenzie,R. K. Mackenzie Ross, N. C. Macmillan, J. R. Maltby, A. P. Manasse,R. W. Marcuson, Jane R. Marlar, A. J. B. Missen, M. C. W. Morgan,J. 0. Morgan-Hughes, C. W. Newrick, P. J. Noble, Samiran Nundy, IanOates, S. E. Odamtten, W. P. Ormerod, D. H. Orrell, J. P. A. Page, J. W.Partridge, W. M. P. Patterson, Ian Phillips, Guido Pincherle, D. M. Potts,T. D. Preston, R. D. Pyrah, P. H. Rees, A. B. Richards, M. T. S. Roberts,A. P. Rubin, J. E. L. Sales, Marian N. Sampson, J. H. Sandford-Smith,K. B. Saunders, G. L. Scott, P. V. Scott, W. S. Shand, E. H. Shaw, J. J.Shenkman, T. C. B. Stamp, Mary C. Storey, J. E. 0. Sunkwa-Mills,A. B. W. Thomas, G. E. R. Vaughan, E. R. Verrier-Jones, P. J. Watkins,R. H. Weeks, J. A. B. Weston, D. G. Wilkins, H. T. Williams, Elizabeth B.Wilson, A. D. Wright, Irwin Ziment.

University of LondonOn Monday, July 17, at 4 P.M., at the Middlesex Hospital

Medical School, Mortimer Street, W.1, Dr. R. L. Riley,associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School ofMedicine, will give a lecture on interrelations between breathingand blood-flow.

University of SheffieldDr. P. E. Brown has been appointed senior lecturer in pre-

ventive medicine and public health.

Royal College of Surgeons of EnglandOn July 6 Prof. C. A. Wells, Prof. R. Milnes Walker, and

Prof. Ian Aird were re-elected, and Mr. N. L. Capener andMr. E. G. Muir were elected, members of the council.

Prof. A. I. Darling will give a Charles Tomes lecture onFriday, July 21, at 3 P.M., at the college, Lincoln’s Inn Fields,London, W.C.2. He will speak on the selective attack of carieson the dental enamel.

University of GlasgowOn July 8 the following degrees were conferred:M.D.-W. F. M. Fulton (honours); E. N. Coleman, Walter Norris,

D. A. Seaton (commendation); R. A. Caldwell, Alexander Laurie, JessieMacdonald, W. M. McLennan.M.B., Ch.B.-A. H. Baillie, J. W. Dobbie, Pamela Hinton, Mukundrai

Keshavlal Jasani, Colin MacKay, R. T. W. Prentice (commendation);A. McA. Ashley, Susan A. C. Auld, Anne Bailey, Margaret I. Barbour,Janice M. Baskerville, A. E. Bell, C. C. Bird, Derek Bleackley, J. D. Briggs.Robert Brown, R. M. Butler, F. J. Byrne, William Carswell, Cecilia J. S.Chisholm, Eleanor M. Clarke, John Coneghan, J. C. F. Crosbie, W. J. C.Currie, Dora J. Davis, Robert Dickson, Jean H. L. Donnan, Robert Douglas,C. L. W. Draper, J. L. Duffy, W. B. Dunlop, G. R. A. Dunn, DavidEvans, J. C. Ferguson, D. M. Fiddes, A. D. Forbes, C. D. Forbes, N.G. Fraser, Elizabeth A. McA. Frost, Elizabeth Galloway, I. McC. Galloway,C. R. Gillis, M. S. Green, J. B. Grogan, John Halliday, J. B. Hamilton,W. M. Hannah, H. J. Heggarty, W. F. Hendry, J. C. R. Howie, MargaretJ. S. Hynd, I. F. Irvine, G. F. Jamieson, N. D. Jarvie, A. B. Jeffrey, HelgeKavlie-Jorgensen, Jane T. Lang, H. C. Laurie, H. S. Livingston, Easter E.Lynch, W. C. Lyon, Anne McK. McArthur, John McCurley, ArchibaldMacdonald, A. J. McEwan, A. B. McEwan, Ida J. McFadyen, Angela R.McGowan, D. G. McGowan, J. A. S. McGuigan, D. D. B. MacKellar,Anne MacKenzie, W. D. S. McLay, Hugh McLean, Jean F. McLean,N. M. Maclean, W. M. R. McLean, Jean McLellan, I. C. Macleod, A. S.McNeish, Flora McK. Maher, Prabhat Ranjan Maiti, Felice Marcuccilli,W. S. Marson, Christopher Meehan, D. F. Miller, J. D. Miller, S. E. P.Miller,Victor Miller, Ruthven Mitchell, A. J. Montgomery,Thomas Morrison,M. J. Muldoon, John Mulholland, J. H. Naismith, Thomas Nicol, Anne L.Orr, J. G. Paterson, Joan M. M. Pollock, Sreedharan Rajgopal, JanaksinhKhimji Ramaiva, Mary Riddington, Jean C. Rodger, D. N. Ropper, EthelRubin, D. K. R. Russell, I. S. Ruthven, Joanna M. C. Savage, June Seaton,W. D. Sloan, Helen D. T. Smith, J. M. Smith, Agnes R. Stevely, F. G.Taylor, Geraldine M. Taylor, John Thorburn, George Wallace, SanfordWarshauer. J. T. Watson, Sandra H. Willis, A. J. Wilson, C. P. Wilson,G. A. McH. Wyllie, A. G. K. Young, B. G. Young.