1 THE PLACE OF TREATMENT IN AN ANTIMALARIAL CAMPAIGN By W. B. McQUEEN, M3, ch.B. (Glasgow) d.t.m. (Liverpool) Introduction The practice with which this paper deals is situated in Upper Assam, near the North Eastern Frontier, and comprises ten tea gardens owned by five companies, one company having five gardens, one company two, and three companies one each. The district is bisected by a river, ...

After a long period of absence, hospital and care-facility gardens are making a comeback. But these new gardens are not just ornamental. They aim to improve wellbeing. Some are even designed to change the outcome of disease—including neurological disease. Adrian Burton investigates.

In this study, we hypothesized that the tendency toward an age estimation bias when judging age based on facial images was driven by relative comparison with one’s own age, similar to situations of face-to-face communication. Using facial images as stimuli, participants were asked to assess the ages of those in the images in relative terms (younger or older than the participants themselves). We...

In early 1953, in a nationwide study of recipients of old-age assistance that was sponsored by the Bureau of Public Assistance, the States collected information concerning the contributions that recipients were receiving from their adult children. The eflect on the old-age assistance program of these contributions and of children’s support of other aged parents is discussed in the following pages.

Age replacement policy is concerned with finding an optional time to minimize the cost, at which time the unit is replaced even if it does not fail. So far, age replacement policy involving random age has been proposed. This paper will assume the age of the unit is an uncertain variable, and find the optimal time to replace the unit.

In his sixty-fifth year George Sanders took his own life, leaving a note saying that he was bored. Writing in her sixty-fourth year, Simone de Beauvoir is determined that she, at any rate, will not be bored by old age. This book is a tribute to her energy in researching the sociological, psychological and anthropological aspects of old age?historically and in the present day. Its length (over 5...