OBJECTIVE To examine mortality in members of the two UK Houses of Parliament compared with the general population, 1945-2011. DESIGN Retrospective cohort analysis of death rates and predictors of mortality in Members of Parliament (MPs) and members of the House of Lords (Lords). SETTING UK. PARTICIPANTS 4950 MPs and Lords first joining the UK parliament in 1945-2011. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUR...

Ferrocyanide compounds enter the environment as anti-caking additives to road salts. In illuminated aquatic environments, the salts dissociate and form toxic free cyanide, which can then be lost through volatilization. The most common techniques for analysis of cyanide in environmental samples measure total and free (generally weak-acid dissociable, WAD) cyanide species. Cyanide has been detect...

R. J. MORRIS, Cholera 1832. The social response to an epidemic, London, Croom Helm, 1976, 8vo, pp. 228, illus., £7.50. The first person in the British Isles to suffer from verified cholera was in Sunderland, and he died on 26 October 1831. Thereafter there was a country-wide epidemic lasting into 1832, and then three more, in 1848 to 1849, 1853 to 1854, and 1866. The medical aspects of these ev...

During World War II, behavioral scientists working for several U.S. agencies—principally the Office of Strategic Services, but also the Office of War Information, the Strategic Bombing Survey, and military authorities—advanced personality and social psychology through their investigations of the nature of Nazism, Adolf Hitler's personality, the German national character, and Germans' reactions ...

On Tuesday 28 June 2011, Lars Haaheim tragically died whilst on a fishing trip in a fjord near his summer home in Sveio, Norway. Lars was an internationally renowned influenza scientist and a founder member of the International Society for Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses (isirv). From his formative academic years at the University of Bergen, Lars was an influenza enthusiast. He speciali...

XUE QING WU, CONSULTANT, YAO YAO CAI, RESIDENT, WEI TING XIA, RESIDENT AND MJ QUINN, VISITING SCHOLAR, FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL, MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WENZHOU, WENZHOU, CHINA ....................................................................................................................................................................... A Tremain Hertig (1904– 1990) was a professor of path...

DURING 1 9 4 5 , legislative sessions were he ld in all S t a t e s except Mississippi. Lou i s iana a n d Virg in ia h a d special sessions res t r i c ted t o subjec ts o the r t h a n publ ic ass i s tance . T h e r e m a i n ing S t a t e s ( inc lud ing t h e Dis t r i c t of Columbia , Hawai i , a n d Alaska) e n ac t ed in all a b o u t 5 0 0 laws w h i c h were p e r t i n e n t t o t h...

Japan’s urban planning system began with the Urban Renewal (1885) and has been modified since then in various ways through Tokyo City Improvement Ordinance (1888) Planning Law (1919). From 1895 to 1945 (Japanese colonization era), Japan applied tested its Taipei (1895–1945), Seoul (1910–1945, Gyeongseong), Beijing (1936–1945). Although was first city discussed for planning, renewal implemented ...

IN a recent review of the literatume concerning the use of penicillin in ophthalmology, Rycroft (1945) makes no mention of the direct application of the undissolved salt to the surface of the eyeball. Sorsby (1945) in a similar review does just mention the method, itn referring to a paper byJuler and Young (1945) on infective corneal ulcer, but in a recent annotation in the Brit. Med. J1. (1946...