Major W. M. Hoddicu, of the Royal Engineers, has published a very interesting little pamphlet* on the work done by drainage and other works in St. Lucia in the West Indies in the years 1902-03. St. Lucia, like all other islands and ports in the West Indies, is gravely threatened by yellow fever, and as we have on another occasion noticed that the fear of this deadly fever has made anti-mosquito...

. The only criticism of the form of the pamphlet ls that there is no table at the beginning to show its sectional headings; and of the content, the loose statement, " It seems to be the opinion of most People that the proper milieu for the male adolescent ls the society of his contemporaries especially those the same sex." This is questionable, to say the 'cast, and to rely on the seeming opini...

standing 01 their Needs. New Lducation bellowship Monograph, No. 2. Obtainable from N.E.F., 50 Gloucester Place, London, W.l. Is. 6d. Here in a collection of three essays (Fatherless Children by Susan Isaacs, The Bereaved Wife, by Joan Riviere, What the Father means to a Child, by Ella Freeman Sharpe), is a beautiful refutation of the common indictment that psychologists think only in terms of ...

Parkinson’s disease (PD), a degenerative disease of the central nervous system, is noted for voice and speech deficits, classified as hypokinetic dysarthria. Dysarthric speech is characterized by vowels that are centralized due, in part, to the limited range of movement of the speech articulators. PD results in disruption of internal cues or trigger of movement. 89% patients with Parkinson’s ha...

This is the second edition of a pamphlet issued last year and reviewed in this journal. New matter covering a page and a half has been introduced. Two doses of 250,000 units of penicillin in water, one in the morning and one in the evening, have also been recommended, instead of the 3-hourly administration. The rest of the account appears to be the same. The two categories of diseases, one in w...

For our consideration of the subject of Maternal Mortality I ask you to cast your minds back nearly two hundred years. In 1736, a London surgeon, Mr John Douglas, wrote a pamphlet in which he deplored the lamentable state of midwifery practice in London at that time. He expressed surprise that whilst other departments of surgery had been practised and improved by men "the operation necessary fo...

Our Bodies, Ourselves, a succession to a pamphlet of resources pulled from co-ops of women in and around Boston, Massachusetts, was published in New York in 1973 by Simon and Schuster. Retitled from the original Women and Their Bodies, Our Bodies, Ourselves was an effort by a group of educated, middle class women to reinforce women's ownership of their bodies. There have been eight editions of ...

a pamphlet is available giving the considered opinion of the Medical Committee and Council of the Central Association on this subject (which opinion, it may be said, was arrived at after the matter had been most carefully considered in all its bearings). The Eugenics Society, however, has drafted a Sterilization Bill, which appears in the current number of the Eugenics Review and Dr. A. F. Tred...

This is a pamphlet which aims at proving that, " There can be at this time little doubt that the reason of the failure of the older surgeons to obtain satisfactory results (in excisions of the mamma, &c., for cancer) was due, in the first place, to septic infection, and in the second place, to late and incomplete operations. The remedy seems at pi'esent to be largely in the hands of the general...

its neighbours, above and below. A good rule is that the space between any two pavilions should be about equal to 1^ times the height of such pavilions?thus if a pavilion be 75 feet high, the distance between it and its neighbour should be not less than 90 to 100 feet. The pavilions may be built radiating like the spokes of a wheel (like several of the Central Jails in India) or in form of a ho...