Here is a comprehensive study of nearly 14,000 cases of births during the week beginning March 3rd, 1946. The enquiry was sponsored by the Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Population Investigation Committee, under the chairmanship of Professor James Young. Antenatal supervision, the places of confinement, and care during confinement, the relief of...

I F we consider that agriculture employed a majority of the population in non-industrial societies and is still man's staple occupation, we must ad-mit that the agriculture of Roman Britain has concerned archaeologists and historians much less than it should, for on its vicissitudes depended to no small degree the well-being and decline of the province. The existence of Roman 'villas' was first...

Editor—I strongly endorse Sikora’s claim that poor rates of survival from cancer in the United Kingdom reflect a lack of NHS resources. Increasing the number of specialist oncologists will not, however, make up for the massive shortfall in funds required to provide these oncologists with the essential tools of their trade. Recent review of the budgetary allocation to Addenbrooke’s Oncology Cent...

Fibrosis of the endocardium and myocardium, in the absence of disease of the coronary arteries, still receives scant attention in the standard medical textbooks. It has been recognized for many years as a comparatively uncommon complication of collagen diseases, infiltrative diseases (amyloid, haemochromatosis, von Gierke's disease), beriberi, Friedreich's ataxia and the muscular dystrophies, a...

Historical background African children have been living in Britain since the 16th century. Brought by slave traders they were advertised, auctioned, and sold as servants in Bristol, Liverpool, and London. They often worked in aristocratic households and are portrayed in groups of the period by Zoffany and Reynolds. ' After the abolition of the slave trade Britain's black community divided and i...

There has been a meteoric surge in academics migrating out of Turkey the last five years. Many scholars have found new careers Britain, which previously had relatively small community Turkish scholars. Drawing on systematic and narrative review, this paper provides scoping review fragmented literature academic Britain its possibilities forming supportive diaspora. Building diasporas evidence fr...

1 Friedrich Miescher Laboratorium, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 7400 Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany 2 Robert-Koch-Institut des Bundesgesundheitsamtes. 1000 Berlin 65, Federal Republic of Germany 3 Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Mi11 Hill Laboratories, London NW7 IAD, Great Britain 4 Behringwerke AG. Forschungslaboratorien, 3550 Marburg, Federal Republic of Germany 5 London School of Hygiene,...

It is commonplace enough to observe that nineteenth century Britain could not forever maintain her global hegemony. The world's first industrial power was bound to be challenged by the rise of modern industrial economies in the United States, Germany and Japan. Similarly, the contraction of the capitalist world and the collapse of colonialism were events over which Britain had little direct con...

Therapy for Osteoporosis in Older Adults, Pamela Taxel, Pamela M. Fall, Karen M. Prestwood, Lahta Dulipsingh, Debrorah Dauser, Christine Ohannessian, and Lawrence G. Raisz ( Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2 General Clinical Research Center, and 3 Department of Geriatrics, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT; 4 New Britain General Hospital, New Britain, CT; * autho...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To analyse to what extent differences in income, using two distinct measures-as distribution across quintiles and poverty-explain social inequalities in self rated health, for men and women, in Sweden and Britain. DESIGN Series of cross sectional surveys, the Swedish Survey of Living Conditions (ULF) and the British General Household Survey (GHS), during the period 1992-95. ...