SINCE 1946 a meeting has been held monthly in the Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, during the months September to June. It has been attended by the staff of both maternity hospitals and by representatives from the Department of Pathology, the Ministry of Health, and the City Borough Healthi Department. At this meeting the monthly statistical reports for the Jubilee Maternity Hospital and the ...

emphasisedl the difficulties which hadl to be met in producinig such a report. Ihc recommen(latioins of the Royal College of Obstetricians and(l Gyvncologists had been a help in this respect. anld tilc report tolloWe(l thc plal suggested by their committee. The speaker sumnmiiarised the mainl features ol the} report, and compared them wvith similar reports fromii teni other hospitals in Great 1...

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In the last in our three-part series on myopia, Catherine Viner considers the assessment and correction of myopia in practice. Module C15569, one general point for optometrists and DOs Part 3: Assessment and correction T he predominant symptom in uncorrected (or undercorrected) myopia is blurred distance vision.1-3 It is suggested that because this symptom is so readily apparent, myopes account...

Following a study of large-scale atmospheric and oceanic interactions associated with the recent Northeast drought, smaller-scale manifestations of this drought are studied with the help of records from New York Central Park Observatory. The long-period records of this Observatory (since 1869) are then studied statistically in relation to dry periods. Among the most interesting facts brought ou...

Parasitic Gastroenteritis(PGE) Penrith diagnosed PGE in a 10-week-old Limousin-X calf which had been at pasture for three weeks before developing diarrhoea. Parasitological examination revealed 5100 trichostrongyle eggs per gram faeces and 1700 coccidial oocysts. Langford diagnosed PGE on eight occasions in six to twelve month old calves Trichostrongyle sp. worm egg counts of up to 4,550 epg we...