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The second part of the report comments on the D.H.S.S.consultative document, A Happier Old Age. Most of the

suggestions made are based on the Disability Alliance’s beliefthat the disabled elderly should be identified in relation to theseverity of their disablement for the purposes of deciding notonly their income needs but also their need for services.Recommendations include: increased responsibility for social-service departments for housing the elderly disabled; extensionof the attendance allowance; and provision of a comprehensivedisablement allowance, graded according to severity of disable-ment.

PROJECT ON THE ROLE AND EDUCATION OF THEMIDWIFE

AT the request of the Royal College of Midwives, the Nurs-ing Education Research Unit of Chelsea College (University ofLondon) is undertaking a project on the role and education ofthe midwife. As aspects of the midwife’s work are closely inter-related with that of other health professionals, includinggeneral practitioners, obstetricians, and pædiatricians, the unitfeels it is important that their views are also represented in thestudy. During the next few weeks questionnaires will be sentto a random sample of members of these related professionsthroughout the country. The unit hopes that those selected willbe willing to participate in the study.

University of CambridgeDr T. D. Hawkins, consultant radiologist to the

Cambridgeshire area health authority (teaching), has beenappointed clinical dean, in succession to Dr T. M. Chalmers.

Royal SocietyElections to fellowship of the Royal Society on March 15 in-

clude the following: Dr M. J. Crumpton, division of biochemis-try, National Institute for Medical Research; Prof. J. H.

Edwards, department of clinical genetics, University of Birm-ingham (lately appointed to the chair of genetics at the Univer-sity of Oxford); Prof. M. A. Epstein, department of pathology,University of Bristol; Prof. R. L. Gardner, Henry Daleresearch professor of the Royal Society, University of Oxford;Prof. G. M. Jones, department of physiology, McGill Univer-sity, Montreal, and Defence Research Board aviation medicalresearch unit; Dr P. A. Merton, department of physiology,University of Cambridge; Prof. Brenda Milner, MontrealNeurological Institute, Canada; Dr Denis Noble, departmentof physiology, University of Oxford; Prof. Harry Smith,department of microbiology, University of Birmingham; DameJanet Vaughan, formerly principal of Somerville College,Oxford.

Nomination of Candidates for Election to the G.M.C.

Following the Merrison Report and the Medical Act 1978,the General Medical Council is to be reconstituted with effectfrom Sept. 27, 1979, with a majority of elected members.These members will be elected in four constituencies-39 for

England (including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man),3 for Wales, 6 for Scotland and 2 for Northern Irealnd. Anelection will be held in the summer of 1979 and the last datefor return of nomination papers will be May 3. Doctors whowish to be nominated as a candidate must sign a nominationpaper and secure the signature of 6 other registered medicalpractitioners resident in the same constituency. Doctors whohave reached the age of 70 are not eligible to be members ofthe Council. Nomination papers and information on proceduremay be obtained from the Registrar, General Medical Council,44 Hallam Street, London, W1N 6AE.

Sir Martin Roth, professor of psychiatry at the University of Cam-bridge, has been awarded the Paul Hoch Award of the Amencan Psv-chopathological Association for 1979.

Prof. V. Ramalingaswami has been appointed director-general ofthe Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi.

A prize of £50 will be offered in 1979-80 by the Royal College ofSurgeons of Edinburgh for an essay by a fellow or member, of notmore than ten years’ standing, of the Royal College of Surgeons ofEdinburgh, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Royal Collegeof Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, or the Royal College of Obste-tricians and Gynaecologists on the subject of Accidents-the Child inthe Home. Essays should be submitted to the College not later thanOct. 1, 1979.

A conference entitled Asbestos ’79, will be held on April 10-11,1979 at King’s College, London. Details may be had from D. C. Con-sultants, 45 Parkholme Road, London E8.

A symposium on computers in drug research and development willbe held at Chelsea College, Manresa Road, London SW3 on April 11,1979. Details may be had from the Secretariat, Society for DrugResearch, c/o Institute of Biology, 41 Queen’s Gate, London SW75HU.

The 142nd annual general meeting of the Royal Medical BenevolentFund will be held at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynxcolo-gists, Sussex Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1, on May 10, 1979,at 2 P.M.

A conference on rational therapy and rehabilitation in stroke willbe held at Northwick Park Hospital, London, on June 7-8, 1979.Details may be had from Mrs A. Ashburn, Rehabilitation Department,Northwick Park Hospital, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex.

Diary of the Week

MAR. 25 TO 31

Monday, 26thINSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY, Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, Gold-

hawk Road, London W6 OXG12.30 p.M Dr P. Dovey A Possible Radiological Method of Diagnosing Abor-

tion.

MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY5.3û P.M. (New Medical School.) Odontology. Dr G. Rabey: Analysis of Faces8.30 P.M. General Practice. Dr F. N. Bamford: Symposium on Child Abuse

Tuesday, 27thUNIVERSITY OF LONDON, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Kep-

pel Street, London WC15 P.M. Prof Abraham M. Lilienfeld (Maryland, U.S.A.): The London Bridge

- It Never Fell.

QUEEN CHARLOTTE’S MATERNITY HOSPITAL, Goldhawk Road, London W6 OXG12.15 5 P.M. Dr N. Rutter Water Loss from the Skin of Small Babies.

MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY5.50 P.M. (New Medical School.) Psychiatry. Dr F. E. Kenyon. The Psychol-

ogy of Mtdhfe Change-the Case of Emanuel Swedenborg.

Wednesday, 28thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London

WC2A 3PN5 P.M. Prof. J R Belcher- Re-stenosls of the Mitral Valve. (Huntenan lec-

ture.)ENFIELD DISTRICT HOSPITAL, The Ridgeway, Enfield, Middlesex

12.50 P.M. Dr P. Harvey Headaches-Again.NOP.THWICK PARK HOSPITAL, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ

1 P.M. Dr E. J. Raftery: Anti-arrhythmic Therapy.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL SCIIOOL Or MEDICINE, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG

5 P.M. Prof. J. S. Camercn: Lupus Nephritis sROYAL COLLEGE OF SURCEONS CF EDINBURGH, Edinburgh EH8 9DW

4.30 P.M. Prof. G. D. Tracy (New South Wales) : Another Look at Raynaud’sPhenomenon.

Friday, 30thINSTITUTE OF UROLOGY, 172 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8JE

12.30 P M Prof. J. P. Mitchell: Ruptured UrethraMANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY

8 P.M. (Liverpool Medical Institution, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool.) Anæsthe-tzcs. Dr M. A. Tobias. Mechanical Circulatory Assistance Dr 1Kenyon: Acupuncture in Labour.