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MEDICINE AND LAW
SURVEY OF FACILITIES
London, July 25. Eight years ago there was pub- lished by the Rockefeller Founda- tion a comprehensive survey of the facilities then available throughout the world for the teaching and practice of forensic medicine. Those who complied the publica- tion found nothing in England worthy of mention, and Great Bri- tain therefore appeared in their work as the possessor of two Uni- versity "Chairs, one in Edinburgh and the other in Glasgow. That the account was in no way unfair or blased is made plain to-day by the Report of the Advisory Com- mitter on the Scientific Investiga- tion of Crime of which Lord Tren- chard is Chairman, and which
Includes among its members Lora Astor, Lord Dawson of Penn. Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the thier Medical Ofcer of the Ministry of tar as London itself Health "So
NEW SECRETARY APPOINTED TO S.M. COUNCIL
Mr. G. G. Phillips
Succeeds Mr. ̈
J. R. Jones
COUNCIL'S TRIBUTE TO RETIRING OFFICIAL
The following oficial announce- ment regarding the Secretaryship of the "S.M.C. published in Municipal Gazette.
the
from In accepting with effect September 30, the resignation of 19 concerned." these competent.
the Chairman of the Mr. Jones, witnesses declare, "no facilities |
Council has addressed to Mr. Jones whatever exist for dealing in any
the following letter:- comprehensive manner with the subject forensic medicine) as a whole.'
My Dear Jones-I am directed you by my colleagues to inform that your resignation from
the
with deep regret. Council's service has been accepted
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1936.
ENGINEERING
ELECTRICAL
AND
BUILDING
INTERFERENCE WITH
BROADCASTING
Retification
Recommended For Existing Apparatus
some
which
effort
by
RUST-PROOFING
PROCESS
PROTECTION AGAINST
CORROSION
A process for the treatment of steels and other metals to protect them from corrosion has been Introduced by Messrs. Webb Metal Treatment, Limited, Ulster Cham- bers. 168. Regent-street, London! W.1, whose works, laboratories and research "department are at Hay- wards Works. Enfeld, Middlesex. The process. we understand, is an electrolytic one throughout and made compulsory on traffic signals consists in coating. or "impregnat
ing" as it is termed. the articles to be treated with a rust-proof, non-corrosive alloy,
POLITICAL SIDE.
The development of broadcast- ; dividual
stimulated "Mr. J. R. Jones, M.A, Secretary ing has brought with it many ad-listeners' complaints. In addition, to the Council, has resigned with vantages and
disabilities of course. a good deal of "interfer- Among the latter is the interference-free" apparatus, such as re- effect from September 30, 1938.
"Mr. G. Godfrey Phillips. MA.epce that is caused to reception frigerators, is now being sold, and in the for some time correction has been LL.M. Deputy Secretary, has been by other electrical plant appointed Secretary to the Coun- vielaity, particular offenders be
by the Minister cl with effect from October 1. ing lifts. household electrical ap-
of Transport. 1036."
pliances, neon signs, small motors, Much practical progress has also trolley
trams, 'buses and
and been made in counteracting the electro-medical apparatus. the fre-baneful influence of trolley buses. quent starting and stopping or Intermittent contacts cause the emission of radiation. As regards the political side, the electrical signalling | question is whether powers should In addition.
not be conferred on some authori gear on rallways may give rise to some trouble and ignition systems ty which would enable methods of an automobiles, may perhaps inter- suppression to be imposed where fere with television. The effects such a course is necessary. The of such radiation are noticeable
manufacturers definitely support within a range varying from a this procedure and go a step fur- few yards, in the case of railway ther by recommending the use of plant, to thousands of miles, in the a mark on both native and im case of electro-medical equipment ported apparatus, which would and are, of course, particularly guarantee its suitability. disturbing in blocks of dats and also been agreed that the prospec- densely populated areas.
So wide- tive authority should issue appro- spread, in fact, is this interference priate regulations for each class that the Post Office deals some 40,000 complaints a and it is "not surprising that re- medies, both technical and legista tive. the latter being the more dif- ficult to formulate, have been un- de consideration for some time...
In accepting your resignation the Council desires to place on
record its high appreciation of the ability and eficiency with which you have discharged the duties of your office as Deputy Secretary and afterwards Secretary to the Council over a period of more than eight years.
I am directed also to convey to you an expression of the high personal esteent and regard in which you are held by the indivi- dual members of the Council who join with me in. wishing you all success and prosperity in your future career.
The Committee WILS formed originally by Sir John Gilmour to "advise about the laboratory for the! scientific investigation of crima which was then, thanks to Lord Trenchard's initiative, about to De established In the Metropolitan Police Force. The terms of reter- Pnce required that consideration should be given to the desirability of linking the new Police Labora- tory with other police institutions. at home and abroad, and with any medico-tegal or scientiac Institute) that might hereafter be con stituted for work in forensic medi- cine. An early examinatior. was accordingly made of the possibility of developing the Police Laboratory sons to enable it to be used as a basis of study and research.
But before long. It was recognized that such an evolution would resemble the transposition of the functions of parent and off-spring. The P lice Laboratory: it was seen, must necessarily be a specialized institu- tlon directed in its activities to- wards special ends whereas the study of forensic medicine is a most as wide in its scope as the law itself. Attention
year. was there- fore directed towards a more com- prehensive scheme which while it should include the work of the po- lice, would by no means be limited to the investigation of crime. This attitude was confirmed by the knowledge that there are compara
to interest
Yours sincerely.
H. E. Arnhold,
Chairman.
MR. PHILLIPS' CAREER
and was educated at Harrow and Mr. Phillips was born in 1900
Cambridge, serving as president of the Cambridge Union Society. In 1924 he was appointed an Assis-
called to the Bar the
following
"YARDSTICK"
with
year.
As regards the technical aspect it is satisfactory to note that one
It has
of apparatus, and thus er.sure
acid
further.
saturation and
The process 18 carried out in a series of steps, in the first of which the article is degreased electroly- tically in a 'combination of solu- tions, the treatment occupying from Ave to ten minutes. The article is then swilled with clean water and placed. for a Ave to ten minutes, in a descaling bath, which is also operated on the electrolytic principle. The method employed. It is claimed. definitely eliminates penetration of the solution into the metal. In the third stage of the process the article is submerg- etching bath, which. It is stated, ed for one minute in an electrolyte
Produces a finely and uniformly etched surface over the entire area that all apparatus thus scheduled
of the article. constituting an ef- should be "interference-free" after à prescribed date. The cost of do-
felent key for the dnal coating ing this in the case of new ap-
process. The electro-deposition, paratus would not be high, and
or impregnation, of the special non-corrosive alloy usually oc- even fts in existing flats can be rendered innocuous for £25. This cuples one minute and it is stated that articles of any metal can be low expenditure may, of course.
successfully treated without inter- have had something to do withering with their size or mechani- the success of the voluntary efforts cal properties, even British Stand- to which we have drawn attenard Fine bolts and huts remaining tion, though other forms of pres-
unaltered in dimensiona sure have doubtless been brought to bear. Rectifcation, it is recom- mended, should also be appiled to existing apparatus which is caus- ing die Interference. but the question, who is to pay for the treatment. is left for
We understand that treated articles may be bent, twisted. or hammered without the coating blistering, peeling, or cracking and
that, at the conclusion of salt-
Initial difficulty has been over- come. A method of measuring the interference caused by many types of apparatus has been de- signed, and it can therefore be re- commended that a difference" at at least 40 decibels between the tant Master at Harrow. He was strength of a signal field of the order of I volt per millimetre,
spray tests carried out on treated steel bark at the National Physical modulated 80 per cent., and that. In 1931 Mr. Phillips acted as
the legislature to decide. of the interfering field should be
Laboratory, and extending over a agent and counsel for H.M. Gov-maintained. This "yardstick" has}
Attention is, however, drawn to period of three weeks, no sign of Claims Commission in Mexico City, deal of close investigation, as a erniment before the joint Special not been found without a good the undesirability of discouraging rust or evidence of corrosion could
voluntary correction and to the be observed. and the next year he was appoint- reference to the bibliography at; existence of cases where the owner ed Prosecuting Counsel to G.P.O the end of the report will show, cannot reasonably be expected to on the Midland Circuit. In 1933. Technically, moreover, the correc bear the cost. In other words, before he received his appoint- tion of radio-interference is now judiciousness must be the keynote.
puty Secretary.
H
necessary
J
tively few posts in the medical ment to Shanghai, he was Deputy possible, although the cost of mak- If, however. the trouble is due to world for which special qualifica- Clerk of the Staffordshire County ing that correction varies and is poor maintenance, the committee tlons in forensic medicine are re- quired, and that in consequence join the S.M.C. Secretariat at the sidered.
Councli. He accepted the offer to a factor that will have to be con- is in no doubt that the cost of students do not tend
rectification should be borne by themselves in such work Evention here in January, 1934.
end of 1933 and assumed his posi- As regards the actual reduction | the offender, and generally speak- medico-legal post-mortem" exami-
The of interference, considerable pro-ing, apparatus likely to cause in- nations
same year he was promoted De- may be undertaken by
gress has also been made, partly terference should also be equipped doctors without special qualifica-
owing to the activities of the Post with suppression devices
at the tions. In this connection the Com- Captain of the school running
At Harrow Mr. Phillips was office and partly to voluntary in-l owner's expense... mittee endorse the recommenda- team, and he was awarded school tion of the Committee on Coroners colours for fives. -namely, that coroners should his House at cricket and football He played for
NEW TYPE OF normally be required to employ for and was Head of the School At UNDERGROUND TRAIN "post-mortem" examinations pa- Cambridge he rowed for First thologists whose names appear in a Trinity Boat Club, both at Cum- list to be kept by the Home Omice bridge and Henley In collaboration with an advisory committee of medical men.
THE CONCLUSION The conclusion is reached that a Medico-Legal Institute qught to be founded as, in a sense, the parent body. not
only of the Police Laboratory, but also of every other institution dealing with forensic nedicine; and that this institute must possess three separate but in- terrelated branches of activity namely, teaching, routine work. and research. The Committee is unanimously of the opinion that these requirements
SAFETY WIND SCREENS
New Regulation In Britain
London, Aug. 20. In January next, regulations issued by the Ministry of Trans- port will make compulsory the use of safety glass wind
BELGIAN LOCOMOTIVES
Delivery Of Sixteen
A train, which
placed in was service on the Hammersmith and Cityline of the London Passenger
Tsingtao, August 15. Transport Board recently is fitted A consignment of 16 locomotives, with doors which can be opened | ordered by the Ministry of Rail- and outside the
carriages by ways from Belgium for the Lung- operating a press button. This Hai and the Canton-Hankow rail- will enable only such doors as are ways, arrived here yesterday by required at any time to be opened; a Norwegian freighter.
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GINNING FACTORIES FOR HUNAN
Shanghai Supplies Motors And Machinery
Nanking, August 16.
To meet the increasing demand for cotton ginning factories in Hunan, the Hunan branch of the Cotton Improvement Commission of the National Economic Council, has completed plans for the establishment of three factories in Changtah, Chengchow, and Talkong. Orders have been placed by the new factory in Changich for one Diesel motor of 30 borse- power and 30 modern ginning machines of 32 in. When install. ed, these machines will be able to gin, about 400,000 cattles of cotton seeds in five months
The gearing machines, packing machines, electric geberators, and ordered from Shanghai and will soon be shipped to. Changteh
to their full width instead of only ❘ Messrs. Bun Pin-yen, superin-motors have been partially as frequently happens, tendent of the Locomotive Depart- with, hand operation. The doors ment of the Lung-Hal rallway, will be closed by the guard, as on and Luan Pao-te. representative the Tube lines and he will also, if of the Canton-Hankow railway, necessary, be able to open all the have arrived here to take delivery doors. The carriages themselves of the locomotives for are constructed of steel with fat respective lines.-(Kuo Min), All vehicles manufactured, after sides and flush windows so as to can best be 1931 are fitted with windscreens of facilitate cleaning, and electro- met by "its establishment as "a the safety type, but it is estimated pneumatic brakes have been fit- some 600.000 private and ted for the first time so that ap-.
motor vehicles.
School of the University of London that
and
screens on
GLASS FACTORY
their
in the "Faculty of Medicine." The about 200.000 commercial vehicles plication is instantaneous through- In spite of the abolition of the School would concern itself chiefly at present on the road have or-
out the train and the lag of three Military Rehabilitation Depart with post-graduate study.
dinary glass screens and that of four seconds which occurs at ment of the Military "Headquar- "would provide separate courses of probably 500,000 of these will be the rear end with the older type ters, building of the glass factory
instruction for students of law and continued on the road by their of brake is avoided, There is a new form of ventilator with hing-
for 'persons or bodies of persons owners, who will have to have new
whose duties require, or would windscreens atted before the ended vane. beneft by, more detailed know of the year.--
ledge of the subject of forensic British Wireless.
medicine-for example, coroners
and police surgeons and even gèn-
it
BRITISH FLAX INDUSTRY
London, Aug, 20.
in Honam will not be hindered in
Improved cotton Beeds have been popularly used by farmers of Hunan. In the first ax months of this year. 150,000 mow of land were planted with cotton pre- pared
the and distributed by Hunan branch of the Commission It is estimated that 150,000 cat- Hes of cotton seed will be yielded from the improved plantation area.
(Central News).
STRATEGIC RAILWAY BUILDING DENIED ·
Berlin
the least. The factory was form- erly under the control of the Military Rehabilitation Depart ment which has placed big orders| with a Swiss Arm for the supply of The Rumanian Legation here on building materials and machinery August 12 denied that the Ruman- eral practitioners. Routine, work highly specialized department of
part of which has already arrived|ian Government contemplated the would be undertaken not only for science, commanding for that rea-
here to be installed. It is under-construction of railway lines with the police but, as in the care of the son a still larger share of public
stood that this factory will now the object of securing direct com- National Physical Laboratory, for esteem and confidence. In other An important stage in the re-be transferred to the Department munications between the Soviet persons standing in need of it. words, there cannot be one selencevival of the British flax industry of Reconstruction. Thus the Police Laboratory might of the police, another of coroners, was marked to-day by the starting well be brought within the scope of and another of industrial medical up of electrically-driven machinery the Institute in order to share, the officers. There
cannot be one of the latest design in the de-agricultural, experiment in advantages of teaching and re- science of the prosecution and an-seeding section of new fax mills same county. Biz hundred acres search. If it be objected that this other of the defence. Law and at Billing in Northamptonshire.
have been sown with pedigree seed, amounts to the removal of science medicine, are not antagonists, but The mills, which will be in full and, despite averse weather, & croD from Scotland Yard, the answer fellow-searchers of the truth; and operation by September 7. are of exceptionally good quality has can be made 'that, on the contrary, Justice must needs be less than part of a new, industrial venture been harvested-- Scotland Yard will have become a just If she is less than sëlentinc. associated with a carefully-planned | British Wireless.
Union and Czechoslovakia, as bae been rumoured.
In some quarters, emphasis the Was laid on the important strategic value these lines would possess in time of war.
Rumania intends to build only a doubletrack line from Czechoslo vakia to central parts of Rumania; ↑ the denial stated,—Havas, A
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