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As in previous years, alterations have been made from time to time as has
been desirable, in the arrangements for post-graduate instruction in the general
hospitals.
Undergraduate Instruction.
Medical school. Council's hospital. Medical school. Council's hospital.
Charing Cross hospital St. Charles'. St. Bartholomew's hospital Hackney.
Guy's hospital St. Alfege's. Bethnal Green.
St. Olave's. St. George's hospital St. Mary Abbots.
Lewisham. St. Mary's hospital Paddington.
King's College hospital St. Giles'. St. Thomas's hospital Lambeth.
Dulwich. University College hospital St. Mary, Islington.
Middlesex hospital Archway. Westminster hospital St. Stephen's.
Royal Free hospital St. Mary, Islington.
Highgate.
St. Pancras.
Obstetric Instruction.
Medical school. Council's hospital. Medical school. Council's hospital.
London hospital Mile End. St. George's hospital Lewisham.
Middlesex hospital St. Mary Abbots. King's College hospital Lewisham.
St. Bartholomew's hospital St. Giles'. St. Thomas's hospital St. James'.
St. Andrew's.
British Postgraduate Medical School.
During the year the work of building and equipping the premises to be occupied
by the British Postgraduate Medical School, to which reference was made in the
annual report for the year 1933 (Vol. IV, Part I, p. 66), was proceeded with. Considerable
progress was made, and it was anticipated that the school would be opened
during May, 1935.
Medical research.
In addition to the arrangements mentioned in previous annual reports, facilities
have been granted in a number of instances to enable research to be carried out
at the general hospitals in the treatment of various diseases.
Arrangements were made for Mr. Laurence F. O'Shaughnessy, F.R.C.S., to
collect data from patients in seven general hospitals in South London to assist in
his researches into cases of surgical shock.
Permission was also granted to Dr. R. R. Armstrong, M.D., F.R.C.P., to carry
out research work in the treatment of mastitis or breast abscess in the lying-in wards
of St. Giles' hospital. Dr. Armstrong had previously conducted research on this
problem at St. Bartholomew's hospital and on the treatment of pneumonia at the
Council's hospitals.
Facilities were granted at St. Charles' hospital to Dr. N. F. Maclagan, of the
Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry, the Middlesex hospital medical school, for
pursuing a scheme of research which he has been carrying out with the aid of a
grant from the Medical Research Council. The work consisted of collecting a large
series of test meals in cases of ulcer and cancer of the stomach by the use of histamine.
At the request of the Therapeutic Trials Committee of the Medical Research
Council, permission has been granted for tests of the use of a male hormone known
as Hombreol in early cases of prostatic enlargement with urinary symptoms. The
work was undertaken under the supervision of the medical superintendent of
St. Mary Abbots hospital. Trials have also been authorised of the use of suprarenal
cortical extracts in the treatment of patients suffering from Addison's disease in
the general hospitals, the work being undertaken by Dr. S. Levy Simpson, M.D., B.Ch.
Legacy.
By the will of Mr. James Foster, who died on 20th June, 1934, a sum of £200
(less duty) was bequeathed to Fulham hospital on the understanding that it would be
applied for the particular benefit of the women patients of the hospital. The sum
of £180 was received, and this was invested in the purchase of 3 per cent. London
County Consolidated Stock and the income derived from this investment will be
applied by the Fulham hospital committee in accordance with the wishes of the
testator.