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Medical officers given access to hospital records or informed of cases :—
Lateral sinus thrombosis (new modification of Toby-Ayer test).
Gangrene following fracture of lower limb.
X-ray studies of foetal development.
Applicants introduced to experts outside Council's service or referred to previous
literature:—
Capillary microscopy.
Cancer—treatment by diet deficient in vitamin C.
Cancer—treatment with dibenzanthrazine.
Drugs or forms of treatment or diagnosis tried or being tried at certain hospitals:—
Cetavlon.
Sulphabenzamide.
Anethaine.
Methionine.
Promin.
The following are the sub-committees, together with notes of the work upon
which they have been, or are, engaged:—
Sub-Committees Research work
Anæsthetics Deaths under anæsthesia (proceeding).
Statistical (medical) Pleural effusion—collaboration with tuberculosis
section of the department in preparation of
questionnaire for follow-up purposes.
Statistical (surgical) Viability of strangulated bowel (proceeding).
Vitamin deficiency (in co-operaVitamin deficiency in patients—biochemical
tion with Mental Health Sersurvey.
vices Research Committee)
Alum precipitated toxoid Comparison of alum precipitated toxoid with
other diphtheria prophylactics.
Whooping-cough serum To consider subject and arrange for trials of
serum for therapeutic purposes and possibly
also for prophylaxis (proceeding—see below).
The last item illustrates the way in which the Committee works. The medical
officer of an eminent research laboratory stated that initial tests of the serum had
given promising results but that clinical trials were desired. Representatives of the
laboratory attended a meeting of the Clinical Research Committee, together with the
medical superintendents of certain of the Council's fever hospitals. The matter was
carefully considered and it was decided to set up a sub-committee consisting of
representatives of (a) the Clinical Research Committee, (b) the medical superintendents
of the fever hospitals, and (c) the laboratory, to arrange for trials and to report to the
Clinical Research Committee from time to time.
This account of the work of the Clinical Research Committee would not be
complete without mentioning that the Medical Society of the L.C.C. Service (see next
paragraph) owes its inception to suggestions made by members of the Committee
and was sponsored by the Committee in its early stages.
At the suggestion of certain members of the Clinical Research Committee a
sub-committee was set up in 1944 to consider the formation of a Medical Society of
the Council's Service. As a result of their labours an inaugural meeting of the
medical staff was held on 11th January, 1945, and the Society came into being with
the following aims:—
Medical
Society of
the L.C.C.
Service
(a) To promote contact between the medical members of the medical
service of the Council;
(b) To encourage contact between the medical staffs of Council hospitals,
and of neighbouring municipal and voluntary hospitals, and general
medical practitioners;
(c) To provide opportunities for the study and discussion of clinical
problems: