The Medical Year Book, 1924

Abstract

THIS new annual is described by its editor as an unofficial guide to the current activities of the medical profession in the United Kingdom. More than half of the book is devoted to the medical schools, opportunities for clinical work, and (134 pages) lists of consultants and specialists. These lists are conveniently arranged geographically and by subjects, and constitute, perhaps, the chief justification for the appearance of a new year-book. The criterion adopted for admission to them-“present or past official connexion with a hospital or similar institution” is perhaps no more objectionable than any other that could have been used. Among other items are a diary of forthcoming meetings, original articles on insulin, cancer, and chemotherapy, particulars of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, etc., notices and regulations of the G.M.C., the Examining Board in England, etc., medical members of Parliament, nursing homes, obituary list, wills of medical men, charitable bequests, medical periodicals, and books and pamphlets of 1922-23. We miss the D.L.O. in the list of diplomas of the Royal Colleges, and we notice what seems a misleading description of the Royal Institute of Public Health as “a public educational institution of the University of London.”