ANOXAEMIA, ALKALOSIS, SHOCK, AND THEIR TREATMENT

hours of the day and niglht. Witlh oue exception, the lhospitAl committees of all -London hospitals at which venereal clinics were in operation had expressed tlle view that it would be impossible for them to introduce early preventive treatment. The Public Healtli Committee held that the medical advantage accruing from early preventive treatment would probably be nullified by a consequential increase in the number of cases of exposure to infection; in its view the public provision of early preventive treatment had not been satisfactorily wr6ved to be de*. ble. Viscount.Bury moved that the report be referred back. Dr. Haden quest-,who spoke i.n favour of the Public fealth Committee.'p. xec0mmendation said that amongother practical diffioulties was that doctors would prqbly decline to. nnderdtke the work .nd no other suitably trained persons were available. His own observation of preventive treatment of this kind in the army in Egypt 1e4 him to conclude that it was a.failure. Mr. Anderton, the chairman of the committee, while resisting the motipwi to refer the report back, said that the committee had not;closed its mind, and was ready to consider any other. scleme that might be proposed. The motion to refer bck"was lost by a large mnajority, and the r port of the comunintee was endorsed.