A SUMMER HOLIDAY FOR MEDICAL MEN.

Investigation of Summer Learning Loss in the UK—Implications for Holiday Club Provision

This study sought to examine whether summer learning loss occurs in spelling and word reading in a population of 77 primary school aged children aged between 5 and 10 years (37 boys, mean age 100 months, SD 18 months, and 40 girls mean age 103 months, SD 16 months) attending three schools in areas of low socioeconomic status in Scotland and the North East of England. Word reading and spelling w...

We're all going on a summer holiday: An Exercise in Non-Cardinal Case Base Retrieval

In this paper, we present similarity metrics, which provide a seamless integration of cardinal and non-cardinal similarity measures. We show that cardinal and non-cardinal ways of measuring similarity in case bases are simply instances of the deenition of similarity metrics, and that a single deenition of the maxima of a similarity metric can be applied in both the cardinal and non-cardinal cas...

A Typical Holiday Fortnight for Mental Defectives

The Green Lady Hostel, Littlehampton (reserved for several months by the C.A.M.W.) was occupied for a fortnight at the end of April by a group of 48 women of very varying ages, in the charge of three members of the C.A.M.W., in addition to the usual household staff of the Hostel. About half the holiday-makers were girls and women placed out under the Guardianship Scheme of the C.A.M.W., while t...

Take a holiday--it's good for you.

Lunacy Law for Medical Men

Dr. Mercier's name is so well known in lunacy that we felt confident that a book dealing with the Lunacy Law from his hands would be valuable. This book, though small, is yet so excellent and systematic in its arrangement, and so lucid in the setting forth of its subject, that no medical man using it as his guide need doubt his ability to understand the Lunacy Act of 1890 so far as is necessary...