Banditry in Semarang, 1950-1958

Mental Health in 1958

The Second Part of the Ministry of Health's Annual Report, "On the State of the Public Health", has now been published. The statistics, given in Part I, are here considered in a wider context, and the chapter devoted to Mental Health begins with an introduction stressing the process of integrating general medicine and psychiatry which has gone on since the introduction of the National Health Se...

Determinants of smoking behaviour among adolescents in Semarang, Indonesia.

OBJECTIVES To determine the smoking prevalence and to examine the determinants of smoking behaviour among male adolescents in Semarang, Indonesia. DESIGN A random sample of schools in Semarang (population 1.5 million) was obtained using a stratified sampling procedure (strata based on type of school and district). A total of 149 schools were selected (response rate 72%). Within the schools 18...

Rural Development in Contemporary Iran 1950-2010

Poliomyelitis in Bristol, 1950

Successive reports* in this Journal on the progress of poliomyelitis in the Bristol area serve to co-relate the disease with other infections but reduce what can be usefully said that is new about this much publicised disease. Therefore, it seems best to place before you the bare bones of the incidence during 1950, as reflected in admissions recorded at Ham Green Hospital, and thereafter commen...

The 1958 UNSCEAR report.

In the mid-1950s, concern was increasing about the possible effects from the radioactive fallout resulting from nuclear weapon testing. Various scientists from non-nuclear countries such as Sweden and Canada made their politicians aware of the potential hazards of fallout. This concern went up to the General Assembly of the United Nations, which took the unique step of appointing a scientific c...