Extra Supplement: London Town

Hanoverian London: the making of a service town.

UNTIL THE NINETEENTH CENTURY London had two geographical poles, the Court and the Port. Economically both these poles were defined primarily by their relationship to what a subsequent age would call the service sector. They were of course very different. The Court is taken here as a convenient shorthand that includes the government, parliament, the aristocracy and the Court’s allies in the prof...

Anthony de Crespigny UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN and Kenneth Minogue UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Methuen & Co London

Extra Protection for Pregnant Women: Calcium Supplement Reduces Blood Lead

Prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) impairs cognitive development in infants and children, according to numerous studies of these ubiquitous environmental pollutants. Studies of PCB damage have considered many different end points, but the results of these different studies have never been coordinated to pinpoint the neuropsychologic functions most likely to be damaged by pren...

Conclusions to the Supplement, "Extra-Renal Complications of Cystinosis".

One of the founders of the field of inborn errors of metabolism, J. Edwin Seegmiller, once said, “Cystinosis is a durable, but perhaps not doable, problem.” Since he said that more than 50 years ago, great progress has been made in understanding this complex multiorgan, systemic disease. Now with genotyping readily available, a host of new questions can be asked, such as, why are some late comp...

Supplement

I want, very briefly, to outline what we have been trying to do at the National Association for Mental Health to solve the problems that have arisen in Child Guidance largely as a result of the National Health Service Act. In 1944, when the Education A-ct went through, we felt that a very large part of our work had been done : Child Guidance was on the map ; it was an obligation of the Local Ed...