Ipswich Medical Society

The Ipswich Touch Test

OBJECTIVE To promote foot screening of inpatients with diabetes, we simplified sensory testing to lightly touching the tips of the first, third, and fifth toes (the Ipswich Touch Test [IpTT]). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Respective performances of the IpTT and 10-g monofilament (MF) were compared with a vibration perception threshold of ≥25 V indicating at-risk feet in 265 individuals. The Ip...

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With the publication of the January number of its transactions, the Poona Medical Society completes the first year of its existence. The interest taken in the Society by its members is manifested by the numbers who attend its meetings, of which there have been three during the last quarter. The following gentlemen have shown cases and contributed articles of interest at the meetings, viz., Lieu...

Ipswich Hospital's New Memorial Wing

East Suffolk and Ipswich have chosen, in addition to the cenotaph recently put up, the most practicallyuseful of all war memorials, a new wing to their admirable hospital, and it was opened by the Duke of Connaught on Monday, July 28. H.R.H. was received by the president, Sir Arthur Churchman, Bt., the chairman of the hospital, Mr. B. W. Elkington, and the past chairman, Mr. J. D. Cobbold, who ...

East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital

""THIS!hospital, which has a staff of over 100 nurses, had its annual Nurses' Prize-giving Day on November 29. The distribution was made by Dame Maud McCarthy, G.B.E., R.R.C., Matron-inGhief of the Territorial Army Nursing Service. The chair'was taken by Mr. B. W. Elkington, the Chairman of the Board of Management of the hospital, supported by the Secretary, Mr. Arthur Griffiths, O.B.E., and se...