so music must be a favourite, even therapeutic relaxation for many doctors. While immersed in the almost decadent high romanticism of Richard Strauss's music I thought of the music of one who has been described as "almost the only romantic composer left on these shores", and whose most recently premiered work had also been performed by the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and Chorus last November...

Coastal urbanisation is a widespread phenomenon throughout the world and often linked to increased erosion. Small Pacific islands are not spared from this issue, which of great importance in context climate change. The French Polynesian island Bora was used as case study investigate historical evolution its coastline classification position 1955 2019. A time series very high-resolution aerial i...

In September, 1865, the Council of the Society presented to the Foreign Office a memorial concerning the then recent extension of cholera along the shores of the Mediterranean. After referring to previous pandemics of this destructive disease, the memorial stated that, " hitherto the information before the profession respecting the exact course of the development of cholera in the several epide...

While it is imperative to remove the floating threat the obsolete vessels from the Navy and the Maritime Administration from the James River as soon as possible, it is negligent and irresponsible to increase the overall existent risk by pushing these same dangerous vessels laden with hazardous substances many thousands of miles across open ocean to foreign shores rather than carefully eliminati...

DURING the present century there has been a rapid decline in most of the common infectious diseases in Great Britain. Measles and whooping-cough, almost alone, have not shared in this decline, and have so far resisted efforts at control, while poliomyelitis, for many years prevalent in Scandinavia, U.S.A., and Australia, has come to our shores to offer us a further challenge. For much of the de...

war, the engrossing problems which have followed in its wake, and the epidemic prevalence of influenza on a considerable scale within British shores have so fully occupied our attention that the calamitous happenings in India during 1918 may well have been somewhat obscured. Our minds, inured as it were, to the gigantic events of the past ten years, may have failed to appreciate fully the magni...