Infant mortality in Scotland / the report of a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Committee.

  • Great Britain. Department of Health for Scotland. Scientific Advisory Committee on Medical Administration and Investigation.
Date:
1943
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Credit: Infant mortality in Scotland / the report of a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TERMS OF REFERENCE AND COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE xz. At the request of the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Department of Health for Scotland appointed a Sub-Committee with the following terms of reference : To consider the high infantile mortality experience in Scotland, with a view to estimating its principal causal factors and suggesting lines of action to ensure its reduction. 2. The Committee was constituted as follows: Sir JoHN Boyp ORR, D.S.O., M.C., M.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeenshire (Chairman). DUGALD BAIRD, B.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.0.G., Regius Professor of Midwifery, Univer- sity of Aberdeen. CHARLOTTE A. DOUGLAS, M.D., F.R.C.0.G., D.P.H., Department of Health for Scotland, Edinburgh. JANE P. FERLIE, M.B.E., Matron, Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. STANLEY GRAHAM, M.D., F.R.F.P.S., Visiting Physician, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow. James HENDRY, M.B.E., M.A., B.Sc., M.B., Cu.B., F.R.C.0.G., Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Glasgow. IsABELLA LEITCH, M.A., D.Sc., Deputy Director, Imperial Bureau of Animal Nutrition, Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeenshire. Str ALEXANDER MACGREGOR, 0.B.E., M.D., D.P.H., F.R.F.P.S., LL.D., Medical Officer of Health for Glasgow. Jean M. MAcKINTOSH, M.D., D.P.H., Regional Medical Officer for Maternity and Child Welfare, Aberdeen. PETER L. McKINLAY, M.D., D.P.H., F.R.S.(Ev.), Department of Health for Scot- land, Edinburgh. CHARLES MCNEIL, M.A., M.D., P.R.C.P.E., F.R.C.P.(LoNDON), Professor of Child Life and Health, University of Edinburgh. MARGARET SCOTT-DICKSON, M.B., Cu.B., D.P.H., Maternity and Child Welfare Department, Dundee. ELENORA J. SIMPSON, M.B., Cu.B., The James MacKenzie Institute, St. Andrews. Nora I. WATTIE, M.B., Cu.B., D.P.H., Senior Child Welfare Medical Officer for Glasgow. Joun B. Swan, Department of Health) Secretary to the for Scotland, Edinburgh. } Committee. 3. The Committee met to consider evidence prepared and circulated by its members and appointed a Sub-Committee to prepare a full report. 4. The Drafting Sub-Committee was as follows: Professor Baird (Convener), | Dr. Mackintosh, Dr. Graham, Dr. Leitch, with the assistance of : Dr. Douglas, Dr. McKinlay, Mrs. F. L. Cutting, M.Sc. 22501984822