PEDIATRICS Vol. 4 No. 4 October 1949, pp. 515-526
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THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

AN OPEN FORUM

Editors: PAUL A. HARPER, M.D..

THE current issue contains two communications: The first is by Dr. Ronald S. Illingworth on the British National Health Service and the second is by Dr. Donald Patterson on the British Columbia Hospital Insurance scheme. Dr. Patterson was formerly Consulting Physician to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, England, and is now Pediatrician-in-Charge, Health Center for Children, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, B.C.

Dr. Patterson has also provided the following introductory remarks to the first communication:

"Ronald S. Illingworth is one of the younger English paediatricians and holds the title of Professor of Child Health at Sheffield University, a chair established in 1947. His early medical education was in Leeds, and he was trained in paediatrics to a great extent at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. He is a member of the British Paediatric Association and a Fellow to the Royal College of Physicians, London, England. He held a research post at Oxford and was in the army as a medical specialist throughout the war, and rose to the rank of colonel. He has contributed many important papers while in the army, a particularly outstanding one on the diagnosis of smallpox. In paediatrics, his writings on prematurity, acute haemorrhagic nephritis and a number of other paediatric subjects are well known to British paediatricians.

"Illingworth's paediatric service in Sheffield is a delight to visit. He has revolutionized the Children's Hospital there and with a considerable staff of full time workers much research and teaching is taking place.