Editors: RICHARD W. B. ELLIS, M.D..
Since the National Health Service was officially born on July 5, 1948, and is already well past its first birthday, it would seem a suitable time to review the progress of this peculiar infant (or rather infants, since the Service in Scotland is administered under a different Act from that in England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland serves as midwife cum wet-nurse to the Scottish infant, whilst the Minister of Health disciplines its English cousin).