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THE Medical Research Council has appointed the following to be the members of its Industrial Health Research Board during the period 1942-45: The Rt. Hon. the Earl De La Warr (chairman), Prof. F. C. Bartlett, Brig.-Gen. A. C. Baylay, Dr. J. C. Bridge, Dr. A. N. Drury, Dr. T. Ferguson, Dr. M. W. Gold-blatt, Dr. A. Bradford Hill, Dr. Donald Hunter, Prof. Esther Killick, Air Vice-Marshal Sir David Munro and Mr. J. L. Smyth. Prof. A. W. M. Ellis, director of research in industrial medicine under the Council, will also attend all meetings. Dr. R. S. F. Schilling, one of H.M. medical inspectors of factories, has been seconded to the service of the Council by the Ministry of Labour to act as Secretary of the Board. The terms of reference of the Board have recently been revised and are now as follows: βTo advise and assist the Medical Research. Council in promoting scientific investigations into problems of health among workers, including occupational and environmental factors in the causation of ill-health and disease, and the relation of methods and conditions of work to the functions and efficiency of body and mind; and in making known such results of these researches as are capable of useful application to practical needs.β
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Industrial Health Research Board. Nature 150, 286 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150286b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150286b0