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...Britain's famed Lord Horder, consulting physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who offered the most ambitious description of a doctor's mission. Medicine, said he, must write the prescription for a healthy state,* and "guide the politicians. ... It is the doctor's duty to protect the worker against excess fatigue, against dullness and against the various hazards of his job. . . . The doctor's work in the future will be more and more educational and less and less curative. . . . He will spend his time keeping the fit fit rather than trying to make the unfit...
Death came last week to the Colonial Secretary and Conservative Leader in the House of Lords, Baron Lloyd. Following a chill, he lay ill three weeks under the care of the King's physician, Lord Horder. Not until he died was it revealed that the 61-year-old Baron had flown repeatedly over Germany as a bomber navigator. A friend guessed that Lord Lloyd's death might have been hastened by an old infection from which Lloyd suffered during World War I while serving with Lawrence in Arabia. Prime Minister Winston Churchill named Brewery Scion Walter Edward Guinness...
...questions. Winston Churchill's great prose and withering scorn calmed and delighted his people. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, announcing two new war loans, made the people proud by telling how they had subscribed $5,076,000,000 for the war effort in a year. Lord Horder allayed the people's concern about epidemics with announcement of steps to rid underground shelters of infectious pests...
...King's personal physician Lord Horder (chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into Shelters) summed up last week some of the basic problems with which the King's Ministers were grappling. "The crux of the problem is overcrowding," said Lord Horder. "The Government has the choice between dispersal and the provision of more shelters. But these two courses are not alternatives: both should be taken...
Huddle and Muddle. That there was plenty of muddle as the civilian army took shelter, the whole London press frankly testified. Most of the confusion came, as Lord Horder remarked, because of "the use of shelters for a purpose for which they were not originally intended, namely as dormitories." Even totalitarian Berlin has insufficient shelters for dormitory purposes. London is up against appalling conditions of insanitation, lack of adequate toilet facilities and foul air as tens of thousands of people spend night after night sleeping on subway platforms, nodding on escalators which have been stopped until dawn, and huddled...