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communication with long-distance railway expresses, and in lighthouses for 

 assisting ship navigation during fog. It therefore appears highly probable that 

 we are on the threshold of great developments in these directions that should 

 prove of immense advantage to the nations of the world in furthering friendly 

 and beneficial intercourse. 



Medico-political Union 



This is a proposed Union to further the interests of British practitioners, and 

 this Quarterly is in entire sympathy with it. Broadly speaking, the policy is so 

 shaped as best to safeguard the interests of the general practitioner, and, as 

 three-fourths of such in this country are on the Panel, and, therefore, have 

 common interests, and likely to be aiming at a common end, the activities of the 

 Union have been, and will continue to be, mainly directed by considerations of 

 their welfare. . . . The following clauses constitute the principal objects of the 

 Union : — 



(a) To impose restrictive conditions on the conduct of the trade or business 

 of medical practitioners. 



{b) To regulate the relations between medical practitioners and their employers 

 and between medical practitioners and medical practitioners. 



(c) To regulate and control the conditions of contract practice by medical 

 practitioners. 



(d) To promote or oppose legislation which may affect the interests of 

 members of the Union. 



(e) To take active part in all lawful political propaganda in the interests of the 

 medical profession. 



(/) To further the interests of the medical profession in all legitimate ways, 

 and to employ the funds of the Union for such purposes. 



All communications should be sent to The General Secretary, A. Welply, Esq., 

 M.D., 14, Gray's Inn Square, W.C.I. 



The League of Red Cross Societies 



A very important project in connection with the sanitation of the world has 

 recently been suggested. A League of the Red Cross Societies or organisations of 

 Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy and Japan has been formed and 

 those of twenty-four other countries (including India, Canada, South Africa, Australia 

 and New Zealand) have been invited to join. A part of the scheme of work of 

 the League is the formation of a bureau for the purpose of co-ordinating sanitary 

 knowledge throughout the world, of giving information on sanitary matters to 

 those who desire it, and possibly of helping with funds where necessary or feasible. 

 We hope to be able to give more definite information later, but at present the 

 scheme is still in its infancy. Early in April a Conference of leading medical 

 experts was summoned at Cannes to consider how best the League could help 

 with reference to each particular disease, and the Articles of Association of the 

 League of Nations contain a clause enabling the nations to use this new hygienic 

 weapon if they wish. We are glad to see that Lieut. -General Sir David Henderson, 

 K.C.B., has been appointed Director-General of the League. The supreme 



