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MEDICAL MEMORANDA BRITISH temperature was 101°, his eyes were inflamed, and there was albuminuria; the calf and thigh muscles were extremely tender, and the deep reflexes were absent. Weil's disease was immediately suspected, and the blood urea was found to be 74 mg. per 100 ml. For four days he was very ill, but then rapidly became convalescent. The albuminuria disappeared and the blood urea fell to normal; but the sedimentation rate, which was 54 mm. per hour on admission, rose to 96 and remained high. For the next tour weeks he felt perfectly well so long as he was kept in bed, but on the 40th day there was a transient recrudescence of fever accompanied by albuminuria. At no stage was he jaundiced, nor did the plasma bilirubin rise above 0.4 mg. per 100 ml. Case 4.-The fourth patient was an airman, aged 22, who was

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SIR,-I quote (16 December, p. 688): '"Mr. Kennth Robinson began his exposition of the Bill [Health Services and Public Health Bill] by explaining that the purpose of Clauses 1 and 2, which had aroused some misunderstanding, was not to reduce or