According to the Manchester Guardian a report presented to the Leeds Executive Council showed that during the first nine months of the National Health Service in Leeds the general medical services cost £372,094, prescriptions £224,097, general dental services £280,751, ophthalmic services £173,397, and administration £15,670. The total expenditure of more than one million pounds was equal to £2 a head of the population.The 484,000 people on doctors' lists shared more *than two million prescriptions, obtained 35,500 pairs of glasses, had 75,000 sight tests, and paid 48,663 visits to the dentists.
CORRESPONDENCE be desirable, because it is materially impossible to contact all these authors individually, and it often takes too much time to get the requested reprints. It is evident that in order to ensure prompt inclusion of publications in the annual reports these surveys must develop into a cooperative effort between the authors of original papers and the reviewers. This cooperation was greatly enhanced of late by the publication of announcements, in several medical journals, encouraging investigators interested in stress research to send us their reprints for this purpose as soon as they become available. We should be grateful if, by the publication of this note, you would also bring this problem to the attention of your readers.-We are, etc.,
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