Points from Letters: Toxicity of Iron Compounds

Abstract

Silence on the Act SIR,-Yesterday I examined yet another week's B.M.J. without light or leading for ordinary members in the obscurity of their position. And today an instalment of regulations under the impending Health Act, No. 899, has come into my hands. They have, of course, the force of an Act of Parliament, though all that Parliament has likely seen of them is the printed cover as they " lay on the table." Thus the Ministry marches while the B.M.A. stays licking its wounds. Will the B.M.A. please tell us at least something ? Has all thought of a stand gone by the board ? The panel system was the last relic of our freedom. Is the B.M.A. going to make a stand for it ? The silence of the Journal is ominous. So are regulations $99, already " in force." They deal with two oddly