ABSTRACT

The writer pointed out that one of two recommendations of the Athlone Com­ mittee in its report of 1921 (see Chapter 8) had already been met, i.e. the establishment (due to the munificence of the Rockefeller Foundation) of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).5 However, the other recommendation, i.e. the establishment of a medical college in central London had not been accom­ plished, nor had a central office for administration as well as social purposes been set up. The present report, the anonymous article continued, 'will doubtless take into consideration the work that is being done by the [FM]'. The article also reminded the BMJ's readership that 'in many other centres [outside London] post-graduate medical education in which the local university [Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow were given as examples] itself gives attention'.