Medical research in great britain

ABSTRACT THE annual report of the Medical Research Council* again indicates the great variety of the scientific investigations carried out under its auspices with the ultimate aim of

improving the health and well-being of the community. The scope of the research work initiated and aided by the Council has, as in previous years, been widened by grants from a number of

public bodies interested in research work within the medical field, by the availability of university laboratories for use by investigators receiving grants from the Council, and by

co-operation with Government departments and the committees of Privy Council for Industrial and Agricultural Research. The Council has exercised the strictest economy in the use of its

available funds: the salaries of all its officers, and of all members of the scientific staff and whole-time grant holders have been ‘cut’ on the Civil Service scale. The reduction of

various subsidies received from other public bodies im-perilled the progress of different schemes of research, the abandonment of which, at the stage reached, would have been a very wasteful

procedure. Fortunately, voluntary benefactions from private sources and notably those received from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Leverhulme Trustees prevented the setback in the work

of the Council from being, it is hoped, more than temporary. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS

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