Review: Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology
| Date | 01 January 1943 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X4301600121 |
| Published date | 01 January 1943 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
TOWN
PLANNING
AND ROAD
TRAFFIC.
By H.
ALKER
TRIPP
C.B.E., Assistant Commissioner of Police, Scotland Yard. London;
Edward Arnold &Co., 1942.
8!
Xsf. 118 pages. Illustrated with
diagrams. Price
lOS.
net.
READERS
of this
JOURNAL
_will
remember the lucid and convincing article on
"
The
Police and Town
Planning"
which Mr. Alker Tripp contributed
last year (Vol. XIV, pp. 375-401).
In
the volume before us he has .elaborated
his thesis and now presents our post-war Town Planning authorities with
matter for very grave consideration. His claim to be heard is undisputed,
not only because for many years he has been concerned with the traffic of
the Metropolitan area from the Police aspect,
but
because his accomplish-
ments enable him to view the problem of town planning through the eyes of
the artist.
Thus
he is never in any danger of advocating a project from the
purely utilitarian point of view at the expense of the resthetic one. Some of
his suggestions are courageous and far-seeing, and whenever he lays down
the law from the traffic standpoint one has the comfortable feeling that here
is a man who knows what he is talking about and is entitled to speak with
authority.
The
book is much to be commended.
In
spite of its brevity every
aspect of the subject, from the traffic point of view, is not merely adequately
but
thoroughly covered. There is not an unnecessary word; there is nothing
forgotten. We recommend it cordially to our readers. .
MEDICAL
JURISPRUDENCE
AND TOXICOLOGY. By
JOHN
GLAISTER,
M.D., D.Sc., Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine,
University of Glasgow. Edinburgh: E. &S. Livingstone, 1942. Seventh
Edition, with 132 illustrations. 81 X
St.
671 pages. Price 28s. net.
THIS
new edition of a standard work (first published in 1902) has been
" completely recast and almost entirely
rewritten"
and " relevant legislation
has been brought up to date."
It
is indeed a veritable cyclopedia of crimes
of violence from the medical and criminological points of view, and as such
may wellfind a place on the shelf of the senior police officer. Both Scottish
and English law are quoted, and there is much shrewd observation in the
distinctions which the author draws between crime and accidents.
The
illustrative cases (most of them recent) are especially valuable
..
as they
encourage the police reader to reconstruct the crime as he reads.
We have received from Messrs. E. &S. Livingstone (16 Teviot Place,
Edinburgh) a copy of the forty-fourth edition of Dr. J. F. Sutherland's
pamphlet First Aid. This little booklet (it measures 41 X21) of 77 pages,
with forty-six diagrams, is published at the modest price of 6d. (postage 2!d.)
and is just the thing to keep in one's waistcoat pocket, to be read at odd
moments.
"Anyone,"
says the author, " may be suddenly confronted by an
accident in the home, in the workshop, in the street, or on a lonely country
road
...
never was there a time when First Aid was more needed by everyone."
So here is the very thing to "
remind"
you what to do. An excellent little
book, and cheap at the' price. 80
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