13 OCTOBER 1973, page 14

Society Today

Medicine Who indeed, is to blame? John Linklater A sick baby died without receiving medical attention, three days after his parents had asked, in vain, for an urgent home visit......

Science

Earth-shaking questions Bernard Dixon An even greater human idiocy than jettisoning untreated sewage into the sea (which I was discussing last time), is man's tendency to set up......