13 DECEMBER 1969, page 10

Medicine

Bacteria win JOHN ROWAN WILSON The chemists are in full retreat these days. One by one their panaceas are being re- jected. First it was cyclamates, then DDT; now it is......

Personal Column `one Of My Officers .. .

MARINA LEARMONT The majority of people in Britain would agree that the idea of the welfare state is a noble one, which however needs to be made more efficient; in the debate on......