Cylchgronau Cymru

WALES AT WORK THE APPOINTMENTS BOARD FOR WALES Secretary R. Silyn Roberts, M.A., Appointments Board, Cathays Park, Cardiff. The war has affected the work of the Board for the moment; a large number of the young men on the Register have volunteered and have been accepted in the Army. Bangor College is, numerically, the smallest of the three colleges still, 24 members of the Bangor O.T.C. have volunteered for service abroad and a much larger number for service at home in the Territorials. The students of the other two colleges are likewise fired with patriotism and many of them have already volunteered and have been accepted for active service. It is a noteworthy fact that the hero of this war so far is a college professor General Leman is a teacher first and soldier afterwards. The officers of the Belgian army are old students of his college. They are not mere mechanical war machines but men of intelligence and great moral courage. That the University of Wales is doing its fair share in training men for the service of the Empire is proved by the large number of letters which the secretary of the Appointments Board has received from old students from all parts of the world. Many of these are marked Confidential and cannot be published in full. But we hope from time to time to be able to publish interesting extracts. Nothing is more striking in all these letters than the deep sense of gratitude to the University which pervades them, and the warm desire of the old students to help their younger brethren who are about to finish their University careers. The first extract will be from the letter of an old student who is now holding a highly responsible and remunerative post in India: In reply to your letter I shall be pleased to assist your Board in every possible way I can, and consider it an honour to be one of your foreign correspondents. I may state that it has rather disappointed me to find so few Welshmen other than missionaries in these parts-the best billets seem to be filled by Scotchmen. The best service in this country is of course the Indian Civil Service. As you are already in touch with the Civil Service Commissioners I shall leave this. A number of young men from the Public Schools and Colleges seem to be coming out regularly now to the Indian Police Service. This is considered a very good service; but owing to the rank sedition in these parts every policeman carries his life in his hands so to speak and any boy who joins the service should know no fear." The letter goes on to give details of openings connected with engineering, railways, tea, jute, coal, agriculture and other fields. All this inform- ation is at the disposal of those who are qualified for and desirous of serving in India WELSH NATIONAL MEMORIAL. The second annual report of the Association was presented to the Board of Governors on Saturday, July 25th, and adopted upon the motion of the president. This report sheds detailed light upon the conditions in every County and County Borough, and is further- more enriched by statistical analyses which suggest the re-making of many opinions that have hitherto been based upon the existent information supplied by Government Departments. If read in conjunction with the report of the Welsh Insurance Commission, it will supply to the student much interesting inform- ation, and to the true patriot will cause much anxious searching of heart. During the year there has been an expen- diture of £ 58,000, and the budget for the coming year totals £ 83,000. The larger figure will be covered without making any additional call upon the rates of the counties. It is satisfactory to know that a constant stream of gifts are still being received, those during the year totalling no less than £ 16,686. May one hope that those generously minded people who have the means will come still more openhandedly to the aid of the Association in the great amount of work that still remains to be done. During the year, no less than 8,763 cases were examined, and of these over 5,000 were diagnosed as sufferers from Tuberculosis. It is not possible yet to estimate how great a percentage this is of the total number of tuberculous people in Wales, but there is every evidence throughout the report that a great area of the problem has yet been untouched. Perhaps the most significant discovery of the year has been the unexpectedly large number of cases of non-pulmonary tuberculosis-surgical cases tech- nically so-called-and it is probable that all previous estimates as to the proportion of such cases will have to be revised. Another lesson that the experience of the year has taught is, that the hospital is the key unit in any scheme devised for dealing with tuberculosis. It is the form of treatment which covers the greatest