NAZI DOCTORS’ EXPERIMENTS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25061, 18 December 1946, Page 7

NAZI DOCTORS’ EXPERIMENTS

WORK ON INMATES OF CAMPS

B.M.A. ARRANGES FOR INVESTIGATION

(Rec. 12.15 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 17. At the invitation of the “British Medical Journal,” the organ of the British Medical Association, Dr. Kenneth Mellanby, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is leaving for Germany this week to investigate the results obtained by Nazi doctors from “scientific experiments” on inmates of concentration camps. The “Daily Telegraph” says that the British Medical Association is anxious that no time should be lost in discovering whether the experiments are likely to benefit humanity. In the controversy among doctors about whether these Nazi research results should be published, Dr. Mellanby has maintained that they should be available to bona fide investigators.

Dr. H. A. Clegg, of the “British Medical Journal,” said that Dr. Mellanby’s mission would be principally to collect information throwing light on problems of disease. “We feel that if any good has come out of these Nazi experiments they should be published if only to honour the memory of the victims,” added Dr. Clegg. Secretary to British Cabinet.—general Sir Hastings Ismay at the end of the year will relinquish the appointments of Additional Military Secretary to the Cabinet and Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence. It is also announced that Sir Norman Brook has been appointed Secretary to the Cab-? inet. Sir Norman Brook has been Ad-? ditional Secretary to the Cabinet since 1945. —London, December 17.