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ON February 9, a memorial plaque to the memory of the late Sir Frederick Mott was unveiled by Lady Mott in the Medical School of the University of Birmingham at Edgbaston. The plaque, which is the work of Miss Phyllis Mott, the daughter of Sir Frederick, was the gift of Dr. H. A. Pullar Strecker. Sir Gilbert Barling, in an introductory address, said that the Joint Board for Research in Mental Disease has now found its home in the new Medical School of the University, where it has excellent laboratory accommodation. The laboratory was originally opened at Hollymoor in 1923 by the Minister of Health (the present Prime Minister) with Sir Frederick Mott as honorary director of the Joint Board of Research, and Dr. F. A. Pickworth as chief research officer. It was hoped that the mental hospitals in the surrounding counties would join in the research, and this hope is now fulfilled by Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Worcestershire and Shropshire. Sir Gilbert acknowledged the generous help of Sir Charles Hyde both in 1923 and at the present time. Funds are now available for the appointment of another full-time research officer of high standing to, study the influence of viruses and hormones as causes of mental disease, and a surplus is to be used to provide the stipend of a research scholar for three or four years.
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Research in Mental Disease at Birmingham. Nature 143, 296 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143296a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143296a0