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As a result o hvestigations begun so long ago as 1922, the Medial Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Health commended in 1945 that a number of diagnostic/find research centres should be established for the/study of chronic rheumatism and for the improvement of existing facilities for diagnosis and treatment; and it was proffesed that the special centres should be located in university medical schools and teaching hospitals, where resources are available for a combined attack on the disease in all its forms. A rheumatism centre of the kind envisaged by the Ministry is to be established at the University of Manchester,1* with the assistance of a grant from the Nufneld Foundation of—£100,000 spread over ten years. In broad outline it is proposed to establish a diagnostic and research centre at the teaching hospital, the Manchester Royal Infirmary, to deal with short-stay in-patients and out-patients. For long-stay in-patients there will also be a. clinic at a base hospital near the centre, provided by the Manchester Public Health Committee, and a second base hospital, the Devonshire Royal Hospital at Buxton. At the base hospitals lengthy investigations will be carried out, and problems of rehabilitation and resettlement will be studied. At the centre the work will cover two main fields: the clinical, sociological and industrial aspects of the disease, and the fundamental study of the disease process by pathological, bacteriological and biochemical methods. The clinical work will be under the direction of a physician who will have the full co-operation of the Departments of Orthopaedics and Physiotherapy of the Manchester Royal Infirmary as well as of the University Dental School. The social aspects of the disease, and its industrial implications, will be studied in co-operation with the University Department of Industrial Health. Fundamental research into the causes of diseases of the bones and joints will be under the direction of a whole-time pathologist who is an expert in this field.
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Research in Chronic Rheumatism. Nature 158, 578 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158578b0
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