The literature on agreement between psychiatrists on the diagnostic assignment of cases has been extensively reviewed by Ley (1970). Percentage agreement figures ranged from 24 per cent and 28 per cent agreement for type of character disorder and type of neurosis respectively to 80 percent for type of organic illness. Taken at face value these findings suggested that psychiatric diagnosis may often be of little value.

The care of the mentally subnormal in Britain has quite suddenly become a live and prominent issue, but public indignation fades quickly and political interest is soon transferred to other issues that are constantly arising. The time seems ripe to re-think the overall philosophy of provision for the mentally subnormal in a developed industrial society, and in particular, the place of the large institution (Craft, 1970; and McKeown, 1970). These institutions resulted from conditions which no longer exist, and they now attempt to carry out a variety of functions, which many think ought to be separated. However, the subject remains a very controversial one (Shapiro, 1969, 1970; Freeman, 1969a).

This investigation is an extension of a study carried out recently (Lowe, 1966) with educationally subnormal school children.

Tænia solium is common enough in this country in man, but its cystic stage is, I think, met with very infrequently; that is the reason I bring this short paper before the meeting in order to elucidate whether cases of the following kind are met with in any frequency in South Africa.

The researches of Golla and his co-workers, Armstrong, Mann, Marsh, Scott and others on the bio-chemistry of dementia præcox suggested that it might be profitable to explore a line of treatment based upon their results.

Till recently we believed that, however much, the members of the legal and medical professions might differ in regard to the definition of insanity, and to its relations to responsibility, they agreed in the main as to the question of drunkenness and its responsibilities.