In establishing a chronic haemodialysis unit in Brunei the difficulties encountered were less insuperable than had been expected. Quite unsophisticated patients successfully dialysed unattended in some cases, or with minimal supervision in others.
Among the losses sustained by the Institute for Medical Research in Malaya during the Japanese occupation were the portraits of several of the former directors. The loss is unfortunate, as we had hoped to make use of a fifty-year series of portraits for a historical rne'noir planned for the Institute's half-centenary this year. The missing portraits are those of Dr. Hamilton-Wright, M.D. (McGill), and Dr. Henry Fraser, M.D., M.R.C.P. Dr. Wright retired to America after leaving Malaya in 1903 and died in Washington, D.C., in 1917. Dr. Fraser was born, I believe, in Aberdeen. He retired from Malaya in 1916 to live in Scotland, where he died in 1930. I would be grateful to any of your readers who could put me in touch with surviving relatives.