ROYAL COMMISSION ON VIVISECTION: Inspection in Great Britain

SynopsisSince the assessment of coal reserves for the Royal Commission on the coal industry of Great Britain made nearly a century ago, up to assessments made by geologists of the National Coal Board, it has been evident that the coalfields of Scotland contain considerable quantities of coal. Throughout the past two decades the presence of hydrocarbons in the rocks beneath the North Sea, the general abundance of oil in various parts of the world, and the development of nuclear power, has meant that coal is only one of several sources of energy readily available to us. The coalfields of Scotland contain seams of varying quality and energy content and so can be compared with other fuels. Consequently it is the cost of the energy to the consumer that is often the controlling factor in the choice of which fuel to use. The very nature of coal as a bulky and not-too-easily-handled fuel has meant that only the generation of electricity offers the scope for substantial consumption of coal.The paper examines these factors and also the location of the coal reserves in Scotland, particularly in the light of the geological factors that affect the cost of the energy. The National Coal Board's deep mining exploration programme in Great Britain has sought opportunities for new ventures and developments, some of which have been in Scotland. The market for the coal and the competition for that market clearly indicates that the productivity of coal mining operations is paramount in determining the future size of the coal industry in Scotland. About half of the coal can be provided from low-cost opencast operations, with the other half obtained from the mines with the highest productivities—productivities that result in energy costs similar to those obtained from oil and nuclear power.

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Fifty Years since the Conception of an Organized Venereal Diseases Service in Great Britain: THE ROYAL COMMISSION OF 1916

Sexually Transmitted Infections ◽

10.1136/sti.43.1.1 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

R. R. Willcox

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Royal Commission ◽

Venereal Diseases

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Modern Population Trends and Problems

Journal of the Institute of Actuaries ◽

10.1017/s0020268100046552 ◽

1956 ◽

Vol 82 (3) ◽

pp. 279-332 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

B. Benjamin ◽

P. R. Cox ◽

F. A. A. Menzler

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Future Trend ◽

Second World War ◽

Population Trends ◽

Royal Commission ◽

Population Problem ◽

World War ◽

The Government ◽

Modern Population ◽

Second World

In March 1944, while the second world war was still raging, the Royal Commission on Population was appointed ‘to examine the facts relating to the present population trends in Great Britain; to investigate the causes of these trends and to consider their probable consequences; to consider what measures, if any, should be taken in the national interest to influence the future trend of population; and to make recommendations’. This step was of twofold significance. First, it marked the recognition by the Government of the possible need to take policy decisions in the field of population—to translate the subject from the academic to the political plane. Secondly, it marked official recognition of the fact that despite a flood, during the immediate prewar years, of reports of grave foreboding by the demographers of the day (whose anxieties have since proved to have been exaggerated) the Government had insufficient information to decide whether or not there was a 'population problem' in Great Britain. That the problem does not now appear to be so pressing as was once thought does not abate in any way the necessity for observing the facts. The Royal Commission, indeed, emphasized the necessity for continuous study of the population problem which, they said, will always be changing.

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Notes on the Report of the Royal Commission on Population (Great Britain)

Population Index ◽

10.2307/2730391 ◽

1949 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 304 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Frank W. Notestein

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Royal Commission

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POPULATION POLICY IN GREAT BRITAIN: (A review article on the Report of the Royal Commission of Population)

South African Journal of Economics ◽

10.1111/j.1813-6982.1949.tb02320.x ◽

1949 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 320-328

Author(s):

RHONA ROSS

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Population Policy ◽

Review Article ◽

Royal Commission

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An Estimate of the Future Population of England and Wales

Journal of the Staple Inn Actuarial Society ◽

10.1017/s0020269x00007167 ◽

1960 ◽

Vol 16 (02) ◽

pp. 85-111

Author(s):

J. R. Ford ◽

C. M. Stewart

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Population Change ◽

Population Projections ◽

Royal Commission ◽

England And Wales ◽

Separate Treatment ◽

And Migration ◽

Set Up ◽

Separate Population ◽

Future Population

In 1944 the Royal Commission on Population was set up in order to determine the probable consequences of population trends then current. In order to do this they prepared a range of sixteen separate population projections for Great Britain based on various combinations of assumptions as to mortality, fertility (and marriage), and migration. The method used, in which each component of population change i.e. birth, death and migration receives separate treatment, is generally known as the component method. This distinguishes it from cruder methods based on the assumption that the total numbers in a population follow some mathematical formula.Since the Royal Commission reported, this method has continued to be used in preparing what may perhaps be described as the ‘official’ projections of the population of England and Wales.

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Population Trends in Great Britain

Journal of the Institute of Actuaries ◽

10.1017/s0020268100038579 ◽

1965 ◽

Vol 91 (1) ◽

pp. 22-67

Author(s):

J. R. Ford ◽

C. M. Stewart

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Age Distribution ◽

Second World War ◽

Population Trends ◽

Royal Commission ◽

World Population ◽

World War ◽

England And Wales ◽

Second World

Population trends in Great Britain have been discussed at the Institute on three occasions since the Second World War. The first occasion was in 1949 following the publication in that year of the Report of the Royal Commission on Population. The second was in 1956 on a two-part paper submitted by Benjamin, Cox and Menzler which dealt not only with the situation in Great Britain but also with the wider—and fundamentally more important—problems of world population and resources. More recently, the changing age distribution of the population of England and Wales was discussed in Benjamin's paper on Ageing.

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A Selected Bibliography from Foreign Journals

Journalism Quarterly ◽

10.1177/107769905303000220 ◽

1953 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 253-256

Author(s):

J. Edward Gerald ◽

Mitchell V. Charnley ◽

George S. Hage ◽

Gunnar Riberholdt-Hansen ◽

Maarten Schneider ◽

...

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Great Britain ◽

Royal Commission ◽

Private Capital ◽

North African ◽

Conservative Government ◽

The Press ◽

Tariff Commission ◽

Lay Members ◽

The Government

The first amendments in 64 years in the British law of libel are reported in detail in this quarter's journals. The Conservative government repeated its promise that television development would be opened to private capital and sponsored advertising, though government would continue to operate in that field. Australia's cabinet permitted the sale of stock in a national radio chain to British investors and a government tariff commission heard a plea for rates which would permit the development of Australian publishing as a means to growth of national spirit. The press council suggested by the Royal Commission in Great Britain was finally established, but without lay members and under restrictions which remove most of the objections of British editors and publishers. Economic restlessness continued in Fleet Street, Kemsley sold the Graphic to Rothermere, and many changes in top-lovel personnel took place, evidently in an attempt to get ready for more competitive conditions. Incidents indicating the trend of freedom of the press occurred in the French North African protectorate, Maghreb, in Kenya, Peru, Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey. In the latter country the government firmly protected an independent newspaper which had criticized it. In Germany and Japan, ghosts of the old propaganda machines were apparent in events which tested out the independence of editors and reporters.

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