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Background: The frequency of clinical isolation of NTM in the UK is increasing. ATS diagnostic criteria aid the identification of clinically relevant isolates causing lung disease. Objective: To audit the diagnostic criteria used when treating NTM at QAH. Methods: Records of all patients from whom NTM were isolated from respiratory samples between 2007 and 2014 were reviewed. Microbiological results, radiological findings and symptoms were reviewed to assess adherence to ATS diagnostic criteria. Results: NTM were isolated from the respiratory tract in 514 patients. 91 patients were treated for NTM disease. 4 patients did not meet ATS diagnostic criteria. Of these, two patients with M. avium were treated following multiple isolates with symptoms on a background of bronchiectasis without nodular or cavitatory change. One patient with M. intracellulare was treated following a single sputum isolate and a second patient did not meet the radiological criteria for ATS definition. Results for a selection of species are presented below. Conclusion: 18% of all patients with pulmonary NTM isolates were treated for NTM infection. 96% of treated cases met the ATS diagnostic criteria suggesting good adherence to guidance.

(1990). Alice Bertha Gomme (1852–1938): A Reassessment of the Work of a Folklorist. Folklore: Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 198-208.

Cultural survivals theory is a development of the theory of cultural evolution proposed by E. B. Tylor. From his work on ‘primitive’ societies, Tyler put forward the theory that all cultures evolve in relatively fixed sequences through stages of savagery and barbarism to civilization. Residual expressive culture from early stages of the progression was proposed as ‘surviving’ into the civilized era in the form of traditional songs, games, narratives, and customs. The universality of cultural development, which is posited as underlying the survivals thesis, renders the expressive culture of one culture and period open to interpretation through data drawn from other social groups in different geographical areas and temporal periods, thus forming the basis of the comparative method in folkloristics, anthropology, sociology, and other social sciences.

Introduction. Songs. Sources and notes. Bibliography. Glossary of nautical terms. Index of titles and first lines.