FLESH-FLY LARVAE AS HUMAN PARASITES School of .—To enable physicians who are not otherwise able to attend the Colorado Springs School of Human myiasis, a term used to denote infestation Tuberculosis, members of the last class collected $100 to be with the larvae or "grub" stage of dipterous insects, is used for that purpose. Sanatorium Association Will Hold Meeting.—The Denver scarcely familiar to American physicians. Several Sanatorium Association will hold its first monthly meeting, species of flies are known to deposit their eggs in November 23, at the National Jewish Hospital for Consump¬ wounds or mucous membranes. The larva known as tives under the presidency of Dr. George W. Holman. Mem¬ bers of the research department will present special papers the in a bur¬ "screw-worm" issues few days and may on the treatment of tuberculosis. row into the tissues. Analogous to the screw-worm fly, Campsomyia macellarla of the warmer parts of Amer¬ GEORGIA Personal.—Dr. H. has been appointed ica, are the so-called flesh-flies, the larvae of which may John Steed, Dalton, pension examining surgeon to succeed Dr. John F. Harris, appear as parasites of man. They have long been deceased. 1 known, particularly in Russia. Recently Walker has Mental Hygiene Clinic to Be Continued.—A year of activity identified the presence of the larvae of the of the mental hygiene clinic operated by the Atlanta Anti- sarcophagid Tuberculosis Association at its headquarters, 23 E. Cain fly, Wohlfahrtia vigil, under the skin of young patients Street, Atlanta, having demonstrated the value of the experi¬ suffering from "sores" representing inflamed areas ment, it has been decided to continue the work indefinitely the of or cm. in on arms and following a request of Mental Hygiene Association 1 2 diameter the neck, chest, will and involved Georgia. The clinic be open Tuesday Thursday, palms. The mother of one of the children from 3 to 4 p. m. had described seeing "worms come from the pimples." ILLINOIS The swellings usually contained from one to three Fined for Violation of Practice Act.—It is reported that larvae of the These instances are unusual in Willie Greer, East St. Louis, was arrested by representatives flesh-fly. Education for viola¬ the of the Department of Registration and that the penetration of the healthy skin by young tion of the medical practice act. The case was heard before larvae has rarely been reported. Hence we may repeat Judge E. E. Clark. Greer pleaded guilty and was fined $100 and costs. the prosaic slogan : "Swat the fly !" License Revoked.—At a meeting of the Department of Registration and Education of Illinois, October 25, the license of Earl C. Rice, Peoría, was revoked for unprofessional con¬ MEDICINE AND THE STATE duct in regard to advertising. Rice was not a regular physician but had been licensed in Illinois among "other Our next President will not lack for intimate coun¬ practitioners." sel on medical topics in his administration of the Chicago country. His father, Dr. George T. Harding, has been State Starts Building of Hospital.—Construction work has been on the of Illinois Medical School and for many a in Marion, Ohio, and a begun University years physician Hospital, which is to occupy a site of 10 acres which has brother, Dr. George T. Harding, Jr., is a practicing been the National League Baseball Park, and is in the physician of Columbus. Perhaps we may hope for a vicinity of Cook County Hospital. scientific administration—if there is anything in hered¬ Society of Industrial Medicine.—At a meeting held recently in Hotel Sherman for the of the prac¬ one. purpose standardizing ity, we may reasonably expect tice of medicine and surgery, the Chicago Society of Indus¬ trial Medicine and Surgery was organized. Dr. Clarence W. Hopkins, Evanston, was elected president. Medical News INDIANA New Special Society Organized.—At a meeting, held October 29, the Indianapolis Ophthalmological and Oto- will confer a favor by sending for (Physicians was and the this department items of news of more or less gen- Laryngological Society organized following were E. vice eral interest: such as relate to society activities, officers elected: president, Dr. Jacob Wright; new hospitals, education, public health, etc.) president, Dr. Thomas C. Hood, and secretary-treasurer, Dr. Frederick V. Overman. Tuberculosis Association Holds Meeting.—At the annual CALIFORNIA meeting of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association, held at Sanatorium, Indianapolis, October 27, Dr. Fever fever Sunnyside Typhoid a Quarantinable Disease.\p=m-\Typhoid Alfred Henry was reelected president; Mr. Sol Schloss was has been added to the list of communicable diseases for which elected vice president; Mrs. M. R. Ault, secretary, and Mrs. quarantine will be imposed in the state hereafter. While the A. S. Rasmussen, treasurer. as as case of some other quarantine will not be rigid in the of Board the and will be Revocation Licenses.—It is reported that the State communicable diseases, patient family kept of Medical and Examination has revoked the under strict surveillance and a test will be Registration bacteriologic Antonia Lenz, a midwife before the patient is released. A modified quarantine license of Mrs. Whiting, charged required with an Lunde, Gary, is for persons known to be typhoid carriers. performing illegal operation.-Conrad provided is not properly licensed to practice medicine in Indiana, License Revocations Affirmed.\p=m-\Thesuperior court of San to a decision of the as he obtained a license action of according board, Francisco is reported to have affirmed the the by manipulation, and the license was therefore revoked. California State Board of Medical Examiners in revoking the licenses of Drs. R. May Minaker and James E. Thomp- IOWA San on the of abortion. Dr. son, Francisco, charge procuring Personal.—Dr. Edwin E. of the Iowa State Univer¬ Minaker's license was revoked in October, 1919; that of Dr. Hobby in 1920. It is also that Dr. sity has been named director of physiotherapy at St. Francis' Thompson February, reported San Francisco.-Dr. Wilton Des Thompson was sentenced to the Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Hospital, McCarthy, was beaten into unconsciousness by burglars prison on the charge of circulating literature regarding abor¬ Moines, recently tion through the United States mails. who ransacked his home and later set fire to it. Dr. McCarthy regained consciousness barely in time to reach safety by- COLORADO jumping from an upper story window. Personal.—Dr. David A. Strickler, Denver, secretary of the KENTUCKY State Board of Medical Examiners, was recently operated Physician's License Revoked.—A report from the State on for cholecystitis. Board of Health of Kentucky states that the license of Dr. Thomas S. was S, for fraud 1. Walker, E. M.: Wohlfahrtia Vigil (Walker) as a Human Parasite Green, Irvington, revoked, June (Diptera\p=m-\Sarcophagidae), J. Parasitol. 7: 1 (Sept.) 1920. in his application.

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a Carleton University User on 05/12/2015 Hazelwood Sanatorium Made State Institution.—- In accor¬ Reserve Medical Corps Unit.—Formal application for the dance with an act of the last legislature it is announced that installation of a unit of the R. O. T. C, in line with the Hazelwood Sanatorium in Louisville has been taken over by proposal of the War Department, has been made by Dr. the state. Dr. Samuel W. Bates, Louisville, has been Nathaniel Allison, dean of Washington University Medical appointed superintendent, succeeding Dr. Arthur M. Barnett, School. Sixty students have already been enrolled in the who has been in charge under the Louisville Anti-Tuberculosis Medical Corps Unit. Association. Club Planned.—At the meeting of the advisory LOUISIANA medical staff of the Tuberculosis Society of St. Louis, held, October 23, it was decided to organize a Robert Koch Club Hotel Dieu Appoints Staff.—By the appointment of a staff as an auxiliary to the tuberculosis society. Monthly meet¬ of thirty-five visiting physicians and surgeons, Hotel Dieu, ings will be held for the discussion of subjects pertaining to the oldest private hospital in New Orleans, has made an the control of tuberculosis. important change in policy. Dr. Marion Souchon was elected president of the staff, and Dr. Henry W. E. Walthers, MONTANA secretary. State Health Week Announced.—By official proclamation, State Tuberculosis Sanatorium to Be Organized.—Accord¬ dated October 27, Governor S. V. Stewart has designated the ing to plans formulated at a conference of the parish chair¬ week beginning December 5 as health week throughout the men of the state antituberculosis league, 'held in New Orleans, state. All industrial, social welfare, church and school October 27, a state tuberculosis hospital will be erected near organizations are urged to cooperate in the observance of the Alexandria, on a site already owned by the tuberculosis com¬ health program "to the end that a more intimate knowledge mission. A percentage of the proceeds of the Christmas seal of the rules of health and hygiene may be generally dis¬ sale will be devoted to the erection of a suitable building. seminated and that a high standard of physique of our people may be maintained and perpetuated." MARYLAND NEW JERSEY Sentenced for Prohibition Law.—Dr. Physician Violating New Board of Health at Montclair.—The Montclair Board Samuel Alexander Rosse, Crisfield, according to reports, was sentenced to jail for four months when he pleaded guilty in of Health has been completely reorganized following the the United States district court at Baltimore to five charges appointment of a new board consisting of Dr. James Spencer of illegally prescribing whisky. Brown, president, and Herbert B. Larner, S.B., health officer. The laboratory will be in charge of Miss Helen G. J. Jacobs, Medical Society Holds Smoker.—The Baltimore City Med¬ B.S., formerly with the New Hampshire State Board of ical Society held a smoker at the Medical and Chirurgical Health. Faculty Building, November 5. Addresses were made by Drs. T. Eveleth W. and Lee Personal.—Dr. Edwin Field, chief of the staff of the Mon- John King, Jr., Bridgman Henry Memorial was a Smith. Dr. B. Stone is and Dr. Frank S. mouth Hospital presented with pearl stickpin Harvey president members of the board of in of his Lynn, secretary of the society. by governors recognition long faithful service to the hospital.-Dr. B. B. Ranson, Jr., Maplewood, has been appointed to the senior surgical MASSACHUSETTS staff of the Orange Memorial Hospital, succeeding Dr. John John White Browne Scholarship Award.—The John White H. Bradshaw, resigned. Browne scholarship for advanced research of Harvard Med¬ NEW YORK ical School has been awarded to Dr. Alfred C. Redfield, Con¬ Police furtherance a cord. Dr. Redfield will devote the winter months to physio¬ Site Acquired for Hospital.—In of logic research under Prof. R. E. Hill, Manchester, England. plan to erect and equip a $3,000,000 hospital for the benefit of the police of New a site has been secured Prevention department York, Plague Measures Planned.—Dr. Eugene R. on Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, opposite the Brooklyn Kelley, commissioner of public health, has requested an Museum of Arts and Sciences. appropriation of $25,000 for plague prevention measures in Under Construction.—The for the cities and towns of Massachusetts. As a result University Buildings hope seaport an adequate endowment fund for the University of Buffalo of a request made at a recent conference of the commissioners has been realized in the successful of of health of Connecticut, Rhode New conclusion, October 17, Island, Hampshire, a campaign for an endowment which resulted in a sub¬ Maine and Massachusetts that an officer of the U. S. Public fund, scription of about $5,100,000. A scheme for a new campus Health Service be detailed as an adviser, P. A. Surg. L. L. has been chosen from submitted land¬ Williams has been to this work. Dr. Milton competitive plans by assigned J. scape architects, the style of architecture to be Koscnau, professor of medicine at Harvard Med¬ Georgian preventive Colonial. The first building now in process of construction ical School, has offered space for the necessary laboratory at an estimated cost of $400,000 will be occupied by the examinations. department of chemistry. The Liberal Arts, Library and MICHIGAN Administration buildings will be erected next. The income from the remaining fund will be available for the use of the Hospital Transferred to Public Health Service.—The base several departments. hospital at Camp Custer has been transferred by the War New York City Department to the U. S. Public Health Service for the accom¬ Estate of Thomas modation of sick and disabled soldiers, those suffer¬ Dr. Addis Emmet.—The estate of Dr. especially Thomas Addis who Dec. has been ing with tuberculosis, who are beneficiaries under the War Emmet, died, 1, 1919, Risk Insurance Act. appraised at $299,754. A collection of Irish books valued at $2,695 was bequeathed to the American-Irish Historical New Health Ordinances Passed.—The city council of Society. Detroit recently passed important ordinances relating to com¬ Bronx Dedicated.—The Bronx Hos¬ municable disease control on recommendation of the board of Hospital Maternity erected at the northeast corner of One Hundred and health. Hereafter all within the limits pital, persons dying city Sixty-Sixth Street and the Grand Concourse at a cost- of from scarlatina or must diphtheria, smallpox, poliomyelitis, $100,000, was formally dedicated, October 31. The institution be buried privately. Physicians and relatives of persons provides forty beds. from communicable diseases are compelled to report suffering Transferred to Public Health Service.—The the cases to the department of health. Persons desiring to Hospital Debarkation at Fox Staten practice midwifery must first pass an examination and obtain Hospital Hills, Island, has been transferred to the U. S. Public Health Service and will a certificate of qualification. be continued as a general hospital. The hospital has a capacity of about 500 beds. Dr. O. Cobb will be in MISSOURI Julius charge. Postgraduate Clinics.—The St. Louis postgraduate clinics NORTH DAKOTA will be held under the auspices of the St. Louis Medical Health Department Reorganized.—Dr. Edward C. Haagen- Society, November 22-24. son has been appointed city health officer of Grand Forks, Social Service School Opened.—Under the auspices of the following the reorganization of the city health department. University of Missouri, the Missouri School of Social Econ¬ Under the new plan all work relating to water analysis and omy, designed to fill the need of trained social workers, milk inspection will hereafter be done under the supervision opened for the fall term at St. Louis, September 20. Dr. of the public health laboratory at the State University for George B. Mangold has been appointed director of the school. which a special appropriation has been allotted.

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a Carleton University User on 05/12/2015 OHIO Cornell, director of medical inspection in the public schools on "The Objects, Aims and Results of School Medical Professor Bordet Delivers Hanna Lecture.—Prof. Jules Inspection." director of the Pasteur Institute of delivered Bordet, Brussels, Ward Health Councils.—A a lecture on in health council for every ward anaphylaxis the Cleveland Medical Library, in November 8, under the auspices of the H. M. Hanna lecture Philadelphia is recommended by the Philadelphia Health fund. Council and Tuberculosis Society following a survey of sani¬ tary and health conditions in the city. It has been arranged Personal.—Dr. Robert Lockhart, formerly with the state to establish such councils in eight wards before the close of department of health, has been appointed district health com¬ the year. The Bureau of Health, the Board of Education, missioner for Cuyahoga County.-Dr. Henry L. Hall, for¬ Women's Medical College and National Congress of Mothers merly a member of the faculty of the Medical Department of will cooperate. It is planned to conduct a clinic in each the University of Southern California, has been appointed ward once or twice a month. The public education committee instructor in physiology in Western Reserve Medical School. of the Civic Club will assist in organizing the ward health -Dr. Kenneth P. Blackfan has been appointed to the chair councils. of the B. K. Rachford Department of Pediatrics in the Uni¬ Personal.—Dr. H. Charles P. Noble, after a long illness, has versity of Cincinnati, recently endowed by Mrs. Mary resumed the of medicine.-Dr. William C. H. of practice Ely Kmery.-Dr. Martin Fischer of the Medical College has been elected to the obstetric staff of the Maternity the University of Cincinnati will deliver a series of lectures Florence 1921. Dr. Hospital.-Dr. C. Child, superintendent of school on chemical subjects in Europe in February, medical inspectors of Philadelphia, has been appointed chief Edmund Baehr will temporarily fill Dr. Fischer's place at the of the Division of School been Medical Inspectors and Welfare college.-Dr. Irwin H. LeBarre has appointed coroner Nursing at Trenton, N. J.-Dr. James P. Sands, provi¬ of Richland County to succeed Dr. William S. Bushnell, sional senior assistant medical officer of the Bureau of Hos¬ resigned. pitals has been appointed Director of Public Health and Illegal Practitioners Convicted.—The Ohio State Medical Charities.-Dr. William H. Imhoff has been appointed a Board reports that the following individuals have been con¬ resident physician in the Bureau of Charities and Correction victed of violations of the medical practice act: B. Jackson to have medical charge of the children at Brown's Farm, the (colored), Cleveland, was fined $50 and costs, October 1; inmates of the Home for Indigent and the prisoners at the Mrs. Anna Schumm, Youngstown, registered midwife, was House of Correction. lined $50 and costs and given sixty days in jail for violation of the medical practice act, October 6; S. M. Van Orsdell. RHODE ISLAND fined and October 3, Youngstown, after being $50 costs, and to discontinue the sale of radio articles ; Valka M. Ophthalmologic Otologie Society Elections. At the promised annual of the Rhode Island — Toscek, Youngstown, licensed was fined $200 for meeting Ophthalmological and midwife, Otological Society, held in the Club, selling remedies, half of the fine being later remitted ; Tony Univers'ity Providence, October the officers were Carr unlicensed was fined 13, following elected for the ensu¬ (colored), Dayton, chiropodist, ing year: Dr. Alvah A. vice $100 and costs and given 30 days in jail, October 12; Harry president, Fisher; president, has Dr. Christopher J. Astle, and secretary-treasurer, Dr. Joseph W. McFarren, Tiffin, manufacturer of patent medicines, L. been arrested for illegal practice of medicine, three complaints Dowling, all of Providence. being filed against him. SOUTH CAROLINA OKLAHOMA Tuberculosis Clinic at Anderson.—A free tubérculos ;s Medical Examiners Pass on Licenses.—It is reported that clinic has been opened at the city hall, Anderson, under the the license of Dr. C. O. Hood, Tulsa, was revoked by the charge of Dr. Clinkscales. The clinic was established state board of medical examiners because of the alleged through cooperation of the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary illegal dispensing of narcotics.-The license of Dr. John Club and Civic Association. M. Leed, Tulsa, which was revoked at the last meeting of Personal. Dr. John Mercier Green, health officer of the has been to for one — board, restored, subject probation year. Charleston, who recently underwent an operation for appen¬ dicitis at Baker Sanatorium, has resumed his duties.-Dr. OREGON Miles J. Walker, York, has been elected a member of the executive committee of the state board of .health to succeed Oregon Defeats Antivaccination Bill.—The referendum Dr. William J. Birdell, Lugoft, abolishing compulsory vaccination which was voted on in resigned. Oregon at the recent election was defeated two to one, the vote for the abolition of compulsory vaccination being SOUTH DAKOTA approximately 50,000 and the vote against it over 100,000. The Aberdeen Health Department Merged.—The Brown County the measure was carried on a com¬ campaign against by joint Health Department, which was recently merged with the city mittee of physicians and laymen. health department of Aberdeen, has established offices in the Municipal building, Aberdeen. Dr. Bates, county physician, PENNSYLVANIA is in charge. Physican Fined.—It is reported that Dr. Robert E. Red¬ TENNESSEE mond, convicted of the state law recently violating regarding Social Council Elects Officers. At the advertisement of cures for certain diseases, has been the meeting of the Council of Social — fined $100 and costs. Memphis Agencies, held October 12, Dr. Marcus Haase was reelected president, and Dr. E. E. George, Held for Federal Court Trial.—"Dr." Leonard L. Parry, treasurer. president of the Parry Medicine Co. of Pittsburgh, is reported County Health Association to have been held for trial in the United States District Court Organized.—The Dyer County Public Health Association was at on a of the mails with intent to defraud. organized Dyersburg, charge using October 15. Every civic organization in Dyer County is Faith Healer Arrested.—J. W. Dedrick of Pittsburgh is represented on the executive committee. to have been arrested with reported recently charged prac¬ Personal.—Dr. William L. Vickers has been named super¬ without a license. It is Dedrick ticing medicine alleged that intendent of the National City Hospital to succeed Dr. is the head of an organization of faith curists who employ William F. Fessey, resigned.-Dr. Thomas F. on of hands and and that he treats Staley, laying prayer, patients Bristol, has enlarged his private eye, ear, nose and throat for $35 each per month. infirmary to fourteen rooms. Philadelphia Illegal Practitioner Sentenced.—A report from the Bureau TEXAS of Medical Education and Licensure states that Edward Personal.—Dr. Ezra E. Dickason, Brownsville, has been Parker Read was convicted of the illegal practice of medi¬ elected post commander of John Hanson Post, American cine and was sentenced to six months in the county jail, Legion. 29. The case has been to the court. October appealed superior Arraigned for Sixth Time.—At El Paso, Byron L. Black, and A School Hygiene Health Course. new course in chiropractor, was recently arraigned for trial on a charge school hygiene and public health, to be—open to the public, of practicing medicine without a license. It is said that has been'announced by the University of Pennsylvania. The this is the sixth time within two years that Black has stood fust lecture will be given November 6, by Dr. Walter S. trial on similar charges.

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a Carleton University User on 05/12/2015 WEST VIRGINIA Science Association Meeting.—The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Convictions for Narcotic Act Violations.—It is reported Affiliated Scientific Societies will be held in Chicago, Dec. . that Dr. Stockley B. Hayes, Flemington, was fined $250 for 27, 1920, to Jan. 1, 1921. Headquarters will be at the Con¬ issuing prescriptions for morphin indiscriminately, and that gress Hotel. Dr. Bernard H. was fined for to Kyle, Franklin, $25 failing War Risk Bureau Appoints Medical Director.—In con¬ a record of orders for at the keep proper narcotics, Wheeling formity with a plan to organize an independent headquarters' term of the United States Court for the northern district of medical staff for the War Risk bureau, Director R. G. West Virginia. W. O. Davis, a druggist of Grafton, was Cholmeley-Jones has appointed Dr. Lester B. Rogers, New fined costs after a of to a $500 and entering plea guilty as director of the medical division of the War Risk of the narcotic act. York, charge violating Bureau, and Dr. James L. Busby, Columbus, Ohio, as assis¬ State Tuberculosis Association Elects Officers.—At the tant director. annual meeting of the West Virginia Tuberculosis Associa¬ Tuberculosis Conference Elects.—At the Southern Tuber¬ tion, held in the Waldo Hotel, Clarksburg, October 25, under culosis Conference held in Jacksonville, Fla., October 13, the of Dr. William W. Golden, the fol¬ presidency Elkins, the following officers were elected: president, Dr. James S· lowing officers were elected: president, Dr. George H. Barks- Lock, vice presidents, Mrs. R. S. Phifer, Mississippi, and dale. Charleston ; vice presidents, Mrs. C. O. Henry, Fair¬ Mrs. W. W. Scantin, South Carolina, and secretary, R. H. mont, Mrs. M. N. Downs, Mrs. William J. Buckhannon, Hixon, Jacksonville. Arkansas was selected for the next Wilson, Weston, Mr. N. T. Frame, Morgantown, and Drs. annual Ross Hunter and William W. and meeting. Jones Golden, Elkins, Medical Holds seventeenth treasurer, Mr. Ben Fraternity Meeting. The Baer, Morgantown. national convention of the Phi Beta Pi —Medical Fraternity was held at Boston, October 15, under the presidency of Dr. WISCONSIN David S. Long, Harrisonville, Mo. The following officers Personal. Dr. John B. MacClaren, Appleton, sustained were elected : supreme archon, Dr. Dale E. Turnacliffe, St. — Dr. painful injuries to his back when his car overturned, Octo¬ Paul ; vice supreme archon, Henry W. E. Walther, New ber 10, near Plymouth. Orleans, and secretary-treasurer, Dr. Lawson G. Lowery, Iowa Health Center Merged.—The health center of the Ameri¬ City. Morton in the Hall of names can Red Cross at Appleton has been merged with the home Fame.—The list of of per¬ service office and headquarters have been opened at 627 sons elected to the Hall of Fame in the quinquennial elec¬ Appleton Street. tions by the senate of the University of the State of New announced, includes that of William Thomas Green Tuberculosis Sanatoriums to Be Consolidated.—Consolida¬ York, just of Morton for the accredited successful demonstration of ether tion Milwaukee's Blue Mound Tuberculosis Sanatorium anesthesia. Dr. Morton is thus the first who has with Muirdale hitherto maintained the physician Sanatorium, by county, been elected to the Hall of Fame in recognition of a medical was recommended by the Milwaukee council public welfare achievement. committee, October 13. The merger was proposed by Health Commissioner Ruhland as a means of Medical Veterans Form Organization.—At the annual avoiding duplication of and expense. The tentative plans suggest utilization of Blue reunion of the medical officers the eighty-ninth division, Mound for incipient and convalescent cases while the Muir¬ recently held at Kansas City, Mo., a permanent organization dale Sanatorium will be devoted to sufferers in advanced was formed and the following officers were elected : presi¬ stages. dent, Dr. Reginald H. Meade, Kansas City ; and vice presi¬ dents, Drs. Czar C. Johnson, Lincoln, Neb., Harvey McCarthy, CANADA Kansas City, Claredon J. Combs, Oshkosh, Wis., and Monte Hospital News.—At the annual meeting of the corporation L. Beloit, Clyde, Kan. of the Women's College Hospital and Dispensary, Toronto, International Tuberculosis Society Formed.—A permanent it was disclosed that patients are being constantly turned international society for the prevention of tuberculosis, away for lack of accommodations. Accommodation is also composed of representatives of all nations signatory to needed for the nursing and domestic staff, and an obstetric the League of Nations covenant and of the United States, wing is urgently necessary. was formed, October 19, at an international antituberculosis in Paris. Smallpox in Ottawa.—Among the 111 cases of smallpox conference Sir Robert William Philip, , was elected to the department of health, Ottawa, Canada, there president of the International Society. The first reported will be held in the fall of 1921 at . was not a single patient who had been vaccinated during the meeting last seven years. The board of health has empowered Dr. Venereal Disease Survey by Public Health Service.—A Lomer to appoint six or eight physicians in different districts second survey is shortly to be made by the Public Health of the city to afford every facility for vaccination. Service of work done in 444 large cities toward the extermi¬ University News.—Part of $5.000,000 expected to be realized nation and prevention of venereal diseases. In the survey made last the cities were to the from a campaign for McGill University, Montreal, will be February graded according of their and were divided into four devoted to a building to house the departments of pathology, vigor campaigns, classes, medical and It is esti¬ according to population. The state boards of health will jurisprudence, hygiene psychiatry. with the Public Health Service in mated that such a building would cost at least $460,000, and cooperate making the its maintenance would require an endowment of $150,000.- survey. The medical faculty of the University of Toronto has decided Alvarenga Prize of College of Physicians of Philadelphia. to hold regular monthly meetings of all engaged in the teach¬ —The College of Physicians of Philadelphia announces that ing of medicine and allied sciences and of members on the the next award of the Alvarenga Prize, amounting to about staff of the medical department. $250, will be made, July 14, 1921, provided that an essay Personal.—Dr. Alexander L. McKay, Toronto, has accepted deemed worthy of the prize shall have been offered. Essays submitted for may be on any in medi¬ an appointment with the Rockefeller Foundation Medical competition subject Research Committee.-Dr. Bryce McMurrich, Toronto, has cine, but must not have been previously published, and if been appointed superintendent of Ste Anne's Hospital, Ste written in a language other than English should be accom¬ panied by a translation. They must be in the hands of the Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, succeeding Dr. Kenneth Cameron, of who is resuming private practice in Montreal.-The king secretary the college, Dr. John H. Girvin, 19 South Twenty-Second Street, Philadelphia, before May 1, 1921. No of Belgium has conferred on Dr. Henri S. Beland. the in title of Knight of the Most Distinguished Order of the Crown prize was awarded 1920. of Belgium for "generous, brave and devoted services given California Endorses Scientific Medicine. The four as physician at the hospitals of St. Elizabeth in Antwerp from so-called "medical measures" voted on in California— at the the beginning of the great war until the day of his departure recent election were all defeated, the people of the state for long captivity in Berlin, Germany. strongly indorsing the position taken by the Medical Society of the State of California and the League for the Conserva¬ tion of Public Health on GENERAL these questions. The proposed antivivisection bill was overwhelmingly defeated. The anti- Appointment of Sanitary Engineer to Haiti.—Commander vaccination measure and the bill for the creation of a sepa¬ James M. Minter, M. C, U. S. Navy, at the Naval Hospital, rate chiropractic board were voted down, and the efforts of Great Lakes, 111., has been appointed sanitary engineer to the osteopaths to secure the right to prescribe drugs were also Haiti, for the purpose of introducing an improved system of defeated. This is one of the first instances in which medical sanitation. questions have been submitted to popular decision.

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a Carleton University User on 05/12/2015 LATIN AMERICA practice of medicine, pharmacy, etc., is placed under the con¬ trol of the of Sanitation. Some New Schools of Department very important Pharmacy. Courses in pharmacy have public health regulations were adopted during the year 1919, — recently been established in Panamá and Guatemala. especially as regards the prevention, quarantine and control Antimosquito Campaign in Colombia.—The president of of communicable diseases. The construction of a national Colombia has ordered that rigid measures be taken for the leprosarium was begun during the year. Among the report- extermination of mosquitoes with a view to the prevention able diseases, special mention should be made of "bubas" or of yellow fever and malaria. yaws, 1,745 cases of which were reported. A commission of Annex to School of Medicine of Chile.—The department of Harvard physicians is now investigating the disease. The education of Chile has ordered the construction of an ana¬ national public health appropriation has increased from tomic for the School of Medicine, which will cost $5,000 in 1916 to over $180,000 in 1920; this is in addition pavilion to to be the 100,000 pesos (about $40,000). $190,000 spent by municipalities. Tuberculosis in Brazil.—The Brazilian Red Campaign FOREIGN Cross has initiated an intensive antituberculosis campaign throughout Brazil. Mrs. Pessoa, the president's wife, is tak¬ Course in Dietetics in Copenhagen.—An evening graduate ing an active part in this work. course in dietetics and lavage of the stomach is being held Yellow Fever Disappears from Mexico.—Advices from the by Prof. C. Jürgensen. The course is free to physicians. cities of Sonora reported to have been infected with yellow China Medical Missionary Association Election. Dr. fever indicate that the disease is now well under control. Charles F. Johnson of the American Presbyterian Mission— at The abatement of the epidemic is attributed to a marked drop Tsinan was elected president of the China Medical Mis¬ in temperature throughout the state. sionary Association for a term of two years at the recent New Hospitals in Cuba.—Among the appropriations for annual conference held in Pekin. public works recently made in Cuba there are several items Personal.—The Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift for hospital construction, as follows : 40,000 pesos for a hos¬ states that Dr. O. Killiani, who until the war was at the head in pital at Bayamo ; 300,000 pesos for repairs to the insane of the German Hospital New York, has accepted the charge asylum, and 300,000 pesos for the completion of the hospital of the surgical department of Dr. W. v. Kaufmann's sana¬ of Santiago de Cuba. torium at Partenkichen in upper Bavaria. Central American Sanitary Conference.—An international Physician at Head of Paris Hospital System. M. G. Mesureur on a — ser¬ sanitary conference was recently held at La Unión, El Sal¬ has 'been retired pension from his long vador, to discuss methods of cooperation in the yellow fever vice as director of the Assistance Publique, and he is suc¬ campaign conducted by the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. ceeded by Dr. L. Mourier, member of the house of deputies T. C. Lyster, formerly of the U. S. Army, is now in charge and formerly undersecretary of state for th« military medical of the campaign in Central America. department. University of Rio de Janeiro. The medical school, the Dr. Steinach Goes to Stockholm.—The Deutsche medizin¬ school of law and the polytechnic— school of Rio de Janeiro ische Wochenschrift states that the Vienna physiologist, Prof. E. is to remove to where he have now been officially grouped as the University of Rio de Steinach, intending Stockholm, will continue his research on and includ¬ Janeiro by a recent government decree. The rector of the physiology biology, the His work on the summation of university will be ex officio president of the superior council ing "puberty gland." of instruction. There is great rejoicing in scientific circles single ineffectual stimuli as a general vital phenomenon was in Rio. published in 1908. He is now 58 years of age. Memorial to Hernández.—A national committee has been Prizes for Medical Research.—The Zeitschrift für Tuber¬ kulose of Berlin relates that the Selmar Solmitz Foundation at work during the year since the death of Dr. J. G. Her¬ nández of and recently completed its labors by offers four prizes of 2,000 marks each for the best work on Caracas, of cancer on the in treatment of unveiling an oil portrait in the university, with memorial radiotherapy ; progress wounds in peace; on infant in the five years tablet, and also a monument in the cemetery, and founding a feeding ending 1920 ; and on the advice for a tuberculous man or biennial in his name with a fund of 15,770 bolivars. April, best prize with two minor who has been dismissed The tablet and monument bear the inscription "Homenaje woman, children, from a sanatorium and has an income of 1,000 Nacional." The ceremonies included a large representative improved gathering and addresses, with music, in the university, and marks a month. also ceremonies in the cemetery. The Gaceta Medica of French Neurology Congress. The next Congrès des Caracas devotes nearly its entire issue for September 30 to aliénistes et neurologistes of French-speaking— countries is to this tribute to the eminent physician, who was killed in an convene at Luxembourg in 1921 with Drs. Meige of Paris automobile accident in June, 1919. and Buffet of Luxembourg to preside. The following year the is to be held at with Professor Personal.—Dr. Delfor del Valle, has been appointed meeting Quimper Lépine Jr., in the chair, and the year after that at Besançon. The three director of the Asistencia Pública y Administración Sani¬ topics appointed for discussion at the approaching tweniy- taria at Buenos Aires.-Dr. of Honduras has J. J. Callejas fifth meeting are the consciousness of the morbid condition a to Academia Nacio¬ left for trip the United States.-The in psychopathies ; simulation of mental disease, and traumatic nal de Medicina of Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of the epilepsy. recent visit of the king and queen of Belgium, paid tribute Deaths in Other Countries to the work the war in medicine queen's during promoting Dr. Diogenes Découd, one of the leading surgeons and and hygiene, and unanimously elected her perpetual president editors of Argentina, director of the Semana Médica of of the O. da Fonseca and his son of Rio Academy.-Dr. Buenos Aires, and for twenty-five years professor of surgery de Janeiro have been sent to the United States on a scientific in the university until his recent retirement, member of the mission, mainly on behalf of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.- National Board of Public Health, and author of numerous Dr. L. F. Calderón has been appointed rector of the Facultad medical works, of the prose poem, "La Atlantida," and a de Ciencias Naturales y Medicina at Bogota to fill the history of medicine in Argentina, published in 1893.-Dr. vacancy left by the resignation of Dr. Pompilio Martínez. A. Foges, privat-dozent in obstetrics and gynecology at the Francisco of is now -Dr. Peña Trejo Salvador traveling University of Vienna.-Dr. R. Villavicencio of Caracas, a in the United States. While in this country Dr. Peña will former of the Universidad Central of in professor Venezuela. study the methods for the treatment of tuberculosis several -Dr. F. Wittrup of Copenhagen.-Dr. J. C. Giiell of sanatoriums.-Dr. E. M. Martin has been designated repre¬ of in the Facultad Nacional de at Bogota, professor surgery sentative of Guatemala the Sixth International Sanitary Medicina at and of in the School of Fine of the American Bogota anatomy Conference Republics. Arts. At one time he was governor of the state of Bolivar Public Health Work at Santo Domingo.—The 1919 report and member of the national house of delegates, and was the of the Secretary of Sanitation and Beneficence of Santo founder of the Academia de Medicina.-Dr. Zenón Solano, Domingo reviews the public health work accomplished since director of hygiene at Bogota.-Dr. Yves Delage, professor the establishment of the military government in Santo of comparative anatomy and physiology at the Sorbonne, Domingo in November, 1916. The new sanitary law creat¬ Paris, director of the station biologique at Roscoff, and author ing a national department of sanitation and beneficence was Of numerous works on general biology.-Dr. P. Spiess, an put in force Jan. 1, 1920. This law requires all municipali¬ orthopedist of Basel, lost his life in Alpine climbing.-Dr. ties to appropriate from 10 to 15 per cent, of their income M. Valladäo, of S. Paulo, Brazil.-Dr. Julia Gutierrez C. for public health work, the municipal health budgets being of Santiago, Chile, practicing 'both medicine and surgery and subject to approval by the secretary of sanitation. The superintendent of the training school for nurses.

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