disease. All diseases caused or aggravated by insufficient Deaths food rations also increased the mortality rate. Nor is this Dr. Sabatié, chief physician of the complementary hospital the only result of these acts. Young boys and girls have not of the Polytechnic School, is dead. developed normally; hence immediate steps should be taken Dr. Henri Chéron, former chief of the obstetric clinic of to these conditions. Calmette addressed an remedy urgent the medical faculty, died at the age of 50. He was to the authorities to remedial measures appeal adopt urgent born in Paris, the son of a gynecologist of repute, and had at once, distributing substantial food to the children and the devoted himself to and radium constant medical tuberculosis particularly roentgen therapy. young, giving care, fighting in He was the founder of the Oeuvre du both notification and treatment. philanthropique radium, every possible way, by by and was charged with the work of giving such treatment to Transport of Wounded by Aeroplane the sick poor. He represented the radiotherapists at numer¬ ous French and international congresses. It is to the first trial of the of interesting report plan Dr. H. professor on the med¬ the wounded General Bernheim, honorary Nancy transporting by aeroplane. Paeymirau ical faculty, died in Paris. He was the author of a well was wounded on the Moroccan a shell recently front, frag¬ known work on hypnotism besides many purely medical ment striking him in the region of the heart. He was trans¬ studies. Bou-Denib on ported by aeroplane to in eastern Morocco the Raising the Birth Rate Algerian front, thus avoiding the shaking to which automobile transportation would have subjected him. The has concluded its discussion of a proposed law to combat depopulation by the adoption of appropriate mea¬ Closing the Netherlands Hospital in Paris sures tending to increase the birth rate. One of the pro¬ A farewell dinner was tendered to Dr. Van Tienhoven, visions in this law bears on professional secrecy. It reads as medical chief of the Netherlands Hospital of Pré-Catelan, follows : Physicians, midwives and pharmacists, who are and to all his assistants, as well as to the personnel of called as witness in a prosecution for abortion, may, without Auxiliary Hospital No. 77, established in the early months of laying themselves liable to article 378 of the Penal Code the war by the Hamburger brothers. In the course of (which provides for imprisonment of from one month to six remarks made on that occasion, M. Loudon, formerly minister months and a fine of from 100 to 500 francs for revealing of foreign affairs for Holland, called attention to the fact that secrets which may have been confided to them either profes¬ this hospital had cared for 1,658 wounded, with 121,066 hos¬ sionally or as agents of the state), testify to the facts in the pital days, and that Auxiliary Hospital No. 77 had cared for case on. trial, providing that they will not bring into the case 1,024 wounded with 46,304 hospital days. any person, other than the accused, toward whom they are to maintain War Welfare Work and Peace obliged professional secrecy. An added amend¬ Reorganization ment exempts from punishment any woman who will make of The representatives of most the war welfare agencies known the abortive maneuvers practiced on her, and who will recently met at the Musée social under the presidency of cause the arrest of the person who performed the abortion. M. Leon Bourgeois in order to determine on the activities The senate also accepted an amendment providing for impris¬ to be carried on now by these organizations, and to effect a onment of frem six months to one year of any midwife reorganization for that purpose. War victims should receive who has in her possession or who has placed in the home of the aid to which they are entitled and they should never be some one else the instruments used to perform abortion. The made to feel that this is a charity or in the nature of alms. senate has adopted this law, but it has not yet been examined A commission was appointed to devise ways and means to by the chamber of deputies. make this plan of cooperative action effective. Health Measures for Liberated Regions Society of Friends of the Paris Medical School The minister of the interior has appointed a commission, of A society, called the Amis de la Faculté de médecine de which Dr. Louis Mourier is the head, to study and apply l'Université de Paris, has been formed for the purpose of measures to conserve the health of the population of the improving the methods of teaching in the , liberated regions. Among the members of this commission the study facilities for the students, the scientific research are : Professors Chantemesse, Marfan, Netter and Widal, to favor the of French laboratories, expansion medicine among members of the Académie de médecine ; Drs. Léon Bernard, foreigners, and to contribute to the advancement of medical Méry, Jules Renault and Sergent, physicians of the Paris science. hospitals; Dr. Roux, director of the Institut Pasteur de Paris, Students Celebrate Victory and Dr. Calmctte, director of the Institut Pasteur de Lille. January 26 an imposing demonstration was held in the Sorbonne by the Association générale des étudiants de Paris Military Hydrotherapeutic Hospitals in celebration of victory. M. Paul Deschanel, president of Dr. Molinéry has suggested to the Société de médecine de the chamber of deputies, presided, assisted by M. L. Lafferre, Paris that the military hydrotherapeutic hospitals be reor¬ minister of public instruction. The president of and ganized, providing for laboratory, surgical and physiothera- Mme Poincaré were present, likewise Dr. Louis Mourier, peutic departments. He also suggested the appointment of a undersecretary of state for the Service de Santé militaire, medical commission, consisting of outside physicians, by and Dr. Roger, dean of the Paris faculty of medicine. whom patients will be examined so that the proper hydro¬ therapeutic treatment can be outlined. Closing the Canadian Hospital at Saint Cloud On the occasion of the closing of this hospital a banquet was given and a reunion was held at which Dr. Louis Mourier presided, and which was attended by the Canadian delegates to the Peace Conference and the principal notables Marriages of the French and the English armies. Dr. Mourier thanked Canadian the doctors for their cooperation and their devotion William to the French soldiers. More than 5.000 wounded Howard Michael, Lieut.-Com.. P. A. Surg., U. S. severely Navy, D. to Mlle. Marcelle Mortier soldiers have been cared for in this hospital as well as a Washington, G, of Neuf large number of medical patients. Chateau, Vosges, France, at Rouceaux, France, in January. Bennet Roland Parker, Lieut.. M. G, U. S. Medical Army, Chicago, Society of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on duty at Nantes, France, to Miss Edith Helene Matthies, at The Société des Sciences médicales of the Grand Duchy Nantes, January 27. of Luxembourg on Jan. 12, 1919, voted unanimously to go on George Elkingto»t Moore, Asst. Surg., Lieut, (j. g.), U. S. record as approving the medical studies and medical stand¬ N. R. F., Madison, Wis., to Miss Louise M. Kroil of Brook¬ ards of France. They extended their felicitations to the lyn, February 12. French medical to corps and their colleagues of Alsace and John Martin Whalen, Lieut., M. G, U. S. Grand Lorraine who are natives of the frontier. Navy, Luxembourg Rapids, Mich., to Miss Arline Turpell, at Washington, D. G, Personal February 4. George Francis The following persons have been members of Brackett to Miss Elizabeth Evelyn Cain, appointed both of San in the Commission supérieure consultative de santé : Professor Francisco, Sacramento, Calif., February 15. Letulle. Paris; Dr. Lagrange, Bordeaux; Dr. Léon Bernard, Wallace Krugler to Miss Blanche Edith Ehrlich, both of Paris; Dr. Abadie, Bordeaux; Dr. Crouzon, Paris; Dr. Levas- New York City, February 11. sort, secretary-general of the Association des médecins de Edward Benedict Malloy to Miss Sadie Steinmetz, both of France, and Dr. F.-V. Helme. Akron, Ohio, February 25.

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